What a hideously inappropriate and incompetent response. Quite typical sadly of these horrible @AustralianLabor government. The idea that a gun buyback will make Australians safer is childish wishful thinking dressed up as policy. Criminals and terrorists don’t line up to hand in weapons, so the only people disarmed are those already doing the right thing. We end up with a worse ratio: fewer firearms held by law-abiding citizens and no meaningful impact on those who intend harm. We’ve tried symbolic gestures before. They don’t make families safer, they just make nice sounding news headlines. Real safety requires confronting the hard issues: extremist networks, ideological violence, policing failures and our border integrity. Feel-good confiscation schemes are pointless. It’s immature politics to pretend otherwise. Australia deserves honesty and competence in public safety, not theatre. People’s lives matters too much 🇦🇺

I wrote to my council sharing my thoughts on having three flags instead of just the Australian 🇦🇺 one. This was their response.

Same gun. One is a murderer. One is hero. It’s not about the guns.

FYI everyone in light of announcements made today by Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese: Right-wing extremist movements in Australia On 7 December 2023, the Senate referred an inquiry into right-wing extremist movements in Australia to the Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee for inquiry and report by 6 December 2024. The inquiry examined the nature and extent of right-wing extremist movements in Australia, including the threat they pose, links with international movements, how individuals radicalise, the role of the online environment, and measures to counter violent extremism, particularly among young people. For anyone interested, the full Committee report (December 2024) can be read here: 👉 Report - Right-wing extremist movements in Australia (Parliament of Australia) –

Right wing extremist movements in Australia

Report

Key recommendations of the Committee The report made several practical recommendations for reducing the threat of extremism: 1. Periodic evaluation of Australia’s deradicalisation and counter-violent extremism programs, involving experts, law enforcement and researchers. 2. Develop a national engagement framework for young people to help them identify and resist extremist ideologies and participate positively in their communities. 3. Fund research into extremist activity online, including on social media, gaming and gaming-adjacent platforms, to understand how these environments are used for recruitment and propaganda. 4. The eSafety Commissioner should work with stakeholders to create best practice guidelines ensuring transparent and independent monitoring of how social media platforms enforce policies to remove extremist content. 5. The government should consider legislation to allow law enforcement and intelligence to access encrypted communications with a warrant where national security threats exist. 6. Adopt a nationally consistent definition of hate crimes and consider establishing a national hate crimes database. Political & public debate • Some members - including Senator Mehreen Faruqi (Greens) - argued the report didn’t sufficiently address racism and white supremacy at the core of far-right extremism and recommended additional measures grounded in anti-racism and community engagement. Worthy of looking over.

Jerusalem in the late 1300’s ⛪️☪️✡️

It’s definitely the gun laws.

Our politicians are particularly stupid in Australia 🇦🇺 sadly.

When you inexplicably expand the currency by 80%, it’s no coincidence that the price of the thing most exposed to money creation; houses, rises by roughly the same amount 🏘️ #AssestInflation

The key driver in the market today is the yen carry trade unwinding, which is pushing USD/JPY and AUD/JPY lower, weakening AUD/USD, tightening liquidity conditions and feeding directly into bond volatility and Bitcoin’s extreme leverage washouts. This isn’t a central-bank-story, it’s a liquidity-plumbing day, where funding flows are dictating price action across bonds, FX and crypto. As yen-funded positions close, capital flees risk, Treasury demand rises, yields chop, spreads widen and the AUD takes heat. Bitcoin’s wild intraday swings were simply the liquidity pressure valve opening as positions liquidated on both sides. For Australia, the implications are very real and very serious: even if yields soften, mortgage rates and the cost-of-living pressures in 2026 are unlikely to improve because spreads and risk premia rise when liquidity tightens. The yen is setting the tone; tighter liquidity, lower risk appetite, higher refinancing strain and a much more fragile market structure across every asset class.

More “diversity decorations” for Christmas in Australia 🇦🇺 Sydney’s Xmas 🎄 markets are a terror target now that we’ve imported the two thousand year old Abrahamic blood fued to our shores.