Anne Rafferty

This is obscene. It's always the people most marginalised & in need of support who government seeks to claw back budget savings from. How about cut defence spending fewer people need to flee their homes in the first place & provide meaningful support so refugees can feel safe & live a decent life.

Home Affairs Estimates today, and I’ll be asking about: 🛂 Sharing Australians’ visa data with Trump’s America 🏝️ The secret deals sending people to Nauru 🕵️ AFP policing of protests 💰 Palantir’s government contracts ⚠️ What ASIO is doing about far-right extremism

Three vehicles torched. A Palestinian man's hand broken. All during the olive harvest in the occupied West Bank. MeidasTouch reporter Suri Crowe recounts what happened to a family she met. “These Palestinians are merely trying to harvest the olives on land that they have owned..."

Our country stands at a critical crossroads. Change must occur - but what kind of change? And crucially, for who? I'm presenting our alternative vision for this country at the National Press Club this Wednesday, 12:30pm AEDT. Tune in live on ABC TV & iView.

Nannas at the Land & Environment Court, knee deep in legal-eese and trying to untangle the knot of dates, conditions, lapses, sections and modifications that all add up to protecting Sydney’s water supply from coal mining. 👀 2 comments for details. Hearing continues today.

Richest 0.1% of Australians produce 31 times more carbon pollution than poorest half of the population theaimn.net/richest-0-1-...

Chris Minns is an authoritarian berzerker! "The NSW Premier says he’s going to create special laws to bypass the courts & the planning system & give a huge Hunter Valley coal mine a 30% increase in the amount of coal it can mine." Sign the petition to stop his legislation! 👇 🇦🇺🦘🤠 #auspol #nswpol

Wow what a way to wake up #auspol Eerily dead quiet, the usual ruckus of birdsong absent and then.... www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...

Jess Wilsons Liberal Party will scrap Victoria's Treaty process that's been 10 years in the making & ongoing #auspol

A newly released letter by the former chair of WA’s Environmental Protection Authority contains explosive warnings Woodside’s Browse gas project risks ‘significant, serious and irreversible’ consequences to the environment. www.acf.org.au/news/woodsid...

The Tech Bros want to strip-mine Australia for their AI. Govt is letting them. Monte Dwyer reckons some serious oversight is in order. #auspol #Anthropic michaelwest.com.au/anthropic-ai...

David Shoebridge asks Don Farrell if he’s aware the Sumud Flotilla was trying to provide aid to starving Palestinians. Farrell rambles, starts talking about a book he read on Hitler’s “shocking treatment of the Jews” Shoebridge “Minister I’ll draw you back to my question…” 🙄

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.

My article on AUKUS. AUKUS is about madness, militarism and money. Turning Australia into a US military base, sacrificing our sovereignty, and enriching retired politicians, military and public servants while battlers struggle to put food on the table

For two years, student-led protests have raged against Aleksandar Vučić and his corrupt government in Serbia. Today, in parliamentary elections, he was toppled. One of the most sustained protest movements in recent European history has succeeded. Resistance works.

#auspol 🇦🇺 paywall but if you have access to it .. “A satellite image taken on October 6, analysed by AFR Weekend and shared with intelligence experts, showed that the facility is likely undergoing one of its largest expansions in its..” www.afr.com/politics/fed...

CSIRO scientists warn Australia is ‘wandering towards dystopia’ pearlsandirritations.com/post/2026/10...

Fierce community backlash over data centre impacts on energy, water, environment, health, & amenity works‼️ Join the community rally against NextDC's proposed M4 data centre right next to Westgate Park (Melbourne) 31 Oct: 1pm picnic/ BBQ 2pm walk to NextDC M4 site Register if you'd like lunch👇👇

Now wolves are showing up in villages because their forest got destroyed for a giant corporate data center. www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...

If pollution laws meant anything (ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha) then both Canberra and the WA government would immediately move to shut down Chevron’s Gorgon plant

thepoint.com.au/new/261023-f... Poverty is eroding Australia’s democracy, with former High Court Justice Michael Kirby warning that the growing divide between the powerful and the vulnerable is creating a vicious cycle of disadvantage and political exclusion.

The former industry minister said Australia is ‘going too fast’ and ‘been swamped by US tech’ building data centres here to dodge growing US community opposition.

Why? Do they think they’re safe from Israel taking over their countries and stealing their land?

