RT @abcnews: #BREAKING: Police have arrested a man after he reportedly made verbal threats while armed with "nunchucks" at state MP Hannah…

The black rifle coffee alpha male takes a sip from his thermos and looks out from the bunker to the battlefield, it’s hell out there. “Perfect” He thinks He adjusts the sights on his custom-built 16-inch 6mm ARC AR-15 with a Proof Research carbon-fiber barrel, JP Enterprises silent captured spring system, and a Geissele Super Dynamic Enhanced two-stage trigger. He picked it because the trigger felt smooth against his $350 carbon fiber combat gloves, and the alloy magazines were 20 grams lighter against his $2200 Kevlar vest. He mindlessly feels at his tactical pouch, he has a 10 year supply of testosterone cypionate in it, just in case the pharmacies get hit. He smirks, “Daddy needs his combat fuel.” He’s been on TRT for 7 years, his testes have cobwebs on them. He steps out of the bunker, he’s spent years training for this moment, doing weighted carries, getting “don’t tread on me” tattoos, bow hunting, having a beard. “It’s fuckin showtime.” He announces. Just then he feels something lightly tap his leg. He glances down. It’s a 17 dollar drone off temu. It has a decal on it. “Is that… hentai?” His legs are blown smooth off. 12 miles away in a disgusting room illuminated only by the degenerate glow of purple LED strip lighting, a 17 year old leans back in his cum stained gamer chair. He’s grown so frail and sickly his friends and family keep mistaking him for Asmongold. He grabs another 30mg vyvanse and washes it down with a cold chicken nugget. “GG faggot” He’s killed 500 men.

Hi @corybernardi You showed up to the rally you refer to, and you (a grown-ass man and elected official) - laughed whilst filming children and calling them "trannies", and "incels". With all due respect, sit the fuck down. Kenny x

An ABC News live blog included a 1:34 video of Dr Haines being moved from an air ambulance in Melb. Filming a seriously unwell person on a stretcher from a distance and publishing it is an intrusion into one of the most private moments a person can have. I’ve lodged a complaint.

Tragic.

An empty building burns down in France and there is non-stop front page news, global outrage, wall to wall coverage, etc. A school full of children are incinerated alive in Gaza and not even a single report about it. This is why the western decline will continue.

A baking attempt of pig-shaped bread rolls with sausages ("pigs in a blanket") before and after baking.

This man contributed so much to humanity like helping crack Nazi Germany’s Enigma code, established the theoretical foundations of computer science, pioneered artificial intelligence,etc…yet they still chemically castrated him. 😞

Nature is healing.

There was a time when people watched the ABC to escape Murdoch. Now we eatch SBS and Al Jazeera to escape the ABC. #insiders

Artillery round strikes an "active gas well on a bombing range". Make it make sense.

While Australia stared at the crippled dead cat they just threw on the table, Labor and the Liberals were quietly passing legislation that should have been front-page news. The dead cat was Jordon Steele-John. I don’t know for sure who threw it there. But I know what happened in Parliament while everyone was looking. On Monday 12 October, Labor and the Coalition backed the Health Insurance Amendment (Incentive Payments and Other Measures) Bill 2026. Sounds harmless, doesn’t it? It creates a legal framework for more than $1.4 BILLION a year in government payments to healthcare providers, including corporate-owned businesses. But buried in that legislation are powers to let ministers decide payment rules, demand records, share personal information, investigate providers, recover money and authorise computers to make decisions, including decisions requiring judgement. Parliament’s own Human Rights Committee had already warned that these information powers could seriously interfere with Australians’ privacy and that the safeguards might not be good enough. They passed it anyway. Then came the Social Security and Other Legislation Amendment (Technical Changes No. 2) Bill 2026. More computer-made decisions. More use of income data to calculate family assistance and child support. New powers to change certain decisions already under review by the Administrative Review Tribunal. Some provisions improve review rights. Others expand automated administration. After Robodebt, you might reasonably expect Parliament to examine every one of those powers with a microscope. And then there was the Aged Care Legislation Amendment (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Aged Care Commissioner and Other Measures) Bill 2026. This changes aged-care subsidies, accommodation deposits, means-testing arrangements and government debt recovery. It also establishes a limited pathway for reconsidering certain aged-care assessments. Not the unfettered right for qualified assessors to override an algorithm when it gets someone’s needs wrong. After months of pressure, the government finally agreed on Thursday to an independent review of its aged-care assessment system. Now consider what we’ve been uncovering at Enough Australia. Private equity buying up healthcare businesses. nib acquiring independent NDIS plan managers. Publicly funded services being consolidated into corporate groups. Governments increasingly relying on data, payment rules and automated administration. These laws do not hand Medicare or the NDIS to nib. But they help build the administrative and funding environment in which large corporate operators can do business. We, the public, pays for it. The government writes the rules. Private businesses can receive the money. And increasingly, computer systems help decide who qualifies, what gets paid and what happens when the records don’t agree. Labor and the Coalition did not agree on every amendment, particularly in aged care. But they supported key parts of this expanding administrative machinery. And who was sitting in Parliament on Monday warning about exactly this? Jordon Steele-John. On Tuesday, he supported an amendment seeking to abolish the controversial aged-care assessment tool. Labor voted it down. On Thursday, the government announced a review of that system. By Thursday afternoon, the headlines were about Jordon himself. The decade old allegations against him deserve a fair, independent investigation. So do the decisions being made about the rest of us. Because while everyone was staring at the dead cat, Parliament was deciding who controls the money, who controls the information and how much power human beings will have when the computers get it wrong. That’s the story we should be reading. Www.enoughaustralia.com

