Happy Australia Day. On New Years Day 1901 six States federated to create new nation of #Australia . Huge celebration held in Sydney to swear in Edmund Barton as first PM. For no valid reason we falsely celebrate #Australia Day on 26 Jan when British invaders created a brutal jail.

Iraq cabinet papers debacle is either ‘cover up’ or high farce theaustralian.com.au/commentary/ira…. Excellent piece - although it strained to blame Albanese but succeeded.

‘Amazing’: Queensland mum uses electric car to ‘save’ son’s life with dialysis during power outage. Happy New Year - the sooner we replace fossil fueled energy the better off we all will be. theguardian.com/environment/20…

I found this sermon profoundly challenging:

youtu.be/Md_hw_A-oIs?si…

It’s reasonable to assume the Telegraph is a shitrag and that Anders Blot is a pig-ignorant fuckwit. The payout was made by the Morrison government.

Wow look at this for blind hatred of inconvenient facts

As former English Captain Michael Vaughn said, cricketers wore Black Lives Matter symbols and the ICC had no issue with it as it shouldn’t have had. But they seem to have a problem with All Lives Matter! You work it out. Outstanding from Usman Khawaja, a man of principle!

While we celebrate the significance of the birth of a Jewish Baby in a cave near the village of Bethlehem in the Roman Province of Palestinium, we cannot avoid today’s refugees with nowhere to lay their heads nor the slaughter of innocents.

Albanese needs to find his mojo thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topic/… via The Saturday Paper

The ICC. May have moved to Dubai but its disgraceful sanctioning of Usman Khawaja for daring to proclaim “ all lives matter” smacks of the haughty out of touch 19 th century views of the Long Room at Lords.

🚨Ex-LNP president oversaw transfer of $500,000 in Morrison govt grant money to brother’s offset account, court hears.
🤬And some media are worrying about a dog on an aeroplane‼️
No surprise the Coalition resisted a Federal ICAC‼️ theguardian.com/australia-news…

34 seconds that say more about Linda Reynolds than I can. I am going to post this every day until Higgins wins the case. #auspol #NACC twitter.com/i/status/13945…

Gina Rinehart uses her wealth to distort policy debate in Australia. She buys political influence as needs be. We need our elected representatives (MHRs, senators, MLAs, MLCs) to counter that influence by backing increases in MRRT/PRRT (minerals/petro tax) to fund infrastructure.

“Albanese’s foreign policy speech: “Boring” sounds just right” lowyinstitute.org/the-interprete…
A sane counterpoint to the biased hysteria coming from the usual suspects.

Louise Milligan Patricia Karvelas Louise, ignore them: he’s just another turd in the sewer

A Palestinian girl kisses her little brother after they survive an airstrike. 💔

Leaders face a summer of discontent thenewdaily.com.au/news/politics/…

Am old enough to remember when a Prime Minister could sample a very expensive drink and Murdoch goons thought it was fine

It’s interesting how many trolls react to the promo headline on Twitter and are too illiterate to actually read the column.

Albanese takes front foot on Israel–Hamas war thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topic/… via The Saturday Paper