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Your Privacy at Risk: U.S. Spy Agencies' New Data Portal
In this eye-opening short video, we dive into the alarming reality of U.S. intelligence agencies purchasing Australians' data through a new data portal. Your personal information might be at risk? #auspol
Info at tinyurl.com/Oz-Spys
In this eye-opening short video, we dive into the alarming reality of U.S. intelligence agencies purchasing Australians' data through a new data portal. Your personal information might be at risk? #auspol
Info at tinyurl.com/Oz-Spys
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The 'hollow myth' of Australia's defence.
Australia's defence strategy (if you can call it that) has been to rely on great powers to protect us.
That didn't help us in WWI or WWII. With the US sinking into fascism, it's a dangerous strategy.
#auspol
READ ON:
Australia's defence strategy (if you can call it that) has been to rely on great powers to protect us.
That didn't help us in WWI or WWII. With the US sinking into fascism, it's a dangerous strategy.
#auspol
READ ON:
The end of the lucky country’s security fantasy
As the post-war global order unravels, Australia’s long-standing reliance on great and powerful friends is proving dangerously hollow – and the country is unprepared for what comes next.
johnmenadue.com
February 1, 2026 at 12:59 AM
The 'hollow myth' of Australia's defence.
Australia's defence strategy (if you can call it that) has been to rely on great powers to protect us.
That didn't help us in WWI or WWII. With the US sinking into fascism, it's a dangerous strategy.
#auspol
READ ON:
Australia's defence strategy (if you can call it that) has been to rely on great powers to protect us.
That didn't help us in WWI or WWII. With the US sinking into fascism, it's a dangerous strategy.
#auspol
READ ON:
Pauline Hanson sells "battler" politics while cozying up to mining billionaires. Follow the money: who wins when One Nation fights climate action and harvests public funds? Demand transparency now. #auspol auspol25.substack.com/p/the-web-of...
The Web of Influence: Unpacking the Alliance Between Pauline Hanson, Gina Rinehart, and the Right-Wing Playbook
In the landscape of Australian politics, few figures are as prominent and polarizing as Senator Pauline Hanson, leader of the One Nation party, and mining magnate Gina Rinehart, an unwavering advocate...
auspol25.substack.com
January 29, 2026 at 1:35 AM
Pauline Hanson sells "battler" politics while cozying up to mining billionaires. Follow the money: who wins when One Nation fights climate action and harvests public funds? Demand transparency now. #auspol auspol25.substack.com/p/the-web-of...
Senator Hanson claims to be a battler, but flies on private jets & stays in $66M mansions. Failed to declare business interests for years. Time for answers: What's your relationship with Rinehart & Trump? What was promised? Australians deserve the truth. #auspol www.getup.org.au/campaigns/co...
To Senator Pauline Hanson:
Pauline Hanson is a fraud.
www.getup.org.au
January 29, 2026 at 12:14 AM
Senator Hanson claims to be a battler, but flies on private jets & stays in $66M mansions. Failed to declare business interests for years. Time for answers: What's your relationship with Rinehart & Trump? What was promised? Australians deserve the truth. #auspol www.getup.org.au/campaigns/co...
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"Australia does not suffer from a lack of empathy. It suffers from selective empathy. .. nowhere is that clearer than in the way our political and media class decide who is allowed to mourn"
Andrew Brown on #Bondi #indigenous
#auspol #antisemitism
michaelwest.com.au/mourning-bon...
Andrew Brown on #Bondi #indigenous
#auspol #antisemitism
michaelwest.com.au/mourning-bon...
Mourning Bondi. Australia's hierarchy of grief - Michael West
Australia suffers from selective empathy. And nowhere is that clearer than in the way our political and media class decide who can mourn.
michaelwest.com.au
January 24, 2026 at 4:56 AM
"Australia does not suffer from a lack of empathy. It suffers from selective empathy. .. nowhere is that clearer than in the way our political and media class decide who is allowed to mourn"
Andrew Brown on #Bondi #indigenous
#auspol #antisemitism
michaelwest.com.au/mourning-bon...
