@emmyy-p.bsky.social
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What is the point of an antisemitism envoy if they need to be contacted directly to condemn a neo-Nazi demonstration? She's been pretty quick to condemn other far-less antisemitic incidents.
Bit of a rhetorical question because I think we all know what the point of the envoy is.
Bit of a rhetorical question because I think we all know what the point of the envoy is.
December 8, 2025 at 4:11 AM
What is the point of an antisemitism envoy if they need to be contacted directly to condemn a neo-Nazi demonstration? She's been pretty quick to condemn other far-less antisemitic incidents.
Bit of a rhetorical question because I think we all know what the point of the envoy is.
Bit of a rhetorical question because I think we all know what the point of the envoy is.
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🚨Antisemitism Envoy has misled the Senate over her response to last month's neo-Nazi rally.
Segal says she denounced it to the media that "did contact my office".
That is false.
We have the receipts...
theklaxon.com.au/xoqo
Segal says she denounced it to the media that "did contact my office".
That is false.
We have the receipts...
theklaxon.com.au/xoqo
Jillian Segal misleads Senate over neo-Nazis - The Klaxon
Antisemitism Envoy Jillian Segal has given misleading evidence to the Senate over her response to last month's neo-Nazi rally.
theklaxon.com.au
December 8, 2025 at 4:08 AM
🚨Antisemitism Envoy has misled the Senate over her response to last month's neo-Nazi rally.
Segal says she denounced it to the media that "did contact my office".
That is false.
We have the receipts...
theklaxon.com.au/xoqo
Segal says she denounced it to the media that "did contact my office".
That is false.
We have the receipts...
theklaxon.com.au/xoqo
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Segal the liar? no morals in z!onism?? Surprise, surprise #auspol
🚨Antisemitism Envoy has misled the Senate over her response to last month's neo-Nazi rally.
Segal says she denounced it to the media that "did contact my office".
That is false.
We have the receipts...
theklaxon.com.au/xoqo
Segal says she denounced it to the media that "did contact my office".
That is false.
We have the receipts...
theklaxon.com.au/xoqo
Jillian Segal misleads Senate over neo-Nazis - The Klaxon
Antisemitism Envoy Jillian Segal has given misleading evidence to the Senate over her response to last month's neo-Nazi rally.
theklaxon.com.au
December 8, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Segal the liar? no morals in z!onism?? Surprise, surprise #auspol
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Kelly
McKenzie
Wells
What is it with sports ministers and their loose relationship with taxpayer funds? 🤔
#sportsrorts #auspol
McKenzie
Wells
What is it with sports ministers and their loose relationship with taxpayer funds? 🤔
#sportsrorts #auspol
December 8, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Kelly
McKenzie
Wells
What is it with sports ministers and their loose relationship with taxpayer funds? 🤔
#sportsrorts #auspol
McKenzie
Wells
What is it with sports ministers and their loose relationship with taxpayer funds? 🤔
#sportsrorts #auspol
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At least no Excel spreadsheets were harmed in this latest #sportsrorts imbroglio.
#auspol
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
#auspol
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
Coalition puts heat on Wells over trips to cricket and AFL with family
The Coalition is applying more heat to Sport Minister Anika Wells over flights she claimed for herself and her husband to attend two Boxing Day cricket test matches in recent years, and several AFL Gr...
www.abc.net.au
December 8, 2025 at 6:50 AM
At least no Excel spreadsheets were harmed in this latest #sportsrorts imbroglio.
#auspol
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
#auspol
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
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"Blind obedience is not strategy. It is outsourcing judgment."
December 7, 2025 at 12:41 AM
"Blind obedience is not strategy. It is outsourcing judgment."
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Wells's expenses being drip fed out. Starting to add up and not looking good. The entitlement factor is also strong in the ALP. #auspol
www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
Wells charged taxpayers $1000 for car to wait while she watched tennis – for seven hours
Daily revelations about Wells’ use of travel entitlements have dogged the minister since last Wednesday, eclipsing Labor’s agenda.
www.smh.com.au
December 8, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Wells's expenses being drip fed out. Starting to add up and not looking good. The entitlement factor is also strong in the ALP. #auspol
www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
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Our taxes going toward travel for Ministers to do their job is OK so long as the trip is justified. Paying for their family to attend sporting events and ski holidays is not. Time for a major change. #auspol
Albanese tries to explain the inexplicable defending Wells's ski trip
What was meant to be a Sunday interview bookending a remarkable political year became an exercise in explaining the inexplicable.
www.abc.net.au
December 8, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Our taxes going toward travel for Ministers to do their job is OK so long as the trip is justified. Paying for their family to attend sporting events and ski holidays is not. Time for a major change. #auspol
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Watching SBS chilling first of three reports on the fate of ‘disengaged’ migrant workers from the Pacific Islands in regional Australia. Bad conditions, low wages and no #health cover in program operating since 2022 .
modernslavery.gov.au
#auspol
modernslavery.gov.au
#auspol
Modernslavery.gov.au
December 8, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Watching SBS chilling first of three reports on the fate of ‘disengaged’ migrant workers from the Pacific Islands in regional Australia. Bad conditions, low wages and no #health cover in program operating since 2022 .
modernslavery.gov.au
#auspol
modernslavery.gov.au
#auspol
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"I don't write the rules" is Anika Wells's "I don't hold a hose" moment. And @sussanley.bsky.social nobody's forgotten your travel rorts so maybe keep your counsel. #auspol www.bbc.com/news/world-a...
