Peter
@cabmerman.bsky.social
Living in South Oz on First Nations lands.
For justice and evidence based policy
For justice and evidence based policy
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John Howard is enormously out of line attacking the government over social cohesion. He personally signed off on $500,000 given to far-right race hate group “Advance” (ICYMI): theklaxon.com.au/howard-overs...
Howard oversaw $500,000 to "Advance" - The Klaxon
Liberal heavyweights John Howard and Richard Alston oversaw a $500,000 payment to MAGA group “Advance”, specifically to fight the Greens.
theklaxon.com.au
December 16, 2025 at 8:59 AM
John Howard is enormously out of line attacking the government over social cohesion. He personally signed off on $500,000 given to far-right race hate group “Advance” (ICYMI): theklaxon.com.au/howard-overs...
Apparently Victoria still has the rule of law.
Climate protesters win groundbreaking class action against Victoria police over use of pepper spray
Climate protesters win groundbreaking class action against Victoria police over use of pepper spray
Potentially precedent-setting case brought after Jordan Brown hit with capsicum spray outside mining and resources conference in Melbourne in 2019
Climate protesters have won a class action against Victoria police over the use of capsicum spray during an anti-mining demonstration in Melbourne.
The first class action against Victoria police in relation to alleged excessive use of oleoresin capsicum (OC) spray was heard in the state’s supreme court earlier this year, and a decision was handed down on Friday. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 12, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Apparently Victoria still has the rule of law.
The current read. The parallels with Robodebt are unmistakable.
Hundreds ruined, a government authority captured by its self belief, capricious prosecutions, billions in costs and NO-ONE held accountable.
Hundreds ruined, a government authority captured by its self belief, capricious prosecutions, billions in costs and NO-ONE held accountable.
December 11, 2025 at 7:27 AM
The current read. The parallels with Robodebt are unmistakable.
Hundreds ruined, a government authority captured by its self belief, capricious prosecutions, billions in costs and NO-ONE held accountable.
Hundreds ruined, a government authority captured by its self belief, capricious prosecutions, billions in costs and NO-ONE held accountable.
Plus the risk of ID theft
Gov said social media ban would only affect 16 yr olds. But most Aussies are being asked to perform age verification and some platforms have also restricted the comms of 16-18 year olds. The social media ban has a chilling censorious affect beyond the ban and imposes a blanket of mass surveillance
December 10, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Plus the risk of ID theft
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If we want to “let kids be kids”, and shield them from bullying, the pressure to conform, disinformation, and even potential sexual abuse, why we don’t we ban organised religion for anyone under 16?
🤔
Dead serious question
#auspol
🤔
Dead serious question
#auspol
December 9, 2025 at 9:25 PM
If we want to “let kids be kids”, and shield them from bullying, the pressure to conform, disinformation, and even potential sexual abuse, why we don’t we ban organised religion for anyone under 16?
🤔
Dead serious question
#auspol
🤔
Dead serious question
#auspol
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Murdoch has always been a mendacious grub.
Pity @albomp.bsky.social
@australianlabor.bsky.social Govt was so wet behind the ears & fell for his social media ban propaganda campaign.
Murdoch can’t stand the reality that younger generations consider the output of his fetid media stable trash
#auspol
Pity @albomp.bsky.social
@australianlabor.bsky.social Govt was so wet behind the ears & fell for his social media ban propaganda campaign.
Murdoch can’t stand the reality that younger generations consider the output of his fetid media stable trash
#auspol
December 10, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Murdoch has always been a mendacious grub.
Pity @albomp.bsky.social
@australianlabor.bsky.social Govt was so wet behind the ears & fell for his social media ban propaganda campaign.
Murdoch can’t stand the reality that younger generations consider the output of his fetid media stable trash
#auspol
Pity @albomp.bsky.social
@australianlabor.bsky.social Govt was so wet behind the ears & fell for his social media ban propaganda campaign.
Murdoch can’t stand the reality that younger generations consider the output of his fetid media stable trash
#auspol
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Aside from avoiding age verification, a VPN set to an EU country allows you to avoid insidious cookies being put on your computer. Different rules there. Spain is my virtual abode.
