Mark Whalan

Change starts on the very small scale

[David Shoebridge @DavidShoebridge]

Germany and France are out of Palantir and now Spain. It's time for Australia to start looking towards sovereign control of critical systems and reducing our reliance on US billionaire owned and controlled tech.

[David Shoebridge @DavidShoebridge]

Here’s a classic AUKUS job, to head the Australian Submarine Agency. Great salary, great benefits, big budget, hundreds of staff, lots of gold braid and no annoying submarines to have to manage. Any takers?

[SOHO Galleries @SOHO_Galleries]

@ARTParkAust ArtPark Australia sculpture Kiama Sculpture walk 2026. Featured sculpture 'Mighty Mustang' Tobias Bennett steel equine sculpture.
Online contact enquiry https://t.co/4mVTxmODGI
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[Fred Wellman @FPWellman]

This is the most corrupt words to come out of a Speaker's mouth imaginable. The job of Congress isn't to protect the President and his family. It's to provide checks and balances on the Executive Branch. You're damn right we will investigate crimes and corruption. Who moved $180 million in oil futures 15 minutes before Iran announcements? Who has gotten sole source contracts because of their connections to the Trump family? Where did our social security data go when DOGE downloaded it into portable hard drives? Where are the rest of the Epstein files? On and on this Congress has chosen covering up crimes instead of stopping them. That ends in November. @WellmanForMO

[💧Michael West @MichaelWestBiz]

Witch-hunt of eminent surgeon Peter Macdonald - Melbourne Uni caves to Israel lobby, cancels prestigious lecture. Usual anon complaints. @Wendy_Bacon

#auspol #antisemitism

https://t.co/8oymwxepUb

[🌹 Imogen 🌹 @twtrrr]

Centrelink and Employment Providers coupled with nowhere near enough to live on JobSeeker or Youth Allowance are little more than slave camps run without offering accommodation or regular meals at all. They know they’re harming people. Sentencing them to homelessness and lack.

[David Shoebridge @DavidShoebridge]

Time to wake the f*** up to the billionaire funded disinformation campaign from One Nation

[Nick Riemer @NickRiemer1]

Last week, a very senior administrator at Sydney Uni told us that when Israel supporters on our internal staff platform deny the genocide in Gaza, management expects us *not to challenge them*. Here's excerpts from our reply, in which we refuse this extraordinary request.

[David Shoebridge @DavidShoebridge]

The Christian Brothers were effectively a criminal gang where 22% of the brothers committed child sexual assault. They saw the law and survivors coming after them so hid their assets and cash in a separate legal entity. Together we need to fix this for survivors.

[Nick McLaren @nickpmclaren]

“The Job-Ready Graduates Scheme must go”, says Monique Ryan.

[Barbara Pocock @BarbaraPocock]

Should Labor terminate its $1.3m contract to KPMG to train senior public sector leaders in ethics?

[ADAM @adamemedia1]

NEW: 🇮🇱 🇵🇸 The UN has found that Israel deliberately targeted maternity wards and neonatal units as a direct strategy.

I have no words.

[Paul Karp @Paul_Karp]

#breaking Right-wing campaign group Advance and the Exclusive Brethren will be compelled to attend a parliamentary inquiry into the 2025 election.

JSCEM statement said they were asked nicely and declined - so now compelling them

[Rhys Muldoon @rhysam]

Don’t forget.

[Nick McKim @NickMcKim]

One Nation is the local arm of a globalised dark money network, promoting fascism and division across the world. The Greens are here to fight them every step of the way.

[David Shoebridge @DavidShoebridge]

The NACC is a disaster zone and the Attorney-General's Department insists it is operating as intended.  It might be operating as Labor intends but the Greens and the community see it must be fixed and urgently!

[Governor Tim Walz @GovTimWalz]

I will never stop exercising my constitutional rights to stand up for Minnesotans and the American freedoms we hold dear.

My full statement on DOJ’s politically motivated investigation:

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

A federal court just confirmed what everyone already knew:

Trump’s DOJ is illegally using the machinery of government to target his political enemies with bogus investigations.

That’s not justice. It’s corruption. IT MUST END!

[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.
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