TheOriginalPaula
@theoriginalpaula.bsky.social
Passionate about equity and social justice. Proudly woke af. A ‘dirty leftie’ according to my ex-MP. #VoiceTruthTreaty. Meanjin, Turrbal country
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The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
December 6, 2025 at 4:29 AM
The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
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Predictably, News Corp have ignored teachers’ pleas for them to stop pitting schools against each other by publishing uncontextualised rankings. Since they’ve ignored this, I’m sharing the list of Australia’s most untrusted brands. News Corp number 8 - should be higher! A toxic stain on Australia.
December 5, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Predictably, News Corp have ignored teachers’ pleas for them to stop pitting schools against each other by publishing uncontextualised rankings. Since they’ve ignored this, I’m sharing the list of Australia’s most untrusted brands. News Corp number 8 - should be higher! A toxic stain on Australia.
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If true, people need to lose their jobs immediately.
This is anti democratic and an affront to the citizens of this country. If Albanese approved it he must resign.
I’m not fucking joking. This is hiding the corporate ownership of policy making.
This is anti democratic and an affront to the citizens of this country. If Albanese approved it he must resign.
I’m not fucking joking. This is hiding the corporate ownership of policy making.
December 5, 2025 at 9:21 PM
If true, people need to lose their jobs immediately.
This is anti democratic and an affront to the citizens of this country. If Albanese approved it he must resign.
I’m not fucking joking. This is hiding the corporate ownership of policy making.
This is anti democratic and an affront to the citizens of this country. If Albanese approved it he must resign.
I’m not fucking joking. This is hiding the corporate ownership of policy making.
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A "FIFA Peace Prize" is tantamount to getting an "AutoZone Best Actor in a Dramatic Play" award.
And "I want to really save lives" is rich coming from the homicidal slob who is murdering people on fishing boats in the Caribbean.
And "I want to really save lives" is rich coming from the homicidal slob who is murdering people on fishing boats in the Caribbean.
December 5, 2025 at 7:36 PM
A "FIFA Peace Prize" is tantamount to getting an "AutoZone Best Actor in a Dramatic Play" award.
And "I want to really save lives" is rich coming from the homicidal slob who is murdering people on fishing boats in the Caribbean.
And "I want to really save lives" is rich coming from the homicidal slob who is murdering people on fishing boats in the Caribbean.
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"When there’s no war, you aren’t committing war crimes when you kill people indiscriminately. You’re just a straight-up murderer."
A war criminal without a war
It's just murder.
www.publicnotice.co
December 5, 2025 at 9:57 PM
"When there’s no war, you aren’t committing war crimes when you kill people indiscriminately. You’re just a straight-up murderer."
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yeah like I’m perfectly fine charging every living USA president with war crimes, let’s goooooo
O’Neill is a dipshit. We did make a big hullabaloo about Obama’s use of targeted drone killings of US citizens without due process.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Osama bin Laden Navy SEAL brags he’s ‘killed more people than Jeffrey Dahmer’
Robert O’Neill, the former U.S. Navy SEAL who was part of the elite military unit responsible for assassinating Osama bin Laden, clashed with guests on Morgan’s show
www.independent.co.uk
December 5, 2025 at 8:51 AM
yeah like I’m perfectly fine charging every living USA president with war crimes, let’s goooooo
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Can someone tell the Brits they don’t need to go back to his school days for evidence that Farage is a racist c*unt?
December 5, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Can someone tell the Brits they don’t need to go back to his school days for evidence that Farage is a racist c*unt?
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Australia is paying $750m to a US prison company and $2.5bn in a secret deal to Nauru, yet the hundred or so asylum seekers in Nauru are starving.
It’s called corruption, and someone in authority should look into it.
It’s called corruption, and someone in authority should look into it.
‘Day by day I lose weight’: asylum seekers on Nauru get $115 a week, but a bag of grapes costs $20
Forbidden from working, people sent to the island by Australia say they are struggling to survive because food is so expensive
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Australia is paying $750m to a US prison company and $2.5bn in a secret deal to Nauru, yet the hundred or so asylum seekers in Nauru are starving.
It’s called corruption, and someone in authority should look into it.
It’s called corruption, and someone in authority should look into it.
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Here's me. "Hyperwealthy pedophilic genocidal dickweeds versus the rest of humanity"
Hyperwealthy pedophilic genocidal dickweeds versus the rest of humanity - The Shot
It really is the 1% versus the rest of us. The stakes couldn't be higher. And the enemy could not be more depraved. Still, we'll win.
theshot.net.au
December 4, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Here's me. "Hyperwealthy pedophilic genocidal dickweeds versus the rest of humanity"
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Spotify has laid off thousands in recent years, while reportedly paying artists $0.003 per stream.
Spotify profits rose 28% in Q3. Its CEO is worth $9.8 billion. It's making money off ICE recruitment ads.
Don't you think it's time put a wrap on corporate greed and exploitation?
Spotify profits rose 28% in Q3. Its CEO is worth $9.8 billion. It's making money off ICE recruitment ads.
