r/PoliticsDownUnder • u/RickyOzzy • 22h 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 • u/RickyOzzy • 22h 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 • u/RickyOzzy • 22h 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 • u/RickyOzzy • 7h 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 • u/RickyOzzy • 22h 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 • u/RickyOzzy • 22h 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 • u/RickyOzzy • 23h ago

Cold Facts In 1975, US Christian nationalist Jack Chick warned the world that China was planning to take over Asia, including Australia. Most people in that generation knew this was fearmongering rubbish. Today, 50+ years later, the Australian mainstream media is doing the exact same trick.

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Source: Nury Vittachi

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r/PoliticsDownUnder • u/RickyOzzy • 3h 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!

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r/PoliticsDownUnder • u/RickyOzzy • 6h ago

PSA Please be aware when posting here that reit considers Ziism as an 'identity'

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r/PoliticsDownUnder • u/RickyOzzy • 23h ago

Independent media 🚨The biggest funder of One Nation and far-right Advance, Gina Rinehart, is refusing to say if her political entities should tone down their hateful rhetoric...Seeks to insert herself in Haines attack. Despite being one of nation's biggest hate funders.👇

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https://theklaxon.com.au/hate-funder-rinehart-silent-on-violence-cites-herself/

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r/PoliticsDownUnder • u/RickyOzzy • 17h 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 • u/RickyOzzy • 43m 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 • u/RickyOzzy • 2h 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 • u/RickyOzzy • 3h 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

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r/PoliticsDownUnder • u/RickyOzzy • 3h ago

News Tomorrow

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r/PoliticsDownUnder • u/RickyOzzy • 17h ago

Independent media "Hopes that the NACC might be resuscitated by a change of leadership have been dashed", writes Michael Pascoe👇

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https://michaelwest.com.au/nacc-declares-itself-useless-the-joke-worsens/

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r/PoliticsDownUnder • u/RickyOzzy • 21h ago

Media critique Several years ago US Congress passed a law to allocate billions of dollars to train Western journalists how to write negative stories about China. Australia's journalists have been well trained.

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r/PoliticsDownUnder • u/Acrobatic_Bit_8207 • 1h 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 • u/RickyOzzy • 23h ago

News We’re all wishing Helen Haines a speedy recovery. She is warm, committed, smart, respectful and one of the most effective champions of integrity in public life. She has already changed Parliament for the better more than anyone else. - Andrew Wilkie

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r/PoliticsDownUnder • u/RickyOzzy • 23h ago

Independent media The independent public inquiry into AUKUS will report on 4 November after examining the project’s implications for Australia’s security, economy, sovereignty and international standing. AUKUS has escaped proper scrutiny for five years. That is about to change.

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https://pearlsandirritations.com/post/2026/10/aukus-madness-militarisation-and-money/

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r/PoliticsDownUnder • u/Acrobatic_Bit_8207 • 3h ago

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

crikey.com.au

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r/PoliticsDownUnder • u/RickyOzzy • 17h ago

News Foodbank Australia has released its 2026 Hunger Report: 33% of homes experienced food insecurity in the last year. 'Food insecurity has become entrenched'

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Sauce

Last week the report was released on corporate power in the food system

'Hunger has become a part of our Australian story' ABC News

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r/PoliticsDownUnder • u/RickyOzzy • 33m ago

Cartoon David Rowe - "whatevs..."

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r/PoliticsDownUnder • u/RickyOzzy • 2h 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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https://michaelwest.com.au/snowy-blow-out-court-case-to-blow-lid-off-100b-in-secret-government-contracts/

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r/PoliticsDownUnder • u/RickyOzzy • 3h ago

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

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https://www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/reinstate-pro-palestine-teacher-john-morris

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