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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 8h

We should be asking this
c o n s t a n t l y.

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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 4h

The Rich People's Lobby has whacked the govt into a backflip on its superannuation reforms
#whatsthescam #auspol @kimwingerei.bsky.social
michaelwest.com.au/wealthy-supe...

The One Percent has a super win as Chalmers caves. What's the scam? - Michael West

Treasurer Jim Chalmers has announced Labor is backing down on the proposed tightening of the super tax for the very wealthy. What’s the scam? The scam is how the Labor Government is letting hyperbole ...

michaelwest.com.au

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Rum Court Rules @courtrum.bsky.social · 11h

Letters

Kudos should be given to Senator Pocock for revealing a grubby deal

The kerfuffle over David Pocock’s membership of the Parliamentary Sports Club shows the feds are as weak as the NSW government on sports betting.

October 12, 2025

www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...

Kudos should be given to Senator Pocock for revealing a grubby deal

The kerfuffle over David Pocock’s membership of the Parliamentary Sports Club shows the feds are as weak as the NSW government on sports betting.

www.smh.com.au

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Nathan Wind @nwind.bsky.social · 10h

This isn’t difficult tax reform, it’s the bare fucking minimum. Someone with $10m in super is using super as a tax dodge.

ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 11h

Treasurer Jim Chalmers announces the federal government's stalled superannuation tax increases will be reworked after criticism over the plan.

Breaking: Treasurer announces rework of stalled superannuation tax increase plan

Treasurer Jim Chalmers announces the federal government's stalled superannuation tax increases will be reworked after criticism over the plan.

www.abc.net.au

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Ma Carol @caroodles.bsky.social · 18h

Super corrupt family

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Jonathan Green @greenj.bsky.social · 10h

Can anything ever happen in this country? Can there ever be progressive economic change?

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 10h

Who is María Corina Machado, the Venezuelan opposition leader who won the Nobel Peace Prize? Historian Greg Grandin calls her a "shocking choice" who is "completely aligned with the most militarist and darkest face of U.S. imperialism."

2025 Nobel Peace Prize for Anti-Maduro Leader María Corina Machado “Opposite of Peace”: Greg Grandin

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize to María Corina Machado, a leading Venezuelan opposition figure. Machado was set to run for president last year, but she was disqua...

www.democracynow.org

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 11h

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
"
Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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turnleft2024 @turnleft8.bsky.social · 6h

LIDIA

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turnleft2024 @turnleft8.bsky.social · 6h

just one of many, whether ABC qanda or other politicians, or football players saying theyd love to give JG a noose for her birthday, they loved the violence

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turnleft2024 @turnleft8.bsky.social · 6h

barnaby joyce talked about using "bullets" to "say goodbye" to the prime minister

and he faced no consequences

i wonder why Lydia Thorpe gets treated differently... cant qwhite work that out

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turnleft2024 @turnleft8.bsky.social · 6h

www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZON...

The Herd - Burn Down The Parliament

released OVER TWO DECADES AGO

"Burn down a parliament, we burn down a flag
Burn down a liar like we burn ounce bag"

Burn Down The Parliament

YouTube video by The Herd - Topic

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turnleft2024 @turnleft8.bsky.social · 8h

but theyre not just lobbying the australian govt, annoying as that it, theyre lobbying Trump, which we definitely dont need interfering with australian laws and access to information

and im sure it happens every day, but theyre so blatant about it

turnleft2024 @turnleft8.bsky.social · 8h

she has a problem with bald men going out in public?

Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 12h

Sarah Henderson pointing this out on the Yahoo homepage, arguing it is inappropriate content.

A buzzfeed article from Yahoo that shows two bald heads that look like a butt.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18h

Hi Sally. When Weiss published a supposed expose on the death of George Floyd, a veteran criminal justice reporter showed in deep detail that the piece was not just wrong but filled with falsehoods and misrepresentations. Weiss did not retract the piece. What do you think of that?

