Robert Broughton

Politics & IR / Ngāti Porou / Ngāti Kahungunu

[Anthony Albanese @AlboMP]

Today marks the 75th anniversary of the ANZUS Treaty, a cornerstone of Australia’s defence and security, and a foundation of our enduring cooperation with the United States and New Zealand.

The signing of the ANZUS Treaty in 1951 formalised the Australia-US Alliance, which was forged on the battlefields of two world wars.

For more than seven decades, the Alliance has underpinned peace, stability and prosperity in our region and continues to contribute to the region’s strategic balance.

Today the United States remains our closest ally and principal strategic partner.

As we look to the future, we work closely with the United States to deliver for the Australian and American people, deepening the bonds of friendship and goodwill that have connected our nations for generations.

The Alliance between Australia and New Zealand remains closer than ever, tightly bound by our shared history. Our security partnership was founded in the days of the first ANZACs, with this spirit continuing to enliven our modern Alliance.

Today, our Alliance continues to evolve, including efforts to operate as an increasingly integrated, combat capable ANZAC force. Our Alliance has a critical role in safeguarding national security and supporting stability in the Indo-Pacific as we work to shape a region where sovereignty is respected.

As we mark this milestone amidst an increasingly complex strategic environment, we reaffirm the enduring value of ANZUS.

[Rob Baillieu @rebaillieu]

PSA: The census will count LGBT people for the first time tomorrow.

It’s done on a household level which could lead to underreporting in households where people aren’t out.

You can get around this by applying for an individual form on the ABS website. Share widely! #auspol

[Aaron Parnas @AaronParnas]

This image is from today. A Black woman sits on the DC metro as masked white nationalists prepare to march on our nation's capital.

This is America's 250th anniversary. REUTERS/Cheney Orr

[Zeteo UK @zeteouk]

👏 🇬🇧 Zeteo UK is here to disrupt Britain’s broken media! We’ll be bringing fearless, independent journalism to the UK - no bowing to political pressure, no corporate interests, just fearless journalism.

[Pedro Sánchez @sanchezcastejon]

Hoy se cumplen ocho años desde que fui investido presidente del Gobierno.

Ocho años en los que hemos transformando profundamente la realidad y mejorado la vida de las personas.

Desde 2018 hasta ahora, nuestro PIB ha crecido un 12,3%, tres puntos más que el promedio de la UE, casi el doble que el de países como Italia o Francia y 10 veces más que el de Alemania.

Hemos creado tres millones y medio de empleos.

Hemos cruzado por primera vez la cifra histórica de los 22 millones de afiliados a la Seguridad Social y la tasa de paro es la más baja de los últimos 18 años.

Hemos subido el salario mínimo un 66%. Dando a empresas y trabajadores herramientas como los ERTE para evitar que los despidos sean la respuesta natural a las crisis.

Hemos aprobado una reforma laboral que ha reducido la temporalidad en 12 puntos y ha hecho que el salario medio crezca un 23%, cuatro puntos por encima de la inflación.

Hemos impulsado una profunda transformación estructural de nuestro tejido productivo de la mano de los Fondos del Plan de Recuperación que negociamos en Bruselas. Ya hemos desplegado 67.000 M€ para la modernización de nuestra economía, que han permitido impulsar la digitalización y la transición verde.

Nuestra apuesta por la energía limpia y barata nos ha permitido más que duplicar la potencia instalada de renovables desde 2018. Las energías renovables han pasado de generar el 39% de nuestra electricidad en 2018 al 56% en 2025. Y seguimos.

Hemos redoblado nuestra apuesta por la educación y la innovación. Hemos superado por primera vez los más 2.500 millones al año dedicado a becas y ayudas al estudio. Y hemos culminado la reforma de la Formación Profesional, financiando la creación de 400.000 nuevas plazas, lo que ha permitido que hoy tengamos casi un 50% más de alumnos que en 2018.

Hemos expandido los derechos sociales. Cuando llegué al Gobierno, los padres tenían un permiso de poco más de un mes cuando nacía su hijo. Hoy tenemos un sistema de permisos igualitarios e intransferibles para padres y madres de 19 semanas.

Hemos aprobado una reforma de pensiones destinada a dar certidumbre a los pensionistas presentes y futuros, mejorar las pensiones mínimas y fortalecer su sostenibilidad. Hoy los pensionistas tienen garantizado su poder adquisitivo, lo que ha permitido que la pensión media haya pasado de 950€ al mes en 2018 a 1.400€ hoy.

Hemos creado un Ingreso Mínimo Vital que ha servido para proteger las rentas de más un millón de hogares vulnerables, y que ha permitido que la desigualdad y la pobreza estén hoy en los mínimos de las últimas dos décadas.

