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edition.cnn.comCatholic bishops apologize after video shows them praying over Trump in Oval Office | CNN PoliticsTwo Catholic bishops have expressed regret over attending a meeting with 10 other prelates and President Donald Trump in the Oval Office, saying they were “exploited” and “manipulated.”

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Well, well, well. Catholic Bishops of the USA, who are running the world's biggest organisation responsible for paedophilia... ...pray for the paedophile-in-chief Donald Trump's success before the mid-term elections, then apologise when they get caught. edition.cnn.com/2026/10/26/p... #auspol

Why on earth would Catholic leaders be praying for Trump / Republican success in the US mid-term elections? #auspol

abc.net.auDepartment sinks PM's claim $6m golf club grant was to fix sewage issuesInfrastructure Department officials categorically rejected the prime minister's claim regarding the Marrickville Golf Club grant at a Senate estimates hearing last night.

Senator Bridget McKenzie is appalled that the prime minister was caught pork barrelling for a golf club. McKenzie much prefers to pork barrel for gun shooting clubs. Meanwhile Albo's claim it was to fix sewerage falls apart. It was just pork barrelling. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10... #auspol

👇Bridget McKenzie being appalled at Albo's pork barrelling rorts. #auspol

au.finance.yahoo.comCentrelink change leads to protests as payments stopped: 'Punishment regime'Australians will gather tomorrow to protest the reintroduction of Centrelink payment cancellations.

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Government to punish those already in deep poverty on Jobseeker. au.finance.yahoo.com/news/centrel... #auspol

theguardian.comChildren’s legal centre that criticised Queensland government has funding slashedYouth Advocacy Centre loses 19 staff in move Labor and the Greens say is designed to silence government critics

The far-right Queensland leader Crisafulli will cut funding to any not-for-proft organisation that criticises him. That's the LNP march to authoritarianism. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... #auspol #qldpol

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☝️ Crisafulli has taken this straight out of Trump's authoritarian playbook. #auspol

abc.net.auRanda Abdel-Fattah to appear at Adelaide Writers' WeekAs the Adelaide Festival launches its program for next year, its director confirms Palestinian-Australian author Randa Abdel-Fattah has accepted an invitation to appear at next year's Adelaide Writers...

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Round 2 Randa Abdel-Fattah Vs The Israel lobby + Peter Malinauskas The Winner is: Randa Abdel-Fattah www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10... #auspol

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These guys are cave men. The Liberal Party is ideologically opposed to: • renewable energy • electric vehicles • social housing Their answer is to take us back to the 1800s and power everything with coal. reneweconomy.com.au/well-done-an... #auspol

bigbuild.vic.gov.auThree machines now tunnelling on SRLTunnel boring machines are now digging the SRL East twin tunnels, with tunnelling underway from Burwood and Clarinda towards Glen Waverley.

Three tunnel boring machines and 4300 workers are working around the clock on Melbourne's Suburban Rail Loop (SRL). This is Melbourne's only true Metro. To cancel the project now, or even pause it (laying off 4300 workers) would be economic vandalism. bigbuild.vic.gov.au/news/suburba... #springst

Yet the Victorian Liberal Party wants to pause the project, and restart it later, which would waste billions. And One Nation wants to cancel the SRL altogether, after tunnelling has begun. Again, throwing billions down the toilet. Nothing will ever get done if parties cancel each other's projects.

theklaxon.com.auHate funder Rinehart silent on violence - cites herself - The KlaxonThe biggest funder of both One Nation and far-right lobby group Advance is refusing to say whether the political entities should tone down their hateful rhetoric.

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Gina Rinehart is the biggest funder of hate in Australia. She refuses to turn down the temperature. theklaxon.com.au/hate-funder-... #auspol

Let's not forget, the videos mocking Jacqui Lambie's prolapse were approved by P.Hanson, but financed by Gina Rinehart.

edition.cnn.comElon Musk is now a mega-donor unlike anyone this country has ever seen | CNN PoliticsMore than $16 billion and counting has been raised during the 2026 election cycle, according to an early October tally by the Federal Election Commission.

Money = Power This is why billionaires are dangerous for democracy. edition.cnn.com/2026/10/26/p... #auspol

youtube.comPalantir might already have your bank data, and there isn’t a single law in Australia stopping it.YouTube video by Senator David Shoebridge

A warning to all Westpac customers from Senator David Shoebridge. It is a dangerous situation that Westpac has joined forces with military spy company Palantir. youtube.com/shorts/UFCMt... #auspol

Palantir is committing atrocities in Iran. More atrocities, killing children in Gaza. In the USA, Palantir AI surveillance finds targets for the notorious ICE squads. Do we want our Westpac banking data fed into that? #auspol

theklaxon.com.au"I never investigated" Exclusive Brethren global boss - The KlaxonThe global leader of the Exclusive Brethren sect — alleged to have run a secretive multi-million dollar campaign for Peter Dutton — claims he came into the role via a global “spontaneous acceptance”.

