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@s_m_marandi @piersmorgan @PressTV How many people in the UK have been jailed/fined or penalised for demonstrating free speech in their social media posts? I don’t know the number but unless they are directly inciting immediate violence or similar then the number should be zero.

The dishonesty is clear for all to see. I invited @piersmorgan multiple times to travel to Iran, and he refused. I offered to debate him live in a @PressTV studio in Tehran. The head of Press TV said we could hold hours of live debate, but he refused. But keep pushing propaganda.

@ASPI_org My Gawwd ! ASPI must be melting down over this. Tentative moves for Taiwan and China reconciliation. Completely unacceptable and off-script for the boys and girls of ASPI.

'A high-level meeting in Beijing risks creating parallel channels of authority and undermining policy coherence. It also deepens domestic polarisation,' writes Nathan Attrill. aspistrategist.org.au/old-enemies-me…

@SenatorWong No mention of American aggression, attacks on civilians, etc. Reading this message one could think Iran is the cause of this and not the actual victim of America's war on them.

@Glenn_Diesen Australia is a way off learning this lesson yet !

The main losers of this war has been the Gulf States. Being frontline states for a declining hegemon is a disaster, as Ukraine and Europe will also at some point recognise. Frontline states in Asia, such as South Korea, Japan and Taiwan, are now having these discussions. The hegemon is gone and its alliance systems such as NATO must be replaced with inclusive security arrangements. Make peace with your neighbours!

@AlboMP AUKUS, Five Eyes, Quad, American bases on our soil, broken Port contracts. Australia absolutely should build ties and relationships with China but our belligerent actions speak louder than words.

Now more than ever, our relationships with our neighbours matter. Tonight I spoke with Premier Li Qiang of the People's Republic of China. We talked about the importance of energy security, and how we can work together for the benefit of our nations and our region. We will continue to engage in dialogue to maintain our stable and constructive relationship.

@senatorbabet Let’s face it, he was there fighting a war on behalf of American interests, which had nothing to do with Australia. Him and his alleged victims have just joined the casualties of American warmaking.

We ask our soldiers to go into war zones and risk their lives and then we throw them under the bus the first chance we get. Do we really believe Ben will get a fair trial? I support our soldiers.

@Megatron_ron Where’s evidence of the human casualties?

NEW: 🇮🇷🇺🇸 Officially, the United States lost 12 aircraft while trying to save the pilot. However, there are massive indications that they actually tried to seize the enriched uranium extracted from Iran.

@PaulineHansonOz John Howard was responsible for a lot more deaths than him. When’s his arrest?

I remain steadfast in my support of Ben Roberts-Smith despite news of his arrest today. Ben, his immediate and broader defence family need the Australian people’s support right now and I will not abandon him like so many other politicians. Ben was disgracefully arrested in front of his twin 15 year old girls. He will be held in jail for 7 days. He gets just one bail application. If that application fails, they can hold him for 2 years. AFP and OSI have spent $300 million dollars over 10 years to get to this point.

@mirandadevine Australia has never seen a war it didn’t want to be a part of. We’ve fought for American interests for nearly a century now, usually against what’s best for Australia. We’ve sent hardware and specialist teams to this debacle too. Trump would prefer allied nations die first.

Australia has fought and bled and died alongside the US in every war and one feckless Trump-deranged Labor government has damaged that relationship - hence Trump's callout today.

@s_m_marandi @free0xSage I’d like to believe this is true, but where are the bodies of the airmen? There must be some evidence of loss of life that Iran can present.

This was not a rescue operation. It was a much larger, botched operation that fell into an Iranian ambush. Watch Iranian armed forces engaging with one of the helicopters of the Trump regime.

@D_Melissa2 I wish you were right. Unfortunately I feel critical thinking is a skill most Australians don’t practice. And particularly where the media is concerned. America has very powerful control over our media and I can’t help but think most people swallow their B.S.

Australians in general are highly educated. No amount of soft diplomacy from influencers/opinion leaders peddled from the US embassy in Canberra (on the instruction of Washington) will quell our desires to be independently well informed. #auspol

@clairlemon Japan imports around 90% of its energy needs. It’s nice of them to say they’ll supply us, but how?

