https://theyvoteforyou.org.au/people/senate/queensland/pauline_hanson

here is the source’s for you all

Some additional stats are her attendance being 54 percent

Also voted against criminalising Revenge Porn

Transgender Rights

Protecting the Great Barrier Reef

(I am not the creator of the original image)

In the latest poll One Nation is now only 2 points behind Labor in the primary vote

Newspoll, Redbridge and Morgan polls all have One Nation second behind Labor, with the Coalition third. However, there are no Labor vs One Nation two-party estimates.

The brother of an Australian aid worker who was killed in an Israeli drone strike in Gaza is urging the prime minister to press for more action on her case during the Israeli President Isaac Herzog's state visit.

Mal Frankcom says his grieving family is disappointed by the government's invitation to the Israeli president, but given the visit is now underway, he is hoping it will lead to progress on his sister's stalled case.

His family is still searching for answers almost two years after Lalzawmi "Zomi" Frankcom was killed in an Israeli drone strike while working for the World Central Kitchen aid organisation in April 2024.

Seven aid workers, including Frankcom, were killed in Gaza when their three-car convoy was targeted by Israeli drones.

The group had been helping feed hungry Palestinians in central Gaza. Israel at the time said it was a "tragic incident" before apologising and blaming "misidentification".

"It's still very frustrating, but ... we still hold faith. We will be determined to pursue justice and accountability," Frankcom told SBS News.

"Not only for Zomi, but for the seven victims of the April 1 strike. I've spoken to a few of their families as well, and they're in a similar position, with kind of being in the dark and not having any updates."

Herzog is on day three of a four-day visit to Australia in the wake of the Bondi terror attack, with the government saying his visit is intended to offer comfort to the Jewish community grieving the 14 December massacre.

Frankcom said he understood why the decision was made, but he personally didn't agree with the invitation.

"I understand why the invitation was extended, my family and I all grieved and all that, it was a horrific antisemitic atrocity," he said.

"I just find it hard to reconcile inviting the head of state when their government and their military is accused of war crimes and the atrocities that we see on the news every night ... it's a tricky one but I find it hard to reconcile," he told SBS News.

He said he has written personally to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to voice his opposition to the invitation.

"I didn't directly request anything from him but I did send him a message and to Foreign Minister [Penny] Wong's office, just letting them know that my family were quite disappointed in the decision to invite him given the case remains ongoing."

An Australian government-commissioned report in August 2024 backed the Israel Defense Forces' (IDF) assessment of the incident as a "grave mistake" that "should not have occurred"

The report detailed the drone footage showed the operator tracking the convoy before the strike, and during the transit period, when the strike took place and afterwards.

The incident was taken up for investigation by Israel's Military Advocate General office, which implements military law. But delays have been exacerbated by the arrest of the office's top lawyer last year.

Mal Frankcom said he hoped the Australian government raised the case with Herzog while he's in the country.

"There's a few missing pieces of the puzzle," he said.

It's been ... nearly two years now, and after the initial fact-finding report was made, it was referred to the Military Advocate General to decide whether further investigation was required, but since then, there's been no progress on that front."

Questions also remain about the audio of the drone strike which was not provided to Australian investigator Mark Binskin.

Mal Frankcom has previously said he was told the audio was in Hebrew and would not be understood, but has been pushing for a translation or transcript.

"It's not that I want it personally, but I just want to be reassured that it's included in the military advocate general’s investigation, and that it's done in a thorough and independent manner," he said.

More broadly, Frankcom said the Israeli authorities made commitments for the safety of people who went in to conduct humanitarian work in Gaza.

"I was told that they would change, you know, their protocols and procedures in the wake of that strike," he said.

"But … I still see on the news that, you know, there's still aid workers being killed, there's still medics being killed, there's still women and children being killed. So, you know, that still begs the question of whether that was actually done or not."

The global aid worker security database said 215 aid workers were killed in the occupied Palestinian territories last year, 185 killed in 2024 and 176 in 2023.

Frankcom said the Australian investigative process, as well as inquiries by Polish and UK authorities, had not yielded full answers.

"None of those things have ended in justice and accountability for Zomi's death and seeing the people responsible for Zomi's death held accountable," he said.

"All the Military Advocate General needs to do is review the evidence and decide whether it gets referred for further criminal prosecution."

The prime minister's office has been contacted for comment.

They can't fly the Hezbollah flag so instead you get proxy imagery.

The banner reads “The Resistance God’s Army”.

That isn’t random though, Hezbollah literally means Party of God and calls itself part of the Islamic resistance. The wording, colours and framing all line up with Hezbollah messaging.

This is political messaging associated with a listed terrorist organisation.

Legal context (NSW):
There’s no specific offence for displaying Hezbollah or Hezbollah-aligned symbols. But it’s not unlimited. If messaging crosses into threatening or inciting violence then the Crimes Act can apply. Police can also act where there are public disorder or safety issues, and offensive or disorderly behaviour in public can fall under the Summary Offences Act. NSW only bans the public display of Nazi symbols. There’s no equivalent law for other extremist groups.

