I rarely put pen to paper, but this privileged experience was worth the exception. Four days, a lot of walking, a few people I admire enormously, and several I do not. It's all in here👇 /2 substacktools.com/sharex/NV5…

I was going to ask why you never bring any verified evidence to support your posts, Dave. But that feels like a question with a fairly obvious answer.

Six years ago your party fought EV adoption and neglected charging infrastructure. Now Michaelia has left Johnny paying $200+ to fill the Ranger. Dumb culture wars have long running costs Tim, and Johnny can now see what your lot did to him.

There’s something profoundly sad about reaching the final chapter of a life and allowing prejudice, grievance and bigotry to become the things that define you.

“This is why the country is where it’s at,” says the Right-wing Lib campaign spokesman, responding indignantly to discussion of the time he literally pissed in a woman’s glass. Small world, Dave - 2 weeks ago I walked past a poster featuring the woman whose glass you pissed in.

RT @bonnieallan72: This is what Moira Deeming, recently ex-Vic Liberal, endorsed by Jess Wilson, now stands for. Family First continue to s…

It's an outrage that foreign tech company's agent can hack one of our key health care agencies - and that we only learn about it months later when the US tech company bothers to email our government. The PM already knew of this incident last week when he refused in Question Time to consider improving the powers of the AI Safety Institute. We need to move quickly to increase the AI Safety Institute's ability to keep us safe, and to legislate national protections and limits around AI, our privacy and our data. theguardian.com/australia-ne…

If you continue to repeat these allegations that I am paid for my tweets by Labor or anyone else, I will seek legal action. I haven’t voted Labor for many years, I’ve largely voted independent. I have a particular interest in the needs of vulnerable communities. Paid or otherwise. I have no partisan favours. Unlike yourself. You’ve put yourself out there, but apparently you can’t take criticism. And yes the size of your ego is inflated. I think that’s beyond doubt.

RT @aaronsmith: @bonnieallan72 I’m convinced you could write "Dave Hughes" on a napkin, put it in a locked drawer, and within twenty minute…

RT @bonnieallan72: If you continue to repeat these allegations that I am paid for my tweets by Labor or anyone else, I will seek legal acti…

For someone who earns so much from speaking fees, what a shit take Hughesy. She was PM for 5 years, earning ~$400k AUD/yr salary - a fraction of what you earned running a radio show, not running a country… As a former world leader, she now can earn a 6-figure speakers fee - kinda like how people normally pay you 5-figures per event as a speakers fee… …yet you somehow fail to disclose your celebrity keynotes at Liberal events as an in-kind donation? Why is that? If other comedians can remember to disclose their in-kind donations on the VEC register - like Tom Ballard’s $1,200 contribution to The Greens below - why can’t you? Do you lack integrity? Or are you doing something special that means you shouldn’t disclose?

Yes, I have old bills, and I’ve posted them before. What I find intriguing is how many people seem genuinely affronted by the fact that I pay less for electricity now than I did a decade ago. Ideology getting angry at evidence will never stop baffling me. nitter.net/aaronsmith/status/1635…

More than 902,000 Australians aged 12 to 19 gamble each year - enough to fill the MCG almost nine times over. Nearly two-thirds are aged between 12 and 17. Now more than ever, we need to protect our children from the harms of gambling. It’s not normal that one in four Year 12 students is gambling underage. Australians are the biggest losers in the world when it comes to gambling. Yet our government, despite holding an overwhelming majority, chose to side with gambling companies over everyday Australians by passing watered-down legislation. We still need stronger guardrails to protect young people from this predatory industry. theage.com.au/national/victo…

RT @bonnieallan72: Perhaps Aaron is concerned, like many of us, that there is a real chance of a hung Parliament where Jess Wilson will nee…

THREAD: I've previously harped on about Jillian Segal's secret trip to the US in March 2025 - a mere 4 months before her plan was released. Who could forget the infamous 67 page totally redacted FOI, or Minister Burke's claim for public interest immunity claim.

The Coalition's latest energy and climate plan is dumb, dangerous and desperate climate denial that would make energy more expensive and less reliable. They still haven't learnt the lessons from the decade of denial and delay under Abbott and Morrison. The clean energy transition is happening before our eyes. Renewables supplied a record 80% of east coast electricity demand on the weekend, we're installing household batteries at world-leading rates, and EV sales are through the roof. Scrapping net-zero and other measures to appease the Nationals and woo One Nation voters would drag the country backwards. abc.net.au/news/2026-09-23/c…

Jess Wilson lives in Hawthorn East and not in her electorate

This remains one of my favourite photos of you Dave. There you are fronting a Liberal Party event beside Bev McArthur, who recently billed taxpayers for a 'study trip' to Thailand to learn about their cannabis laws😉. And there you stand...our brave little integrity warrior.

In 2014, I paid over 24c/kWh for electricity. Over the past week i've averaged 10.8c kWh. One of the cheapest yet. I apologise to anyone whose worldview has been adversely affected by my electricity bill.

Which MPs don’t live in the electorates they’re seeking election in? Tom Elliott would like to know. I wonder what Tom will say if candidates he wants to win turn out not to live in the electorates they want to represent.

Could journalists please stop asking white supremacists, neo-Nazis and KKK members whether Pauline Hanson and One Nation’s policy platform appeals to them. Pauline doesn't like it.