The Yarn

Raw takes on politics, culture and the daily circus.

[The Noticer @NoticerNews]

Australian comedian @LisaJaneSpencer has been fired after a far-left doxxing campaign over this skit where she mocked indigenous identity fraud by pretending to have "transitioned" into an aboriginal.

[Lisa Jane Spencer @LisaJaneSpencer]

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[The Yarn @theyarn__]

JUST IN: Victorian Parliament sat through the night and finished around 5:30am after Labor pushed through the Electoral Further Amendment Bill 2026, a major rewrite of political donation laws months before the state election.

The bill introduces a $7,500 donation cap, a $15,000 cap for eligible new entrants, bans foreign donations, requires real-time disclosure above $1,250, and restores public election funding for political parties and candidates.

Labor says it is fixing the system after the High Court struck down Victoria’s previous donation laws. The Opposition says Labor has used the crisis to build a new advantage for itself, restricting donations for political rivals while keeping a powerful financial pipeline through union affiliation money and expanded taxpayer funding.

Nicole Werner MP said MPs sat through the night because Labor had done a deal with the crossbench to ram the laws through. Her accusation is blunt: in the middle of a cost-of-living crisis, the Allan Government is tightening the rules on everyone else while increasing the flow of public money into the political system.

Victoria is drowning in debt, families are being crushed by bills, and Labor’s priority at 5:30 in the morning was rewriting election funding laws before voters go to the polls.

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[Scotty Chal @shallowchal]

Mark Rowley - “You got it dude, we are absolutely serious when we say NO FOREIGN LOBBYING. You don’t get a free pass. Thanks for the fantastic edit!”

Our position also includes EVERY other country and foreign interest on the planet. 🌎
#AustraliaFirst 🇦🇺🫡❤️

[The Yarn @theyarn__]

Anthony Albanese has claimed Australia is drawn together with India through “culture, education and of course, the international language of cricket,” while urging Australians to understand India by getting on a bus or train there.

What culture exactly?

Australia and India can have trade. Australia and India can have diplomatic relations. Australia and India can have cricket ties. None of that means the two countries share the same culture, national character, civic inheritance, living standards, public order or social foundations.

This is the problem with Albanese’s worldview. Every foreign relationship becomes a lecture about how Australia must see itself as less distinct, less inherited, less Western, less culturally specific, and more like some borderless regional marketplace where trade deals and migration flows are treated as identity.

Australians have seen enough of India online to know many are not rushing to take Albanese’s romantic bus-and-train tour. Streets clogged with rubbish. Rivers filled with pollution. Public sanitation failures. Overcrowded transport. Human waste in places no developed country would tolerate. That is not an insult. That is the reality people can see with their own eyes.

India may become a major economy. It may be strategically important. It may be worth trading with where it benefits Australia. That does not mean Canberra gets to pretend Australia and India are culturally interchangeable because Albanese wants another diplomatic applause line.

Australia is not India. India is not Australia.

Trade where it serves us. Cooperate where it benefits us. Stop insulting Australians by pretending cricket and commerce amount to shared civilisation.

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[Scotty Chal @shallowchal]

People like Avi Yemini and Rukshan Fernando helped wake Australians up when the mainstream media refused to tell the truth about covid and national decline. We thank them.

But the fight is changing and now you’re either on our side or in our way. The next phase requires something uncompromising in its National Identity and Aussie cultural lore.
That means more -
Rallies.✅
Lobbying.✅
Political pressure.✅
Community building.✅
Cultural revival ❤️🇦🇺

Young and old Australians already know everything has been stolen.
The establishment does not fear influencers - it fears the awakened “noticed” crowd.

It fears organised Australians standing together in public.
Commentary creates audiences.
Action creates outcomes.
#AustraliaFirst 🇦🇺🫡

[The Yarn @theyarn__]

BREAKING: Tulsi Gabbard has resigned as U.S. Director of National Intelligence, effective June 30, saying she is stepping away after her husband, Abraham, was diagnosed with an extremely rare form of bone cancer.

In her letter to President Trump, Gabbard said she could not “in good conscience” remain in the demanding role while her husband faces the fight without her by his side.

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[The Yarn @theyarn__]

BREAKING: President Trump says he is only “50/50” on whether a deal with Iran can be reached, warning that if Tehran refuses a “good” deal, the alternative could be the U.S. blasting Iran “to hell.”

