Rodney Hall

writer / citizen / twice winner of the Miles Franklin Award / former chairman of the Australia Council

[Labor Against War @LabAgainstWar]

Thanks to Ed Husic for saying what we’re all thinking

AUKUS has always been a dud deal and it’s getting worse thanks to ‘Dodgy Pete Hegseth, the Used Subs Salesman’

Caucus needs to roll Marles + Albanese the way it rolled Hawke over Reagan’s MX missiles

https://t.co/NxBI1ZTUYm

[Australia Institute @TheAusInstitute]

This morning our co-CEO Leanne Minshull helped launch a public inquiry into AUKUS!

Australians deserve transparency and should not be asked to simply accept a project of this magnitude without scrutiny.
@leanneminshull #auspol

[Rex Patrick @MrRexPatrick]

In the 17 years since the future sub program commenced, Defence has spent 3,400 million NOT buying French subs 🤦‍♂️ and 1,000 million NOT life extending Collins subs 🤦‍♂️ and 5,000 million on US subs that WON’T arrive🤦‍♂️. #waste #CapabilityGap #AUKUS #aupsol https://t.co/4ry9ffLnYV

[Attio @attio]

Join the next generation of GTM

[Rex Patrick @MrRexPatrick]

Past Govts have squandered our resources, with revenue flooding into corporate bank accounts while only dripping into public bank accounts. We can’t let that happen for emerging critical minerals. I’m fighting for transparency around this future national opportunity. #FOI #auspol

[David Pocock @DavidPocock]

🇦🇺 is one of the few countries providing climate modelling focused on the sth hemisphere.

Cutting climate science weakens our ability to plan for the future & risks losing sovereign expertise that will be difficult to rebuild.

We should be strengthening this capability, not winding it back.
https://t.co/USP8vrCIcC

[☮️💧 Sleeping Giants Oz 📣 @slpng_giants_oz]

Alan Kohler today exposed how #Insiders has been passing off political media hacks as authorities on economic issues.

His authoritative yet plain speaking contribution was a refreshing change to the uneducated politically biased babble of the panel and host.

#Auspol

[ASAL @ASAustLit]

Mary Gilmore Award shortlist announced!

[Nick Feik @NickFeik]

250 staff. $65 million per year. Almost three years operating. Over 6000 referrals. Not a single public hearing.
Not a single major corruption finding.

https://t.co/iZRMxrt5K1

[Rick @colonelhogans]

Former NSW Premier Barry O’Farrell resigned as he’d “forgot” to declare an expensive bottle of wine.

Federal Labor minister Mick Young waa forced to stand down in 1984 as he didn’t declare a Paddington bear in his luggage thru customs.

Hanson is gifted a new plane and $2M cash from a billionaire and the media thinks it’s a blow up over nothing?

[Tony Windsor @TonyHWindsor]

So the Australian Government endorsed a War started by trump on the “advice of Jared ,Steve and Pete”.Our Government is now a participant in that War.
Unbelievable.

[BundjalungVeteran @beema41]

@MikeCarlton01 Needs to do a few more!

[Ben Pennings @BenPennings]

As the Liberal Party refuses to release its election review, which is believed to damn its new leader, members worry about a track record of scandal and misjudgement 👇🏼

https://t.co/Yj1jyg54jU

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

The Greek Police has referred me to the State Prosecutor with a request that I be prosecuted as a drug traffic enabler. There seems to be no end to the European authorities' efforts to emulate Trump's project of returning us to a bleak, fascist past
https://t.co/0BzoWbDGKr

[Phillip Adams @PhillipAdams_1]

The other hand, I got the top gone from the GG

[Dr Stephanie Dowrick Joins calls for PEACE @stephaniedowric]

@Mon4Kooyong @jmcheer1 The Coalition plus their favoured media have fought EVERY proposal for tax reform that would make Australia fairer. Will the X-bench members collectively state what socially beneficial tax reform/changes they would support? And defy the media onslaught? We’re waiting. #auspol

[Paul Bongiorno @PaulBongiorno]

The NSW premier’s outrageous rhetoric on peaceful protests sows division in our community. It’s unbecoming of his office. Unmasks intolerance of the Premier for protests in the name of humanity https://t.co/7LBmeDUolu

[The Saturday Paper @SatPaper]

"The world I am about to leave has changed for the worse," writes Barry Jones. "Facts, figures, evidence, testable proposition and rational debate no longer count. Liberal democracy is in sharp decline." https://t.co/G9adGQMyrM

[Peter Cronau @PeterCronau]

Secrecy is contempt.

Secrecy hides what they are doing to Australia.

“The US has found the world’s biggest sucker in Australia—It gets billions from Australia, it gets to use Australia as free real estate for its military & it owes Australia nothing” https://t.co/HtFzAXlMrB

[Rex Patrick @MrRexPatrick]

.@AlboMP’s #FOI Amendment Bill, the most significant attack on Government transparency ever, will likely die quiety in the first sitting week of 2026. His hypocrisy on open government will live on. #auspol https://t.co/O0fMTie8Ef