Hazzaman

Proud unionist. Workers united will never be defeated.

[The Saturday Paper @SatPaper]

“The media has treated Hanson as entertainment and consistently given her a platform,” writes Marcia Langton. “They have failed to fact check her in real time, allowing her lies to hang around unchallenged.” https://t.co/lUFYQMau6g

[Aaron Smith @aaronsmith]

Channel 7 reports Jess Wilson cancelled all media today to avoid questions over the Deeming/Guy situation.

If Jess vanishes whenever her party room's at war, she'll be leading the Opposition entirely from home, and she doesn't support working from home.

[Jacinta Allan @JacintaAllanMP]

We're making life easier and cheaper for Victorians with Chemist Care Now.

For Charlotte, it means she doesn't have to visit the GP to get refills of the pill.

[Mike Carlton @MikeCarlton01]

I confess I’m puzzled by the fascination with Stefanovic. Who cares ? The Today Show died in the arse after Lisa Wilkinson left, watched only in nursing homes where the inhabitants were too frail to reach for the remote. https://t.co/5P2FrkF2sP

[Australia Institute @TheAusInstitute]

Voters across the political spectrum overwhelmingly support a 25% tax on gas exports, but the government has failed to act.

So, let's put it to the people.

Join the call for a plebiscite to introduce a 25% gas export tax!
#auspol

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

Keir Starmer was not merely a disappointment. He is a mendacious figure of ethical decrepitude, a man who won the Labour Party leadership based on promises that he jettisoned five seconds after winning - a Labour leader who dared banish from the Labour Party not only his predecessor but also remarkable human beings like director Ken Loach - the gentleman who has taken the historic Labour Party and transformed it into a vessel for the very oligarchy it was elected to restrain.

Consider the litany of Starmer’s moral and logical failures. He promised a 'different Britain', yet his actions were a masterclass in Tory-lite politics—using the same maxed-out credit card analogies that once served the austerity brigades to justify his own failure of vision. He promised a human rights lawyer’s approach but he embraced a racist-lite version of Farage.

On Europe, Starmer promised Brexiteers that Brexit is Brexit yet stood before those who yearn to rejoin the European Union, winked at them to make them feel that Britain would gradually reconnect, even rejoin, with the EU while offering nothing of substance. This is not leadership; it is a fraud.

And then there's the manner in which Starmer and his government rushed to offer Israel unequivocal support in pursuing its genocide in Gaza, sacrificing precious political and civil liberties in the UK by imprisoning grandmothers, priests and peaceful activists who dared support Palestine Action, an organisation that Starmer and his minions proscribed as terrorists for practising the usual activist tactics of trespassing to spray paint military planes that had demonstrably aided in the genocide. To add insult to injury, Starmer performed the diplomatic pantomime of recognising a Palestinian state, in a manner that ensured it would never happen.

But above all else, this is a government that has learned nothing from the post-2008 era. Starmer and his Chancellor are playing the same tired austerity game while enabling and empowering the Finance Curse perpetrated by the City of London, throwing in forgood measure cuts in international aid to fund a military spending trickle under the guise of a "Strategic Defence Review" . It is the same old doctrine: austerity for the masses, socialism for the financiers and the arms dealers.

History will remember Mr Starmer as a man without conviction, a Prime Minister who offers not a shred of honesty, but merely the cruel illusion of change. He is ethically decrepit because he had chosen, consciously, to abandon principle for power. And for that, history will indict him. Good riddance, I say.

https://t.co/sGfebPkDXR

[Mike Carlton @MikeCarlton01]

I blame Dan Andrews…

[Jacinta Allan @JacintaAllanMP]

From half-price public transport to opening more Urgent Care Centres - here's a few ways we're providing real help with the cost of living.

[Jacinta Allan @JacintaAllanMP]

Lana's husband Charlie was killed eight years ago in a workplace incident - a loss that's changed her family forever.

No one should ever lose their life as a result of simply doing their job.

Today on International Workers' Memorial Day, we remember those who lost their lives at work. And wrap our arms around their loved ones.

[John Christodoulou 🇨🇾 @YianisCY]

I would like to clarify that Northern Cyprus is not recognized as an independent state. Its administration represents an illegal occupation of the territory of the Republic of Cyprus, which is the only internationally recognized government of the island.

This position is supported by United Nations Security Council Resolutions 541 (1983) and 550 (1984), which declare the unilateral declaration of independence in Northern Cyprus legally invalid and call on all states not to recognize it.

