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Jane Hume skewered as she scrambles to avoid choosing between first-home buyers & investors. PK doesn’t let it go, then when cornered, “that’s a ridiculous question.” 🙄 Yikes. She’ll be now praying no one sees this pathetic display, esp people locked out of housing. #auspol

Mehreen Faruqi lists some of the abuses endured by Australian women detained off the flotilla “sexually assaulted, cabled tied & beaten” “Raped” “Syringed with an unknown substance” “Guns inserted inside them” “Repeatedly kneed” “Stripped of clothes” Absolutely reprehensible. #auspol

DFAT also said they asked about the Australians who were beaten in an Israeli airport while screaming out to consular officials for help, but that Israeli consular officials say they had a screen blocking their view so they didn’t see, & DFAT didn’t ask if they heard anything🤔

Meanwhile DFAT says that Israel has responded to our questions about new evidence showing Australian War Graves that appear to have again been bulldozed & decimated by Israel after we told them to stop, saying they are now blaming Hamas. Just words, no evidence. Disgraceful.

Pocock presses Wong who says we all ‘prefer' an independent inquiry into abuse of Aussies off a flotilla but will instead push for a ‘swift’ & ‘transparent’-internal Israel led investigation🙄 Pocock ‘if we prefer an independent one, why has the govt not asked Israel?’🔥 #auspol

Later, Submarine Agency Director General Jonathan Mead’s explanations weren’t cutting it for David Shoebridge, who blasts Mead, saying his “best case scenario” on AUKUS is “taking us down a garden path” 💥 “We’ve got an optimal pathway that’s leading to a cul-de-sac!”🔥

Shoebridge fights through attempts to shield Navy Chief Hammond grilling him on a “graph” that he apparently saw showing AUKUS is on track - while also showing just “incremental” gains. “I didn’t say it was on track”🙄 ffs Shoebridge “We can all agree it’s not on track”💥 #auspol

Andrew Bragg caught out lying on ABC about migration levels Bragg “We have high migration” PK “migration’s gone down right?” Bragg “not compared to what they inherited. It’s gone up” PK “Ahhh no. In fact they inherited a COVID era, & it was just starting to ratchet up”💥 #auspol

Chief of Navy Mark Hammond under fire insists Aussies on a US sub that sank an Iranian naval ship weren’t involved in the attack coz they only engaged in “defence” strategies, during the attack🤔 Shoebridge “it’s an essential part of readying a submarine for attack!”💥 #auspol

Def. Chief David Johnstone “It was in our national interest” Shoebridge “So it was in our nat. interest to have Australians part of that activity to sink an Iranian frigate & leave survivors to drown?” Johnstone “That’s not what I said” “I repeat…It’s in our interest”🤦‍♂️ #auspol

🔥David Shoebridge says Israel has shown “absolute, complete contempt” despite Albo having already raised concerns about Israel’s bulldozing of Aus War Graves with President Herzog in Feb after new evidence shows they’ve “bulldozed the same cemetery just 2 months later”💥 #auspol

Albanese slams the Liberals for making failed, half-term PM Tony Abbott their President after he “couldn’t make it to 2 years as Prime Minister”🔥 “That is their vision of looking towards the future.” #auspol

Dept of Veterans Affairs says it appears from satellite imagery that there’s “further damage” to war graves at the Gaza War Cemetery in addition to ones already bulldozed by Israel, but can’t advise if or how many damaged are Aus Graves coz we’re not allowed in. Shocking. #auspol

Jim Chalmers says this week Angus & the Coalition have a chance to show they’ve learned their lesson from being spanked at the last election after they said No to tax cuts & housing but “all indications” are that they’ll continue their death spiral & “once again” say No💥 #auspol

Nat Barr swallows Barnaby Joyce’s rubbish who insists Pauline Hanson’s failure to show up to work is bcoz she’s busy being a leader. Barr “there u go, that’s the answer”🙄 Tanya Plibersek forced to pick up Barr’s slack, “we turn up though…our leaders turn up”💥 #auspol

Clare O'Neil calls out the Coalition’s “huge mistake” in 1999 to change CGT & gift investors taxpayer handouts, saying it turned residential property into the country’s “most lucrative, low-risk investment”💥 “The tax system should not drive investment decisions”💯 #auspol

