ED Australian Institute for Progress. Online pollster, political commentator and occasional strategist. Surfer, father and musician. Pronouns: your choice.
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Cowardice is what is killing civilisation. None of the high-performing women quoted in this story who criticised the theory of the "Glass Cliff" was prepared to put her name to her comments. Only a man was prepared to step up. That says something right there.
University of Queensland pushes gay and trans agenda through HR criteria. What will the Crisafulli government do about it? It is an institution constituted under state law and is failing to take a properly academic approach to biology. theaustralian.com.au/higher-…
Snowy 2.0's massive blowout means the sunk cost bullet should be bitten and the project abandoned. It also casts doubt on the viability of some other pumped hydro projects, like Queensland's Borumba. Snowy is 2 GW, runs for 175 hours and costs $25 B. Borumba is 2 GW, runs for 24 hours and costs $18 B.
Left wing media academic professes to like Pauline Hanson misrepresents her views and calls for her censoring. Tells you what's wrong with the education system. Which is polluting our politics. No wonder Hanson does so well.
That something like this at some level has been going on was obvious since the first Trump presidency starting with pussyhats, through BLM, and then lawfare during the Biden presidency and targeting of community groups, like concerned parents, and the censorship of social media.
🚨 BREAKING: Laura Ingraham just laid out what she says is the radical left's playbook to take down federal authority.
Per Ingraham, it goes like this. Flood the streets nationwide until Trump invokes the Insurrection Act.
Claim the military is committing abuses. Get the press to amplify every clip. Then blue state governors unite to override federal authority and rewrite the Constitution.
She says former Obama and Biden staffers, ex-USAID employees and community organizers are openly discussing it.
One former USAID staffer made it sound like utopia. "We're going to have to, if we want to live in peace and deeper democracy, reform our legal frameworks,"
They call it reform. It's a power grab with a nicer name.
Grace Tame lacks self awareness or is a shameless hypocrite. Which?
Grace Tame is chastising us all over Helen Haines:
"Australia, you've done it again."
"Commentators and journalists simply cannot seem to resist projecting their own ideological bias onto absolutely everything and everyone," she said.
This is a person tried to incite violence during a state visit by the President of Israel.
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The Bureau of Meteorology has been fiddling historical data to fit the narrative of global warming.
The BOM has 1800 staff.
Its budget is $614 million a year.
Its website rebuild cost $96 million.
But it has been exposed by two volunteer researchers.
cfact.org/2026/10/18/boms-sc…
Here come the Luddites. Or maybe the Luddettes. AI might cost our jobs. Just like the typewriter, motor car, computer, self service checkout etc. Funny there's only 4.7% unemployment. And we're all richer.
This looks like a breakthrough. Two-thirds of Australians now support nuclear, including 50% Greens. Previously it was just less than 50% of the entire population.
Nearly 2/3 of Australians support nuclear energy being considered.
New polling Nuclear for Australia commissioned with YouGov shows rising support for nuclear power.
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Suppression of speech and efforts to force “social cohesion” are aggravating factors to extremism and radicalisation.
If we want a truly respectful and civil society and debate, we need more speech, not less.
This is a pathetic and reprehensible position.
Follow this guy. Truths about Israel.
I am not Jewish. But I am a proud Israeli citizen. I live in Tel Aviv. Despite the world having extremely opinionated views about the country I live in, few people I have come across on X (that don’t live here) know little of substance about Israel apart from their warped sense of history and reality. This is the first post of a series I will write entitled Everything You Think You Know About Israel is (Probably) Wrong. The points are not in any particular order. Spread the word.
Most Israelis (just over 50%) are not white. The devastating impact on European Jews of the Holocaust meant that the newly formed Israel in 1948 was largely populated by Jews fleeing persecution in Muslim-ruled countries predominantly in the Middle East and North Africa. These are known as Mizrahi Jews and when the State of Israel was formed they made up 80% of the Jewish population living here.
Jews have had a continuous presence in the land of Israel since around 1208 BCE, that’s 3,200 years — long before the creation of the state of Israel in 1948. The Muslim faith, in contrast, dates back 1,400 years (610 CE). Yes, when they lost majority rule in the 7th-century Muslim conquest they were not in the majority for centuries, but still lived in their ancestral homeland.
