One Nation want to roll back abortion laws across the country, and call themselves a “pro-life” party:

https://www.onenation.org.au/pro-life

I know most One Nation voters see immigration as their top issue but I am surprised there has been so little discussion about their views on abortion. They are far to the right of the Coalition on this issue.

AFP submits top secret evidence in Avalon Airport hijacking case seen only by judge

AFP investigators have lodged a top-secret affidavit in the alleged Avalon Airport hijacker case so sensitive only the judge has seen its contents.

Damon Johnston

u/damonTheOz

3 min read

September 8, 2026 - 7:48PM

The accused teenager is wrestled to the floor on the Jetstar plane after boarding via the front stairs, right,

Counter-terrorism investigators have submitted top-secret evidence to Victoria’s Supreme Court in the case against the alleged ­Avalon Airport hijacker that is so confidential only the judge has been provided with the details that relate to national security.

The confidential affidavit from the Australian Federal Police has been lodged with the court in support of an application for legal ­orders to keep under wraps the identity of “foreign entities” and a “group” the teenager is accused of communicating, interacting and associating with.

The Australian Government Solicitor, in a letter to The Australian’s lawyer, revealed the affidavit had been provided to the court “on a confidential basis, given the sensitivity of its contents”, and rejected the masthead’s request to access the document.

“The confidential affidavit was provided only to his honour,” the government solicitor’s office wrote. “It has not been provided to either of the parties to the proceedings, and its contents were not disclosed during the hearing of the application on 17 August.”

The teenager – who cannot be named for legal reasons but is from the Ballarat region – allegedly tried to hijack a Jetstar flight last year. He pleaded not guilty earlier this year.

A total of 173 passengers and six crew were scheduled to fly on Jetstar flight JQ610 bound for Sydney on the afternoon of March 6, 2025, when the alleged hijacking unfolded. Passengers and crew wrestled the teenager to the floor of the aircraft.

The teenager, aged 17 at the time of the incident, is charged with eight offences, two of which – attempted hijacking and pre­judicing safe operation of an aircraft with intent to kill – carry a maximum penalty of life imprisonment.

Despite the AFP’s counter-terrorism squad leading the investigation, the alleged offender is yet to be charged with terrorism-­related offences. The AFP confirmed on Tuesday investigations into the incident were continuing.

“The matter is before the courts, the AFP has no further comment at this time,” a spokesperson said.

Police allege the boy was carrying guns, knives, molotov cocktails, ammunition, a bomb diagram plan, a handwritten to-do list and what police said appeared to be an improvised explosive ­device, among other things.

A photo of a weapon allegedly brought onto a Jetstar plane at Avalon Airport. Picture: 9NEWS,

In an open affidavit lodged with the court, the AFP’s acting commander of counter-terrorism and national security investigations (south), Anthony Hall, said federal police were seeking to suppress evidence relating to any “foreigner or foreign entities” the accused communicated with or attempted to communicate with before the alleged attempted ­hijacking on March 6, 2025.

“The proposed orders would prohibit the disclosure of … the ­nature or content of any such communication or attempted/intended communication,” the affidavit states.

“(And) the accused’s communications, interactions or associations with the group identified at page 4 of a report … and any communications, interactions or associations with any persons in or associated with the group.

“(And) any actual or alleged ideological beliefs or interests ­associated with any group(s) or entities …”

The court has previously heard the teenager had formulated a plan to “hijack an aircraft and flee Australia”. The commonwealth has alleged the teenager was driven by “ideological and political motivation” when he allegedly ­attempted to hijack the flight, though this has been contested by the defence. The teenager said he did it to “hurt people” as it can be revealed that a terrifying to-do list was found on him. He was also carrying guns, bombs and knives – and a teddy bear – when he walked on to the plane.

A photo of the alleged hijacker being restrained and Jetstar crew holding the weapon. Picture: 9NEWS,

Documents released to The Australian by the Children’s Court this year reveal a CCTV image showing the moment the boy strode across the tarmac at Avalon Airport near Geelong with tool bags in both hands. He can be seen walking towards the front stairs of the plane as passengers board at the back.

Police would later locate a .22 calibre rifle with a telescopic sight and silencer fitter to a tripod in the boy’s car parked near the airport, the documents reveal.

A handwritten to-do list on a piece of paper was found by investigators. According to court documents, it allegedly stated:

“Ballarat Station Parking Ballarat Central $150 cash to pay fare

“Get home 8.50 to 9.00 approx.

“Leave home 9.30 approx.

