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[Madelaine Burke @Madelaine_Burke]

The country pub that hosted Richmond's Mad Monday celebration has defended the group.

[Peter Clack @PeterDClack]

The percentage of ice cover on Earth’s land surface has remained remarkably stable for more than a century.

This directly challenges claims of imminent planetary collapse, while the United Nations' persists with it's global crisis messages 'at some future time'. The real world data - and extended global greening, seen from space (by NASA) - suggests a healthy world that is greening substantially, and possibly cooling.

Human activities contribute roughly 3% to the annual carbon flux. We are discussing the trace gas - CO₂ - that still represents only 426 ppm of the atmosphere.

Furthermore, water vapor provides roughly 10 times the warming capacity of all atmospheric CO₂ combined. To understand the climate, one must look to the oceans: the atmosphere contains only about 1-2% of the surface carbon, while the oceans hold 86%. This massive thermal power of the oceans is the planet’s climate regulator, a far more powerful force than atmospheric fluctuations.

Despite forty years of climate alarmism and the expenditure of trillions of dollars, ice still covers approximately 10% of Earth's land area today, in 2026. In 1900, at the tailend of the Little Ice Age (1300–1850), ice was estimated at 10-11%. It does not appear to be in rapid retreat.

The Antarctic ice sheet covers 13-14 million square kilometers (98% of the continent), and in Greenland, approximately 80% of the landmass is under an ice sheet.

While glaciers in the Alps and Rockies were at their maximum extent in 1900, due to the preceding cold centuries, the overall global cryosphere has shown incredible persistence.

The regional variability we see today is a complex mosaic, driven by:

* Orbital mechanics & solar radiance, the primary engines of temperature change.
* Ocean currents, 'conveyor belts' like the Gulf Stream redistribute heat to the Northern Hemisphere.
* Tectonic shifts provide the long-term movements that alter landforms and oceanic currents.

Current global temperatures remain several degrees cooler than the longer-term Phanerozoic average of 18-25°C. This includes the entire age of biology on Earth.

We can measure a 1.1C to 1.4C warming trend over the past 250 years. But no-one can say with certainty whether the Earth is still warming, or about enter another 100,000 year glacial period.

What a disaster that would be.

[Jesse Watters @JesseBWatters]

We asked students on the beach SIMPLE questions about America… the answers somehow got worse and worse 😳🤯

“FLORIDA is a state that borders CALIFORNIA” 😑❌

“Supreme Court Justice AMY….. WINEHOUSE”🎶

“Our Vice President is J…..K ROWLING”⚡️

“The 3rd branch of government is the JEWISH branch” 🤣

Wait until you hear the rest… 💀🇺🇸

[Craig Kelly:🇦🇺Foundation for Economic Education @craigkellyAFEE]

Any fair-minded Australian has to look back at what Scott Morrison’s Liberal Government did to Novak Djokovic as a day of pure shame and national embarrassment for Australia — an act that inflicted serious, lasting damage on our international reputation.

To every single person who cheered on Djokovic being seized, locked up and deported: it’s long past time you apologised for your ignorance, your gullibility and your outright stupidity.

But a few of us refused to fold. We stuck to our principles, ignored the howling mob, and called this disgrace out at the time for exactly what it was — a shameful, unforgivable stain on our nation’s history.

Time has demonstrated that we were right.

[Catturd ™ @catturd2]

These are the insane lunatics destroying the country.

[Pauline Hanson 🇦🇺 @PaulineHansonOz]

Media Release: One Nation to cut tobacco tax to smash organised crime

Australia’s tobacco excise policy has failed and is now underwriting organised crime. One Nation will cut tobacco excise by 75 per cent, pause indexation for three years and pair the cut with tougher action against organised crime.

One Nation leader Senator Pauline Hanson said Australians were sick of criminal gangs terrorising their communities and getting rich while the Albanese government pretends their policy is still working.

“People are sick of the firebombing, shootings, extortion and killings. They are sick of watching tobacco shops burn, while organised crime takes control of the market.

“Victoria Police says there have been 193 tobacco arsons and six homicides directly attributed to the trade. Innocent victims have been killed by arsonists who attacked the wrong home. This is not a victimless crime.

