Jayce53

Geek, nerd, sciency guy. Skipped school in year 12 to be at the Vietnam moratorium march in Melbourne

[David Pocock @DavidPocock]

Whistleblowers play a critical role in exposing misconduct, but too often they pay a high price for doing the right thing.

The KPMG whistleblower told parliament they would not speak up again after alleged retaliation, loss of employment, circulation of their identity and gaps in legal protection.

Senators Deb O’Neill, Barbara Pocock and Richard Colbeck and others have done outstanding work highlighting the failure of the system.

🇦🇺 needs a standalone Whistleblower Protection Authority to protect people in the public and private sectors who come forward in the public interest.
https://t.co/aE18C6Uxja

[Solo Monk @JJKALE2]

The decoupling of zioniism is in motion - and 87% of the australian people are at the forefront of this movement.

Sorry Jillian Segal, unlike our politicians, we will not be "transformed" by you.

[Solo Monk @JJKALE2]

Australia’s political class is utterly owned by the Zionist lobby.

Things are so grim.

Who else is feeling real grim about this??

[Dr Sheep Person Podge @noplaceforsheep]

I’m still waiting for someone to explain why “Free Palestine” is an “antisemitic” message 🧐

[Canada Hates Trump @AntiTrumpCanada]

Hey America, a country of 2.8 million people is showing you what defending democracy looks like. You should try it.

[David Shoebridge @DavidShoebridge]

Relying on American billionaire controlled AI as our main defence to AI shows the essential weakness and lack of control we have from allowing US tech to dominate our country

[David Shoebridge @DavidShoebridge]

Absolutely not.

[Dr Tracy Westerman AM @TracyWesterman]

The Sanewashing of Hanson Is at Its Peak.
This is how Trump came to power: platform the lies, skip the follow-up, let the headlines call it “proving her critics wrong.”
We are all watching it happen in real time.
At the National Press Club, Pauline Hanson said the following. Not one claim was challenged by the so called journalists in attendance and she continues to be unchallenged on the facts in every interview she sits.
-1. Unlike the Prime Minister, I welcome scrutiny.” Hypocritical. In the same speech she announced she refuses ABC interviews, will scrap the SBS, & will make the ABC subscription-only. The event allowed 2 hours; standard format gives 25–30 mins for the address. She spoke for 50-halving the time left for questions. When Guardian journalist Sarah Martin used that remaining time to ask about her daughter's $150,000 taxpayer-funded advisor role, Hanson called her “a trashy journalist” and banned her from all future press conferences.
• “Babies are aborted the day before birth.” Fabricated. Late-term abortion is highly restricted, requires medical approval, and occurs only in genuine medical emergencies.
• “Interest rates are heading towards 10%.” False. RBA cash rate: 4.35%. Forecast to fall, not rise.
• “There’s no gender pay gap — just women taking time off.” False. WGEA confirms the gap exists at equal hours, equal roles, regardless of career breaks.
• “$30B a year on Indigenous programs.” False. Only 18% (~$5.6B) is Indigenous-specific. The rest is the Indigenous share of mainstream services every Australian uses.
• Transgender people were compared to “militant Islam.” False and dangerous. ABS data: transgender and gender-diverse Australians make up 1% of the pop’n. There’s no body of research showing transgender ppl commit crime at elevated rates-in fact it shows transgender people are dramatically more likely to be victims of violence— assault, sexual violence, and homicide rates against trans people are well above general population rates in most studies (US, UK, and Aust data all show this pattern)
• “23% of Australians can’t speak English.” False. That 23% speak another language at home — most are bilingual. Limited English proficiency: just 3.2%.
• “The CEFC has had $200 billion.” False by a factor of six. Actual legislated capacity: $33 billion.
• “I care about the homeless and hungry.” Hypocritical. In the same speech, she backed cuts to Indigenous-specific funding — despite Aboriginal homelessness running up to 10 times higher than the non-Indigenous rate.
• $90 billion in cuts, no plan. ~$35 billion of it remains unaccounted for. No modelling.
• “I support worker rights.” False. Voted against minimum wage increases, penalty rates, criminalising wage theft, casual conversion rights, same job same pay, and the right to disconnect. Took a $100,000 pay rise while voting against a tax break for low-paid workers
• Called Australian workers “lazy.” She has attended just 12% of Senate estimates since 2016 & 53% of parliamentary votes. Paid over $200k a year
• Labor have let immigration get out of control.” False. Net overseas migration has fallen every year since the post-COVID peak in 2022-23 — 538,000 → 446,000 → 306,000 in 2024-25. She also recycled a 26-year-old ABS pop’n projection as a fresh “next 50 years” forecast

Said: This beautiful country belongs to all Australians born here and those who have joined us”- in her opening line; then spent the next 50 minutes demanding a monocultural society, comparing transgender Australians to militant Islam, inflating migration and language figures, denying the gender pay gap, and repeating the debunked $30 billion Indigenous funding myth. Welcomed everyone in the first sentence. Spent the rest of the speech defining most of them out — and offered no plan to fix anything she raised, only $90 billion in cuts.
Not one follow-up question. No source data on a single figure in the entire speech. This is what unchallenged looks like.
/2 sources

