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Daryl Maguire’s tractor @daryltractor.bsky.social · 18m

Wowsers!

Daryl Maguire’s tractor @daryltractor.bsky.social · 19m

I got a bit excited by the two warm days forecast

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Daryl Maguire’s tractor @daryltractor.bsky.social · 1h

Ohhh that’s an idea

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Daryl Maguire’s tractor @daryltractor.bsky.social · 1h

Hahahaha let’s see!

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Daryl Maguire’s tractor @daryltractor.bsky.social · 2h

I planted my tomatoes. Too soon?

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benjamin @benjamino.bsky.social · 2h

Text message: Hi Anthony, long time listener, first time caller. Raise the rate you seatwarming squib

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The Shovel @theshovel.bsky.social · 2h

“I honestly thought I’d be inundated,” the PM said at a press conference today, staring at his phone’s empty notifications screen. “Not even a scam text pretending to be Australia Post”.

theshovel.com.au/2025/10/14/a...

Albo Yet to Receive Single Phone Call After Number Leaked Online — The Shovel

“Not even a scam text pretending to be Australia Post”.

theshovel.com.au

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Daryl Maguire’s tractor @daryltractor.bsky.social · 2h

I got my paws on some ginger coconut candy and it is very good fyi

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 2h

4500 men.

1 in 7 said they would consider sexually abusing a child 14 or under if they knew they wouldn’t be caught.

www.thetimes.com/uk/law/artic...

Millions of men ‘would sexually abuse children if secrecy was assured’

Millions of men would have sexual contact with a child if they were certain that no one would find out, research has suggested.

www.thetimes.com

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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 10h

NSW ICAC was widely condemned by politicians & the media after they took just under 2yrs to conclude their investigation into Gladys Berejiklian’s corruption.

Is anyone condemning the NACC who after well OVER 2yrs is still investigating Robodebt? Why not? #auspol

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Cam Walker @camwalker.bsky.social · 6h

What a despicable bunch of backwards looking sods.

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 7h

Victorian Coalition vows to scrap Australia’s first statewide treaty with First Nations peoples if it wins government

Opposition’s plan announced as state parliament’s lower house begins debate on landmark treaty bill * Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The Victorian Coalition has announced if elected in 2026, it will scrap Australia’s first formal statewide treaty agreement with First Nations peoples within 100 days of government. As Victorian parliament’s lower house begins debate on the statewide treaty bill on Tuesday, the opposition leader, Brad Battin, and the Coalition spokesperson for Aboriginal affairs, Melina Bath, announced their plan to repeal the agreement. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Daryl Maguire’s tractor @daryltractor.bsky.social · 3h

Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana

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PaulWA14 @paulwa14.bsky.social · 12h

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Steadily defunding the CSIRO, Australia’s premier research organisation yet as a country we are quite okay with handing over billions $$$s to the US kleptocracy for submarines that we will most likely never receive.
#auspol #AUKUS #AmericaIsNoAlly

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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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 5h

Creative Australia awards Khaled Sabsabi $100,000 grant months after dumping from Venice Biennale

Funding is a silver lining in a tumultuous year for the Lebanese-Australian artist from western Sydney Creative Australia has awarded a $100,000 grant to artist Khaled Sabsabi, months after he was controversially dumped and then reinstated by the federal arts body as Australia’s representative for the 2026 Venice Biennale. The grant – one of 16 made under Creative Australia’s Visual Arts, Craft and Design Framework – will fund the creation of a new body of work for a solo exhibition opening in March 2027 at Adelaide’s Samstag Museum of Art, which will also include Sabsabi’s Venice Biennale work. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Jules 🍉💔🖤🤍💚🇮🇪 @katsikajules.bsky.social · 6h

Photo journalist Shade Abu Sido was kidnapped on March 18 2024 during the Israeli occupation's raid on Al-Shifa Medical Complex.

“I entered Gaza and found it like a scene from Judgment Day. This is not Gaza. Where is the world?”

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Daryl Maguire’s tractor @daryltractor.bsky.social · 9h

Ohhh living the dream!

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Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · 11h

And still people wonder why more women don't report sexual assault www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Linda Reynolds launches bankruptcy proceedings against Brittany Higgins

Former senator Linda Reynolds launches bankruptcy proceedings in the Federal Court against her ex-staffer Brittany Higgins as she tries to recover damages awarded to her for defamation.

www.abc.net.au

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Daryl Maguire’s tractor @daryltractor.bsky.social · 12h

Sadly I have to stake with my holders but smelling roses sounds way better

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Daryl Maguire’s tractor @daryltractor.bsky.social · 12h

Sounds ideal

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Daryl Maguire’s tractor @daryltractor.bsky.social · 13h

Can’t be bothered with today actually

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The Age (unofficial) @theage.nzcow.com · 15h

📢 Opposition Leader Brad Battin is not facing an imminent leadership challenge, but there is growing momentum to overthrow him.

New poll delivers bleak outlook for ‘terminal’ Battin leadership

www.theage.com.au

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Nathan Saulter @nathansaulter.bsky.social · 16h

Without charge or trial.

“Prior to Monday’s release, 11,056 Palestinians were held in Israeli prisons... At least 3500 of those were held in administrative detention without trial. An Israeli military database has indicated that only a quarter of those detained in Gaza were classified as fighters.”

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 18h

‘Locked up for 24 years’: joy and sorrow as Palestinian prisoners and detainees return home

Nearly 2,000 prisoners and detainees – including about 1,700 people seized from Gaza and held without charge – set free from Israeli jails

www.theguardian.com

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josh (oldfriend99) @oldfriend99.bsky.social · 14h

Dismissing my grandparents as "ancestor slop"

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Bob From Brockley @bobfrombrockley.bsky.social · 22h

I think other MKs were calling Odeh and Cassidy terrorists. Their call was simply “Recognise Palestine”

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