Quentin Dempster
@quentindempster.bsky.social
Australian journalist, author.
Pauline Hanson obviously wants Australia to ban Muslim immigration but won’t say so out loud. The Faragists now coalescing in our country use the dogwhistle “mass” migration but so far have not put up legislation to embed religiously intolerant “values” in our immigration laws.
November 24, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Pauline Hanson obviously wants Australia to ban Muslim immigration but won’t say so out loud. The Faragists now coalescing in our country use the dogwhistle “mass” migration but so far have not put up legislation to embed religiously intolerant “values” in our immigration laws.
No wonder PM Albanese now appears ambivalent about hosting COP26 in SA next year. World attention would focus on his export coal/gas (gaslighting) hypocrisy: an embarrassment for Australia. AFR reports 👇 big decision expected this week. Bonn?
November 17, 2025 at 9:46 PM
No wonder PM Albanese now appears ambivalent about hosting COP26 in SA next year. World attention would focus on his export coal/gas (gaslighting) hypocrisy: an embarrassment for Australia. AFR reports 👇 big decision expected this week. Bonn?
“Disclosure without consequences. A smoke alarm without batteries - installed when the house is already ablaze”. Carmen Lawrence 👇 exposes the Faustian “trigger” PM Albanese proposes in his EPBC Act. Coal/gas: let ‘er rip.
November 17, 2025 at 9:08 PM
“Disclosure without consequences. A smoke alarm without batteries - installed when the house is already ablaze”. Carmen Lawrence 👇 exposes the Faustian “trigger” PM Albanese proposes in his EPBC Act. Coal/gas: let ‘er rip.
While Gina/Advance/IPA/Murdochs/Faragists/preferential Pauline take over the Liberal Party, a big window has opened for more meritorious independents (think ‘teals’) to run in marginal LNP (and some ALP) seats across federal electorates. Libs may have signed their own death warrant. 👇
November 15, 2025 at 2:17 AM
While Gina/Advance/IPA/Murdochs/Faragists/preferential Pauline take over the Liberal Party, a big window has opened for more meritorious independents (think ‘teals’) to run in marginal LNP (and some ALP) seats across federal electorates. Libs may have signed their own death warrant. 👇
The Liberal Party has lost the Australian business sector with its “sheer fatuousness and contradictions” by abandoning net zero 2050. AFR editorial 15-16/11/25. The so called party of rational market economics relegates itself to the political fringe. 👇✅
November 15, 2025 at 12:54 AM
The Liberal Party has lost the Australian business sector with its “sheer fatuousness and contradictions” by abandoning net zero 2050. AFR editorial 15-16/11/25. The so called party of rational market economics relegates itself to the political fringe. 👇✅
Re net zero dispute: Phil Coorey AFR observes PM Albo is watching closely. “.. not everyone in government will be heartbroken should Australia ultimately fail to host next year’s” UN COP conference in Adelaide.
November 13, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Re net zero dispute: Phil Coorey AFR observes PM Albo is watching closely. “.. not everyone in government will be heartbroken should Australia ultimately fail to host next year’s” UN COP conference in Adelaide.
The Faragists, backed by Gina, are about to trigger a full blast Australian fear campaign on net zero target and “mass” migration. Resolve polling indicates electors remain undecided on these political pressure points.
November 13, 2025 at 9:05 PM
The Faragists, backed by Gina, are about to trigger a full blast Australian fear campaign on net zero target and “mass” migration. Resolve polling indicates electors remain undecided on these political pressure points.
Folks, this now successful campaign to capture the federal parliamentary Liberal Party re dumping net zero 2050, has been bankrolled by an “enshitification” online outfit called Advance -bankrolled by Gina Rinehart, an Australian coal/gas oligarch and Trumpist.
November 13, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Folks, this now successful campaign to capture the federal parliamentary Liberal Party re dumping net zero 2050, has been bankrolled by an “enshitification” online outfit called Advance -bankrolled by Gina Rinehart, an Australian coal/gas oligarch and Trumpist.
The subversives. Sponsored by Gina, Advance, IPA, the Murdochs, Sky After Dark, preferential Pauline and the Beetrooter. Australia’s 2025 climate/energy war has just been declared by vested coal/gas interests. First capture? The federal parliamentary Liberal Party.
November 12, 2025 at 9:50 PM
The subversives. Sponsored by Gina, Advance, IPA, the Murdochs, Sky After Dark, preferential Pauline and the Beetrooter. Australia’s 2025 climate/energy war has just been declared by vested coal/gas interests. First capture? The federal parliamentary Liberal Party.
