Co-host and founder of Lamestream Podcast. || Former: Editor/EP of 7am, ABC news, Producer of #YouCantAskThat, Hungry Beast.

Joined June 2010
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One Nation is now leading Labor. Still Kos is saying the REAL story is the decline of the Coalition. What number could One Nation reach for these ppl to start talking about them as an urgent, credible threat? And that the govt need to start making radical change to head it off?
Our latest Australian Financial Review, RedBridge and Accent Research National Poll. The two-party system most Australians grew up with is gone. The real contest, unless something changes by 2028, now runs between Labor and One Nation, and the Coalition is a spectator in the stands….eating donuts. The primary vote tells the story plainly. One Nation 31. Labor 28. The Coalition a deep third on 20. Labor still winning on 2PP. The favourability numbers explain how we got here. This is an electorate sorting itself into camps that barely speak to each other. Albanese is anchored in the Labor base and underwater almost everywhere else. Hanson is the mirror image, locked in with her own bloc and toxic with the other side. Two leaders, each loved and loathed in roughly equal measure, each unable to reach across the line. But the damage is not symmetrical, and that is the part the major parties keep missing. Labor has bled support to the minor parties (others), voters drifting left and sideways. The Coalition has bled something heavier, straight into One Nation, even after the Budget!!!. Look at where Hanson is net positive: Liberal voters, LNP voters, the Coalition’s own right flank. She is not just nibbling at the edges of their base but having nice pizza slice bites at it. More details below.
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‘A far right party based on race politics is now the most popular in the country.’ ‘Labor has nailed it, don’t pivot, boys! Keep doing what ya doing! This is all the Liberal Party’s fault.’
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Pass the source. “The ABC published what audiences would believe was a very neutral, balanced explainer, titled: “What negative gearing and CGT changes will mean for rental prices” “But the article firmly makes the case that negative gearing reform would increase rents. “The first source cited for this is a report paid for by the HIA and the property council,”” Unmasking the Lobby That Fought to Block Real Solutions to the Housing Crisis lamestream.com.au/unmasking-…
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#BREAKING 🚨 Lamestream are reporting the author of the CALI study is now distancing themselves from the negligent reporting by @abcnews. lamestream.com.au/casual-rac…
This article by @abcnews should be retracted in full, and an apology should be issued. 8 million Australians are not receiving 'income support'. The study relied on here openly counts accessing sick leave entitlements as a form of 'income support'. abc.net.au/news/2026-05-06/i…
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Os on the ABC’s Insiders today.
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2,000 ABC staff walked off the job last week, the first strike in two decades. @TinaMQ reports from the picket line on what drove the dispute & what lies beneath. @frankelly08 @QuentinDempster @s_mitchell @SaysEmmaField 🎙️ open.spotify.com/episode/10R…
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Australia’s support for the US and its illegal war on Iran means no oil will be allowed by Iran to be shipped to Australia from the Gulf. Did any federal government ever tell you there is a cost for our alliance? abc.net.au/news/2026-03-22/s…
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We should have listened. When John Blackburn approached Four Corners to do a story in 2013 he gave precisely this warning — and he warned that no one in government or media was listening. Now we are seeing his warning playing out. ▪️After the government closure of most fuel refineries, 51% of Australia’s petroleum came from Singapore — and 40% of Singapore’s supply came from the Middle East. But not anymore. Can you see the dimension of our fuel shortage problem? Can you see the dimension of our government ineptitude? Can you see them anywhere in the media this week addressing this mounting catastrophe honestly to the public?
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In 2013, a retired Air Vice-Marshal named John Blackburn wrote a report for the NRMA warning that Australia had adopted a “she’ll be right” approach to fuel security. He warned that a conflict in the Middle East would disrupt supply chains and leave Australia exposed within weeks. He warned that without adequate liquid fuel, food production and distribution would be severely curtailed, most businesses could not operate, and our Defence Forces could not function He warned that Australia was the only IEA member noncompliant on the 90 day reserve requirement, and that actual usable supply was closer to 23 days. He warned, specifically, that Singapore refineries sourcing crude from the Middle East were a critical vulnerability in Australia’s supply chain. That was 2013. 12 years ago. This week, an entire town in Victoria ran out of fuel. Farmers have idle tractors mid planting. NSW declared an energy supply emergency. The government is now scrambling to build a fuel taskforce that Blackburn said we needed over a decade ago. “You can have the best military in the world,” he said, “but it’s futile if you can’t fuel it.” Nobody listened.
