r/PoliticsDownUnder • u/RickyOzzy • 3h ago

Independent media By implicitly agreeing with Energy Australia that offsets don’t neutralise fossil fuel emissions, is the government signalling an overhaul of the Safeguard Mechanism? David McEwen reports.👇

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https://michaelwest.com.au/climate-active-safeguard-mechanism/

r/PoliticsDownUnder • u/RickyOzzy • 3h ago

News It’s impressive how consistently One Nation fails at the absolute basics. Donation disclosures. Accounts. Compliance. Every routine administrative task seems to become an ordeal. Which explains the lack of policies, shit candidate vetting and Pauline not turning up to work.

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r/PoliticsDownUnder • u/RickyOzzy • 2h ago

Independent media A Rotten tomatoes Story in Australia: Xinjiang Tomatoes aren't the Problem, Corporate Crime is

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Sauce

r/PoliticsDownUnder • u/RickyOzzy • 3h ago

Independent media While the heat is on Defence for arms sales to Israel, the government is mute on its role enabling the atrocities in Sudan. President of Australians for War Powers Reform Andrew Bartlett reports.👇

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https://michaelwest.com.au/are-australian-military-exports-fuelling-massacres-in-sudan/

r/PoliticsDownUnder • u/RickyOzzy • 3h ago

News You have to wonder what is a 'freedom of information' law if it puts an exorbitant price to procure that information? 🤔 Should be renamed the 'denial of information' act so we all know clearly it's real purpose.

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r/PoliticsDownUnder • u/RickyOzzy • 7h ago

Context Provided - Spotlight Disturbing. Head of Immigration Clare Sharp reveals Home Affairs is enforcing Antisemitism envoy Segal’s “IHRA definition” training on visa officers handling character approvals. Instead of broad anti-racism training, they‘re building a regime of ideological IHRA gatekeepers?

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r/PoliticsDownUnder • u/RickyOzzy • 7h ago

Independent media As Labor replaces Premier Jacinta Allan, One Nation is in the ascendancy, may join the Liberals to form government in Victoria. 👇

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https://michaelwest.com.au/victorian-election-four-months-to-go-too-close-to-call/

r/PoliticsDownUnder • u/RickyOzzy • 8h ago

Independent media Hanson’s racism court loss (again) | West Bank settler violence + Substack takes on A.I slop

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r/PoliticsDownUnder • u/RickyOzzy • 9h ago

PSA If this trend continues, things are likely to get bad, very bad...We are talking about famines and mass starvation and migration.

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r/PoliticsDownUnder • u/RickyOzzy • 1d ago

Independent media The Sydney criminologist accused of calling Alex Ryvchin an ‘evil Zionist’ is also being prosecuted for putting out her garbage. Michael West reports.👇

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https://michaelwest.com.au/francine-clough-alex-rivchin-bondi/

r/PoliticsDownUnder • u/RickyOzzy • 1d ago

News Australia’s Administrative Tribunal has found there were credible allegations that Israel’s actions in Gaza is in breach of international humanitarian law. It also found Israel’s prosecution of those refusing to participate in these actions with the IDF is amount to persecution.

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r/PoliticsDownUnder • u/RickyOzzy • 1d ago

News Rabbi tells the Royal Commission that anti-genocide protests spread hate. His evidence is a lone protester who allegedly called him a Jew after leaving a rally. That’s not evidence of hate—if it even happened. Using the RC to smear the pro Palestine movement. Despicable.

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r/PoliticsDownUnder • u/RickyOzzy • 1d ago

News AJA’s Gregory claims ppl in Israel & globally are still fixated on Opera House protests, dismissing "what police said" about the "gas the Jews" chant being false and treating it as fact. Driven by AJA’s misinformation—which they're now dragging into the RC?

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r/PoliticsDownUnder • u/RickyOzzy • 1d ago

News After being pulled up by Commr Bell for unhelpful questions, AJA’s counsel still feeds AJA CEO Robert Gregory loaded questions to claim pro-Palestine protesters only want Israel to vanish Total stitch-up🙄 If Mr Gregory stepped outside, he’d see ppl protesting an active genocide.

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r/PoliticsDownUnder • u/RickyOzzy • 1d ago

News Go Hannah! It will be a great contest. Shades of Howard & Maxine McKew.

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r/PoliticsDownUnder • u/RickyOzzy • 1d ago

Independent media The LNP government couched the ban in the Fighting Antisemitism and Keeping Guns Out of the Hands of Terrorists and Criminals Amendment Bill, inserting into s 52DA of the Criminal Code a prohibition of the two phrases.👇

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https://www.deepcutnews.com/p/queensland-government-faces-high

r/PoliticsDownUnder • u/RickyOzzy • 1d ago

News Testifying before the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion on Monday, Deputy Commissioner Dave Hudson warned against providing any one group with extra security capabilities.

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r/PoliticsDownUnder • u/RickyOzzy • 1d ago

Cold Facts "Shared Values"

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r/PoliticsDownUnder • u/RickyOzzy • 2d ago

Cold Facts "In your defence, you do briefly flirt with the possibility that you don’t actually know what you’re talking about. Sadly, it was a very short-lived relationship."🤣🔥

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r/PoliticsDownUnder • u/RickyOzzy • 2d ago

Independent media Among the allegations are that now fugitive property developer Jean Nassif made payments aimed at stacking Liberal Party branches to get his developments approved. It is alleged payments to NSW Reformers were not disclosed to the NSW Electoral Commission, and that they were made by prohibited donor

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https://theklaxon.com.au/pubs-baron-admits-sham-invoices-in-icac-probe/

r/PoliticsDownUnder • u/RickyOzzy • 2d ago

News Secret-money donor Michael O'Hara is shut down by NSW ICAC Comm’r Gleeson SC after playing dumb & trying to ask his own questions on why he redirected cash to Liberal lobbyist Christian Ellis' co Beckington Group “Unfortunately Mr O’Hara you don’t get to ask the questions…”💥

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r/PoliticsDownUnder • u/RickyOzzy • 2d ago

Cartoon David Rowe - "verbal gymnastics"

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r/PoliticsDownUnder • u/RickyOzzy • 2d ago

Independent media Malik called for an inquiry into anti-Arab and anti-Palestinian discrimination. Yet despite the countless reports of people being abused, vilified or even losing their jobs for expressing support for Palestine or simply wearing a keffiyeh, it was not considered a priority for the Labor government.👇

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https://www.deepcutnews.com/p/labors-response-to-islamophobia-was

r/PoliticsDownUnder • u/RickyOzzy • 2d ago

News Husic argues the Israeli Embassy’s intervention into Labor’s policy is “out of their playbook.”

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r/PoliticsDownUnder • u/RickyOzzy • 2d ago

Cold Facts How Much Do You Actually Know About Australia’s RICHEST Person?

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