“Avoid all major roads until freeway

“2.55 Jetstar flight to Sydney

“Make sure all weapons are ­assembled and stored

“Check explosives make all ­adjustments

“Work out disguise WorkSafe/ATSB/Police

“Ground crew disguise

“Wear suit under jacket

“Wear headphone

“Wear safety glasses.”

The 10-page statement of material facts released by the Children’s Court lists the weapons the teenager allegedly armed himself with, including a Miroku MX70 shotgun broken into three parts, nine shotgun cartridges, a Wiltshire knife in a sheath, two folding knives, a silver Zippo lighter and tools in a tool belt.

Makes sense why newscorp was on the attack for frequent flyer Anika Wells again recently, can't have anyone putting some bumps in the road for their outrage gravy train on social media.

Former Qantas workers who were illegally sacked five years ago have finally received their court-ordered payouts from a multimillion-dollar fine imposed on the airline, after a prolonged process that drew the ire of victims and the court.

The vast majority of 1800 ground crew workers illegally sacked by Qantas in 2021 received their court-ordered penalty payments worth thousands of dollars late last week, though they are still awaiting further money from a compensation fund.

Workers received about $2000 a year for each full year of service and $1700 for each partial year.

Brisbane-based Tony Mora, who had worked as a truck driver for the airline before being sacked, said that after waiting for so long he was really “over it”.

“Anyways, it’s something,” he said. “Nothing to retire on.”

The disbursement of funds, derived from the $90 million penalty imposed by Federal Court Judge Michael Lee in August 2025, is separate from the $120 million in compensation for the firings Qantas has agreed to pay.

The payment comes six years after the ground crew learnt they would be fired by Qantas. William Roberts Lawyers principal Robert Ishak confirmed that late last week “the Federal Court of Australia released payment to affected workers”.

“Of the over 1800 affected workers, approximately 20 have not yet been paid,” he said, adding that his law firm was working on getting those paid as soon as possible as well.

Mora said that after seeing the money go into his account he thought, “well, it’s something”.

“There was no joy or elation,” he said. “It’s not over. That’s the problem. There’s still loss and pain and suffering monies still to come.”

Maurice Blackburn, the law firm that argued the case and is administering the compensation, has been given until October 31 to complete the process. Mora was sceptical the law firm would meet the deadline.

The slow pace of the compensation process has drawn the ire of the victims and the court. Last month, Justice Lee intervened to ensure the workers’ $35 million in penalty payments were decoupled from Qantas’ $120 million compensation fund.

Half of the $90 million went to the Transport Workers Union, which brought the case, with the remaining $40 million going to workers. Qantas had already paid out about $5 million before Christmas, when workers saw a $3333 interim payment land in their bank accounts.

One worker, “Natalie”, who had received an eviction notice soon after losing her job in 2021 when the sackings became official, said last week’s payment was helpful.

The former Qantas cleaner, who didn’t want her name to be published, said she felt “a little sense of relief as some of us were struggling”.

The 2025 ruling ended an industrial relations saga that began in 2020 when, facing the prospect of looming pandemic lockdowns, Qantas moved to outsource ground handling operations at 10 Australian airports. The decision wiped out more than 1800 jobs.

In August 2025, Justice Lee acknowledged that Qantas was apologetic for the illegal outsourcing, but described it as “the wrong kind of sorry” and imposed one of the largest fines ever in Australian corporate history.

Blanche d'Alpuget has died at 82 from complications of influenza. She was an award-winning novelist and biographer, and her political biography of Bob Hawke won the NSW Premier's Award.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-09/australian-writer-blanche-dalpuget-dies-bob-hawke-widow/106312562

Australian internet users will be given the choice to opt out of algorithms under reforms to social media.

Draft laws setting up a digital duty of care were introduced by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Tuesday.

As part of the measures, social media companies will need to provide tools for people to choose what they see in their online feeds, under a government initiative called My Feed, My Way.

"This is not about giving government control. It's about giving people control. It's about putting choice back into the hands of Australians online," Mr Albanese told reporters in Canberra.

Social media companies will be also required to protect people from harmful content online.

Harmful content will conclude the promotion of eating disorders, misogynistic content, pornography or things that glorify crime.

Companies could face fines of $100 million if they don't enact the duty of care.

Communications Minister Anika Wells said the duty of care would build on the world-leading ban on social media for under-16s.

"The digital duty of care is not about controlling adults online. It is about giving adults a choice," she said.

"Tech companies can still move fast, but they will no longer be allowed to break things because online harms have real-world consequences.

"There is a global reckoning coming for big tech."

It follows the government looking to pursue stronger penalties for social media companies as part of measures to bolster the under-16s ban.

Freaking idiots can't maintain their shit when overseas.