The Brethren supreme worldwide leader is like Sergeant Schultz: "I know nothing." Everyone but he knew that armies of Brethren were working the polling stations. If he's lying that could be contempt of parliament, 6 months jail. theklaxon.com.au/i-never-inve... #auspol

For this☝️ Brethren worldwide leader to go to jail for lying, first the Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters would have to make a report detailing his lies. Then either the senate or the house of representatives can vote on a penalty. Penalty can be $5000 or 6 months in jail. #auspol

youtube.comPalantir might already have your bank data, and there isn’t a single law in Australia stopping it.YouTube video by Senator David Shoebridge

A warning to all Westpac customers from Senator David Shoebridge. It is a dangerous situation that Westpac has joined forces with military spy company Palantir. youtube.com/shorts/UFCMt... #auspol

Imagine if Palantir's AI spy software knows your name, address, birthday, every time you go to an ATM, which shops you use your credit or debit card, which concerts you go to, when and where you travel to. The Palantir beast would be continuously learning about you, and building its profile on you.

region.com.auWant an EV but don’t like Tesla’s CEO? Mazda has the answer with its Model 3 rival | Region CanberraAbout a decade ago, the Tesla name was almost synonymous with electric vehicles – an almost genericised term on par…

"Want an EV but don’t like Tesla’s CEO?" This is a car review. It becomes political, only because of its headline. But if you do buy an EV, please buy anything but a Tesla, because the Tesla CEO Elon Musk is a Nazi-loving white supremacist. Mazda is OK. region.com.au/want-an-ev-b... #auspol

We all knew the hoards of Brethren were out there at election time. But when told at the parliamentary inquiry, the worldwide supreme leader said that was the first he knew of it. Is he lying? There's a second offence: Providing false information to a Commonwealth committee can get 12 months jail

au.news.yahoo.comWhy Coles customers can’t access an important service offered at WoolworthsYahoo News spoke with an insider about why the program can't expand.

Soft plastic recycling is short of funding. Again. The government is unwilling to force food manufacturers, who wrap their food in plastic, to fund it. au.news.yahoo.com/why-coles-cu... #auspol

theguardian.comEPA has failed to tackle cancer-linked pesticide pollution, lawsuit allegesSuit alleges EPA has for decades failed under the Clean Water Act to address surface-water atrazine pollution

The dangerous pesticide atrazine has been banned in the EU for over 20 years. But Australia does whatever America does. So, just like the US, they allow atrazine in Australia, and they spray it all over our food. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... #auspol

abc.net.auBruce Lehrmann's rape trial postponed to allow time to find barristerThe looming rape trial of former Liberal Party staffer Bruce Lehrmann has been postponed amid a bitter courtroom clash between lawyers.

Is there no barrister in all of Australia who is willing to get down into the dirt to represent a dirty grub? www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10... #auspol

It's not fair to all women that rape trails can be allowed to be dragged out for years and years.

Delaying the rape trial until 2028 is a way to put extreme stress on his accuser, in the hope that she will drop the case. #auspol

Joel Fitzgibbon has been lobbying for Ben Roberts-Smith since at least April. He appeared on Murdoch News 24 multiple times and called 2GB at least twice. Never once did the media tell their audience that Fitzgibbon is being paid by the weapons industry, and this is a coordinated campaign. #auspol

Twang 🍉@twangmaker.bsky.social

Labor Party guy Joel Fitzgibbon was once Australia's Minister of Defence. Now he works for lobbying firm CMAX. He lobbies for military and oil companies: • Navantia (navy ships) • Electro Optic (space/military) • Raytheon (weapons) • Stryker (weapons) • SYPAQ (drones) • Emperor (Oil & Gas) #auspol

This is a coordinated campaign, from the weapons industry, to pollute the trial of Ben Roberts-Smith, maybe with the intention to see the trial cancelled.

I can imagine Joel Fitzgibbon giving Richard Marles advice: "Listen to me, Dicky. Follow me, and do the things that I do, and one day you'll be raking it in, too."

⚠️ALERT: Today right-wing radio 2GB did an interview with Ben Roberts-Smith. After the interview, they took talkback calls from the public. Guess what. Joel Fitzgibbon called in to praise BRS. This was not random. This was orchestrated. Backed by the weapons industry, to disrupt the trial. #auspol

When people report their neighbour for an unstable mental condition, erratic behaviour, for being a threat to the community, police aren't always qualified to deal with it. In the old days there were mental institutions to house unstable people, but right-wing governments got rid of those. #auspol

One Nation's new evil headquarters: 160 Wharf St, Spring Hill, Brisbane still has no signage to say what it is, or who is inside. I suggest they hire the artist who created the Joker image atop Movieworld's tallest rollercoaster, to make a likeness of Pauline Hanson to go on her building. #auspol

The only problem here is that whenever I ride the DC Rivals rollercoaster at Movieworld, and pass underneath the giant Joker, it is, unfortunately, going to remind me of Pauline Hanson.

abc.net.auTree protestors asked to pay $150k in government legal feesThe two protesters who lost a bid to stop the felling of almost 600 trees, as part of the North Adelaide golf course redevelopment, have been asked to pay $150,000 of the state government's legal fees...