“Labor’s policy is failing. ABS estimates show illicit sources supplied 80 per cent of nicotine consumed in 2025, while total consumption rose almost 40 per cent between 2017 and 2025.

“Legal tobacco is being replaced by black-market cigarettes. Excise in a packet of 20 is now about $30.60 and is scheduled to rise again in September.

“Excise revenue is in free-fall, dropping from $12.6 billion in 2022–23 to an estimated $4.1 billion in 2025–26 and $3.6 billion this financial year. Labor has not only lost the revenue, it has lost control of the black market in illegal tobacco. Every budget prediction they have made on excise has been wrong, wrong, wrong.

“One Nation will cut excise by 75 per cent and pause indexation for three years. Passed through in full, a $46.50 legal pack would fall to about $21 or $22.

“Senate inquiry evidence put illicit packs at roughly $12 to $25. Our plan makes legal tobacco competitive and attacks the gangs’ extraordinary profit margin.

“The cut will be matched with stronger border enforcement, faster shop closures, tougher penalties for traffickers and attack organisers, and aggressive seizure of criminal assets and unexplained wealth.

“We do not blame Australians under cost-of-living pressure for stretching their budgets. We blame a government that kept doubling down while organised crime built a multibillion-dollar market.

“This is not about encouraging smoking. It is about restoring the rule of law and breaking the black market.

“Labor handed this market to organised crime. One Nation will take it back.”

[Kat A 🌸 @SaiKate108]

Novak Djokovic takes the high road in his new documentary about the trauma he endured at the hands of the Australian Govt.

Who in 2022 demonised and deported him all for the crime of being unvaccinated.

Imagine calling such an elite athlete a threat to public health and an inciter of anti vaccination sentiment.

How insane!

Whilst he holds no grudges he does see it as unjust.

Vilified because his position did not suit the narrative at the time.

Turns out he was right.

Australia owes this legend an apology.

[MAZE @mazemoore]

Nancy Pelosi was briefed by the FBI in 2015 on Eric Swalwell's involvement with a Chinese spy. Pelosi not only ignored the warnings, she put Swalwell on the Intelligence Committee.

Here's Pelosi in 2020 again addressing questions about Eric Swalwell.

[MAZE @mazemoore]

August, 2021. CBS urges pregnant women to get vaccinated, citing CDC research that the vaccine does not increase risk of miscarriage.

We now know the truth, that behind the scenes there was serious concern about the vaccine causing miscarriages.

CBS and the CDC should never be trusted again.

[MAZE @mazemoore]

During her run for President in 2020, Elizabeth Warren told the story of a broke college student who donated three of her last six dollars to her campaign.

Warren was so happy about this. "That's what we got to do."

During that same campaign Warren was exposed for using a private jet for travel, even for trips that were short and drivable. Watch Warren hide behind the her staffer when she realized she was caught on camera.

Warren's campaign also used thousands of dollars of funds to buy copies of her book that she received a massive advance to write. That's a nifty grift.

[Senator Alex Antic @SenatorAntic]

Australians are living through a quiet but profound shift.

Piece by piece, under soft language of “safety,” “convenience,” “protecting the children,” and “national security,” the architecture of a surveillance state is being constructed.

Age-verification mandates, facial recognition in retail and public spaces, AI-powered scanning of social media and chats, expanded intelligence powers, smart-city monitoring and massive AI data centres are not isolated tools.

Combined with digital identity and the prospect of programmable money, they form an integrated control system right in front of our eyes.

[Dr. Dawn Michael @DawnsMission]

🚨 THEY COVERED UP 25 DEADLY COVID SHOT SAFETY SIGNALS

FDA’s own data screamed the truth…
And they ordered the scientist who found it to CEASE AND DESIST. Dr. Ana Szarfman, senior FDA medical officer, developed a superior VAERS analysis that fixed the “masking” flaw. What did it reveal?

SUDDEN CARDIAC DEATH
BLOOD CLOTS
CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION
BASAL GANGLIA STROKE
DEMENTIA
BELL’S PALSY

Now we can add miscarriages and birth defects to the list.
25 statistically significant safety signals — strong ones.
Not minor. Not rare. Not mild.
FDA leadership saw the sheet.
They saw the signals for months.
Instead of warning the public?
They hid it.

