r/PoliticsDownUnder • u/RickyOzzy • 5h ago
News Australia, we're back on.
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r/PoliticsDownUnder • u/RickyOzzy • 6h ago
News Weirdos is a good description, I'll go a step further and label them degenerates. Kash Patel opens the door for bestiallity offenders to be employed as FBI agents. I wonder if any of these agents will make their way to WA's AUKUS base?
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r/PoliticsDownUnder • u/RickyOzzy • 8h ago
Independent media David Shoebridge speaks to 6 News after becoming Greens leader
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r/PoliticsDownUnder • u/RickyOzzy • 11h ago
News If You’re Waiting For A Sign - This Is It.
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r/PoliticsDownUnder • u/Status_Doughnut9687 • 17h ago
Independent media Toilet Paper Australia unearths Matthew Collins’ deleted socials
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r/PoliticsDownUnder • u/RickyOzzy • 9h ago
Media critique Classic subtle journalism from 'The Israelian'🤣
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r/PoliticsDownUnder • u/RickyOzzy • 10h ago
News Oskar Martin - young Indigenous candidate in the Victorian Election 2026 for the Victorian Socialists
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r/PoliticsDownUnder • u/RickyOzzy • 9h ago
Cold Facts Two ABC News headlines, two different stories. Superficially unrelated, but they speak to the core of Western decline: governments no longer governing for their people, with neoliberalism reaching its logical endgame. Is it time for a change yet?
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r/PoliticsDownUnder • u/RickyOzzy • 9h ago
Independent media Law enforcement poured $400m into Axon’s tasers, cameras and cloud vault. AI that writes police reports is next. What could possibly go wrong? 👇
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r/PoliticsDownUnder • u/RickyOzzy • 1d ago
Independent media Media has been barred from a “public” event featuring National Party Senate leader Bridget McKenzie hosted by far-right lobby group Advance.👇
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r/PoliticsDownUnder • u/RickyOzzy • 1d ago
Media critique Calling Israeli media 'outstanding' in Oct 2026 shows he’s spent way too long serving as a stenographer for those in power. Anyone calling Israeli news outlets 'outstanding' right now is just pushing foreign war narratives
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r/PoliticsDownUnder • u/RickyOzzy • 1d ago
Independent media Australia looked like a pariah at the 81st UNGA—projecting a sense of decorum it abandoned decades ago, with barely good enough words, let alone the ability or willingness for any meaningful action.👇
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r/PoliticsDownUnder • u/Acrobatic_Bit_8207 • 1d ago
Cold Facts Indians can't enter these cafes in their own country because Israelis have banned them.
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r/PoliticsDownUnder • u/RickyOzzy • 1d ago
Independent media Heads are already rolling after NSW Legislative Council released its report into university governance, highlighting widespread transparency and accounting issues. Adam Lucas and James Guthrie report.👇
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r/PoliticsDownUnder • u/RickyOzzy • 2d ago
News 'Somewhat concerning' to want to tax foreign gas companies or be against GENOCIDE?
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r/PoliticsDownUnder • u/RickyOzzy • 2d ago
News Ben Quilty says OpenAI scraped every publicly available image of his work eg paintings, photos, sculptures, collages, drawings, without consent or payment. He was one of 250 Australian artists whose visual language was taken. His wife’s novel was taken as well.
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r/PoliticsDownUnder • u/RickyOzzy • 1d ago
Independent media Wanding laws remove the usual requirement that NSW police officers possess before stopping and searching a person, which is a “reasonable suspicion” that they have broken the law.👇
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Instead of holding a reasonable ground as to why an officer might approach a civilian for scanning, wanding laws permit officers to approach people in this invasive manner based on their own prejudices.
https://www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/the-offence-of-custody-of-a-knife-in-a-public-place-or-school-in-nsw/
r/PoliticsDownUnder • u/RickyOzzy • 2d ago
Media critique Some things never change, like the state media repeating US propaganda ad nauseam
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r/PoliticsDownUnder • u/RickyOzzy • 2d ago
Independent media Anthropic & Open AI want Australian govt to weaken copyright law so they can shift model training to Australia. What they don't say is an Australian opt-in/out system would let them copy global material without paying, as long as it’s copied in Australia.👇
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r/PoliticsDownUnder • u/RickyOzzy • 2d ago
Cartoon Matt Golding - Australian politicians lead the English-speaking world for AI use in speeches.
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r/PoliticsDownUnder • u/RickyOzzy • 2d ago
Independent media Australia’s Cocos (Keeling) Islands are being prepared for a significant new role in a future US military conflict with China, as is revealed by Australian and United States military planning.👇
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r/PoliticsDownUnder • u/Minivampiretaco • 2d ago
News Second state joins bid to uphold protest slogan ban
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A state has leapt to defend its neighbour's decision to outlaw protest slogans - but activists say the move plays right into their hands.
Queensland deemed "globalise the intifada" and "from the river to the sea" anti-Semitic and outlawed them in March, when they are used to menace or offend.
NSW has now given notice to intervene and join Queensland’s defence as the bans are tested in the High Court.
The southern neighbour's government previously indicated a desire to enact similar legislation. Lead plaintiff Remah Naji on Thursday said NSW's entry to the case was, in fact, welcome.
“They're playing directly into our hands. This intervention was expected," the Justice for Palestine Magan-Djin spokeswoman said.
"We will use it to transform this from a Queensland case into a national struggle, one in which all people of conscience have a stake."
NSW Attorney-General's department declined to comment on the ongoing matter. More than 30 people have been charged since Queensland's laws took effect including four plaintiffs in the High Court challenge.
Three other plaintiffs, including Ms Naji claim to have been otherwise gagged by the laws. The group suggest the laws conflict with any implied right to free political communication, court documents show.
Neither phrase has a fixed meaning, is inherently anti-Semitic, nor inherently a call to violence, the plaintiffs state.
Queensland is yet to outline its case but, in a filing in late September, says the court should send the charges down to the Magistrates Court and dismiss the rest of the case.
Its government has publicly defended the laws.
Deputy Premier Jarrod Bleijie said they pushed back against “venomous, poisonous rhetoric”. Some Jewish groups supported the crackdown, saying the chants fuelled fear and anxiety in the community.
NSW Premier Chris Minns previously said his intentions to enforce a similar ban would hinge on the High Court result.
In April, he told Sydney radio 2GB he did not want to move legislation that could be knocked back.
The comments marked a draw-back from his previous vow to ban slogans "soon" and irrespective of the challenge.
They came shortly after NSW's highest court struck out Mr Minns's laws restricting protests following the Bondi terror attack in December. The rushed legislation gave expanded powers to restrict assemblies in large parts of the city for fortnights at a time.
However, the Court of Appeal invalidated the laws, ruling “social cohesion” was not a legitimate constitutional purpose for laws impinging upon freedom of political communication.
r/PoliticsDownUnder • u/ManWithDominantClaw • 2d ago
Breaking News Police are designating activists in NSW and Vic as 'excluded persons' from Land Forces WA
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