When Tim Fischer’s widow Judy Brewer approached The Australian to debunk Hanson’s bullshit claim that “Tim Fischer called me a witch & said I should be burned at the stake”, she’d never have imagined parts of News Corp would attack the story as insignificant. Watch James Morrow.

In 1989, as tanks rolled into central Beijing to crush the pro-democracy protest in Tiananmen Square, Australia’s then prime minister, Bob Hawke, spontaneously offered asylum to all Chinese citizens who happened to be in Australia. Thousands took up his offer and made lasting contributions to the country that gave them shelter. On Tuesday, Hawke’s successor, Anthony Albanese, granted five women of Iran’s national football team asylum, and offered it to all those in the team’s party. Unlike Hawke, however, Albanese did the right thing only after being pressured by Australian public opinion and, if you accept his version of events, US president Donald Trump. ✍️ Terry Barnes Article | spectator.com/article/austra…

Our ancient English liberty.

'Australians don’t want a bar of this bloke, frankly.’ That’s what Australia’s prime minister, Anthony Albanese, said today after calling for Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor to be banished from the line of succession to the throne. It’s no exaggeration to say that Australians are revolted by the abundant evidence of Mountbatten-Windsor’s relationship with the disgraced financier and paedophile, Jeffrey Epstein. ✍️ Terry Barnes Article | spectator.com/article/why-au…

Ley leads a hopelessly divided Liberal party at war with itself. She’s had more positions on combating hate speech than the Kama Sutra, and none as satisfying. ebx.sh/tndmop

"I want them to see what they have done" - AJA's call discussed on Sky News Policy consultant Terry Barnes joined Jaimee Rogers who is filling in for Peta Credlin on Sky News and was asked about a recent call from AJA for federal Labor ministers to be banned from Jewish events while they refuse to listen to the Jewish community and support a Royal Commission into the Bondi Chanukah massacre. Barnes said that AJA is "a very sound organisation" but that he disagreed with the call and that Labor ministers should be exposed to the Jewish community's grief, quoting Jackie Kennedy saying "I want them to see what they have done." @TerryBarnes5

The Australian media has relished the unexpected chance to put the boot into the beleaguered England side. ✍️ Terry Barnes spectator.co.uk/article/auss…

The most important decision Jess Wilson will make is the appointment of the Shadow Treasurer. It can’t be Newbury, or his immediate predecessor, Brad Rowswell. But at the Nicholls conference, I think I saw the solution to this personnel problem: the Liberals’ industrial relations spokesman, Richard Welch. Article | spectator.com.au/2025/11/mem…

The international community must stay highly vigilant and resolutely thwart any attempt to revive militarism, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said on Wednesday in response to a related query about the recent provocative remarks by Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi regarding Taiwan. #JapanProvocation Analysts have pointed out that among all the prime ministers of Japan, Takaichi was the first to clearly state a "Taiwan contingency" could constitute a "survival-threatening situation" for Japan. In such an event, Japan may invoke the so-called right to collective self-defense to interfere militarily in the Taiwan Strait. Mao said the right of collective self-defense set forth in the UN Charter is created to safeguard the collective security of the international community and prevent the revival of fascist forces. Japan has been restricted from exercising this right since the end of World War Two. She said that a review of history shows that launching aggression against other countries under the pretext of a "survival-threatening situation" and "self-defense" has always been a convenient tactic of Japanese militarism. She went on to point out that in 1931, Japan called whether it could seize "Manchuria" as "survival-threatening" and used that as a pretext to carry out the September 18th Incident and invade and occupy Northeast China. Japan later claimed that to defend "the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere" was an existential battle for Japan, enlarging its war of aggression to the entirety of Asia. Whether to attack Pearl Harbor was also deemed as "survival-threatening" to Japan, which ignited the Pacific War. On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War, the international community must be highly vigilant and resolutely thwart any attempt to revive militarism and jointly safeguard the post-war international order and world peace, Mao added.

This bird just found out that golf balls bounce on concrete, and he’s having the time of his life 😂

From next week, even more working Australians will have the right to disconnect. Labor will always fight for better pay and fairer conditions.