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 20h

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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CalmLikeALink @calmlikeabomb.bsky.social · 1d

Reason #484838395429 to not donate to the blood buckets.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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Jenny Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithWatermelon🍉🍉 @joneshowdareyou.bsky.social · 15h

Note how the @australia.theguardian.com continues to LIE about who did all the killing on 7 Oct 2023 (the IOF murdered 100s of Israelis that day thanks to the Hannibal Directive) and refuses to name the GENOCIDE in Gaza—instead they whitewash with "two years of killing." #GazaHolocaust

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 12h

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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turnleft2024 @turnleft8.bsky.social · 10h

Kamala Harris during the campaign "I will ensure America always has the strongest most lethal fighting force in the world"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Kamala Harris: "Here in Chicago I'm told the helicopters that were descending on an American city were Black Hawks. Do you know what Black Hawks were designed to do? War. So I think everyone can draw their conclusions just based on the facts."

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 1d

Chris Hedges sets out truths about the 'peace plan' that so many western journalists avoid.

Truths that National Press Club members,
especially the ones who have accepted Israeli junkets and drunk the Zionist Kool-Aid,
preferred not to be confronted with? #GazaGenocide #NPC #auspol

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turnleft2024 @turnleft8.bsky.social · 11h

i wasnt sure about youtube being part of the ban until i read this - they deserve to be banned, lobbying trump to change australian law, gtho

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 11h

Google won’t reveal if it is lobbying Trump about YouTube’s inclusion in Australia’s under-16s ban

Company tells Senate inquiry ban will be ‘extremely difficult to enforce’, will have ‘unintended consequences’ and won’t make children safer * Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Google has told parliament that Australia’s under-16s social media ban will be “extremely difficult to enforce”, but won’t say if it is lobbying the Trump administration about YouTube’s inclusion ahead of Anthony Albanese’s US visit. On Monday, Google and Microsoft appeared before a Senate inquiry on a range of age assurance and verification requirements being applied to social media and other aspects of the internet including search. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 19h

I need a Tommy Flowers Was Robbed t-shirt. Great piece!
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Move over, Alan Turing: meet the working-class hero of Bletchley Park you didn’t see in the movies

The Oxbridge-educated boffin is feted as the codebreaking genius who helped Britain win the war. But should a little-known Post Office engineer named Tommy Flowers be seen as the real father of comput...

www.theguardian.com

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Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · 14h

"One consultant totalled $85,000...almost $3,000 a day".

"Last year, a NTEU report estimated universities across Australia spent $734 million a year on consultants, a practice across the sector which the union has strongly criticised."

Here's an idea, hire more staff instead of consultants on $$$!

Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · 15h

This nonsense must end, one would have hoped we'd learnt from the damage done to the Australian public service and government decision-making, but clearly not www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Uni staff outraged as high-paid consultants work on redundancies

As Western Sydney University prepares to shed hundreds of staff due to its dire finances, leaked documents reveal it is paying consultants as much as $2,850 a day.

www.abc.net.au

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turnleft2024 @turnleft8.bsky.social · 11h

weve spend decades - & ramped up in the past 5 - the privatising of public space and reducing all human interaction, to little more than use an app, work, shopping, even getting a library book is app based, creating a world which is basically a person + phone, then telling teens they cant live in it

Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 15h

We’ve been saying this forever. The social media ban will harm kids

ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 16h

LGBTIQA+ advocates are concerned the social media ban will have a significant impact on queer youth in regional and remote areas of Australia. They say there are not enough offline, physical supports for these teens to access when the ban comes into effect.

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virgotweet @virgotweet.bsky.social · 17h

independentaustralia.net/politics/pol...

From Independent Australia
26th September 2025

Brethren and Pentecostal cults and the 'quid pro quo' for Australia's democracy

As the links between extreme religious cults and Liberal Party politicians pile up, managing editor Michelle Pini considers the 'quid pro quo'.

independentaustralia.net

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