Hazel 🇦🇺
@plmg53.bsky.social
Just a soul whose intentions are good. Writer. Reader. Gin appreciator. Iyengar yoga student. Policy over party. Dogs are 😀
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Hazel 🇦🇺
@plmg53.bsky.social
· May 3
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NACC Commr Paul Brereton already on the defensive in his opening statement
“The ability to dispel suggestions that there’s been corrupt conduct is as important as exposing it where it exists”
But that’s your only ability Commissioner, dispelling 🙄
“The ability to dispel suggestions that there’s been corrupt conduct is as important as exposing it where it exists”
But that’s your only ability Commissioner, dispelling 🙄
December 11, 2025 at 12:31 AM
NACC Commr Paul Brereton already on the defensive in his opening statement
“The ability to dispel suggestions that there’s been corrupt conduct is as important as exposing it where it exists”
But that’s your only ability Commissioner, dispelling 🙄
“The ability to dispel suggestions that there’s been corrupt conduct is as important as exposing it where it exists”
But that’s your only ability Commissioner, dispelling 🙄
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State funeral.
My @smh cartoon.
My @smh cartoon.
December 9, 2025 at 9:00 PM
State funeral.
My @smh cartoon.
My @smh cartoon.
Transparency, Albo style. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/22247/...
Exclusive: PM’s office directs lobbyists to use encrypted, disappearing messages
Multiple sources confirm the Albanese government has pushed lobbyists and industry groups to use encrypted messages and verbal briefings when proposing policy ideas, to avoid FOI and disclosure requir...
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
December 5, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Transparency, Albo style. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/22247/...
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UK submarine construction troubles and delays don’t bode well for Australia’s #AUKUS submarine plans. At least the Brits are more honest about their troubles than Albo, Richard Marles and our Defence Department are about things here. #auspol
Build rate for new subs difficult due to infrastructure
A senior figure steering Barrow’s regeneration has warned MPs that the ambition to deliver a new SSN-AUKUS submarine every 18 months faces serious constraints.
ukdefencejournal.org.uk
December 3, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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BREAKING: Bruce Lehrmann is a Loser again and “lost his appeal against a federal court ruling that found on the balance of probabilities he had raped his colleague Ms Higgins at Parliament House in Canberra in 2019.” #Abc #Rapist #IStandWithBrittany
December 2, 2025 at 11:39 PM
BREAKING: Bruce Lehrmann is a Loser again and “lost his appeal against a federal court ruling that found on the balance of probabilities he had raped his colleague Ms Higgins at Parliament House in Canberra in 2019.” #Abc #Rapist #IStandWithBrittany
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To anyone new to our world, you may be interested in reading the book on Icelandic cricket by Kit Harris. Called From Lord's to the Fjords, it was published in November 2023 and provides an account of how we invented cricket back in 911 CE and some of our more modern antics.
November 27, 2025 at 3:08 PM
To anyone new to our world, you may be interested in reading the book on Icelandic cricket by Kit Harris. Called From Lord's to the Fjords, it was published in November 2023 and provides an account of how we invented cricket back in 911 CE and some of our more modern antics.
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Last night @davidpocock.bsky.social and I read onto the Hansard an interview by the President of Nauru that the Albanese Government has been desperately trying to keep secret.
It shows Nauru plans to send refugees to places they fled. No wonder the secrecy.
It shows Nauru plans to send refugees to places they fled. No wonder the secrecy.
November 24, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Last night @davidpocock.bsky.social and I read onto the Hansard an interview by the President of Nauru that the Albanese Government has been desperately trying to keep secret.
It shows Nauru plans to send refugees to places they fled. No wonder the secrecy.
It shows Nauru plans to send refugees to places they fled. No wonder the secrecy.
If the dismissal happened now, I seriously doubt the ABC would have the wit or the guts to send Norman Gunston to cover it. Sad.
www.abc.net.au/news/2020-02...
www.abc.net.au/news/2020-02...
Norman Gunston at Whitlam's dismissal
Follow the latest news headlines from Australia's most trusted source. Read in-depth expert analysis and watch live coverage on ABC News.
www.abc.net.au
November 11, 2025 at 6:39 AM
If the dismissal happened now, I seriously doubt the ABC would have the wit or the guts to send Norman Gunston to cover it. Sad.
www.abc.net.au/news/2020-02...
www.abc.net.au/news/2020-02...
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Uluru
NT, Australia
#tbt #photography #landscape #nature #AlphabetChallenge #WeekRForRock #travel #fotografia
#PhotographersOfBlueSky #wilderness #outback #desert #monolith
NT, Australia
#tbt #photography #landscape #nature #AlphabetChallenge #WeekRForRock #travel #fotografia
#PhotographersOfBlueSky #wilderness #outback #desert #monolith
October 30, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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Nankeen Night-Heron showed up on our dam last week, which was very nice of since I got to record it in my #AussieBirdCount surveys. Doesn’t like having its photo taken, but I finally got it! #ausbirds
October 30, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Nankeen Night-Heron showed up on our dam last week, which was very nice of since I got to record it in my #AussieBirdCount surveys. Doesn’t like having its photo taken, but I finally got it! #ausbirds
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"You and I could try and talk about this like it were economics or like it were international relations, but it's not. It's a soap opera. It's Sons and Daughters. It's Home and Away. It's Neighbours. And it's going to be a soap opera that goes on and on for the next three and a half years."
October 27, 2025 at 4:46 PM
"You and I could try and talk about this like it were economics or like it were international relations, but it's not. It's a soap opera. It's Sons and Daughters. It's Home and Away. It's Neighbours. And it's going to be a soap opera that goes on and on for the next three and a half years."
