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Ben (up north)

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Blep. 🌏 🐨 🌿 Digs holes & grows things on Muluridji country Education is key, knowledge is power. Housing, Health & Basic Income for All. Will not follow or promote accounts that restrict replies to followers or following only. No more echo chambers!

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Jessica D. M. 🇺🇦 🇦🇺 🇨🇦 🇵🇦 🇬🇱 🪃 🟧 @jessicaperthwa.bsky.social · 1d

#Auspol How many cents in the dollar does Australia spend on US made military equipment? Time to reduce it and spread the love. More into Australia Europe North Korea and Haoan etc please @albomp.bsky.social

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Carney: Up until now, more than 70 cents of every dollar of military capital spending by our government has gone to the United States.

With our new Defense Investment Agency, we’ll make sure we build more of our security and defense capabilities here at home

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David Tomkins @davidctomkins.bsky.social · 1d

Many Australians are frustrated and overwhelmed by misinformation. They also lack the time and skills to fact-check, and feel governments and platforms should be doing more to combat it.
#auspol www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...

Many people unable to identify misinformation from election 2025

Many Australians are frustrated and overwhelmed by misinformation. They also lack the time and skills to fact-check.

www.thenewdaily.com.au

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Ben (up north) @bjts.bsky.social · 1d

I really do not like Murray Watt at all.
He's playing the fear card. The lowest card of the pack.

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Marns🌿🍉🐸 @marnshibski.bsky.social · 1d

ICE will gladly have them.

OMG.WTF 🇦🇺 🇲🇪 🇿🇲 @amsickofpollies.bsky.social · 1d

Crumbs. This is not good

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Ben (up north) @bjts.bsky.social · 1d

The less educated the better.
Much easier to manipulate. 👍

Ben (up north) @bjts.bsky.social · 1d

Nice words 👍

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Foxy @foxylustygrover.bsky.social · 1d

I'm loaded,
I'm greedy,
What do you mean,
"Rates rebates are
for the needy?"

I'm wealthy,
I'm entitled,
All this free stull,
Makes me delighted!

I'm rich,
I'm sorted,
What do you mean,
"Go and get rorted?"

I'm minted,
I'm a millionaire,
Ask me anything else,
I'm unaware!
#NZPol

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💚🌏Myles🌏💚 @mylesjaybee.bsky.social · 1d

While you’re told to work harder and buy less avo toast, billionaires pocket $150 million a day in fossil fuel subsidies.
#auspol #ClimateCrisis #EndCapitalism

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The Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com · 1d

🐸🕺 Portland’s dancing frogs remind us how powerful it is to challenge tyranny with humour.

👉 Read the full story: theconversation.com/why-us-...

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Ben (up north) @bjts.bsky.social · 1d

I reckon this is right #auspol. 👇

Process Driven @processdriven.bsky.social · 1d

There is no bottom to Trump and what he is capable of.

None.

Your worst imaginings are not able to come close to what he can and will do.

If you think he is content to just terrorise his own country, that it a naive position to take.

He will come for all of us.

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tweety @bluskypolitics.bsky.social · 1d

📌 Can't stop replaying this 😜

Oh she so went there 🤭🤣🐥

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Alisru @alisru.bsky.social · 1d

johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10...
Omfg Children

Who the fuck cares who gets the minerals in this context when all this bs is regressing society and simply noise to cover selfish actions

#auspol

China, US or us? Australia’s Upper Path in the global minerals race

The headlines are breathless: “China versus the world,” proclaimed The Australian, quoting some very important people from the sheriff's office urging allies to decouple from Beijing and unite against...

johnmenadue.com

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Ben (up north) @bjts.bsky.social · 1d

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Ben (up north) @bjts.bsky.social · 1d

Word. 🤟

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💚🌏Myles🌏💚 @mylesjaybee.bsky.social · 1d

There are 2,700 billionaires on Earth. Their combined wealth could end global poverty three times over. But sure... it’s the refugees ruining everything.
#auspol #ClassWar #EndCapitalism

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Debbie Northway 🇦🇺🦘🐨 @debbienorthway.bsky.social · 1d

#EpsteinFiles

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 1d

Don’t laugh at this. Don’t dismiss it. They’re serious. Prepare for it. And get ready to fight against it.

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quokkafella.nafofellas.com @quokkafella.nafofellas.com · 1d

#auspol

Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 3d

Nuts to see the widespread media backpatting of Albanese after he ensures Aus critical minerals will be

- Shipped to a country that'll use them for weapons and AI slop data centres instead of for the energy transition

- Extracted in an env toxic way thanks to the deregulation promised in the deal

Albanese at the White House: Trump endorses Aukus, signs $8.5bn rare earths deal and calls PM ‘great leader’

President says US has no better friend than Australia but tells ambassador Kevin Rudd “I don’t like you’

www.theguardian.com

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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 1d

If Barnaby Joyce leaves the Nats and retires as MP at the end of this term, I expect he WILL join One Nation and run for a Senate spot. No longer in Govt or Oppn, he'd receive a salary of $233,643pa plus $39,700 electorate allowance for doing nothing but media interviews on Sunrise & Today. #auspol

Nationals MP for New England Barnaby Joyce

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Independent Media Australia. @indymediaaus.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

How gold became a memecoin https://australiainstitute.org.au/post/how-gold-became-a-memecoin/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-gold-became-a-memecoin #auspol

How gold became a memecoin

People have been queuing for gold and its giving toilet paper in 2020.

australiainstitute.org.au

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Ben (up north) @bjts.bsky.social · 1d

The truth is now considered subjective.

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Independent Media Australia. @indymediaaus.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Hundreds of prominent Jews and Israelis urge world powers to hold Israel accountable ‘for Gaza atrocities’ https://johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10/hundreds-of-prominent-jews-and-israelis-urge-world-powers-to-hold-israel-accountable-for-gaza-atrocities #auspol

Hundreds of prominent Jews and Israelis urge world powers to hold Israel accountable 'for Gaza atrocities'

An open letter, signed by at least 460 Jewish and Israeli intellectuals, celebrities and political figures, calls on the UN and heads of state to address the underlying conditions of occupation, apartheid and the denial of Palestinian rights that are absent from US President Trump's Gaza ceasefire agreement.

johnmenadue.com

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Ben (up north) @bjts.bsky.social · 1d

I thought we privatised most of our utilities years ago.
Profiting out of services never ends up well.

Ben (up north) @bjts.bsky.social · 1d

That suggests that Labor would care somewhat about the environment.
Doesn't seem to be in Watt's make up at all.

Ben (up north) @bjts.bsky.social · 1d

Hey #auspol🫵
Read this and share 👇👍

Darren Quinn @ausmmt.bsky.social · 1d

# 1/8 🎣
The **Wage-Price Spiral** is a lie. It is the most politically convenient economic fiction ever invented. My post dismantles this myth and replaces it with the operational reality. 🧵👇 #Inflation #Auspol #MMT