Former Labor advisor Sarah Adams questions the Libs’ plan to become electable again by making Tony Abbott President saying all she can recall is choppergate, eating onions, cutting hospitals, the GP tax “And all of that is before you get to misogyny…culture wars…”🔥 #auspol

Deb O’Neill unloads on ASIC’s Sarah Court for continuing to let PwC & KPMG “run ASIC round & round” at taxpayer expense after Court says it’ll be hard to investigate KPMG’s latest tender-rigging scandal coz they hire expensive lawyers “It’s an outrageous proposition”🔥 #auspol

Jillian Segal can’t explain any services provided by co of ScoMo’s fmr sec Yaron Finkelstein who she contracted without tender. Says it’s an “advisory contract” Pocock “$200k for ad-hoc advice?" Segal “I didn’t say that" Then what’s the $200k for? Peak integrity.🙄 #auspol

Jillian Segal says it’s the ECAJ’s fault that she is still listed as a Director to a Trust linked to the ECAJ, insisting it’s their job to remove her Apparently, managing her own basic legal conflicts and resignation paperwork is someone else's job description. Shocking #auspol

Segal then said that while she is no longer the President of the ECAJ bcoz of her now “independent” role, she “can’t be removed” from ECAJ because of a “technical” matter, before admitting she has hired an ECAJ “specialist” to work in her office.🤦‍♂️ Unbelievable. #auspol

David Shoebridge slams Jillian Segal who refuses to release conflict of interest docs claiming they’re “private” Segal, stumbling, then claims her conflicts are actually “public” Shoebridge “if it’s public, why do you object to them being published?”🔥 Trainwreck💥 #auspol

Reynolds then objects to Shoebridge blaming prison co Secure Journeys for not properly handling the fire by saying they ‘sent in’ untrained staff Shoebridge “yes I do blame them for it & they should be charged. You disagree?” Reynolds “we’ll take the question on notice”🙄

David Shoebridge scolds Aus Border Force Commr Gavan Reynolds after he blames an immigration detainee with severe mental health issues for a fire in their room that hospitalised staff after revelations staff had no training or fire equip “You failed on both grounds”💥 #auspol

Aus Post CEO Paul Graham dismantles Sarah Henderson’s manufactured claims they’ve forced Tharwa PO to close SH “u wouldn’t extend their licence!” PG “licence is perpetual”💥 SH “it was the lifeblood of the community” PG “u talk about lifeblood…on 8 transactions a wk”🔥🙄 #auspol

David Pocock left gobsmacked after asking why a contract - no tender - no minister sign off - has gone to a co founded by Scott Morrison’s fmr priv sec Yaron Finkelstein Home Affairs Sec Stephanie Foster has the answer, a decision by the unelected Antisemitism envoy. FFS #auspol

APSC’s Melanie McIntyre refuses to advise if Robodebt orchestrators who NACC did find corrupt - Mark Withnell & Serena Wilson - are still employed, says needs to check. Barbara Pocock “public have a right to know”💥 Unbelievable. They know exactly who is on the payroll. #auspol

Commr Brereton shocks Senate attacking Inspector's damning misconduct findings against him on Robodebt & claims staff are now “terrified of making any mistake” Apparently a bad thing🤔 Staggering. Wants those under him with a free pass to make the same corrupt mistakes. #auspol

It got worse. Brereton actually compares his professional conflicts of interest to personal hobbies Brereton “Nor do they need to know whether I go to church on a Sunday” Shoebridge “You can’t see the difference b/w going to church & performing professional work?”💥 No he can’t.

