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Independent Media Australia. @indymediaaus.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 4h

Albo’s super dance: one step forward, one backward, one to the side https://michaelwest.com.au/albos-superannuation-dance/ #auspol

Albo’s super dance: one step forward, one backward, one to the side

It was Jim Chalmers’ superannuation reform but it is Anthony Albanese’s reform of the reform that we’re getting. Michael Pascoe reckons it sums up the Albanese Government’s risk-adverse incrementalism.

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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 5h

So we retain an iniquitous system favouring the rich. Which will surprise nobody."

Inimitable @michaelpascoe01.bsky.social on the Super backflip
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Albo’s super dance: one step forward, one backward, one to the side - Michael West

It was Jim Chalmers’ superannuation reform but we get Anthony Albanese’s reform of the reform - Government is risk-adverse and incremental

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Tassie Devil @tassiedevil.bsky.social · 7h

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
Albanese is gutless. His fingerprints are absolutely all over this. It was good policy and now it's nothing but a damp squib. Chalmers will tow the line and say all the right things but inwardly he must be pissed off. #auspol

Chalmers wielded the axe on his super tax, but the PM's fingerprints were obvious

The treasurer has never been afraid to venture beyond his prime minister with his tax reform ambitions, but on superannuation, he has been pulled into line.

www.abc.net.au

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Alice K @coalisdead.bsky.social · 7h

Penny Wong has shown herself, repeatedly, to be an inferior foreign affairs minister

There is no lasting peace unless occupation ends

‘Extraordinarily moving for people in Israel and Au’ ? WTF

She’s still avoiding an entire population, subjected to genocide

US / Israel sycophant doesn’t count

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Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 7h

Only someone looking to break the law adds this to a bill

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Royce Kurmelovs @roycerk2.bsky.social · 7h

"The end result has been that domestic gas prices on Australia’s east coast have trebled, resulting in surging electricity prices that have put Australian households and energy intensive businesses under extreme pressure."

Why Santos is behind your soaring electricity and mortgage costs

It was a primary force behind Australia’s inflationary surge, it’s forced businesses either to the wall or to shift offshore, undermined national industry policy and resulted in the loss of countless ...

www.abc.net.au

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 8h

Companies like Santos have a lot to answer for.

But so do Federal and State governments who have governed not in the public interest,
but as wholly-owned subsidiaries of the fossil fuel lobby. #auspol

Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 8h

Why Santos is behind your soaring electricity and mortage costs www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Why Santos is behind your soaring electricity and mortgage costs

It was a primary force behind Australia’s inflationary surge, it’s forced businesses either to the wall or to shift offshore, undermined national industry policy and resulted in the loss of countless ...

www.abc.net.au

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Peggy Sanders @peggysanders.bsky.social · 8h

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Ian Verrender: The solution? Siphon gas from domestic market.

The end result domestic gas prices on Australia’s east coast have trebled, resulting surging electricity prices that have put Australian households and energy intensive businesses under extreme pressure.

Why Santos is behind your soaring electricity and mortgage costs

It was a primary force behind Australia’s inflationary surge, it’s forced businesses either to the wall or to shift offshore, undermined national industry policy and resulted in the loss of countless ...

www.abc.net.au

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Rex Patrick @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social · 8h

@albomp.bsky.social is sending billions to US & UK shipyards for #AUKUS and then can’t find money to support the core science necessary for future industry innovation, protection of the environment and improved quality of life. He’s short-changing our future. #auspol

Albanese urged to ‘secure the future of science’ as CSIRO reckons with ongoing decline in funding

CEO Doug Hilton says the agency’s budget allocation ‘has not kept up with the cost of doing science’

www.theguardian.com

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 10h

🚨After being tased and beaten by ICE, a man dies in a Chicago hospital. Date and location in following post. These are the horrors of 2025 and we cannot look away. 1/2

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Mr.Kranky @mrkranky.bsky.social · 7h

So that’s where Trump got it from.

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Rex Patrick @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social · 8h

Information is to democratic participation as water is to life. People take water for granted, until it no longer flows. Good on the Greens, cross bench and Coalition for protecting us from @albomp.bsky.social’s shameless assault on govt transparency. 👏 👏 👏 #auspol

Sussan Ley praised for ‘standing up for democracy’ as Labor’s freedom of information crackdown looks set to fail

Government’s FoI changes unlikely to pass Senate as Coalition, Greens and key crossbenchers voice outrage

www.theguardian.com

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 23h

"Keane and Riemer...have argued that criticizing Zionism or Israel is not racist hate speech."

