With Labor’s win confirmed yesterday in Calwell, Labor can lay claim to 94 seats in the House of Representatives, shattering its previous record of 86 at the 1987 election. In seat terms, the only result that bears comparison for Labor is the wartime election of 1943, when Labor under John Curtin won 49 in what was them a chamber of 75 seats. As covered on the dedicated late counting thread, the only seat that remains seriously in doubt is Bradfield, where the Liberals hold a 14-vote lead over the independent in the early stages of a recount – a partial recount begins today in Goldstein, though something fairly extraordinary would have to turn up to overturn the 260-vote Liberal lead. If nothing changes from here, the Liberals will have 29 seats, the Nationals nine, independents nine, and the Greens, Katter’s Australian Party and the Centre Alliance one each.
Some further random points of note:
• JWS Research has produced a “post-federal election survey report” along the same lines of a similar effort after the 2022 election, but has been sparing with details thus far. The Financial Review reports it found 49% of Labor voters identified a favourable view of the party as the main motivation for their choice, followed by 23% for the leader, 18% for policies or issues and 7% for the local candidate. Among Coalition voters, 56% named the party, 20% policies or issues, 13% the local candidate and only 9% the leader. The pollster further relates a finding that 16% decided on the day they voted and another 39% during the campaign period, which didn’t differ greatly from the 2022 results. The poll was conducted Tuesday to Wednesday in the week after the election from a sample of 1000.
• Josh Dolega, an officer at the Australian Taxation Office in Burnie and organiser with the Left faction Community and Public Sector Union, has been preselected to fill the Labor Tasmanian Senate vacancy created by Anne Urquhart’s successful move to the lower house seat of Braddon. Sue Bailey of The Mercury reports the field also included Unions Tasmania secretary Jessica Munday, Meander Valley councillor Ben Dudman, former party state secretary Stuart Benson, Australian Education Union state president David Genford, and Burnie councillor and disabilities worker Chris Lynch. Dolega has a distinctly low profile, but had backing from Urquhart and her power base in the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union.
• By way of refuting suggestions that Labor’s low primary vote raised questions about Labor’s legitimacy or mandate, national secretary Paul Erickson noted in his National Press Club address last week that the party recorded a higher vote in the Senate than the House of Representatives, which he attributed to tactical voting in the lower house. While the distinction was fine – Labor recorded 34.6% of the vote in the House and 35.1% in the Senate – the last occasion I can identify where the two were matched at concurrent elections was in 1958.
• On the subject of Paul Erickson, Nine Newspapers reports on suggestions he could contest a by-election for the Melbourne seat of Isaacs should Mark Dreyfus react to his dumping as Attorney-General by quitting politics, the odds on which would seem rather short.
Hypothetically speaking, will the Greens run a repeat of the last three years?
If no change from BAU, fine, we know exactly what to expect.
If change, what change?
BW
“Hypothetically speaking, will the Greens run a repeat of the last three years?
If no change from BAU, fine, we know exactly what to expect.
If change, what change?”
Hypothetically speaking, will Labor run a repeat of the last three years?
If no change from BAU, fine, we know exactly what to expect.
If change, what change?
Ven:
Tuesday, June 3, 2025 at 7:28 pm
Seconded, and I’m not meaning to piss in your pocket. I’d add that whatever’s happened cat, I hope she’s back soon! I’m off.
Pegasussays:
Tuesday, June 3, 2025 at 7:45 pm
BW
“Hypothetically speaking,
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Don’t you mean hypocritically speaking?
As that is what your Payman leaves Labor is good and Cox leaves Green is bad argument seems to be.
Pegasus @ #2601 Tuesday, June 3rd, 2025 – 7:45 pm
Er, being like “I know you are but what am I?” when Labor won lots of seats and the Greens lost a lot of theirs doesn’t really work.
But by all means, keep it up, slap more rotten salmon props into the Senate and keep on screaming how we need to shut down every power and gas station in the country right now and damn the consequences. See how many votes that gets you.