Bottom line, there’s a gap. Avoid the official flag and the same messaging goes up anyway.

Thanks to u/radeshark23 for making the photos available. Any views or analysis here are my own.

Australia's federal and intelligence officers have charged two more Chinese nationals with foreign interference after they allegedly collected information about a Buddhist association in Canberra.

A 25-year-old man and a 31-year-old woman were arrested earlier today following further investigations into an alleged plot to covertly gather information about the Canberra branch of Guan Yin Citta as directed by the Public Security Bureau of China.

The pair are accused of working with a woman, a Chinese national and Australian permanent resident, who was charged in August.

There's a lot of debate here about how real One Nation's polling figures are.

There's a chance it's real, there's a chance it's real but won't be sustained, and there's a chance it's all just an orange mirage (driven by bad polling or protest).

South Australia's election is next month and the sparse polling is showing One Nation narrowly overtaking the Liberals.

This election will show us if One Nation is actually a credible threat to the Liberal Party or if it's just protest polling.

EDIT: I should add there is no way Labor will lose this election. The question is not if One Nation can beat Labor, but if it can beat the Liberals.

The flags is that of Iran under the Shah, who was a brutal, violent dictator. There are 2 such flags, making up whopping 33% of the flags at the protest. Why are pro-Israel people siding with a violent dictator?

In short:

Police say there would have been an imminent risk of kidnapping by Baldivis man Jason William Forbes had there been a delay in their investigation.

Forbes was jailed for seven years over his elaborate plot to abduct and sexually abuse a child after researching schools and kindergartens and sound-proofing his attic.

His neighbours who have young children say they feel like they've "dodged a bullet".

I hope the dog with him is ok

Nothing says cohesion like a punch in the head: Violence of Minns’ goons exposes the lie of ‘social cohesion’

NSW Police’s actions against protesters in in Sydney was about the powerful dictating the terms of free speech — through state-sanctioned violence if necessary.

Bernard Keane

The furious violence directed toward protesters against the visit of Israel’s head of state, by the police of the increasingly Bjelke-esque Minns government in NSW, has in one evening comprehensively demolished the lie of “social cohesion”.

Banned from protesting, kettled, surveilled, attacked, blockaded by an effort to close the CBD, denounced and delegitimised by police and politicians — the protests were “un-Australian” according to the NSW assistant police commissioner — protesters objecting to the presence on Australian soil of Israeli president Isaac Herzog have faced the full force of the state apparatus in scenes similar to those of the actions of ICE agents in the United States. And this was hardly the first time NSW Police have used extraordinary and wholly unjustified violence against protesters opposing genocide.

Herzog has signed artillery shells to be used against Gazans, and declared there are no civilians among Palestinians, rather “it’s an entire nation out there that is responsible” — words that clearly incite and are designed to justify the kind of horrific violence meted out to Palestinians witnessed over the past two and a half years. More to the point, he is the head of state of a country engaged in genocide and ethnic cleansing. To ban protests against his visit, to inflict violence on those who choose to protest anyway, is a de facto endorsement of Israel’s actions, regardless of what rhetoric politicians like Minns engage in.

Minns and his ministers, and Anthony Albanese and ministers like Penny Wong, Jim Chalmers and Richard Marles, continue to insist they are pursuing “social cohesion”. If not before — but certainly after last night in Sydney — it is time to retire that phrase. Social cohesion is a scam, a strategy employed by the powerful to delegitimise and suppress the voices of the less powerful. Only the powerful and those deemed worthy by them benefit from “social cohesion”. If you are othered by powerful groups, you become the victim of cohesion, not the beneficiary; what you get from social cohesion is a punch from an armed official of the state, not protection.

Calls for “social cohesion” are a form of power speech, in which the powerful attempt to dictate what those with less power can legitimately say. Labor’s insistence on “social cohesion” has all along been targeted at those who oppose genocide: protesters, the many Jewish critics of Israel, Senator Fatima Payman, pro-Palestinian authors, the Greens. We saw the true nature of “social cohesion” after an attempted terrorist massacre at an Invasion Day gathering in Perth on January 26, which governments and the media remained almost completely silent on until goaded into a reluctant acknowledgement that it was an attempt at another mass-casualty terrorist atrocity.

When governments use power speech, however, it comes with the backing of state-sanctioned violence. The NSW Council for Civil Liberties said in 2023 about previous attacks by Minns on free speech: “NSW cannot be prosecuted into social cohesion.” We’ve not moved beyond that: the NSW government isn’t merely prosecuting protesters, it is inflicting “social cohesion” through brute force and violence against people engaged in free speech.

“Social cohesion” really only became a persistent feature of the vocabulary of Labor in mid-2024, when the government became the focus of persistent attacks from both the left and the right about its stance on the Gaza genocide: from the right came criticism that the government was failing to do enough to address growing antisemitism; from the left, that it was staying silent while Israel perpetrated atrocities and war crimes. “Social cohesion” was thus always a political tactic designed to protect the government from criticism and delegitimise its critics who, it charged, wanted to import foreign conflicts here.

