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Niall Ginsbourg @niallginsbourg.bsky.social · 8h

Your quick cheat sheet for abducted people held for significant amount of time without charges, a trial or due legal process who are now being returned home in the Middle East.
Sad to see that even @australia.theguardian.com is falling in line with this blatantly racist reporting.

#auspol #Gaza

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PEN Sydney @pensydney.bsky.social · 9h

🔗 REGISTER NOW: events.humanitix.com/hedges-pales...

#auspol #australia #gaza #israel #palestine

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Barry Steele @barrysteeleau.bsky.social · 9h

Well as Forrest said "Stupid is as stupid does"

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Peggy Sanders @peggysanders.bsky.social · 12h

Insecure, unaffordable and inaccessible housing is the biggest cause of poverty in Australia.

Labor Government has a lot to answer for.

albomp.bsky.social
@jimchalmers.bsky.social
#auspol

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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 15h

1/ The March for White Australia RETVRNS this Sunday, OCT 19.

Below is a list of counter-protests, organised under the banner of 'No Room For Racism & Fascism' /// 'No White Australia. Counter The Far Right.'

Melbourne - 11am @ State Library
Brisbane - 11am @ Queens Gardens
Perth - 12pm @ Forrest Place
Canberra - 11am @ NLA Lawns
Sydney - 11am @ Belmore Park
Adelaide - 11:30am @ Beehive Corner

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Rod Moffatt @politikarma.bsky.social · 12h

As @albomp.bsky.social
@jimchalmers.bsky.social
@australianlabor.bsky.social Govt rabbits on about wanting to lift productivity, Blind Freddie knows that innovation drives productivity.
Yet the incumbent neoliberals are more interested in austerity than adequately funding our august CSIRO
#auspol

David @daverino.bsky.social · 17h

“CSIRO will embark on further cost-cutting to research units to repair a multimillion-dollar budget shortfall, as Aust’s national science & research agency reckons with an ongoing decline in funding..funding as a percentage of GDP..is now at its lowest since 1978”
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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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Kate-Eviva @kate-eviva.bsky.social · 12h

Crazy over powered executive at #CSIRO cutting science like #tRump. University #executives lying about the need for cost cutting same result! . C’mon @albomp.bsky.social, @australianlabor.bsky.social we need to balance executives with some #integrity and #policy to raise #R&D. #auspol

Rod Moffatt @politikarma.bsky.social · 12h

As @albomp.bsky.social
@jimchalmers.bsky.social
@australianlabor.bsky.social Govt rabbits on about wanting to lift productivity, Blind Freddie knows that innovation drives productivity.
Yet the incumbent neoliberals are more interested in austerity than adequately funding our august CSIRO
#auspol

David @daverino.bsky.social · 17h

“CSIRO will embark on further cost-cutting to research units to repair a multimillion-dollar budget shortfall, as Aust’s national science & research agency reckons with an ongoing decline in funding..funding as a percentage of GDP..is now at its lowest since 1978”
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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MingTheMerciless @m1ngthemerciless.bsky.social · 13h

The United States is now the true axis of evil. Why are we still allied to it? #auspol Cancel #aukus.

PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 2d

A 6-year-old immigrant child is handcuffed with hands behind their back and arrested.
Trump’s America.

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Barry Steele @barrysteeleau.bsky.social · 13h

They just can't help themselves. Full to the brim with bigots, be they sexist, racist or just plain bigots

I don't think they really want to win government

Have they bothered to explain the harm they imagine a treaty might stop?

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Barry Steele @barrysteeleau.bsky.social · 16h

Nationalise them - now

If it's good enough for a Middle Eastern Government to invest in, it's even better for the Australian Public to own both the gas (we do) and the business above it

@australianlabor.bsky.social could follow it's Constitution and make Santos worker owned (look it up- true)

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Barry Steele @barrysteeleau.bsky.social · 16h

It's amazing how secrecy becomes important only after one wins an election

@australianlabor.bsky.social have pulled down the blinds on their operations at both State and Federal level

Political Chameleons one and all

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Dr Alan Nixon @alangnixon.bsky.social · 17h

#EndOligarchy, #Australia - #auspol

The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 18h

The lights on the hill.
My @smh @theage cartoon.