Entropy,
And yet I didn’t make a judgement of “good” or “bad” for either.
You will always read what you want regardless of anything I post (or don’t post), as will Ven, etc, etc, etc.
Boerwar @ #2561 Tuesday, June 3rd, 2025 – 6:09 pm
Yes, this has been apparent for quite a few decades in butterfly populations.
Annual species sightings in my location have either turned into triennial appearances or disappeared entirely.
I last saw a Dingy Swallowtail at my lemon tree in 2019 (I think – I was wearing a mask so…).
Monarchs have been absent for a few years longer.
Lesser Wanderers – magnificent mimics of the Monarch, have gone.
Common Browns of course still appear annually but their less common cousins, Solander browns have disappeared.
Every 6 to 10 years we’d get a plague of Caper Whites with a north wind – I barely remember what they look like.
Xenicas – 6 subspecies down to one.
Swordgrass Browns, a magnificent chocolate brown creature are now a rare sight.
Skippers are gone.
All the rarer species of pea blues, once common on my lawn, are left with only one or two of the common species.
The most common species (Common Browns, Painted Ladies and Australian Admirals) in vastly reduced numbers.
Cabbage Whites of course are still decimating my vegies. Only a nuclear war will dent their populations.
Bogong moths and fruit moths barely appear.
It is so sad. We are idiots, let’s face it.
I see that you are avoiding the question, Peg. Fair enough. I doubt whether the Greens Party has any idea about its behaviours over the next three years.
As for Labor, it will increase solar generation, wind generation, the number of EVs, household batteries, and large batteries. It will improve the poles and wires. Coal-fired power stations will close.
Labor will support real wage increases for workers, particularly those workers on the lowest rung of wages.
Labor will provide further support for child care.
Labor will provide hundreds of thousands of free TAFE places.
Labor will reduce HECs debt.
Labor will increase the focus on domestic arms manufacturing.
Labor will build tens of thousands of houses. These will be for low cost rentals. They will be for people escaping DV. And they will be for remote Indigenous communities.
Labor will reform taxes to increase taxes on those most able to afford it.
Labor will improve relations with Indonesia.
Labor will continue to improve relations with Pacific Island Communities.
Labor will continue to build emergency care clinics.
Boom times on the way for electrical infrastructure construction:
https://www.pv-magazine-australia.com/2025/05/29/clean-energy-to-ignite-36-billion-construction-boom-from-2026/
“we need to shut down every power and gas station in the country right now and damn the consequences.”
And yet, the Greens do not demand this now nor have they ever.
They have always argued for a just and phased transition for the workers in FF industries.
They argue, in line with the scientific evidence, that we must not open *new* coal and gas projects.
Like the Murdoch media, FF representatives and the political duopoly you continue to misrepresent the Greens’ position.
‘timbo says:
Tuesday, June 3, 2025 at 7:55 pm
Boerwar @ #2561 Tuesday, June 3rd, 2025 – 6:09 pm
‘imacca says:
Tuesday, June 3, 2025 at 6:02 pm
“Global insect populations appear to be crashing:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/03/climate-species-collapse-ecology-insects-nature-reserves-aoe”
REmarkably sad. And, something people here see all the time. Used to be on a long road trip up the coast, in 1400km or so you cleaned the bugs off the windsceeen 2 or three times. Now, once maybe or not at all. ‘
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One way or another I have been tracking local extinctions in Australia for the last 65 years – most recently I was out today, again doing a survey. The general trend has ALWAYS been in the same direction even though there are particular winners. Climate change is accelerating this trend.
The only consolation I have is that we are setting up the preconditions for the sort of massive starburst of speciation which eventually follows all mass extinction events.
Yes, this has been apparent for quite a few decades in butterfly populations.
Annual species sightings in my location have either turned into triennial appearances or disappeared entirely.
I last saw a Dingy Swallowtail at my lemon tree in 2019 (I think – I was wearing a mask so…).