Stunning arrogance from Commissioner Paul Brereton, insisting he was right to keep his own CEO in the dark about his secret IGADF role Shoebridge “Do you accept responsibility for that?” Brereton: “No” Shoebridge “This exchange proves the problem...”🔥 Yup, big problem. #auspol

David Shoebridge tears up outgoing NACC Chief Paul Brereton after he refuses to confirm if will even give his resignation letter to the Senate-coz he’s unsure if it has “confidential" details🤔 Shoebridge “You only sent it yesterday” “Is it, or is it not confidential?”💥 #auspol

Chris Bowen says unlike former Energy Minister Angus Taylor, he won’t be intervening to change the law to hide energy prices “Something one of my predecessors has done”💥 “There was no need.” “We have price reduction in every jurisdiction” - thanks to Renewables.✅ #auspol

David Shoebridge doesn’t hold back after CEO of the Federal Court of Australia Sia Lagos says they had “measures in place” to ensure “that all of the data & all of the records were retained in Australia.” Shoebridge “Except they weren’t.”💥

Fed Court of Aus admits botching records & failing due diligence on a $5.3m contract ext. they signed with company VIQ Solutions due to “administrative oversight” The same co caught illegally offshoring thousands sensitive court files to an unvetted tech firm in India🚩🙄 #auspol

Bridget McKenzie unravels & sent spinning after complaining about sham contracting in the trucking industry as Anthony Chisholm reminds her she “opposed” legislation to tackle the issue. “You talk a big game, but when you’re in govt you actually do the opposite”🔥 #auspol

David Shoebridge beside himself after Don Farrell lists the NACC as something he’d put on a promotional brochure as an achievement of the Attorney General’s Department under Labor. Shoebridge “Would you include Commissioner Brereton’s resignation in your brochure?”💥 #auspol

Jim Chalmers brutal on Tim Wilson for “trying to weaponise a campaign against the very changes he called for” in his own book on changing the CGT “He’d want to be careful that the Daily Telegraph doesn’t put him on the front of paper with a hammer & sickle next to him”🔥 #auspol

It gets more absurd. turns out the Secretary had a meeting about this unusual "direction"—but apparently never asked who actually gave the direction.🤨 Shoebridge: “It was like a hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil meeting.” 💥

David Shoebridge has unloaded on AG Dept Sec Kath Jones who can’t explain a “direction” to delay release of FOI “til the min bef. Estimates started”🙄 Jones retreats to blaming “junior officers” Shoebridge “Hang these jnr officers out to dry…is that what you’re doing?”🔥 #auspol

Bridget McRorter in hot water & facing calls to resign after slugging taxpayers for flights and accommodation to attend son’s wedding in Tasmania.🙄 The gravy train never stops with McKenzie. As shameless as they come. #auspol

David Pocock tears into Pauline Hanson’s gas plan, says it’s a “red flag" it being announced “at the gas industry conf” while “getting the red carpet” from gas giants who spent millions lobbying against an export tax “I just want a fair return on the export of our gas”💥 #auspol

Sophie Scamps calls out Pauline Hanson’s populist gas plan saying it would take “over 10yrs” for returns & only after “huge financial input”🙄 “Ppl are calling for a return on the sale of their gas now”💥 Tells PK instead of Hanson we should be “listening to the experts” #auspol

Reporter reminds Newman that Ben Gvir has a track record & is already sanctioned, asks why action wasn’t taken sooner. Newman “the fact that a person is right wing is not a reason to prohibit him from running in an election!”🤦‍♂️ Shameless dodge to minimise their extremism.

🔥 Israeli Ambassador Hillel Newman in desperate damage control defending the indefensible says despite Ben Gvir’s horrific tormenting of detainees inc Aussies, he’ll face zero consequences & a verbal condemnation is punishment enough.😳 This man is a disgrace & must be expelled.

Pauline Hanson completely flips her lid, unable to handle the fact she relies on Neo-Nazi support. Can’t deny they give her their vote, but won’t explain it’s coz her policies suit their agenda. Watch Anna Henderson put her in a world of pain. I guess the truth hurts. 🔥 #auspol

🔥Tim Wilson gets smashed at NPC as Dana Daniel makes him squirm over his refusal to put a no. to his public service cuts Turns out he can’t even say if it’s ’too big’ as Daniel questions if their “damaging” election review is why they’re running scared.💥Embarrassing 🙄 #auspol

Experts have slammed the AI-Albo social media campaign against CGT changes as “rubbish” saying the changes are actually “important”💥 Adelaide Miller reveals even the organisers now admit they left out the truth “bcoz they wanted the post to go viral.” Utterly shameless. #auspol