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RT @BilalRKaafarani: I have been deliberately silent on social media for a while. I use all my social media platforms to promote education…
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Selling weapons of war is such good experience for running a news media organisation. “Christine Zeitz, Deputy Chair of SBS, has over 35 years’ global experience previously holding roles as CEO of Northrop Grumman Australia, CEO of Leidos Australia, Vice President and Managing Director for Australia and Asia Pacific at Lockheed Martin, and President North East Asia of BAE Systems Australia.”
Northrop Grumman is profiled here, where @SBS Director Christine Zeitz was CEO, as with Lockheed Martin sbs.com.au/aboutus/person/ch… I wonder if @Rashidajourno will have a job after this? 'Cashing in big time': Who's profiting from the war in the Middle East? sbs.com.au/news/article/whos…
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Images of the strike in Aramoun, which appears to be another targeted assassination strike on one floor of a residential building. Aramoun is a Sunni-majority area, not subject to evacuation orders but housing a number of displaced. No word on the intended target, but the ministry of health confirms an Ethiopian woman was injured in the strike. This is likely to be a migrant domestic worker, many of whom have also been displaced here in Lebanon.
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Same building in Bourj Hammoud has been targeted again, 24 hours later. Different apartment this time. Neighbours and first responders told us the one that was hit yesterday was empty
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The RAAF Wedgetail aircraft sent to the Middle East is in reality a war-fighter. “During the [previous] bombing campaign, one Wedgetail was responsible for the command and control of 80 combat aircraft at a time, including fighter jets from across the coalition airforces.” ‘Australia is sending a weapon "fundamental" to winning wars, according to US generals lamestream.com.au/australia-…
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Australian media reports have downplayed the government's "small contribution" to the war with Iran, but one asset we're sending is a weapon the US doesn't have. American generals have described it as "fundamental" to winning wars. lamestream.com.au/australia-…
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🚨 Astonishing to see the destruction of the ‘eyes and ears’ of the US imperial force in the Persian Gulf. ▪️Dozens of US spy and military facilities, based in US-allied ‘frontline states’ in the Gulf, are smoking ruins. ▪️The Australian RAAF E-7A Wedgetail ‘battle management’ aircraft arriving in UAE today comes at just the moment the US needs help to defeat Iran. ▪️But the PM said it was not for supporting attacks on Iran — but was for “defensive” purposes only. ▪️And our PM Albanese wouldn’t intentionally mislead you, right…?
#Iran has taken out every US military base in the gulf. That’s Trillions of dollars and decades of work, GONE. Iran has destroyed the main port in #Israel, power plant, Bibi’s Security Bunker, and are systematically leveling buildings from city to city without interference. #StopTheWar #BringOurTroopsHome #BOTH #NoNukes
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Australia’s role in supporting the US-Israel war against Iran is by the hosting of a string of US military bases across the country. It is a critical contribution to the aggressive US war machine, but it puts Australia at risk. BATTLEFIELD INTELLIGENCE, NOT BOOTS ON THE GROUND declassifiedaus.org/2026/03/…
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Israel just struck the Ramada hotel in Beirut. It’s right on the waterfront, overlooking the city’s most famous landmark, Raouche. Looks like another assassination strike, specific rooms damaged. Even in the 2024 war central / downtown Beirut was not hit, closest was Basta. This is sure to create further anxiety and tension about sheltering the hundreds of thousands of displaced across the country.
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Replying to @RodgerShanahan
@RodgerShanahan is spot on. Here’s an example of a ‘ministerial sign-off’ from my 2016 FOI documents. Has the Defence Minister signed-off on embedded ADF personnel participating in any US operations against Iran ? #auspol #illegalwar #internationallaw
The issue of RAN personnel on the US submarine that sank the #Iranian ship is a big issue. Third Country Deployments (TCD) normally require ministerial sign-off. So did the MINDEF/DPM permit ADF pers to help kill dozens of sailors from a country with which we are not at war ?
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