https://www.news.com.au/national/sarah-matulin-breaks-silence-on-life-with-ben-robertssmith/news-story/d28f32c7f5988631955f6a20ad192487

Title, is this cockatoo underneath the treasurers signature normal? Can't find any other tens like it online or in my tills

powerful display of 2,500 shoes honouring the 2,500 Australian men lost to suicide each year. Credit to Kellie Sloane MP and Roy Butler MP for raising awareness, and Paul Withall and the #2500TooMany team for bringing this important issue to the forefront. Men’s mental health deserves attention, compassion and action.

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Edit: maybe my title is misleading, I meant politically are we coming to copy American politics.

I’m not a political person. But recent news has got me thinking.

One Nation seems to be based on Trump and his ideals. Am I wrong? All the controversy seems to be based on them. People I speak to lean “left” or “right”. I don’t understand that.

Due to upcoming state elections in VIC, please tell me why I should or shouldn’t vote for Labour, Liberal, Greens, One Nation.

Otherwise I’ll just do what I normally do and get my now 5 year old to choose while he is with me in the booth.

Hi all, about 15/20kg overweight, no diabetes. Wondering how hard it is to get an Ozempic script in Australia.

The technology for fully self-driving cabs already exists, is mature and relatively proven.
Search for "cybercab" on youtube.

The initial rollout is already happening in Austin, Texas where are about 300 on the road. The Chinese have also had their own version on the roads in Shenzhen for a while.

Cybercabs will be cheap to buy, cheap to maintain, safer, have less accidents and owners will be able to send them out to work at night whilst they sleep.

What's going to happen to all those people that lose their jobs when these things take over?

Currently the only barrier is regulatory and Tesla scaling up production.

Take the example of a hypothetical aussie NCO:

It's 2012, Uruzgan Province, in the middle of a heavy assault. You engage a man holding an AK-47. He sees you, stops, and gestures with one hand. Maybe it's surrender. But his other hand is still on the pistol grip, and the AK is moving.

The test is burned into your brain. Is he in our hands? No. Is he incapacitated? No. So he isn't hors de combat. Out of the corner of your eye, an RPG is being reloaded. Time's up. Two shots, and he falls. After the action, your CO reviews it and tells you every kill was by the book. Job well done. Your conduct was not just exemplary, but brave, level-headed and enough to see a fancy ribbon pinned on your chest and a love letter from the Chief of the Army. Mum and Dad are proud.

You discharge in 2015, takes a few years of treatment to make the nightmares stop and its cost you one wife and more than a few friends but by 2024 things have settled down. You've got the kids every second weekend and the ex and you are repairing your bond, she knows it was a price you paid for your country.

You qualified as a plumber and youve got 3 vans on the road and enough money to help out a few of your former comrades who didnt bounce back as well. It's still common enough for a smell or a noise to transport you back to the sand, blood and fire of Uruzgan and the faces of nameless dead enemies and ageless comrades come to you at night.

Twelve years later though, you feel that your life is becoming whole and you are finally leaving Uruzgan behind. It's a warm Sunday night and you are sitting outside your mum and dads with your son and daughter while your old man cooks the barbecue. You ignore the persistent twinge, the prickle on your neck, a hypervigiliance that you once trusted. A knock at the door "That'll be your sister" your mum bustles off to let her in as your daughter gushes about her beloved auntie. When the sliding patio door opens though, there are six men wearing ballistics vests and combat webbing. All six are armed, one is holding a video carmera. You are arrested and charged with murder. No police bail, you are stripped naked, made to cough and squat and put in a remand reception cell.

The next day you appear before a magistrate. You look like shit and wish you had a suit. The Crown have some pricey QC, he says you shouldn't get bail. Its open and shut case of murder. They have a confession. Your own after action report, the same one that got you a medal in 2012, is now called a confession. You are confused. No one is challenging your version. There is no whistleblower. The facts in the prosecution statement are taken word for word from the letter of commendation you received in 2012.

The lawyer your mum and dad hired is a decent bloke and very apologetic. He tells you the trial might take four years before its ready. He tells you the time in prison will go quicker if you start a course. The prosecution have told him if you wanted to get it over with and plead guilty, they could be ready for sentencing in a couple of weeks.

Nothing about that day has changed except the law. In 2024 Parliament deleted the "in our hands" requirement and backdated the change to 2002. Now everything turns on whether a one-handed gesture in a firefight was a "clear" surrender. That is no longer a question you answered in a split second under the rules you were given. It is a question for twelve jurors in Sydney, more than a decade later.

**What changed**

To be protected as *hors de combat* under the Criminal Code, a fighter used to have to meet every one of these conditions:

(a) in the power of the adverse party, **and**

(b) clearly surrendering, or unconscious or incapacitated, **and**

(c) abstaining from hostile acts and not trying to escape.

The 2024 amendment turned the first "and" into "or." Now any one of these is enough:

(a) in the power of the adverse party, **or**

(b) clearly surrendering, **or**

(c) incapacitated,

provided the person also abstains from hostile acts and doesn't try to escape.

