Axel Salerts
@salertsaxel.bsky.social
Whut? “migration made our modest homes treasure houses”
As climate breakdown and conflict accelerate, the luxury of forgetting history is no longer available to us, writes Robert Macklin. #auspol #climate #globalcrisis
The long consequences of forgetting
As climate breakdown, war and institutional failure converge, the comforts of forgetting no longer shield us from the consequences of our own history.
johnmenadue.com
December 16, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Whut? “migration made our modest homes treasure houses”
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The idea that being far too opposed to the mass incineration of children in Palestine is somehow to blame for the mass murder enacted at Bondi is fundamentally not just absurd, illogical and indefensible: it is part of the broader project to exploit violence and death to justify even more of it
December 16, 2025 at 9:52 AM
The idea that being far too opposed to the mass incineration of children in Palestine is somehow to blame for the mass murder enacted at Bondi is fundamentally not just absurd, illogical and indefensible: it is part of the broader project to exploit violence and death to justify even more of it
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Nobody can explain how Australians peacefully marching against Israel’s genocide could cause anyone to commit such shocking acts of violence, so it would be nice, & not undermine police investigations, if politicians, the antisemitism envoy & the dreaded media stopped lying.
December 15, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Nobody can explain how Australians peacefully marching against Israel’s genocide could cause anyone to commit such shocking acts of violence, so it would be nice, & not undermine police investigations, if politicians, the antisemitism envoy & the dreaded media stopped lying.
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Where does ‘Muslim man with 2 children risks his life to save Jews’ rank on the Australian values test Sussan?
December 15, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Where does ‘Muslim man with 2 children risks his life to save Jews’ rank on the Australian values test Sussan?
I love this man 👇
December 15, 2025 at 12:27 AM
I love this man 👇
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Shame on Segal. Directly linking peaceful protests against Israel's genocide in Gaza with the atrocity in Bondi. Disgusting.
This woman's Zionist extremism exacerbates division. She is fueling the fire.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
This woman's Zionist extremism exacerbates division. She is fueling the fire.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
December 14, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Shame on Segal. Directly linking peaceful protests against Israel's genocide in Gaza with the atrocity in Bondi. Disgusting.
This woman's Zionist extremism exacerbates division. She is fueling the fire.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
This woman's Zionist extremism exacerbates division. She is fueling the fire.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Please, anybody in the ALP with influence, please read this 👇
The ALP need to realise they will be criticised whatever they do, so how about do things that are good? And do things to please those who voted for you not those who never will.
The AFR run a 2 year campaign to get the ALP to weaken the changes to super tax concessions to make it easier to avoid paying the tax.
The ALP does it.
The AFR criticises the ALP for weakening the policy because people can avoid paying the tax.
My column #ThePoint
thepoint.com.au/news/251213
The ALP does it.
The AFR criticises the ALP for weakening the policy because people can avoid paying the tax.
My column #ThePoint
thepoint.com.au/news/251213
December 12, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Please, anybody in the ALP with influence, please read this 👇
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The @nswsocialists.bsky.social make some excellent points here re the recent explosion at the chemical waste facility operated by Coopers Environmental in St Marys, western Sydney. I wonder if ABC News will report these concerns. 🤔 #auspol #nswpol #environment #NSWSocialists
December 12, 2025 at 12:32 PM
The @nswsocialists.bsky.social make some excellent points here re the recent explosion at the chemical waste facility operated by Coopers Environmental in St Marys, western Sydney. I wonder if ABC News will report these concerns. 🤔 #auspol #nswpol #environment #NSWSocialists
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Prohibition has never previously worked as a policy for getting people to not consume something they want, but fortunately the social media ban will buck this trend by virtue of its careful evidence-based design and Albo's friendly reassuring smile every time he fails to answer the question.
December 10, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Prohibition has never previously worked as a policy for getting people to not consume something they want, but fortunately the social media ban will buck this trend by virtue of its careful evidence-based design and Albo's friendly reassuring smile every time he fails to answer the question.
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The thing that gets me is they’re so accustomed to it that barely anyone flinches, children included.
Imagine this was filmed anywhere else in the world and how different the reactions would be.
Imagine this was filmed anywhere else in the world and how different the reactions would be.
December 8, 2025 at 1:06 AM
The thing that gets me is they’re so accustomed to it that barely anyone flinches, children included.
Imagine this was filmed anywhere else in the world and how different the reactions would be.
Imagine this was filmed anywhere else in the world and how different the reactions would be.
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TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
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One of the saddest obituaries I’ve read in a long time.
*Help is available
Call 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline
Nolan Williams, Who Stimulated the Brain to Treat Depression, Dies at 43 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/h...
*Help is available
Call 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline
Nolan Williams, Who Stimulated the Brain to Treat Depression, Dies at 43 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/h...
Nolan Williams, Who Stimulated the Brain to Treat Depression, Dies at 43
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:12 PM
One of the saddest obituaries I’ve read in a long time.
*Help is available
Call 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline
Nolan Williams, Who Stimulated the Brain to Treat Depression, Dies at 43 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/h...