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[The Yarn @theyarn__]

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The Yarn Briefing | Issue 014: The Protected Class

Live from 7am.

Albanese’s reported IPEA expenditure. Labor’s tax shift. Victoria’s donation disclosure blackout. Melbourne’s public disorder. X Corp’s $750,000 eSafety penalty. One Nation’s surge. The foreign-policy purge inside the American right.

Power keeps asking ordinary people to trust the system.

Issue 014 asks who the system is really protecting.

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[The Yarn @theyarn__]

The Yarn Briefing | Issue 012: The Country Feels Different Now

Drops 7am Melbourne time.

Housing is unaffordable. Migration is outpacing infrastructure. Veterans are facing healthcare limits. Councils are rewriting biological language. Public institutions are drifting further from the people forced to fund them.

Issue 012 connects the week’s biggest stories and exposes the same pattern underneath them: power expanding, pressure rising and trust collapsing.

This is not one scandal.

It is the atmosphere of modern Australia.

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I’ve just published one of the most important and uncompromising pieces I’ve written to date.

“The New Serfdom” examines how debt, inflation, institutional dependency, corporate consolidation, financial surveillance and the slow erosion of free expression are transforming the modern West into a system where ordinary people work harder, own less, remain under constant economic pressure and become increasingly dependent on the very structures tightening around them.

This is not recycled corporate media analysis or surface-level political commentary. It is a direct examination of the architecture underneath rising living costs, collapsing ownership, permanent renting, expanding censorship frameworks and the broader shift toward managed dependency disguised as stability and support.

No watered-down headlines. No institutional framing. No sanitised narratives.

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[The Yarn @theyarn__]

Today is National Family Violence Remembrance Day in Australia, a day that forces the country to confront a reality far darker than the polished language of awareness campaigns and political statements often suggests.

Domestic violence is not confined to one demographic, one postcode or one gender. According to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, one in four Australian women and one in fourteen Australian men have experienced physical and/or sexual violence from an intimate partner since the age of fifteen, while millions more have lived through coercive control, emotional abuse, intimidation and financial manipulation that rarely make headlines despite destroying lives just as effectively.

Women remain the overwhelming majority of domestic violence homicide victims in Australia, particularly at the hands of current or former partners, yet there are also men suffering in silence inside abusive relationships because male victimhood is too often minimised, mocked or ignored altogether.

The deepest damage is often carried by children. National figures show around thirteen per cent of Australians witnessed violence against a parent before the age of fifteen, meaning millions entered adulthood having already been exposed to fear, instability and trauma inside the place that was supposed to protect them.

Domestic violence is not merely a policing issue or a political talking point. It is a national social failure that continues reshaping families, childhoods and communities across the country while Australia repeatedly responds only after another tragedy forces attention back onto the crisis.

Tonight is for the people who never escaped it, the survivors attempting to rebuild after it, and the children still growing up inside homes where fear has replaced safety.

[The Yarn @theyarn__]

When will people start realising the government isn’t supporting you to help you, it’s supporting you in a way that ultimately damages the economy and keeps you tied to the system.

The more you rely on it, the deeper you’re pulled into a structure designed to keep people dependent. Over time that dependence means less control over your own outcomes and more influence from large institutions and corporations that operate within that system.

What’s even more ironic is that many of the loudest critics of “capitalism” are still living entirely off that same system, while the broader effect is rising national debt, reduced access to ownership, and more people pushed into long term renting. That environment benefits large corporate players who continue to consolidate housing and drive up costs, from rent to everyday living expenses, while inflation and interest rates keep squeezing what’s left.

End result: less freedom, less ownership, less room to actually enjoy life.

If you’re stuck living paycheck to paycheck, that’s not just bad luck. It means the system is working exactly as designed.

[The Yarn @theyarn__]

In Abbie Chatfield words, I think she “needs a reminder” on why she is being treated the way she is today.

Adam deserves his downfall next.

[The Yarn @theyarn__]

My favourite part about X is when people block me because they don’t want me finding content but don’t realise I have a secondary account that isn’t blocked.

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BREAKING: Australia’s Royal Commission into Antisemitism has commenced its first public hearing in Sydney, with the inquiry examining reported incidents, institutional responses, and the broader rise in antisemitic activity, as Commissioner Virginia Bell leads proceedings into how authorities and society have responded.