It’s an absolute joke. You’re honestly on the Monday when you say big gas is taking the piss.

Dandy Pandy!

We also get 26 weeks paid parental leave too!

Same in Australia. We pay 30-40% tax and have free TAFE (like college for trades), free healthcare (but the option of choosing private if we want to), and generally a very high standard of living. Sure we have our problems but a broken leg doesn’t mean a GoFundMe. We look at the US and grimace.

I also recommend Nick McKenzie’s book on the investigation. It details the painful standard of proof required to publicly accuse someone of war crimes. www.booktopia.com.au/crossing-the...

Ben Roberts-Smith’s comrades say he ordered them to execute unarmed civilians, court documents show Former SAS corporal allegedly placed man on his knees and ordered fellow soldier to shoot him, according to statement of facts

For the full story, check out: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

This is extraordinary to me because people junior to Roberts-Smith have willingly admitted to the courts that they committed war crimes. Each of these charges carries a life sentence.

Finally, the documents allege Roberts-Smith either shot two prisoners dead after marching them to the edge of a cornfield, or directed his juniors to shoot them. Roberts-Smith then threw a grenade at the dead men.

The court documents state Ben Roberts-Smith also kicked a handcuffed farmer named Ali Jan off a cliff. When the fall didn’t kill him, one of Roberts-Smith’s juniors then killed Jan with several shots from a rifle.

They then allege he returned inside the compound, directed a soldier to put a silencer on his gun, forced another detainee to his knees and told the soldier “shoot that cunt”. That soldier has admitted his role in the murder to the courts.

The documents say one of these people was disabled, carried outside the compound, “thrown to the ground, and shot multiple times by Ben Roberts-Smith with a belt-fed machine gun”.

They also note that each person was handcuffed, detained, and questioned prior to being killed.

The court documents note that each victim was unarmed, in locations where the Australian Defence Force was in control of the environment, and that evidence (eg a weapon) was planted on the victims.

They have told the courts that they killed these people either at Ben Roberts-Smith’s direction, or were complicit in his murders of them.

Three Australian soldiers junior to Ben Roberts-Smith have admitted to the courts that they were personally involved in killing one or more people they had detained in Afghanistan.

The Statement of Facts has been tendered to the courts on Ben Roberts-Smith’s arrest. Here’s what you need to know:

The Fight for Climate Justice at the World Court Vanuatu, a South Pacific island nation on the frontlines of the climate crisis, is fighting for climate justice at the world’s highest court.

A profound and moving essay by Julian Aguon of Blue Ocean Law on the deep spiritual impact of the climate crisis on communities across the Pacific.

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

The immediate boldness of the hard right in stepping into pure fascism within an hour of Trump’s inauguration is stunning.

The term you’re looking for is “sieg heil” and it has no fucking place in 2025.

I’m curious about your “fell for it” comment. Is there something fraudulent or was it just general disdain that they reported on it?

It’s still there for me?

Can someone explain why TikTok is a bigger national security concern than a social media platform run by a South African technofeudal oligarch actively interfering in our elections and sabotaging our national interests here and abroad?

This is why faith in democracy is absolutely crumbling.

Until political parties can no longer accept donations from the very people in the business of destroying the planet it won’t change.

We need to overhaul political donation and lobbying laws like our lives depend on it - because they do.

If only someone had been the president for four years and had the opportunity to do something about this problem 🤔

Good lord

California: it’s always “too early to talk about climate change” until you do.

We didn’t talk about climate change during bushfires in Australia until our sky turned orange for three months and a billion animals died.

This is climate change, and this is the time to start talking about it.

Truck set alight in attack Islamic council fears is 'hate crime' A man says his truck displaying the Palestinian flag was burned outside his inner-Melbourne home,  as also investigate a separate incident involving an anti-Semitic sign that was displayed outside sta...

A truck displaying Palestinian flags was set alight outside a Melbourne home in an incident the Islamic Council of Victoria fears was "an Islamophobic and anti-Palestinian hate crime". www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...

I wouldn’t mind it as much if he sneezed somewhere other than into my eyeballs

Who is it?

Culture clash as Nine board splits over Hugh Marks’s sex scandal Nine Entertainment chairman, Peter Costello, is under pressure over chief executive Hugh Marks’s sexual relationship with a subordinate.

Sorry, am just busy reading all those columns about how the #metoo movement was destroying male CEO careeers…