Australia’s public broadcaster ABC News was absolutely shocking tonight in its coverage of the Iran strikes.
Here’s how they discussed the regime killing 30,000 protesters last month: “You get one of these uprisings every couple of years, they come out onto the the streets, they last for a week, a couple of weeks, eventually they are put down. They happen, they never really last.”
Listen to how glib these two journalists are about one of the worst massacres of the twenty first century - a massacre many times larger than the infamous Tiananmen Massacre. The Iranian regime massacring protesters is just the natural order of things for them, something as natural as the weather. Their real outrage is reserved for the US and Israel for violating this natural order of things by attempting to overthrow the regime.
They even imply that Trump brought on the massacre of Iranian protesters in January by encouraging them. Like Iran had no choice but to slaughter them all.
This cold hearted coverage is sick, the ABC needs a complete clear out. This was like Tehran state television
I haven’t been on X much lately, but recent events brought me back and honestly, some of the commentary here is insane. I can't read anymore of the garbage being spewed by the likes of @Craig_Foster, @DavidShoebridge, @larissawaters and the rest of the lunatics like them...
Watching people twist themselves into ideological knots to excuse or downplay brutal regimes is completely nuts. Human rights don’t suddenly become optional when the victims don’t fit your political narrative!
You don’t get to claim moral superiority while selectively ignoring oppression, violence, and destabilisation because it’s inconvenient to your worldview.
Watching people abandon basic moral clarity just to protect their ideology is insane. At some point you have to ask if you actually stand for human rights, or just for your team.
Idiots.
Did they report on the hundreds of times Obama dropped bombs and didn't consult the rest of them, because it risked critical intelligence being fudged? No. They didn't. Different rules for the left... reported differently by a blatantly left-leaning media that ALL Australians pay for. It's sick. Imagine if Sky News, a conservative media outlet, were our taxpayer funded media. I think you'd have a thing or two to say about biased media...
I stand unapologetically and unequivocally with every woman, every man, and every child in Iran who yearns for freedom, dignity, and the most basic liberties that so many of us take for granted.
The woke left is quick to lecture the world about international law when it suits their narrative. They line up the quotes, the conventions, the talking points. But where is that same outrage when it comes to the lived reality of the people inside Iran.
If you’re going to quote international law about Iran, then quote the whole truth.
What about the women of Iran.
Women who can be arrested for showing their hair.
Women beaten and detained by the so-called morality police.
Women who cannot pass citizenship to their children on equal footing with men.
Women whose testimony in court can carry half the weight of a man’s.
Women who face legal discrimination in divorce and child custody.
Women who need a husband’s permission for certain travel.
Women barred from many stadiums and public events.
Women imprisoned, flogged, or silenced for protesting compulsory hijab laws.
Women who risk death for daring to say no.
What about the men of Iran.
Men who can be imprisoned for dissent.
Men tortured for political opposition.
Men executed after opaque trials.
Men conscripted and sent to enforce the will of a regime they did not freely choose.
Men who cannot criticize clerical authority without risking their livelihoods or their lives.
Men jailed for journalism, activism, satire, or protest.
Men who live under a system where the ballot does not truly change the power structure.
What about the children of Iran.
Girls forced into compulsory dress codes from a young age.
Children exposed to state propaganda instead of open civic education.
Children who can be married off at shockingly young legal ages.
Children detained during protests.
Children growing up under censorship, with restricted access to global information.
Children facing economic hardship driven by corruption and isolation.
Children watching parents arrested for speaking freely.
Does that matter.
If you invoke international law, invoke it for the dissident in prison.
Invoke it for the woman beaten in the street.
Invoke it for the child who has never known a free press.
Human rights are not selective.
They do not apply only when geopolitically convenient.
If you truly stand for justice, start with the people who live under it every day.
Statement from Senator Alex Antic regarding events of 23 February 2026.
“On the evening of Monday, 23 February 2026 I met with my friend Cory Bernardi on Rundle Street for the purposes of having a beer.
On that occasion we were photographed while discussing all range of matters including but not limited to a movie I had watched the night before.