Monarchs have been absent for a few years longer.
Lesser Wanderers – magnificent mimics of the Monarch, have gone.
Common Browns of course still appear annually but their less common cousins, Solander browns have disappeared.
Every 6 to 10 years we’d get a plague of Caper Whites with a north wind – I barely remember what they look like.
Xenicas – 6 subspecies down to one.
Swordgrass Browns, a magnificent chocolate brown creature are now a rare sight.
Skippers are gone.
All the rarer species of pea blues, once common on my lawn, are left with only one or two of the common species.
The most common species (Common Browns, Painted Ladies and Australian Admirals) in vastly reduced numbers.
Cabbage Whites of course are still decimating my vegies. Only a nuclear war will dent their populations.
Bogong moths and fruit moths barely appear.
It is so sad. We are idiots, let’s face it.’
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Thanks. Interesting. I could point to some locals that have disappeared from some localities but the common grass blue (Zizina otis) is possibly more common than ever. We still see clouds of Common Browns.
We are losing bird species at the rate of a species every ten years from the local nature reserves which generally tend to be ecological islands in an urban sea.
BW,
Over the course of many years I have learnt you do not debate in good faith, either with me or with many other Pbers. No disrespect, but I am not going to waste my time engaging with you.
‘Stoogey Lurker says:
Tuesday, June 3, 2025 at 8:00 pm
Boom times on the way for electrical infrastructure construction:
https://www.pv-magazine-australia.com/2025/05/29/clean-energy-to-ignite-36-billion-construction-boom-from-2026/‘
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We can’t get tradies already.
And for some reason or another Labor’s transition to renewable energy is just never good enough.
But by all means, please keep on being like this, it’s so politically popular apparently.
‘Pegasus says:
Tuesday, June 3, 2025 at 8:04 pm
BW,
Over the course of many years I have learnt you do not debate in good faith, either with me or with many other Pbers. No disrespect, but I am not going to waste my time engaging with you.’
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It is just as I thought. The Greens were right for the last three years and they are going to be just as right for the next three years. Let’s hope that Waters can get rid of the ideologues, the self righteous and the holier-than-thou judgemental dead wood.
‘Kirsdarke says:
Tuesday, June 3, 2025 at 8:07 pm
And for some reason or another Labor’s transition to renewable energy is just never good enough.
But by all means, please keep on being like this, it’s so politically popular apparently.’
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Dead ends abound.
Libs on the nose in the Apple Isle. Libs leaving it to the Greens hehe.
“Tasmanian Liberal Premier Jeremy Rockliff appears to have lost the confidence of the House of Assembly and, barring any crossbencher backflips, will have to resign or call a snap election.
With three crossbenchers late on Tuesday publicly supporting a foreshadowed Labor no-confidence motion in the beleaguered Liberal leader, his premiership appears doomed.
The final decision will now rest with the state Greens, who will meet as a party – most likely early on Wednesday – to decide Mr Rockliff’s fate.”
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/rocky-faces-knockout-blow-leaving-minority-liberal-government-deeper-in-trouble/news-story/3b655659db32fa7d2111387907582a5b?amp
BW: Sourcing tradies might be a problem, but automation is becoming more prevalent:
https://reneweconomy.com.au/more-confident-than-ever-australia-set-for-stunning-low-cost-for-solar-with-help-of-robots-and-ai/
https://reneweconomy.com.au/chinese-robot-does-job-of-three-to-four-humans-installing-thousands-of-panels-at-australian-solar-project/
https://reneweconomy.com.au/robots-are-coming-machines-being-tested-at-solar-projects-for-pile-driving-as-well-as-mounting-panels/
@Pegasus –
“And yet, the Greens do not demand this now nor have they ever.
They have always argued for a just and phased transition for the workers in FF industries”
I will take your word for it but it doesn’t come across that way.
