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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 17h

A Nazi rally was approved by police due to "a communication error".

No Premier, they don't need "more powers".
They need to do their job.

Which will be easier if you stop playing politics with the anti-genocide #FreePalestine movement, and direct police to the real antisemitic threats. #nswpol

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 1d

Police need more powers to stop ‘naked racism and hatred’ after allowing Sydney neo-Nazi rally, premier says

Dozens of neo-Nazis demonstrated outside NSW parliament on Saturday where they held an antisemitic banner and chanted a Hitler Youth slogan A neo-Nazi rally overtly targeting Jewish people was allowed to go ahead in Sydney on Saturday morning, sparking the New South Wales premier to say he would consider giving police more powers to shut down racist and hateful demonstrations. “It’s likely the case that we need to give police more legislated powers to stop this kind of naked racism and hatred on Sydney streets,” Chris Minns said after the rally. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 13h

Murdoch’s culture warriors are interlinked with the Atlas Network & national conservatism more and less officially. Rita Panahi is pushing Atlas partner affiliate Jacinta N Price with natcon-ish Andrew Hastie as a ticket. This is part of Murdochista’s job. #Auspol open.substack.com/pub/lucyham2...

Andrew Hastie: soldier for an extreme version of governing by Christ

Andrew Hastie is a more extreme Fundamentalist Christian than Scott Morrison. Australians cannot let his attempts to lead the nation go unchallenged. His place on the ARC Board is a warning.

open.substack.com

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Jo Dyer @instanterudite.bsky.social · 1d

Tomorrow's #SundayShot has @mariecolemanao.bsky.social on the Dismissal, @mrdtjames.bsky.social on the Victorian Treaty...and I went to @punterspolitics.bsky.social's dinner in Canberra.

Tune in (and like, subscribe and donate!).

www.youtube.com/@TheSundayShot

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16h

Meanwhile, CEOs make 280 times the typical worker today.

The system is rigged.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

Socialism is what they called public power.

Socialism is what they called social security.

Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.

Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.

—Harry Truman, 1952

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Dr Julia Anaf @drjuliama.bsky.social · 2d

Is this the Lyons Forum reborn? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyons_F...

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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 3d

bit rusty on the "principles & values Jesus lived by" but astounded tt they now include:
☠️ militarily & politically supporting genocide, scholasticide & ecocide
☠️ cruel, pointless, indefinite detention of asylum seekers
☠️ punitive immiseration & perpetuation of Robodebt on people on income support

Rationalist Society of Australia @ausrationalist.bsky.social · 4d

At the Christian prayer breakfast this week, Attorney-General Michelle Rowland said that the “principles and values that Jesus lived by underpin the role of Australia’s first law officer” and claimed that “our values and faith” guide lawmakers. Read more: rationalist.com.au/australias-a...
#auspol

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 3d

Which is why we're going to use police powers to stop a person’s welfare payment before any court process. Just like Jesus would have wanted.

Rationalist Society of Australia @ausrationalist.bsky.social · 4d

At the Christian prayer breakfast this week, Attorney-General Michelle Rowland said that the “principles and values that Jesus lived by underpin the role of Australia’s first law officer” and claimed that “our values and faith” guide lawmakers. Read more: rationalist.com.au/australias-a...
#auspol

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Phillip Herbert @phillipisfabulous.bsky.social · 3d

Open the diaries and disrupt this gravy train...

The Saturday Paper @thesaturdaypaper.com.au · 3d

Editorial: Monique Ryan’s bill would stop ministers and senior staff from working as lobbyists for three years after they leave politics. It would reveal who lobbyists meet and force ministers to publish their diaries. The reforms are simple and effective and will not pass. satpa.pe/4mKuCFY

A poodle is a dog

Christopher Pyne was still a cabinet minister when he met with EY to discuss taking a job with the consultancy. There was no confusion about the purpose of the meeting.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 4d

REMINDER: A socialist act by a New Yorker was a major reason why polio was eliminated in the US.

Nick Pettigrew
@Nick_Pettigrew
Polio was eradicated because Jonas Salk chose not to patent the vaccine, if you want a perfect example of a socialist act.
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Garry Kasparov
@Kasparov63
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Socialism is like polio, it comes back when people forget about the horrible damage it did last time.

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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 3d

I'm boring & repetitive but The Emperor Has No Clothes:

'The CPSU has said Australia’s employment services system are “a complete failure”'; they're not. They generate incomes (profits) for private owners. That's a success. It's both the intent and effect of privatisation.

'Community and Public Sector Union criticise employment services as ‘a complete failure’

The CPSU has said Australia’s employment services system are “a complete failure”, after Guardian Australia reported earlier this week only 11.7% of jobseekers secured long-term work last year, while billions of taxpayer dollars were funnelled into private providers.

The current employment services system is projected to cost taxpayers $8.2bn over the next four years, and is dominated by only a handful of providers owned by multinational companies.

The CPSU said providers have been caught engaging in unethical behaviour while taking taxpayers’ dollars. Melissa Donnelly, CPSU national secretary, said:

Privatisation has turned employment services into a tick-a-box profit-driven industry that rewards providers for keeping people in a cycle of unemployment, and these numbers are proof of that.

An 11.7% success rate isn’t success at all – it’s failure. Failure to support jobseekers, failure to meet workforce demands, and failure to provide value for money.