It’s too late George (Brandis). Andrew Hastie (Lib., Canning) has already jumped the shark. He’s joined the illiberal Faragists and Trumpists. The key question: does Sussan Ley have the party room numbers to survive this week, then months, years to the 2028 election?
November 9, 2025 at 9:21 PM
It’s too late George (Brandis). Andrew Hastie (Lib., Canning) has already jumped the shark. He’s joined the illiberal Faragists and Trumpists. The key question: does Sussan Ley have the party room numbers to survive this week, then months, years to the 2028 election?
Well what’d ya know? “Pentagon confirms the ‘benefit’ of AUKUS deal” for US defence policy. MKoziol SMH/Age. Yes $A368B to prop up US N subs production .. and Australia gets expanded US bases on its soil and is now a nuclear target in US war with China over Taiwan.
November 7, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Well what’d ya know? “Pentagon confirms the ‘benefit’ of AUKUS deal” for US defence policy. MKoziol SMH/Age. Yes $A368B to prop up US N subs production .. and Australia gets expanded US bases on its soil and is now a nuclear target in US war with China over Taiwan.
Nuremberg, Geneva, Rome genocide conventions: those violating human rights in 21C (Hamas, Netanyahu) must be held to account. Sydney Peace Prize Navi Pillay. Please note: neither Trump’s USA nor Albanese’s Australia have yet to uphold the rule of law = our moral abyss.
November 6, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Nuremberg, Geneva, Rome genocide conventions: those violating human rights in 21C (Hamas, Netanyahu) must be held to account. Sydney Peace Prize Navi Pillay. Please note: neither Trump’s USA nor Albanese’s Australia have yet to uphold the rule of law = our moral abyss.
Social media outfit Advance, bankrolled by Gina, backed by the Murdochs, IPA, Nampijinpa, Pauline Hanson, Tony Abbott, John Howard pays for what Steve Bannon calls “enshitification” = flooding a polity with “shit” - fear/propaganda. Now it’s “mass” migration and net zero 2050.
November 3, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Social media outfit Advance, bankrolled by Gina, backed by the Murdochs, IPA, Nampijinpa, Pauline Hanson, Tony Abbott, John Howard pays for what Steve Bannon calls “enshitification” = flooding a polity with “shit” - fear/propaganda. Now it’s “mass” migration and net zero 2050.
Cowardly, irresponsible. It looks like Australia’s L-NP Coalition will dingo out of net zero 2050. Awaiting Sussan Ley’s Liberal partyroom decision = leadership test. Failure to urgently mitigate emissions via new technologies exposes our children to ever increasing risk.
November 3, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Cowardly, irresponsible. It looks like Australia’s L-NP Coalition will dingo out of net zero 2050. Awaiting Sussan Ley’s Liberal partyroom decision = leadership test. Failure to urgently mitigate emissions via new technologies exposes our children to ever increasing risk.
It’s only fair: Australia’s copyright content to be statutorily licensed to make AI platforms enforcibly pay for its use. AG Michelle Rowland will consult all stakeholders and content creators. Thank heavens for the Copyright Act. 👇 AFR 29/10/25.
October 28, 2025 at 10:07 PM
It’s only fair: Australia’s copyright content to be statutorily licensed to make AI platforms enforcibly pay for its use. AG Michelle Rowland will consult all stakeholders and content creators. Thank heavens for the Copyright Act. 👇 AFR 29/10/25.
My fellow Australians: if you want to help the ‘fair go’ Australian ethos please join/support Whistleblowers Australia. Hair raising case histories; HR is not your friend; gaslighting; Robodebt aftermath; the abject failures of our National Anti Corruption Commission = it’s all there. Only $25 p.a.
October 28, 2025 at 4:11 AM
My fellow Australians: if you want to help the ‘fair go’ Australian ethos please join/support Whistleblowers Australia. Hair raising case histories; HR is not your friend; gaslighting; Robodebt aftermath; the abject failures of our National Anti Corruption Commission = it’s all there. Only $25 p.a.
Sshh- Still no definitive answer to the question: would Australia’s AUKUS N subs be deployed operationally in any US war with China? MKoziol SMH/Age reports “yes” assurances may have been given by @almp.bsky.social to Trump .. but our PM won’t confirm.
