SA ELECTION COUNT REVEALS SHIFT AMID LABOR LEAD
South Australia votes: One Nation's surprise rise challenges Liberals, Labor leads as early voting hits record high. See election results.
#SAelection, #OneNation, #LaborParty, #LiberalParty, #ElectionResults
https://newsletter.tf/sa-election-one-nation-surges-past-liberals/
One Nation's vote share could reach 28%, far more than the Liberals' 20%, showing a big change in South Australia.
#SAelection, #OneNation, #LaborParty, #LiberalParty, #ElectionResults
https://newsletter.tf/sa-election-one-nation-surges-past-liberals/
LABOR HOLDS SA AS ONE NATION SHIFTS POLITICAL LANDSCAPE
Labor wins a second term in South Australia in the March 2026 election. One Nation gains seats, changing the political landscape. Find out who is affected.
#SouthAustraliaElection, #LaborParty, #OneNation, #PeterMalinauskas, #SAPolitics
https://newsletter.tf/south-australia-election-labor-wins-second-term/
South Australia's Labor Party won a second term in the March 2026 election, increasing their majority. One Nation also saw a big rise in votes, gaining at least one seat.
#SouthAustraliaElection, #LaborParty, #OneNation, #PeterMalinauskas, #SAPolitics
https://newsletter.tf/south-australia-election-labor-wins-second-term/
Australia's political landscape is changing fast. With shows like 'The Project' ending and One Nation gaining support, voters are looking for new voices.
#AustralianPolitics, #OneNation, #TheProject, #MediaChanges, #VoterShift
https://newsletter.tf/australia-political-shift-one-nation-project-cancelled/
South Australian Election Echoes: One Nation Ascendant, Liberals Recede
South Australia election results show One Nation winning seats and Liberal Party losing support. Find out what this means for voters.
#SouthAustraliaElection, #OneNation, #LiberalParty, #AustralianPolitics, #ElectionResults
https://newsletter.tf/south-australia-election-one-nation-gains-liberals-lose/
One Nation is set to win at least two seats in South Australia, a big change from previous elections. The Liberal Party is losing ground.
#SouthAustraliaElection, #OneNation, #LiberalParty, #AustralianPolitics, #ElectionResults
https://newsletter.tf/south-australia-election-one-nation-gains-liberals-lose/
The #UnitedStates has directed every #American #embassy and #consulate across the world to launch coordinated campaigns against foreign #propaganda and endorses #ElonMusk’s X as an “innovative” tool to help do it.
The cable, signed by the secretary of state, #MarcoRubio, on Monday and obtained by the Guardian, also suggests embassies and consulates work alongside the US military’s #psychological #operations unit to address the problem of rampant disinformation. It lays out a sweeping set of instructions for how embassy staff should push back against what it describes as coordinated foreign efforts to undermine #American #interests abroad.
It comes as the United States is at war with #Iran, whose government has for decades operated one of the world’s most sophisticated and prolific state #disinformation apparatuses, and as #Russian and #Chinese influence operations continue to target American allies across #Europe, #Asia and #LatinAmerica.
[ sorry, me here, @ElectricTrike - the major nation targeting Europe, Asia and Latin America with disinformation is #uspol ]
The cable instructs those embassies and consulates to pursue five broad goals: countering hostile messaging, expanding access to information, exposing adversary behavior, elevating local voices who support American interests, and promoting what it calls “telling America’s story”.
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Embassies are told to #recruit #localInfluencers, #academics and #communityleaders abroad to carry counter-propaganda messaging, an approach designed to make #American-funded #narratives feel #locally organic rather than centrally directed.
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“These campaigns seek to shift blame to the United States, sow division among allies, promote alternative worldviews antithetical to America’s interests, and even undermine American economic interests and political freedoms,” the cable says. “Using digital platforms, state-controlled media, and influence operations, they pose a direct threat to US national security and fuel hostility toward American interests.”
Notably, the cable tells diplomatic offices to coordinate their work with “the Department of War’s Psychological Operations” – the military unit more commonly known as Miso, or Military Information Support Operations, formerly Psyop, which is part of the Pentagon.
The state department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
It is not common for the state department to openly combine public diplomacy with military psychological operations. But attempts to counter foreign disinformation are not new, although previous administrations funded it through the Global Engagement Center, which lost its funding just before Donald Trump returned to office.
Last year, the FBI had its foreign influence taskforce dissolved and the state department shuttered the Counter Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference hub.
The cable also endorses Elon Musk’s platform X by name – specifically its Community Notes feature – as an “innovative” and “crowdsourced” instrument to cull disinformation in “countering anti-American propaganda operations without compromising free speech or privacy”.
That endorsement comes as the European Union has already fined X €120m ($137.5m) under its Digital Services Act for deceptive practices – the first such fine under the law – and has opened further investigations into the platform’s AI tools and recommendation algorithms.
Musk, who owns X, had an influential special advisory role in the Trump administration through the so-called department of government efficiency (Doge).