Arab terrorism against Jews existed before 1948. In 1929, for example, 67 Jews were killed in the Hebron massacre, attacked and slaughtered by the Arabs they lived and worked beside. My wife’s great-grandfather Ben-Zion Gershon (who was a local doctor that often treated the Arab community without accepting payment) was tortured, had both his eyes gouged out and was then murdered. This was after his daughter Esther was raped in front of him, and his wife Zahava had both arms chopped off and was left to die. This was just one of many similar massacres inflicted on Jews that day.
I will continue this series over the coming days.
The answer to the problems of AI turns out to be more AI. There's a 'war' going on out there. The answer to machine guns has never been more rifles but build your own howitzer.
I used to be a member of Amnesty - when they were a real human rights group. Haven't been a member for at least 20 years. They absolutely do pick and choose who has rights, and who is allowed to be right. Used to be about prisoners of conscience, and now it is without conscience.
The human rights movement doesn’t pick and choose who has rights. We won’t refrain from calling for justice, whether the suspected perpetrator sits in Tehran, Washington D.C., or anywhere else. Secretary Rubio knows that. So when he calls a human rights organization a fraud for doing its job, that’s just his playbook for avoiding accountability.
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I don't understand why everyone is so outraged over the Mecca executions.
This is what they do.
This is islamic sharia law in practice.
I despise it of course, but unlike most of you I don't pretend to be shocked. This is literally how their religion works, especially in Mecca.
I'm a lot more surprised that some of you seem to think sharia law is some kind of compassionate and empathetic legal system that is supposed to spare people. It's like you haven't paid attention at all.
The Gold Coast City Council is appealing against its own town plan to the High Court of Australia. Under the town plan developers can receive a 50% uplift by satisfying a number of conditions including providing affordable housing. No way could a beachfront development satisfy this condition, but they are giving the approvals anyway and contesting any appeals in court, including up to the High Court. What's the point of a town plan? Sign the petition to bring them to heel. parliament.qld.gov.au/Work-o…
This is why authors need publishers. These artists would rather cut themselves out of the AI revolution than negotiate and profit from it.
Dear Chris Bowen. This is what happens when you try to run an electricity system on moonbeams. The industries of the future go bust along with the industries of the present.
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Islamophobes are accusing Abdul El-Sayed of being pro–Muslim Brotherhood JUST BECAUSE:
• His mother worked for an organization later designated by the U.S. Treasury for supporting terrorist groups.
• His sister-in-law appeared on a federal terrorism watchlist during the Obama administration.
• His father-in-law held leadership roles in organizations accused of Brotherhood connections.
• Those organizations were named unindicted co-conspirators in the Holy Land Foundation case.
• His half-sister celebrated October 7 online.
• The same half-sister wrote that their family had “long been MB” and described their mother’s Brotherhood activism.
• His campaign buddy Hasan Piker said America deserved 9/11.
• He wanted to avoid commenting on Khamenei’s death because some potential voters were grieving.
• He signed a statement urging Morsi’s government to purge Egypt’s media and police.
• He compared Oklahoma’s Sharia-ban measure to historical atrocities, including the Trail of Tears.
• He praised the work of Tariq Ramadan, grandson of the Muslim Brotherhood’s founder.
• He defended his friend Mohamed Soltan, whose father was a senior Brotherhood figure.
• His campaign received donations from CAIR-associated individuals, and his father-in-law contributed $300,000 to a supporting PAC.
• He argued that a Brotherhood-led Egypt would not necessarily resemble Iran.
You’re confusing what happened with what you’re allowed to notice
Labor in possible losing position. Only taken 18 months since the biggest Labor win in 80 or so years. And it has been hard-earned. Broken promises, hobbled economy, money thrown at party favourites. Fantasy projects like NetZero and gender fluidity. Rampant antisemitism.
We live in a miserable age of gaslighting, projection and constructed and imaginary narratives outrunning the facts. Hannah Ferguson is the last person who should be interviewed about the assault on Helen Haines.
I actually can’t believe the balls of Australian mainstream media.
Far-left guy attempts to murder Australian MP, so they put Hannah Ferguson on TV to blame the right and “harmful online rhetoric.”
Hannah Ferguson supported the assassination of Charlie Kirk! Within 24 hours of his murder she said violence was sometimes necessary and that she was glad that he would no longer spread his extremist messaging.
Guys, they booked Hannah Ferguson for the breakfast TV shows before I released the Twitter of the attacker. They were completely ready and set to blame the right and launch a crackdown against us. We literally just caught them in this.