Y hemos fortalecido el Estado del bienestar: incrementando un 174% la financiación a la dependencia, aumentado un 54% las plazas de Formación Sanitaria (MIR), y multiplicado por ocho la inversión estatal en vivienda.

Queda muchísimo por hacer. Pero estos ocho años demuestran lo mucho que podemos hacer juntos y juntas. Seguimos.

[Greg Presland @GregPresland]

This is a constitutional outrage and shows not only contempt for the rule of law but also contempt for any action taken by a citizen against climate change.

https://t.co/JHYzXxi3Y2

[Acyn @Acyn]

Axelrod: There are a lot of people who would like you to run for president in 2028. And there are others who would like you to run for the senate.

AOC: In this op-ed that Bezos paid for in The Washington Post, there was a veiled threat—it was the elite saying if you want this job, you just stepped out of line. What’s funny about that is they assume my ambition is positional. They assume my ambition is a title or a seat. My ambition is way bigger than that. My ambition is to change this country. Presidents come and go, elected officials come and go, single payer healthcare is forever.

[Jon Ossoff @ossoff]

Congress has let drug companies rip off Americans for decades.

Lobbyists, campaign cash, and a system that protects industry profits.

But it doesn’t have to be this way.

[Adam Schwarz @AdamJSchwarz]

Péter Magyar victory speech:

"We want to make a country where no one is persecuted because they think differently or because someone loves in a different way to others."

He didn't campaign as a liberal. But this is a huge change of direction from Orbán’s anti-LGBTQ+ crusade.

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

from @CatherineBelton, on why Vance is going to Budapest
https://t.co/lrBs6hepVU

[First Squawk @FirstSquawk]

FITCH SAYS IRAN WAR POSES SOME RISKS TO ECONOMY OF NEW ZEALAND, GIVEN ITS SUBSTANTIAL DEPENDENCE ON ENERGY IMPORTS

[Team Talarico @TeamTalaricoHQ]

.@JamesTalarico: The only minority destroying America is the billionaires. Trans people are 1% of the population. Muslims are 1% of the population. Undocumented people are 1% of the population. We are focused on the wrong 1%.

Trans people aren't taking away our healthcare. Muslims aren't defunding our schools. Immigrants aren't cutting taxes for themselves and their rich friends. It’s the billionaires and their puppet politicians.

The culture wars are a smokescreen. They want us looking left and right at our neighbors instead of looking up at them. The biggest divide in our politics is not left versus right, it’s top versus bottom.

[Karam Bales @karamballes]

Pulling on the threads of foreign influence in the UK

A network mapping exercise on Reform and the Free Speech Union, with Epstein, Thiel and Bannon.
https://t.co/9v64GDq4j6

[The Nation @thenation]

Both Jeffrey Epstein and Peter Thiel believed that civilization was collapsing and that democratic norms were failing. And both did their part to help bring about these apocalyptic fantasies.
https://t.co/92Y0bKdTqb

[Zeteo @zeteo_news]

“They are now genuinely targeting liberal democracy in Europe as an ideological rivalry to the US.”

Financial Times editor and columnist @EdwardGLuce tells @mehdirhasan why the US under Trump is so antagonistic towards Europe.

[Oliver Stuenkel 🇧🇷 @OliverStuenkel]

Mark Carney and Pedro Sánchez are articulating an alternative worldview to Trump’s: one that is pragmatic, open, empathetic, confident—and yes, optimistic about the future

[Vatnik Soup @P_Kallioniemi]

Steve Bannon has actively undermined European democracy for over 10 years. He was involved in Cambridge Analytica and Brexit, a close associate of Epstein, and has promoted the illiberal movement in several European countries.

Time to sanction this convicted con man.

[Pedro Sánchez @sanchezcastejon]

Deja que los tecno-oligarcas ladren, Sancho, es señal de que cabalgamos.

[Clash Report @clashreport]

Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez:

Starting next week, my government will implement the following actions:

First, we will change the law in Spain to hold platform executives legally accountable for many infringements taking place on their sites.

Second, we will turn algorithmic manipulation and amplification of illegal content into a new criminal offense.

Third, we will implement a hate and polarization footprint system to track, quantify, and expose how digital platforms fuel division and amplify hate.

Fourth, Spain will ban access to social media for minors under the age of 16. Platforms will be required to implement effective age verification systems — not just checkboxes, but real barriers that work.

Fifth and last, my government will work with our public prosecutor to investigate and pursue the infringement committed by Grok, TikTok, and Instagram.

[ChrisO_wiki @ChrisO_wiki]

1/ America's democratic backsliding under Trump has been far faster and steeper than in Russia under Putin, Hungary under Orban, Venezuela under Chavez, and Turkey under Erdogan, according to this remarkable graph and report from @jburnmurdoch in the Financial Times today.