The savages It is 1806 in the place now called West Lakes, Adelaide. For thousands of years, a Kaurna community – perhaps a hundred souls strong – has thrived here on the Adelaide Plains. In the driest [...]

I’d never write an article and ask people to read it… until now.

I wrote this. Please read it.

theaimn.net/the-savages/

If the NDIS is ‘runaway spending’, what do we call $16 billion in fossil fuel subsidies? New research shows fossil fuel subsidies will reach $16.3 billion in 2025–26, rising faster than the NDIS. Handouts to mining giants are growing faster than support for Australians with disability.

Just a reminder - while NDIS subsidies are allegedly 'unsustainable' fossil fuel subsidies grew by 9.6% in the last year to $16.3bn. thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...

After watching this I checked whether "collective self-defence" exists in international law. It does & is defined. However, apparently, it must be "a last resort & proportionate". I query whether Australia's assistance qualifies as "last resort" for the UAE, as opposed to acquiescence to USA
#Auspol

Venezuela, Iran, Cuba, Greenland, Canada, and on and on and on. Lindsey Graham says they are “marching through the world.”
They don’t care how many US soldiers they get killed. Meanwhile, they’re building concentration camps at home for Americans to die in. What will it take for people to wake up?

For those who don't know, this man is now Australia's Prime Minister, whose government is currently in lockstep with the US's illegal attack on Iran.

(He used to say he "fought Tories" too... that is, till he became one in all but name.)

#Auspol

I have a question for @tonyburkemp.bsky.social.

Have any of the Australian women currently trapped in Syria been accused of sniping kids in the head for sport, raping hostages to death, or firing 335 bullets into a car to murder a 6yo girl who'd survived the original attack?

Please advise.

Seen on that other site...😆
What's really in the Epstein files!

Queensland police refused to discipline officer accused of domestic violence against pregnant partner Police decided there was ‘no tangible benefit’ to conducting disciplinary action against the officer and opted not to investigate

Women, leave Queensland. #auspol

Queensland police refused to discipline officer accused of domestic violence against pregnant partner

Police decided there was ‘no tangible benefit’ to conducting disciplinary action against the officer and opted not to investigate

Only an idiot would expect Albanese to ‘work’ with Angus on anything.
Angus needs to drop everything and work on getting us back that $80 million his company scammed from us for water that didn’t exist

Dr Jeremy Walker details the “enormous war chest” of Advance & lists funders inc Gina Rinehart, James Packer, IPA board, Woodside’s Charles Goode & “the priv foundation of Jillian Segal” - who pay Advance to “flood social media with aggressive Far Right disinformation”🔥 #auspol

Israël sproeit landbouwgif in grensgebied Libanon en Syrië, rampzalige gevolgen voor de grond Het Israëlische leger heeft de grensgebieden van Libanon en Syrië besproeid met grote hoeveelheden landbouwgif. Op deze manier probeert de Israëlische regering vermoedelijk semipermanente, onbegroeide...

"Israel has sprayed the agricultural pesticide glyphosate on the border areas of Lebanon and Syria, creating bare buffer zones where crops can no longer grow."

Crimes against humanity and nature.

www.volkskrant.nl/buitenland/i...

“Worst fears” - can travel home to Melbourne…
I mean I used to live in Melbourne. It’s not ‘that’ bad 😉

The heads of Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, and Tesla all joined Trump at his inauguration.

Since then, largely thanks to Trump's Big Ugly Bill, their companies have reaped $51B in federal tax breaks — paid for by huge cuts to our social safety net.

This is what oligarchy looks like.

There was a lot of people last night at the Syd protest who either haven’t protested in years or have never protested - & they saw things last night they never thought they’d see - & now to see politicians, police & media lie about it.

