Authors leave publisher after kids book cancelled for illustrator's comments Writers including Evelyn Araluen and Randa Abdel-Fattah have left University of Queensland Press after the publisher axed publication of an Indigenous kids book over its illustrator's past "anti-Semit...

The intellectuals and academics of Australia have proved themselves weak and easily manipulated.

Tertiary education doesn’t equal character. Why even bother getting educated if it doesn’t lead to courage and wisdom?

#AusPol

AI errors reveal fake 'vox pop' interviews Clips of supposed street interviews with Australians sharing their political opinions have been created using AI.

Clips of supposed street interviews with Australians sharing their political opinions have been created using AI.

www.aap.com.au/factcheck/ai-errors-reve...

Fin Review whitewashing more fascist bullshit

Her plan to 'knit the country back together' is banning peacful slogans, silencing anti-genocide sentiment, and overhauling our education system with *somehow* even more ahistorical genocide justification.

Tl;dr = Thought control and fascism

#auspol #Australia
#media

There’s an entire HUGE industry built up around patching their software. Enormous expense.

#auspol I have been yelling about the importance of doing this for decades! It’s a no brainer! We have the talent and people to make it happen. Frankly it’s crazy how much of our critical systems run on code we can’t see.

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The Strait is closed to shipping again. Trump keeps stepping on the rake.
Geoff Gowers, Merricks North
The Age, letters

Shameful. And doesn't bode well for the new Meanjin, let's be honest.

Channel Seven’s Spotlight digging for dirt on clean energy ignores fundamental facts and basic journalistic standards | Temperature Check Program portrayed efforts to wean Australia off fossil fuels as morally bankrupt, trashing rainforests and enslaving Australia to China

If you’ve seen or heard about Seven’s primetime “special investigation” into renewables, then maybe read this too. By me.

Liberals and Nationals to preference One Nation in blow to Michelle Milthorpe in Farrer byelection Independent candidate and One Nation’s David Farley are viewed as the frontrunners in the four-cornered contest for the 9 May poll

LNP-ONP now a three-way coalition with indistinguishable policies. #auspol

Australians are being played by Rinehart and Hanson, and the media is helping – Amy Remeikis Legacy media's refusal to scrutinise One Nation is going to hurt the country

It should worry you that the One Nation candidate on track to win Farrer thinks it is "above his paygrade" whether Gina Rinehart is funding the party.

www.deepcutnews.com/p/legacy-med...

Good god QLD LNP putting 25 million into updating local refinery to produce “renewable diesel”. 🙄

Calls grow to end $20bn tax breaks to property investors as budget looms Leading advocacy groups are calling on Jim Chalmers to scrap negative gearing and the capital gains tax discount for property investors.

Calls grow to end $20bn tax breaks to property investors as budget looms
#auspol
@purplepingers.bsky.social

womensagenda.com.au/latest/calls...

China’s energy fortress was built to withstand just this type of oil shock | CNN For more than a decade, leader Xi Jinping has overseen a transformation within the Chinese economy with one aim: making it energy-secure.

The historic oil crisis triggered by the US and Israel’s war on Iran is posing the sternest test to date of China’s Promethean effort toward energy self-sufficiency. It’s a test that China appears to be passing.

Trump is fighting for a worse deal with Iran After tearing up the Iran nuclear deal negotiated under President Obama, Trump is trying to bomb his way to a better outcome and it’s failing spectacularly.

Trump is fighting for a worse deal with Iran australiainstitute.org.au/post/trump-is-fighting-f... #Auspol

AUKUS and the sunk cost trap beneath the surface As warfare shifts decisively toward autonomous and distributed systems, Australia’s massive investment in nuclear submarines risks locking in a costly and inflexible strategy.

AUKUS and the sunk cost trap beneath the surface johnmenadue.com/post/2026/04/aukus-and-t... #Auspol

Konrad Benjamin on fire in today’s gas tax inquiry, says those claiming “we can’t afford anything” are full of it, we have plenty of resources to benefit from
“This gas issue is the perfect eg of how it’s a lie”
“We’ve been sold out”🔥 #auspol @punterspolitics.bsky.social @australiainstitute.org.au

Trump & Netanyahu are the most dangerous persons on the planet. US policy in the Middle East is not driven by oil. It is driven by Netanyahu. And allies in the Gulf are paying a very heavy price for allowing US bases on their soil.

Dr Richard Denniss dismantles the gas industry’s favorite threat.
If taxes kill investment, why is the gas industry rushing to Norway to pay 78%? 🙄
“They are playing us for fools.” 🔥
Nationals’ Susan McDonald has no rebuttal & scrambles to change the subject. #auspol

#Auspol Stand with #Canada they would Boycott America if Trump was threatening to make Australia the 51st State. The world needs to unite and defend each other's Sovereignty. This is a peaceful way.

Same for PHON crusties and curious. I mean Qld bigots in the 90s when Joh was ousted had to catch up fast, so OK, a bit of reactionary stuff to be expected, but FFS, get over it! #auspol #qldpol

Looks like they have stock market manipulation on a timetable now. Gotta make it easier for Trump and his mates.

Abby Martin Went To Israel. IT'S WORSE Than You Think YouTube video by Double Down News

Deplorable.

And ameriKKKa, under both parties, encouraged this....

#cdnpoli #ukpol #auspol #uspol

youtu.be/hLQbPCvV8W8?...

Tony Abbott labels Viktor Orbán ‘Trump with brains’ as future of Budapest thinktank linked to former PM in doubt Former Australian PM, who has been associated with pro-Orbán Danube Institute since 2023, praises ousted Hungarian leader

Bit late to this perceptive bit of xenophobic brilliance from a node on the “back to the good old days for mediocre entitled white dudes” network

Fucks sake, tony, slime mode is brighter and more beneficial than DJT

#auspol

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Traders placed over $1bn in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war. What is going on? Suspicious wagers on the US-Israel war in Iran are creating huge windfalls and raising concerns among lawmakers

You can bet your last dollar that Trump, his family and mates have made a monetary killing off the war
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

So apparently this is the third time, right before a Trump announcement, someone has made a huge, historic stock market transaction. 🙄

Yes, we should be learning from other countries @robertarnol.bsky.social
Norway c/o @andyscollick.bsky.social + @hakonnordhagen.bsky.social
Australia, are you going to gladly copy this BS?
#Norway #Australia #AusPol

A political cartoon by Megan Herbert showing an assembly of renewable energy solutions - solar panels, battery storage, high speed rail, electrified truck freight, EVs and charging infrastructure, wind turbines, and bicycles - put together in a shape that resembles a military tank. A different approach to a massive increase in military spending that would increase Australia's security and sovereignty in times of global unrest.

Best defence.
My cartoon in today's @theageaustralia.bsky.social and @sydmorningherald.bsky.social

Welfare check on RWNJ fossil fuel morons please ...