Frank Bongiorno on X: "My keynote, from the just-finished Labour History conference 'The Spirit of 1975' at Melbourne Trades Hall, part of the Congress of HASS. The Dismissal from below, on Inside Story https://t.co/OquN06GphQ" / X My keynote, from the just-finished Labour History conference 'The Spirit of 1975' at Melbourne Trades Hall, part of the Congress of HASS. The Dismissal from below, on Inside Story https://t.co/OquN06GphQ

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The power dynamic between Labor and mining has shifted There has been a shift in the power dynamic between Labor and the mining industry. This week's environmental law reform is its embodiment.

“But the fact the government landed the deal with Sarah Hanson Young — and does not fear the electoral consequences of doing so — points to an erosion in the resource industry's ability to set the political terms.

This is no small thing.” www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

How Amazon turned our capitalist era of free markets into the age of technofeudalism | Yanis Varoufakis Amazon Web Services owns the basic infrastructure for other businesses to operate online, turning even governments into its serfs, says the leader of MeRA25, Yanis Varoufakis

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Thank you!

The Liberals are dead and the rot will kill its moderates. What next? With the Liberals facing terminal structural problems, and News Corp sticking the boot in, what are the solutions? A new party is hard work, which leaves only two real options.

The Liberals are dead and the rot will kill its moderates. What next? www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/17/l...

Labor wants fewer FOIs. Crikey wants more — let us file them for you For the next few weeks, Crikey is running a personal freedom of information concierge service called FOI-4-U where we will turn YOUR idea into a request.

Labor wants fewer FOIs. Crikey wants more — let us file them for you www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/08/f...

Labor's shifting views on Gaza leave a trail of mixed messages and abandoned tactics As the evidence of genocide in Gaza and ethnic cleansing in the West Bank has grown, Labor has had to adjust its position or risk being left behind by allies and the electorate.

Labor’s shifting views on Gaza leave a trail of mixed messages and abandoned tactics www.crikey.com.au/2025/08/05/l...

If You're Listening Politics Podcast · Updated Weekly · The world is on fire. There's a coup. Inflation is through the roof, and AI is taking our jobs. What does it all mean? Each week, Matt Bevan explains the biggest st...

In truly one of the most extraordinary stories we’ve told on this show - we get to the bottom of how Israel hides its nukes, how we found out about them, and why the global community seems to be fine with it. podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/i...

'Background use only': How Labor justifies its silence on Gaza to the media Labor's response yesterday to mass starvation in Gaza was to condemn a Greens senator for mentioning it. Then it tried to spin itself as the victim.

Background use only: How Labor justifies its silence on Gaza to the media www.crikey.com.au/2025/07/24/l...

Is Australian mainstream media finally ready to use the g word? The word 'genocide' has been given a wide berth in legacy media coverage of Gaza. Is that starting to change?

Is Australian mainstream media finally ready to use the g word? www.crikey.com.au/2025/07/23/g...

The end of seriousness Back in February, a meeting that resembled a Real Housewives reunion was being dissected, analysed and broadcast around the world. “This is going to be great television, I will say that,” United State...

Thought provoking & confirming. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/21140/...

Hmmmm

Indeed.

Not when it’s clear that sidelining the Greens & any amendments by working with the Opposition is a strategy he prefers!

None of this passes the pub test - The Shot Jillian Segal’s report, the entire double-spaced, decorative and glossy 16 pages of it, is largely insulting dross.

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Sack the NACC After years of unfulfilled promises by both sides of politics, the Albanese government passed legislation in its first term to establish the National Anti-Corruption Commission. The NACC began operati...

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Antisemitism envoy's report 'Trumpian' The report of the Albanese Government’s antisemitism envoy, Jillian Segal, contains recommendations that will lead to erosion of freedom of expression and the right to protest.

"What is extraordinary is that the Albanese Government appointed Segal at all. She has form for advocating censorship and suppressing the rights of pro-Palestinian supporters to express their views" - Greg Barnes johnmenadue.com/post/2025/07...

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Part of the AUKUS deal involves Australians crewing submarines sailing under a US flag.

If Trump decided to take the US to war, the Australian government would have to actively delay American deployment to get those Australians home.

@emmashortis.bsky.social #auspol

Dear PM @albomp.bsky.social
I am deeply disturbed by the Zionist agenda being pushed by your Govt's Antisemitism Envoy Jillian Segal. The Australian Federal Court has ruled that opposing Zionism and criticising Israel's genocide in Gaza is NOT anti-Semitic. I agree with Dr Max Kaiser. 👇 #auspol

Thirty years ago we said never again, Srebrenica. How much longer before we declare: never again, Gaza? | Ed Husic When it comes to the horrors of genocide we say these words with an ironic frequency. How do we short-circuit the re-run of this pitiful, shameful cycle?

"Thirty years ago we said never again, Srebrenica. How much longer before we declare: never again, Gaza?" Ed Husic

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Lived in apartheid South Africa.

Sadly, I agree- for now.

Yep! Dissent no longer tolerated & will be worse since 94 seats!

Antisemitism envoy praises Elon Musk's X for using AI to 'root out hate' Australia's antisemitism envoy has praised how platforms like Elon Musk's X are using AI to fight hate — days after X's AI bot Grok was taken offline for antisemitic posts.

It is not possible to be this ignorant.

Antisemitism envoy praises Elon Musk’s X for using AI to ‘root out hate’ www.crikey.com.au/2025/07/11/a...

This example alone tells you all you need to know about the Antisemitism Envoy's recommendations and who wrote them.

If you want to know how political realignment is achieved and how the centre-left is moved inexorably to the right, this is it.

*we are NOT going to let them do this.

Among some rather alarming sentences in the special envoy’s plan to combat antisemitism is this on the first page:
“In February 2025, ASIO Director General Mike Burgess declared antisemitism Australia’s leading threat to life.”

To LIFE!?!

Israel: silencing dissent everywhere - The Shot The pro-Israel lobby isn’t designed to balance debate nor to enrich it – it is designed to silence it.

"Exactly how this 30-something man, who lived 500 kms away from my friend, felt “unsafe” in his living room in online meetings with a lone woman he’d never met is anyone’s guess"

Excellent from @ronnisalt.bsky.social in The Shot.👇

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