Katy Abbott

[Gerard Rennick @RennickGBR]

$40 billion in remittances leaves Australia every year.

If you move to Australia you should invest in Australia, not send money back to the country you left behind.

$40 billion is the combined annual profit of our five biggest banks.

This an enormous hit to our economy that is unsustainable and should not be tolerated.

Most of these remittances are by foreign students who milk our generosity.

https://t.co/PeAaJW2pjF intends to crack down on this exploitation by reducing student and bridging visas by up to one million places.

Politicians need to put Australia and not vested interests first.

[Katy Abbott @KateIAbbott]

@MickamiousG Chinese can build things cheaper that the US or Australia. For a start they make their parts - this was not true in the end for those failed car manufacturers here. And how much money did they send back to US?

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

It's easy to point at Jillian Segal and make fun of how crazy and stupid she is, but the Albanese government is the only reason her craziness and stupidity is a problem.

The thing about Segal and all these "antisemitism advisors" they're setting up in western governments is that they're just random people with strong political opinions who are being elevated to ridiculous levels of influence. They're not experts, they're just people who happen to hold the political opinion that it should be illegal to criticize the state of Israel.

Which wouldn't normally be an issue; our society is full of individuals with terrible political opinions. The problem is that our government has selected these cartoonishly ridiculous Zionists to help shape policy in immensely consequential ways that erode the civil liberties of our nation. Our leaders are the ones to blame for these inept lunatics wielding absurd levels of influence; left to their own devices they'd just be harmless idiots. They're only harmful because they're being given the power to do harm.

[Mickamious @MickamiousG]

It shouldn’t be controversial to say this but The White Australia Party (WAP) should be allowed to register as a formal party in Australia.

To not allow the WAP to register as a party would show that Australia isn’t a serious democracy (which it isn’t anyway).

If the Government of Australia has nothing to fear, why would they want to stop such a group forming an electoral party?

I have nothing against the socialist and communists forming their own parties -
So in principle we should allow the WAP to form their own also.

[Angelo Giuliano 🇨🇭🇮🇹 @angeloinchina]

🎥 US Secretary of State basically admitting: Iran had the AUDACITY to build a real defensive shield for its own survival — and that’s exactly why the Empire struck first.

Look at the arrogance. Iran dared to defend itself against decades of aggression, sanctions, assassinations, and constant threats from the US and Israel.

They weren’t “building an offensive force” — they were creating enough missiles, drones, conventional weapons, and even a capable navy so that no one could bomb them with impunity anymore.

They were simply telling the world:
“If you attack our nuclear sites, our territory, or our people, we will hit back hard — with swarms of missiles, waves of drones, and naval operations that will make you regret it.”

That’s called sovereignty. That’s called deterrence.

That’s what any self-respecting nation does when it’s surrounded by hostile empires that have already destroyed Iraq, Libya, and tried the same on Syria and Yemen.

But the US can’t tolerate that. They can’t allow any country — especially one that refuses to bow to the dollar and the rules-based disorder — to reach a point of real immunity. So Trump (and the neocons) decided to smash that emerging shield before Iran could complete it.

Classic imperialist logic: “How dare you defend yourself? Only WE are allowed to have overwhelming military superiority and threaten whoever we want.”

Iran wasn’t the aggressor. Iran was preparing to survive the next illegal war the Empire was clearly planning. And the fact that Washington openly admits this was the reason for the attack tells you everything about who the real threat to peace is.

Respect to Iran for daring to stand tall. The rest of the Global Majority is watching.

[Katy Abbott @KateIAbbott]

@matt_barrie I thought the lesson of prohibition had already been learnt

[Irlandarra @martinez_j7902]

US Journalist 🇺🇸: Professor Marandi , You are a US citizen born in Richmond, Virginia. You are eligible to be elected US President.

Professor Marandi 🇮🇷 : I am not…

Journalist : Why not?

Professor Marandi : Because my name is not in the Epstein Files

[Katy Abbott @KateIAbbott]

@VigilantFox How about we stop listening to all the lies about what is going on and just watch, and report on, what they do

[Katy Abbott @KateIAbbott]

@2worldsPodcast This is a problem with the response of the police to a horrific stabbing. You are just succumbing to the racist angle, when what people really need is a better police and court response to real crimes

[Katy Abbott @KateIAbbott]

@goodfoodgal I haven't read the article but there is a lot of corruption in this country and this is how some people get rich

[Toby Rogers @uTobian]

What's wild about the vaccine debate is that the data do not matter. The medical freedom movement has won every scientific debate for 25 years. Doesn't matter. @AaronSiriSG is 1,000% right that vaccines are a religion. Vaccination is a profession of FAITH, data are irrelevant to them.

[Katy Abbott @KateIAbbott]

@Fulgore You need to get over the belief that we live in a democracy. Voting won't help.
A system where you vote for a group on their policies, and then they do what ever they like when they get into power is not democracy

[Katy Abbott @KateIAbbott]

@sustainablock @ValerieAnne1970 'this is indisputable' is completely wrong. It might be true that the people who dispute this are silenced and sidelined, but this is definitely disputable

[Katy Abbott @KateIAbbott]

@ValerieAnne1970 And how much of the greenhouse gasses do exploding bombs cause? Stop with all the bs

[Katy Abbott @KateIAbbott]

@RennickGBR 'If we want to get our country back on track' - who says that they do want this?

[Katy Abbott @KateIAbbott]

@FamilyAu Maybe they need these sorts of people to agree to fight a war on behalf of the US?

[Katy Abbott @KateIAbbott]

@chaser What a dumb nation we are - I'm glad we can get a laugh

[Katy Abbott @KateIAbbott]

@MickamiousG I don't think it was ever off - just a bit of theatre so they can make more money

[Katy Abbott @KateIAbbott]

@TheGrayzoneNews I saw a jewish documentary of the attack on one of the kibbutz where one survivor said they were all killed by IDF - she was protected by her husband's body and survived. Can't remember where I saw it - maybe RT?

[Katy Abbott @KateIAbbott]

@senatorbabet If your saying we are a democracy then it is a right