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Nanna Jac @jande53.bsky.social · 12d

Pfffft

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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 14d

New government data confirms gas exporters continue to pay no tax

“It beggars belief that a company like Santos can spend a decade selling almost $50 billion worth of gas and not pay a cent of tax on it," said @rodcampbell.bsky.social. #auspol

Read: australiainstitute.org.au/post/new-gov...

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Nanna Jac @jande53.bsky.social · 14d

I write to each of mine once a month and enclose $5. A personal letter addressed to them is amazing these days. Sometimes I'll enclose a photo of my dogs, or chooks. BTW. I've not got a reply letter to date. They text or ring. Lol.

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Nanna Jac @jande53.bsky.social · 15d

Such great speakers. 👏👏👏👏👏

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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 16d

Peace plan.
My @smh cartoon.

Four frames. Breakfast table scene. Frame 1 Person 1 with newspaper. “So, Trump, Blai and Netanyahu have a peace plan for Gaza!” Person 2: “Wait - DONALD Trump? ‘Lies about everything’ Trump? ‘Riviera of the Middle East’ Trump?” Fr 2, person 1: “Yeah, well…” person 2: “and Blair - TONY Blair? ‘Weapons of Mass Destruction’ Blair? ‘10000 Iraqi civilians as collateral damage’ Blair?
Fr 3, person1, “Sure, but…” Person 2: “and Netanyahu? BIBI Netanyahu? ‘Propped up Hamas’ Netanyahu? ‘There will be no Palestinian State’ Netanyahu?” Frame 4: Person 1: “Yeah, so fingers crossed!” (Gestures same). Person 2: *eyeroll*.

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Phillip Herbert @phillipisfabulous.bsky.social · 17d

View the Finnish model Jason; we do not need to fund private schools.

C/- The Saturday Paper.

Jane Caro: "The segregation crisis in schools funding"...
September 27 – October 3, 2025

www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topi...

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Michael Dowling aka MeckeringBoy @meckeringboy.bsky.social · 17d

Now turned into a wasteland of death, destruction, genocide by Israel’s criminal military.

Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 17d

Gaza BEFORE the Genocide 💔

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Anthony Albanese @albomp.bsky.social · 18d

Stronger Medicare, affordable housing, and secure jobs with fair wages. These are the things worth fighting for.

Thank you for inviting me to speak about our shared values at the UK Labor Conference today, Prime Minister Starmer.

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Osmond Chiu (赵明佑) @redrabbleroz.bsky.social · 17d

When John Howard was Prime Minister, he participated in many International Democracy Union events overseas from 1996 onwards. He even was elected the chair in 2002 while Prime Minister so attended its annual forum overseas every year as Prime Minister. The sheer desperation of this #auspol beat-up

Latika M Bourke @latikambourke.com · 18d

EXCLUSIVE

PM&C staff abandoned Anthony Albanese's visit to the Labour Party conference in Liverpool, because of its political nature.

The opposition said it was 'extraordinary' and undermined the PM's claim that his visit was AUKUS-related.

Read more in The Nightly: latika.me/PMandC

Staff abandoned Albanese as he headlined Labour conference

The PM’s departmental staff abandoned his final engagement in the UK, underlining Opposition criticism that the trip was partisan and not diplomatic.

latika.me

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Hagatha @Hagatha42.bsky.social @hagatha42.bsky.social · 17d

#auspol

Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 17d

Re Andrew Hastie
Since the creeps at Melbourne University are shutting down Meanjin, I am bringing my essay out from the paywall. It’s on how “Christian” is being used to bring together a ratty coalition against “woke” , here at ARC, Hastie on that Board. #auspol

www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/l6oxr...