*Help is available
Call 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline
Nolan Williams, Who Stimulated the Brain to Treat Depression, Dies at 43 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/h...
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A wonderful read:
Revisiting Fyodor Dostoevsky’s compelling, original and scandalous novel – after a 60-year hiatus – is a profoundly affecting experience.
👉 Read the full story: theconversation.com/friday-...
👉 Read the full story: theconversation.com/friday-...
December 6, 2025 at 10:24 AM
A wonderful read:
Pezzello’s maxim
"Albanese government staffers – as well as senior Commonwealth public servants – privately fume at what they claim are abuses of laws and practices surrounding transparency by people whose sole aim is to embarrass the government."
Exclusive: PM’s office directs lobbyists to use encrypted, disappearing messages
Multiple sources confirm the Albanese government has pushed lobbyists and industry groups to use encrypted messages and verbal briefings when proposing policy ideas, to avoid FOI and disclosure requir...
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
December 6, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Pezzello’s maxim
“For a government driven by vested interests, transparency is kryptonite.”
"if Labor can’t deal with this lowest hanging of fruit on transparency and good process...how can they be trusted on more difficult policy matters with even louder vested interests?"
They are connected.
For a government driven by vested interests, transparency is kryptonite. #auspol
They are connected.
For a government driven by vested interests, transparency is kryptonite. #auspol
If Labor won’t deal with the low-hanging fruit of jobs for mates, how can it be trusted against louder vested interests?
December 5, 2025 at 8:44 PM
“For a government driven by vested interests, transparency is kryptonite.”
Rob Harris suggesting Wells going to NY for the United Nations General Assembly is akin to "Bronwyn Bishop’s helicopter. Sussan Ley’s impulse property buy. George Christensen’s Philippines holidays" shows just what a clownshow of a media outlet Nine news has become.
www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
With her eye-watering flight costs, Wells has handed her critics the perfect weapon
It’s the simple scandals – the ones voters can explain to each other in a supermarket queue – that bring ministers undone.
www.smh.com.au
December 3, 2025 at 6:17 AM
The malicious lie
December 1, 2025 at 6:38 AM
The malicious lie
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🚨Nine Jewish groups are urging the Government to reject Jillian Segal's "Antisemitism Report", saying it's an attack on Australia's "democracy" and "freedoms" – benefitting the state of Israel.
Segal must be given zero powers, they warn. Explosive...
theklaxon.com.au/22ti
Segal must be given zero powers, they warn. Explosive...
theklaxon.com.au/22ti
Segal “threatening Australia’s freedoms and democracy”, Jewish groups warn - The Klaxon
A group of Jewish organisations has labelled Envoy Jillian Segal's "Antisemitism Report" an attack on Australia's “democracy” and “freedoms”, and say it must be rejected.
theklaxon.com.au
November 29, 2025 at 4:57 AM
🚨Nine Jewish groups are urging the Government to reject Jillian Segal's "Antisemitism Report", saying it's an attack on Australia's "democracy" and "freedoms" – benefitting the state of Israel.
Segal must be given zero powers, they warn. Explosive...
theklaxon.com.au/22ti
Segal must be given zero powers, they warn. Explosive...
theklaxon.com.au/22ti
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Celebrating a war crime to gloat that you can get away with it while people against the genocide experience further crackdowns on peaceful protest is so ghoulish.
“Social cohesion” my ass.
“Social cohesion” my ass.
November 28, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Celebrating a war crime to gloat that you can get away with it while people against the genocide experience further crackdowns on peaceful protest is so ghoulish.
“Social cohesion” my ass.
“Social cohesion” my ass.
Perfectly said
For me, Barnaby will be forever remembered as the bloke who couldn’t hold his drink, keep his pants on, or accept the science that spelled disaster for the people he swore to serve in the dust-choked margins of rural Australia.
Burqa with the works.
Not to borrow from our accursed American cousins, but I’m going to miss Barnaby Joyce when he’s gone, so I’d like to give thanks, while he’s still with us, for all the years of entertainment he’s prov...
open.substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Perfectly said
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So Labor and the Liberals teamed up to pass legislation to give police the power to recommend cancellation of Centrelink payments of people who have not been found guilty of a crime by a court of law. It’s discriminatory financial punishment of people in poverty who are already over-policed
November 26, 2025 at 1:36 AM
So Labor and the Liberals teamed up to pass legislation to give police the power to recommend cancellation of Centrelink payments of people who have not been found guilty of a crime by a court of law. It’s discriminatory financial punishment of people in poverty who are already over-policed
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How ludicrous for Labor to cut $5 billion in public services during a cost of living crisis. Every six months the government pays around $5b in Fuel Tax Credits to mining corporations to burn fossil fuels. If Labor is going to cut spending, cut handouts to fossil fuel barons.
November 25, 2025 at 11:45 PM
How ludicrous for Labor to cut $5 billion in public services during a cost of living crisis. Every six months the government pays around $5b in Fuel Tax Credits to mining corporations to burn fossil fuels. If Labor is going to cut spending, cut handouts to fossil fuel barons.