Andrew Brown on #Bondi #indigenous
#auspol #antisemitism
michaelwest.com.au/mourning-bon...
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America’s economic muscle looks powerful, but the foundations are cracking. Soaring debt, fiscal denial, and a looming reckoning could reshape global power—and leave allies like Australia exposed. The signs are flashing red, but the digging just gets deeper #auspol
michaelwest.com.au/davos-donald...
michaelwest.com.au/davos-donald...
America’s mighty economic power has feet of clay - Michael West
Donald Trump’s disrupting, coercing, stealing and killing comes from America’s economic and military might but US bond market can cruel him
michaelwest.com.au
January 23, 2026 at 11:33 PM
America’s economic muscle looks powerful, but the foundations are cracking. Soaring debt, fiscal denial, and a looming reckoning could reshape global power—and leave allies like Australia exposed. The signs are flashing red, but the digging just gets deeper #auspol
michaelwest.com.au/davos-donald...
michaelwest.com.au/davos-donald...
The Coalition is fighting like a reality‑TV cast. Three Nationals go rogue, Ley’s left holding the popcorn, and Littleproud’s strategy has all the stability of a Jenga tower in an earthquake. 2025 is looking… entertaining. #auspol theconversation.com/grattan-on-f...
Grattan on Friday: Coalition split is massive blow for Ley but the fault lies with Littleproud
Sussan Ley may pay the price for the implosion of the Coalition, but the blame rests squarely with Nationals leader David Littleproud.
theconversation.com
January 23, 2026 at 11:18 PM
The Coalition is fighting like a reality‑TV cast. Three Nationals go rogue, Ley’s left holding the popcorn, and Littleproud’s strategy has all the stability of a Jenga tower in an earthquake. 2025 is looking… entertaining. #auspol theconversation.com/grattan-on-f...
Middle powers are stepping into a turbulent world — and Australia has a real chance to shape what comes next. Mark Carney’s call is clear: if we’re not at the table, we’re on the menu. Time to rethink alliances, back our region, and lead with purpose. #auspol theconversation.com/carneys-rall...
Carney’s rallying cry to ‘middle powers’ includes Australia - and we should heed his call
The Canadian leader’s powerful speech has garnered headlines for his admission that the rules-based international order has been ruptured.
theconversation.com
January 23, 2026 at 11:10 PM
Middle powers are stepping into a turbulent world — and Australia has a real chance to shape what comes next. Mark Carney’s call is clear: if we’re not at the table, we’re on the menu. Time to rethink alliances, back our region, and lead with purpose. #auspol theconversation.com/carneys-rall...
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"Our leaders don’t need mandates to solve big problems, but they do need bravery, judgement and the rhetorical skill to bring the community along with them," writes Richard Denniss for The Point.
Read the full piece on The Point: thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
Read the full piece on The Point: thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
January 21, 2026 at 12:56 AM
"Our leaders don’t need mandates to solve big problems, but they do need bravery, judgement and the rhetorical skill to bring the community along with them," writes Richard Denniss for The Point.
Read the full piece on The Point: thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
Read the full piece on The Point: thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
BREAKING: Australia's Antisemitism Envoy appointment shrouded in secrecy. FOI docs reveal $12.9M budget blowout, heavily redacted selection process, and missing CV. What's the government hiding? 🔍
michaelwest.com.au/segal-secret...
#AusPol #FOI #Transparency
michaelwest.com.au/segal-secret...
#AusPol #FOI #Transparency
Segal Secrets: docs reveal Antisemitism Envoy's big pay day - Michael West
Jillian Segal, Australia's controversial Antisemitism Envoy and Israel lobbyist procured an extra $12.9m funding from PM Anthony Albanese
michaelwest.com.au
December 12, 2025 at 5:59 AM
BREAKING: Australia's Antisemitism Envoy appointment shrouded in secrecy. FOI docs reveal $12.9M budget blowout, heavily redacted selection process, and missing CV. What's the government hiding? 🔍
michaelwest.com.au/segal-secret...
