LMB

Citizen journalist that may parody and write news content as a part of my posts.

[LMB @LMBtweets]

@ausvstheagenda @AngusTaylorMP @AngusTaylorMP is turning out to be quite a weak opponent.

[Anthony Khallouf @ausvstheagenda]

Bit hard to “not support the Digital Duty of Care” bill if you don’t even turn up, aye @AngusTaylorMP and Andrew Hastie

[Craig Kelly:🇦🇺Foundation for Economic Education @craigkellyAFEE]

If Sydney University can find the money to pay Ardern, it’s time to take a chainsaw to the $1,237 million they received from taxpayers last year alone.

It’s sickening that hard working Australians are now being forced fund Ardern‘s luxury lifestyle.

[Carlz J Söda @carlzjsoda]

I won't lie, it boils my blood watching students in my hometown of Melbourne march against capitalism, because it tells me the people teaching them, and the people deciding what gets taught, have conveniently forgotten some fairly recent history.

So consider this a refresher on what happens when a country votes its way into socialism and then has to shoot its way out of it.
This is part one of three on Joseph Stalin, the seminary boy from Georgia who started out organising bank robberies for the Bolsheviks and ended up controlling every job in the Communist Party, long before anyone realised what he was going to do with that power. Part two drops tomorrow, and that's where it gets sinister.

If you'd like to keep this series going, you can shout me a coffee through the link in my bio, which is a lot more than Stalin's guards ever did for him.

[One Nation Australia @OneNationAus]

The supposedly impartial Director-General of the ABC, Hugh Marks, has not for the first time taken aim at One Nation. This time, over Bluey! He cannot hide his contempt for One Nation and its voters. He exists in a parallel universe from most everyday Australians. That would be his right if it wasn’t for the fact that he’s head of our taxpayer-funded national broadcaster.

[Ζoë @zoecabina]

In April this year, the Department of Home Affairs approved a $110,000 grant to @ozarabmedia Pty Ltd under its Independent Multicultural Media Transformation and Sustainability program.

The program’s stated purpose is to “support social cohesion” and help independent multicultural outlets move to digital media 🌈🦄

Here is the "social cohesion" they are doing with our money 👇

There are plenty more examples of this, but I caught this one yesterday.

Here they platform Sydney-based rabid antizionist Taveet Sinanian, who says that on October 7 he was disturbed not by women being raped, elderly people being burned alive, fathers being murdered in front of their kids, old and young people abducted into Gazan tunnels...

No, he wasn't upset about that. He was disturbed because he predicted the Jews would retaliate....

Imagine being such an out-and-proud racist and still calling yourself a human-rights activist.

Idk wtf our money is going towards this trash. How does this improve Australia or social cohesion?

[Ted Bullpitt 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺 @RightisRight___]

Darcy Byrne the Mayor of inner West Council that owns the Marrickville golf club is a former Albanese staffer.

Could the corruption and rorts get any bigger than this government.

#auspol #NACC @NACCgovau

[LMB @LMBtweets]

@meshygrey 😞

[Alia Bee @AliaVFF]

An Open Letter to the University of Sydney @Sydney_Uni @mscott

Regarding the appointment of Jacinda Ardern as Professor of Practice

Dear Professor Scott,

I read with absolute disgust that the University of Sydney has appointed Jacinda Ardern as Professor of Practice, where she will apparently be sharing her wisdom on empathetic leadership, social cohesion and civic trust.

You cannot be serious.

You are quoted as saying:

"Dame Jacinda led New Zealand through events of profound consequence and her leadership demonstrated that empathy and resolve do not compete with one another; each can strengthen the other."

Appointing Jacinda Ardern to teach social cohesion is rather like appointing Jeffrey Dahmer to teach a course on wellbeing, or Jimmy Savile to run the local daycare centre. The sheer absurdity would almost be funny if the consequences of her leadership weren't so hideously tragic.

My name is Alia Bland. I am a co-founder of Voices for Freedom, an organisation established in New Zealand in 2020. For years, we stood alongside tens of thousands of ordinary Kiwis whose lives were torn apart by the policies of Ardern's government.

While the international media fawned over her kindness and compassion, we were dealing with the wreckage.