December 9, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Aside from avoiding age verification, a VPN set to an EU country allows you to avoid insidious cookies being put on your computer. Different rules there. Spain is my virtual abode.
If Australia Post's contractors actually rang the doorbell, it would go a long way to solving this problem.
'Only takes a split second': How to beat Xmas porch pirates
Australia Post is sounding the warning on "porch pirates" taking cruel advantage of the seasonal spike in parcel deliveries.
www.thenewdaily.com.au
December 8, 2025 at 10:47 PM
If Australia Post's contractors actually rang the doorbell, it would go a long way to solving this problem.
I thought this was satire.
Fact checked and true.
America the broken.
Fact checked and true.
America the broken.
Donald Trump just removed Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth from the list of free entry days at national parks.
They are being replaced with Trump’s birthday.
They are being replaced with Trump’s birthday.
December 6, 2025 at 6:16 AM
I thought this was satire.
Fact checked and true.
America the broken.
Fact checked and true.
America the broken.
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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.
America the broken.
Bill Madden
We are the wealthiest country in the world and yet this is how we treat our seniors and veterans. If you support Trump and Republicans ripping away SNAP, Medicaid, and Obamacare subsidies to give tax cuts to billionaires — GO FUCK YOURSELF. 😳👇
We are the wealthiest country in the world and yet this is how we treat our seniors and veterans. If you support Trump and Republicans ripping away SNAP, Medicaid, and Obamacare subsidies to give tax cuts to billionaires — GO FUCK YOURSELF. 😳👇
December 4, 2025 at 9:53 PM
America the broken.
Pants suit's on fire.
This is why the Liberals will never to connect with young people, because they don’t listen…they talk at and gaslight…but Billie Fitzsimmons won’t have a piece of it
December 1, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Pants suit's on fire.
Offspring just noticed HECS debt cut by 20%.
They're gratefully chuffed.
They're gratefully chuffed.
December 1, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Offspring just noticed HECS debt cut by 20%.
They're gratefully chuffed.
They're gratefully chuffed.
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This is so much worse than I thought.
Why the EU might allow into Europe US vehicles that don't pass our safety standards, and how you can fight back. (Yeah, you guessed it. Trump and his crazed tariffs.)
Excellent and important video from #NotJustBikes.
#EU
youtu.be/--832LV9a3I?...
Why the EU might allow into Europe US vehicles that don't pass our safety standards, and how you can fight back. (Yeah, you guessed it. Trump and his crazed tariffs.)
Excellent and important video from #NotJustBikes.
#EU
youtu.be/--832LV9a3I?...
Keep these Stupid American Trucks out of Europe
YouTube video by Not Just Bikes
youtu.be
November 30, 2025 at 4:04 PM
This is so much worse than I thought.
Why the EU might allow into Europe US vehicles that don't pass our safety standards, and how you can fight back. (Yeah, you guessed it. Trump and his crazed tariffs.)
Excellent and important video from #NotJustBikes.
#EU
youtu.be/--832LV9a3I?...
Why the EU might allow into Europe US vehicles that don't pass our safety standards, and how you can fight back. (Yeah, you guessed it. Trump and his crazed tariffs.)
Excellent and important video from #NotJustBikes.
#EU
youtu.be/--832LV9a3I?...
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A huge fireball exploded at a waste facility in an Australian suburb in western Sydney, sending flames 100 metres into the sky. Authorities are investigating the fire’s cause, but say a chemical tank exploded in the blaze, sending concrete debris flying and causing damage to nearby buildings.
November 30, 2025 at 11:58 AM
A huge fireball exploded at a waste facility in an Australian suburb in western Sydney, sending flames 100 metres into the sky. Authorities are investigating the fire’s cause, but say a chemical tank exploded in the blaze, sending concrete debris flying and causing damage to nearby buildings.
Why does the Australian government restrict the number of graduates in Medicine? Lobbying by the AMA or another reason?
Its unconscionable that we loot the Third World for their doctors.
