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By-election trigger for Redland City mayor in Queensland. Incumbent Jos Mitchell steps down citing health & repeated attacks since 2024. She defeated former LNP MP Andrew Laming in a 3-way race with 52% of the vote on first preferences. #qldpol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...

A crocodile with a knife robs Robert Irwin & Bluey. Pauline Hanson's One Nation Colouring Book offered to children at the Mount Gambier Show in South Australia. ONP MacKillop MP Jason Virgo attended the party stall but did not hand any out. #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...

globalextremism.org/australia/ From GPAHE 5th October 2022

Poorer retirees would force the government to spend more on the age pension. The SMC estimated the Covid-era withdrawals, where 3 million Australians took out nearly $38bn, would cost taxpayers up to $85bn by the end of the century.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... But the Super Members Council has estimated a typical 30-year-old worker on that income would end up $25,000 poorer by retirement if they opted in to the One Nation plan.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... ALP reversed its position a week after legislation passed parliament, following backlash from small businesses & News Corp Aust. Reforms part of the Minns govt’s wider plan to reduce plastic waste given Sydney’s landfill is projected to run out by 2030.

www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio... Two of his accusers testified they reported Masterson to Scientology officials, & told they were not raped. Put through “ethics programs” likened to repeated interrogations, & warned against going to police. One said she was shunned & ostracised for doing so

It’s the latest setback in the justice department’s efforts to charge perceived adversaries of the Republican president.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... A grand jury in Washington rejected prosecutors’ request to return an indictment charging Cassidy Hutchinson, said the people, who spoke to the Associated Press on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss the case.

Oh dear, Trumplestein is in the shit. www.youtube.com/watch?v=inVJ...

There is a lot to unpack. @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social is doing a lot of lifting for the traditional media here: youtu.be/6XlOTmJYPIA?...

As more information about the initial Israeli strikes against Palestine emerge from the UN report into the genocide in Gaza we can see this was a deeply planned action not quick retaliation. The targeting of press offices then members of the media show some of the planning. We have been lied to.

If a serious case against Trump ever gets to court they will veto his appearance on the account of his dementia.

Every fucking time

$21 a week . Woopee ! Shoebridge gets $346,000 pa and 17% super . His family have million dollar investment homes . Do they all get a tax cuts or just the essential workers on < $80,000 So what happens if the Murdoch media do a hit job like they did on Gillard’s mining tax He is a bs artist

Clowntime with Hanson.

Good news Hopefully soon

$10 he’s staying at Malaria - Lago.

Like so many of us, freaked out that bad actors using AI might steal our Super savings. Time to hit the mattresses (stuffed with cash)? Ironic that most future jobs in IT will be in shoring up defences to protect us from AI. Like the legendary Ouroboros... the snake that eats itself.

More episodes of Pauline Hanson Please Explain depicting multiple deaths of Senator Penny Wong have resurfaced. The series continues to be scrutinised after the attack on Indi MP Helen Haines. #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Speech by #KennyO'Brien at Byron Festival is an absolute cracker. Read it below. MP's will deny it but #democracy in Australia is in serious decline and not just in #Parliament. It is hugely aided by mainstream & social media irresponsibility.

As the Australian parliament was working on taking the heat out of political debate, in Queensland Deputy Premier Jarrod Bleijie was at his horrible best doing the opposite. Speaker Pat Weir had earlier called for more respect in the chamber after the Helen Haines attack. #qldpol

Yep lawyers are not the most upstanding citizens.

Don’t wait start suing because it will take 10 years to do anything because judges and lawyers are lazy shiny arsed time wasters that make more money if the case takes longer.

x.com/morgfair/sta... Beatrice Keul, a Swiss former pageant contestant, told committee staff Trump “violently raped” her in a suite at New York’s Plaza Hotel during his November 1993 American Dream pageant. She says earlier that day, Epstein approached her & introduced himself as “Don’s best friend”

www.theguardian.com/music/2026/o... The musician and outspoken critic of the president is suing for $10m in reputational damages – six years after a settlement in which Trump agreed not to use the song again

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o... “It is very much a consequence of global heating,” said Stefano Morosini, a professor at the University of Bergamo and the coordinator of heritage projects at Stelvio national park, where some of the explosives were also found.

www.theguardian.com/music/2026/o... The events of the last six weeks are quite something, & not what Robert Kraft, billionaire owner of the New England Patriots, had in mind when pressurisedSheeran to remove Macklemore from his summer US tour.

Who would then have imagined that Serbia today could be at the forefront of global democratic change?

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Julian Assange told an interviewer in Belgrade Serbia was “a country where the future happens first”. The phrase circulated widely on Serbian social media in the weeks before Sunday’s election, but in a way that could not have seemed possible 10 years ago.

www.theguardian.com/environment/... Sweeping cuts to premier US climate agency under Trump severely hampered country’s capacity to forecast, research & respond to extreme weather events, former govt officials & scientists warned, US faces a cascade of hazards fueled by a potentially historic El Niño

www.theguardian.com/environment/... The world’s wealthiest people are not just profiting from the polluting causes of climate breakdown, they are also increasingly cashing in on the catastrophic consequences, according to a study by Oxfam.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... Woodside Energy’s plan to drill for gas off Western Australia’s north-west coast could significantly damage “exceptional” coral reefs & it may be impossible to reduce risk of oil spill to an acceptable level.

Bruce Hales has said he was appointed head of the secretive sect via miracle. He has also denied the sect having any role in the election - before admitting he hasn’t actually investigated…

theklaxon.com.au/i-never-inve... the global head of the Exclusive Brethren, alleged to have run a secretive multi-million dollar campaign for Peter Dutton at last year’s federal election, has made some stunning claims.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... “It tells you everything about One Nation that they are happy to keep depicting this kind of violence”. “Australians deserve elected representatives who are working to improve their lives, instead of promoting division, violence and personal attacks.”

womensagenda.com.au/latest/eds-b... Taylor’s decision to pick up his own chainsaw must make sense to someone not impacted by the fuel, energy, or housing crises.

YEAH! You orange haired, MAGA butt kisser, LEAVE OUR BLUEY OUT! of your warped fascist propaganda. apple.news/ApQ-gIvVZQsK...

www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10... Further dampened already low expectations the vote would offer any meaningful improvement to lives of Palestinians, as deadly attacks continue daily in Gaza despite a yearlong “ceasefire”, while settler pogroms & Israeli army raids have intensified in West Bank

"It’s not a parody of any Bluey work. It’s not a minor use of the IP. In my view, it is an infringement of the intellectual property, number one." ABC to issue Please Explain creators with cease & desist order. #auspol www.theage.com.au/business/com...

For the first time ever, batteries storing cheap solar energy overtook expensive gas during the afternoon peak, in the last three months.  The Coalition today committed to scrapping this policy that has helped so many Australians with the cost of living, we're supporting it.

Nearly 600,000 Australian households have taken up a cheaper home battery.  For them it means massive savings on their energy bills. For everyone else, it means less demand on the energy system, putting downward pressure on prices.

The systematic racist brainwashing at home and at school and then in the IDF Awful

Imagine the parental & societal programming that made that young woman so completely prejudiced & devoid of empathy. It's exactly the same as that which created Nazism & told young Germans they should exterminate Jews. Humans can justify anything in the name of their own self-interest.