At the height of the COVID response, we were receiving upwards of 1,000 emails a day. Desperate people reaching out because they had lost their jobs, their incomes, their homes and, in many cases, their will to live.

People nearing retirement were forced to sell family homes they had spent decades paying off. Some are still living in caravans five years later.

Marriages collapsed. Families fractured. Lifelong friendships were destroyed. People who had served their communities for decades were suddenly treated like lepers because they declined a medical procedure.

Some of the people who came to us had spent their entire lives believing New Zealand was a decent, fair-minded country. Watching that belief crumble, and seeing what it did to them, was heartbreaking.

I cannot adequately describe the anguish in those emails. The desperation of parents wondering how they would feed and house their families. The humiliation of hardworking people being marched out of professions they loved. The despair of people who had done everything society asked of them, only to discover that their own government considered them disposable.

And presiding over it all was Jacinda Ardern, smiling for the cameras and telling the world how kind New Zealand was.

Kind? For whom?

Her government deliberately created a two-class society. Ardern herself acknowledged it publicly. New Zealanders were excluded from workplaces, businesses, events and ordinary social life. People were coerced into accepting a medical intervention under threat of losing their livelihoods.

And those who suffered adverse reactions to the COVID vaccines faced another nightmare. We fought for vaccine-injured New Zealanders whose lives had been devastated by serious physical harm, while many struggled to have their injuries acknowledged or receive adequate support.

The government's public assurances about vaccine safety deserve particular scrutiny. Officials knew about the myocarditis risk, including among young people. We have examined the records. Yet people raising legitimate questions about those risks were routinely dismissed and vilified.

The damage went far beyond lost incomes and broken relationships. An enormous number of New Zealanders lost faith in the very institutions they had trusted their entire lives. Government, health authorities, education, police and the media. That trust has not magically returned because Ardern has moved on to more prestigious surroundings.

While her government was busy marginalising people, we were building a nationwide support network to help them survive.

Voices for Freedom grew to more than 100,000 people on our mailing list, many representing entire families. More than 45,000 people signed up to our local groups across the country, which are still operational today in 2026. We established industry groups to help people fight for their careers, provided support through employment disputes and legal challenges, organised practical assistance and hand-delivered millions of flyers to households throughout New Zealand.

We did this while facing censorship, public vilification and government surveillance. Official records obtained since have confirmed that our activities and communications were being monitored and reported on.

Our volunteers gave everything they could to help people who had been abandoned by the institutions meant to protect them.

And now the University of Sydney wants to hold up the woman responsible for overseeing this period as a shining example of empathy and social cohesion?

It is sickening.

Professor Scott, did anyone at your university bother to speak with the people whose lives were destroyed under Ardern's leadership before celebrating her appointment?

Have you spoken to the former nurses, teachers and police officers who lost their careers? The families who lost their homes? The people still suffering from vaccine injuries? The parents whose children no longer speak to them?

Or did you simply swallow the carefully cultivated international image of Saint Jacinda, the compassionate leader who saved New Zealand?

I wonder whether you have considered why this internationally celebrated former prime minister now lives in Australia rather than the country she once led. The depth of hostility towards her among many New Zealanders should give you pause.

Because I can assure you, there is another side to that story. And there are hundreds of thousands of New Zealanders who live with the consequences.

I have no objection to universities studying Ardern's leadership. In fact, I would encourage it. There is an enormous amount to learn from what happened in New Zealand between 2021 and 2023. Like, what not to do...

But presenting her as someone uniquely qualified to teach empathy, social cohesion and civic trust, without acknowledging the extraordinary human suffering that occurred under her leadership, is an insult to the people who paid the price.

We were there, Professor Scott. We saw what happened. We picked up the pieces. We are still picking them up.

Some of those people will never recover what they lost.

And the woman who presided over it all gets a professorship in empathy.

What an absolute disgrace.

Yours sincerely,

Alia Bland
Co-founder, Voices for Freedom
New Zealand

[Step and fetch @FetchStep]

Senior Public servants want the broadcast of Senate estimates shutdown because they hate public scrutiny.
Jim Betts, Department of Infrastructure, wants to stop his dept from having public accountability.
Jim wants to hide poor decisions and huge cost blow outs from voters.