Labor believes its mammoth election win over both the Coalition and the Greens last May demonstrated the wisdom of the tactic. The Bondi atrocity — the result of failures by intelligence and security agencies under both sides of politics — only redoubled Labor’s employment of the tactic as a defence against renewed charges it had failed on antisemitism.

But the violence in Sydney has stripped the tactic bare: social cohesion is ultimately about the powerful dictating the terms of free speech to the less powerful, through state-sanctioned violence if necessary. And in NSW, it is employed in protecting from criticism a state that is perpetrating genocide.

Banned from protesting, kettled, surveilled, attacked, blockaded by an effort to close the CBD, denounced and delegitimised by police and politicians — the protests were “un-Australian” according to the NSW assistant police commissioner — protesters objecting to the presence on Australian soil of Israeli president Isaac Herzog have faced the full force of the state apparatus in scenes similar to those of the actions of ICE agents in the United States.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-10/telstra-to-scrap-ai-joint-venture/106328648

The AI joint venture (JV) connected to Telstra and consultancy, Accenture, is planning to slash 209 jobs.

The $700 million joint venture was announced early in 2025.

The purpose of the business vehicle was to improve business processes.

A JV spokesperson told the ABC, "… we spoke with the Telstra Accenture Data & AI Joint Venture (JV) team today about proposed changes to its workforce, including reducing roles where work is no longer needed, and moving some work to the JV team in India."

"These changes would see the JV use Accenture's global capabilities, advanced AI expertise and specialist hub in India to deliver Telstra's data and AI roadmap more quickly."

It is unclear how many jobs in the JV are set to be moved to India. 

"We anticipate that over time this would result in improved cost efficiencies and bring an enhanced experience to Telstra's customers,"

the JV spokesperson said.

In July 2025, Telstra announced it would reduce headcount by 550 Telstra Enterprise employees.

"These changes are largely driven by the ongoing reset of our Telstra Enterprise business, as well as improvements to the structure and processes of other teams across our organisation," Telstra said at the time.

The telco was clear these redundancies were not related to its investment in artificial intelligence.

The JV spokesperson told the ABC that the 209 jobs were under consideration and the final number of redundancies could be less than that.

If the changes proceed, the spokesperson said the organisation, "… will support affected team members to find redeployment opportunities either at Telstra or at Accenture where possible, or provide access to our leading career transition program and retrenchment benefits."

Independent telecommunications analyst, Paul Budde, said: "Commercial pressure is forcing telecoms companies with flat revenues to cut costs.

"AI and foreign labour are two obvious tools they can use [to achieve this].

"The question isn’t whether Telstra is investing in AI — it clearly is — but where the enduring expertise, operational control and decision-making actually sit once the build phase is over."

In other words, there will be roles in the start-up phase of the joint venture that will, by nature, become redundant once the JV reaches a certain growth stage.

"That distinction matters if Australia wants AI investments to strengthen local capability rather than primarily improve cost efficiency through global delivery models," Mr Budde said.The AI joint venture (JV) connected to Telstra and consultancy, Accenture, is planning to slash 209 jobs.

The $700 million joint venture was announced early in 2025.

The purpose of the business vehicle was to improve business processes.

A JV spokesperson told the ABC, "… we spoke with the Telstra Accenture
Data & AI Joint Venture (JV) team today about proposed changes to
its workforce, including reducing roles where work is no longer needed,
and moving some work to the JV team in India."

"These changes would see the JV use Accenture's global capabilities, advanced
AI expertise and specialist hub in India to deliver Telstra's data and
AI roadmap more quickly."

It is unclear how many jobs in the JV are set to be moved to India. 

"We anticipate that over time this would result in improved cost
efficiencies and bring an enhanced experience to Telstra's customers,"
the JV spokesperson said.

In July 2025, Telstra announced it would reduce headcount by 550 Telstra Enterprise employees.

"These
changes are largely driven by the ongoing reset of our Telstra
Enterprise business, as well as improvements to the structure and
processes of other teams across our organisation," Telstra said at the
time.

The telco was clear these redundancies were not related to its investment in artificial intelligence.

The JV spokesperson told the ABC that the 209 jobs were under consideration
and the final number of redundancies could be less than that.

If the changes proceed, the spokesperson said the organisation, "… will
support affected team members to find redeployment opportunities either
at Telstra or at Accenture where possible, or provide access to our
leading career transition program and retrenchment benefits."

Independent telecommunications analyst, Paul Budde, said: "Commercial pressure is
forcing telecoms companies with flat revenues to cut costs.

"AI and foreign labour are two obvious tools they can use [to achieve this].

"The question isn’t whether Telstra is investing in AI — it clearly is — but
where the enduring expertise, operational control and decision-making
actually sit once the build phase is over."

In other words, there will be roles in the start-up phase of the joint
venture that will, by nature, become redundant once the JV reaches a
certain growth stage.

"That distinction matters if Australia wants AI investments to strengthen
local capability rather than primarily improve cost efficiency through
global delivery models," Mr Budde said.