Clare O’Neil repeatedly schools Nat Barr on neg gearing after Barr insists some viewers’ rents have risen “For any1 who’s in a rental…provided by an investor, the arrangements are grandfathered”✅ A beaten Barr & McKenzie then tag-team to try muddy the waters. Pathetic. #auspol

Andrew Wilkie says he’s optimistic “one day…a strong govt” will ban gambling ads in full “Sadly it’s not this govt, not the previous govt…”💥 Wilkie slams Labor for dropping the Peta Murphy report on budget day & says it’s time to fix the “completely & utterly useless" regulator #auspol

American author Fran Lebowitz on ABC730 completely wipes the floor with Donald Trump. “It’s not that he’s crazy, it’s that he’s stupid.” “Incredibly stupid.”🔥 Ferguson “What about charming…lots of ppl say he’s charming, do you believe that?” Lebowitz “No, I do not.”💥

Michelle Ananda-Rajah torches Bridget McKenzie for demonising tax-paying PRs & wanting to strip their social security BM “not going to cop that” MAR “that’s what you’re doing” BM “not going to cop that I’m somehow denigrating their contribution” MAR “Sounds like u are”🔥 #auspol

Albo shreds Angus who admits his door is open to One Nation “The door isn’t open, there’s no door. They’re in the same policy room”🔥 Tells Angus he should “go into any hospital & ask what would happen if we got rid of everyone who works but wasn’t born in Australia”💥 #auspol

Angus was also asked to explain why he avoided having his new tax policy costed by the PBO. He can’t answer, so he pivots to “Labor is raising taxes.” Pathetic. Of course we know it’s because it has a $12.5 billion budget black hole. #auspol

💥Angus Taylor grilled on his dog-whistling migration plan after diaspora groups, Lib colleagues, call him out. He just gets worse, apparently today’s migrants are leas worthy, coz they’re not like “great” & “committed” migrants in the past🙄 Disgraceful, unelectable. #auspol

Jim Chalmers fires back at media reporting saying there is “no tax on inheritances or inherited assets.” Calls on them “not listen to the scare campaigns from people who have a partisan or a commercial interest”🔥 If only.🙄 #auspol

For Sunrise viewers who couldn’t hear Tanya Plibersek over Nat Barr & Barnaby Joyce’s constant interruptions, what she said was “Those who work for a living should not get taxed more on their wages than ppl who are living on their assets”✅ Hard to argue with that. #auspol

Clare O'Neil hits back at Andrew Clennell over Angus Taylor’s new tax policy “If I came on your show...uncosted, u would absolutely rake me over the coals”💥 “Can u imagine a Labor Opp. with a policy that had a $12.5B black hole?” Sky would make a multi-part doco on it. #auspol

Tony Burke doesn’t hold back on Angus Taylor’s latest idea to vet migrants based on their "liberal democracy" status. “The one permanent resident that Angus Taylor seems happy with is Pauline Hanson who’s a permanent resident in his head.”💥 #auspol

“The tendency of the conservative side of politics to demonise immigration is deeply distressing”💥 Monique Ryan with facts the media, politicians love to ignore inc that new migrants pay tax with no benefits for 4yrs We benefit “to a much greater extent than it costs”🎯 #auspol

Albanese unleashes on Angus Taylor’s uncosted policies & reminds he promised things would “get better” by knifing Sussan Ley in the back “The truth is they’re getting worse” Says No of Coalition MPs is shrinking “I suspect when we come back, that will decrease further”💥 #auspol

“I’ve seen more detail on the back of a milk carton.”🔥 Wayne Swan unloads on Angus Taylor’s “fairytale” budget reply, labelling his uncosted tax promises a “horror show” to implement. We saw the exact same rubbish last term, how did that go? Peter Dutton 2.0. #auspol

Sarah Ferguson steamrolls Angus Taylor who doesn’t even know the cost of his signature indexing taxation policy, Taylor “it’ll be what is necessary”🤦‍♂️ Ferguson “how do you restore your economic credentials if you won’t put a number on a massive new policy?”💥🔥 #auspol Shocking

Sarah Ferguson decimates Angus Taylor who can’t even say how many migrants he wants to cut despite announcing “one of the biggest cuts to immigration in Australia’s history” “A statement as bold as that requires a number to be put next to it. Otherwise it’s a slogan.”🔥 #auspol

