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Penny Allman-Payne @pennyallmanpayne.com · 5h

🚨 BREAKING: Brand new @ACOSS report finds 1 in 7 Australians are living in poverty, including 757,000 children. Millions of families are struggling while our leaders sit on their hands and let it happen.

Poverty in Australia 2025: Overview – Poverty and Inequality

povertyandinequality.acoss.org.au

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ArchedEyebrow @archedeyebrow.bsky.social · 10h

#BREAKING : The Australian Parliament Sports Club has just DE-REGISTERED itself as a lobby group... despite still being run by the Australian gambling lobby.
The change relieves our PM from having to explain why he's the PRESIDENT of an organisation designed to lobby HIS OWN GOVERNMENT.
#AusPol

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Dumbe Blonde @dumbeblonde.bsky.social · 8h

With a head that big you’d think it would be capable of having at least one original thought

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 11h

As of now there is nothing Albanese's govt has done that has changed the country in any structural way.

No change at all to how the fundamental debates of the nation are addressed.

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Dumbe Blonde @dumbeblonde.bsky.social · 10h

That’s what you get when you take a News Corp campaign and turn it into Labor policy

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Dumbe Blonde @dumbeblonde.bsky.social · 10h

Lols…shat and fell back

Josh Butler @joshbutler.bsky.social · 10h

Labor government announces major changes to superannuation tax proposal, in a big backdown

$3 million super threshold to now be indexed up to $10m

Also increasing the low-income super tax offset - says changes will "better target superannuation concessions for large balances"

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Dumbe Blonde @dumbeblonde.bsky.social · 12h

Lols…

Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 13h

The ALP might as well merge with the Minerals Council of Australia

Miners to get an early look at Labor’s new green laws

Tom Rabe
WA political correspondent
Oct 12, 2025 – 3.26pm

The Albanese government will give mining companies and other stakeholders draft extracts of its environmental protection laws before they go to parliament, as Environment Minister Murray Watt tries to rebuild trust after earlier negotiations on the reforms collapsed in acrimony.

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Dumbe Blonde @dumbeblonde.bsky.social · 1d

To suck the toes of a child rapist. Say cheese!!

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 1d

What Francesca said.

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David Pocock @davidpocock.bsky.social · 1d

The Albanese govt’s first term was the second most secretive on record.

Rather than changing their ways, they’re doubling down and tightening our FOI system to make it even harder to get information. Not a single expert or member of parliament outside of the Labor party has backed their new bill.

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Ronni🧂Salt @ronnisalt.bsky.social · 3d

Some of the clients of the lobbying firm the Prime Minister is currently the President of include:

Ampol Australia Petroleum P/L (fossil fuels)

Lion P/L (brewing, alcohol)

Pfizer Australia P/L (pharmaceuticals)

Serco Australia P/L (defence, immigration)

Responsible Wagering Aust (gambling)

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Dumbe Blonde @dumbeblonde.bsky.social · 2d

a woman in a polka dot shirt is smiling and holding her hands to her chest .

ALT: a woman in a polka dot shirt is smiling and holding her hands to her chest .

media.tenor.com

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Dumbe Blonde @dumbeblonde.bsky.social · 2d

He prefers to submit to their ‘Let them be kids’ social media campaign. Went to the same spine removal surgeon as Turnbull I hear

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Dumbe Blonde @dumbeblonde.bsky.social · 2d

Australians rejected Dutton so they didn’t get the Liberal Party and instead they got the Liberal Party

The Saturday Paper @thesaturdaypaper.com.au · 2d

Warnings about how to avoid a paper trail that might later be accessed by an FOI request are part of the induction kit for new political staffers. Even the acronym has its own crude nickname in the ministerial wing: “FOI. Fuck Off Idiot.” satpa.pe/zPB9QFA

Inside Albanese’s FOI reforms: ‘He hates transparency’

Labor’s reforms to freedom of information laws are opposed by every public submission made to the Senate, with the government’s record on secrecy worse than Scott Morrison’s.

satpa.pe

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Dumbe Blonde @dumbeblonde.bsky.social · 2d

Lols…Why would he name his sources?

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Dumbe Blonde @dumbeblonde.bsky.social · 2d

Reminds me of this

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moonchildjs.bsky.social @moonchildjs.bsky.social · 3d

Spotify is now running ICE recruitment advertisements.

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Dumbe Blonde @dumbeblonde.bsky.social · 2d

a man in a suit and tie is sitting at a desk in front of flags with the word progresso on them

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is sitting at a desk in front of flags with the word progresso on them

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Dumbe Blonde @dumbeblonde.bsky.social · 2d

With bleach?

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Marcus Kelson @marcuskelson.bsky.social · 2d

I think the Federal Opposition should be renamed David Pocock because he’s the only one doing their job.

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Dumbe Blonde @dumbeblonde.bsky.social · 2d

Sitting proud in my juice guzzling V8 Ram that cost me $150k driving around inner city Sydney because I ain’t no woke leftie

EV Curve Futurist @evcurvefuturist.com · 2d

Top 10 EV markets by 2025 YTD share of new car sales ⚡

1. Norway — 98.4%
2. Nepal — 76%*
3. Denmark — 67%
4. Sweden — 60%
5. Finland — 56%
6. China — 55%
7. Netherlands — 55%
8. Iceland — 51%
9. Singapore — 43.5%
10. Belgium — 41%

The electric era isn’t next — it’s now. ⚡ #EV #EnergyTransition

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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 2d

This is not just the appearance of conflict of interest, it is corruption of democracy pure and simple.

Gee, if only those First Nations people had thought of having a Voice to Parliament via a “Sports Club”.

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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 3d

New:
Censorship by any other name.
The National Press Club cancelled a speaker, Chris Hedges, who planned to address the mass killing of journalists in Gaza. The mainstream press didn’t report it.
nickfeik.substack.com/p/censorship...

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Dumbe Blonde @dumbeblonde.bsky.social · 2d

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