Comedian, provocateur, YouTuber, muckraker & investigative journalist #JordanShanks (aka #friendlyjordies) had his house #firebombed a couple of months ago. A long list of powerful interests have plenty of motive, given his history of exposing #corruption & abuses of power in NSW politics. (NSW is an Australian state with 8m people, 5m in #Sydney.)

Shanks has targeted many of NSW's major industries: #coal, #banking, #construction, #media, #realestate, #gambling, #logging. He's been sued by a mining magnate #billionaire & a member of the state executive. He's exposed links between organised crime & the executive, shown how easy #moneylaundering is, triggered parliamentary questions about #NSWpolice abuses, & played a not-insignificant role in bringing down a popular premier & her deputy, almost causing a rift between the two parties that form a Coalition government in NSW. He's also covered corruption in federal parliament.

At times, he has been nasty, misogynistic, racist & ableist. He's unashamedly partisan (pro-ALP). But there's no denying that while still in his 20s he has become a significant figure in #NSWpol and #Auspol, whose influence has been felt across many fields.
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Political Commentator, and Comedian Jordan Shanks, who recently has been on a roll of upsetting some of the most corrupt individuals and organisations in Australia has had their house firebombed.

The extreme right are just as bad in Australia as anywhere else, very dangerous and scary people!

Huge condolences to Jordon.

https://youtu.be/ZI3zaHUsgXg

https://twitter.com/friendlyjordies

#JordanShanks #friendlyjordies #clubsNSW #lnp #liberalparty #nationalparty #terrorism #attemptedmurder

FriendlyJordies (Jordan Shanks) is such an amazing journalist and hilarious comedian. I'm so appreciative and grateful for his work! 😌
Glad to hear that he's ok 🙏🏾

#JordanShanks #FriendlyJordies #freespeech #freedomofspeech #Australianjournalism

FriendlyJordies (Jordan Shanks) is such an amazing journalist and hilarious comedian. I'm so appreciative and grateful for his work! 😌
Glad to hear that he's ok 🙏🏾

#JordanShanks #FriendlyJordies #freespeech #freedomofspeech #Australianjournalism

I don't 100% agree with #JordanShanks (he's def tone deaf on some issues) but he's also undoubtedly a bloody good, completely fearless, investigative journalist. If the NSW Police don't take this threat 100% seriously and the NSW gov doesn't 100% speak out to protect and support his work, then it only serves to prove just how utterly compromised, corrupt and criminal the Lib-Nats are, and how they have infected our institutions. #Auspol #FriendlyJordies https://youtu.be/ZI3zaHUsgXg