Thomas Mayo

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander author & Assistant National Secretary of the MUA. leaving this platform for BlueSky:

[Thomas Mayo @thomasmayo23]

‘Finding Our Heart - A story about the Uluru Statement for young Australians’, is my new book full of truth-telling told from the perspective of First Nations people, including HOW you can support the campaign for the Uluru Statement.

Watch me read it:
https://t.co/VtzsPqmzfE

[Jenny Difficult-Frecklington-Jones 🇵🇸🇱🇧🇮🇷 @JonesHowDareYou]

Wilcox. #TwoWayStreet #auspol #DV #MVAW #MVAC

[Peter FitzSimons @Peter_Fitz]

How can Nat Barr say Pauline Hanson has denied she's for the White Australia policy, as if that settles it, when we all heard her say that was when Australia lost its way??? It's not something she can deny, when the shit hits the fan.
#auspol

[Peter FitzSimons @Peter_Fitz]

It is PATHETIC.
She seeks to lead the country, but the moment the shit hits the fan, for fan-girling Tommy Robinson, she says "It was Channel Seven what made me do it!"?
#FFS
#auspol

[🌹 Imogen 🌹 @twtrrr]

.@thomasmayo23 listening to you an @abcnews just now and everything you have said is resonating. What is needed is “consistent acts of care”. Hear, hear. Our First Nations people are people, humans, who want and need respect and support as anyone else does. #auspol 🙌❤️

[Aaron Smith @aaronsmith]

Hanson is too busy to turn up for the job she’s paid for, but not too busy to claim taxpayer money for expenses she can't justify.

When the AEC asked for proof of expenditure, Hanson withdrew claims totalling $800k+.

"Please provide evidence” is One Nation’s natural predator.

[stranger @strangerous10]

💥Zali Steggall hits back at One Nation’s “dangerous” anti immigrant rhetoric & reminds that 30% of our care workforce are migrants
“R u also going to tell ppl that it means shutting down aged care centres? Cutting back on services?”
Why won’t media ask Hanson these questions?🙄

[Aaron Smith @aaronsmith]

@karlstefanovic Karl, platforming Tommy Robinson is a terrible choice.

His record:

Jailed for assaulting a cop
Jailed for Mortgage fraud
Contempt of court prejudicing grooming-gang trials
Stalked and threatened journalist at her home at night
Defamed a child

'Today' should end your contract.

[Aaron Smith @aaronsmith]

Pauline Hanson went full Trump rather than answer one simple question about her daughter's tax-payer funded job.

This 6 point chronological timeline shows exactly what Hanson was dodging:

1. Sean Bell lived in Queensland and, was Pauline Hanson's adviser for 9 years.

2. NSW One Nation Senator Warwick Stacey resigns after just 6 weeks.

3. Sean Bell is then parachuted into the vacant NSW seat by Hanson.

4. Pauline's daughter Lee Hanson is then hired as Bell's adviser, having never performed that role ever before, and on a salary up to $180k - all taxpayer-funded.

5. MPs can't employ their own family - so Lee, who lives in Tasmania is assumed to be technically employed by Sean Bell - a NSW Senator. Very convenient.

6. Despite being employed as an Advisor to a NSW senator, Lee still lives in Tasmania and spends much of her time campaigning for One Nation.

Now you see why Hanson went 'full Trump' rather than answer.

[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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[Thomas Mayo @thomasmayo23]

“If progressives never name the wins, we leave the field to those who only sell resentment.”

My latest essay, ‘Celebrating Our Wins in a Politics of Grievance’, is free to read on Substack: @thomasmayo11

https://t.co/MQkzS08apB

[stranger @strangerous10]

Eslake says it’s "not true" that rents will rise as a result of Labor’s CGT changes. Calls the 1980s comparison a 'latter-day' Goebbels tactic: "If you tell a lie often enough...it becomes accepted as the truth."💥💯#auspol

[stranger @strangerous10]

Albo says it’s “completely extraordinary” One Nation claims to stand for Australia while they “offshore their own advertising” & “offshore their party membership process.” 💥

Will anyone ask Hanson about the hypocrisy at NPC today?

[Cheryl Kernot @cheryl_kernot]

Rotten to the core. So many of them.

[Quentin Dempster @QuentinDempster]

Exceptional analysis of Elon Musk’s incitements through X by @ABCmediawatch 👇Musk refuses to amend the malign/toxic algorithmic power of X, falsely claiming it’s all “free speech”. Trouble is it megaphones and actually facilitates violent racism.

[stranger @strangerous10]

Albanese tells media pack that while he acknowledges One Nation have big donors like Gina Rinehart, he also remembers the secret NRA donations they sought in the US to try unwind federal gun laws.
“I encourage you to have a look at that footage”💥 Who can forget?🙄 #auspol

[Dee Madigan @deemadigan]

The party of ‘Aussie jobs for Aussies’ is funded by the billionaire who said Aussies should work for $2 a day, and is now outsourcing its own work to the Philippines.

https://t.co/RUKPp5d5J6

[Mike Carlton @MikeCarlton01]

The great Geoffrey Robertson unloads on the grotesque psychopath in the White House, and he does not miss.
https://t.co/hPuPjkZcm4

[stranger @strangerous10]

Exposed: Pauline Hanson in Hot Water as official identified as white supremacist who defends Nazi Hitler Youth, advocates White Australia Policy & spews racist bile online. Says he’s “proud” to work for Hanson. Clearly fits in.
This is the rot at the heart of One Nation. #auspol

[Peter FitzSimons @Peter_Fitz]

I think it was more "Hail Pauline Hanson", but yes - you have to figure that if you're supporting a party that attracts Neo-Nazis, you have taken a desperately wrong turn and are completely lost?
#Auspol

[The Monthly @THEMONTHLY]

Loving Country becomes easier when people can learn about it without blind-patriotism rage-bait being forced down our throats. https://t.co/zJcZgVNSBw