You'd be forgiven for thinking Bettina Arndt has a type. Platformed the twice-convicted paedophile who repeatedly raped Grace Tame – now begs for cash for 'victim' Bruce #Lehrmann who she says 'suffered immense damage'. Did she miss Justice Lee ruling he raped Ms Higgins? #auspol

Dutton's LNP stoking division & hate, again.

To protest genocide isn't antisemitic. It's a basic human response to the murder of the innocent – for those with a dot of morality.

Where is Paterson's outcry for the 'safety' of Palestinian students bombed by Israel? #auspol #Rafah

We are witnessing the most wicked, inconceivable crimes against humanity in Rafah. Children crushed under concrete, families frantic to revive them, homes ablaze, aid blocked. Palestinians have nothing left.

PM Albanese & Penny Wong, feeble words to Israel are not enough #auspol

We are at the darkest point of this genocide – one that marked the unimaginable. 1.5 million Palestinians trapped in Rafah, drained, with only prayers left. Children among them, terrified, suffering Israel's barbarity. Despair, rage, heartache. The world is unrecognisable #auspol

It conveys such cowardice Paul Fletcher's refusal on #QandA to discuss Israel's Rafah assault, the genocide's darkest point. Copious concern for Jewish safety. But not one word for the 35,000 Palestinians in Gaza bombed & orphaned.

A Dutton script. This is not leadership #auspol

Few sequences capture the ABC's shift to Sky News quite like Clare Armstrong asserting we're 'past the point' of the women's rally trivialities, yet fail to rebuke Speers who smugly dubs it 'he said, she said', who then persists talking over Katy Gallagher. Wow. #insiders #auspol

Interviewing isn't a game of how many insolent jabs & disruptions a journalist can win. Yet Speers sees this as the peak of political analysis, arresting Katy Gallagher's every reply from women to HECS. Labor disdain oozing; even a 'Clare Armstrong said'. Tragic #insiders #auspol

That #AfternoonBriefing turned to cheater & groper Barnaby Joyce to advise on women, passing myriad experts in the field, is a damning signal of the ABC's standards. Endorsing the views of an MP known for misconduct is offensive, not least in the tumult of a severe crisis #auspol

Even if, as Waleed Aly writes, violence against women stems from men feeling shamed & humiliated, why do they get to grant themselves the right to unleash this on women? Feelings – ridicule, 'wimp,' whatever – aren't a free pass to murder or abuse women. A dismaying take. #auspol

The gall of 'Bonk Ban' Barnaby Joyce preaching the sanctity of 'family structure' & advising it's 'where the seed grows' when he himself was off spreading his own seed to a staffer & betraying his wife. And the ABC deems him apt to discuss women. Woeful #AfternoonBriefing #auspol

'If you're a proper leader, it's not about you' -Annabel Crabb

The media, the ABC included, sleazily made the rally about Albanese. A sly ploy to demean Labor & diminish women's suffering. The national crisis now a circus, Sarah Williams & Albo on stage, now the main act #auspol

Struggling to reconcile how such a fervent plea from Vince Hurley urging MPs to stop playing politics on violence against women, elicited such glares from Bridget McKenzie, Murray Watt & Patricia Karvelas. This after time wasted on the Albo/Sarah Williams mess. Sad #QandA #auspol

For 9 years, the LNP did little for women. Morrison was useless, while Linda Reynolds still hounds Brittany Higgins. Yet Bridget McKenzie, of Sports Rorts fame, slams PM Albanese for 'gaslighting' over Sarah Williams' mess.

At least Albo marched. Where was Dutton? #QandA #auspol

'Not all men are violent, but how we're portraying it is that men are violent against women.'

Dai Le, painfully tone-deaf, who also tells Speers 'mindful language' is key.

In 2024, 32 women have been killed in Australia. That's one every 4 days #EnoughIsEnough #insiders #auspol

To think, we once had a refuge from Murdoch spin, a haven free of fawning journalists where sanity-saving humour laid bare the democracy-trashing, Robodebt-denying, women-despising Scott Morrison.

Forever in memory: The wit, brilliance & bullsh*t-detection of #MadAsHell . #auspol

In any case, Scott Morrison's sudden rush to air his anxiety (see: book to sell) is a stark reminder of his rampant self-interest, narcissism & incompetence. Where was his mental health advocacy for Robodebt victims, refugees, women, Brittany Higgins? A master manipulator #auspol

Never forget: Given the chance by Laura Tingle to apologise for his mistakes, Scott Morrison brazenly evaded.

He also rejected the Robodebt RC, urging he's the victim of a plot.

Zero respect for the anxiety he caused Australians, yet seeks respect for his. Unbelievable. #auspol

It is hard to reconcile Australian politicians, on the one hand, offering solemn Anzac Day words reflecting upon the brutality & pain of war, yet on the other, supporting Israel's cruel Palestinian genocide in Gaza. #LestWeForget the need for consistency in our principles #auspol