Without any evidence, Coalition is arguing 3,000 visitor visas for Palestinians were ‘rushed’. 3,000 visitor visas over 9 months with a refusal rate of over 70% is not rushed. Most high risk visitor visas can be processed in a few weeks including an ASIO referral.

🚨The National Anti-Corruption Commission's decision not to investigate Robodebt – which took it almost a year – is just two pages long. Comes as ex-judge Anthony Whealy says NACC has "failed to fulfill primary statutory duty"...@LizMinter_ & Michelle Fahy theklaxon.com.au/a7bd

🚨NACC boss Brereton was present for the vast majority of key meeting on Robodebt referrals despite claiming to be “recused”. Former judge Stephen Charles KC says Brereton’s delegation to subordinate “pointless”... Brilliant: Michelle Fahy & @LizMinter_ theklaxon.com.au/qkkz

Here's a great argument for sitting on your hands quietly in the corner & never doing anything ever Considering LGBTQ+ groups campaigned strongly for this, the govt NOT doing it (their policy platform) has... arguably opened a divisive situation itself theguardian.com/australia-news…

This isn't the postal survey...if you are worried about "divisive debates" it seems you're suggesting it's not an argument worth having. theguardian.com/australia-news…

Speaking as the guy who literally wrote the book on populist style, this is a deeply odd, stupid and plain wrong piece of 'analysis'. You expect this horseshoe theory rubbish from the News Corp stable, but not from the ABC abc.net.au/news/2024-08-2…

Peter Dutton weighs in on the census "woke agenda". Re "at odds with the vast majority of Australians" - a reminder that the marriage equality postal survey got up 61.6% yes vs 38.4% no. That was giving LGBTIQ people a right, not just counting that they exist in the census.

I seem to remember some well-known saying about walking and chewing gum, perhaps even doing both at the same time. Can't remember how the saying goes though because my priority is focusing on something else at the moment.

Not wanting to make any progressive change, or even just do the right thing because of a culture war fear is just letting the culture warriors rule by proxy. What’s the point of having power if the number one concern is not allowing the coalition to weaponise it?

Who the hell thought it was a good idea? No one argued "f*ck the bigots, this is needed"? No one thought there would be outrage? No one thought it would make them look weak?

A more confident government would have let the process run, accepted a new question and pointed out how weird it was that Dutton opposed it. But this certainly isn't a confident government, writes Bernard Keane. crikey.com.au/2024/08/30/cen…

Big change in language over just a few days. Now PM Anthony Albanese says it's "common sense" to include a question on sexual orientation in the 2026 census. From today 👇 #auspol24

New FOI documents reveal Gina Rinehart wrote to the National Gallery a month before the furore erupted about a portrait of her, saying a “concerned friend” had brought it to her attention theguardian.com/business/artic…

Compromising with climate-change deniers, because sure, why not. It's not like there is any urgency needed.

The federal takeover to fix the disorganisation is going well, then smh.com.au/politics/nsw/n…

these guys see made-up “psyops” everywhere until a mysterious foreigner offers them fantastic amounts of money for practically nothing then they turn into Mr Magoo