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sallylawry @sallylawry.bsky.social · 1h

I partly blame the abc for the Referendum result . Their coverage of Gaza has been negligent in detail. It’s our national broadcaster and not a workplace for LNP opinions.

Stacked at editorial, executive and board level with Morrison type cowboys . The Ex Sky and Eurocentric hacks produce slop .

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Maggie Beresford @maggieberesford.bsky.social · 10h

I blame #abcAustralia for the part they played in getting this Crisafulli LNP Government elected. It behoves them to get him and his corrupt associates booted out! www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

New 'jobs for mates' claim over LNP government appointment

Queensland's Crisafulli government is embroiled in a new "jobs for mates" claim after it appointed a Liberal National Party powerbroker to oversee the state's lead agency for disaster recovery.

www.abc.net.au

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Van Badham @vanbadham.bsky.social · 10h

The @washingtonpost.com is fading because it is no longer the Washington Post: it is a billionaire’s pamphlet. The paper was its reputation for integrity; Bezos thought we were all stupid enough to pay money to look at the title instead. I do not regret unsubscribing.

www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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Robyn in the west @robyninthestix.bsky.social · 5h

Whatever excuse they can come up with, the IDF and Mileikowsky will use it to carry out his plan to wipe them from the face of the earth.
Peace plan? Don't make me laugh.
The rest of the world needs to step up and stop funding the genocide.
#FreePalestine

Lee Murray (she/her) @cousincat.bsky.social · 6h

www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/world/2...

Cracks in shaky ceasefire as Palestinians killed, aid halted

Israeli forces are restricting aid into the Gaza Strip after hostage families expressed dismay that only four of 28 bodies were returned.

www.thenewdaily.com.au

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sallylawry @sallylawry.bsky.social · 1h

It’s heartbreaking.

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sallylawry @sallylawry.bsky.social · 7h

This warms my heart .Visited Kalumburu as an RFDS nurse weekly 1979-1980. It was a Catholic mission. So many sick kids with hook worm and 4th world housing.
There is now a FN Labor woman MP representing the Kimberley and a FN Fed Minister .
If you think Labor and LNP are the same I despair ❤️💛🖤

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sallylawry @sallylawry.bsky.social · 1d

It’s a job and they don’t know how bad it will be and how it will change their lives . War always hurts the poor . Most military people are traumatised or go bat shit crazy 😢
Killing people for a living takes its toll.

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sallylawry @sallylawry.bsky.social · 1d

Ok pet

I don’t particularly want to pick a fight with Trump or anybody.

sallylawry @sallylawry.bsky.social · 1d

There are some good people in the US. Trump is an aberration
I am surprised any country wants to be allied with us after the Voice Referendum . Most ashamed I have ever been to be called an Australian. We don’t even recognise First Nations people in the Constitution .Who are we to be moral police?

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sallylawry @sallylawry.bsky.social · 1d

Frogs of the world unite !

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sallylawry @sallylawry.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t trust Trump or Netanyahu 😢

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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 1d

Instead of praising Trump the media should be asking why it took him so long & why he waited for the US & Israel to become completely isolated from the world for him to lift a finger when there was an obvious genocide going on. Trump & Netanyahu will forever be war criminals.

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sallylawry @sallylawry.bsky.social · 1d

She is down a rabbit hole of resentment and revenge . Has to think she is winning even if it means destroying other people’s lives.

Most Australians wouldn’t have read the social media posts .

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sallylawry @sallylawry.bsky.social · 2d

Take a long time to get a less Eurocentric and conservative abc .
Sometimes l think it’s getting better and then there is a clunker 730 or Murdoch cowboy opinion pieces .

Needs proper funding and good researchers .

Needs more kindness and passion and less meanness and self interest.

sallylawry @sallylawry.bsky.social · 2d

Where has the abc been on the rise of Corporate greed and the millions paid to CEOs in Australia?

These executives earn more than 10 times the PM of the country . They kept wages stagnant for a decade and made many workers dependent on the insecure gig economy.

Ww know about Trump btw

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sallylawry @sallylawry.bsky.social · 2d

15% of Indigenous teenagers in AS are homeless
Just imagine your teenager roaming the streets looking for a safe place to sleep.

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sallylawry @sallylawry.bsky.social · 2d

And Chaney wants a 15% GST

The worried well worry about a Parliamentary sports group and Super . The same worried well who got a million in political donations and have $250,000 pa jobs.

The poor lie awake worrying about how they can stretch $200 for 28 meals ( forget breakfast) between C/L pay

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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 2d

I feel like today is a good day to remind everyone that just last year Barnaby Joyce called on a crowd of cookers to say “goodbye” to 3 Labor MPs inc the PM by getting ready to “load that magazine” & think of a “bullet” when casting their vote.
And received no penalty or censure.

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Van Badham @vanbadham.bsky.social · 3d

Dear Portland: your friends across the world are with you. Write up of “frogtifa” resistance in the Sydney Morning Herald, Australia, today. Stay strong, fuck ICE - and solidarity.

www.smh.com.au/world/north-...

Amphibious assault: Progressive Portland’s protesting frogs take air out of Trump’s arguments

The citizens of a progressive northwestern US city have found a creative, humorous way to undercut Donald Trump’s assertions of lawlessness.

www.smh.com.au

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sallylawry @sallylawry.bsky.social · 3d

I’m not racist but … this is my country for white skinned people because we invaded the place and tried to destroy 65,000 yrs of living culture

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sallylawry @sallylawry.bsky.social · 4d

I used to think he was good value .
What has he ever done to address structural inequalities?
He seems to be good on self promotion and a spokesperson to attack Albanese at every level.

I am wary of anybody who received 1.7 million in donations in 2022.

See how he votes on 15% GST and super tax

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sallylawry @sallylawry.bsky.social · 4d

We have 15% of teenagers in AS who are homeless every night, a housing crisis, Trump , Gaza , tariffs women over 55 who are homeless, an energy crisis and so many structural inequalities caused by intergenerational wealth and greed .

And the priority is a parliamentary sports club and gambling ads

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sallylawry @sallylawry.bsky.social · 4d

Not even going there . I don’t have energy for Pocock and his $1.7 mill donors in 2022 or his fan club
Pick a fight with somebody else .
Gaza, housing, Indigenous kids in custody, climate change , homeless women > 55 and Super tax .

But hey look who sponsors Rugby Union ??

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sallylawry @sallylawry.bsky.social · 4d

Such a vindictive person 😢

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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 7d

After asking Dept of Climate Change & Energy on cost of the 2035 target, Sarah Henderson doesn’t want to hear the answer & desperately tries to stop Kath Rowley from embarrassing her on the cost of ‘not’ having a target
Kath Rowley “If I could just finish my answer?”🙄 #Estimates

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