"Most people do not listen with the intent to understand. They listen with the intent to reply." — Stephen Covey

Sign the petition: A National Plebiscite for a 25% Gas Export Tax gas-plebiscite.australiainst…

#independentmedia for independent thinkers #auspol

Legislation being passed through the parliament will allow AI to make #NDIS determinations that will directly impact individuals. Confidence in such an approach demands complete transparency. Let's see how the @NDIS respond to my #FOI. 1/2 #auspol

#datacenters #eyeswideopen #RepresentUsNotThem If our governments and the major parties (local state AND federal) don’t stick up for us now - they will collapse and with them possibly our liberal democracy. instagram.com/reel/DZGwqGqP2…

Ministers urge public not to connect obviously connectable events. Full story below!👇

This👇🏼 is EXACTLY why we need lobbying reform & greater transparency over ministerial diaries - things I've been pushing alongside colleagues on the crossbench for years. "In-house lobbyists" (people who work for a company or peak body) should be subject to the same rules and cooling off periods as "third party lobbyists" (people who work for a lobbying firm). Action on these changes are well overdue. skynews.com.au/australia-new…

Helping kids understand what real food is and how to grow and cook it. #KitchenGardenFoundation Make a donation today to support Appeal map taxappeal.kitchengardenfound… #appeal-map via @raisely

VERY interested to see how ON voter preferences - once they voted for ON who did they give their prefs to and in what order? #auspol #communityindies

My piece in the @GuardianAus today arguing govts can't afford to repeat the mistakes they made with the gas industry. With huge investment in data centres - why aren't we asking what this is all for and how Australians are going to benefit from it? If we do want data centres and multinational tech giants are going to use Australian land, Australian energy, Australian water & Australian workers to build the infrastructure that powers the AI revolution, then Australians deserve a fair return. That's the lesson we failed to learn with gas. We shouldn't wait another generation to learn it again. theguardian.com/commentisfre…

Earlier this year the Parliament stopped @AlboMP expanding Govt secrecy. So, he’s got a new tactic. When there’s a transparency win, his Govt appeals to the Federal Court and threatens the #FOI’er with ($150K) costs, so they can’t fight. More soon at Michael West Media. #auspol

The Govt was ordered to disclose politically sensitive #AUKUS nuclear waste site info, but @AlboMP’s has instead launched a nuclear strike on transparency with significant #FOI fallout. @DavidShoebridge has called it an “ugly precedent in secrecy”. #auspol michaelwest.com.au/foi-to-di…

Banning gambling ads to protect young Australians is not a left vs right issue. We’re seeing yet again vested interests control of the major parties meaning the Australian people lose. MPs across the Parliament support stronger action on gambling ads. If there was a conscience vote on a full ban, as was recommended by the Murphy Review, it would pass. smh.com.au/politics/federal/…

The perpetrators of the 2004 spying on #TimorLeste’s maritime boundary negotiating team have asked Attorney-General @MRowlandMP to issue a ‘secrecy certificate’ over why they say they shouldn’t have to confess to the sordid gas theft crime everyone knows they facilitated. #auspol

Asking questions at Senate Estimates about why a year on from an investigation by Choice, which found that 16 out of 20 sunscreens tested didn't meet their SPF claims, 15 are STILL being investigated. The TGA has put forward some options for reforms, but I'm worried how slowly this is moving. In the country with the highest skin cancer rates in the world, confidence in sunscreens is vital and we need to rebuild that. abc.net.au/news/2026-06-05/s…

A break-up note, quietly published in the AFR… “Sorry, but I’ve found someone new.” The fact that the IPA is now backing One Nation, and de-legitimising the Liberals, is significant. The IPA was founded to assist with the establishment of the Liberal Party. - It had a seat at the table when the party was forming. - It wrote the Menzies’ early policy platforms. - Director CD Kemp (who founded the IPA alongside the Murdochs, Coles, and BHP) left papers from this era that became the official history of the Liberal Party. - The IPA became an intergenerational power base. Kemp’s two sons were Liberal ex-Ministers. - The IPA-to-MP pipeline delivered Tim Wilson, John Pesutto, James Paterson and many more. Now, allies are abandoning ship – not leaping into a void, but abandoning the IPA’s historic free-market ideals and Liberal Party links to chase shifting institutional power. We can debate whether it’s driven by a desire to maintain relevance, or capture by Rinehart (who bankrolls both One Nation and the IPA) – but the cause is irrelevant and the outcome is the same. Once the IPA has legitimised One Nation as “mainstream” and de-legitimised the Liberals as implicitly fringe, there’s no going back. (In the UK, the same story: The Institute of Economic Affairs, a stalwart Tory ally, helped undermine the Tories and drive Reform.) The IPA has picked a side, and sorry Liberals: it ain’t you. They’ve run off with some redhead girl from Ipswich, and are going to spend the next few years stringing you along.

Limits movement to those who can afford it 👎👎👎 We are taken for fools. #auspol

RT @KosSamaras: Australian politics is no longer a contest between two parties, and our polls can no longer be read as though it is. The ad…

The govt’s approach to AI is passive and under-resourced. Today I’m releasing this AI Discussion Paper-18 policy priorities to set up the institutions, capitalise on opportunities, address the risks & share the benefits. This is urgent! #auspol katechaney.com.au/ai_policy_…