[stranger @strangerous10]

Pauline Hanson confirms she wants to end maternity leave, claiming it forces businesses to “fold”

Clearly just rubbish. And clearly One Nation want to force women to choose b/w having kids & having a job.
Not a policy, a dangerous misinformation campaign. #auspol

[💧 Johny Miller ([email protected]) @jmil400]

Every voter needs to know exactly what having these fruitcakes near the levers of power would mean for Australia.
#OneNation
#auspol

[Solo Monk @JJKALE2]

Prof Wanning Sun, media,cultural studies UTS Syd:

"Rather than challenge the premise of Hanson’s press club speech with questions about its contents, a room of cowed journalists legitimised Hanson by looking the other way.

It proved we’re dealing with a new type of journalism"

[GregMarScience @GregMarSci]

The NPC, which has put out a statement condemning the GetUp! banner, has had nothing to say about Hanson’s tirade at (Sarah) Martin.

It is a disgrace that the #NPC does not have the guts to call Hanson out on her disgraceful Trumpian tirade.

https://t.co/hIq8g3jTgk

[💧Mary Kostakidis @MaryKostakidis]

Flotilla victim blaming. Time to expel Israel's ambassador - Andrew Brown, in Michael West https://t.co/Hcg3H0Qhjt

[David Shoebridge @DavidShoebridge]

US to its allies: “Join us in our reckless and illegal wars or we will punish you.”

That’s not the actions of a friend, it’s certainly not how an ally behaves.

It’s a bully and bullies only get worse if you don’t say no to them.

[David Milner @DaveMilbo]

@PressClubAust In summary:

- you blocked Margot from asking a real question to Hanson
- Masola instead asks if Australia is being 'Flooded with Muslims'
- sponsored by weapons and fossil fuel companies
- cancelled Hedges and invited Herzog to speak

You're the lamest group of complicit shills

[Dr Kelly Jones 🦋cleanairclassrooms 🇵🇸 @DrPops3]

Took them a month to say they’d investigate the rape and abuse of Aussies in international waters by Israel, but yeah , go ahead…

[Tanya George @TanyaGeorg27369]

appears that The National Press Club could have done us all a favour and prosecuted Hanson’s policies to the extent that we see what a fraud she actually is. Instead they went soft on her just as the US media have on Trump. What an unmitigated disaster.

[Gus Lefty Aussie Patriot @GusLefty]

Jewish Council of Australia

1. Recognise the diversity of the Jewish community, including on Israel and Zionism;
Anti-Zionism is not anti-semitic
Zionism is not a race of people nor a religion - it is a political ideology

2. Find that far-right extremism is a primary driver of antisemitism in Australia;
Anti-Zionism is not anti-semitic
Zionism is not a race of people nor a religion - it is a political ideology

3. Find that the conflation of Jewish identity with Israel and its violence - a conflation pushed by Israel and its advocates - is actually a driver of antisemitism;
Anti-Zionism is not anti-semitic
Zionism is not a race of people nor a religion - it is a political ideology

4. Recommend the rejection of the IHRA working definition and Universities Australia definitions of antisemitism in favour of other definitions or an overlapping consensus approach;
International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance
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However, criticism of Israel similar to that levelled against any other country cannot be regarded as antisemitic.

It appears they want any and all criticism of Israel to be classed as antisemitic.

5. Endorse and fund the Australian Human Rights Commission’s National Anti-Racism Framework; and

6. Recommend against measures that criminalise Palestinian or pro-Palestinian political expression.
They want to criminalise our right to free speech, freedom of expression and freedom the protest.
Our freedom to hold an opinion they do not like

[Pat @MythicallyMad]

WTF?

Sarah Ferguson: "There's no doubt that Pauline Hanson held her ground today?"

What is that editorial comment? She said nothing, looked like she was shitting herself constantly and was angry throughout.

That's not "holding her ground"

#abc730

[Richard D Boyle @Richard_D_Boyle]

The Court of Appeal is in session in Brisbane, Queensland.

@AlboMP @MRowlandMP

Justice Paul Smith AM found in a 2025 decision that ATO Senior Investigator Anthony Rains had:

• Altered evidence tendered to the court to sabotage defence
• Fabricated false witness statements tendered to the court
• Misled judges to get search warrants
• Lied in briefing note to the Bar
• Withheld exculpatory evidence & docs
• Referred case with no complainant

The Executive Government of Australia 🇦🇺 @AusGov is spending more of your tax 💰 to defend this.

Are we a democracy when an Executive agency like the ATO behaves like this?

#Auspol #Auslaw #ATO #CDPP #Tax #BigMoney #uapX #ATOCrimes #Maladministration
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