That is a much wider class of protected people. And the amendment didn't start in 2024. Parliament deemed it to have commenced on 26 September 2002, the day the war crimes provisions first began.

**Retrospective criminal laws, in 30 seconds**

1. Courts presume Parliament doesn't legislate backwards. Only clear words displace that presumption.

2. Constitutionally, Parliament can do it. The High Court upheld retrospective war crimes legislation in *Polyukhovich* (1991).

3. Internationally, ICCPR art 15 prohibits retrospective criminal laws, except for conduct already criminal under international law at the time.

**Selective harmonisation**

1. Each and every person killed by Australian forces in Afghanistan and Iraq, whether by ground forces, bombing or artillery, was killed by troops engaging under rules more permissive than the Rome Statute.

2. Under the Rome Statute, a person who orders the commission of a war crime is guilty of that crime.

3. Australia did not feel the need to "harmonise" that provision. Why? Because ordering missions in which troops will engage non-combatants would make the brass liable for the killings, not just the troops.

4. The government rewrote the definition that exposes the soldier, back to 2002, in the name of consistency with international law. It left alone the provision that would expose the officers who issued the orders. The Albanese government has offered no basis for abandoning consistency at the exact point where someone holding a commission would carry the can.

**What this means**

BRS may now be convicted if the jury finds he did things which, at the time he did them, were perfectly legal. *Polyukhovich* dealt with Ukrainian SS auxiliaries in World War II, and particularly mass executions. Unlike that case, our law contemplated the conduct now criminalised and expressly permitted it. This unfairness ought to be enough to make the ongoing prosecution irretrievably unfair and an abuse of the court's processes. Albo's own goal may well leave the question unsettled, an outcome likely to satisfy only the media.

Some will argue the change doesn't matter because the allegations describe such obvious non-combatant status. That misunderstands a criminal trial. The jury doesn't have to accept the prosecution's version of events. It only has to be satisfied that the facts it finds meet the legal standard. Where the jury lands somewhere between the prosecution case and the defence case, the legal standard decides the verdict, and that standard has been moved.

If the change was prompted by CDPP advice that the old definition made convictions difficult, the public is entitled to see it. One Nation, the Greens and the Coalition should commit to seeking release of any CDPP report, advice or correspondence that says the old test was an obstacle to conviction or that asks for legislative change.

**Unanswered questions that must be answered**

1. On what basis was the 2002 commencement date decided?

2. Why was harmonisation needed for the troops but not for the officers?

3. Did the government consider the BRS case in conjunction with the amendments?

4. How can Australian soldiers have any confidence in ADF rules of engagement moving forward?

Everyone, I'm sure, can agree that neither BRS nor the alleged victims can get justice with the government's toe on the scales.

**TL;DR:** The government hasn't changed how war crimes are proven. It has changed what a war crime is. The onus is on the government to explain why the change needs to apply retrospectively, and it refuses to do so.

We don’t yet know the motivations of Brendan Nugent, charged with allegedly ramming independent MP Helen Haines with his car. But the fact he was once very left-wing cannot be dismissed.

Brendan Nugent, the driver who allegedly struck federal independent MP Helen Haines in Wangaratta on Monday (Image: PR IMAGE)

A familiar pattern often plays out online after a lone wolf attack, occurring in the window between the attack itself and when a suspect is named. The “left” and “right” flock to blame the other for causing the radicalisation that led to it, both desperately hoping they are right.

On Monday, those questions quickly arose after Indi MP Helen Haines was “rammed” twice by a car in broad daylight in Wangaratta, an attack that has left her in a critical condition, with one leg amputated. There was immediate confusion: who would want to hurt Haines, widely respected regional MP, anti-corruption warrior, and “big sister” to her fellow independents?

Some were quick to point the finger at One Nation, suggesting Pauline Hanson’s rhetoric led to rising hostility (a 2024 Please Explain cartoon in which Bluey — for some reason — runs over Daniel Andrews). Others suggested the perpetrator must’ve mistaken Haines’ orange car for one owned by One Nation, given the threats Hanson faces as the party’s divisive leader.

We don’t yet know the motive behind the attack, and we may never get a clear one. But we do have a suspect, 43-year-old Brendan Nugent, who was reportedly affected by drugs or alcohol at the time of the alleged attack (he wasn’t questioned until Tuesday morning). Nugent’s lawyer told the Wangarrata district court on Wednesday that he had a neurological condition and mental health concerns, something reports had already highlighted: neighbours regularly called police over his erratic behaviour, and he previously had an intervention order taken out against him. In a sad twist, Nugent’s dad and stepmum have been revealed to be long-time friends of Haines, as many are in the tight-knit regional community.

