Australia 🇦🇺 must absolutely take antisemitism seriously, especially in a moment where Jewish Australians are rightly fearful. But we make a grave mistake if we allow what is legitimate concern to morph and become the justification for broad, vague and easily expandable hate-speech powers. History shows that once governments are handed the legal tools to police expression, the scope of what counts as “prohibited speech” tends to widen, first slowly, then rapidly. My worry for Australia is simple: if these laws can be used to suppress antisemitism today, they can just as easily be turned on any other group, belief, political movement, or ideological minority tomorrow. A law powerful enough to silence bad ideas is powerful enough to silence good ones. We need only to look at horror show the UK 🇬🇧 has become. We can should not go down a similar road here.

What a hideously inappropriate and incompetent response. Quite typical sadly of these horrible @AustralianLabor government. The idea that a gun buyback will make Australians safer is childish wishful thinking dressed up as policy. Criminals and terrorists don’t line up to hand in weapons, so the only people disarmed are those already doing the right thing. We end up with a worse ratio: fewer firearms held by law-abiding citizens and no meaningful impact on those who intend harm. We’ve tried symbolic gestures before. They don’t make families safer, they just make nice sounding news headlines. Real safety requires confronting the hard issues: extremist networks, ideological violence, policing failures and our border integrity. Feel-good confiscation schemes are pointless. It’s immature politics to pretend otherwise. Australia deserves honesty and competence in public safety, not theatre. People’s lives matters too much 🇦🇺

I wrote to my council sharing my thoughts on having three flags instead of just the Australian 🇦🇺 one. This was their response.

Same gun. One is a murderer. One is hero. It’s not about the guns.

FYI everyone in light of announcements made today by Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese: Right-wing extremist movements in Australia On 7 December 2023, the Senate referred an inquiry into right-wing extremist movements in Australia to the Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee for inquiry and report by 6 December 2024. The inquiry examined the nature and extent of right-wing extremist movements in Australia, including the threat they pose, links with international movements, how individuals radicalise, the role of the online environment, and measures to counter violent extremism, particularly among young people. For anyone interested, the full Committee report (December 2024) can be read here: 👉 Report - Right-wing extremist movements in Australia (Parliament of Australia) –

Right wing extremist movements in Australia

Report

Key recommendations of the Committee The report made several practical recommendations for reducing the threat of extremism: 1. Periodic evaluation of Australia’s deradicalisation and counter-violent extremism programs, involving experts, law enforcement and researchers. 2. Develop a national engagement framework for young people to help them identify and resist extremist ideologies and participate positively in their communities. 3. Fund research into extremist activity online, including on social media, gaming and gaming-adjacent platforms, to understand how these environments are used for recruitment and propaganda. 4. The eSafety Commissioner should work with stakeholders to create best practice guidelines ensuring transparent and independent monitoring of how social media platforms enforce policies to remove extremist content. 5. The government should consider legislation to allow law enforcement and intelligence to access encrypted communications with a warrant where national security threats exist. 6. Adopt a nationally consistent definition of hate crimes and consider establishing a national hate crimes database. Political & public debate • Some members - including Senator Mehreen Faruqi (Greens) - argued the report didn’t sufficiently address racism and white supremacy at the core of far-right extremism and recommended additional measures grounded in anti-racism and community engagement. Worthy of looking over.

Jerusalem in the late 1300’s ⛪️☪️✡️

It’s definitely the gun laws.

Our politicians are particularly stupid in Australia 🇦🇺 sadly.

When you inexplicably expand the currency by 80%, it’s no coincidence that the price of the thing most exposed to money creation; houses, rises by roughly the same amount 🏘️ #AssestInflation

The key driver in the market today is the yen carry trade unwinding, which is pushing USD/JPY and AUD/JPY lower, weakening AUD/USD, tightening liquidity conditions and feeding directly into bond volatility and Bitcoin’s extreme leverage washouts. This isn’t a central-bank-story, it’s a liquidity-plumbing day, where funding flows are dictating price action across bonds, FX and crypto. As yen-funded positions close, capital flees risk, Treasury demand rises, yields chop, spreads widen and the AUD takes heat. Bitcoin’s wild intraday swings were simply the liquidity pressure valve opening as positions liquidated on both sides. For Australia, the implications are very real and very serious: even if yields soften, mortgage rates and the cost-of-living pressures in 2026 are unlikely to improve because spreads and risk premia rise when liquidity tightens. The yen is setting the tone; tighter liquidity, lower risk appetite, higher refinancing strain and a much more fragile market structure across every asset class.

More “diversity decorations” for Christmas in Australia 🇦🇺 Sydney’s Xmas 🎄 markets are a terror target now that we’ve imported the two thousand year old Abrahamic blood fued to our shores.

What a lie. The cost of living is the biggest concern for people, other than being shot on the beach of course*

Her name was Matilda.

It would be nice to see more nuance and intelligence in this conversation. To all the “we don’t want to become like the USA” people… Please understand that if gun ownership alone caused mass shootings, Switzerland would look like the United States and it absolutely doesn’t. That should tell us that culture, social cohesion, criminal subcultures and institutional trust play a hugely decisive role. Policy debates should acknowledge that complexity exists rather than reducing everything down to a single factor. Life is not black and white.

It’s complex but not magic 🪄 Blaming hidden groups or entire peoples for financial outcomes is what happens when complexity meets ignorance. Money, credit and currencies move according to incentives, policy settings and global liquidity constraints. Its not hooked nose ethnicity or secret control. The system is flawed, but it’s mechanical and not mystical. Understanding can replace scapegoats with structure. Try it on 🧠

Morning Bond Briefing + Liquidity Wrap with seasonal context already baked in.

Australia was founded with an explicit acknowledgement of God and within a Christian moral framework but it was not established as a theocratic Christian state. Important caveat; - Australia does not have an established state religion - Section 116 of the Constitution explicitly prevents: - establishing any religion - imposing religious observance - restricting the free exercise of religion So constitutionally, Australia is: • Not secular in origin • But secular in legal structure

“Whereas the people of New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Queensland and Tasmania, humbly relying on the blessing of Almighty God, have agreed to unite in one indissoluble Federal Commonwealth under the Crown of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and under the Constitution hereby established:” Australia was fundamentally established as a Christian nation 🇦🇺

Cracking down on licensed, law-abiding firearm owners after a violent extremist attack is an entirely inappropriate response from the Australian government. Australia already has very strict firearms laws. The problem here was not a lack of legislation, it was a blatant failure to act on warning signs, intelligence and already existing powers. When authorities already have the ability to intervene and then do not use it, punishing compliant citizens does absolutely nothing to improve public safety. Disarming or further restricting innocent people who have followed every rule known to man does not make violent extremists disappear. It simply shifts blame away from institutional failure and onto the easiest political target! What a copout. This was not a firearms problem. It was a failure of governance, of intervention and real accountability. Australian citizens deserve competence, not scapegoating.

The civil protests haven’t worked at all. Now it’s constant threats to Australians. Very distressing stuff 😞