At approximately 4pm I offered to buy a round and (predictably) Cory offered little resistance and allowed me to buy.
I returned with two low carb beers. This behaviour was totally out of character for me (mainly because I would normally play a game of chicken and try to get the other person to pay).
I had no idea how much distress the consumption of low carb beers would create on social media.
It was never my intention to offend anyone by ordering low-carb beers but rather suspected that a man as fit and athletic as Cory would demand the same.
I'm disappointed in myself and I know I have let a lot of people down.
I am fully committed to bettering myself and I would be grateful if the press could respect my privacy at this difficult time.”
End
Identity politics makes a lot of false assumptions about how women vote.
The Liberals picked Sussan Ley because - and they stated this publicly - they thought a woman would 'modernise' the party.
Despite Ley being one of the least modern people in Parliament.
She was chosen because of her gender because the party think leadership is a superficial branding exercise.
"Women will vote for women. Just because."
It's like they saw the rise of the Teals and thought women were voting for them because of their skirts instead of what it would mean for their husband's lucrative share portfolios in Green Tech and their own white guilt hangovers left in limbo since 'feed the starving children in Africa' fell out of fashion and sponsoring a sea turtle is a little too kitsch.
Traditionally, ALL humans vote for strength and self-interest.
Typically this is embodied by male leaders, but when a powerful woman inters the scene, men and women vote in droves.
We might not have a Thatcher running around, but Pauline Hanson is sufficient to make liars out of the identity politics election branding. She's a female leader. She's neither rich nor highly educated. But she's definitely strong - and traditionally her voting base has been male (which also defies progressive thinking). Now, young women are voting for Pauline too.
They are voting for someone with the strength of character to wage ideological war on the Left - be it in the conservative movement or the Labor Party.
Meanwhile, the Liberals have been putting women in state leadership for all the wrong reasons, picking political nepo children or the polished moderate elite. And voters hate it.
They think the skirt is important, rather than the human being wearing it.
Here’s a concise summary of One Nation’s current policies per their website.
Even if you don’t agree with some or all of them, you should be able to see how many would resonate with a growing number of Australians.
Immigration: Cut net migration to 130k/per year (from 500k+/year), deport 75k illegal migrants, and implement 8-year waiting period for citizenship and welfare to reduce pressure on housing, infrastructure and wages.
Tax: Introduce joint family income tax splitting for couples with children, halve the fuel excise for three years, slash government waste and ensure multinationals pay their fair share.
Free speech: Enshrine within the Constitution, protect against government censorship and ensure the right to state biological truths without legal repercussion.
Housing: Reduce demand via lower migration, permanently ban foreign residential ownership and provide a five-year GST exemption on building materials for new homes under $1 million.
Health: Improve the system by boosting Medicare rebates by $3 billion per year and increasing investment in regional medical services and mental health.
Infrastructure: Prioritise major water projects, mandate Australian-first hiring for jobs and support infrastructure that benefits local regional communities.
Family: Support stay-at-home parents through tax relief, protect the biological definition of sex in law and ban gender-reassignment medical procedures for minors.
Energy: Withdraw from the Paris Agreement and reject climate alarmism, build three new coal-fired plants and one nuclear reactor, and abolish renewables subsidies.
Values: Prioritise Australian values and national sovereignty, introduce citizen-initiated referenda and oppose globalism.
Today I called on Jim Chalmers, the nation's Treasurer, to resign because he has overseen the biggest blowout in Australian Government spending on record and it is not even close.
The Government's latest budget data shows that in just 6 months, spending blew out by an unbelievable $50 billion. That is a cost blowout rate of more than $200 million per day.
This crazy level of government spending is why interest rates have gone up today.
Not only is this the biggest cost blowout on record. It follows previous records under Jim last financial year. There has never been a period of economic mismanagement like this. It is off the charts.
If Jim Chalmers had presided over $100 billion in cost blowouts in a private company he would be sacked. Why aren't the same standards applied to the people we pay for in the public sector?
(Chart thanks to the @FinancialReview)