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Birdie Carrington @bcarrington.bsky.social · 45m

Testing our ability to spot what’s fake 🫣

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Matt Gaetz’ 🐀 Tąppėd Laņdlînë @krisbouncedx.bsky.social · 2h

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Rex Patrick @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social · 1h

In 1982 Malcolm Fraser guided a new #FOI Bill through the parliament, laws later described by High Court Justice Kirby as “nothing short of revolutionary”. So Sussan Ley, why the delay in rejecting @albomp.bsky.social’s self-interested counter-revolution Bill? #auspol

Albanese government risks failure to live up to its own pledges of increased transparency | Tom McIlroy

Introduced without consultation, the attorney general’s planned overhaul of freedom of information is part of a worrying drift away from truth and transparency in government

www.theguardian.com

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Birdie Carrington @bcarrington.bsky.social · 55m

Exactly

I was just reading his SMH articles this morning when I saw your post

Birdie Carrington @bcarrington.bsky.social · 57m

And David Crowe?

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Birdie Carrington @bcarrington.bsky.social · 18h

Wait …

Is he saying that Jewish people are likely to be autistic?

Huh? 🤪

Birdie Carrington @bcarrington.bsky.social · 18h

And the tech billionaires win again

#amazon

Birdie Carrington @bcarrington.bsky.social · 18h

Interesting decision not to update customer victims

Birdie Carrington @bcarrington.bsky.social · 19h

You can read their claims here:

www.fedcourt.gov.au/__data/asset...

Birdie Carrington @bcarrington.bsky.social · 19h

Great session, ta

2 things to add

Zenvoy was previously on the OH board

And

commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sy...

sydney opera house ukrainian flag at DuckDuckGo

DuckDuckGo. Privacy, Simplified.

duckduckgo.com

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Marns🌿🍉 @marnshibski.bsky.social · 1d

As Australia begins to mirror America’s erosion of responsible freedom, with militarised policing, corporate capture, and shrinking space for dissent, citizens must stay alert. If we remain silent, we risk inheriting the same divisions, injustices, and state overreach that plague the U.S.

Longtail News @longtail.news · 1d

Feed: "The Australian Independent Media Network"
By: AIMN Editorial on Saturday, October 11, 2025

Why Anti-Protest Laws in Australia are Silencing Democracy

By Denis Hay Description Anti-protest laws in Australia threaten the principles of freedom of speech and democracy. Discover how citizens can protect their rights to peaceful protest. 🎧 Prefer to listen to this article? [...]

theaimn.net

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Birdie Carrington @bcarrington.bsky.social · 21h

👇👇👇
I guess we’ll need to tune in to the Federal Court’s YouTube channel again tomorrow

Barbara Flowers @babsflowers.bsky.social · 1d

This is a really excellent discussion of the wrongful & willful conflation of anti-zionism with anti-semitism... soon to be litigated in the Federal Court www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Anti-Semitism on trial - ABC listen

University of Sydney academics Dr Nick Riemer and Professor John Keane will be facing the Federal Court on Monday 13th October after university colleagues made a complaint of anti-Semitism against the...

www.abc.net.au

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Birdie Carrington @bcarrington.bsky.social · 21h

… or just very confused 😵‍💫

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Sydney Knitting Nannas and Friends @knitnannassyd.bsky.social · 1d

Please join Illawarra 🧶👵s at the Office of their local MP & NSW Minister for Planning Paul Scully tomorrow. The NSW government proposal to radically alter planning laws related to all developments will mean bets are off for protecting our environment.

Monday 13 October at 11am in Wollongong

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Birdie Carrington @bcarrington.bsky.social · 1d

🥰

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Birdie Carrington @bcarrington.bsky.social · 1d

Excellent questions

It was obvious to most of us

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Birdie Carrington @bcarrington.bsky.social · 1d

To be fair, there are several women pulling more than their weight

They should all form a group that outnumbers LNP and qualifies as the actual “Opposition” with associated formal privileges

Of course without the crippling party constraints

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Birdie Carrington @bcarrington.bsky.social · 1d

Certainly is a performer

But forgot to mention aging and morbidly obese

Gonna look like a bit of a dick when that finally catches up with him

Birdie Carrington @bcarrington.bsky.social · 1d

Just a bit of fun

🙄

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

Dr Assal Rad—

"Israel assassinated Hossam Shabat over 6 months ago. But his name barely made the headlines.

"He would’ve turned 24 years old today. 24."

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Darin Self @darinself.com · 2d

How can anyone think someone this insecure is strong?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "The person who actually got the Nobel Prize called today, called me, and said 'I'm accepting this in honor of you, because you really deserved it.' A really nice thing to do. I didn't say 'Then give it to me, though.'"

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Birdie Carrington @bcarrington.bsky.social · 1d

Good question 🤷‍♀️

Birdie Carrington @bcarrington.bsky.social · 1d

Oh dear

For a moment I felt relief

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Birdie Carrington @bcarrington.bsky.social · 2d

I despair 😞

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Birdie Carrington @bcarrington.bsky.social · 2d

One for the naysayers 👇

“The legal landscape around UK citizens serving in the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) has shifted, lawyers say. Palestinian statehood means that Brits who served in Israel’s genocide can be tried and jailed.”

Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 2d

www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...

British citizens serving in the IDF can now be tried for war crimes in the UK

Now that the UK has recognised Palestine as a state, this opens legal routes for British members of the IDF to be charged in the UK

www.thecanary.co

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