Its unconscionable that we loot the Third World for their doctors.
If you judged a country by how it treats it's sick, Australia is falling into a privatisation wealth model.
Medicare and the health system took a 20 year battering by the LNP and now is broken.
What's the ALP with a majority going to do about it?🤷♂️
Country areas need more Doctors and more RN's.
Medicare and the health system took a 20 year battering by the LNP and now is broken.
What's the ALP with a majority going to do about it?🤷♂️
Country areas need more Doctors and more RN's.
November 30, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Why does the Australian government restrict the number of graduates in Medicine? Lobbying by the AMA or another reason?
Its unconscionable that we loot the Third World for their doctors.
Its unconscionable that we loot the Third World for their doctors.
Greg Craven is not impartial when it comes to universities. Hopelessly compromised,
go8.edu.au/in-the-media...
go8.edu.au/in-the-media...
November 27, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Greg Craven is not impartial when it comes to universities. Hopelessly compromised,
go8.edu.au/in-the-media...
go8.edu.au/in-the-media...
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Wagga Wagga-based artist Michael Agzarian is contesting a charge of 'offensive language' over an artwork reading 'Death to the IDF'
www.deepcutnews.com/p/can-you-sa...
www.deepcutnews.com/p/can-you-sa...
Can you say 'death to the IDF'? NSW Police say no.
A Wagga Wagga artist is contesting a fine for 'offensive language' – a case that could have major implications for free speech in NSW.
www.deepcutnews.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Wagga Wagga-based artist Michael Agzarian is contesting a charge of 'offensive language' over an artwork reading 'Death to the IDF'
www.deepcutnews.com/p/can-you-sa...
www.deepcutnews.com/p/can-you-sa...
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The Canadian Pacific Christmas train is back going across Canada🇨🇦 🤶
November 26, 2025 at 4:51 AM
The Canadian Pacific Christmas train is back going across Canada🇨🇦 🤶
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So Labor and the Liberals teamed up to pass legislation to give police the power to recommend cancellation of Centrelink payments of people who have not been found guilty of a crime by a court of law. It’s discriminatory financial punishment of people in poverty who are already over-policed
November 26, 2025 at 1:36 AM
So Labor and the Liberals teamed up to pass legislation to give police the power to recommend cancellation of Centrelink payments of people who have not been found guilty of a crime by a court of law. It’s discriminatory financial punishment of people in poverty who are already over-policed
A hero but didn't go to the moon, Kraznow did go to Epstein's island.
Kelly is a better man than Hegseth and Trump, combined...
November 25, 2025 at 2:19 AM
A hero but didn't go to the moon, Kraznow did go to Epstein's island.
This would give the police unprecedented coercive powers.
Likely to be unconstitutional.
Likely to be unconstitutional.
New: 100+ legal experts, welfare groups & academics demand the Minister bin an amendment, allowing police to cancel welfare payments for people who have not been found guilty of any crime
@tanyaplibersekmp.bsky.social is trying to ram this amendment through today
Read more: archive.is/UHu9J
@tanyaplibersekmp.bsky.social is trying to ram this amendment through today
Read more: archive.is/UHu9J
November 25, 2025 at 12:33 AM
This would give the police unprecedented coercive powers.
Likely to be unconstitutional.
Likely to be unconstitutional.
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Australia is one of the richest countries on Earth, if we can afford $600m for a PNG footy team, we can certainly afford to properly fund our premier scientific agency
My column on the CSIRO job cuts >
www.canberratimes.com.au/story/911683...
My column on the CSIRO job cuts >
www.canberratimes.com.au/story/911683...
Who needs world-changing, life-saving science when you've got rugby league
What does it say about us when we let CSIRO whither on the vine?
www.canberratimes.com.au
November 21, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Australia is one of the richest countries on Earth, if we can afford $600m for a PNG footy team, we can certainly afford to properly fund our premier scientific agency
My column on the CSIRO job cuts >
www.canberratimes.com.au/story/911683...
My column on the CSIRO job cuts >
www.canberratimes.com.au/story/911683...