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#Auspol, if you want to hear truthful, kind, informed, and up-to-date commentary on what is unfolding daily in the USA, I strongly recommend David Rothkopf as a trusted source, whether it be directly or via @thedsrnetwork.bsky.social. My household listens to them every day.

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.

After 5 years of study, WA's independent environmental watchdog found Woodside's Browse gas project was an unacceptable environmental risk on multiple grounds. Read the confidential 2023 documents obtained by Boiling Cold in my story in The Guardian.

Surprise, surprise. A politician desperately clinging to power weaponises hatred and fear in order to do so.

Due to changes by the Albanese Government at least 250 refugees seeking asylum that the ASRC helps have just lost their Medicare Card. It will cost us $270,000 for the next year to cover this. You can help by choosing welcome and donating today: donate.asrc.org.au/donatetoday

Recently, there was quite a furore in Australia's parliament about invasive species management. It seemed to me there was some misunderstanding about terminology & the very important reasons for controlling some introduced & invasive species. So, I wrote this 👉 theconversation.com/calling-spec...

The letter-writers are bringing it today.

We condemn the political threats made by Opposition Leader Jess Wilson on Sunday and reject her misleading connection between protest of Israel’s genocide and the horrific Bondi attack. Protesting a livestreamed genocide is not antisemitic. Our release: www.jewishcouncil.com.au/2026/10/jewi...

Please don't watch this subversive video masquerading as commentary on global events & how people feel, & are protesting about, government behaviour. It also asserts citizens' right to such protest (pah!). Don't watch it. Don't let it motivate you to peacefully let your MP know your views. #Auspol

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10... How much of our unique cultural heritage has already been destroyed by pastoralists and miners? Rio Tinto would happily have shipped this off to China. #Juukan #auspol

Here's an awesome piece by Caitlin Johnstone about this... www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/bell-revie...

To be clear, it's the equivalent of burning more than 110,000kilograms of coal per HOUR. #Auspol #Climate Change

Important conversations. My cartoon in today's @theageaustralia.bsky.social and @sydmorningherald.bsky.social

The investigative documentary #NAZA (directed by #YuvalAbraham & #RachelSzor) is playing in select Australian cinemas and will be available to stream for free on #TheGuardian 's website in late November 2026. www.flicks.com.au/movie/naza/ #AUSPOL #Palestine #WarCrimes #FilmSky #Doco #Film #Cinema

“Far right supporters of Israel have two main strategies: one is the Silencing Squad seen recently with Macklemore; the other is the Make Muslims Hated Mob. The far right of any community is always far wrong.” Read on here: theshot.net.au/uncategorize... #Auspol

Is sheer desperation & determination of Benjamin Netanyahu so bad he may be prepared to risk stoking regional conflict on range of fronts, irrespective of vacillating decisions of POTUS? @mingthemercyless.bsky.social #auspol @allegraspender.bsky.social www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...

For decades we were told that this plant could exist because “carbon capture and storage” was going to sequester carbon in bedrock — Dear Reader, they told that lie so they could sell gas.

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

"In terms of political debate, we weigh the calling out of the increasing dehumanisation and vilification of members of our society as equal to the dehumanisation and villification itself, and then decry an end to civility." Excellent article. #Auspol

On Radio National now Sally Sara is interviewing a medical worker who has just come back from Gaza. Genocide is too small a word for such a huge catastrophe. It is distressing. Israel is a terrorist apartheid state Sanctions Now Boycott Divest Sanction Ambassador out #auspol

Laughable for the LNP to call on a Labor minister to resign over Snowy2. It's the LNP's dog of a project. It's the LNP that failed to do basic due dilligence (adequate geotech?), options comparisons. It was an LNP prime minister that lied about the project cost (as we ~immediately showed).

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One more time for the dummies (e.g. Dick Marles), AUKUS is "barking mad". John Menadue: pearlsandirritations.com/post/2026/10...

We don't stop talking about Palestine! #WhadjukNoongar #FreePalestine #HonkForGaza #StopKillingKids

The breaking wave. Today’s @theageaustralia.bsky.social cartoon

I can’t express just how absolutely grotesque it is to take a very recent and horrific crime which, if anything, can be tied to our culture’s ongoing indifference to male violence against women, and try through anguished mental gymnastics to blame it instead on people who want to stop a genocide

Odd take. I guess maintaining apartheid, running a genocide, and ethnic cleansing does "damage" the perpetrator. "What is needed is a fundamental reassessment of the country’s entire social ethos" Maybe. But that can only happen when there's accountability for Israel's crimes against humanity.

"The ability to broadcast abuse to thousands of people, often anonymously or from behind a screen, has emboldened those who might once have kept their hostility to themselves. And when violent rhetoric is normalised, should we really be surprised that attacks like this occur?" #Auspol

"The dogs jumped the gun, shat on a tragedy, mauled at the injured, and we all are watching together—shaking our heads in disgust." These words are tough but 100% true. This shameful behaviour, by people who know better but continue to do it for benefit, has to be called out and stopped. #Auspol

It's almost as if the Israelis have given up on PR spin, and are now deliberately drawing attention to their #WestBank ethnic cleansing.

#auspol Alex Antic has organised a Forum in Adelaide to "discuss the issue" of Consent and Gender Education in schools. Tickets are free. It'd be a shame if lots of people booked and then found they couldn't go. The place might end up empty. www.trybooking.com/au/event/166...

Choosing kindness & care (once a nurse, always a nurse) despite losing both her legs in a horror attack, the incredible Helen Haines requests that instead of flowers, we donate here in her name #auspol ❤️ www.savethechildrenfundraising.org.au/helenhaines

No previous Ebola outbreak has grown this quickly. www.vox.com/future-perfe...

Seriously not good

I recall Alan Jones suggesting Julia Gillard be put in a chaff bag and taken out to sea. He told Scott Morrison to shove a sock down Jacinda Ardern's throat and give her backhanders. A Newscorp paper once printed an image of Annastacia Palaszczuk in cross hairs. This isn't new. #auspol

Burning the scandal at both ends #auspol

Sandy takes amazing photographs of Australian wildlife and is well worth a follow imo

Non-stop reports of settler violence and military violence in the West Bank Every 30 minutes, I've been monitoring the situation for years and I've never seen something like this Usually there was one incident per day, maybe two. Now it's completely out of control, people are actually dying

Apart from trashed Judicial process, clear Conflict of Interest etc, there's much to see here. Identical, non sequitur dismissals of any criticism of Israel's behaviour are everywhere: "the Holocaust; history..." as if that justifies any of what is being done NOW to Palestinians. It doesn't. #Auspol