The cable instructs embassy staff to ensure that US foreign assistance is visibly branded, directing consular posts to use “prominent, flag-forward branding” so that foreign audiences know when aid or programming is coming from the American government.
Offices and embassies globally are also told to increase the availability of international news and independent analysis translated into local languages, in effect tasking embassies with becoming distribution hubs for foreign-language media in countries where, the cable notes, “anti-American propaganda is pervasive or where information is restricted”.
More than 700 “American spaces” – the cultural centers, libraries and exchange hubs the US government funds in countries around the world – are to be repositioned under the guidance as platforms for uncensored information and promoted explicitly as free speech “zones.”
#auspol this has “Hey, let’s fund Australia’s #OneNation” vibes all over it.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/30/embassies-campaign-marco-rubio-elon-musk
RE: https://mastodon.social/@IndyMediaAus/116302853741552272
You seem to forget that Barnaby Joyce is now part of One Nation, and he was deputy Prime Minister.
"Which is that, with compulsory preferential voting, the silent majority of voters restores decency and order in our system."
If decency and order is voting in a succession of sexist, racist, colonialist Minerals Council fanclub members, yes.
Check out: Anthony Rio Tinto, Scott FMG, Malcolm Chevron + Tony Peabody Energy.
#AusPol #Australia #OneNation
WE SAY NO TO #US #FOREVERWARS
By #Greens Senator #DavidShoebridge
As you will have already seen on your TV screens and social media feeds, the US and #Israel earlier this month launched an #illegalWar on #Iran. It is a devastating escalation, particularly for people across the #MiddleEast who for weeks now have been subjected to continuous bombing.
This should be a moment for #Australia to take a clear stand. To stand on the side of #humanity and #internationalLaw and make it clear we do not support #Trump and #Netanyahu’s illegal war.
Instead, the #Albanese #Labor Government, cheered along by the #Liberals and #OneNation, has committed Australia to another disastrous US-led forever war.
By deploying #Australian personnel to the Middle East and deepening our involvement, Labor is repeating the same catastrophic mistakes of the past. For decades, we have seen the consequences of being tied to the United States’ military machine. #Iraq. #Afghanistan. #Vietnam.
Wars that promised security and delivered destruction. Yet the Labor government remains unwilling to learn from that history.
Rather than charting an independent #defence and foreign policy grounded in #peace and de-escalation, they are choosing to double down on military alignment with the Trump-led US.
And that alignment runs deeper than many Australians realise.
Australia’s integration with the US military and the US industrial base has gone further than most people would expect. We host #USBases on our soil like #PineGap and #NWCape that are critical to US global warfighting. We buy billions of dollars worth of US weapons and have designed our entire military to be “interoperable” with the US.
We have hundreds of Australian personnel embedded throughout the US military. This includes three Australian personnel on the US nuclear submarine that sank an Iranian frigate and left the survivors to drown. Labor plans to have Australians make up 10% of all personnel on US nuclear submarines by 2030, allegedly as preparation for #AUKUS.
That is the reality of AUKUS. It locks Australia’s military into the US chain of command and draws us into US military actions before the public, or even Parliament, has had the chance to have a say.
Which raises a simple question. Who decides when Australia goes to war?
Right now, it is a decision made behind closed doors by a handful of politicians. In fact Australia can be sent to war with the decision being made by just the Prime Minister and Defence Minister.
That is why the Greens’ push for #WarPowers reform is more urgent than ever. We have introduced a new law that would require a #vote of #Parliament before Australians are sent into any overseas #conflict, and we forced it to be debated in parliament this week.
If lives are on the line, it should be the Parliament that millions of Australians elect, not a handful of government Ministers, who make that call.
At the same time as conflict abroad escalates, the Labor government is closing Australia’s door to people who are desperately in need of protection.
In a stark display of tripartisanship, the war parties of Labor, the Liberals and One Nation have come together to pass laws to refuse up to 7,200 #Iranians who already have valid Australian #visas from coming to Australia. The express reason they did this was so none of them could do what members of the Iranian women's football team did, come on shore and make an asylum claim.
It is the height of hypocrisy.
As all this chaos rolls out, instead of calling for peace, Labor has cheered the war on and sent 85 military personnel and hardware into the US warzone. Then they change the law to prevent people fleeing places like Iran from finding safety here. These measures go so far as to block people of certain nationalities from even applying for a visa, punishing individuals for the actions of regimes they are trying to escape.
We must not be a country that profits from and promotes conflict abroad, then turns its back on those displaced by it.
#TheGreens are the only party in Parliament willing to stand against this approach and speak and vote for peace not war. We are the only ones calling for a foreign policy grounded in human rights, international law, genuine independence and the core needs of the Australian people.
We say no to US forever wars and the war parties. We say yes to peace and cooperation. We say no to secret decisions to send Australians into conflict and yes to giving the Australian people a say over this war and every other war. We say yes to a defence policy that defends Australia and does not threaten our neighbours, as part of a broader commitment to genuine human security that is far broader than just guns, bombs and missiles. #auspol #uspol #TrumpRegime #RogueNation
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