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Nigel Kirwan 🇪🇭🇺🇦🇮🇳🇮🇩🇮🇪Niall Cairdubhain - Shiva Hridaya Gaudapada @npkirwan.bsky.social · 6d

Trust @ronnisalt.bsky.social doesn’t mind me copying this from the other place to here…

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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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Peter Wilkie 🏳️‍🌈 @wilks6.bsky.social · 6h

WFD is also a lucrative scam for lots of businesses, supplying free labour so they can eliminate entry/regular waged jobs

Explain to me how someone with 30 years experience in a field of their specialty that's been tanked by greed or policy will become "more employable" by mowing the Salvo's grass?

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Peter Wilkie 🏳️‍🌈 @wilks6.bsky.social · 6h

When Not Scott Albanese announced this brainfart, he proudly mumbled he'd spoken to teachers, principals, parents, cops, tech bros and some rando brandishing a copy of the Herald Scum

Not once did he mention kids. He never even thought to talk to THE FUCKING KIDS!

Bloke is a waste of space

Peter Wilkie 🏳️‍🌈 @wilks6.bsky.social · 6h

Hello? AFP? Hello?

stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 15h

I feel like today is a good day to remind everyone that just last year Barnaby Joyce called on a crowd of cookers to say “goodbye” to 3 Labor MPs inc the PM by getting ready to “load that magazine” & think of a “bullet” when casting their vote.
And received no penalty or censure.

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it's Candy Love @candylovely.bsky.social · 8h

Remember that 53% WW voted for the felon three times

bsky.app/profile/can...

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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 9h

Why is the gas industry notorious for paying so little tax, despite making billions in revenue?

Santos has made it 10 years in a row paying no tax!

@grogsgamut.bsky.social @elinorjohnstonleek.bsky.social
#auspol

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Peter Wilkie 🏳️‍🌈 @wilks6.bsky.social · 7h

I have no problem with that, but cutting kids off from information, learning resources, and community isn't going to achieve a damned thing, but make vulnerable, isolated or fearful kids lives' worse

I also think it's insulting to kids & parents

I'm all for tearing Zuck/Musk's worlds into shreds

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Peter Wilkie 🏳️‍🌈 @wilks6.bsky.social · 7h

Plod be plodding, dutifully, at the behest of partisan interests, once again

The AFP beyond parody

Hanson's useful morons make an offer to undermine our gun laws in return for $ from the NRA? Crickets

Someone embarrasses the Govt? Lights & sirens, boys

Must be soul destroying for the good ones

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Jommy Tee @jommytee.bsky.social · 8h

Australian Parliament Sports Club de-registered as lobby group amid MP outrage www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/13/a...

Australian Parliament Sports Club de-registered as lobby group amid MP outrage

Exclusive: The Australian Parliament Sports Club has de-registered as a lobby group, as its CEO claims politicians were fully aware of lobby groups' involvement in the club.

www.crikey.com.au

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Peter Wilkie 🏳️‍🌈 @wilks6.bsky.social · 7h

Yeah, that's exactly what I want to know

And if the who, and the why, aren't explained, then I think we can assume this was an attempt to ensure lobbying remained unfettered when there is genuine appetite among the electorate to eliminate it....

A backdoor hidden from view

#BanPoliticalDonations

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adeadmanwalking.bsky.social @adeadmanwalking.bsky.social · 13h

Thank You for Helping.
Repost every NO KINGS POST that you see. Keep the visibility SUPER HIGH. The fascists are scared of this one.

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Peter Wilkie 🏳️‍🌈 @wilks6.bsky.social · 10h

It's a sop to placate that old American bastard Murdoch & his idiot son

Wanna fix the internet so it's safe for kids?