[Lisa @Lisa9Sophia]

Clennell vs Ashby

So here’s the background…. Clennell criticized the cartoons, which all One Nation members will find infuriating, me included

As a consequence Pauline pulled out of going on his show, and Ashby said Pauline thought Clennell was a “dick”

Clennell threatened to go public about Pauline pulling out, and Ashby said sure go ahead, but make sure you tell your viewers Pauline thinks you’re a d^ckhead

Now Clennell is asking for people to leak dirt on Ashby!

[Pauline Hanson 🇦🇺 @PaulineHansonOz]

The Labor party has established a $386 million slush fund under it's multiculturalism grants program.

94% of the grants last year went to labor seats. $45 million went to Tony Burke's electorates alone.

What's the departments response to this obvious pork barreling? "They're election commitments"

It's not good enough. Australians are sleeping on the street and these are the rorts this government is spending your money on.

[DJ @DebskiBebski]

Albo: One Nation cartoon of me getting hit by a bus = “promotes division and violence.”

Albo: ABC airing a fantasy of sexually violating Gina Rinehart with a stick, stirring her guts into a sausage roll and killing her = merely “inappropriate.”

No demand for ABC reform. No criticism of the Ombudsman that cleared it. Just another defence of Anika Wells protecting the ABC’s sacred “independence.”

Hypocrisy, thy name is Albanese.

[Rachael Wong @RachaelWongAus]

The only thing more embarrassing than saying men who claim to be women need breastfeeding discrimination protections, is @AusHumanRights admitting they engaged a ‘communications consultant’ to answer questions at Senate estimates – and that was still the best they could come up with 🤦🏻‍♀️

[Ausmaxx | Andre @Ausmaxx1]

The Digital Duty of Care Bill has just passed the Australian House of Representatives with the support of Labor, the Greens, and Independents.

The Liberals and One Nation both voted against it, but Angus Taylor and Andrew Hastie were nowhere to be seen.
The Liberals have been trying to claw back voters from One Nation after they backed the hate speech laws earlier this year, the same laws that got a political party banned.

If they can’t even get their own senior MPs to show up and vote against a bill designed to censor speech, there’s no reason to vote for them again.

[Dave Hughes @DHughesy]

“Hughsy, I am a mum, running my gym, and had to get rid of my my staff to survive. I am now working from sun up to sun down in a physical job, smashing myself to keep the doors open. All while raising my teenagers as a single parent.

Thanks for all that you are doing to bring light to these grubs.”

Every honest private employer of people is stretching to breaking point. Three levels of waste and corruption, council, state, federal. We must change how we are governed.

[Lisa @Lisa9Sophia]

Double standards. There were no serious repercussions for Lidia Thorpe’s when she threatened to burn down Parliament House in support Hamas run Gaza

She said “…we will turn up every day, and if I have to burn down Parliament House to make a point.” And even added the Antisemitic threat to Jews of, “Palestine from the river to the sea”

Some in Parliament called her out (not the PM) and the AFP investigated

But apparently now everything the left don’t like is the problem, which amounts to - One Nation, the manosphere and a cartoon

[Kat A 🌸 @SaiKate108]

Kudos to Senator Henderson who skilfully interrogated Senator Green over the Journalism Assistance Fund.

Accusing Labor of deliberately excluding conservative leaning outlets under the pretext of foreign ownership.

Senator Green seemed unprepared and surprisingly gave the game away.

Declaring it was not about free speech and nonchalantly stated ‘Rupert Murdoch is doing ok for himself.’

Talk about saying the quiet part out loud.

[Fusilier @firstfusilier]

This is @AlboMP in 2020 commenting on then Coalition Minister Bridget McKenzie who admitted to breaching ministerial standards by failing to formally declare her membership at the Wangaratta Trap and Gun Club, which received $36,000 in federal funding through a Sports Funding program. She resigned.

Thanks to @rovingallround for the clip.

[Francynancy @FranMooMoo]

Public servants complaining about feeling 'bruised' by clips of their own Estimates testimony should try showing up ready to answer basic questions on public spending. This is the problem 👇