This is a turning point #auspol #nswpol

Dear PM @albomp.bsky.social
cc @chrisminnsmp.bsky.social
I attended the #HerzogNotWelcome rally in Sydney tonight. I personally experienced unprovoked police violence. I witnessed unprovoked police violence. I hold you both personally responsible. And I vote. #auspol #nswpol #HerzogVisit

Israeli Forces Bulldoze Gaza War Cemetery Damaging Allied Graves

Dear PM @albomp.bsky.social
cc @senatorwong.bsky.social
It's very clear that you don't care about Palestinians murdered by Israel. But ... Israeli forces bulldozed Allied graves in Gaza City's al-Tuffah War Cemetery in 2025. Will you raise this with Herzog? 🤔 #auspol #IsraeliTerrorism #GazaGenocide

A man threw a bomb containing explosive liquid, ball bearings & screws into the crowd at an #InvasionDay rally. Fortunately, it didn't explode. Minimal media coverage. Imagine the media coverage if:
a) it was thrown into a synagogue or
b) the perpetrator was brown or Muslim.
😠 #auspol #journalism

A man threw a bomb into the crowd at an #InvasionDay rally in Perth on 26Jan. The device contained explosive liquid, ball bearings & screws. ABC News rptedly refused to use the word bomb (calling it "a device designed to explode") and wouldn't use the word terrorism. Until now. 😠 #auspol #journalism

A man threw a bomb into the crowd at an #InvasionDay rally in Boorloo (Perth) on 26Jan. The device contained explosive liquid, ball bearings & screws. Fortunately it didn't explode. Terrorism. Minimal media coverage, using gentle language: "a device designed to explode". 😠 #auspol #journalism

Another baby boy dies from cold in Gaza A two-month-old baby boy died in the Gaza Strip on Saturday as a result of prolonged exposure to low temperatures.

Another baby has died in the Gaza Strip from exposure to the cold as a result of Israel's ongoing genocide of the people of Palestine.
english.palinfo.com/news/2026/01...

When the World Sleeps Buy When the World Sleeps, Stories, Words, and Wounds of Palestine by Francesca Albanese from Booktopia. Get a discounted ePUB from Australia's leading online bookstore.

One place to preorder:

www.booktopia.com.au/when-the-wor...

Please consider buying one. Writers' festivals (especially huge ones like Adelaide Writers' Week) are a major source of income for authors. Not the modest appearance fee, but the book sales at signings and after events.

Help these writers out. They deserve it.

David Pope in Canberra Times

I love #Eurovision but I've not watched the SBS telecast since Israel began its #GazaGenocide. Please support boycott.eurovision.au as they urge SBS to cut the mic on genocide. Here's the link to their petition on Change.org c.org/cVkHXqCyLx
#BoycottEurovision #EndTheOccupation #FreePalestine

AUS Foreign Minister Penny Wong's fawning praise of Trump is vomitous. No mention by Wong of the billions of dollars of arms provided to Israel by the USA for its genocide in Gaza? Srsly?! This is abhorrent commentary from Wong. 😔 #auspol #USPolitics #NobelPeacePrize #GazaGenocide

Cool with me.

"PM condemns ‘abhorrent’ Hamas graffiti"

I am still waiting for you to condemn Israel's abhorrent genocide of the Palestinians, @albomp.bsky.social. You know ... the actual terrorists? The Zionist Israelis? Committing GENOCIDE? #auspol #GazaGenocide #GazaHolocaust

A note appeared on my phone screen:
"ABC News Dark Mode is here!"
*sigh* Could ABC News just focus on delivering factual news: global, national, state and local, with intelligent, informed commentary & analysis? Both on television & online, so much of ABC News is crass tabloid clickbait. #journalism

Our Australian politicians KNOW that a genocide is occurring. Most (Coalition & Labor) either actively support it or they are complicit by their cowardly silence. I am utterly ashamed and horrified at our political leaders' callous, self-serving inhumanity. 😢 #auspol #IsraeliTerrorism #GazaGenocide

Call your Labor MP: Albo has betrayed Australia on climate Your voice matters! Call your Labor MP and tell them to get rid of climate-wrecking coal and gas!

Call your Labor MP: Albo has betrayed Australia with their Woodside approval - one of the largest new fossil fuel projects in the world #auspol

www.acf.org.au/our-work/cli...