I know many were drawn to Android because it sold itself on being an open platform. Google has quietly decided they no longer need that promise. We'll be watching this closely and pushing for answers. If you share these concerns join the Keep Android Open campaign keepandroidopen.org/cta/
From September 2026, Google is pushing a forced, irreversible update that removes your ability to install software they haven't approved on a device you own, with no consent and no way to reverse it.
The whole of Palantir’s manifesto is dystopian, but this is really chilling; “The question is not whether AI weapons will be built; it is who will build them and for what purpose.” They have a plan to build AI weapons to kill what we hold precious, we need a plan to stop them.
This isn’t an academic threat to democracy, social inclusion and genuinely liberal values where people are all valued equally. It is a clear and present fascist program attached to a military political project that stifles dissent at home and kills “adversaries” abroad.
The Australian Greens are calling on the government to audit every Palantir contract across Government and particularly in Defence, Home Affairs and intelligence agencies and table the findings in Parliament. The public has a right to know the full scale of the risks and the sell out.
Don’t forget we just gave them top secret clearance
Palantir is known to have provided technology that facilitated the Gaza genocide. They are facilitating mass ICE kidnappings in the US. These actions alone should trigger a review of Australian contracts. This latest manifesto only adds to the concern.
Palantir is a cancer we should be cutting out of our Government agencies and institutions. Instead the Albanese Government and big corporations here are keen to use their mass surveillance and deeply unethical business practices for their own ends, regardless of the dangers.
Palantir is embedding itself in other Australian institutions from Coles, to Rio Tinto. Westpac, our military cyber unit, the Australian Signals Directorate, the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission and AUSTRAC, which handles Aussies’ sensitive financial information.
Defence has handed Palantir more than $26 million in contracts since 2013, including a $7.6m deal awarded without competitive tender to its Cyber Warfare Division. Palantir staff are embedded in Defence. How the hell did Labor let these wolves inside?
Palantir wants a remilitarised West locked into a civilisational contest against its enemies. Sound familiar? This is exactly the logic driving AUKUS. We're not just buying nuclear submarines, we're buying into someone else's war with our neighbours.
Palantir has contracts across Australian defence & intelligence. Their CEO is pushing a "clash of civilisations" AI war doctrine, mass conscription and protecting elites. Australia cannot have an independent defence or foreign policy when our military is built on this platform.
Palantir's CEO published a manifesto arguing Western tech firms have a "moral debt" to US military dominance, that AI weapons are inevitable, and that "some cultures are dysfunctional." This isn't just a regularly evil tech or defence contractor, it’s a fascist political project.
Funny how the law and order guys never think it applies to them 🙄
He’s again blaming the courts, the protesters and those attacked by police all for his appalling and illegal attempts to ban dissent
The new head of the Australian military is taking his first international trip to the US as part of the $375 billion AUKUS scam.
While there, he will be the keynote speaker at a $ 5,000-a-head corporate event run by former Minister for Defence Industry Christopher Pyne.
The system is rigged.
Headline from the Australian newspaper Iran’s media cheer squad can’t stomach trump’s success by Chris mitchell
Meanwhile, in the “what’s in the water” newsroom at the Australian, Rupert Murdoch’s view of the US burning its global alliances and savaging the world economy becomes more detached from reality and common sense every day.
The latest Truth Social post by Trump boasts of war profiteering from the illegal US blockade of Strait of Hormuz, while threatening war crimes against the Iranian people. All in a night’s work for an increasingly deranged US President. End AUKUS, free us from being part of this.
Through the Eyes of a Palestinian Prisoner exhibition in Marrickville today - powerful truth telling from Muhannad Al Azzeh a Palestinian artist and former political prisoner, living in Ramallah, the West Bank, Palestine. Solidarity, connections and strength.
The US blockade is a hostile act, not just towards Iran but towards the entire world, including Australia. Energy supplies, food supplies, jobs, all hostage to the whims of US military power … and Labor wants to keep us tied to them. Unbelievable really.
Just yesterday Labor bet everything in defence on binding us to the US. Trump didn’t even notice, let alone care, and has come out and attacked Australia anyhow. This is not a relationship of friends or allies, we are being held hostage and need to escape.
This isn’t about the safety of Australians, it’s a sales pitch to Newscorp and Trump, with Labor’s unwavering commitment to the US alliance grounded in an unsettling need to tie ourselves to the US military and its plans for military confrontation with China.
With barely a breath between Marles says Labor is committed to the US alliance and then that our alliances are based on a “shared commitment to rules, sovereignty and self respect” - ummm - Greenland, NATO, Iran, Venezuela - doesn’t he own a TV?
Marles still talks of “impactful projection” with his plan to project Australian military force anywhere on the planet to police global trade. This is a foolish and dangerous strategy that inevitably embeds us into global US military deployments.
Watching this Press Club address and it seems Richard Marles has been watching the world over the last 12 months and decided that China is the primary disrupter and main threat to peace. A different reality to the one everyone else is living in.
20 minutes into Defence Minister Marles’s ‘landmark’ speech on Australia’s 2026 National Defence Strategy and he has failed to mention Trump or the chaos of US threats and wars.
This didn't happen by accident, the Albanese Government had the power to stop the extradition and chose not to. Australia should not be America's deputy sheriff, and we should not be acting as its jailer. Dan is paying the price for a Government that puts America and its needs ahead of Australia’s.
This isn't just about extradition it's also about where Dan Duggan is headed. There are serious questions about whether he will get a fair trial or be held in safe conditions in the US system.
Dan Duggan is being extradited to the US for conduct that wasn’t an offence here. That should trouble every Australian, regardless of what they think of the underlying allegations. It's a scary sign of the price of our compliance with the USA.
Dan's wife Saffrine Duggan said today her family has endured 1,273 days of suffering. Six kids have grown up without their father, who spent 19 months in solitary confinement all without ever being charged with breaking an Australian law.
