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"Liberal Senator Andrew Bragg has declared he is in "no doubt" the Coalition will pursue Labor over the controversial $2.4 million payout to Brittany Higgins in Senate estimates."

Does anyone recall the Coalition pursuing the payout (by the then Coalition Govt) to Rachell Miller?
November 28, 2025 at 8:17 AM
"These organisations have a collective ambition, according to Buskirk, which is to give the businesspeople he sees as vital to the country’s future a role in shaping government and lasting political power."
Inside the billionaire network shaping MAGA’s post-Trump future
Chris Buskirk helms Rockbridge Network, a group of wealthy donors that helped fuel Donald Trump’s re-election and aims to propel JD Vance into the White House.
www.afr.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:04 AM
New scare campaign replacing the previous - coming for your utes and ending your weekend 🥱 drama queens

Senator Bridget McKenzie
23h
LABOR AND GREENS NEW EPA COMING FOR YOUR FARM!
November 28, 2025 at 6:38 AM
"Judgment in Lehrmann defamation appeal to be handed down next week

The judgment in Bruce Lehrmann’s appeal of his defamation case against Network Ten and Lisa Wilkinson will be handed down on Wednesday 3 December."

The Guardian
November 28, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Yesterday The Age carried a story saying "Anywhere But Melbourne. Apparently, this salty little acronym is now a thing among big money property investors" according to new Victorian LNP leader Jess Wilson.

Did someone forget to tell Packer?? He's been investing quite a bit in Melbourne
Packer is filthy on Dan but still fancies Melbourne’s property sector
The billionaire isn’t taking out his grudge against former premier Dan Andrews on Victoria. Quite the opposite.
www.theage.com.au
November 28, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Congats to both Adele and Chris - well done.
A horror investigation that needed to be exposed.
ABC's Adele Ferguson, Chris Gillett win Gold Walkley for childcare investigation
The pair's investigation had an immediate impact on Australia's childcare industry, resulting in the suspension of one centre and a raft of government policy changes and safety reforms.
www.abc.net.au
November 27, 2025 at 11:22 PM
"Industrial relations spokesman Tim Wilson is developing an agenda on workplace flexibility and small businesses."
She’s survived the killing season with her leadership intact; now she’s planning her next battle
Opposition Leader Sussan Ley will release new policies to woo back women voters and reverse years of reluctance to fight Labor on industrial relations.
www.theage.com.au
November 27, 2025 at 11:13 PM
BCA supporting a former BCA employee?

"Prior to her candidacy at the 2022 state election, Wilson was Executive Director of Policy at the Business Council of Australia"

"Mike Cannon-Brookes says that criticism hasn’t featured in his company’s decision to dramatically expand its Melbourne presence"
Victoria was ranked dead last, yet a $60b tech giant just made Melbourne its fastest-growing hub
The Business Council of Australia has slammed Victoria’s taxes and red tape, but tech billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes says the criticism doesn’t stack up.
www.theage.com.au
November 27, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Brilliant Cathy Wilcox !!!
November 27, 2025 at 10:59 PM
"Joyce has said he didn’t want the circus. But in timing his decision like this, still leaving open his political future, he’s clearly still enjoying being the ring leader and simultaneously selling tickets to the show."
Despite claiming he doesn’t want a circus, Barnaby Joyce’s actions show he likes life under the big top | Josh Butler
In confirming his departure from the Nationals weeks after telling supporters of his intent, Joyce is continuing the will-they-or-won’t-they soap opera with One Nation
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 11:15 AM
"The upcoming bushfire season could be as devastating as deadly Black Saturday and Ash Wednesday, with rural Australians put on high alert after persistently dry conditions."

"Holidaymakers in Victoria have been warned of the potential for danger in popular spots like the Otways, .."
November 27, 2025 at 11:11 AM
1. "Serious shortage"

"Hancock Energy plans to produce up to 210 terajoules of gas a day from its Belisama gas project, starting in 2029, just as a serious gas supply shortfall is expected to hit Australia's most gas-dependent state."
Rinehart's Hancock Energy to launch Belisama gas project
The Belisama project inland from Dongara could supply up to 20 per cent of WA's demand from 2029.
www.boilingcold.com.au
November 26, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Barnaby Joyce to resign from the Nationals today🥱🥱🥱
November 26, 2025 at 11:22 PM
David Rowe - AFR 😂
November 26, 2025 at 11:00 AM
"A liability that might be rather harder to shake off, however, is his ties to the shadowy $450bn technology company Palantir. "

"Thiel encouraged the hiring of Vance at his investment firm Mithril Capital in 2016, then spent $15m on Vance’s senate campaign."
JD Vance might want to run in 2028 – but does he have a Palantir-shaped problem? | Arwa Mahdawi
The VP wouldn’t be where he is today without the patronage of the Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel. But with voters becoming more and more concerned about the firm’s surveillance tech, could that relat...
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Crikey ... nominations time again ... it's a target rich environment this year
'[Crikey] should be the recipients of your own childish award': Help us pick our 20th-anniversary Arsehat of the Year
We are determined, with your help, to never keep a prime candidate like Gina Rinehart waiting so long for a nomination ever again.
www.crikey.com.au
November 26, 2025 at 2:39 AM
He won another "distinguished" award back in 2015 - that should have had set warning bells off - instead the LIBS voted him their Leader
www.crikey.com.au/2015/12/18/t...
November 26, 2025 at 1:37 AM
"Will he? Won’t he? Do we give a damn? Barnaby Joyce continues his slow, very slow, mind-numbingly slow political striptease over whether he will defect to One Nation.

That’s the whole point, of course: the relevance-deprived, limelight-addicted Joyce admits he can’t hack it on the backbench....."
November 26, 2025 at 1:09 AM
"“You have to have some common sense about that,” he told this masthead. “You also have to understand the limitations ... and the security concerns that come with mass migration, and what happens when you import a substantial number of people into a very tight, particular area.”
Trump administration orders US embassy to collect data on migrant crime in Australia
In an intervention into domestic affairs, diplomats at the US embassy in Canberra have been instructed to report on migrant-related crime.
www.smh.com.au
November 25, 2025 at 9:06 AM
“If government truly cared about its duty to Australians, they would stand up to the noisy watermelons and the far-left,” Rinehart wrote. “We need to help them, don’t we?

“Be prolific in online comments, including supporting those who do stand up against the watermelons."
Gina Rinehart puts blowtorch on Rio Tinto, BHP over net zero spending
Australia’s richest person has criticised her company’s joint venture partner, Rio Tinto, for torching shareholder value on the “green altar” of net zero.
www.afr.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:21 AM