Mind-numbing sleep-woking
The word 'woke' is tiresome. More though, it's a cliché that terminates our ability to debate. In Australian civic discourse, and internationally, the word is used to demarcate lines of battle. In 2025, Australian politicians are hoping it can turn a motley coalition of voters into the government's base.
Lucy Hamilton
Lucy Hamilton is a doctoral student at UTS and a writer who focuses on the impact of the international Right on Australian politics and society. This research is supported by an Australian
Government Research
Training Program
Scholarship. She works on Woi-wurrung and Wurundjeri lands.
Woke emerged as a concept in US Black culture in the 1920s to signal people who were aware of how the system trapped them in disadvantage. Later, progressives borrowed (stole?) the label to celebrate that awareness more broadly, with regard to varied subjects like human rights for minorities, women, workers and refugees. By 2020, the term had become established as the right's latest slur for the 'politically correct.

See linked essay for more…

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Rob Arnol @robertarnol.bsky.social · 21d

🖤💛💔

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Andy Paterson @agpat.bsky.social · 21d

I watched the whole speech and he didn't refer to his notes once. It was a great pitch to the UN and he made it very well. Australia should be proud of the fact, we have a coherent humanist representing us on the International stage.

Yes, he does frustrate me often, on the domestic policy front.

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Nanna Jac @jande53.bsky.social · 22d

So good. Congratulations Albo and Australia.

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Antfarmer @antfarmer.bsky.social · 24d

Good. There is no need to participate in the buffoon’s fascist fantasy land. Now ditch #aukus Cut our losses @albomp.bsky.social

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 24d

Anthony Albanese misses out on one-to-one meeting with Donald Trump

The Australian prime minister has failed to secure a bilateral with the US president on his visit to the UN general assembly in New York * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Anthony Albanese has been left off Donald Trump’s official meeting schedule this week at the UN general assembly in New York. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Tuesday, Australian time, that the US president would hold bilateral meetings with Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy and European Union boss Ursula von der Leyen. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Chris Bowen @chrisbowenmp.bsky.social · Mar 4

Barnaby Joyce and others say you can’t recycle wind turbines.

Well - these surfboards are made from recycled wind blades from Victoria.

More than 85% of what is in a wind turbine can be recycled.

So let’s just get on with delivering cleaner, cheaper electricity.

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Sue Cartwright @suecartwright.bsky.social · 24d

In case you are considering taking medical advice from a moral and financial bankrupt.

Meridith Bolster @meribolst.bsky.social · 24d

Such a simple debunking.

1908: autism first described and named.
1943: autism first diagnosed.
1953: paracetamol first introduced commercially as Panadol.
1955: Tylenol first introduced.

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Nanna Jac @jande53.bsky.social · 24d

Pffft

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Bayview252 @bayview252.bsky.social · 28d

nb.australiainstitute.org.au/collect_gas_...

✍️ SIGN: Demand the gas industry pays royalties!

Australia Institute research has found that 56% of gas exported from Australia attracts zero royalty payments, effectively giving a public resource to multinational gas corporations for free. We need...

nb.australiainstitute.org.au

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Antoinette Pitt @antsinpants.bsky.social · 29d

Mining companies axing jobs
And blaming our governments for being greedy.
While stockholders buy their third sport team

Are we really going to take this?!
It's shameful and embaressing that the corporations think this bullying is OK.

We need to quit simping and start leading.
#selfrespect

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Eric Olthwaite's Strayan Cousin @olthwaiteeric.bsky.social · 29d

The Radical Right.

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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 29d

Jim Chalmers has slammed the “weird collection of cookers & crackpots” who run the Liberal Party & are against Net Zero saying these cookers & crackpots “are the real audience of Sussan Ley’s speech today”🔥 #Abc #auspol

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TheEnder @theender.bsky.social · Sep 14

📫Feel Free to Repost📫
🎞Join For All Daily Clips🎞

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Jenny Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithWatermelon🍉🍉 @joneshowdareyou.bsky.social · Sep 15

While the Australian War Memorial dinosaurs have been busy moving goal posts to ensure Chris Masters' "Flawed Hero: Truth, Lies and War Crimes" revealing truths about Ben Roberts-Smith will not receive the 2024 Les Carlyon literary award—never forget Masters is a legend and a hero. #auspol #qldpol

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