Don't you think it's time put a wrap on corporate greed and exploitation?
December 4, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Spotify has laid off thousands in recent years, while reportedly paying artists $0.003 per stream.
Spotify profits rose 28% in Q3. Its CEO is worth $9.8 billion. It's making money off ICE recruitment ads.
Don't you think it's time put a wrap on corporate greed and exploitation?
Spotify profits rose 28% in Q3. Its CEO is worth $9.8 billion. It's making money off ICE recruitment ads.
Don't you think it's time put a wrap on corporate greed and exploitation?
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James O’Brien’s 'How They Broke Britain' delivers a cutting, clear-eyed account of how a small elite steered the country into decline through arrogance, corruption, and calculated deceit.
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How They Broke Britain
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December 4, 2025 at 6:49 AM
James O’Brien’s 'How They Broke Britain' delivers a cutting, clear-eyed account of how a small elite steered the country into decline through arrogance, corruption, and calculated deceit.
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While millions of families struggle to put food on the table Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos & Mark Zuckerberg own more wealth than the bottom HALF of Americans.
That’s what oligarchy is about. That’s what a rigged economy is about.
Is it any wonder that people in this country are angry?
That’s what oligarchy is about. That’s what a rigged economy is about.
Is it any wonder that people in this country are angry?
December 3, 2025 at 8:51 PM
While millions of families struggle to put food on the table Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos & Mark Zuckerberg own more wealth than the bottom HALF of Americans.
That’s what oligarchy is about. That’s what a rigged economy is about.
Is it any wonder that people in this country are angry?
That’s what oligarchy is about. That’s what a rigged economy is about.
Is it any wonder that people in this country are angry?
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The threats from unchecked AI are real — worker displacement, corporate surveillance, invasion of privacy, environmental destruction, unmanned warfare.
Today, a tiny number of billionaires are shaping the future of AI behind closed doors. That is unacceptable. That must change.
Today, a tiny number of billionaires are shaping the future of AI behind closed doors. That is unacceptable. That must change.
The threats from AI are real | Sen. Bernie Sanders
YouTube video by Senator Bernie Sanders
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December 3, 2025 at 7:46 PM
The threats from unchecked AI are real — worker displacement, corporate surveillance, invasion of privacy, environmental destruction, unmanned warfare.
Today, a tiny number of billionaires are shaping the future of AI behind closed doors. That is unacceptable. That must change.
Today, a tiny number of billionaires are shaping the future of AI behind closed doors. That is unacceptable. That must change.
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If only there were a recent catastrophic failure caused by automated systems from which Labor could have learned
December 3, 2025 at 9:02 AM
If only there were a recent catastrophic failure caused by automated systems from which Labor could have learned
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In a time when governments need to learn, they continually demonstrate that they have learned exactly nothing. Government is about being the custodian of the well-being of 26 million people - this is not custodianship, it's incompetence bordering on negligence.
EXCLUSIVE: Funding and support plans for national disability insurance scheme participants will be generated by a computer program and staff will have no discretion to amend them, under a major overhaul of the NDIS to be rolled out next year, @australia.theguardian.com can reveal.
December 3, 2025 at 5:17 AM
In a time when governments need to learn, they continually demonstrate that they have learned exactly nothing. Government is about being the custodian of the well-being of 26 million people - this is not custodianship, it's incompetence bordering on negligence.
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How can these Advance clowns expect to mainstream fascism when they're so thin skinned? 🤡 ⤵️
(Getting value for your money, Gina? 🤔)
@brenthodgson.bsky.social #auspol
(Getting value for your money, Gina? 🤔)
@brenthodgson.bsky.social #auspol
December 3, 2025 at 10:44 AM
How can these Advance clowns expect to mainstream fascism when they're so thin skinned? 🤡 ⤵️
(Getting value for your money, Gina? 🤔)
@brenthodgson.bsky.social #auspol
(Getting value for your money, Gina? 🤔)
@brenthodgson.bsky.social #auspol
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I care about Parliamentary Behaviour because decency & professionalism is proper conduct. Fish rots from the head. Elected officials must change the disgusting rabble behaviour, it's unacceptable. It gives permission for people to behave in the same disgusting manner #auspol 🧵
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Community Survey: Parliamentary Behaviour
WENTWORTH'S INDEPENDENT MP
www.allegraspender.com.au
December 3, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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NEW! Survey on experiences of romantic crushes, please share widely! The aim of this study is to investigate the romantic crush. Note that this is only for people currently residing in Australia who are 18+. Find out more and complete the survey at this link: q.surveys.unimelb.edu.au/jfe/form/SV_...
December 3, 2025 at 1:31 AM
NEW! Survey on experiences of romantic crushes, please share widely! The aim of this study is to investigate the romantic crush. Note that this is only for people currently residing in Australia who are 18+. Find out more and complete the survey at this link: q.surveys.unimelb.edu.au/jfe/form/SV_...