This isn’t a theory.
It’s in the Senate records.
It’s on the official list they tried to bury.
How many lives could have been saved if they hadn’t silenced the truth?
The cover-up is no longer hidden.

[Pauline Hanson 🇦🇺 @PaulineHansonOz]

I won't stay silent while productive farmland is sold off and converted into carbon credit schemes. Rushy Lagoon is Tasmania's largest farm and one of the country's significant beef, dairy, sheep and cropping properties. Australian bidders wanted to keep it producing food, yet the Albanese Government approved its sale to foreign owners backed by millions of dollars in taxpayer support.

Australians are already facing rising grocery prices and growing pressure on our food supply. Every acre of productive farmland matters. Instead of supporting Australian farmers and strengthening our food security, this government is helping drive a net zero agenda that puts carbon credits ahead of food production.

That's why I demanded answers in the Senate. Why is taxpayer money being used to support foreign investors buying Australian farmland? Why are productive agricultural properties being diverted into carbon credit projects? I'll keep fighting to protect our farmers, our farmland and Australia's food security.

[katy 🌸 @KatyKray73]

Jacinta Allan has announced in Bendigo that she will not contest the next Victorian election.

She may have delivered Bendigo the hospital it needed, but what about the rest of Victoria?

She came to power unelected and took a sledgehammer to the state to finish off Dan Andrews’ mess.

Goodbye and good riddance.

[Farmers Fightback @FarmersFightbac]

🚜 Premier Carroll, you started this war.

You fined a farmer in her 80s, farmers who weren't even home, farmers protecting lambing ewes.

120,000 of us stand behind them. Drop the fines, or we finish what you started.

✍️ Fightback today: https://t.co/NnbUOkdCju

[katy 🌸 @KatyKray73]

Australia endures some of the developed world’s highest household electricity prices, yet Chris Bowen is burning $20 million in taxpayer funds on a Pacific pre-COP summit that major leaders are already snubbing.

The heads of government he invited from France (nearly 70% nuclear), the US (18%), UK, Japan and China, all rely on nuclear to deliver reliable, low-emissions power and stabilise their grids.

Australia bans nuclear. Bowen dismisses it as a “fantasy.” So what’s he actually offering beyond higher bills and empty summits?

[katy 🌸 @KatyKray73]

Labor & the Greens just blocked urgent debate on Pauline Hanson’s bill to stop foreign terrorist fighters returning to Australia.

15+ ISIS-linked women have returned under Labor. Two on serious terror/slavery charges are free on bail.

13 men, including “Dr Jihad” could be next from Baghdad.

Labor says it’s powerless. Hanson offered a solution. They voted no.
Outrageous!

[Kat A 🌸 @SaiKate108]

Vindication for Aussie Dr Luke McLindon!

In 2022 he went viral for revealing his fertility clinic data -

70% miscarriage rate in vaccinated patients.

13% in the unvaccinated.

He lost his job at Mater Hospital for speaking out.

Now Fauci’s own iPhone messages show he was right to be concerned.

[katy 🌸 @KatyKray73]

35 cars lined up at one pothole near Bunyip, people standing in the rain trying to fix their tyres.

Does Sonja Terpstra still want to explain her claim that “Victorians want potholes” or that they’re a “conspiracy”?​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ 🤷🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

[Rukshan Fernando @therealrukshan]

🚨 Sunshine locals rally for a tougher response to crime in Victoria after hero shopkeeper is bashed to death by youths

Hundreds of locals packed Sunshine’s shopping strip today, demanding action after 60-year-old grocery store owner Van Viet Truong was bashed to death for stepping in to help fellow shopkeepers under attack.

Truong had run his store for more than 30 years. He intervened when youth criminals targeted nearby businesses. Days later he was dead in hospital.

A 15-year-old has been charged with manslaughter and remains in custody.
But a 12-year-old boy and two 14-year-old girls charged with affray and intentionally causing serious injury were granted bail and released.

Organisers from the Vietnamese Mothers in Australia Community insisted it was not a political rally. But emotions ran raw. Resident after resident took the mic and slammed the government, police and judiciary for failing the community. Speakers told the crowd to take their anger to the ballot box in November.