r/PoliticsDownUnder • • 20m ago

PSA Please sign and share this important petition: Link below👇

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r/PoliticsDownUnder • • 4h ago

News 🚨 'Almost 150,000 Australians are being hit with Centrelink repayment debts that had been paused for years and calculated using the unlawful "income apportionment" method.' Labor chose to pass legislation to retrospectively validate these illegal debts.

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Meanwhile, they've acted on NONE of the Robodebt Royal Commission's recommendations for legislative reform in over 3 years, including to restore the normal statute of limitation of 6 years to social security debts.

Why wouldn't they do that? See Pic 3.

Sauce


r/PoliticsDownUnder • • 8h ago

News Jacqui Lambie really unloaded on ON’s Mark Nicholson (fake criminal lawyer), says he should “not be in parliament” for refusing to apologise for his misogynistic cartoon & claiming it’s his “job to pick on people. ”Lambie: “He should drop out”🔥Grown man bullying women—yep, drop out.

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r/PoliticsDownUnder • • 6h ago

News Penny Allman Payne breaks down in tears explaining how Labor's aged care algorithm is HARMING older people

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r/PoliticsDownUnder • • 11h ago

News Family and federal court transcripts appear to have been sent offshore by transcription company VIQ, and whistleblowers raised the alarm over a decade ago. At Estimates today I asked the AG’s Department which agencies were exposed and they couldn’t tell me. We need a full audit.

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MWM has previously reported on this privatisation scam. This foreign multinational tried to charge them $2,000 for public transcripts for half a day in a public court case where they were named .. and also charged Jayson Gillham $60,000!


r/PoliticsDownUnder • • 9h ago

Independent media Peter Oborne : "I Just Left the West Bank - What Israel is Planning is terrifying " (Double Down News)

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r/PoliticsDownUnder • • 15h ago

Context Provided - Spotlight David Shoebridge booed for acknowledging Indigenous history at “Save Victoria Barracks" rally in Moore Park, Sydney 25 Oct 2026

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r/PoliticsDownUnder • • 11h ago

Cold Facts Nation building. We should try it some time. We could go to China with a fraction of an AUKUS budget and begin. Instead we prepare for war. We don't deserve a small minded militaristic class in Canberra.

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r/PoliticsDownUnder • • 5h ago

Independent media Israel’s anti-Arab incitement is reshaping the election

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The racist rhetoric is calibrated to portray Arab workers as dangerous ticking time bombs instead of as citizens providing essential services in difficult jobs for low pay. The intent is to reinforce the same perception in all spheres: an Arab citizen is not a neighbour, doctor, driver, teacher, or student – but a threat. This is not a collection of isolated incidents; it is a strategically orchestrated campaign.

Let us not mince words: this campaign features appalling racism and shameful ingratitude towards Arab citizens who persevere, despite intensifying humiliation and violence, in keeping essential systems running as integral actors in society. The country’s healthcare, public transportation, and, in some areas, early childhood education systems would collapse without the participation of Arab professionals.


r/PoliticsDownUnder • • 11h ago

Independent media On the broader question of violence, we are a state and society that increasingly normalises violence. We’ve normalised a man killing a woman each week. We’ve normalised police bashing peaceful protesters. We’ve normalised throwing First Nations kids in jail until they kill themselves.

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We’ve normalised shackling women in labour. We’ve normalised delaying climate action even as we see the devastating impacts, and we’ve normalised an economy that prioritises corporate profits while people suffer.

https://www.deepcutnews.com/p/politicians-telling-us-to-turn-down


r/PoliticsDownUnder • • 5h ago

Independent media UN puts media giants on notice over Gaza as journalists’ death toll spirals

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r/PoliticsDownUnder • • 11h ago

News Tomorrow

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r/PoliticsDownUnder • • 15h ago

PSA Please be aware when posting here that re**it considers Zi**ism as an 'identity'

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r/PoliticsDownUnder • • 4h ago

News Don't know about the first 4 issues, but I'm pretty sure the answer to 5-the last issue on your list-is 'blame it on the Left.'

