Andy Paterson

How does one 'rat' on a mischief of rats? The great Labor party ratted out every worker with the Accord in the 80's and privatisation. It gives me a headache just trying to keep up with the revisionist history talking points we must hit to keep lying about being a worker’s party. #auspol #alp #labor

An immediate reaction is to say the Albanese government has learned nothing from #robodebt. But perhaps they have learned only too well how to punch down on welfare recipients with onerous, cruel and illegal conditions. #poverty #inequality #RaiseTheRate #auspol

Sounds all too familiar #auspol .

UN puts media giants on notice over Gaza as journalists’ death toll spirals Aleta Moriarty reports. Read it here: https://michaelwest.com.au/un-puts-media-giants-on-notice-over-gaza-as-journalists-death-toll-spirals/

It was very inappropriate of the ON cartoon to depict Penny being beheaded. We at Labor will be taking Penny’s fictional death as seriously as the real death of Zomi Frankcom by the IDF. We will be writing a very stern letter to those responsible and then washing our hands of it. #auspol

It only took them 4 years and 8 months. A UN Commission of Inquiry says Russia’s systematic attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity, concluding they were intended to deprive civilians of essential services and cause suffering. #Ukraine

"It’s not a parody of any Bluey work. It’s not a minor use of the IP. In my view, it is an infringement of the intellectual property, number one." ABC to issue Please Explain creators with cease & desist order. #auspol www.theage.com.au/business/com...

Why does the government insist on trying to recover blood from a stone? If they want to aggressively recover so-called debts from people who've relied on Centrelink payments, they should at least wait until they can actually afford to live. @kristin8x.antipovertycentre.org on the latest debt BS

Israel committing genocide in Gaza despite ceasefire, UN commission of inquiry finds

I just cannot find the words to describe how distressing & disturbing this is. How is this the behaviour of a party that wants to govern us? Equally disturbing is anyone buying them. #auspol

Jess Wilson's Liberal National Coalition—along with One Nation—want to tear up Victoria's Treaty Don't let them‼️ Common Threads-organised Together for Treaty Barnstorm, at Hawthorn Arts Centre, Fri 30 Oct, 5.30 PM (h/t @candicenhendry.bsky.social)

Since challenging a dud #FOI decision keeping Whyalla Steelworks info secret, the Govt has twice released me more info. This evening, 16 hrs before a full tribunal hearing, its highly paid lawyers have offered me even more info. It’s transparency the expensive @albomp.bsky.social way! #auspol

David Shoebridge calls out Jillian Segal after she admits she failed due diligence with CAM—hosts of the antisemitism summit she’s speaking at—as Shoebridge reveals CAM awarded a racist US Republican who called for Gaza to "overflow with blood” Who is she partnering with? 🚩

Three people is not a protest, it’s one upset family member and two friends offering moral support. Vote Louise Elliott dead last in the Hobart City Council elections. 🖤💛❤️

This is evil in a young body Eva Braun’s spawn

As Centrelink penalties resume this week, @antipovertycentre.org has launched a new survival guide to help welfare recipients understand their rights and protect themselves from unfair treatment. Read the full piece on The Point: https://sbrew.link/Spnhj3iD

Would be good if the media pushed Jess Wilson and the Liberals and Nationals to provide detailed answers on what her alternative to the Treaty would be. And the usual “we’d empower them to uplift themselves” line conservatives use isn’t allowed. What would she do to support Mob and Culture?

Playing this baby on repeat

Why did the Western Australian regulators not already know what was going on with massive methane leaks at Gorgon? And why the delays? Who pays? Woodside wants to do similar “safe” gas extraction at Scott Reef. Should we let them? Tell our governments: HELL NO! No more coal, gas or oil.

Opposition to data centres is surging while investor scepticism is mounting. It’s a rare combination, one reflecting the failure of the data centre industry to demonstrate benefit. Indeed, for many Australians, AI is a classic “economic reform” that offers dislocation while corporations profit.