December 7, 2025 at 5:59 AM
"I don't write the rules" is Anika Wells's "I don't hold a hose" moment. And @sussanley.bsky.social nobody's forgotten your travel rorts so maybe keep your counsel. #auspol www.bbc.com/news/world-a...
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The #media just lie. The #fact that they run @australianlabor.bsky.social means we gave ZERO #leadership or effective #vision as a basis for climbing out of the current disaster with positive reform ACTiONS and hope of a collective prosperous #future #auspol
Here's the thing, @albomp.bsky.social @australianlabor.bsky.social
If Murdoch thinks you've done well, then you can be absolutely assured that you've fucked up
And seeing how you seem to like cosying up to that foreigner media owner & his idiot boy, now you have to be voted out, permanently, too
If Murdoch thinks you've done well, then you can be absolutely assured that you've fucked up
And seeing how you seem to like cosying up to that foreigner media owner & his idiot boy, now you have to be voted out, permanently, too
Latest from our AAP #news feed #auspol
PM brands social media ban a success before it starts.
The rollout of Australia's landmark social media ban will be untidy, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese admits, but he says it is already a success....
michaelwest.com.au/pm-brands-so...
PM brands social media ban a success before it starts.
The rollout of Australia's landmark social media ban will be untidy, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese admits, but he says it is already a success....
michaelwest.com.au/pm-brands-so...
December 7, 2025 at 6:13 AM
The #media just lie. The #fact that they run @australianlabor.bsky.social means we gave ZERO #leadership or effective #vision as a basis for climbing out of the current disaster with positive reform ACTiONS and hope of a collective prosperous #future #auspol
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Labor bankrolled $300 billion in subs for America and Trump’s admin just erased the word “AUKUS” from its defence doctrine. The reward for Albanese’s loyalty? Open contempt from US officials and a request for $40B more. That’s not alliance it’s tribute #auspol
December 7, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Labor bankrolled $300 billion in subs for America and Trump’s admin just erased the word “AUKUS” from its defence doctrine. The reward for Albanese’s loyalty? Open contempt from US officials and a request for $40B more. That’s not alliance it’s tribute #auspol
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Trump’s strategy calls Australia out by name for not spending enough on defenceafter we already pledged 2.3% of GDP and locked in record weapons spending. What else do they want? Schools gutted? Hospitals shuttered? #auspol
December 7, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Trump’s strategy calls Australia out by name for not spending enough on defenceafter we already pledged 2.3% of GDP and locked in record weapons spending. What else do they want? Schools gutted? Hospitals shuttered? #auspol
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The US says it’ll only defend allies who “take more responsibility.” Labor is dumping $300B into subs built in America, for a war we won’t control, in a region they think we’ll sit out. Meanwhile renters starve. This is bipartisan derangement #auspol
December 7, 2025 at 6:16 AM
The US says it’ll only defend allies who “take more responsibility.” Labor is dumping $300B into subs built in America, for a war we won’t control, in a region they think we’ll sit out. Meanwhile renters starve. This is bipartisan derangement #auspol
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Good morning, here are today's top headlines.
Sports Minister Anika Wells has ducked questions about whether her use of entitlements passed the “pub test”.
Sports Minister Anika Wells has ducked questions about whether her use of entitlements passed the “pub test”.
‘I don’t write the rules’: Wells, PM defend using taxpayer funds to bring family to ski resort
Labor is defending the sport and communications minister’s family reunion on the slopes after earlier revelations of six-figure claims for international travel.
www.brisbanetimes.com.au
December 7, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Good morning, here are today's top headlines.
Sports Minister Anika Wells has ducked questions about whether her use of entitlements passed the “pub test”.
Sports Minister Anika Wells has ducked questions about whether her use of entitlements passed the “pub test”.
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Flooding, cyclones, deadly monsoons in Southeasat Asia, bushfires in Australia, grim news on the water shortage front...
But look. Let's just continue to approve new mines and build tax-payer funded infrastructure for companies that pay no tax. #auspol
But look. Let's just continue to approve new mines and build tax-payer funded infrastructure for companies that pay no tax. #auspol
December 7, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Flooding, cyclones, deadly monsoons in Southeasat Asia, bushfires in Australia, grim news on the water shortage front...