Wow, Angus Taylor really blowing hard into that dog-whistle tonight. 🙄 He’s now claiming migrants come to Australia "in order to receive welfare” Ferguson “Are you suggesting they come here to get the welfare?” 💥 #auspol

Jerome Laxale says he’s not looking forward to Angus Taylor’s budget-reply coz it’ll be “one long, disgusting dog-whistle” seeking to claw back votes from One Nation. Says lurching even further to the right tonight will signal the “death of the Liberal Party.”🔥 #auspol

Jess Walsh welcomes Tammy Tyrrell to Labor and burns the Libs in the process for not listening to young Australians, but rather listening to Pauline Hanson who is “directing the Liberal Party from Sky After Dark.”🔥 #auspol

Penny Wong takes Pauline Hanson’s interjection objecting to Labor’s CGT tax changes and tells her to take a leaf out of Tim Wilson’s book who once admitted that “the tax system is screwing over young Australians” & only serves the “well off”💥 #auspol

“Outrageous”🔥 Jordon Steele-John has ripped into legislation for massive cuts to the NDIS & called on Senators to vote for his amendment to give the Disability community time to simply review changes impacting their lives. Penny Allman-Payne also not holding back.💥 #auspol

Albanese reminds PK of another reason why Libs were smashed in Farrer after “all the boys” in the Liberal Party conspired to knife Sussan Ley in the back “on the day of a funeral of a former colleague” “51% of the people who vote in Farrer are women.”💥 #auspol

Katy Gallagher takes Libs’ interjection complaining on Housing “bcoz it’s important to let everyone know” that the LNP “didn’t even have a Housing Policy, didn’t have a Housing Minister.” And that a big part of today’s problems are bcoz the LNP “did nothing”🔥 Sad fact. #auspol

Libs try to gag Chalmers but fail again as the Treasurer rips into Wilson reminding him of his own book on CGT, which said that there’s “no intergenerational justice” in the current system, & that it was “screwing over young Australians” “Well said!” 🔥 Ouch.💥 #auspol

Jim Chalmers shreds Tim Wilson following his anti-migrant questioning, warning that when he “blows on the dog whistle they can hear it in Goldstein too." And when he said he was “prepared to be in a govt with One Nation they heard it in Goldstein.”💣💥🔥 #auspol

Peter Stefanovic asks PM Albanese why politicians can keep their tax perks but ends up speechless & cuts the show after Albo asks him to explain his own logic. Stefanovic “We’re out of time…appreciate your time this morning.”🤦‍♂️ They are seriously pathetic on Sky. #auspol

Jim Chalmers not having any of Sky host Peter Stefanovic’s agenda-driven intro on his budget this morning. “You didn’t mention that the budget actually saves more than it spends, it’s got a big net improvement..we’ve got the debt down.”💥 #auspol

Sarah Ferguson humiliates Tim Wilson who can’t stop looking at his talking points. “When you talk about ‘honesty’, do you need to read that off your notes?”🔥 Total car crash. He can’t even find the truth without a cheat sheet. #auspol

Jim Chalmers says when the LNP introduced the CGT discount in 1999, they “fundamentally distorted how investment happens” by “encouraging ppl to pile into existing housing” which pushed prices up & locked young ppl out.💥 The 27-year free ride is finally over. #auspol

Dr Richard Denniss credits Labor for changing the CGT discount saying it’s a “political winner” & “good economic policy.” Says it’s time to bin Peter Costello’s 27yr old scheme as gifting property investors with tax breaks isn’t working. ‘it’s a failed experiment’🔥 #auspol

Peta Credlin says she’s found the problem with the Libs, they haven’t lurched far enough to the Right.🙄 Blames those horrible moderates with “big moderate voices” forcing Labor-lite policies.🤔 You know, like the One Flag policy, exiting Net Zero🤣 You cant fix stupid. #auspol

Dr Monique Ryan calls out Tim Wilson & Jane Hume for refusing to rule out an alliance with fringe party One Nation, says it’s a “terminal blow” for voters in Independent-held seats like Kooyong “They don’t want to see a govt that’s dominated by One Nation.”🔥 #auspol

