Stephen Mitchell

Home Affairs gave a $4.3 BILLION air services contract to a company with no Australian air operators certificate or employees – or the required aircraft – and which was registered to a front company: a real estate agent.

This is ridiculous. You can’t radicalise an 11 year old. However, you can manipulate & emotionally abuse an 11 year old. We need to be framing what’s happening here in terms of the actions of the abusers & the abuse, not the presenting trauma of the victims. #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...

DYK the diesel burned by these data centres is eligible for govt rebates of >50 cents/litre‼️🤯 NextDC of West Footscray infamy used ~2 ML of diesel across its national portfolio in the 2025 financial year, meaning taxpayers gifted >$1 million to DCs to run polluting diesel generators 🤯 🤬

It’s Anti-Poverty Week this week, and I stood with colleagues and community advocates to remind the Gov that while 3.7 million Australians live in poverty, including one in seven adults and one in six children, the Gov’s priorities are clearly out of whack #auspol #raisetherate

As usual @ronnisalt.bsky.social hits the 🎯. #auspol

The Great Gas Giveaway just hit $78billon. And look, tbf, the gas companies are doing it tough. The government choosing to not do a 25% tax on gas exports is only fair - not like there are any needs currently being unmet... health, education, care, poverty, disability... live.thepoint.com.au

The nerve of Albanese claiming to "speak for Australians" with his noxious Israel sympathising BS. FRO Albanese. ISRAEL IS GENOCIDAL. The only speaking I want to hear from you is "I resign". substack.com/@ritajabrima...

The new political reality in Australia: Centre = right Right = far right Far right = sieg heil @albomp.bsky.social = Scott Morrison #auspol

Disowned in title only, it seems. Charles counted Savile as a close friend, I guess he can’t pretend to be disgusted by Andrew. Can Australia ditch this mob now? #AusPol

#auspol Who is pulling ON's strings? youtube.com/shorts/4g-Jk...

Whoa! One Nation’s campaign launch video showed Ai generated immigrants wielding machetes & wearing bomb vests in the most vile, racist, bigoted, hate speech filled political video I’ve ever seen let alone from an actual political party that could form Government. Ring the alarms!!!

Frydenberg sacrificed the whole of Victoria to his political ambition while Covid was unfolding as a grave threat. As federal treasurer he put his boot on their throats, withholding funding, vaccines and PPE. He ran the attack on his own state. His snatch failed spectacularly. #auspol #vicpol

Reposting because 1. Yes. And... 2. Great use of AI - a photoreal political cartoon. #auspol

Oh look what our greatest ally with the shared values is doing over there in the US! #auspol #endAUKUS

“Double the fun, half the cost,” reads Amber’s stock description for a shared student room at Accolade on Gibbons in Redfern, Sydney. https://michaelwest.com.au/future-fund-earns-big-returns-on-extortionate-student-accommodation/

I’m in. There is nowhere else to go but Greens and Independents. I’m out. Decades of Christofascist LNP. Worst, the deep ALP betrayal 7 yrs Albanese Labor Party leadership, pretending Labor values of working people whilst in bed with the most radical despots of our time. No more. #auspol

David Shoebridge unloads on 2GB’s James Willis for distorting compassion for Palestinians facing genocide as “anger & hate” & fires back on claim he only targets Israel reminding him of his record “it may be convenient for u not to report that, but that’s u not doing your job”💥

The Greens can win Macnamara. Josh Burns is right to be afraid. Opposing genocide is not antisemitism. #AusPol

The most radical arm in Australian politics (and the world) right now is the far right. And yet this is the analysis for the Greens.

RBA raises rates…

"The Australian Govt says it is concerned that such a ban could inadvertently harm Palestinian businesses, workers and livelihoods. It is difficult to see what evidence underpins that concern." There is none. A pathetic excuse to avoid real action. #auspol pearlsandirritations.com/post/2026/09...

