That’s the bit I don’t get.
Whoever the spy was has been made as the person they approached identified themselves. Their handlers and ASIO both know who they are so there’s no way that they can be of any benefit to anyone now.
That’s the bit I don’t get.
Whoever the spy was has been made as the person they approached identified themselves. Their handlers and ASIO both know who they are so there’s no way that they can be of any benefit to anyone now.
So after a ridiculously aggressive campaign by Advance and the Libs down here in Dunkley (it’s been absolutely stifling) its been noticeable how severely unenthusiastic a lot of people have been on the few booths we visited today. We normally duck around a few local booths as my sons such a politics nerd and to hit up the different democracy sausage options so have a feel for it, and todays just depressing everywhere.
I mean there’s the slight possibility that only a handful of this international syndicate were aware of the politician being in their pocket, so it would narrow down who could have outed them.
I imagine the simplest explanation is ASIO don’t think a charge either
A) would stick or
B) even existed at the time of the activity or
C) is worth it.
Burgess should not have made the statement in the first place.
I do not like the idea of the head of ASIO making public speeches.
That’s the problem with this juncture of democracy/capitalism we’ve arrived at. People know somethings wrong but they won’t acknowledge what it is.
And all out systems have been captured by capitalism.
I work with a lot of people from all different countries and a very common question put to me is why do Australian people not care about anything?
And I can’t really think of any way to say “that’s not true” because really, Australian people don’t care about anything. Australians are apathetic towards every social issue.
A sitting member of parliament was recruited by a foreign government to work against the interest of the country. Those names must come out.
Burgess is behaving more like a politician, not like the head of a security organisation.
He should not be talking to the media.
Or is he that sneaky that he’s revealing this as part of a special intelligence operation? Shaking the tree is good to see what falls out…
Nice twitter thread on batshit moments in Australian Politics.
https://twitter.com/batshit_auspol/status/1761341012767650047
Working my way through but I really love 1 and 4, 28 and 30
And 13 is fantastic, like the Fast Show’s Bob Phlegming but with 100% Australianness pumped in.
Ooooft pretty good. No sign of Greg Hunts Twitter hack fiasco though
13 is amazing
I didn’t know this happened
I take it you guys have twitter accounts? As a non registered user it’s now basically impossible to to find shit. I look at that one link and I cant find any of the linked posts.
Top tier Musk effort to make your product less relevant.
I’d say that’s exactly what he’s really trying to do. Twitter was a platform for expression and for reason. It did a reasonable job of moderating disinformation and other abhorrent behaviour on there. That goes against what Musk wanted, so he bought them out and removed a lot of those safeguards. Paying $40bn to gut Twitter is probably a good investment in his eyes.
I love the fact that after all this time since the rebrand, people still can’t bring themselves to call it “X”.
At best, someone might say “X/Twitter”, but most people still just refer to it as Twitter.
I will forever call it twitter.
I refuse to update the app and still running the bird icon. The day it stops working is the day I delete it.
So the libs preselect a middle aged white guy consultant into their safe seat. Why didn’t you select a woman? It’s a democratic process. This is the liberal party.
Learnt nothing from last election. Will learn nothing from Dunkley.
Here’s hoping the moderates split the party or they spend plenty of time in the wilderness and come back as a true alternative centrist option to actually force some useful policy debates laughs in depression
I call it: “the application formally known as Twitter”