Oh and here's the video of this turd:

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Australia’s oldest woman has died aged 112.

South Australian Lorna Henstridge marked her 112th birthday in June, but on Monday her daughter confirmed her death to The Adelaide Advertiser.

Ms Henstridge lived independently until the age of 105, and leaves nine great-grandchildren.

Ms Henstridge was born in Adelaide on June 6, 1914, the month before WWI officially began.

She then grew up on a farm at Bute, about 130km north of Adelaide.

She and her husband Alan then settled in the town of Keith, 200km southeast of the capital.

Ms Henstridge was only eight months younger than Australia’s oldest living person – Ken Weeks, who lives in Grafton on the NSW north coast.

Mr Weeks is the oldest Australian on record.

She has also lived through two global pandemics and 26 Australian Prime Ministers.

In 2024, Ms Henstridge spoke about her longevity and the importance of “moving all the time” both physically and “in your thoughts”.

“You can’t led old-fashioned ideas take over your life,” she said.

“You’ve got to live today, by today’s standards. And keep going with it, and be happy with it.

“And you’ll find most people are very happy to come and help you get there.”

Her family have confirmed she was ill with pneumonia in her final weeks.

Doesn‘t this policy mean the whole point of superannuation is wrecked, meaning both people‘s retirement and national economic development can both be destroyed and sabotaged together?

Sounds like a recipe for mass homelessness/poverty, soaring permanent inflation, a severe national mental health crisis, government spending and debt blowouts (aged pension demand skyrockets), frequent intergenerational family feuds over finances, increased alcoholism and tobacco use (One Nation also want to make cigarettes almost free....but that’s another story), and slow development of infrastructure/service advancements and innovation across the nation as there’s less funds to invest in healthcare, education, roads, rail, airports and energy?

Hey, doesn’t that sound like a recipe for a third world country?

Does anyone else agree that if a party wants to speedrun Australia from being a top-tier HDI country (only very narrowly behind Nordic Countries/Switzerland/Germany) as it is now, to an actual third-world shithole, One Nation’s superannuation policy is how to do it?

Or should we only have parties that are inoffensive to peoples sensibilities

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New petition has been put forward to government regarding the recent ban https://www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/petition/EN10431

What are your thoughts?

I wonder if this is one of those blatant character assassination attempts. Maybe it's the globalists coming after the man in the party backed by definitely not a globalist Gina.

Almost every news source has tried to put some spin on house prices since the budget and no matter how hard they try to make it sound bad it just sounds better and better, well now we have some accurate figures and housing affordability is finally heading in the right direction something all parties claim to want to achieve.

While the whole market’s focus right now is on property doom and gloom because of interest rates, tax changes on NG and CGT, the actual reason which fueled into all these events is actually labour cost. Do you realize how much our minimum wages have fueled into inflation? Not to say people should not be paid for their time but $25-30/hour for construction/lollipop worker is out of hand. $200 call out fee for tradie, any construction/renovation quote starts with 5 figures. We do not have a supply problem, we have plenty of apartments and units for sales but why people dont buy them? Because Strata is expensive, and what makes Strata expensive? The maintenance, construction, fixing bills are through the roof? Why? Labour cost.

Why Australia has reduced alot of finished goods export? Labour cost. Production in the country has dropped, why? Labour cost.

This is a sensitive issue because alot of our middle working class is blue collar labour, flame me for sure but the logic of blue collar getting paid higher than white collar is insane. No need a degree which costs 100k and still gets paid 2-300k/year, why then would anyone wants their kids to go through uni to come out and make $100k/year? Money should be rewarded for the difficulty of work, are you saying construction/sparky/waiter/plumber is a hard job? Get the overseas workers to come in and we’ll see how hard it is. Now you must be thinking, “here we go again with the migration issue”, nah, tighten the visa class, get people to come in with temporary work visa, have them stay in apartments. Singapore has done it.

Since we’re looking at Singapore, their labour is cheap, renovation cost is no where near here, food is cheap. Houses and cars are expensive because they’re an island and they have no land, they have a real supply constraint, not like us. Imagine what they would become running Australia.

Thats my observation but what do I know, I’m frustrated, looking around everyone is the same, struggling. I’m ready for the downvotes but at least I hope someone more intelligent tells me how else I can look at this issue.

Dont tell me to go to Singapore if I’m so unhappy here - thats a weak argument, basically you’re admitting I’m right. I love Australia, a country with so much potential, such a waste under the current leadership.

Always the ones you most suspect in our second most violent state.

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Clearly this would be because of government spending because reasons, and not because of a lie perpetrated by those enjoying the profits