It ain't the platforms. It's the content, like that filth Tate

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Peter Wilkie 🏳️‍🌈 @wilks6.bsky.social · 10h

Yeah, and it's coming @albomp.bsky.social

You've been given enough chances

Climate - fail
Political integrity - fail, massive fail
Addressing inequality - fail
Israel - fail
Still no Murdoch RC

And you're fucking arrogant. Think you're untouchable? Wrong

So you're going the same way as the Libs

NSJ Updates 🩵🌈☀️🌺☮️ @nikisavvasjumper.bsky.social · 13h

Labor national president Wayne Swan “Our victory this year was wide but shallow, and a small drop in our primary vote in a national election could see the loss of a large number of seats,”

Albanese’s election win ‘wide but shallow’: Labor president’s frank admission

“Our victory this year was wide but shallow and a small drop in our vote … could see the loss of a large number of seats,” Wayne Swan has warned.

www.smh.com.au

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Peter Wilkie 🏳️‍🌈 @wilks6.bsky.social · 12h

"Can't waste a day when the night brings a hearse,
So make a move and plead the fifth 'coz you can't plead the first"

Peter Wilkie 🏳️‍🌈 @wilks6.bsky.social · 12h

"....organised campaign that led to this assassination...."

Shouldn't be hard to find, mate

The call is coming from inside the house...

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Swamp @sirswampthing.bsky.social · 1d

AFLW players to have played in wins v all 18 clubs
Libby Birch
Emily Bates
Greta Bodey
Jaimee Lambert
Jesse Wardlaw

AFLW players to have played in losses v all 18 clubs
Caitlin Greiser
KATHERINE SMITH

#AFLWCatsGiants #AFLW

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Issy Kite 🌻 @issykite.bsky.social · 1d

Great to see Pride Cup at the Swans AFLW ♥️ #swansaflw #aflw #afl #pride

www.theflyingbats.com/petition

Sign the Petition- Football Australia: Protect the participation of all women in football. — Flying Bats Football Club

Call on Football Australia to fight discrimination and protect LGBTQIA+ inclusion in football.

www.theflyingbats.com

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Peter Wilkie 🏳️‍🌈 @wilks6.bsky.social · 1d

Signed, shared

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Swamp @sirswampthing.bsky.social · 2d

Of the 2,532 people to have played 100+ V/ #AFL
games, 12 got from debut to game #100 without missing a game

Of the 4 people to have played 100+ #AFLW games, 3 got from debut to game #100 without missing a game

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Women's Australian Rules Football Radio (WARF Radio Plus) @warfradio.bsky.social · 1d

This afternoon on WARFRadio.com, the AFL Live app and AFL.com.au, it's the #AFLW match between the Saints and the Pies at RSEA Park from 2:50pm AEDT.

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Gemma @glbastiani.bsky.social · 1d

Most combined metres gained in an #AFLW game:

9037 - BRIS v PORT RD9 2025
8863 - wce v port rd4 2025
8733 - bris v adl pf 2024
8681 - gcs v port wk9 2024
8616 - bris v car rd3 2025

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Swamp @sirswampthing.bsky.social · 1d

Most points scored in an #AFLW H&A season
99.69 (663) - 2025 NTH (9 games)
96.80 (656) - 2024 nth (11)
93.95 (653) - 2023 melb (10)
85.101 (611) - 2024 bris (11)
89.65 (599) - 2023 adel (10)
85.87 (597) - 2024 haw (11)

#AFLWTigersNorth

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Peter Wilkie 🏳️‍🌈 @wilks6.bsky.social · 2d

North all class @northmelb.bsky.social but I'd be rapt if I was a Tigers fan, plenty of spirit and fight

A much better side than their ladder position suggests

#AFLWTigersRoos

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Peter Wilkie 🏳️‍🌈 @wilks6.bsky.social · 2d

This is a ripping game of footy

#AFLWTigersRoos

Gee these Tiges, looked great knocking off Adelaide last week, and the invincible North side know they're in a contest this week

How seriously good is Ellie McKenzie? Wow she can play

#AFLW

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