#AusPol #FOI #Transparency
michaelwest.com.au/segal-secret...
#AusPol #FOI #Transparency
🚨 Public power should serve people, not billionaires. Handing corporate execs the keys to shape Australia’s R&D future is a breach of trust. We need integrity, transparency & stronger conflict-of-interest laws—now. ✊ #HandsOffPublicPolicy #IntegrityFirst #auspol www.getup.org.au/campaigns/ec...
Billionaire Hands off Public Policy!
Tesla's chair is in charge of our tech future - but it should be us shaping policy
www.getup.org.au
October 15, 2025 at 12:40 AM
🚨 Public power should serve people, not billionaires. Handing corporate execs the keys to shape Australia’s R&D future is a breach of trust. We need integrity, transparency & stronger conflict-of-interest laws—now. ✊ #HandsOffPublicPolicy #IntegrityFirst #auspol www.getup.org.au/campaigns/ec...
🚨 PR firms are helping fossil fuel giants spread climate misinformation—like “EVs catch fire more” or “natural gas is clean.” Spoiler: they don’t, and it isn’t. Australia’s Senate is investigating. Time to hold the spin doctors accountable. 🌏🔥 theconversation.com/pr-firms-are... #Auspol
PR firms are spreading climate misinformation on behalf of fossil fuel companies. Could Australia stop them?
This week, Australian policymakers heard about the real and growing problem of climate misinformation. Stopping it would mean regulating the PR industry.
theconversation.com
October 3, 2025 at 12:06 AM
🚨 PR firms are helping fossil fuel giants spread climate misinformation—like “EVs catch fire more” or “natural gas is clean.” Spoiler: they don’t, and it isn’t. Australia’s Senate is investigating. Time to hold the spin doctors accountable. 🌏🔥 theconversation.com/pr-firms-are... #Auspol
While everyday Aussies shoulder rising taxes, fossil fuel giants are dodging their fair share—again. The Petroleum Resource Rent Tax remains the budget’s biggest rort. Time to ask: who’s really footing the bill? #auspol #taxjustice #PRRT www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/30/p...
We're paying a lot more tax. But, in the biggest rort in the budget, guess who isn't?
Individual taxpayers kept last year's budget deficit down to a small number. But one form of organised crime is paying less and less tax.
www.crikey.com.au
September 30, 2025 at 4:04 AM
While everyday Aussies shoulder rising taxes, fossil fuel giants are dodging their fair share—again. The Petroleum Resource Rent Tax remains the budget’s biggest rort. Time to ask: who’s really footing the bill? #auspol #taxjustice #PRRT www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/30/p...
⚽️🏛️ When your morning kickabout at Parliament turns into a lobbying opportunity… The Australian Parliament Sports Club is now officially a registered lobby group—with gambling industry ties. Sport, politics, and influence just collided. #auspol #sportswashing www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/30/p...
The gambling lobby has infiltrated social sports at Parliament House
The Parliament Sports Club, sponsored by the gambling industry lobby and which has the PM as president, has now registered as a lobby group itself.
www.crikey.com.au
September 30, 2025 at 4:03 AM
⚽️🏛️ When your morning kickabout at Parliament turns into a lobbying opportunity… The Australian Parliament Sports Club is now officially a registered lobby group—with gambling industry ties. Sport, politics, and influence just collided. #auspol #sportswashing www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/30/p...
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Even after a thorough, excoriating royal commission, #robodebt is a stark reminder of how privileged powerful people get off Scotty free.
The conflict-of-interest-riddled performance of the #NACC commissioner maintains the cosy status quo:
the appearance of oversight, but no-one held accountable.
