Spam Latitude! Breaking the law 2.7m times and getting away with it - Michael West Latitude Financial broke the law 2.7 million times and was fined a whopping $1.50 per transgression, totalling $3.98 million.

New record. Latitude Financial breaks the law 2.7m times, eclipses Commbank's 57k money laundering breaches, pinged by ACMA for spam, fined $3.9m
#whatsthescam #auspol @kimwingerei.bsky.social
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Palestine's Permanent Representative to the UN, Riyad Mansour, could not hold back his tears while speaking about the Palestinian doctor who lost 9 of her 10 children in an Israeli attack. #GazaGenocide #FreePalestine

NSW Premier Minns doesn’t want to hear this truth or hold it up as a State standard of respect.
Neither does other States or nationally.
#NSWPol #AusPol

Brief: climate scandal in the Northern Territory Thanks to a tiny number of journalists for drawing attention to this crisis.

I’d missed this so thanks again to @janfran.bsky.social & @antoinettelattouf.bsky.social of @ettemedia.bsky.social for flagging this.
NT compounding decades of traumatising First Peoples with an abusive response to climate collapse displacement.
#Auspol

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Mature man listening to Tim Wilson

BREAKING
Self funded retiree asks Tim Wilson if he can get franking credits on his Australian Values
#auspol

👇Sunlight lifts fog off the floor of the Barrington Tops👇.

Today in the Administrative Review Tribunal I’ll be trying to use #FOI sunlight to lift Govt generated fog. Regular citizens get tried in open courts while public servants get tried in secrecy. Why? #Pezzullo #auspol

NSW’s highest court strikes down anti-protest law introduced in wake of Bondi beach terror attack Court finds law – which effectively meant protesters could not march without risk of arrest – is unconstitutional

Yes! Up yours #Minns you fascist wannabe. #nswpol #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

"Fear cannot be turned into permanent law. 'Social cohesion' cannot be used to silence dissent. Politics cannot be reduced to what power finds acceptable." #nswpol #auspol

Pauline Hanson’s One Nation banks millions in public funding. Where does all the money go? Exclusive: Former candidates accuse party of enriching itself at their expense, while insiders lift veil on chaos in Brisbane HQ – and staffers’ contempt for rank-and-file members

One Nation is a business model which extracts money from the Australian public & its candidates. It doesn't want to be in government or opposition. #auspol
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If Trump REALLY wanted to show Australia how upset he is with use he’d go ahead and tear up the AUKUS agreement. That’d show us! #auspol

Defence spending to climb by $53 billion as 'international norms' erode Australia's defence spending will climb by $53 billion over the next decade amid what the federal government says are "intensifying" global risks.

But cancelling AUKUS, right?

Right?

Right?

#AusPol

Still waiting for any mainstream journo or commentator to lecture us about “the ballooning costs” of defence spending. #auspol

The High Court of Australia does not simply "let off" people. It looks at the Australian Constitution & makes a judgement on the basis of that document and with the evidence presented to it.

Matt Canavan should issue an apology to our High Court Justices. #auspol

Privatisation has been the biggest scam for decades. How could a privatised entity ever be "better" if profit is the key motive? Inevitably, corners will be cut, standards will plummet & re-investment will wither.

We need to take water, electricity, gas & banking back to public ownership.

#auspol

I've noticed federal politicians are still travelling as much as usual

Ted O'Brien, a Qld MP is in Melbourne today... Why?

I understand Ministers have to travel but not Shadows or back-benchers

PM tells Australians to save fuel - politicians should lead by example
🐝
#auspol

An excellent article from Grace Tame for The Shot.

“Ours is a world where child sex offenders are not only living and working among us, they’re cocooning and controlling us in a veil of false comfort woven from the top down. By design, we depend on them.”

#AusPol

Pauline, Please Explain | The West Report - Michael West It's David v Goliath, the case of the coal miner versus BHP and the politics behind it. With the Labor Government close to the unions, and big mining, and the Coalition tight with BHP and the coal lob...

Pauline Hanson, please explain. The political intrigue behind the case of the coal miner v BHP. They've been keen to bury it but now there's a class action looming with estimates in the billions for casual miner wage theft
#auspol
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How about NO! #auspol

Vanuatu Climate Change Minister Ralph Regenvanu is the latest to voice support for a 25% tax on gas exports in Australia!

Australia Institute research shows a 25% tax on gas exports could raise $17 billion every year.
#auspol @rregenvanu.bsky.social

I am disgusted by my Australian Govt: a cowed vassal state of #Israel and the #USA. I am disgusted by the complicity of most Australian mainstream news media.

But I am encouraged by the principled integrity, decency and humanity of independent journalists and many Australian cartoonists #auspol

Middle East carnage continues to line the pockets of superfunds - Michael West The Iran war has brought another round of Middle East destruction, and windfalls for weapons companies supported by our superannuation money.

With a couple of notable exceptions Australia's superfunds continue to profit from the industrial slaughter of civilians in Iran, Lebanon, Palestine. Unions need to step up.
#auspol @ajgardineresq.bsky.social
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Australians living in poverty.
Schools and hospitals relying on charity for required equipment.
Our infrastructure is failing.

But there's always plenty of money for defence - but they can't tell us who we are fighting against??? #npc #auspol

Seppo President attacks Australia, again. You haven't asked us to sail our Navy into the Strait of Hormuz, you bloody galah. You're causing no end of pain down here, mate. #auspol

Private health inusrance. Unfit for purpose and in need of reset - Michael West A $6.9 billion annual subsidy supports a model for private health insurance that's losing consumer confidence. There's a proven alternative.

Is private health insurance a rort surely not? $6.9B subsidies, $1.7B in combined profits Medibank, BUPA, NIB but underpay hospitals by over $1B #auspol

Claudia Weisenberger analysis
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Ham-fisted embrace of 'Australian values' exposes a hollowness Angus Taylor’s latest attempt to grasp any sort of relevance has laid bare the raw politics at the heart of Australia’s conservative movement

"Is it an 'Australian value' to turn to dog whistling and racism every time you feel down in the polls? Modern political history would say yes." 💥🎯 @amyremeikis.bsky.social #auspol
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Geelong fire: Blaze at Australian oil refinery to impact petrol supplies The fire has deepened fears over the nation's petrol supplies amid a global crunch.

Solar and wind are too unreliable.

#AusPol

Hey @jimchalmers.bsky.social - here's an idea for your "ambitious" reform budget. #Budget2026 #HousingCrisis #inequality #auspol

Extraordinary that our entire multi billion dollar defence policy seems to revolve around an enemy no one can name - and is framed by ‘we’re better than the other major party’ #auspol #npc

The Libs Revive White Australia, Triple J/Usher Drama Explained, and Al Jazeera's Heidi Pett Joins Us to Talk Lebanon Podcast Episode · Lamestream · 15 April · 1hr 26min

The Canberra press gallery has been lecturing us on 'social cohesion', says @scottmitchell.bsky.social,
but when Angus Taylor rolls out a revival of the White Australian Policy, journalists obligingly publish his media release with little or no criticism. #auspol
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Angus Taylor and the Liberal Party’s moral decline Paul Keating says Angus Taylor’s embrace of “values” politics marks a return to racism, abandoning the Liberal Party’s traditions in favour of base political appeal.

The Liberal Party is again turning to racism as a political strategy.
In chasing One Nation, it is abandoning the principles that once defined it, Paul Keating writes.
#auspol #Politics #Immigration #LiberalParty