Ed Sheeran says he doesn’t want to take sides. 🤔🤔🤔

This fits with what we know happened on other continents. The implications are massive, too big to think through in one sitting. Do though, do think about it.

Here's @marykostakidis.bsky.social. "Rule 1: Don’t be intimidated. Rule 2: Don’t forget Rule 1"

The Albanese Gov is considering ending the Refugee Convention by legislating a world first 30 day time limit for families to apply for asylum. If this becomes law it’s the end of the Refugee Convention here. Help us stop this by emailing your Labor MP 👉🏼action.asrc.org.au/email_alp

'The Zionist Federation of Australia withdrew its case of racial hatred against Australian journalist Mary Kostakidis, who called it a victory for free speech.' consortiumnews.com/2026/09/10/z...

US military 'saturation'. #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Pro-Israel groups are pressuring governments & institutions to adopt the IHRA definition of antisemitism, which would prohibit legitimate criticism of Israel. We can’t let widespread adoption of this definition cement further censorship. Sign our petition: www.jewishcouncil.com.au/2026/08/dont...

Urgently needed real RC into church and charitable, tax exempt, so called not for profit, entities. The centralisation and concentration of $billions public money for so called public services like health, education, aged care etc now used as political leverage. Eg NSW Catholics. #auspol

Is it just me or does this news story make it sound like the boyfriend is the victim here?

Mother desperately trying to protect her child during a genocide. Israeli sniper deliberately aims & shoots her in the head. Deliberate, callous, cold blooded murder. THERE IS NO GREATER EVIL THAN ISRAEL!!!!! #IsraeliNazis #IsraelIsATerroristState #FreePalestine #auspol

Your tax dollars at work. #auspol #Streisandeffect

Private health insurance is propped up by about $13 billion a year in taxpayer support, yet there is little evidence it takes pressure off public hospitals. Those billions would be better spent strengthening Medicare, John Menadue writes. #auspol #Medicare #Health

Labor MLC Stephen Lawrence says the Royal Commission showed "profound ignorance" on Israel, after asking a witness to 'put aside Zionism'. "The truth [is] there would be no Israel without Zionism and an Israel without Zionism would be no Israel at all." www.deepcutnews.com/p/labor-poli...

The revolving door means former ministers and senior public servants can take insider knowledge from Parliament and use it for commercial advantage. It casts a pall over the integrity of decision-making when access and influence can trump evidence and transparency.

"I think that we hide behind the ANZUS treaty as a way of not thinking through what the real relationship is & what drives it." Allan Behm & @emmashortis.bsky.social on 75 years of ANZUS & the state of the Australia-US relationship. Hear more on After America 🎧➡️ theaus.in/4i8e3lP

The Shot has the right to "self-defence"

I want to see a new wave of passionate young progressives stick it to the man. Go Hannah! #Auspol www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

I joined The Greens last night because bleating about how my beloved Labor Party have become one of the greatest disappointments of my life,needed backing in. If Albanese thinks this is as low as it can go,he's dreamin' #AustraliansArcUpIfYouShitOnThem #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

I never had a high opinion of Albo but turning into a scomo clone is still kinda surprising. #auspol

73,000 is a gross under counting of deaths in Gaza. Much, much more than that ...and still being added to every single day.

The antisemitism royal commission has failed. My column explains what happened:

I know it’s WA but if Labor is going to preselect literally a representative of Woodside’s interests they can fuck off one more time than the previous number of times they’ve been told to fuck off before

When I was there, I thought USA food was the worst I'd had.

New from me today - lobbyists employed by Israel have published voluminous material under the banner of a non-existent thinktank in an apparent attempt to game the information people get from AI chatbots www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Just remember, the Reserve Bank is worried that wages might grow too fast and cause inflation

“Australia is drifting through the most radical, and potentially the most threatening, transformation in our strategic circumstances since European settlement with no clear idea of what is happening or what we should be doing about it., #AUKUS #auspol