In all the soundbites and quotes I have seen from Greens about the Woodside thing, for example, I have not seen or heard one of them talk about a transition for the workers in WA.
Frankly I can barely remember any Greens MP ever mentioning it ever. I only remember you talking about it.
Far from it, they come across as radically uncaring about the jobs of blue collar workers and they are treated accordingly by said part of Australia.
This is not due to media unfairness. This is entirely due to what the Greens choose to talk about and highlight themselves.
I went and looked at the Greens press release on the Northwest Shelf decision, complete with “quotes attributable” to Whish Wilson, SHY and Dorinda Cox (what a difference a week makes). Jobs are not mentioned once by anybody. Phased transition is not mentioned once by anybody.
The entire thing is preaching to the converted language about climate bombs etc.
It certainly isn’t obviously available in their website policy section either. There is one line about “create thousands of jobs in the transition” in their climate policy page but it doesn’t even try one sentence to explain what that’s meant to mean or who the jobs are for.
Don’t complain to me about this Peg. This is the truth. If you have any actual connections in the Greens, you should be telling them – this is the stuff you have to start remembering to talk about, to outreach on, in order to win more support for your cause. Endless preaching to the converted wins nothing.
One for BW
“Dutch government collapses after Geert Wilders’ far-right party quits
Dutch far-right figurehead Geert Wilders announced Tuesday morning that his party would quit the government in The Hague, throwing the Netherlands into turmoil.
Wilders’ Party for Freedom (PVV) left the coalition in a heated dispute over the government’s position on asylum. “No signature for our asylum plans. No changes to the [coalition] agreement. PVV is leaving the coalition,” Wilders posted on X.”
https://www.politico.eu/article/geert-wilders-dutch-government-collapse/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication
It took me all of 3 seconds to google it, mate….for example NSW….
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Empowering coal workers and communities
https://greens.org.au/energy-transition-plan-signup
“Liberal and Labor are lying to workers and communities, saying coal can keep going for decades when science says it clearly can’t.
Coal is coming to an end, we know that. We can’t abandon coal workers and communities. We need to look after people working in the coal, oil and gas industries with well-managed transition planning driven by workers and communities and supported by all levels of government.
The Greens will:
End coal and gas by 2030
Give workers and industry certainty over when coal-fired power stations will close down so they can plan ahead
Establish a NSW Energy Transition Authority
Look after people working in the coal, oil and gas industries, with ready access to training and financial security
Raise $8bn/year in coal and gas royalties
Create hundreds of jobs
Clean up and restore mining and power station sites
We don’t need to choose between taking urgent climate action and supporting coal communities. We can do both.
Will you add your name to make sure coal workers and communities are supported throughout the transition to renewables?”
Full policy: https://greens.org.au/nsw/TakingthePowerBack2023
Greens only party with plan for Queensland coal and gas workers
https://greens.org.au/news/media-release/greens-only-party-plan-queensland-coal-and-gas-workers
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Greens unveil $19bn plan to subsidise coal workers to transition away from fossil fuel jobs
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/feb/25/greens-unveil-19bn-plan-to-subsidise-coal-workers-to-transition-away-from-fossil-fuel-jobs
Labor and the Greens collaborated last term to create:
https://www.netzero.gov.au/net-zero-economy-authority
“To work toward our vision, we have defined three core missions that guide our efforts across the Authority:
Help workers in coal and gas facilities affected by the transition to prepare for and find new well paid, safe and secure jobs.
Support communities significantly affected by the transition to net zero to prosper, including through economic development and investment.
Be a trusted and influential voice to build understanding of, and shape policy on, the regional net zero transition.”
Bandt did state that the best job for a mine worker was another mine working job.
The sting in the tail?
There Greens have not in 35 years supported a single new mine of any kind whatsoever.
Not one.
Not ever.
The Greens hate mines.
They routinely astroturf local opposition to any new mine or any extension to an existing mine.
@Upnorth – the Dutch providing yet another object lesson to people calling for proportional voting in the lower house.