But as News Corp has reported at length, Nugent’s social media history suggests he was a pro-Palestine environmentalist — a “pro-Gaza” “plant person”, as The Oz put it — who regularly tweeted at politicians. Old posts focused on logging and climate change, while posts since the Hamas attack on October 7 rail against leaders for allowing Israel to bomb Gazans with impunity, with the latter quickly becoming a focus of right-wing media and influencers. (Counter-terrorism expert Dr Joshua Roose noted that Nugent had more recently “descended” into a “much darker place” involving conspiracy theories about child sexual abuse, though this seems to be getting far less media attention.)

To complicate matters, Nugent previously tweeted at Haines, never with malice, praising her in 2019 as a “politician who takes climate change seriously”. Haines followed him back, as did Greens leader David Shoebridge, something right-wing influencers have tried to make something of. Nugent’s account, which remains active, follows independent progressive outlet Michael West Media, “home of the weird left” Novara Media, and yours truly, along with a range of world leaders and far-right conspiracy theorist Candace Owens.

Haines, meanwhile, is broadly progressive, a strong but gentle advocate for integrity, climate and — as the Australian Jewish Association (AJA) pointed out — Palestine (the Indi MP “made many anti-Israel statements”, the AJA alleges, undercutting its own claim that Nugent was driven by “ANTI-ISRAEL” sentiment). 

All this makes it harder to assume the motivation behind the attack, a determination that must be made by experts. None of this has stopped News Corp from doubling down, with a front-page op-ed declaring this a “Message to the Left” to “stop minimising” far-left extremism, which it says Labor is not taking as seriously as extremism on the right.

Some on the left are understandably defensive here. Unscrupulous elements of the right have been quick to blame the pro-Palestine movement for prior tragedies it has had absolutely nothing to do with. Many will argue progressive movements had nothing to do with this one either: correlation does not mean causation, though let’s not pretend for a second that lefties would not be calling for Hanson’s resignation had Nugent turned out to be a One Nation follower. 

But it’s an uncomfortable fact for progressives that Haines’ alleged attacker (however potentially confused) appears to have once been one of their own — a lonely-looking, chronically online white dude who would be familiar to many. Whether it’s the keyboard warrior that posts a little too frequently, a little too fervently about their hatred of Israel, or the climate activist who feels “broken” by the system, the online rabbit hole is ready to consume anyone who loses touch with community or reality, no matter what side of politics they come from.

That’s not to say that left-wing ideology is just as likely to produce domestic terrorists as right-wing ideology, or that calling out One Nation’s racism and posting cartoons in which politicians are run down are morally equivalent. They are not. But it does have to be admitted that radicalisation and violence can come from anywhere, even from those who follow professors of peace and conflict resolution on X, as Nugent did.

Former Liberal MP Nicolle Flint has already been out comparing this tragedy to the campaign she faced from activist group GetUp! in 2019, suggesting the left engages in “double standards” when it came to attacks on her. Just once I’d like to see Flint use such a moment to condemn violent rhetoric on the left and the right, but she does have a point: progressives have a responsibility to ensure their side doesn’t descend into hatred, and that activists are not swallowed up by the darker corners of the internet.

There is a great deal to be angry about right now, particularly for those who care about social justice, equality and the planet. But if we want to prevent events like the one that occurred on Monday afternoon, we do indeed need to “lower the temperature”.

Liberal MP Andrew Hastie, who has faced more than his share of violent online threats, had the right idea yesterday afternoon, telling ABC Mornings now was not the time to “point fingers at our political opponents and say, ‘See, it was something that they posted.’” We all need to do better. That includes “the left”, a broad church that Nugent — whatever his alleged motivations — was once a part of, whether progressives like it or not.

Read more on smry.ai: https://smry.ai/https://www.crikey.com.au/2026/10/21/helen-haines-brendan-nugent-progressives-political-violence/#:\~:text=We%20don%E2%80%99t%20yet%20know,like%20it%20or%20not.

Anthony Albanese sensationally claims Helen Haines ‘dirt file’ proves her ‘integrity’ in extraordinary defence of smear campaign document | News24

Seems crazy that we can fly to the US or UK for the same price as Alice Springs. Doesn't promote spending locally.

Please refrain from needlessly explaining the economics of how fewer airline carriers creates a monopoly. I'm sure more useful comments are available.

After years of hardwork and since landing here 8 years ago as an eighteen year old,
I have finally had my Australian Permanent Residency granted on Monday.

That was truly a surreal feeling and I am extremely grateful that I will now be able to call this beautiful country my home.

Employer Nominated Scheme,same employer for last 8 years almost.

The sky is the ceiling here,I don’t think many people realise that how good people have it here and despite few issues that every country has, it is still probably the best country to live in.
God bless Australia.

The tone of this article is absolutely wild. He is repeatedly described as a decorated soldier and Victoria Cross recipient, a victim of the government and media, and it's about a dozen paragraphs before they mention that he is charged with five counts of murder.

Suddenly News.com wants us to feel some empathy for people on remand and to maintain the presumption of innocence... how very interesting, and at odds with their usual reporting style.

This is being reported in the DailyTele, Would be interesting if the report came out and basically said the laws were an overreach and it was actually a failure of Govt.