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Phil Lormer @philiplormer.bsky.social · 21d

Ross Gittins says what needs to be said about the Albanese Government’s weak climate change actions:
www.smh.com.au/business/the...

Albanese takes his usual each-way bet on climate change

If there was an Oscar for fooling the punters, the PM and his climate change minister would win it.

www.smh.com.au

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 14h

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Phil Lormer @philiplormer.bsky.social · 2h

Don’t put your hopes in anyone in Labor or the LNP. They have been bought. The ALP is no more.

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VaultBoy @blublubba.bsky.social · 12h

What a sadly wasted opportunity.
The entire cabinet is complicit in this huge Labor majority going nowhere. A cabinet that allows Albo to convince them not to rock the boat because the only thing that matters is winning the next election.
None of them seem to stop to ask 'What for'?

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Phil Lormer @philiplormer.bsky.social · 2h

That’s always thrir game.

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Random Sarah @random-sarah.bsky.social · 12h

Poorer people feel like the rich are getting richer off their backs.

We work harder, we pay more, we have less - so the wealthy can call us deadbeats

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Random Sarah @random-sarah.bsky.social · 12h

All politicians are completely out of touch with the average Australian and what they need. The lower and middle income people who want some tangible change to make a more even playing field. The obsession with 'first homebuyers' is making it harder for renters & those not eligible for grants

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Menoplausible @menoplausible.bsky.social · 11h

2022 was a relief that LNP were gone. The Labor gently, gently approach up to 2025 was almost forgiveable, if the win in 2025 brought bold, brave government. They said they needed more than one term. They got a huge win and an opposition in the death throes. If they cant be brave now, then when?

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Brian Hizsoltee @hizsoltee.bsky.social · 12h

"I had a long discussion with Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch over the weekend and they assured me that they were satisfied that government has the right policy settings and balance."

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Sonans @sojaya.bsky.social · 12h

They had a clear voter mandate to go ahead and be a government for the people. Wild to see them still bending the knee to the corps who lost their propaganda campaign and were not voted in.

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Margaret Rose @margaretrose.bsky.social · 12h

The Australian people are disappointed in their govt. The ALP have let us down in so many ways - AUKUS, selling arms to Israel, no Robodebt action, weak NACC, no decent gambling/vaping laws, housing, Unis, Woodside, the list goes on. Nothing to see here. Such an opportunity wasted by the duopoly.

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Phil Lormer @philiplormer.bsky.social · 2h

The “fiscal irresponsibility” is because the capitalists have gone on stike to make Victoria a basket case and someone has to try to pick up the pieces. It’s always themur game.

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Robyn in the west @robyninthestix.bsky.social · 12h

Imagine, if you will, a leader with a vision for a better future who wins an election with a fabulous majority and begins a process to rebuild and restructure the country in that image.
[insert sound of needle being dragged over vinyl here]
Instead we've got this. It sucks.

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Kevin @kpgriffin.bsky.social · 12h

The political ghost of John Howard will govern this country long after I’m dead

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I am Dilfbert's assassinated corpse @soymethdad.bsky.social · 12h

Come on Greg, that's not the government's role! They just need to make things comfy for our rent seeking institutional and corporate oligopolies.

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Phil Lormer @philiplormer.bsky.social · 2h

They are on the thrall of delusion.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18h

The future of the Democratic Party must be rooted in investing in the American people — not Wall St., corporations, and consultants.

Otherwise, Trumpism will continue to use cynicism, racism, and distrust to divide America.

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Phil Lormer @philiplormer.bsky.social · 2h

Yes, we are ruled by Corporations and Oligarchs. Why not make it official?

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 14h

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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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 21h

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15h

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 16h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 15h

I'm old enough to remember when pretty much all of the mainstream media regularly praised Abbott for being the politician with the deepest connection to Indig Australians because he visited a community every year, patted some kids on the head and hammered a few nails.

Dr Ingrid M @ingridm.bsky.social · 18h

poor old Tony Abbott is on the public broadcaster dismissing the oldest and longest continuous oral histories in the history of humanity as “hearsay” how’s your morning going.