Kash Patel lodges application to join club of Men Who Should Not Have Sued For Defamation

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Where are the AUKUS nuclear waste costings (let alone the dump sites)? - Michael West Defence has to provide costings for before procurement is approved. Where are the AUKUS nuclear waste disposal costs?

In response to an #FOI request for a cost estimate for the disposal of #AUKUS nuclear waste, the Australian Submarine Agency has advised it’s somewhere in amongst 3,000 docs. They can’t find the estimate … or they don’t want to find (and disclose) the estimate. #TransparencyFight #auspol

Great to see The Klaxon's investigative series on climate disinformation recognised by the Local & Independent News Association (LINA):

“Journalism like this helps protect the integrity of Australian democracy"

As we'll be arguing in Crikey today, the real upshot of the NSW Court of Appeal's judgment yesterday invalidating those ridiculous anti-protest laws, it is Premier Chris Minns who is incompatible with democracy. He clearly doesn't understand his responsibility as a leader of elected government.

Chris Minns is a constitutional vandal. He must apologise for NSW protest laws or resign NSW Premier Chris Minns' protest laws have been ruled unconstitutional. He shouldn't just be 'disappointed', he should hang his head in shame.

Opinion | NSW's anti-protest law brought in after the Bondi attack is unconstitutional, the NSW Court of Appeal has ruled. Chris Minns should apologise — or resign, writes Michael Bradley.

www.crikey.com.au/2026/04/17/c...

Chris Minns is a constitutional vandal. He must apologise for NSW protest laws or resign NSW Premier Chris Minns' protest laws have been ruled unconstitutional. He shouldn't just be 'disappointed', he should hang his head in shame.

"These politicians demonstrated that it is they who are incompatible with the system of representative and responsible government entrenched by the constitution. They should admit it, apologise, and do better, or join their stupid law in the bin."

We’re minutes away from the first op-ed in the Oz to call the pope an antisemite

Meanwhile, The Australian reports Taylor's racist bullshit as fact

Compass: S40 Surviving Gaza, Seeking Truth Filmmaker Patrick Abboud meets frontline Palestinian journalists who risked everything to document the truth of Gaza. Now safe in Australia, they reveal extraordinary new evidence of the continued kil...

Absolutely heartbreaking
#GazaGenocide

Watching S40 Surviving Gaza, Seeking Truth in iview iview.abc.net.au/show/compass...

The electors of Hungary turned out to have something in common with the electors of Warringah - a keen understanding that every opinion Tony Abbott has is, by definition, wrong.

Why an Orbán loss would be a huge win for the EU - and disastrous for Putin and MAGA It's hard to understate how much vast geopolitics hinges on an election in a country with a population of only 9.6M

1/3. Very helpful summary in preparation for the epochal Hungarian elections tomorrow. See also essays by Anne Applebaum and Lászlo Gendler and commentary by Kim Scheppele
mikegalsworthy.substack.com/p/why-an-orb...

The list of bipartisan policy catastrophes is long, including the NDIS, Robodebt, AUKUS, defence policy, generational inequality, housing, NACC, FOI, energy policy, Trump policy...

This is why the combined primary vote of Labor and Coalition is or will soon be below 50% and will keep falling.

When they come for the homes The recent military raid and eviction of 11 Palestinian homes in Silwan are part of Israel’s coordinated assault on the conditions that make psychological life possible: home, continuity, and the…

READ: On March 25, Israeli forces stormed Batn al-Hawa in Silwan and emptied 11 Palestinian homes. 65 Palestinains were made homeless in a single morning. A 21-year-old was shot dead in his own home that same dawn. mondoweiss.net/2026/04/when...

At some point the political wall of unquestioning support for Israel will start to break down in Australia as well. Israel's continuing actions render it untenable; fiction can only be sustained for so long. Labor will go first, but watch the teals too.

"The humanitarian situation in Lebanon is deeply concerning," Wong told ABC's News Breakfast.

"The humanitarian situation in Lebanon is deeply concerning."
— AUS FM Penny Wong

Why? Was there a natural disaster? No. Israel killed 254 & wounded 700+ people in Lebanon in 100 air strikes in 10mins. Penny Wong's insincere rhetoric is beyond insulting #auspol #IsraeliTerrorism #LebanonUnderAttack

Bible quote: "Now go and attack Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have; do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, and camel and donkey." – 1 Samuel 15:3

Reminder: Albo's #hatespeech laws incl. an exemption: quoting religious texts. So, Australian Zionists can quote 1 Samuel 15:3 👇 to justify the murder of Palestinian men, women, children and babies. Israeli PM Netanyahu did exactly this, saying Palestinians were Amalek. #auspol #FreePalestine

Could an Australian journalist publish a "Where Are They Now?" piece exploring the board memberships, consultancy roles, and other paid jobs of former AUS Govt ministers (both Coalition & Labor)? I wonder how many now have lucrative roles in industries over which they once had influence. 🤔 #auspol

Sydney Uni appoints special antisemitism chief Michael Abrahams-Sprod, associate of Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism Jillian Segal, to special antisemitism role .. forgets to tell anybody
#auspol
@wendybacon1.bsky.social Cathy Peters investigate
michaelwest.com.au/sydney-uni-a...

Richard Tice’s property company failed to pay £120,000 of tax Richard Tice’s property company paid large dividends to him and his trust - but appears not to have paid £120,000 in tax due to HMRC. Our analysis.

Richard Tice’s property company Quidnet REIT Ltd failed to pay £120,000 of tax.

story by @danneidle.bsky.social

I guess this is comforting?

Pentagon threatened Pope after he condemned Trump’s military attacks Reports that US officials warned the Vatican to align with Washington highlight growing tensions between military power and moral authority as the Pope continues to speak out against war.

Reports that US officials warned the Vatican to take Washington’s side highlight growing tension between military power and moral authority.
As the Pope continues to speak out against war, that pressure raises serious questions, Julia Conley writes.
#auspol #USPolitics #Vatican #ForeignPolicy #War

So sorry to our Australia’s Lebanese communities who must think all we care about is the price of fuel. 😔

@australiainstitute.org.au is counting how much revenue Australia has missed out on by failing to tax gas exports every second.

It's up to $68 billion and rising!

gas.australiainstitute.org.au

Festival chief warned author's removal would 'decimate' Writers' Week An extraordinary series of emails sheds light on the reservations that preceded, and internal fallout that followed, the decision to scrap Randa Abdel-Fattah's Writers' Week appearance.

The Adelaide Writers' Week debacle continues to entertain

Meanwhile, we continue to defend dozens of people against career-threatening accusations of antisemitism because they are vocally opposed to Israel's actions. It is utterly insane.

Of course it doesn't; Lebanon was always the point of this exercise.

The pre-conflict daily average number of ships through the Strait of Hormuz was 138. Passage used to be free, will now cost $2m each. Half goes to Iran, so that’s approx $50 billion per annum in new revenue. He did, in fact, make Iran great again.

Like we said. No way is Israel going to give up on its plan to annex Southern Lebanon - conning Trump into starting a war against Iran was the cover for this far more important objective.