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Two stories are hiding inside the Roberts-Smith arrest. One: how power, patronage, and institutional inertia can insulate a man from accountability long after the facts are settled. Two: how journalists, judges, and investigators eventually refused to look away. Both stories matter. Both explain the moment we’re in.

@_marching_Ents_ @AlboMP Yes, and this is his Twitter post tonight. Omg!

@AlboMP We are on the brink of NUCLEAR WAR. 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

A subscription shouldn’t be a trap. That’s why we’re banning subscriptions that lock you in because they’re too hard to cancel.

@SenatorWong @AlboMP why?

Iran is requiring oil tankers passing through the strait to pay in yuan rather than dollars, a direct challenge to the petrodollar system that has underpinned American financial and geopolitical power since the 1970s.  At least two vessels have already complied.  The petrodollar is not just a currency arrangement. Since the 1974 deal between the US and Saudi Arabia, global oil has been priced in dollars, forcing every nation on earth to accumulate dollars just to keep the lights on and the trucks moving.  That artificial demand is what allowed Washington to print money, run deficits, and project military power no other country could afford. Oil was not just energy. It was the mechanism by which the dollar became the operating system of the global economy. The US national debt crossed $39 trillion on March 18, just weeks into the war. Interest costs are now the fastest-growing line item in the federal budget, and the US has suffered credit downgrades from all three major rating agencies.  The petrodollar was the invisible subsidy that made those numbers survivable. Without it, they are not. Billionaire investor Ray Dalio drew a direct parallel to Britain’s 1956 Suez Crisis, which marked the end of the British Empire, warning that the US is now facing a similar test.  The irony is sharp: the war launched to reassert American dominance in the Gulf may be the very event that ends it. China did not fire a single shot. Beijing has emerged as the alternative: Saudi Arabia’s largest trading partner, a provider of technology and weapons without conditions, and the architect of yuan-based currency swaps across the region. If Gulf states abandon the petrodollar, global dollar demand collapses.  A weaker dollar means inflation, higher borrowing costs, and reduced geopolitical leverage. At the extreme, losing reserve currency status could force the US to consume less than it produces, a structural adjustment that would be deeply painful.  The war meant to protect the petrodollar may be the thing that finally cracks it. Lindsey Graham says the US is going to make a ton of money. Beijing is counting on it. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1 x.com/Acyn/status/20…

The wife of Dr. Hossam Abu Safieh: "His only ‘crime’ was saving the lives of the wounded” This renowned Doctor is a hero, kidnapped by 🇮🇱 He now faces execution in 🇮🇱 Israel 🇮🇱 is a racist, apartheid state passing fascist laws And Starmer 🇬🇧 remains shamefully silent.

I want to know, and I suspect others want to know. There needs to be public debate on how we should address our national fuel security. #FOI #auspol

Must follow account for Australians. By these projections we are going to run out of diesel by May 19th. Think about what that means for the economy.

@FuelAustralia @jamesbozwell @FootnotesGuy @page_research Impressive work, will follow along.

~25 days of diesel is what's physically in the tanks. It's not a countdown to empty — fuel is still arriving. I'm tracking 29 inbound tankers right now, with arrivals through mid-May. The real timeline with deliveries factored in extends well past those dates. Worth noting: open-source tracking has roughly a 30-day visibility horizon — I can only see what's already at sea. Vessels departing Singapore or South Korea next week won't appear in my tracking for another 7-14 days. So the 28 I'm tracking is a floor, not a ceiling. You can toggle on estimated flow (not confirmed) on the fuelaustralia.org/reserves page to get a picture of what it will look like if we continue to get inbound tankers.

The @page_research paper on fuel sketches this disparity in our our demand and refinery potential. And our stocks seem to reflect this as the crisis evolves.

@Moesby66 @deniseshrivell 95% home ownership. Mostly apartments but still.

@deniseshrivell Almost everyone owns their own home apparently.

What is it with Hartcher and China? China is far (far) from perfect of course - but either are we or the US (dangerous basketcase) or the UK or Japan or Israel 😩 (the list goes on). Why exactly does he expect China to be so - with zero expectations for others 🤔 #auspol

@putty360 @JustTheTweets17 Australia is not in Europe.

@JustTheTweets17 @Cubasmum Lol youre delusional if you thought Europe is anyway allied with us.

He is insane. I am as MAGA as they get. I was a Front Row Joe, 42 rallies, walked the halls of congress 3 times for Trump, became a state delegate, then a national delegate ALL TO SUPPORT TRUMP. He has absolutely lost me, in fact I'm eyeing the 25th amendment for him because he's lost his damn mind.

@david89293299 @LyrebirdDream @GarySwa14044217 UAE. About 82 of them.

@LyrebirdDream @GarySwa14044217 Where are the Australians on the ground ?

Australia says it’s “not an active participant” in the Trump Regime’s madness. Really? Pine Gap. Missiles. Wedgetail. Australian personnel on the ground. Enough’s enough. No more alliance autopilot.👇🏽 lyrebirddreaming.com/post/enough-is…

@MrRexPatrick @korstraw Sadly we are the cash cow, so no cancellation for us while we keep the dollars flowing.

Donald, there’s only one appropriate punishment for Australia - cancel #AUKUS (please)! #auspol

Shh… the key’s under the flowerpot. 😉 Just open for friends.

If you aren’t following along, check out these “Iran in” embassy tweets.

@deniseshrivell @AnneEdw45116023 I was interested to learn that home ownership in China is 95% And lots of people own two homes. One city apartment and one in a rural area. That might surprise many Australians, and bust a few myths about China.

@Cubasmum @AnneEdw45116023 Clusters of huge towers everywhere - washing hung out to dry outside most windows. Extraordinary to see and wonder about the lives of the people living there.

Today in Shanghai - we’re catching the bullet train to Suzhou. Wish us luck - hard to navigate around a massive train station but the 25 year old daughter is proving very useful at last 💜💜 #auspol #DeniseTravels Will share pics of the bullet train soon!

@AnneEdw45116023 @deniseshrivell Yes, of all the things I saw in China this was the most incredible. Travelling 1600 across China (high speed rail) in six hours, hundreds of clusters of identical apartments rise from the fields.

@deniseshrivell Wow was my reaction too when travelling from the Airport into Shanghai 20 odd years ago & seeing kilometre after kilometre of high density apartment buildings as far as the eye could see. Crazy to think that Shanghai has roughly the same population as the whole of Australia.

Israel escalates a scorched-earth campaign across occupied Syrian and Lebanese borderlands—this time through chemical warfare against nature itself. Under the pretext of “security,” Israeli forces are reportedly spraying high concentrations of herbicides over farmland and forests, systematically annihilating vegetation to strip the land bare and deny any form of life or cover. Independent analyses have detected glyphosate levels 20–30 times above normal, devastating crops, poisoning soil, and threatening civilian health and food security . This is not land management—it is ECOCIDE. A deliberate assault on ecosystems, agriculture, and livelihoods, designed to render entire areas uninhabitable and forcibly reshape the terrain through environmental destruction. The United Nations has already warned of “serious humanitarian risk” tied to such actions, raising alarms over long-term damage to civilian life and land viability . What is unfolding is a calculated strategy: erase the green, erase the entire population, erase the possibility of return. This is #GENOCIDE #Israel is the CRIMINAL.