It’s one thing for a minor party to be able to block a bill in the upper house and negotiate for changes. It’s another for the entire government to fall every time someone wants to hold the other parties to ransom over their pet policy. Of course Wilders and his far right nutbags eventually found their moment to force a clash over the European far right’s favourite punching bag, migration.
They had an election, took 6 months to form a government, lasted under a year and now I assume they probably go to a new election with Wilders making it a quasi referendum on immigration and asylum seekers. Fantastic. It’s a wonder the Netherlands can function.
Tassie – It seems that Labor had been hang off on supporting any motion of no confidence until after the federal election. They clearly knew that the 3 independents were going to be on board.
The Greens would be foolish to turn around and back the Rockcliffe government after already calling for a confidence vote, but they might do so as they wanted to be the ones to submit the motion. But at least this way they get to stick in the final blow of the knife.
Arky
Indeed.
The Greens have been advocating for a just and phased transition for coal and gas workers for years.
But sure, it’s not the fault of the media or the major parties that people are ignorant about such Greens policies/sarcasm off.
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Greens push for authority to help coal and gas workers through energy transition
Penny Allman-Payne says body would combat climate scare campaigns by giving workers a secure future
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/aug/29/greens-push-for-authority-to-help-coal-and-gas-workers-through-energy-transition
Greens only party with plan for Queensland coal and gas workers
Greens unveil $19bn plan to subsidise coal workers to transition away from fossil fuel jobs
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The Greens have lots of plans for things they will never have to implement and never have to actually pay for.
Arky
“This is the truth.”
Obviously, it isn’t as I have just proven.
TPOF,
I understand why you do not want to acknowledge the above.
TPOF,
I understand why you do not want to acknowledge the above.
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I did acknowledge it. Effing stupid, dishonest and hypocritical.
Peg, if the Greens are relying on people Googling stuff they’re not saying themselves, they are failing.
Great, somewhere deep on the website they mention transition for NSW (alongside ending all coal and gas by 2030, so forgive mine workers for not trusting that a few words about looking after people means an entire actual plan to ensure these communities aren’t destroyed)
I didn’t hear about the Queensland coal plan before the election. Now, I’m not in Queensland so maybe they narrow cast it only to Queenslanders. If so, it doesn’t appear they were very convincing about it. It’s the sort of thing they should be doing though, so clap clap. Talk more about that a bit more. Like I said, not one mention by any Greens MP in the context of the Northwest Shelf which they’re demanding Labor should have shut. Big high profile issue. That’s the time to talk about your transition plan and convince communities you care.
Edit – oh great, and you found a mention from 2022. Terrific. Lots of help in the 2025 campaign.
But by all means, you and the Greens can keep on shooting at this messenger trying to help you. It’s been doing you lots of good so far.
If you want to be the just phased transition party, talk about it even 10% as much as you talk about climate bombs and do not believe any voters will “just google it mate” to find out stuff you’re not actively talking about because they won’t.
Also be prepared to work hard to get people believe you’re serious and it’s not just a fig leaf. You can’t just say your slogan and leave it there. Not when it is something people don’t already associate with your party. Labor has the same thing with taxes, the Libs have it with health and education. People don’t automatically believe you’re really committed on this stuff.
Australian universities are now banning “unauthorised” political banners. As a student you may be expelled for engaging in protest activities against this:
At least 27 Palestinians were killed and dozens wounded by Israeli fire near a food distribution site in the southern Gaza Strip on Tuesday, local health authorities said.
It is the third consecutive day of similar incidents as Israel attempts to impose a new aid distribution regime on the Gaza Strip, which it has been blockading for weeks.
I was a university student when Howard was PM and remember many protests taking place against the various policies of his government, Tampa, Iraq etcetera.
Back then, the idea that universities would impose a blanket ban on unauthorised political banners or expel students for being engaged in protest activities would have been inconceivable, even to the most incorrigible Tory.
