Rest in peace brother. A Lion amongst men 🦁

According to the Free Speech Union of Australia, the Anthony Albanese government's 144-page Censorship Bill: - Mimics the UK provisions (where 30 people a day are arrested for social media posts), but with even fewer safeguards. - Includes hate speech laws, which were originally conceived by the Soviet Union under Josef Stalin. Submissions to a last minute Committee inquiry are due by 4pm today. Credit: Michael Arbon*

How sad 😞

‪Copper normally rises when the economy is genuinely growing. Silver normally rises when people are losing trust in money. When both hit record highs together, it tells us growth isn’t organic, it’s being inflated by printed money.‬ That’s not prosperity, this is a sugar hit that will be paid for by future generations of Australians‬ 🇦🇺

New ATH for Silver; $91.57375 / oz

Credit, Turning Point Australia* ‼️ RETROSPECTIVE LAWS MUST BE RESISTED AT ALL COSTS! The proposed legislation is explicitly **retrospective**. It would apply to “conduct” that took place **before** the law even commences. That means every person who has ever publicly criticised Anthony Albanese’s policy of unprecedented mass migration — no matter when they said it, no matter how many years ago — could, if this bill passes, be arrested and imprisoned under its provisions. This isn’t just bad law. This is a direct attack on freedom of speech, applied **backwards in time**. Retrospective criminalisation of political opinion has no place in a free society. It must be opposed without compromise.

Pray for the Iranians 🦁

If you’re not making a submission to this hate speech bill you’re not working hard enough to defend freedom in Australia 🇦🇺 Here is mine; https://1drv.ms/w/c/ee37309637d90908/IQBTQ7gUOfgqSZ_GRWvuTgB3AXGltXoBJmmp1BoE4pi5-Iw There are only 10 submissions to the Hate Speech bill thus far* My submission has not been included on the list (I only sent it in 5 minutes ago).

Stand with the Iranian people 🦁

Stand with the Iranian people 🦁🇺🇸🇦🇺

🚨 FREE IRAN: These are people demanding freedom, dignity, and basic human rights. When a regime responds with repression and censorship, it reveals its fear of its own people. We stand with the Iranian people, not the regime.

WHY WESTERN PRESS IS IGNORING IRAN'S REVOLT AGAINST ISLAMIC RULE The Western liberal media is ignoring the Iranian uprising because explaining it would force an admission it is desperate to avoid: the Iranian people are rebelling against Islam itself, and that fact shatters the moral framework through which these institutions understand the world. Ideally, to cover an uprising is not just to show crowds and slogans. It requires answering a basic question: why are people risking death? In Iran, the answer is simple and unavoidable. The people are rising up because the Islamic Republic of Iran has spent decades suffocating every aspect of life—speech, work, family, art, women, and economic survival—under a clerical system that treats liberty as a crime. There is no way to tell that story without confronting the nature of the regime. Western media refuses to do so because it has fundamentally misunderstood Islam. Or worse, it has chosen not to understand it. Islam, in Western progressive discourse, has been racialized. It is treated not as a belief system or a political ideology, but as a stand-in for race or ethnicity. Criticizing Islam is framed as an attack on “brown people,” Arabs, or “the Middle East,” as if Islam were a skin color rather than a doctrine. This confusion is rooted in historical illiteracy. Western liberal media routinely collapses entire civilizations into a single stereotype: “all Middle Easterners are Arabs,” “all Arabs are Muslim,” and “all Muslims are a monolithic, oppressed identity group by white European colonizers.” Iranians disappear entirely in this framework. Their language, history, and culture—Persian, not Arab; ancient, not colonial; distinct, not interchangeable—are erased. By treating Islam as a racial identity rather than an ideology, Western media strips millions of people of their ability to reject it. Iranian protesters become unintelligible. Their rebellion cannot be processed without breaking the rule that Islam must not be criticized. So instead of listening to Iranians, the media speaks over them—or ignores them entirely. There is another reason the Iranian uprising is so threatening to Western media is economic issues. As you know, Iran is not only a religious dictatorship. It is a centrally controlled, state-dominated economy where markets are strangled, private enterprise is criminalized or co-opted, and economic survival depends on proximity to political power. Decades of price controls, subsidies, nationalization, and bureaucratic micromanagement have obliterated the middle class and entrenched corruption as the only functional system. The result is not equality or justice. It is poverty, stagnation, and dependence on government’s dark void of empty promises. Covering Iran honestly would require acknowledging that these policies are harmful. They have been tried. They have failed. Catastrophically. This is deeply inconvenient for Western media institutions that routinely promote expansive state control, centralized economic planning, and technocratic governance as morally enlightened alternatives to liberal capitalism. Iran demonstrates where such systems lead when insulated from accountability and enforced by ideology. It shows that when the state controls livelihoods, non-conformity becomes existentially dangerous. That lesson cannot be acknowledged without undermining the moral authority of those who advocate similar ideas in softer language. Western liberal media prefers not to hear this. Acknowledging it would require abandoning the lazy moral categories that dominate modern discourse: oppressor and oppressed, colonizer and colonized, white and non-white. Iranian protesters do not fit. They show that authoritarianism is not a Western invention imposed from outside, but something many societies are actively trying to escape. That is what terrifies Western liberal media. And that is why the Iranian people are being ignored. So the silence continues. - Tahmineh Dehbozorgi, Litigation Fellow at the Institute for Justice

$1bn? I have seen estimates of $5bn How many schools, roads, air strips, hospitals and how much other public infrastructure could this build? It’s not too late for State or Federal Governments to walk this back, slow it down and review laws properly. NSW Firearms Laws are already some of the strongest in the world. More laws are not the answer. Deal with the real problem of extremism, radicalisation, racism etc. Roy Butler MP*

“It is not the fault of capitalism that the masses prefer a boxing match to a performance of Sophocles’ Antigone….” “Let us hope that this right to dissent will never disappear” #MontPelerinSociety #LudwigVonMises

From Field and Game Australia 🇦🇺 We often hear the claim: “If you live in the city, you don’t need a gun.” That idea ignores a long and uniquely Australian reality. For generations, the end-of-week escape from the rat race has drawn city people back to the bush — not as tourists, but as helping hands. From the swag men of the Depression era, walking the bush and swapping labour for a meal, to the post-war decades when city kids rode bikes and trams to nearby farms to control rabbits and put food on the table to help feed their families. That tradition never disappeared — it simply evolved. Farmers are busy farming. Many rely heavily on trusted, law-abiding hunters from the city to give up their weekends and holidays to control feral animals and pests. In tough seasons, that helping hand can mean the difference between stock surviving a drought or being driven off by pigs, goats, or other invasive species. City-dwelling hunters are not a public safety risk. They are part of one of the oldest exchanges in the Australian bush: labour for access, effort for stewardship, responsibility for trust. They are not an anomaly. They are one of the foundations of this nation. Its memories and facts like this that have been ignored in NSW - if you are in Vic - make sure you, and all your family/friends have signed the petition, to make sure we get to remind Vic politicians before any changes are made:

Reject changes to firearms legislation without proper consultation - Petitions - Parliament of Victoria

#Zion

Napoleon and Jerusalem ⛪️

The first King of Palestine 👑

Australian Labor Party is unelectable* Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party in South Australia 🇦🇺 come March it is then 🤝🌱

It should be a political hand grenade* Australia 🇦🇺 sits at or near the top of public-sector workers per 1,000 people among large nations. That’s not “we value public services.” That’s we run a very labour-intensive, compliance-heavy state. We don’t have a small-government problem or a big-government problem. We have a too-many-managers, not-enough-outcomes problem.