[Mike Carlton @MikeCarlton01]

So petrol has gone up 50-60c a litre. That’s bare-faced highway robbery. Any petrol in Australian service station tanks right now is pre-war, bought and refined at pre-war prices .The oil companies are blatantly price gouging, ripping us off.

[CODEPINK @codepink]

🚨🇨🇾🇬🇧Bases Off Cyprus Statement Against the Use of Cyprus in the War Against Iran

LONDON - In the early hours of yesterday (2nd March 2026), the British military bases on Cyprus, RAF Akrotiri and Dhekelia, were hit by drones just after UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer confirmed British bases would be used to support the US-Israeli war of aggression on Iran.

The US has been launching planes from RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus, according to The Times. The British restriction of US actions from the bases to only ‘defensive operations’ is fictitious, as these include strikes on ground targets in Iran - offensive, unprovoked, deadly attacks.

We condemn this warmongering by the British government, which quickly facilitated the use of British military bases for illegal and deadly attacks. We condemn any involvement of Britain in this war on Iran.

The bases on Cyprus are a destructive, dangerous anomaly that destabilises West Asia, puts Cyprus in the crosshairs of war, and are outposts for the violence of the Anglo-American empire. The bases must be shut down as a step towards peace in the region and in Cyprus. Since December 2023, the bases on Cyprus acted as a central link supporting Israel’s genocide in Gaza through surveillance flights, weapons and soldier transfers, and as a rear base for the Israeli air force. The presence of the bases puts the people of Cyprus in grave danger by dragging them into a war they do not want to be a part of.

The Sovereign Base Areas (SBAs) are a British colony illegally retained from Cyprus upon its independence in 1960. They have remained occupied territory ever since. The United States utilizes British sovereignty to conduct a wide range of operations from the bases, including National Security Agency intelligence operations, refuelling bombers, and as a key logistical node for US military presence across the Gulf. The people of Cyprus have no say over what happens in the SBAs; the area is governed by a British military commander subordinate to the Ministry of Defence in London, and there is no democratic civilian oversight.

Keir Starmer has declared the UK’s involvement as an aggressor state in the illegal war on Iran and the SABs’ use in that war. As such, the bases have become military targets for retaliation strikes from the states that Britain is helping attack. To ensure the safety of Cypriots, Britain and the United States must immediately withdraw their armies from the bases, shut the bases down, and return the area to Cypriot sovereignty.

The only solution to this violence is to get these bases off Cyprus.

[Save Our Citizenships 🔻 @LetsStopC9]

Colonial Bases, Local Blood

As Melanie Steliou highlights, British citizens can flee Akrotiri, but the Cypriots around the base are left to bear the danger. RAF Akrotiri is not a “sovereign territory” for locals, it’s an imperial launchpad for US and Israeli strikes. Decades of warnings ignored, lives sacrificed for foreign agendas, while governments shrug and call it “protection.”
Video: @declassifiedUK

[Sarah Wilkinson @swilkinsonbc]

The British bases which been used for decades to export terror and destruction have turned Cyprus into a ‘legitimate military target’

[💧Mary Kostakidis @MaryKostakidis]

Alastair Crooke says Greece told Star,er he can’t use the UK base at Akrotiri to attack Iran. All good, but Greece had no problem with the UK using the base for constant sorties over Gaza, likely assisting Israel in its genocide with information.

[Matt Kennard @kennardmatt]

Cyprus was given “independence” in 1960, but it never decolonised

Britain retained 3% of the island which it turned into huge military installations

It’s a parable for a bigger story

The British Empire never ended. It was merely reconfigured + subsumed into ascendant US Empire

[Matt Kennard @kennardmatt]

Britain has no right to 3% of Cyprus

RAF Akrotiri is an abomination and crime scene

It puts every Cypriot at risk

Shut it down

[Peter Cronau @PeterCronau]

SkyNews caught out lying with selective exaggeration of a falsified polling question.

SkyNews are using ‘push polling’ to try to nudge inattentive voters to get on board the One Nation hearse.

Their political partnership is exposed here — and this published material should be examined as an undeclared ‘in kind’ political donation, by the Australian Electoral Commission.

“The poll below shows that headline by SkyNews implodes under scrutiny of its own poll.”

(AI image by Grok)

[Uzay Bulut @bulutuzay_]

@archi_tradition An Orthodox monastery built by Greeks🇬🇷

[Dan Fangirl 🤓 @ChristyDanFan]

To the lame brains who believe this treaty for Victoria is going to affect Labor’s vote. Dan announced it in 2016. He then won an election in 2018 in a landslide. And in 2022 in another landslide. So it was coming. And it’s here. So if you live in fear of it, then move states.