The conflict-of-interest-riddled performance of the #NACC commissioner maintains the cosy status quo:
the appearance of oversight, but no-one held accountable.
What is it with privileged, powerful people in this country?! They appear to assume the rules simply don’t apply to them. And in so many respects the rules aren’t applied to them. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
Anti-corruption chief kept consulting role after saying he had resigned
The head of the national anti-corruption commission told a Senate inquiry he had resigned his role at the defence force's investigative arm. But the ABC has learned he continued consulting for them, a...
www.abc.net.au
September 28, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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#Auspol Find out about the creepy Alliance for Responsible Citizenship where Andrew Hastie sits on the Board with John Howard & Tony Abbott. International gang including MAGA congresspeople. Christian Nationalist. Pro fossil fuel. Not sure if AH went in Feb but… open.substack.com/pub/lucyham2...
The Australian: tool of the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship?
In February, leading figures at Australia's only national broadsheet, Rupert Murdoch's prize masthead, went to the ARC conference in London. The newspaper gave many column inches to celebrate it.
open.substack.com
September 27, 2025 at 11:37 PM
#Auspol Find out about the creepy Alliance for Responsible Citizenship where Andrew Hastie sits on the Board with John Howard & Tony Abbott. International gang including MAGA congresspeople. Christian Nationalist. Pro fossil fuel. Not sure if AH went in Feb but… open.substack.com/pub/lucyham2...
Billionaire power plays, party infighting, and a looming leadership spill 👀🔥 Gina Rinehart’s influence over Andrew Hastie could shake the Liberal Party before Christmas. Democracy or dynasty? #AusPol #LibSpill kangaroocourtofaustralia.com/2025/09/28/b...
Billionaire Gina Rinehart makes takeover bid for the Liberal Party via Andrew Hastie - LibSpill by Christmas?
Billionaire Gina Rinehart is pulling the strings of the Liberal Party’s next leader Andrew Hastie and it stands out a mile away as Hastie, publicly and deliberately, undermines current Coalition and L...
kangaroocourtofaustralia.com
September 28, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Billionaire power plays, party infighting, and a looming leadership spill 👀🔥 Gina Rinehart’s influence over Andrew Hastie could shake the Liberal Party before Christmas. Democracy or dynasty? #AusPol #LibSpill kangaroocourtofaustralia.com/2025/09/28/b...
The real "cruel hoax"? Pretending the Coalition’s climate denial is serious policy while Labor hides behind it to do the bare minimum. The bar isn’t low—it’s subterranean. Australia deserves better than vibes over vision. 🌏🔥 #AusPol #ClimateAction
www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...
www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...
Coalition dearly loves a 'cruel hoax' – now it has become one
Pretending the Coalition matters, or its criticisms are worth anything, allows Labor to get away even less. That is the cruellest hoax.
www.thenewdaily.com.au
September 22, 2025 at 6:17 AM
The real "cruel hoax"? Pretending the Coalition’s climate denial is serious policy while Labor hides behind it to do the bare minimum. The bar isn’t low—it’s subterranean. Australia deserves better than vibes over vision. 🌏🔥 #AusPol #ClimateAction
www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...
www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...
🇺🇸➡️🇦🇺 A former US Senate staffer warns: the Liberal Party’s collapse could echo the GOP’s Trump-era transformation. Fascist undercurrents, media power plays, and a confused right—sound familiar? Australia, take note. #auspol #Crikey www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/22/u...
Reader reply: I was a US Senate staffer during Trump's rise. Here's where the LNP goes next
'A lot of Australians tell me that universal voting protects their country from similar fascism as in the US. I am unpersuaded.'
www.crikey.com.au
September 22, 2025 at 5:27 AM
🇺🇸➡️🇦🇺 A former US Senate staffer warns: the Liberal Party’s collapse could echo the GOP’s Trump-era transformation. Fascist undercurrents, media power plays, and a confused right—sound familiar? Australia, take note. #auspol #Crikey www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/22/u...
