Hegseth’s plan for a live streamed firing squad execution (entertainment?) is doing grave reputational damage to the US and our American friends. 👇Edward Luce AFR agrees the Roman Empire fell largely by “the triumph of barbarism and religion”. The republic was “sapped of all that was noble”.

“The blood of Ukrainians will be on his hands”. Trump’s deal with Putin for Russian diesel and his demand for Zelensky to go expose the US president = Expedient. Corrupt. Traitorous. Here 👇AFR’s Andrew Tillett analyses the latest powerplay.

Will Joe Aston’s big biz (Ashok Jacob, BHP) bankrolled Rampart go soft on its backers? Hey Joe.. if you want people to pay $6600 for a “chairman’s lounge” subscription please list all your slush funders & your claimed charter of editorial integrity/independence. Otherwise? It’s all “hush” money.

Please Senator Jane Hume don’t sell out Australia’s original content creators to US AI with your “getting the balance right” response. Our American friends will walk through our Copyright Act with Trump’s support. Time for our ALP/LNP duopoly to demand fair compensation for local AI training.

🚨 Breaking 🚨 In a huge win for veterans, the government has abandoned its extreme $5000 healthcare cap, after a massive campaign from the veterans community, the Greens, and members of the crossbench. Healthcare is a human right. The Greens will always protect healthcare.

Anthropic wants to slow global development of AI because of its risk to human controls. But Dario Amedeo (Anthropic) is already ahead in Australia with this green light 👇 data centre near Toowoomba, Queensland = cooking with gas.

Court documents expose Rupert Murdoch’s delusion as a saviour of Western civilisation’s “conservative” ethos. Rupert’s not a conservative. He’s an abuser of press freedom for partisan/vested gains. He trashes democratic institutions. He’s a disgrace to ethical journalism.

Hey Chris (Uhlmann) yes Norway built a $3.2T wealth fund from oil fields which underwrites pensions/education etc, but nowhere in your latest attack on Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen do you urge him and PM Albo to impose a 25% tax on Oz export gas. Blind eye mate.

Now is the winter of our discontent. Pauline for PM? Her solution to our duopoly grievances? Frack, drill, open cut coal; deport/ban Muslims; restore landlords’ neg gear/CGT slush; open slather gambling; paywall for ABC; axe Family Court; ‘work choices’ 2.0; burn Aboriginal flag … 👇

US citizens Rupert/Lachlan Murdoch go full smear on Australian Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ justified corrective to our country’s distorted distorted property market. Housing unaffordability had to be confronted. But the Murdochs’ propaganda rags call this a “communist manifesto”. Pathetic.

The IDF’s killing of journalists in Gaza and now Lebanon: Laura Tingle’s distressing analysis here. 👇https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-25/israel-journalists-killed-lebanon-gaza/106582644?utm_source=abc_news_web

Never give up! The further destabilisation of earth’s thin biosphere by excessive CO2/CH4(methane) emissions from Woodside’s Scarborough gas project now in Federal Court legal dispute by Doctors for the Environment & EDO. 👇🙏