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Opposition demands action on 'the crime capital of Australia' - ABC listen

JRBsays @jrbsays.bsky.social · 2h

To be fair, a clown is only a clown when they put their make up on.

JRBsays @jrbsays.bsky.social · 3h

Our MP Andrew Wallace showing that it’s a big leap from being a back bench glove puppet to Shadow Attorney General.

Remember, the Liberals always claim that they promote on merit. God help them if this is the best they have.

#AusPol

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Opposition Leader Sussan Ley has urged Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan to ask the Prime Minister for help with tackling the state's crime problem. Speaking in Melbourne yesterday, Ms Ley said, "Melbo...

Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”

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JRBsays @jrbsays.bsky.social · 3h

For history’s record.

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– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar

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JRBsays @jrbsays.bsky.social · 3h

“Adani’s Australian operation, Bravus Mining and Resources, lists its customers as a mix of related parties and third parties – including Adani entities and other energy producers.”

Hamas is battling powerful clans for control in Gaza – who are these groups and what threat do they pose?

JRBsays @jrbsays.bsky.social · 6h

More than two dozen Palestinians have been killed in recent days in clashes between Hamas and members of various clans. Hamas has also reportedly executed blindfolded men in a public square.

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Many clans and gangs are taking advantage of a security vacuum in Gaza to reassert their authority – some backed by Israel.

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Adani denies claims it sold ‘below-market coal’ leading to Queensland missing out on hundreds of millions in royalties

JRBsays @jrbsays.bsky.social · 6h

Never forget that we have Matt Canavan to thank for this cluster fuck of lies and deception.

#AusPol #QldPol

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Adani has strongly rejected the Australia Institute’s findings, including that customers paid an average of $102 a tonne in 2022-23

‘Prince Andrew believed having sex with me was his birthright’: Virginia Giuffre on her abuse at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell and the king’s brother

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JRBsays @jrbsays.bsky.social · 6h

#TooManyMen

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In an extract from her posthumous memoir, Virginia Roberts Giuffre remembers the day an ‘apex predator’ recruited her from Mar-a-Lago, aged just 16; how she was trafficked to a succession of wealthy a...

Graphic footage shows Hamas executing people in the streets of Gaza

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JRBsays @jrbsays.bsky.social · 18h

Credit where it’s due.
Who knew they had enough friends left to give the jobs to.

#QldPol

David Marler @qldaah.bsky.social · 18h

In opposition David Crisafulli & Jarrod Bleijie complained about Qld government appointments. Just under a year into government & 34 LNP linked people have been given top positions. The latest is Jane McNamara to Qld Reconstruction Authority Chair who Bleijie says will "do a marvelous job". #qldpol

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Agnes Mack @agnessmack.bsky.social · 18h

David Pope in Canberra Times

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JRBsays @jrbsays.bsky.social · 18h

When there is no justice, people make their own.

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Masked gunmen have carried out "extrajudicial executions" in the streets of Gaza City as an expert claims the terror group is trying to regain control of the destroyed enclave.

‘You are constantly told you are evil’: inside the lives of diagnosed narcissists

JRBsays @jrbsays.bsky.social · 19h

Hopefully more articles like this can educate more people on what narcissism actually is.

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Few psychiatric conditions are as stigmatised or as misunderstood as narcissistic personality disorder. Here’s how it can damage careers and relationships – even before prejudice takes its toll

'Frankly outrageous': LNP government faces new 'jobs for mates claim'

JRBsays @jrbsays.bsky.social · 1d

BL should be suing BL for loss of reputation.

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JRBsays @jrbsays.bsky.social · 1d

Bugger me, don’t tell me a political party in power is being hypocritical 🤷‍♂️

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Queensland's Crisafulli government is embroiled in a new "jobs for mates" claim after it appointed a Liberal National Party powerbroker to oversee the state's lead agency for disaster recovery.

JRBsays @jrbsays.bsky.social · 1d

I can see why horror genre aficionados wouldn’t think much of it though.

Australian bird of the year enters final countdown as top 10 finalists vie to win 2025 poll

JRBsays @jrbsays.bsky.social · 1d

I think you jut have to go with it and not over think.

JRBsays @jrbsays.bsky.social · 1d

I think it’s the way my son and I sat there mouths wide open through the episodes we’ve watched so far. I don’t do horror movies, but can’t resist a serial killer.

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JRBsays @jrbsays.bsky.social · 1d

Go Willie Wagtail!

You made the top ten, here’s to a maiden victory for the feisty little neighbour.

#BirdOfTheYear

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Voting closed at 6am on Wednesday after Australian magpie fails to make list of final contenders