Australians deserve better than a system that punishes jobseekers while lining the pockets of multinational corporations. It’s time to end this failed experiment and bring back the CES.'

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 3d

'And Jesus said unto the righteous:
Bring me your whistleblowers, your #FOI requests, your corruption allegations
....and I will cast them into the pit of hell so the government can avoid all accountability' #auspol

Rationalist Society of Australia @ausrationalist.bsky.social · 4d

At the Christian prayer breakfast this week, Attorney-General Michelle Rowland said that the “principles and values that Jesus lived by underpin the role of Australia’s first law officer” and claimed that “our values and faith” guide lawmakers. Read more: rationalist.com.au/australias-a...
#auspol

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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 4d

I wonder why so many people are feeling aggrieved and becoming radicalised.
Could it be the breathtaking wholesale betrayal of our values, while lying about it, on a daily basis?

Dr Ingrid M @ingridm.bsky.social · 4d

Aust universities will cry poor while stealing millions of dollars from precariously employed workers and throwing money at the mass murder industry.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

ANU bought shares in Israeli weapons maker after pledging to stop controversial arms investments

Exclusive: University says Elbit Systems, whose drones have been used extensively in Gaza, not on any controversial weapons list when shares bought and sold this year

www.theguardian.com

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 4d

"Dr Goldie said there was something 'deeply wrong with this system' and called for more to be done to tackle #inequality and #poverty, describing the current income support payments as 'an absolute disgrace'.” #auspol
thepoint.com.au/news/251104-...

Poverty is not inevitable, it’s a policy choice, social sector leaders tell Canberra”

Anglicare Australia has described the nation’s $7 billion employment services program as a waste of money, arguing the funds would be better used to create secure, lasting jobs.

thepoint.com.au

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 4d

Walmart and McDonald’s are among the top employers of workers who rely on food stamps.

McDonald's CEO raked in $18.2M last year — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay.

Walmart's CEO pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay.

See the problem?

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Andrew Wilkie MP @andrewwilkiemp.bsky.social · 4d

Honoured to host Sydney Peace Prize winner Judge Navi Pillay to brief parliamentarians on Aus's obligation to prevent & punish genocide. She made it clear that genocide is occurring now, and efforts must be made now to prevent it. #politas #auspol

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Dr Julia Anaf @drjuliama.bsky.social · 4d

ANU bought shares in Israeli weapons maker after pledging to stop controversial arms investments

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 5d

Walmart, McDonalds and Amazon are the largest employers of people who require SNAP assistance.

The CEOs earned between 18-40 million last year, 1000x their median employee income.

They took billions in profits, while their workers relied on SNAP to survive.

Wanna fix fraud and abuse?

Fix that.

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Dr Julia Anaf @drjuliama.bsky.social · 5d

Male resentment is driving right-wing populism. It will always default to a war on women www.crikey.com.au/2025/11/04/m...

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 7d

"Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Finland taxed fossil fuels hard and built the world’s most prosperous, equitable societies. We have better mineral wealth than most of them. We have the democratic machinery. We have the evidence.

What we lack is the spine." #auspol
urbanwronski.com/2025/11/01/t...

The Worst Deal in History: Why Mining Has Ransacked Australia While the Press Looked Away

How Australia became the world’s cautionary tale in resource management. The mining industry didn’t steal our wealth. We handed it over. The press, owned by the same mining interests si…

urbanwronski.com

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 7d

We're currently at the "Jesus didn't say we should feed people"
portion of the fall of American Evangelicalism.

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 8d

Governments are invested in a system that puts profits first, so "they need to shore up prejudices against the poor and those who lack family support."

When Albo said "nobody left behind", he must have meant the for-profit companies, like employment service providers, exploiting people in #poverty.

Nobody Deserves Poverty @nobodyinpoverty.bsky.social · 8d

The federal government spends $4 billion a year maintaining the Job Service Provider system, which is designed to surveil and punish welfare recipients who do not complete its arduous “mutual obligations”.

www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1441/an...

We can end poverty today

More and more people are falling into poverty, but ending it is easier than we think, argues Isaac Nellist.

www.greenleft.org.au

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 7d

“It just gives you a sense that there are some people for whom the whip is being used so relentlessly, they can’t escape it” @kristin8x.antipovertycentre.org

Was #robodebt, now #robodole. The Albanese govt continues to punch down on the most vulnerable, to profit dodgy employment services. #auspol

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 7d

Centrelink threatening payment suspensions at rate of five a minute, new analysis suggests

Exclusive: As jobseekers continue to have payments suspended, advocates call for the regime to be stopped until it’s proven to be lawful * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Centrelink has been issuing payment suspension notices to jobseekers and those on disability support pensions at a rate of more than five a minute, new analysis suggests, amid concerns over the legality of the troubled system. In total, government data collated by the Antipoverty Centre shows there were 2,683,605 suspension actions between June 2024 and July 2025. Continue reading...

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Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 8d

Watch me embarrass myself in tech terms on the #SundayShot tomorrow morning. Otherwise watch it for the awesome hosts and the epic Ketan Joshi.

#Auspol

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Dr Julia Anaf @drjuliama.bsky.social · 7d

Centrelink threatening payment suspensions at rate of five a minute, new analysis suggests