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Member of European Parliament, Villy Søvndal: “Trump’s betrayal goes far beyond Ukraine. It goes far beyond Europe… Dear Americans, help us defend the freedom our nations built together. The best way to do so? Don’t vote for Trump and his friends”

Ariana Jasmine 😎💙😎 Brazil’s Lula da Silva created a social media army of 10+ million people in a WhatsApp groupchat to help fight the meta suppression and algorithms.. and it worked… First of its kind of mobilization in human history!👏👏👏👏👏👏

Israel is still the issue

🚨One Nation has been selling stickers attacking Indigenous Senator Lidia Thorpe, including depicting her as disheveled on all fours, yelling “you stole my land”. Yet Hanson's excuse for not removing Thorpe violence cartoons was they ran "years ago"... theklaxon.com.au/pdjh

Oh my god #USA, please sort yourselves out starting with the midterms. Your government is being run by actual morons who either deliberately lie through their teeth about everything important or are too stupid to know they're lying through their teeth about everything important.

The Govt's new aged care algorithm has been assessed as neither fair nor consistent. The Govt must listen to experts and ensure they don't pursue another robodebt-style automation designed to cut costs at the expense of desperately-needed support #auspol

I've read Randas book & their is absolutely no connection to Bondi massacre. It's a story about two struggling parents who happen to be Muslim living in a hostile environment. That could be anyone. Norman Schueler opposes the inclusion of Randa Abdel-Fattah in the upcoming Adelaide Writers' Week.

Hehehe, have a sook, Mali.

I just read Kevin Rudd's February 13th, 2008 apology, the greatest bipartisan gesture in politics in Australia's history, I believe. Here we arre, 19 yrs later & the racists still got to racist & pretend these Colonial horrors didn't happen. Politics today. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apology...

The ombudsman agreed that the government failed to learn the lessons of #robodebt. But it's the opposite. For #agedcare, #NDIS, #jobseeker payments & employment services, the Albanese govt has learned precisely how to apply cruel, arbitrary & dehumanizing policies to the most vulnerable. #auspol

Truth 👇

I was just told by Meta, that using the terms "monster of men" and "despicable man" and "corrupt criminal" when referring to Netanyahu, is not acceptable to Instagram's terms of decent language. When clearly I was using language so I didn't have to be profane towards a genocidal monster.

Had to switch off 7:30. Why on earth does our national broadcaster keep platforming PHONy. And to interview the creator of their videos no less!! Its not news It’s not newsworthy It defies logic @news.abc.net.au

If PHONy ever get into government they will remove ABC funding. Which part of that doesn’t the ABC get? As Mon Ryan rightly points out, our media needs to stop platforming PHONy - which ABC 730 are doing this very second by interviewing their video creator Can’t make this stuff up

Angus Taylor lost his job today.Andrew Hastie has taken the leadership position in the Liberal Party.Taylors failure to read the room on the “words matter”/ Helen Haines debate and role play One Nations view on the role of political speech will mean the end of his leadership. Only unknown is When?

This Mark Nicholson bloke seems like a complete prick www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...

Bolsonaro's loss is not just a loss for Bolsonaro. It's a loss for Trump. For Musk. For Milei. For Netanyahu. For Farage. For Meta and Zuckerberg. For the meat barons, the fossil fuel corporations, and the rest of the neocolonial looters. And it is a massive win for humanity and the living planet.

Michaelia Cash tries to smear young First Nations leader Ethan Floyd over his Young People's Award nomination—for daring to challenge NSW’s proposal to ban phrase globalise the intifada & trying to provide aid to Gaza from a flotilla. Blatant political bullying. Shameful.

Family and federal court transcripts appear to have been sent offshore by transcription company VIQ, and whistleblowers raised the alarm over a decade ago. At Estimates today I asked the AG’s Department which agencies were exposed and they couldn’t tell me. We need a full audit.

"So sensitive are the political machinations that BHP [had] court proceedings suppressed ... meetings between Simon Turner and politicians" #auspol #phon #hanson #BHP #MinterEllison michaelwest.com.au/bhp-v-simon-...

Excellent news. First Serbia, now Brazil, next the US. But whoever Israelis elect as next PM, seems likely that the genocidal #FarRight will remain ascendant. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...