John Collis

Ex-word joiner and c.o.p. (cranky old prick). Socialist by Life. Solar punk. Must love dogs. Humans, yeh-nuh. DMs: No. Means no.

Garigal Country:

[John Collis @old_journo]

Used to look forward to the "content" breaks between the ads on C9 news. Not so much nowadays... hard to tell when the ads stop and the news starts 😵‍💫. Now where's that f'kn "off" button #media #auspol

[Canada Hates Trump @AntiTrumpCanada]

Can we just hurry the fuck up to the part where he shoots himself in the bunker?

[InfoGram @_InfoGram_]

Obama has just dropped the biggest bombshell on Trump 🔥

🇺🇸Trump at 2:00 PM: “Iran has agreed not to make a nuke. No president has done this.”

🇺🇸Obama at 3:00 PM— "We had a deal. Iran wouldn’t build nukes. Trump ripped it up. Iran ramped up its nuclear program.

Then He went to war. Burned billions. Wore out our military. People died.

And for what? We’re back at square one, but worse. Only a fool cheers this." 🔥

Absolute brutal by Obama 💪🔥

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“We've arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science and technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces.”

— Carl Sagan

[The Shallow State @OurShallowState]

He fomented an insurrection. He botched a pandemic. He stole classified documents. He committed every type of fraud known to man. He protects pedophiles. He's a convicted felon. He's an adjudicated rapist. He monetizes the presidency and weaponizes justice. He's lawless. He obstructs justice at every turn. He's compromised. He's narcissistic. He's psychopathic. He's paranoid. He's sadistic. I can go on.
YET - no matter how bad we know he is, and no matter how bad the things we know he did are, remember this: Some of the things we don't yet know, are even worse.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Bernie Sanders on Trump: “The American people are tired of a president who is a pathological liar, who is an authoritarian who wants more and more power in his own hands as he ignores the Constitution and the rule of law. Who is a narcissist who, if he had his way, would probably name every building in America after himself”

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Elon Musk says Italians should stay in Italy and the Japanese in Japan.

Then why the hell is this White European South African in North America?

[JanuszPaytos🇪🇺🇵🇱🇬🇧🇺🇦 @JanuszPaytos]

@World_Affairs11 A madman and an agent at the same time. The stupidity and susceptibility of American voters to it is astonishing

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

Tennis legend Martina Navratilova fired back at President Donald Trump after he declared, “You have to respect the president. If you don’t respect the president, you’re going to have a problem.” Navratilova responded with a pointed rebuke, writing simply: “Respect is earned, not given.”
@Martina
📷: Getty

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

Good morning and Happy Sunday to everyone who is glad to see Joe Biden back out here, slamming the shit out of corrupt trump and his criminal cohorts. "They deserve to be put in jail for a long, long, long time."

Thunderous applause.

[Stew Peters @realstewpeters]

MIKE JOHNSON: “If we lose the midterms, the Dems will turn every committee of Congress into an investigative body. They will go after the president's family, the cabinet, his donors, and friends.”

This is actually the best case I’ve heard for voting Democrat.

[David Milner @DaveMilbo]

How come all the NIMBY weirdos who never shut up about wind turbines 5km off the coast have nothing to say about these gargantuan noisy data centres that are springing up in the middle of suburbs, contaminating water, destroying liveability and property prices? It's weird.

[stranger @strangerous10]

Murray Watt tells Sky host Kieran Gilbert of One Nation’s agenda with the Libs to
“make it easier for workers to be sacked…”
“…wind back healthcare”
…wind back wages…”💥
Gilbert “Thanks for your time”
Like clockwork.😂

[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?🙄

[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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[Teri @Teri07581206]

@MattWallace888

[John Collis @old_journo]

Check out this GetUp! Campaign to reform the press council! via @getup https://t.co/RlFpEuIUXO

[John Collis @old_journo]

Bloody hell! Australia said "no way" to a Trump tower on the Gold Coast. Now local mayor Tom Tate is pitching for a Trump golf course and resort. Who's he kidding? Have your say here: https://t.co/jL0NnB4pPQ via @getup

[John Collis @old_journo]

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[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

RETWEET if you stand with Pope Leo against Donald Trump!