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The dispute between Chris Hedges and David Marr reveals much about the dire state of our press, writes @amyremeikis.bsky.social
www.deepcutnews.com/p/australian...
www.deepcutnews.com/p/australian...
Australian journalism prizes 'objectivity' over truth
The dispute between Chris Hedges and David Marr reveals much about the state of our press
www.deepcutnews.com
October 21, 2025 at 9:11 PM
The dispute between Chris Hedges and David Marr reveals much about the dire state of our press, writes @amyremeikis.bsky.social
www.deepcutnews.com/p/australian...
www.deepcutnews.com/p/australian...
For any Americans scrolling past this post - here's an investigation into Trump's crypto doings by one of Australia's most eminent journalists, John Lyons for the ABC Australia Four Corners program. You're welcome
youtu.be/sij89ENvZqQ?...
youtu.be/sij89ENvZqQ?...
Investigating how crypto is making the Trumps hundreds of millions | Four Corners Documentary
YouTube video by ABC News In-depth
youtu.be
October 17, 2025 at 6:42 AM
For any Americans scrolling past this post - here's an investigation into Trump's crypto doings by one of Australia's most eminent journalists, John Lyons for the ABC Australia Four Corners program. You're welcome
youtu.be/sij89ENvZqQ?...
youtu.be/sij89ENvZqQ?...
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So, Australia collects 43 cents per $100 of exported gas.
Qatar collects 46 DOLLARS per $100 of exported gas
And Norway collects 56 DOLLARS per $100 of exported oil
This is not just a piss take ... it's the out and out theft of our natural resources.
www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
Qatar collects 46 DOLLARS per $100 of exported gas
And Norway collects 56 DOLLARS per $100 of exported oil
This is not just a piss take ... it's the out and out theft of our natural resources.
www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
‘For every $100 of gas exported, Australia gets 43 cents’: Unions open new tax battle
The federal government this week overhauled its superannuation tax reforms. Now the union movement says it should radically overhaul taxes on gas exports.
www.smh.com.au
October 16, 2025 at 11:59 PM
So, Australia collects 43 cents per $100 of exported gas.
Qatar collects 46 DOLLARS per $100 of exported gas
And Norway collects 56 DOLLARS per $100 of exported oil
This is not just a piss take ... it's the out and out theft of our natural resources.
www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
Qatar collects 46 DOLLARS per $100 of exported gas
And Norway collects 56 DOLLARS per $100 of exported oil
This is not just a piss take ... it's the out and out theft of our natural resources.
www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
The Sports Club That Tried to Disappear the Scandal urbanwronski.com/2025/10/13/t...
The Sports Club That Tried to Disappear the Scandal
So, the Australian Parliament Sports Club has vanished from the register. Presto. Problem solved. But this isn’t a solution; it’s a sleight of hand that confirms every cynical assumption abou…
urbanwronski.com
October 15, 2025 at 4:18 AM
The Sports Club That Tried to Disappear the Scandal urbanwronski.com/2025/10/13/t...
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NSW premier Chris Minns had Australia believe antisemitic hate was running rampant. Police data has shown that claim to be grossly exaggerated.
www.deepcutnews.com/p/chris-minn...
www.deepcutnews.com/p/chris-minn...
Chris Minns exaggerated the scale of antisemitism in NSW – and won't apologise
The NSW premier had Australia believe antisemitic hate was running rampant. Police data has shown that to be false.
www.deepcutnews.com
October 14, 2025 at 9:25 PM
NSW premier Chris Minns had Australia believe antisemitic hate was running rampant. Police data has shown that claim to be grossly exaggerated.
www.deepcutnews.com/p/chris-minn...
www.deepcutnews.com/p/chris-minn...
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Holding power is his objective. He will waste this term being a small target. A huge opportunity to move forward with real reforms wasted....again.
October 13, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Holding power is his objective. He will waste this term being a small target. A huge opportunity to move forward with real reforms wasted....again.
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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.
No change at all to how the fundamental debates of the nation are addressed.
October 13, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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.
No change at all to how the fundamental debates of the nation are addressed.
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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.
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.
October 11, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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.
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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Even after being found guilty of 'officer misconduct' for mishandling the Robodebt referral, Commissioner of the NACC continues consultancy role despite concerns of perceived conflicts of interest.
At $820k/year surely he can focus on doing one job well?
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
At $820k/year surely he can focus on doing one job well?
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
Corruption watchdog head 'consulted' for ADF inspector general 11 times
Paul Brereton and Labor politicians had previously stated he had stepped away from the body and resigned as assistant inspector-general of the ADF prior to taking on the top integrity job.
www.abc.net.au
October 9, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Even after being found guilty of 'officer misconduct' for mishandling the Robodebt referral, Commissioner of the NACC continues consultancy role despite concerns of perceived conflicts of interest.
At $820k/year surely he can focus on doing one job well?
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
At $820k/year surely he can focus on doing one job well?
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
Ray Martin was on ABC's #TheAssembly last night, answering questions from aspiring journalists on the spectrum.
As a kid in the late 1970s I wrote to Mr Martin asking"how do you become a journalist". His answer was a 6 page typed letter on 60 minutes letterhead.
As a kid in the late 1970s I wrote to Mr Martin asking"how do you become a journalist". His answer was a 6 page typed letter on 60 minutes letterhead.
October 6, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Ray Martin was on ABC's #TheAssembly last night, answering questions from aspiring journalists on the spectrum.
As a kid in the late 1970s I wrote to Mr Martin asking"how do you become a journalist". His answer was a 6 page typed letter on 60 minutes letterhead.
As a kid in the late 1970s I wrote to Mr Martin asking"how do you become a journalist". His answer was a 6 page typed letter on 60 minutes letterhead.