It was part of the fabric of university life, and understood to be all pretty tame in comparison to the 1970s. The university celebrated its history.
What’s incredible about today’s unprecedented curbing of student political activity is that it isn’t a reaction to any protest waged against an Australian government – you can protest Australian governments til the cows come home and nobody will even think of pulling an administrative crackdown like this.
The tradition of free student protest in Australia ends when it runs up against a foreign government, while this foreign government is starving a captive population to the point of famine and baiting the famished with food aid to be massacred.
TPOF
Oh dear. Time to reflect on your “poisonous contributions” to PB, as you counselled me to the other day. Still laughing at your projection and cognitive dissonance.
Goodnight.
IMO the Greens over-achieved in the May election. They certainly did better than they deserved – blocking and stunting should only get you so far. Looks like they have learnt nothing. Next time single figures.
Smh: Greens defector’s use of slur against fellow senator exposed in text leak
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/greens-deny-problem-with-indigenous-representation-after-senators-leave-20250603-p5m4e4.html
“Senator Dorinda Cox called One Nation leader Pauline Hanson a “f—ing retard” in a text message leaked after she defected to Labor”
“Albanese’s office and Cox did not respond to questions about her language toward Hanson, whose spokesman also did not respond.”
A shame, Albo had an opportunity to repeat a previous press release of his:
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/anthony-albanese-has-only-one-word-to-say-about-sydney-airport-chairmans-resignation/yr067pihy
https://kevinbonham.blogspot.com/2025/06/labor-tables-no-confidence-motion-in.html
Labor Tables No Confidence Motion In Premier Rockliff
Things getting messy in Tasmania … again.
Kevin – I assume you will be providing your fine coverage of any subsequent election?
I see someone from the Greens has leaked a text message where Dorinda Cox insulted Pauline Hanson with the r-word. Well, it’s Hanson, I think Cox can get away with just an apology on this one.
Quietly I have noticed that unfortunately the r word has been making a comeback in the younger generation even among lefties who should know better. Kids more lefty than me in any other way, who worship people like AOC. I don’t like it and I don’t know where it is coming from.
Arkysays:
Tuesday, June 3, 2025 at 9:05 pm
I see someone from the Greens has leaked a text message where Dorinda Cox insulted Pauline Hanson with the r-word. Well, it’s Hanson, I think Cox can get away with just an apology on this one.
Quietly I have noticed that unfortunately the r word has been making a comeback in the younger generation even among lefties who should know better. Kids more lefty than me in any other way, who worship people like AOC. I don’t like it and I don’t know where it is coming from.
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Just gotta have more rizz, boomer!
What a terrible scandal for Labor and Senator Cox, awful look. I am certain that absolutely nobody out there will be feeling a sudden surge of affinity for the user of such a slur about Senator Hanson, it is sure to reflect very badly on them indeed. Everybody is on board with political correctness deleting from the public vocabulary the only word that can comprehensively capture the merit of Ms Hanson’s public contribution.
bahahaha
Lesser Wanderers – magnificent mimics of the Monarch, have gone.
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Evolution can be fast but it ain’t that fast. The native species the lesser Wanderer cannot be a mimic of the introduced North American species the Monarch. It could be parallel evolution but it certainly not mimicry. As I’m pretty sure before the Monarch was introduced to Australia the Lesser Wanderer still had the same wing patterns.
Geoffrey Epsteinsays:
Tuesday, June 3, 2025 at 9:14 pm
What a terrible scandal for Labor and Senator Cox, awful look. I am certain that absolutely nobody out there will be feeling a sudden surge of affinity for the user of such a slur about Senator Hanson, it is sure to reflect very badly on them indeed. Everybody is on board with political correctness deleting from the public vocabulary the only word that can comprehensively capture the merit of Ms Hanson’s public contribution.
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She did it as a Green Senator in a text message to another Green i believe. If the Greens are so outraged by it, why didn’t they do something about it at the time. Instead of leaking it now?
