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[Mike Carlton @MikeCarlton01]

There’s one flaw in this: Karl is not “making exit plans from television.” It’s television that’s making exit plans from Karl. https://t.co/P0yPHmAunD

[Politic@l Spinner. @lesstenny]

Just seen this.. So agreed #auspol

Only 2% of Australians own all the investment properties.

Labor just helped the 98% rather than looking after the 2%. Just what Australians voted for.

[Antony Green - elections @AntonyGreenElec]

Oops. The graphic didn't match the Morgan poll, or the script and someone's used the One Nation two-party figure. It seems to have been fixed back to 31% in a later story but this graphic and story are still on Sunrise's Youtube channel.

[Tom the whistleblower @blowingtom2]

Hahaha. @sunriseon7 using the 2PP number from Roy Morgan to lie to viewers the actual truth on where ON are polling. This is just laughable. Now the idiots will believe it. The numbers add up to 117.5%. 😂😂😂

What a fucking disgrace they are.

[Aaron Smith @aaronsmith]

@ajamesbragg Andrew, aren’t the capital gains tax changes grandfathered?

I suspect you know they are.

Which means this tweet isn’t a mistake. It’s a deliberate attempt to whip up outrage by misleading people you assume won’t check.

Why do Liberals treat voters with such contempt?

[Dr Tracy Westerman AM @TracyWesterman]

Just found false claim number 19 from Hansons NPC speech and it’s definitely my favourite one.
So I’ll just wait for her to start campaigning for the $4B shortfall in Indigenous funding based on health NEED - yeah, that’s actual mortality and morbidity data. Death that can be prevented by better health access.

[Michelle Fahy @FahyMichelle]

Yep, more than a quarter of National Press Club's sponsors are part of global arms industry or working on its behalf
See link to my full investigation last November into NPC funding (as referenced in article below)
👉 https://t.co/RyGOqKTP4d

[Dr Tracy Westerman AM @TracyWesterman]

The media has not bothered to thoroughly fact check Hansons National Press Club address so I’ve done it for them. 18 false and / or misleading statements. John Paul Janke was the journalist who pushed back on her claims and Sarah Martin questioned her about her daughters position as campaign advisor (rightly so) and was called a “trashy journalist” by Hanson and told she would be banned from future pressers. Nothing else was challenged by the so called journalists in attendance and she continues to be unchallenged on the facts in every interview she sits.

[Dr Tracy Westerman AM @TracyWesterman]

Question her record, and you become the attacker. That's not an accident. That's the strategy.

Fact-check Hanson’s donation figures, voting record, immigration numbers — it’s never addressed. It’s “you’re bagging Pauline,” “lefty’s are losing their minds,” “radical left,” “lunatics,” “scum.” Attack her, and you’re attacking them. No other politician gets that pass. She said there are “no good Muslims,” and didn’t respond to the outrage — it was “hate speech laws” being weaponised to jail her by wokism.
That’s Trump’s playbook: deny, attack the messenger, reverse victim and offender. “Witch hunt.” “They stole it.” Persecution, every time, until it’s the only story his base hears.
Both claim to unite their country while doing the opposite. Trump: “peacemaker and unifier” — months after “enemies from within.” Hanson: “we’re all Australians, treated equally” — in the same breath as “we must be monocultural,” denying the gender pay gap, cutting welfare, vowing to “confront” the “transgender insurgency.”
It escalates from there. Trump’s adviser called opponents “a vast domestic terror movement” to “disrupt, dismantle and destroy” — despite right-wing extremism causing 75–80% of US domestic terror deaths since 2001, and violence spiking since his return to office. The same move is already running here: five people have been criminally charged over real threats against Hanson — handled, as it should be — but the political framing skips past them. The headline is “Plea to Albo: Protect Pauline,” not “police charge offenders.” Her own adviser invoked Charlie Kirk’s assassination directly: “what happened… started with slogans, protests and vile abuse, then the horror no one wants to contemplate.” That’s drawing a straight line from ordinary criticism to violence, so disagreeing with her looks like the first step toward someone getting hurt.
That trains people to believe an entire side of politics is responsible for what a handful did — making retaliation feel like defence. Researchers have found the same pattern in Trump’s base: the more identity fuses with the leader, the more critics look like an existential threat, and the more willing people become to go after them.
Disagree with either, and you’re not wrong — you’re the enemy. Hanson: “if you’re not prepared to become Australian… go back where you came from.” Not celebrating January 26 gets the same treatment — keeping the date “unites,” changing it “divides.” It’s a password, handed out to whoever the leader’s decided belongs.
That buys total immunity. No finding can ever land, because it gets folded into the conspiracy. They don’t sit the same exam as anyone else.
That’s how a country turns on itself. “Radical left,” “lunatics,” “scum” — that language wasn’t part of mainstream Australian debate five years ago. It’s imported straight from Trump’s America, where opponents are “Marxists,” “communists,” “a vast domestic terror movement,” “enemies from within.” For the first time, Australians are being trained to see each other as the enemy — not over policy, but over who you voted for — the same way Americans have been trained to treat fellow citizens as the threat purely because of which side they’re on.
Neither can be pinned down on substance. Trump still has “concepts of a plan” for healthcare a decade in. Hanson, thirty years in, claims $90 billion in savings but only names $55.5 billion of it — $35 billion is simply asserted. Supporters don’t care, because the appeal was never the policy. It was always the person. Attack them, attack me.
Unaccountable, and dividing the country that’s supposed to hold them accountable. That’s not a side effect. That’s the entire strategy.