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We crunched the numbers to find out how many episodes of Bluey could have been made if the ABC had different priorities: chaser.com.au/entertainmen...
December 3, 2025 at 6:58 AM
We crunched the numbers to find out how many episodes of Bluey could have been made if the ABC had different priorities: chaser.com.au/entertainmen...
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David Shoebridge doesn’t hold back after Chief of Defence David Johnstone repeatedly refuses to state his salary
“You get paid $896,373 a yr, & the Chief of Def in the US gets paid $343,000 a yr. You get paid 3 times as much! Is that why you didn’t want to tell me?”🔥 #Estimates
“You get paid $896,373 a yr, & the Chief of Def in the US gets paid $343,000 a yr. You get paid 3 times as much! Is that why you didn’t want to tell me?”🔥 #Estimates
December 3, 2025 at 6:42 AM
David Shoebridge doesn’t hold back after Chief of Defence David Johnstone repeatedly refuses to state his salary
“You get paid $896,373 a yr, & the Chief of Def in the US gets paid $343,000 a yr. You get paid 3 times as much! Is that why you didn’t want to tell me?”🔥 #Estimates
“You get paid $896,373 a yr, & the Chief of Def in the US gets paid $343,000 a yr. You get paid 3 times as much! Is that why you didn’t want to tell me?”🔥 #Estimates
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"the full bench of the federal court went further than the defamation trial judge, arguing federal court judge Michael Lee should have found Lehrmann knew Higgins did not consent to sexual intercourse." #auspol
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Bruce Lehrmann knew Brittany Higgins didn’t consent, federal court rules as it dismisses defamation appeal
Former political staffer was seeking to overturn 2024 ruling by federal court judge which found on the balance of probabilities he raped colleague Brittany Higgins
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 2:51 AM
"the full bench of the federal court went further than the defamation trial judge, arguing federal court judge Michael Lee should have found Lehrmann knew Higgins did not consent to sexual intercourse." #auspol
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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NSN leader Thomas Sewell vowed to “make an example” of his enemies in Australia that would make the murderous rampage and planned race war of Charles Manson’s cult “look moderate”, in public comments since he was released on bail last month. www.theage.com.au/national/vic...
Neo-Nazis’ chilling threats as government investigates homeschooling network
A female MP has reported threats as Australia’s Nazis bristle at government probes into their secretive homeschooling networks.
www.theage.com.au
December 2, 2025 at 10:30 PM
NSN leader Thomas Sewell vowed to “make an example” of his enemies in Australia that would make the murderous rampage and planned race war of Charles Manson’s cult “look moderate”, in public comments since he was released on bail last month. www.theage.com.au/national/vic...
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Yesterday a discussion on the ABC about house sharing for older Aussies..."Could this be a solution to our housing crisis?"
I sent a text in. To their credit, they read it - "We're literally going to explore every Mickey Mouse idea EXCEPT neg. gearing & property hoarding, aren't we?"
I sent a text in. To their credit, they read it - "We're literally going to explore every Mickey Mouse idea EXCEPT neg. gearing & property hoarding, aren't we?"
December 2, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Yesterday a discussion on the ABC about house sharing for older Aussies..."Could this be a solution to our housing crisis?"
I sent a text in. To their credit, they read it - "We're literally going to explore every Mickey Mouse idea EXCEPT neg. gearing & property hoarding, aren't we?"
I sent a text in. To their credit, they read it - "We're literally going to explore every Mickey Mouse idea EXCEPT neg. gearing & property hoarding, aren't we?"
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It's always worth reiterating that Lattouf was a casual employee, contracted to do one week's work. That's it. That's all. And the Zionist lobby still has to see her fired.
And this is what it's cost
And by cost I mean us (the Australian taxpayer) I might add
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And this is what it's cost
And by cost I mean us (the Australian taxpayer) I might add
🤬
December 2, 2025 at 6:43 PM
It's always worth reiterating that Lattouf was a casual employee, contracted to do one week's work. That's it. That's all. And the Zionist lobby still has to see her fired.
And this is what it's cost
And by cost I mean us (the Australian taxpayer) I might add
🤬
And this is what it's cost
And by cost I mean us (the Australian taxpayer) I might add
🤬
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Stephanie Foster roasted after admitting has spoken to NACC Commissioner about her Chief of Staff’s corruption case & likely kept No record
Shoebridge “You have a chat with the Commr of the NACC about a corruption investigation about your own COS & u don’t even keep a record”🔥 #Estimates
Shoebridge “You have a chat with the Commr of the NACC about a corruption investigation about your own COS & u don’t even keep a record”🔥 #Estimates
December 2, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Stephanie Foster roasted after admitting has spoken to NACC Commissioner about her Chief of Staff’s corruption case & likely kept No record
Shoebridge “You have a chat with the Commr of the NACC about a corruption investigation about your own COS & u don’t even keep a record”🔥 #Estimates
Shoebridge “You have a chat with the Commr of the NACC about a corruption investigation about your own COS & u don’t even keep a record”🔥 #Estimates