For those of you who say voting Independent & Greens is a wasted vote, spend some time watching these guys in Senate Estimates saving our democracy & holding Ministers & public servants to account. Two of our hardest working, most effective Senators ever.
Between an information access submission and a whistleblower webinar this evening, I went for a walk on a 10 km beach. I was the only person on the beach. Gotta love Australia! ❤️🇦🇺
Submarine Beach, Mid North Coast, NSW. #WorkFromRoam
Finally! A Parliamentarian has spoken out forcefully against @AlboMP's bill giving ASIO police state powers.
It's a devastating speech against police state authoritarianism, including restrictions on the right to protest, which makes comparisons to Nazis.
Will PM Albo listen?
* Anthony Albanese's 27 March 2003 speech against John Howard's Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Legislation Amendments (Terrorism) Bill 2003. Today, Albanese is pushing through Parliament the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Amendment Bill 2025 No 2 which will repeal the sunset clause Labor insisted on in 2003 so that these secret police powers would be temporary, and make them permanent.