But look. Let's just continue to approve new mines and build tax-payer funded infrastructure for companies that pay no tax. #auspol
But look. Let's just continue to approve new mines and build tax-payer funded infrastructure for companies that pay no tax. #auspol
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I understand that there might be concerns around radicalisation, but that only increases the longer we leave them there. These are Australian citizens. I thought Albanese wanted to govern for 'all Australians'? #auspol #crisis
Australian children held in increasingly “militarised” displacement camps in north-east Syria have been told they will be shot if they try to breach the fence line, as Australia refuses to issue its citizens with passports so they can be repatriated.
#auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
#auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Australia refuses to repatriate citizens from Syrian camps despite US warning leaving them there ‘compounds risk to all of us’
US offers to get Australians out of camps if they are issued with travel documents, but Labor has said ‘this is not something the government is considering’
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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Tax-minimising lawyer to ferocious Greens warrior: how an elevator ride changed David Shoebridge’s life
Tax-minimising lawyer to ferocious Greens warrior: how an elevator ride changed David Shoebridge’s life
One Liberal calls him ‘easily the most effective Green’ while an ex-minister says they shaped policy together. How did the former Labor member end up a heavy-hitting crossbencher?
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In the late 1990s, a corporate lawyer helping wealthy clients hide their assets was beginning to feel uncomfortable. There was a feeling that had been gnawing away at him for several weeks, becoming harder and harder to ignore. Eventually, while riding the elevator to work one morning, his subconscious took over.
“I don’t tend to make snap decisions, but I remember going up in the lift one morning and realising I just couldn’t do it any more,” he tells Guardian Australia. Continue reading...
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December 6, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Tax-minimising lawyer to ferocious Greens warrior: how an elevator ride changed David Shoebridge’s life
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Kon is a lion! He set up and runs the #ASRC. I make a small monthly donation towards his good work for Asylum Seekers and Refugees.
#auspol
#auspol
An enormous thank you to all the beautiful people who donated to the ASRC Food Drive for refugees today, we are so grateful for your support 🫶🏼
December 7, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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Colby thinks we owe America unconditional obedience after sending them $368b for AUKUS, embedding Pine Gap into US targeting systems, and committing troops to every US war since Korea. Still not loyal enough? #auspol
December 7, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Colby thinks we owe America unconditional obedience after sending them $368b for AUKUS, embedding Pine Gap into US targeting systems, and committing troops to every US war since Korea. Still not loyal enough? #auspol
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December 6, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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'At a minimum estimated cost of $368 billion, #AUKUS is the largest transfer of sovereign wealth in Australia’s history, with no guarantee the submarines will ever be delivered and optimised for Australia’s primary defence needs.'
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topi...
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topi...
How to restore Australia’s national security
A new word has recently been added to Australia’s Macquarie Dictionary, which means it can be used officially in our lexicon – even by the ABC. “Enshittification” is self-explanatory. Coined to descri...
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
December 6, 2025 at 3:10 AM
'At a minimum estimated cost of $368 billion, #AUKUS is the largest transfer of sovereign wealth in Australia’s history, with no guarantee the submarines will ever be delivered and optimised for Australia’s primary defence needs.'
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topi...
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topi...
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The gas industry’s charade is over.
Australians know we have plenty of gas and excessive exports are the problem.
72% of Australians realise cutting exports is the way bring down energy bills, and just 28% think we need new gas fields.
x.com/markogge/sta...
Australians know we have plenty of gas and excessive exports are the problem.
72% of Australians realise cutting exports is the way bring down energy bills, and just 28% think we need new gas fields.
x.com/markogge/sta...
December 4, 2025 at 9:42 PM
The gas industry’s charade is over.
Australians know we have plenty of gas and excessive exports are the problem.
72% of Australians realise cutting exports is the way bring down energy bills, and just 28% think we need new gas fields.
x.com/markogge/sta...
Australians know we have plenty of gas and excessive exports are the problem.
72% of Australians realise cutting exports is the way bring down energy bills, and just 28% think we need new gas fields.
x.com/markogge/sta...
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The gas industry’s charade is over.
Australians know we have plenty of gas and excessive exports are the problem.
72% of Australians realise cutting exports is the way bring down energy bills, and just 28% think we need new gas fields.
x.com/markogge/sta...
Australians know we have plenty of gas and excessive exports are the problem.
72% of Australians realise cutting exports is the way bring down energy bills, and just 28% think we need new gas fields.
x.com/markogge/sta...
December 6, 2025 at 5:38 AM
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When are we going to wake up and be more like Norway? @albomp.bsky.social @jimchalmers.bsky.social @australianlabor.bsky.social @chrisbowenmp.bsky.social #auspol
Santos has notched up its 10th consecutive year paying ZERO tax in Australia. I’m tempted to change my name to Santos Limited by deed poll, and dare the ATO to come after me. At $200 bucks, it could be the most sensible investment open to me, and I get to trash my backyard into the bargain. #auspol
December 6, 2025 at 5:45 AM
When are we going to wake up and be more like Norway? @albomp.bsky.social @jimchalmers.bsky.social @australianlabor.bsky.social @chrisbowenmp.bsky.social #auspol