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#UnitedAustraliaParty and #TrumpetOfPatriots data breach sees, potentially, all internal documents and correspondence exposed in #ransomware attack, in what may also inadvertently be the parties’ cheapest and highest-ROI publicity spend.

http://archive.today/2025.07.17-225719/https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/clive-palmer-s-political-parties-hacked-in-major-breach-20250718-p5mfvz.html #auspol #uap #top #ClivePalmer

#TrumpetOfPatriots (wtf does that even mean? 🙄)

if it’s true <truth is stranger than fiction> i reckon there’s a strong possibility some of these candidates will be used to invent <characters> for some australian tv show in the future…

ps if anyone knows where i can buy a phd online for $249, please dm me. i’d love to be taken seriously for 5 minutes. someone did make me a fake tafe diploma once that said i had trained in diy brain surgery, but i have misplaced it

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-16/trumpet-of-patriots-david-sarikaya-misrepresented-qualifications/105179728

@aby a follow-up to this - I sent a complaint about this, and they came back this morning effectively telling me the transmisic one crossed a line but they cannot censor content from one political party. Cannot censor, or cannot refuse a hefty paycheck, I wonder? 🤔 This morning’s issue has yet another Trumpet of Patriots ad, this one about “respecting ALL Australians” and how we need to appreciate ALL nationalities. It’s a slimey motte-and-bailey tactic and I fucking hate that this is going unchecked.

#AusPol #ClivePalmer #NewcastleHerald #TrumpetOfPatriots #Racism #Transphobia #Transmisia #Xenophobia

@aby A NSW-specific example that has come up this week - the newspaper Newcastle Herald has promoted three Trumpet of Patriots ads. The latest, a transmisic one, received a lot of backlash and was RIGHTFULLY removed within hours and a formal apology was given. However the other two, vilifying immigrants and First Nations people, are still up and very few people have made similar demands for them to be removed.

An article in The Conversation said this about the transmisic ad: “All that had to be done was to substitute race or skin colour for gender and ask: would we publish such an advertisement?”. It goes on to acknowledge the racist/xenophobic ads BUT by downplaying them: “Race is clearly an undertone in both of these, but they are directed at practices and policies, not at people’s personal attributes. In this way, they are categorically different from the ad about gender.”

Like, what the fuck? BIPOC “practices and policies” being targeted IS because of “personal attributes” ie attributes of birth (eg race, nationality, skin colour) AS QUOTED EARLIER IN THE VERY SAME ARTICLE. How can the author not recognise the insidious appeal to semantics/plausible deniability they are falling into? Was it not enough to use these two examples as further evidence of Trumpet of Patriots’ blanket bigotry and threat to human rights in so-called Australia?

The lack of enthusiasm to call out racism/xenophobia in comparison to transmisia is very disappointing. This extremist political party’s racist ads were allowed to be promoted and distributed over the weekend with minimal backlash, until they started targeting a white-majority demographic. Obviously trans and gender diverse people need support right now, but so do people of colour, especially Indigenous people. Not to mention there are trans BIPOC, so to me it’s obvious that intersectionality in activism is crucial. That’s what it means to truly stand together in solidarity.

🔗https://theconversation.com/newspapers-cannot-justify-running-clive-palmers-trumpet-of-patriots-ads-as-freedom-of-speech-252024

#AusPol #ClivePalmer #TrumpetOfPatriots #Racism #Transphobia #Transmisia #Xenophobia #NewcastleHerald