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Andy Paterson @agpat.bsky.social · 1h

Which means the cost of living is getting out of reach, not just for low paid workers, welfare recipients, pensioners and single parent families, it's getting out of reach for struggling working and middle class families as well.

Tax reform is needed with some equality strategies, now.

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Lisa the Antifascist “Leftist”🇦🇺 @lisatellstruth.bsky.social · 1h

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Kerrie B @wheels002.bsky.social · 1h

Odd how there’s news coverage from ‘inside’ Gaza all of a sudden. #auspol #USpol

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Donna @donnakahn.bsky.social · 3h

The violence is coming from ICE!

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 3h

The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!!

Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.

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Andy Paterson @agpat.bsky.social · 1h

Proper and broad based tax reform.

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Zali Steggall @zalisteggall.bsky.social · 1h

I welcome the govt’s decision to revise its super tax reforms following crossbench advocacy.

I continue to call on the govt to strengthen the PRRT and pursue broader tax reform — shifting the burden away from personal income earners and onto big polluters.

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Andy Paterson @agpat.bsky.social · 6h

I guess it's over then?

He likes another's music and genre today.

Not very clever writing sexually explicit songs about you and your fiance, is it?

We have so many great words and phrases to tell a story of love and passion without being explicit and embarrassing.

It's on you Taylor.

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Andy Paterson @agpat.bsky.social · 6h

Bloody money and power versus the people. Murdoch and his enabling staff and myrmidons are despicable.

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Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 7h

Note on this Israeli news platform, Fox denies genocide, claiming it is Hamas spin.

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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 8h

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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Steve Baty (He/him) @docbaty.bsky.social · 10h

And a Happy Monday from Western Sydney University, the latest Australian higher education institution to undertake a ‘complete shemozzle’ cost-cutting process.

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

Uni staff outraged as high-paid consultants work on redundancies

As Western Sydney University prepares to shed hundreds of staff due to its dire finances, leaked documents reveal it is paying consultants as much as $2,850 a day.

www.abc.net.au

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Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 7h

I'm old enough to remember when pretty much all of the mainstream media regularly praised Abbott for being the politician with the deepest connection to Indig Australians because he visited a community every year, patted some kids on the head and hammered a few nails.

Dr Ingrid M @ingridm.bsky.social · 11h

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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Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · 7h

"The standard you walk past is the standard you accept"
- Lieutenant General David Morrison

Could have been written about senior academics unwilling to call out bad behaviour of the academy. There is a constructive & unconstructive way to review papers, & Editors have a job to know the difference.

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Raymond Wilton @raymondwilton.bsky.social · 7h

www.theguardian.com/environment/... The earth has reached its first catastrophic tipping point linked to greenhouse gas emissions, with warm water coral reefs now facing a long-term decline and risking the livelihoods of hundreds of millions of people, according to a new report.

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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Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz.bsky.social · 7h

The Gaza holocaust will be a litmus test for high-profile figures for decades. Everyone's comments or lack thereof on Israel's genocidal atrocities will be looked up and amplified whenever their name rises to public attention.

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Chris Jones @drcgjones.bsky.social · 7h

I'd still back it. ~1.75 GW of generation on the grid for a week. Batteries still can't do this. Every battery installation is imported cells, inside imported enclosures, designed by engineers overseas. Snowy 2 has provided more Australian worker-hours per MWh than batteries ever will too.

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Andy Paterson @agpat.bsky.social · 7h

Democracy and capitalism is the problem here.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 7h

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

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Andy Paterson @agpat.bsky.social · 7h

Any real man, woman, child or dog for that matter. Trump has always had a way about him that acts like a magnet. It attracts some but repels just as vigorously.

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Jenothee @jenothee.bsky.social · 8h

Is the dumbest idea ever cos it was made to appease Rupert Murdoch.

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Sally 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 @newsupdates.bsky.social · 7h

But

They like his ass

youtube.com/shorts/ephSe...

Donald Trump has no deals said everyone was kissing his ASS???

YouTube video by Russia's Economic News Updates

youtube.com

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Andy Paterson @agpat.bsky.social · 7h

Trump is toast, or he would be if it was a democracy.

In fact if this was China, Trump would be taken out to the Mongolian border and shot.

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 15h

Massive insider trading. Thirty minutes before Trump’s China tariff announcement, a crypto “whale” opened a $100M+ short on Bitcoin.

4:30 PM: Whale opens $100M+ BTC short
4:50 PM: Trump announces 100% tariffs on China
5:20 PM: $19.3 B in liquidations hit the market
The whale’s profit: $192 million

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Andy Paterson @agpat.bsky.social · 7h

Yeah, we've heard that before. It's a typical neoconservative reaction to their own pretty shit policy.

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RNZ News Feeds @rnzrss.bsky.social · 10h

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon blames unions for ongoing strike action

"I think people are getting sick of unions prioritising the politics over patients," the Prime Minister says.

www.rnz.co.nz

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