This place man.. #GoodForSome All these contracts were valued at $55,000. That number also happens to be the threshold where any contract worth more prompts additional scrutiny under the department's procurement policies. abc.net.au/news/2026-10-18/u…

Giving Trump voters what they want. ICE might have to be repurposed into agricultural workers to stave off disaster.

Jerome Laxale scolds Brethren leader Gareth Hales after he says a pre-election golf club meeting he set up was just "business," but can’t recall who was there—only who wasn’t🤦‍♂️ “So you have a recollection of who wasn’t there, but you don’t have a recollection of who was there”💥

While the Australian media spent the week obsessing over Jordon Steele-John, a far bigger story about political donations, corporate lobbying, private health insurance and former government executives was sitting in plain sight. And fuck me, the connections deserve some scrutiny. In May 2016, Bill Shorten wrote to the National Automotive Leasing and Salary Packaging Association (NALSPA), promising to protect favourable fringe benefits tax arrangements. EIGHT DAYS LATER, NALSPA donated $120,000 to Labor. Two days after the federal election, it donated another $100,000. Labor incorrectly recorded that payment as an “other receipt”. The Australian Electoral Commission eventually picked it up. Labor blamed a “clerical error”. NALSPA also donated $150,000 to the Liberals in April 2017. Now follow the money. NALSPA’s current board includes ROB DE LUCA, the former CEO of the National Disability Insurance Agency. De Luca now runs McMillan Shakespeare, which owns salary packaging giants Maxxia and RemServ, as well as NDIS plan management companies Plan Partners, Plan Tracker and My Plan Support. The company makes money from salary packaging and disability services. Its leasing businesses benefit commercially from tax arrangements the industry lobbies to preserve. And who has lobbied for NALSPA? DPG Advisory Solutions. In July 2022, DPG formally declared that it had conducted lobbying for BOTH NALSPA and Private Healthcare Australia during the preceding 12 months. Now here’s where it gets interesting. One of DPG’s registered lobbyists is BEN OQUIST. Yes, the former Australia Institute executive director who remained on its board after leaving his executive position. And the husband of Greens Senator SARAH HANSON-YOUNG. DPG’s predecessor, ECG Advisory, also had a documented business relationship with former Liberal Treasurer and Future Fund chairman Peter Costello. Fast-forward to August 2026. NALSPA makes a submission to Parliament calling for a NEW tax concession allowing employees to salary package private health insurance premiums. Private Healthcare Australia had been pushing similar arrangements for years. Meanwhile, the Albanese government was trying to remove the additional private health insurance rebate for people aged 65 and over, saving approximately $3 billion over four years. The Greens helped block that legislation this week. Mark Butler has reintroduced it. NALSPA’s proposed tax concession is separate from the legislation and has not been enacted. But consider what is happening. Older Australians face losing part of their health insurance rebate while an industry association representing major financial services businesses is lobbying for another tax concession that could generate additional business for salary packaging companies. And sitting on that association’s board is the former head of the NDIA, now running a company making millions from both salary packaging and NDIS plan management. The association has a documented history of substantial political donations. Its lobbying firm has represented both the salary packaging industry and private health insurers. And one of that firm’s registered lobbyists is married to a senior Greens senator. To be clear, there is no evidence that Oquist personally handled these accounts or that Hanson-Young influenced the legislation. But surely Australians deserve to know exactly who has been lobbying whom, what they have asked for, and whose commercial interests stand to benefit. Where are the journalists examining THAT? Where is the scrutiny of former government executives moving into industries dependent on government funding and favourable tax treatment? Where is the investigation into the relationships between political donations, corporate lobbyists, public policy and private profit? Instead, we’ve spent the week watching the political and media circus around Jordon Steele-John.

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Andrew Gee fires up slamming Ben Small for “providing a protection racket” for Plymouth Brethren Gareth Hales after the church leader can’t even answer on if he has any concern about two of his members engaging Linda Reynolds to access a secure AEC database. 🔥 Just disgraceful.