Jane Hume was feeling the heat, insisting she & Angus Taylor haven’t had time, denying she’s blaming Ley, and saying Libs now need to “reflect” Ferguson “You’ve already had a bit of time.” “I’d like to some more clear reflection from you, not just the notion of reflection.”🔥

Jane Hume’s refusal to rule out a One Nation alliance has to be the loudest ‘Yes’ in Aus politics right now as she is shredded & cornered into an admission of deceit. Hume “That’s not a question we’re prepared to answer”🙄💥 This is why they’re dying. #auspol

Commissioner Bell challenges Frydenberg-led Dor Foundation CEO Tahli Blicblau on credibility of their research questioning if they ignore fact that spikes in antisemitism coincide with Israel’s wars, calls out Dor’s surveys that use “Zionism” as “proxy for being a Jew”💥 #auspol

🔥Tanya Plibersek fires up on Sunrise shutting down noise from Nat Barr & Barnaby Joyce to unload on One Nation’s record saying they’re “pretty good at having a whinge” “not so great at finding solutions”- while they vote against the very people they claim to represent💥 #auspol

“This wasn’t a by-election, it was a bloodbath for the Coalition”🔥 Jim Chalmers with a brutal reality check for the LNP, says now that they’re hostages to the far-right, their only hope is to merge with the fringe “There is no future Coalition…without One Nation in it. #auspol

Tim Wilson denies CGT discounts are tax breaks & quickly pivots to promoting his new data-harvesting site - asking ppl to sign up to fight a ‘tax raid’ on a benefit he won't admit exists. Franking Credits playbook is back. Same salesman, same grift, diff tax break🙄 #auspol

Tim Wilson who describes One Nation as “despicable” & “toxic”, is now open to forming an alliance with them if it’ll help put Libs in “a position to govern” Trading any remaining principles just for power. No wonder they are going extinct. #auspol

Niki Savva savages Angus Taylor who “still doesn’t understand” how preferencing fringe party One Nation has sent the Liberal vote in Farrer into a death spiral. “When he says, you ‘change or die’, and you haven’t changed, then it’s only the other option left”🔥 #auspol

PM Albanese torches the LNP for following One Nation down the “far right rabbit hole.”🔥 “And then they wonder why people don’t take them seriously.” Says the #Farrer byelection is a test for Taylor & Canavan. “We’ll see what the ppl of Farrer think of them tomorrow.”💥 #auspol

Pauline Hanson who just this week apologised for her volunteer’s violent conduct only to retract it within 24 hours has today said that the people of #Farrer should vote One Nation because “We don’t say something and then retract it.”🤔🙄 #auspol

“Like a bit of a chook raffle”🔥 Albury hotel owner Rolf Lossow has blasted One Nation’s “disorganised" & “inexperienced” venue booking. “They had no understanding.” “Left a really bad taste in my mouth.”💥 They want to run the country, but can’t even run a bar tab. 🙄 #auspol

After backing her violent volunteer, Hanson then blames the local hotel for ON cancelling their event with only 4 days' notice saying it’s coz they’re being ripped off. Bankrolled by billionaires, but won’t pay a local pub for work already put in. Shameful. 🙄 #auspol #Farrer

Pauline Hanson has backflipped saying she now stands by her volunteer & his violent outburst & that after seeing the footage she now wants to “shake his hand."🤔 But hey, I’m sure James Paterson and the Libs will still preference them. Pathetic RW parties. #auspol

Meanwhile not long later, Susan McDonald is caught admitting her interests are with gas corps, after she lashes out against Labor’s new gas reservation policy saying she “feels” for the “poor” gas companies🙄 PK “Don’t you feel for Australian consumers though?”🔥

Steph Hodgins-May unloads on the govt for “literally quoting” gas industry’s lines that it’s “not the right time” to tax gas exports. “If it’s not the right time to get a fair share for our gas when they are set to make obscene wartime profits, when is the time?”💥 #auspol

Tim Wilson’s wealthy ‘fund manager’ cousin Geoff Wilson attempts firing back at Albo for ignoring his partisan advice on CGT but lets slip he’s “compromised”🤔 Wilson “everyone’s got various interests”🙄 Even Stefanovic is in complete shock at such blatant self-interest #auspol