Seems to be just more Greens hypocrisy.
The standard you walked past when she was a Green. Can’t be suddenly applied once she is not.
Geoffrey Epstein @ #2641 Tuesday, June 3rd, 2025 – 9:14 pm
She says what most Aussies are thinking.
The greens thought leaking this would make her look bad?
”I am certain that absolutely nobody out there will be feeling a sudden surge of affinity for the user of such a slur about Senator Hanson…”
I am certain that hardly anyone gives a stuff.
Not that I approve, it’s not something I’d say. But it is a leaked private message which was sent following some pretty offensive remarks by Ms Hanson.
I suppose the rule is as it always has been, updated for the internet age – never write anything you wouldn’t be too uncomfortable with seeing plastered on the front page of the Daily Rupert.
Anthony Albanese has opened the door to rewriting his proposed superannuation tax hikes to strike a deal with the Coalition that would sideline the Greens, as business calls for a new era of bipartisanship to enact generational reforms that address the nation’s growing economic challenges.
The Prime Minister welcomed signs the Coalition was willing to negotiate on legislation, with a renewed appetite for consensus to be tested on budget repair, productivity-enhancing reforms, environmental law reforms, a 2035 emissions reduction target, cuts to student debt and Australia’s response to geostrategic and trade challenges in the era of Donald Trump.
After opposition Treasury spokesman Ted O’Brien told The Australian on Sunday he would be willing to consider a deal on superannuation reform if Labor axed the model to tax unrealised capital gains, Mr Albanese said on Tuesday the government could not pass legislation through parliament on its own.
When asked if he would consider tweaking the superannuation proposal to win the support of the Coalition, Mr Albanese said: “We do not have a majority in the Senate; we obviously work with different parties.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/anthony-albanese-leaves-door-ajar-to-super-tax-compromise-with-coalition/news-story/f83c47bb9630a0256b10b8b4c0fe13a7?amp
Ukraine’s security service (SBU) revealed a new special operation once again hitting Russia’s Kerch Bridge to Crimea, this time in an underwater attack that it said had left the structure “in disrepair”. They published a video of the explosion.
In a post on Telegram, the SBU said its agents had mined the underwater supports of the bridge in an operation that had lasted several months, and detonated the first device at 4:44 a.m. local time on Tuesday morning.
The SBU said it had “badly damaged” those supports with the explosives, which had the blast equivalent of 1100 kilograms of TNT. “In fact, the bridge is in disrepair,” the SBU said, noting this is third time it has hit the strategically important crossing that connects Russia to the Crimean Peninsula.
Omar Comin’says:
Tuesday, June 3, 2025 at 9:32 pm
Geoffrey Epstein @ #2641 Tuesday, June 3rd, 2025 – 9:14 pm
What a terrible scandal for Labor and Senator Cox, awful look. I am certain that absolutely nobody out there will be feeling a sudden surge of affinity for the user of such a slur about Senator Hanson, it is sure to reflect very badly on them indeed. Everybody is on board with political correctness deleting from the public vocabulary the only word that can comprehensively capture the merit of Ms Hanson’s public contribution.
She says what most Aussies are thinking.
The greens thought leaking this would make her look bad?
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Who hasn’t once in a while used overly offensive language about some highly nasty person in a private message?
I think this shows the Greens, for leaking a private message, in a lot worse light then it shows Cox though. The Greens are coming across as extremely vengeful, spiteful and petty.
The chattering classes continue to talk about AUKUS.
Hans Ohf, the PM from building the Collins Class writes about the implausibility of completing the AUKUS sub build in the latest issue of Asia Pacific Defence Reporter. (I agree)
https://asiapacificdefencereporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/APDR-June-2025-WHOLE-MAG-Interactive.pdf
Allan Behm warns of the need for Australia to resist US bullying on defence spending. (I strongly agree)
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/03/australia-must-resist-us-bullying-to-increase-its-military-spending