Brett Lamond

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[JayJay @JayJay91341991]

PLOIEESE EXPLOINE!

The Ginger Whinger- Pauline Hanson has refused to answer who funded her exclusive trip to Italy, with gal pal Gina.

Hanson threw her hands in the air and scowled at the reporter, who simply asked the question. 🇮🇹 ✈️ 🏖️🍸💋

#auspol @abcnews @SkyNewsAust

[The Real Steve McGuin @McguinThe]

@MikeCarlton01

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

This isn't journalism, folks.

This is straight up, bending over, complete capitulation.

The guy who badgered Biden, who wrote a whole nasty book about him, said to trump "Well I'm on a normal path right here, sir."

Fuck you, @jaketapper.🖕🏽

[JayJay @JayJay91341991]

Sarah Henderson needs to be charged for making several “test calls” to 000.

This is in total breach of Section 474.18 of the Criminal Code.

Nasty entitled Liberal.

#auspol #afternoonbriefing @abcnews #abc730 @SkyNewsAust @SenSHenderson

[Jake Broe @RealJakeBroe]

A Russian man is waiting in line at the gas station. “I’ve had enough of this,” says the man to his wife. “Take the wheel, I’m going to go shoot Putin.” Two hours later, he returns and sits back in the driver’s seat. “Did you shoot him?” Asks the wife. “No, the line to shoot Putin is longer than this one!”

[Craig Hill @CraigHill01]

Riddle me this, Batman: How does @Albo's gaffe during a podcast rate a mention when we consider the ramblings and racism we hear from One Nation and the Coalition, or Barnaby's adultery and drunkeness? Surely there are more important things to worry about?

[JayJay @JayJay91341991]

Thank fuck we have Niki Savva to cut through all Speers and Maiden’s Liberal bullshit this morning. 🔥

#insiders #auspol

[Sarrah Bellus @sarrah_bellus]

Donald Trump will go down in history as the only US President to be outwitted by a single-celled organism.

[- Cass @Cassandrasl99]

Anne Ally makes a good point.

Pauline talks about everything she wants to take away, but she doesn't talk about anything she wants to GIVE.

Fair.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

This is so accurate. I miss real leadership.

[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.
/2 sources

[Canada Hates Trump @AntiTrumpCanada]

“So let me get this straight: You started a war, got people killed, torched billions of dollars, threatened global oil supplies & ended up with basically the same deal I had - except Iran gets way more money. And I’m the one you call weak?? 😂😂😂”

[Mike Carlton @MikeCarlton01]

Nothing’s changed…

[Pammieoz @Pammieoz]

Wake Up Australia 🤬🤬🤬🤬

[The Noisy Elephant @TheNoisyTrunk]

Pauline Hanson: A Hypocrisy on Education

Pauline Hanson (née Seccombe) was born on 27 May 1954 in Woolloongabba, Brisbane. The fifth of seven children, she left school at 15, shortly before her first marriage and pregnancy, after attending Buranda Girls' School and Coorparoo State High School.

Yet, despite her own limited formal education, her party and its shills have repeatedly attacked government ministers with Arts degrees, dismissing their qualifications as irrelevant. The irony? She’s the one with the least formal education in the room.

Dumb as a chip butty dropped on the footpath by a late-night drunk.

[Hassan Mafi ‏ @thatdayin1992]

A blue whale's poop can weigh as much as 4 tonnes, making it the second largest piece of sh!t in the world just behind Donald Trump.

[Politic@l Spinner. @lesstenny]

Yes I've noticed it and not surprised 🙄 well done Albo

[Anders Åslund @anders_aslund]

I am so tired of all misunderstandings of Russia's war against Ukraine & the US role:
1. Russia is pursuing a major colonial war.
2. No colonial power has won such a war after World War II.
3. Nations are born out of war & this war has cemented the Ukrainian nation.
4. For Ukraine, this war is existential. In Russia, it is only existential for Putin.
5. Therefore Ukraine cannot give up & Putin will lose (though we cannot know when or exactly how).
6. This war has united Europe & given it a new purpose. The old purpose of the EU was to keep peace internally. The new purpose is to stand up to Russia.
7. Trump has taken the US out of the war & the US is not likely to come back. Trump is Putin's obedient servant (though fortunately dumb & incompetent).
8. Europe needs to take over NATO since the US is abandoning it.
9. The new forms of warfare & the current US incompetence are likely to render the US military & arms obsolete very fast.
10. The EU needs to embrace Ukraine & Moldova & Western Balkans & invite the UK, Norway & Iceland.

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

ACCURATE.