Single frame. Parliament House Canberra by night - with bright neon signs saying “AUSTRALIAN PARLIAMENTARY SPORTS CLUB” “PLAY TO WIN - ACCESS” “TRY YOUR LUCK” “PAY TO PLAY” “‘RESPONSIBLE’ LOBBYING AUSTRALIA”

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Barry Steele @barrysteeleau.bsky.social · 17h

Actually it's
#ShameDay

Sorry doesn't cut it any more

Just shameful

Barry Steele @barrysteeleau.bsky.social · 18h

You know who they serve by the decisions they make
- Expensive Weapons
- Gaza Genocide
- Coal
- Gas
- Environment
- Homeless
- Unemployed
- Game Of Mates

We have a duopoly of business promoting political parties-
- professionalised
- Neoliberal
- Corporatist
But no major people's party in 2025

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 18h

On the same day that the government carefully avoids inconveniencing the uber wealthy,
they completely ignore new evidence that 1 in 7 Australians, and 1 in 6 kids, are now living in #poverty.

Labor priorities. #RaiseTheRate #inequality #auspol
povertyandinequality.acoss.org.au/poverty_in_a...

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CPSU - Community and Public Sector Union @cpsu.org.au · 18h

The CPSU said the government should be "backing the CSIRO, not forcing them to be penny pinchers. We’ve already seen more than 700 jobs cut from CSIRO, and hundreds more are expected to go.” #auspol #CSIRO www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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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Barry Steele @barrysteeleau.bsky.social · 18h

#auspol
#SorryDay

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Barry Steele @barrysteeleau.bsky.social · 18h

They've already started claiming Palestinians have broken the terms of the agreement - lies of course

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Gordon @goodgord.bsky.social · 1d

ABC News salivating over Donald T rump in Israel
Vomitous.
Now the hostages are released what’s the bet war criminal netanayu starts bombing again
#Auspol

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Barry Steele @barrysteeleau.bsky.social · 18h

#MurdochRoyalCommission please

Rival Image @rivalimage.bsky.social · 3d

#RupertMurdoch must wake in the morning, see his Fox News staff in many senior positions of government, and marvel at how his method of banking on violence and stupidity has been so successful. You know he owns almost every single regional newspaper in Australia, his birthplace.

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Animal Welfare Matters @awsel.bsky.social · 1d

The South Australian Premier is distracting voters w/semantics while BILLIONS of marine animals are being killed by anthropogenic *TOXIC* algal blooms.

My employment restricts me from expressing public opinions, including the Australian government's policies. #EcocidalCunts #VoteGreens #AusPol 🐟

ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 1d

South Australia's Premier has questioned the use of the word "toxic" to describe the state's ongoing algal bloom, despite the word being used in government advice and by scientists researching it.

SA Premier says algal bloom is not 'toxic', despite word appearing in official government advice

South Australia's Premier has questioned the use of the word "toxic" to describe the state's ongoing algal bloom, despite the word being used in government advice and by scientists researching it.

www.abc.net.au

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Sally @twisal.bsky.social · 1d

Nowhere to be seen in any MSM. #shameaustralia #workinghomeless #auspol #notlucky #bebetter #centrists

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fernandolongo.bsky.social @fernandolongo.bsky.social · 1d

the true evil of !srael #auspol

Jenny Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithWatermelon🍉🍉 @joneshowdareyou.bsky.social · 1d

Dr Assal Rad—

"This is how you do a front page story."

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Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 1d

Someone needs to post that little clip just aired on Media Watch of 2019 Anthony Albanese pointing out all the problems concerning FOI that 2025 Anthony Albanese is intent on making worse

Massive hypocrite

#auspol

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David Tomkins @davidctomkins.bsky.social · 1d

Researchers in Leeds have joined experts from across the world in warning that Earth is reaching the first of many climate tipping points that will cause catastrophic harm without urgent action.
#climatecrisis #tippingpoint #auspol www.leeds.ac.uk/news/article...

‘New reality’ as world reaches first climate tipping point

Researchers in Leeds have joined experts from across the world in warning that Earth is reaching the first of many climate tipping points that will cause catastrophic harm without urgent action.

www.leeds.ac.uk

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