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Longstanding Coalition supporters have jumped ship to One Nation. Former Nationals leader Barnaby Joyce is the most high-profile defector. Sweaty, red-faced, possibly drunk, Joyce has been the mascot of agricultural capitalists since assuming office in 2005. For One Nation, Joyce is a prized link to the establishment, a well-connected powerbroker among Australia’s right for decades, having served twice as deputy prime minister.

I dunno what rules we want to have in this community, but thought I’d kick things off by this article I read, which forbodes 2026. A year (I suspect) that the centre right Labor governments and right wing LNP governments clamp down on political speech.

After a month-long vitriolic campaign against the Palestine movement, the Labor government and the right to protest, the Greens have followed Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in capitulating to the ruling-class demand for a federal inquiry.

The royal commission is a win for the ruling class, which has mounted a weeks-long offensive to use the Bondi massacre to attack the Albanese government, the Palestine movement and civil rights more generally.

Will the Bondi massacre result in a new wave of anti-Muslim and anti-migrant racism? Australia’s right-wing politicians certainly hope so.