The Labor Party really is the party of environmental destruction. If you challenge their decisions in court, they slap you with $150,000 in legal fees. Big companies get their way. Ordinary people get no say. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10... #auspol

realestatesource.com.auGina Rinehart buys Brisbane HQ for One NationOne Nation will upsize to a Spring Hill headquarters. Gina Rinehart has bought a Brisbane office with the politically ascendant One Nation set to part-occupy. As we reported in August, 160 Wharf Stree...

For the record, this building was in the newspapers last week when Gina Rinehart bought it for Pauline Hanson's One Nation. www.realestatesource.com.au/gina-rinehar...

Pauline Hanson = The hate machine Racism. But strangely, also misogyny: hatred of women, including spreading hatred of other women in politics. • Attacked Jacqui Lambie, mocking her vaginal prolapse • Told Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan to "suck it up" after 'Ditch The Witch' billboads⬇️⬇️ #auspol

• After Julia Gillard's famous 2012 misogyny speech, Hanson said, "Suck It Up, Sweetheart". This list of attacks on women, and women in politics could go on and on. Hanson inspires every misogynist, every incel, every abuser of women, and fires them into action, into real attacks on women.

• In the senate chamber, Hanson called Independent Senator Lidia Thorpe "a bitch". • A court found Hanson guilty of racial vilification after she shouted at Greens Senator Mehreen Faruqi to "pack your bags and piss off back to Pakistan". #auspol

• Hanson said left-leaning female politicians were attempting to claim a "badge of honour" through victimhood • Hanson said domestic violence is a "two-way street" • During parliamentary debates on toxic workplace culture Hanson said "some female members of parliament are just so pathetic" #auspol

theguardian.com‘Limited evidence’ of protester violence at Sydney demonstration against Israeli president Isaac Herzog visitAmid police brutality allegations, inquiry hears protesters against visit of Israeli president were ‘largely peaceful’

NSW Premier Mossad Minns lied. Police Commissioner Lanyon lied. They said protesters set upon police. They should resign. Police should be charged with assault, battery and random use of chemical weapons. Protect our democracy from fascism. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... #auspol

abc.net.auJacqui Lambie slams 'nasty' One Nation cartoon mocking vaginal prolapseThe independent senator criticises a One Nation cartoon that ridicules the outspoken veteran and uses her medical condition as a punchline.

So why haven't the two main men of politics, Albo & Angus, spoken out about Pauline Hanson's disgraceful cartoon mocking Jacqui Lambie's vaginal prolapse? They speak about every other issue. Angus swiftly reacted to a previous ON cartoon about Hastie. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10... #auspol

smh.com.auRevolt grows over Labor’s $2m cut to lifeline for struggling AustraliansThe Coalition, Greens and independents have united with nearly 200 non-profits to demand the government reverse its quiet withdrawal of support for a $2 million-a-year support finder.

This is one of Anthony Albanese's most depraved decisions. This is the man who charges $1 million per private dinner with billionaires. But here👇 Albo wants to cut emergency food aid from people in crisis situations. Albo's got zero empathy. Is he a psychopath? Albo has got to go. #auspol

MingTheMerciless@mingthemercyless.bsky.social

Under @albomp.bsky.social's leadership, the only reason left to vote @australianlabor.bsky.social - that they drop us a few more crumbs from the rich 'donors' table than the other mob - is gone. www.smh.com.au/politics/fed... #auspol

The Green Party of Ukraine (GPU) has just issued a statement on its website, criticising the stance of Australian Senator @davidshoebridge.bsky.social to not send weapons to Ukraine. Website link⬇️ plus 3 screen grabs from Facebook. #auspol greenparty.ua/patsyfizm-ne... #auspol

The media asked David Shoebridge about Ukraine during his first days as leader, before he had the opportunity to discuss it with his party. It wouldn't surprise me if his position changes somewhat after he has those party discussions. I'm hoping it does. We'll wait and see.

smh.com.auEV boom zaps second-hand prices for petrol and diesel carsAs Australian drivers upgrade to EVs, they’re offloading their old fuel-reliant cars en masse – and prices are falling rapidly.

The resale value of petrol & diesel cars is already bad, but will continue to crash in coming years. In a few years, you won't be able to get rid of any car that requires petrol. It will require government subsidies if petrol refining is to continue. #auspol www.smh.com.au/business/con... #auspol

aljazeera.comHardline Israeli rabbi ruling on stolen Palestinian olives prompts uproarA controversial ruling by a hardline Israeli rabbi has been condemned by Palestinians.

A prominent Israeli Rabbi issues religious ruling permitting 'settlers' to steal olives from Palestinian orchards in the occupied West Bank. According to the ruling, Jews are permitted to pick these olives to claim ownership of the Palestinian land. www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202... #auspol