"Japan will provide Australia with a normal level of fuel supply as the Strait of Hormuz remains blocked." How cool is Japan 🇯🇵🇦🇺 abc.net.au/news/2026-04-0…

@JAParker29 Fair call, I guess it’s not called piracy, but in practice it’s the same thing. It’d certainly be called piracy if a private actor did it. Some conventions describe it as an act of war. Hey, I noticed you chose a personal jibe rather than respond to my question of your hypocrisy

I’d normally explain this properly, including that under United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea governments can’t commit piracy. But given your tone, and that you’ve previously shared conspiracy theorists, I’m not convinced you’re genuinely interested in an answer. I’ll leave it there and wish you a good evening.

Great to see 🇦🇺 involved. It’s clear this impacts our security & economic prosperity, this is the reason why we had ships there for 30 yrs from 1990-2020.

@PeterCronau They won’t be altering my opinion !

🚨 NEWS ALERT 🚨 The US Embassy in Canberra has been ordered by Washington to recruit Australian opinion leaders to work for them, alongside the US military’s Psychological Operations unit, to strongly increase US propaganda efforts in Australia. ▪️“The United States has directed every American embassy and consulate across the world to launch coordinated campaigns against foreign propaganda. ▪️“The cable, signed by the secretary of state, Marco Rubio, on Monday, also suggests the embassies and consulates work alongside the US military’s Psychological Operations unit to address the problem of rampant disinformation. ▪️ “Embassies are told to recruit local influencers, academics and community leaders abroad to carry counter-propaganda messaging — an approach designed to make American-funded narratives feel locally organic rather than centrally directed. ▪️”The State Department said it…had made countering foreign “anti-American” propaganda “a top priority” — and the department would take “an assertive stance on this pernicious issue” by “fully harnessing every tool in our diplomatic toolkit”.” Details -> theguardian.com/us-news/2026/m…

@EvanWritesOnX This is maybe the most articulate and accurate comment describing Australia that I’ve seen. I agree entirely.

Australia was not established as a nation-building project. It was established as an extraction platform. The British did not colonize Australia to build a civilization. They colonized it to extract l; first convict labor, then wool, then gold, then minerals, then gas. The political architecture was built around that extraction logic from day one, and it has never been restructured away from it. You assume the state exists to serve the population, and therefore bad outcomes must mean the state is being run poorly. Australia is not a sovereign state that happens to have a mining sector. It is a private sector extraction platform that happens to have citizens. Every Australian who “owns” a home is servicing a debt instrument that enriches the FIC. The minerals get dug up by foreign-owned multinationals. The profits get distributed to global shareholders. The taxation office is structured; by design, through decades of lobbying, to ensure the extraction proceeds leave the country with minimal sovereign capture. The politicians are doing exactly what the structure requires of them: absorbing public anger, rotating every few years to reset the pressure valve. Australia is not mismanaged. Australia is managed perfectly, just not for Australians.

@7NewsSydney Was that military or civilian infrastructure? I didn’t hear the newsreader condemn it so I guess it was a military bridge.

Donald Trump warned he'd pummel Iran into the Stone Age, and it's responded by showing off the country's arsenal and taunting the US President over his ties to Jeffrey Epstein. America's traditional allies are now working together without Washington to try to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and get oil flowing again. @MyleeHogan

@SenPaterson @FDD When a nation becomes the host to, and participant in, imperialist interests, then that nation, as a rule, becomes depleted economically and militarily. And even shreds its diplomatic reputation around the world. That’s also what five eyes does for Australia.

The @FDD is a serious organisation but this is not a serious idea. The threats we face in the Indo-Pacific makes Five Eyes & joint facilities which underpin it - like Pine Gap - more important than ever. Following this advice would be a major act of self harm by the U.S.

@JEChalmers Try working with America and tell them to pull theirs head in. They’re the cause of it all.

Australians did not ask for this war but they are paying a very hefty price for it. That's why we are working around the clock with businesses, unions and peak bodies to make sure we're doing what we can to help small businesses through this.

@DavidShoebridge Pressure American to pull its head in and back off.

A national address needs a national leader and a clear set of actions, this one had Albanese and a series of empty phrases workshopped through focus groups. What an empty man he is and what a hollow government.