The federal court has overturned a rare protection order issued by former environment minister Tanya Plibersek under Indigenous heritage legislation, which the company said effectively blocked a goldmine in the central west of New South Wales. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

AU. The huge swarm of bogong moths have shown up on the Bureau of Meteorology's radar as rain. 🎉🥳The fragile, endangered & mighty bogong is back. www.bogong.org www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10... austhrutime.com/aboriginal_u... www.magiclandsalliance.org/animals-indi...

Backlash in Queensland including from LNP federal Wide Bay MP Llew O’Brien against his own party. David Crisafulli & Jarrod Bleijie are restricting landholders’ rights to information & to challenge mining projects affecting their communities. #qldpol thepoint.com.au/new/261011-f...

substack.com/@rawstory/no... Albanians just burned down their supreme court building in Tirana after judges allowed Jared Kushner to buy land in their country for his luxury real estate development against their will. 🔥

Helen Haines’ friend Serena has spoken out, saying she hopes this attack is a turning point, & that we can all be more like Helen, by rejecting the “hatred” derived from “Trumpian” politics & being kind to people of all backgrounds.💥👏 #auspol

💥💥 💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥 People power…it works Locals protesting the data centre expansion have been filling in holes dug by workers to erect massive power poles and have been blocking streets with their cars And well done independent Jess Marsh and the Vic Greens for campaigning against this

I'm actually surprised they are even allowing an inquiry into the brutality of police. Watch the videos and hear the quality of our police force. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Watch how the Australian government baits & switches away from the need for more support for people with mental illnesses, targeting & smearing people of conscience instead. #auspol #RUOK

obviously many more important takeaways from the French approach to protest, but much respect to the absolute varsity level Whimsy of throwing a whole ass piano at the cops

Just a few of the budgies (budgerigars) that we found yesterday. Note that this is their natural colour. You don't get blue or purple budgies in the wild. Southern Flinders Ranges, South Australia. #birdsseenin2026

“Dozens of Perth community members delivered a giant petition, signed by almost half a million people, to Woodside’s corporate headquarters this morning, calling on the government to save Scott Reef from Woodside’s reckless Browse gas proposal.” theaimn.net/greenpeace-d...

Corporate forces are bankrolling One Nation's surge, and the payoff could be $219m in public funding if current support levels remain. www.deepcutnews.com/p/the-corpor...

Former SBS journalist @marykostakidis.bsky.social has warned in a timely speech that growing popular discontent "can’t be controlled with repressive institutional behaviour and authoritarian legislative measures". www.deepcutnews.com/p/how-gaza-e...

Everyday, so many of us show up to protect our democracy, build a safer future for our kids & grandkids - & be our best selves. Helen Haines is the very essence of this commitment - as so many have said. Thoughts are very much with Helen, her family & community. #auspol

#BREAKING 🚨 Home Affairs minister Tony Burke has told the ABC that Indi MP Helen Haines was struck twice yesterday "What witnesses have described is a driver doing a u-turn to get into the car park and to ram Helen against her vehicle, then to reverse and do it a second time"

Italian prosecutors are investigating 14 senior Israeli officials, including Defence Minister Israel Katz, Itamar Ben-Gvir and military chief Eyal Zamir, over torture, abduction and abuse of Italian citizens detained aboard Gaza-bound humanitarian ships.

Last weekend a First Nations woman in custody in Queensland was shackled to a hospital bed as she gave birth prematurely by caesarean. Medical staff tried and failed to have the chains removed. The brutality is cruel and unnecessary.

The upside of anger: can fury be one of the deepest forms of human compassion? | Making sense of it

What a cute Halloween crew 👻

A #Brisbane cafe owner is taking a stand after an innocent chalkboard joke about his new political neighbours, #OneNation, triggered a brutal online mob attack. #GlensEspresso #AUSPOL #QLDpol #BadReviewBOMBING #VoteGreens

Little more personal today x www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2026...

Duct tape = god on a roll

Jim McIlroy attended the Sydney launch of the Wall of Tears exhibition, which memorialises the 18,500 children officially recorded as killed by Israeli forces over nearly two years in Gaza since October 7, 2023. www.greenleft.org.au/2026/1464/cu...

#BREAKING | Washington Post correspondent Heidi Levine lies on a hospital gurney with a bandaged hand and bleeding leg wounds after settlers attacked her while she was covering the olive harvest in the village of Abu Falah in the occupied West Bank. — October 16, 2026 More footage on thread

Investigative journalist Daphne Galizia reported on government corruption, allegations of money laundering & more in #Malta. A "one-woman WikiLeaks." Known internationally for her investigation of the Panama Papers, she was assassinated by a car bomb in #OTD in 2017. 🧵 #Journalism #PressFreedom