Barry Steele

When public servants give evidence in a public hearing, about jobs that the public pays them to do, their answers should be direct, unambiguous, and detailed. That is the contract between the public and government. Any suggestion otherwise goes against that agreement.

Senator Bridget McKenzie is appalled that the prime minister was caught pork barrelling for a golf club. McKenzie much prefers to pork barrel for gun shooting clubs. Meanwhile Albo's claim it was to fix sewerage falls apart. It was just pork barrelling. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10... #auspol

#Auspol #poverty #democracy

AI companies say their products can cure cancer, take us to Mars, but apparently not respect the copyright of artists and creators... that just doesn't add up. Maybe the Minister isn't afraid but artists and others are!

Of course Albanese wants to shut down any criticism of the Albanese Israel Zionist government. #auspol

The Brethren supreme worldwide leader is like Sergeant Schultz: "I know nothing." Everyone but he knew that armies of Brethren were working the polling stations. If he's lying that could be contempt of parliament, 6 months jail. theklaxon.com.au/i-never-inve... #auspol

A new 4 GW wind and solar project is intended to power green iron prospects in the Pilbara, and – of course – data centres https://reneweconomy.com.au/the-men-who-fought-off-fortescue-have-a-new-4-gw-pilbara-wind-and-solar-project-in-the-wings/

It 💯% depended on this election!

As someone who covered Robodebt in part, it's clear nothing has really changed. Worse: the politics of federal Labor on social security are baffling. We keep hearing about how people have "lost trust in institutions". Wiping these debts seem a simple answer to help. Instead, they rewrote the rules.

Lula has won a fourth term in spite of Meta, after Brazil’s electoral court had to order platforms to stop throttling his reach while they boosted his Trump-backed opponent. Big Tech tried to rig this but the Brazilian people had the final say ✊

Once again @news.abc.net.au apparently not doing its research and a lack of editorial talent A complete National Broadcaster shouldn't need publishing articles based on non-peer reviewed work The quality of journalism at @news.abc.net.au is not great these days

From 2020. Michael McCormack has defended the government’s decision to spend $30m on a parcel of land near the Western Sydney airport worth just $3m, arguing in time it will seem a “bargain”. #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Woopy Doo! Just #RaiseTheRate @albomp.bsky.social people who have no home or can't afford rent and food are not helped by an airport when the likelihood of their ever getting on a plane is slim. #auspol

"Ability to immediately deliver a trusted working relationship with the special envoy" is double speak for already hand in glove. People: this stuff stinks. Australian Public Sector standards are not being followed and no-one is looking. #WhatisthepointofLabor #Auspol

The PM has been telling everyone to turn the temperature down. He might want to have a word to Lachlan Murdoch about turning the temperature up with climate-denying conspiracy theories about BOM manipulating temperature data. #auspol

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#RegionalQLDYoungLabor on Instagram : So much for a fresh start. Things are only getting worse under the state #LNP government! #AUSPOL #QLDpol #Maryborough #AdultCrimeAdultTime #Crime #LNPfail #DavidCrisafulli #Crisafulli #PutLNPLast

#auspol thepoint.com.au/new/261023-f... He also urged Australia to adopt official income and multidimensional poverty measures, arguing that financial hardship alone didn’t capture the full extent of a person’s disadvantage.

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thepoint.com.au/new/261023-f... Poverty is eroding Australia’s democracy, with former High Court Justice Michael Kirby warning that the growing divide between the powerful and the vulnerable is creating a vicious cycle of disadvantage and political exclusion.

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#auspol 🇦🇺 paywall but if you have access to it .. “A satellite image taken on October 6, analysed by AFR Weekend and shared with intelligence experts, showed that the facility is likely undergoing one of its largest expansions in its..” www.afr.com/politics/fed...

"Greater Israel” #auspol #Israel

Queensland's newest Crisafulli government minister is Amanda Stoker also known as Mandy Jane. #qldpol www.pedestrian.tv/news/amanda-...

#RWC2026 🇵🇬 v 🇼🇸 on #Ch7+ Perth. Advertising by the WA mining lobby telling us how great they are. 4 sure the mining industry is integral to 🇦🇺 $$s. If we park the climate ??s for a ✅ now, surely 🇦🇺 has a right to expect fair compensation for what is dug up/extracted to sell OS. #auspol #TaxTheGas

"What about building a bridge?” "That racist vein which runs through the majority of Australia” #auspol #policies #IndigenousPeoplesLand #FirstNationCommunities #mining

Australia’s underlying electricity demand hit a record, yet September-quarter wholesale prices fell to their lowest in five years as solar and batteries increasingly shifted cheap renewable power into evening peaks, Giles Parkinson writes. #Energy #Renewables #auspol

Horrible human being

youtube.com/shorts/_Ui7t... Israeli spyware found today to have hacked Australian Atomic Agency, banks and newsrooms, to name a few and what does the government do? Well, contract another Israeli tech company and invites them right in. Good job #ALP #Auspol #IsraeliSpyware

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I agree with this sentiment. To go further -nThis week I've seen the ABC for what it is. Not a news organisation, but a postbox where stories arrive- and vanilla, un-insightful, repeatable rubbish is sent back to viewers. At least the BBC has the balls to put Trump through a deposition. #auspol

In the report where Microsoft discloses its ever-worsening environmental harms, it tries to sort of plead away consequences by claiming that using different, irrelevant and unrelated forms of AI morally neutralise the damage they're doing with ever-expanding slop factories

The Exxon ad Exxon doesn't want you to see. New from Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social and voiced by Woody Harrelson.

Fat Cat Climate Scientists…. like me! (Replace EXXON with Woodside for Australian viewers). Cracker clip narrated by Woody Harrelson… www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJyQ...

"NAZA is a gut punch not because it tells us anything we did not already know or suspect about Israel and Gaza." "Palestinian journalists showed us daily the evidence of the genocide, before each was picked off by Israel’s AI machinery - in the largest slaughter of media personnel ever recorded."

In the coming century, there will be very few people who have seen a coral reef or a glacier.

There's a desperation to demonise Muslims, directly or by association, & weaponise claims of "antisemitism". If criticising Israel's behaviour &/or supporting rights of Palestinians is "antisemitic" (IHRA), any crime by about 79% of Australians can be falsely linked with "antisemitism". #Auspol

But why the hell would the ABC’s serious-journalist-Jessica-Longbottom try and shoehorn a ‘people who criticise Israel are unhinged and potentially violent’ angle into an otherwise worthwhile article like this?

Christo fascist Amanda Stoker continues to fail upwards, as Liberal Party loyalists do. QLD's govt has just appointed her to its front bench after parachuting her into a safe seat last election. Stoker failed multiple previous election attempts - not a setback for LNP ultra rightwingers. #AusPol

Watching this occurring with GOVERNMENT POLICY support in Australia. Dumbing down the public discourse by ignoring both the #education needs of boys AND the opportunities & influence of girls who in general do better at school. Jailing boys is failing. Maybe pay attention to their care. #auspol

#SMH putting a ringed fence around their #Manosphere by putting the boot into women again in an article 'Women who kill and why'🤦🏼‍♂️ No article on the DV scourge that has plagued Australia and their own pages over the last decade+ on why males/manosphere kill🙄 #auspol

What happens when an #LNP government won't give #ChildSafety and Youth Justice workers proper resources in Queensland #AUSPOL #AmandaCamm #PutLNPLast #QLDpol #QLD #DavidCrisafulli #Crisafulli