[Mike Carlton @MikeCarlton01]

The repulsive Trump is now threatening to seize control of the Strait of Hormuz and run it himself. Really ? The silly prick can’t even renovate the 60cm deep Reflecting Pool in Washington DC.

[Ronni🧂Salt-WhoWroteGunnawahYeahThatOne @RonniSalt]

This is a brilliant assessment by Dr Westerman (most things of hers are)

What a pity the journalists who offered their puddle shallow takes after Hanson's speech won't read this and take in what analysis with depth actually is

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[Mike Carlton @MikeCarlton01]

Daniel is a leading One Nation party intellectual and, with his profound insights and superb command of the English language, is an obvious candidate to be Minister for Education in a Hanson cabinet.

[Ahmed Shihab-Eldin @aseisfree]

BREAKING: Israeli ambassador Danny Danon lost it on camera at the UN after Israel was added to a blacklist of parties suspected of conflict-related sexual violence.

At a meeting Friday, Danon erupted at UN officials, demanded the resignation of Pramila Patten, the UN’s special representative on sexual violence in conflict, and tried to shout down Vanessa Frazier after she objected that the findings were based on verified evidence.

“You will be quiet now,” Danon snapped.

I interviewed Danny Danon 15 years ago on HuffPost Live. When I held him to account, he walked out of the interview. Sadly, the footage has been lost.

But the pattern was not lost.

This is what Israeli officials so often do when confronted with evidence they cannot bomb, bury, spin, or intimidate into silence: they attack the messenger. They accuse the institution. They demand resignations. They perform outrage as a substitute for accountability.

The issue is not whether Danny Danon is offended.

The issue is whether victims of alleged sexual violence, Palestinian detainees, and children in Israeli custody will be heard over the shouting of a state that has grown accustomed to impunity.

Israel was recently added to a UN blacklist for conflict-related sexual violence. Danon revealed the strategy: when the evidence speaks, tell the room to be quiet.

[MFWitches @MFWitches]

On the day Trump’s latest “ceasefire” was announced we copped flack for suggesting in the tweet below the deal was obviously fake … yet just 5 days later the same media are now themselves admitting it wasn’t real.

When will the mainstream media admit they do nothing but chase link clicks for profit and to enrich advertisers and billionaire mates (and then rush to report the exact opposite with similar enthusiasm) without any sense of shame or understanding of the harm they cause whatsoever?

#NewsCorpse

[Paul McDermott @YoungMasterPaul]

Toy Story 5 is looking sub par.

[Mike Carlton @MikeCarlton01]

This is barking mad. Rabid Rinehart wants to give chunks of Queensland to Israel.

[Anthony Klan @Anthony_Klan]

With all the hand-wringing over Pauline Hanson and her "mystery" rise, it's worth remembering Nine secretly flew her to clamber all over Uluru (with disgraced Ashby).
Nine then labeled it a "social division" - a "culture war" that had "divided the nation"
https://t.co/vJS107KAAl

[Solo Monk @JJKALE2]

Australian billionaire Georgina Rinehart wants to give free land to Little Zahra's killers.

[Peter FitzSimons @Peter_Fitz]

Pauline Hanson likes to go after minorities. But she’s found two new and surprising targets

Workers and young women needing childcare services.
#auspol
https://t.co/vE1IQInKGx