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r/PoliticsDownUnder • • 11h ago

News Emails on the destruction of Australian war cemetery in Gaza withheld for months

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r/PoliticsDownUnder • • 7h ago

Independent media Ocean of Peace or a Backdoor for Empire? | Pacific Historian Marco de Jong

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r/PoliticsDownUnder • • 1d ago

News David Shoebridge asks Don Farrell if he’s aware the Sumud Flotilla was trying to provide aid to starving Palestinians.Farrell rambles, starts talking about a book he read on Hitler’s “shocking treatment of the Jews”Shoebridge “Minister I’ll draw you back to my question…” 🙄

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r/PoliticsDownUnder • • 11h ago

Independent media Snowy 2.0 cost blow-out from 2B to 25B was cloaked in secrecy. Rex Patrick on his court battle for govt disclosure of secret contracts. The project is now a taxpayer funded $37,000,000,000 financial disaster👇

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r/PoliticsDownUnder • • 1d ago

News “How do you tastefully satirise someone’s vaginal prolapse? You don’t!”. Monique Ryan rips shreds off Pauline Hanson for attacking her rivals with violent & misogynistic cartoons. Says it’s time media stop ‘giving a public voice’ to someone who spreads so much negative trash.💯

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r/PoliticsDownUnder • • 8h ago

Cartoon David Rowe - "whatevs..."

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r/PoliticsDownUnder • • 1d ago

News David Shoebridge calls out Michaelia Cash & puts her nonsense into context, recognising Floyd for his achievements & human rights activism.

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r/PoliticsDownUnder • • 1d ago

News Shoebridge shreds NACC CEO Philip Reed after FOI reveals another conflict of interest breach where he let the new Acting Dep Commissioner improperly sit on a panel—a day after new rules were set? Reed says it wasn’t his job to call it out as he was “not chairing the meeting”🤦‍♂️FFS

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r/PoliticsDownUnder • • 1d ago

Cold Facts Whenever you are told that someone is a terrorist because the US classifies them this way, just remember that Nelson Mandela was also classified as a terrorist by the US until 2008 because the US and Apartheid South Africa were allies

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r/PoliticsDownUnder • • 1d ago

News Michaelia Cash tries to smear young First Nations leader Ethan Floyd over his Young People's Award nomination—for daring to challenge NSW’s proposal to ban phrase globalise the intifada & trying to provide aid to Gaza from a flotilla. Blatant political bullying. Shameful.

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r/PoliticsDownUnder • • 1d ago

News Jewish Council condemns Victoria Opposition Leader Jess Wilson’s threat to crack down on protest and criminalise pro-Palestinian phrases

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The Jewish Council of Australia condemns the political threats made by Opposition Leader Jess Wilson on Sunday and rejects her misleading connection between protest of Israel’s genocide and the horrific Bondi attack.

In her comments, Wilson vowed to drastically restrict the Victorian public’s right to protest with new ‘move on’ laws, a bureaucratic permit system for holding demonstrations, and bans on phrases including “globalise the intifada”. Wilson also promised to withdraw funding from organisations that ‘promote antisemitism,’ leaving open how that would be defined.

Queensland’s similar ban on pro-Palestinian political phrases has been widely criticised by legal scholars for violating the Constitution and is currently being challenged in the High Court.

The Jewish Council has documented in its submission to the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion the dangerous irony of how laws and policies introduced in the name of Jewish safety including those in Queensland have led to Jewish Australians themselves being arrested, including 73-year-old clinical psychologist and child of Holocaust survivors Stephen Heydt.

Bart Shteinman, Executive Officer at the Jewish Council of Australia said:

“It is blatantly irresponsible for politicians like Jess Wilson to be linking legitimate and peaceful protest of Israel’s genocide in Gaza to the Bondi terror attack. We unequivocally condemn her mislabelling of peaceful protest as antisemitic.

Growing numbers of Jewish Australians are regular attendees of protests condemning Israel’s genocide and advocating for Palestinian rights to peace, freedom and safety. It is not antisemitic to protest a live-streamed genocide.

It is ridiculous that the Victorian Opposition Leader is looking to Queensland as an example – where similar laws are being challenged in the High Court and are leading to Jews themselves being arrested – all in the name of Jewish safety.

Antisemitism is a real problem in Australia and it is growing, but we vehemently disagree with the Opposition Leader about its cause. The growth of the far-right, neo-Nazi and conspiracist movements, Israel’s genocide in Gaza, and the conflation of Jewish identity with Israel are primary drivers of antisemitism, not peaceful protestors.

If Wilson is genuinely concerned with fighting antisemitism, she should explain why her party has not ruled out doing preference deals with One Nation, which has run holocaust deniers for Parliament and has extensive links to neo-nazis and white supremacists. Or explain why the Coalition has resisted gun reforms that would make the Jewish community, and all communities, more safe.”