When free speech becomes a punchline and authoritarianism hides behind a suit, it's not just politics—it’s identity warfare. From neoliberalism to nihilism, the right’s compass now points to the anxious white male id. #auspol www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/22/d...
Free speech? Neoliberal economics? Rule of law? No, now only the white male id guides the right
Gone are the days when the cornerstones of right-wing ideology pointed towards neoliberal economics and personal freedom. All has been replaced with the agenda of the anxious white male.
www.crikey.com.au
September 22, 2025 at 5:22 AM
When free speech becomes a punchline and authoritarianism hides behind a suit, it's not just politics—it’s identity warfare. From neoliberalism to nihilism, the right’s compass now points to the anxious white male id. #auspol www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/22/d...
CPAC Australia 2025 wasn’t “centre right”—it was a full-throttle rally for radical illiberalism. From praising Pinochet to branding Net Zero as “communism,” the mask is off. Time to call it what it is: authoritarianism in a suit. #AusPol #CPAC2025
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Decoding "centre right"
At the weekend's CPAC conference in Brisbane, speakers continually referred to themselves as "centre right". Don't accept the label for an authoritarian, and bloody, ideology.
substack.com
September 22, 2025 at 4:40 AM
CPAC Australia 2025 wasn’t “centre right”—it was a full-throttle rally for radical illiberalism. From praising Pinochet to branding Net Zero as “communism,” the mask is off. Time to call it what it is: authoritarianism in a suit. #AusPol #CPAC2025
substack.com/inbox/post/1...
substack.com/inbox/post/1...
🚨BREAKING: Jillian Segal, Australia’s Antisemitism Envoy, is still a top exec at pro-Israel lobby group ECAJ—despite gov’t claims she’s “former” president. Her taxpayer-funded role mirrors ECAJ’s agenda. Foreign interference concerns mounting #Auspol
theklaxon.com.au/jillian-sega...
theklaxon.com.au/jillian-sega...
Jillian Segal a top executive at pro-Israel lobby group - The Klaxon
Antisemitism Envoy Jillian Segal — who has called for pro-Palestine demonstrations to be banned from cities — is a top executive of a pro-Israel lobby group.
theklaxon.com.au
September 20, 2025 at 7:21 AM
🚨BREAKING: Jillian Segal, Australia’s Antisemitism Envoy, is still a top exec at pro-Israel lobby group ECAJ—despite gov’t claims she’s “former” president. Her taxpayer-funded role mirrors ECAJ’s agenda. Foreign interference concerns mounting #Auspol
theklaxon.com.au/jillian-sega...
theklaxon.com.au/jillian-sega...
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ANZ has acted deceitfully and it has profited. Misconduct of this magnitude cannot be waived through as business as usual. I asked ASIC, after 7 misconduct investigations in 8 years, where's the proof this fine alone will change the culture?
September 18, 2025 at 8:44 AM
ANZ has acted deceitfully and it has profited. Misconduct of this magnitude cannot be waived through as business as usual. I asked ASIC, after 7 misconduct investigations in 8 years, where's the proof this fine alone will change the culture?
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Science is under siege—and the attackers aren’t just trolls. From climate denial to vaccine lies, disinformation is being weaponised by powerful forces. It's not just a threat to truth—it's a threat to civilisation. Time to fight back with facts. 🔬🔥 #auspol www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Science is under siege from weaponised disinformation – posing a threat to human civilisation | Michael Mann and Peter Hotez
From Covid misinformation to climate denialism, understanding the divergent paths of Australia and the US can help us fight the powerful forces that threaten our world
www.theguardian.com
September 9, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Science is under siege—and the attackers aren’t just trolls. From climate denial to vaccine lies, disinformation is being weaponised by powerful forces. It's not just a threat to truth—it's a threat to civilisation. Time to fight back with facts. 🔬🔥 #auspol www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...