samsplace9.bsky.social
@samsplace9.bsky.social
thanks so much for your review of Abbott's book - much appreciated

How to write a popular history www.themonthly.com.au/december-202...
How to write a popular history
A guide for former prime ministers or the like, should they be tempted to revisit the colonial record
www.themonthly.com.au
December 4, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Correct, Helen Garner
SLV has been off for years - no streaming access to their events, spruiking for money from readers & members: tonally noticeably wrong for quite some time.
Sacking librarians [ffs] is only the most recent nonsense.
CEO needs to go
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Helen Garner says State Library of Victoria turned into ‘party central’, with planned job cuts to ‘bring disgrace’ on Melbourne
Acclaimed author ‘sick about’ 171-year-old institution’s proposed restructure as hundreds of writers sign open letter in protest
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 7:58 PM
@mattbevan.bsky.social
Oh so well done
'Girt by Xi'
that is a winner
www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9s6...
November 30, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Surprise! Advance the tool of Liberals in Goldstein Wannon & elsewhere funded hugely by.... the Cormack Foundation - exempted by Don Farrell from campaign finance laws
No mention of that @SatPaper in your recent hagiography.
#shamejob
@communityindeps.bsky.social
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10...
Who are 'Advance' and what are they doing to our politics?
Launched in 2018 as a conservative answer to GetUp!, the group Advance likes to style itself as the voice of the average person against “the elite.
johnmenadue.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Reposted
Vice Admiral Mead, head of the Australian Submarine Agency, to retire next year. Another #AUKUS architect to depart before the project turns turtle. #auspol
Australia's 'no fail' submarine mission set for shake-up as boss quits
Vice Admiral Jonathan Mead's retirement will come just a year before the first US nuclear-powered submarine is due to be deployed to Western Australia in 2027 under the AUKUS agreement.
www.abc.net.au
November 6, 2025 at 7:44 PM
'If there’s another leadership ballot, the next contest will most likely be Taylor V Melbourne moderate Tim Wilson'
FFS they have got to be kidding
see Mark Dreyfus' Hansard account of Timmy's appalling behaviour in Goldstein last election.
'Hi there I'm Tim and I am a zionist'
What Wednesday’s Question Time said about Sussan Ley and the Liberal Party is that they are in diabolical trouble.
mnth.ly/UB0tZnJ
Down to the Leys
Sussan Ley is losing her grip on the Liberal leadership, as the party’s factions openly fight
mnth.ly
November 6, 2025 at 8:04 PM
'...what we are too timid to attempt'
Another warning from @ZohranKMamdani
@albomp.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 10:03 PM
'Politics is not something done to us. Politics is something we do.'
@CommunityIndeps
@albomp.bsky.social WATCH OUT.
Mean-minded 'compromise' is not good enough.
looking at you in particular Don Farrell

edition.cnn.com/2025/11/05/p...
Watch Zohran Mamdani’s full speech after NYC Mayor win | CNN Politics
Democratic State Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani delivered a speech to a roarous crowd in NYC after a historic win.
edition.cnn.com
November 5, 2025 at 10:00 PM
see below
@albomp.bsky.social

Have some guts and actually do something beyond scummy deals
with the broken COALition.
Looking at you in particular Senator Farrell

Hope Is the Most Impactful Emotion in Determining Long-Term Economic, Social Outcomes www.goodnewsnetwork.org/hope-is-the-...
Hope Is the Most Impactful Emotion in Determining Long-Term Economic, Social Outcomes
Perhaps contrary to others' definitions, the study authors defined hope as having a "strong grounding in individual agency."
www.goodnewsnetwork.org
November 5, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Never expected & am extremely disappointed by this hagiography on Farrell from
@thesaturdaypaper.com.au
This on his likely illegal 'finance' 'reforms' which will end up in the High Court:
'..stands as Farrell’s most enduring institutional legacy: the rules of the game, rewritten...'
Indeed.
Meet the man who really controls Canberra
Don Farrell’s power extends to every ministerial office. The PM relies on him factionally and strategically – and will benefit from an ambitious plan to expand the parliament.
satpa.pe
November 3, 2025 at 10:06 PM
'Beginning in 1933, the federal government launched a tax fraud investigation on Mellon, leading to a high-profile case that ended with Mellon's estate paying significant sums to settle the matter.'
More parallels? Hope so
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-28...
October 28, 2025
In the election of 1920, Americans handed a landslide victory to the Republicans and their presidential candidate Warren G.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
October 29, 2025 at 11:30 PM
The Australian sense of difference & separation grows with the increasing lawlessness of the US administration, its departures from national and international rules of law and the nation’s increasing authoritarianism..
Australians and Americans enjoy “shared values”??
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10...
Albo brings peace in our time
The prospect of a military confrontation between the US and China is receding, as is the prospect of a conflict over Taiwan, according to a relaxed Donald Trump talking to Australian journalists and p...
johnmenadue.com
October 28, 2025 at 7:45 PM
At last some facts about Community Independents

Many thanks Zoë Wundenberg @canberratimes.bsky.social

Congratulations for being so much better than the lazy Murdoch-trained hacks at @abcnews and almost all MSM

www.canberratimes.com.au/story/909458...
Independents aren't perfect. But here's where they beat major parties every time
I cannot fathom why this scare campaign always takes hold.
www.canberratimes.com.au
October 22, 2025 at 7:18 PM
'And while many reports suggest Trump has “confirmed” AUKUS, there is nothing to suggest this is either true or even possible.'
Too true @EmmaShortis
Sadly you failed to note that the Rudd question was set up by an Australian Murdoch minion.
#loyalty ?

theconversation.com/can-albanese...
Can Albanese claim ‘success’ with Trump? Beyond the banter, the vague commitments should be viewed with scepticism
Trump waved away concerns about AUKUS, but as is common with the mercurial president, much of the detail is unclear or a problem for the future.
theconversation.com
October 21, 2025 at 8:49 PM
'Australia’s political parties are moving to their use-by date'

Correct ALP is mean and gutless as Waterford spells out here - and dumb.

johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10...
Australia’s political parties are moving to their use-by date
Sooner or later Anthony Albanese or his successor will lead the Labor Government to defeat.
johnmenadue.com
October 21, 2025 at 8:41 PM
re Wannon
Tehan won - just - because he had /paid for?
the Plymouth Brethren intimidating voters at the booths and
Advance's sending BS to voters
That is his idea of a 'good clean campaign'
FYI
www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
Big bills, no seat: Some of the federal election's big spenders didn't actually win
Independent candidates received and spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to get elected to federal parliament — some unsuccessfully.
www.sbs.com.au
October 21, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Reposted
October 21, 2025 at 7:40 PM
'Special Minister of State Don Farrell said the government's reforms delivered needed transparency.'

Senator Farrell is a liar sand all together a very nasty piece of work

Let's go to the High Court ASAP to scupper this Farrell Libs attach up of democracy
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
Incoming laws would have blocked $8m in Climate 200 campaign donations
Climate 200 would have been blocked from making $8.34 million in donations to independent candidates if new election donation laws were in place at the 2025 poll.
www.abc.net.au
October 21, 2025 at 7:57 PM