It is ludicrous that this commonsense position should have to be defended in court.

And shows just how far the Israel lobby will go to silence their critics. #auspol
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

University of Sydney argues academic’s article not racist against Jewish people as ‘Zionism is a political concept’

Case taken by academics against two colleagues and the university is considered a major test case for hate speech in Australia

www.theguardian.com

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Mr.Kranky @mrkranky.bsky.social · 13h

The NACC confirms that it is a Star Chamber. Justice dies in darkness.

www.canberratimes.com.au/story/908769...

National watchdog defends no robodebt public hearings

The national anti-corruption commission is investigating six public officials tied to the illegal robodebt scheme that resulted in...

www.canberratimes.com.au

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Mr.Kranky @mrkranky.bsky.social · 13h

No innocent citizen is safe in #NaziAmerica. Especially if you are not WASP.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 13h

Wow! This is New York City. No ID, not identifying himself, attempting to abduct a passenger... Who TF are these Nazis?

Mr.Kranky @mrkranky.bsky.social · 13h

Trump whingers.

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Breen Ouellette (he/him) @breeno.bsky.social · 17h

"This was all about some ugliness that we’re not part of. We’re not in politics. We’re just some guys in Virginia making good whisky. But unfortunately, we’re the victims."

Everyone is "in politics" in a democracy.

Tell these American whisky guys to vote harder or cope harder.

Canada’s boycott America movement is hurting innocent bystanders | CNN Business

Virginia Distillery CEO Gareth Moore was bullish on his company’s American single malt whisky sales north of the border when 2025 kicked off.

www.cnn.com

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Kent Parkstreet, Laird of Doofus @kentparkskeet.bsky.social · 13h

When a massive percentage of the civilian population is dead, when barely one brick still stands on another, when a nation has been traumatised, starved, impoverished for generations, when you both armed and defended this barbarity, then you don’t get to take credit for anything, let alone peace.

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Mr.Kranky @mrkranky.bsky.social · 13h

ABC platforming vicious racist lies.

Dr Ingrid M @ingridm.bsky.social · 1d

poor old Tony Abbott is on the public broadcaster dismissing the oldest and longest continuous oral histories in the history of humanity as “hearsay” how’s your morning going.

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Mr.Kranky @mrkranky.bsky.social · 13h

#NaziAmerica is a warning to Australia. Never forget - police are not your friends.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

Don’t dare record fascist goons! They’re kidnapping us citizens for doing so now in Chicago.

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Michael Mazengarb @michaelmazengarb.bsky.social · 1d

This is very sad, but also not surprising. The science has warned for a long time, including in IPCC reports, that even modest levels of global warming will devastate virtually all coral reefs.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’

Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns

www.theguardian.com

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Rex Patrick @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social · 1d

In Dec 2019 @albomp.bsky.social told the Chifley Research Centre Conference audience “We don’t need a culture of secrecy. We need a culture of disclosure” and then committed to “Reform #FOI laws so they can’t be flouted by Government”.

Exactly who’s failed? #auspol

PM Anthony Albanese defames former senator Rex Patrick to deflect scrutiny on new FOI laws

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese used parliamentary privilege to defame former senator Rex Patrick, when there was no justification to do so. So, let’s see why. Below are 4 short videos from federal […...

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Mr.Kranky @mrkranky.bsky.social · 13h

Anthony Albanese supplied Israel with the means to do this.

Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 1d

The first Swiss journalist to reach Gaza under the army of genocide lost his temper at the horror he witnessed, saying: “Humanity was destroyed here.”

We renew our call on international media and investigators to pressure the genocidal state to allow immediate access to Gaza.

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Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 1d

The first Swiss journalist to reach Gaza under the army of genocide lost his temper at the horror he witnessed, saying: “Humanity was destroyed here.”

We renew our call on international media and investigators to pressure the genocidal state to allow immediate access to Gaza.

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Viktor 🇵🇸🍉🦘🦘🪃 @viktx.bsky.social · 1d

@albomp.bsky.social
@australianlabor.bsky.social
Your GOOD FRIENDS WITH ISRAEL are sadistic war criminals.
Hang your head in shame your complicit in a genocide.
Albo the spineless

Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 1d

The first Swiss journalist to reach Gaza under the army of genocide lost his temper at the horror he witnessed, saying: “Humanity was destroyed here.”

We renew our call on international media and investigators to pressure the genocidal state to allow immediate access to Gaza.

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