October 26, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Sshh- Still no definitive answer to the question: would Australia’s AUKUS N subs be deployed operationally in any US war with China? MKoziol SMH/Age reports “yes” assurances may have been given by @almp.bsky.social to Trump .. but our PM won’t confirm.
Battle lines net zero 2050. Phil Coorey AFR reports Sussan Ley and Dan Tehan considering delay beyond 2050 and to try green washing (gas lighting?) the electorate with emphasis on (discredited) carbon capture and storage and (still banned) nuclear. Try harder please dear Lib Leader.
October 21, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Battle lines net zero 2050. Phil Coorey AFR reports Sussan Ley and Dan Tehan considering delay beyond 2050 and to try green washing (gas lighting?) the electorate with emphasis on (discredited) carbon capture and storage and (still banned) nuclear. Try harder please dear Lib Leader.
It’s a great shame our National Press Club didn’t proceed with address by Pulitzer winning war correspondent Chris Hedges. His insights into IDF manipulation of media messaging are instructive. Western media is easily played. And the IDF murders non-compliant in situ journalists.
October 20, 2025 at 10:03 PM
It’s a great shame our National Press Club didn’t proceed with address by Pulitzer winning war correspondent Chris Hedges. His insights into IDF manipulation of media messaging are instructive. Western media is easily played. And the IDF murders non-compliant in situ journalists.
AUKUS said to be “full steam ahead”; @albomp.bsky.social - Trump sign rare earths agreement (no details yet). Behind closed doors Anbassador Rudd apologises to Trump for 5 year old “traitor to the West” comment = diplomatic withdrawal. Albo-Trump meeting was a mutual back-scratcher.
October 20, 2025 at 9:55 PM
AUKUS said to be “full steam ahead”; @albomp.bsky.social - Trump sign rare earths agreement (no details yet). Behind closed doors Anbassador Rudd apologises to Trump for 5 year old “traitor to the West” comment = diplomatic withdrawal. Albo-Trump meeting was a mutual back-scratcher.
A bit of welcome solidarity from US journalists and their employers with media Pentagon walkout against SecWar Hegseth’s coercive access controls. SMH editorial 17/10/25. Now dear editor Bevan Shields please condemn IDF’s murder of journalists in Gaza.
October 16, 2025 at 11:26 PM
A bit of welcome solidarity from US journalists and their employers with media Pentagon walkout against SecWar Hegseth’s coercive access controls. SMH editorial 17/10/25. Now dear editor Bevan Shields please condemn IDF’s murder of journalists in Gaza.
“Can I meet with Eric?” Prabowo Subianto to Trump, Egypt 14/10/25. “I’ll have Eric call” replies Trump. The Indonesian president needs to explain what this exchange, caught on a “hot mic”, was all about.
October 14, 2025 at 8:59 PM
“Can I meet with Eric?” Prabowo Subianto to Trump, Egypt 14/10/25. “I’ll have Eric call” replies Trump. The Indonesian president needs to explain what this exchange, caught on a “hot mic”, was all about.
Energy bills to halve by 2050: @grattaninstitute.bsky.social The renewables revolution will help conserve earth’s thin biosphere … and it’ll be much cheaper for households and enterprises. 👇
October 12, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Energy bills to halve by 2050: @grattaninstitute.bsky.social The renewables revolution will help conserve earth’s thin biosphere … and it’ll be much cheaper for households and enterprises. 👇
The horror .. the horror. Tony Abbott sweeps it all under the carpet in “ Australia:A History”. Yes he acknowledges colonial death squads also known as “native police” but now wants to accentuate the civilising positives. His most recent triumph? Defeat of The Voice referendum.
October 4, 2025 at 12:13 PM
The horror .. the horror. Tony Abbott sweeps it all under the carpet in “ Australia:A History”. Yes he acknowledges colonial death squads also known as “native police” but now wants to accentuate the civilising positives. His most recent triumph? Defeat of The Voice referendum.
Rats in the ranks: Andrew Hastie, a military strategist, resigns from the federal Liberal front bench, unable to accept Cabinet solidarity in the Westminster tradition. So he’s obviously planning to displace Sussan Ley as leader but does not yet have the numbers. 👇
October 3, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Rats in the ranks: Andrew Hastie, a military strategist, resigns from the federal Liberal front bench, unable to accept Cabinet solidarity in the Westminster tradition. So he’s obviously planning to displace Sussan Ley as leader but does not yet have the numbers. 👇