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Miss Amy
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MS warrior. Humanist.
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Sunday Shot is back tomorrow at 9am, so you can save yourself an Insiders migrane.

We're joined by Aus Institute's resident historian @emmashortis.bsky.social, Michael Bradley of @marquelawyers.com.au, and I interview Nick Hanna, the lawyer challenging Chris Minns' anti-protest laws in court.
January 31, 2026 at 10:43 AM
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January 30, 2026 at 6:54 AM
missamy231.bsky.social
John Brown, Rose and the midnight cat gets my vote!

Australia’s best picture book: voting now open in Guardian Australia poll www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...
Australia’s best picture book: voting now open in Guardian Australia poll
It’s time to get voting for your favourite Australian picture book. Here’s how the Guardian’s poll works
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January 30, 2026 at 8:43 AM
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Another big news day - and the independents have got you covered.

See the stories that should be on the front pages - all curated for you in TrueNorth's 471st 4pm weekday newsletter.

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Get your 4pm weekday update on the stories of the day that actually matter. TrueNorth curates the best news and views from Australia’s top independent journalists and commentators - delivered straight...
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January 30, 2026 at 4:34 AM
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Israel has now said it accepts Hamas' estimate of the Gaza death toll, 71,000+, after years of insisting it was inflated. We're about to welcome the head of that state as an official guest.
January 29, 2026 at 11:58 PM
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marcuskelson.bsky.social
You see not everyone needs to be an arsehole…
January 30, 2026 at 2:14 AM
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nathenamin.bsky.social
You can learn more about Goronwy and the Tudors of Anglesey in my book 'Son of Prophecy', a Tudor family biography spanning 1170-1485 that is on sale everywhere.
January 29, 2026 at 7:39 PM
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Really interesting and illuminating. The ABC doing its job.
kcar.me kcarruthers @kcar.me · 5d
How the right wing Atlas Network is shaping your life in Australia, even if you've never heard of it
#AusPol
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-2…
January 25, 2026 at 11:22 PM
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davemilbo.bsky.social
Invasion Day, 2026
Four pictures of huge crowds on the streets of Melbourne/Naarm
January 26, 2026 at 4:33 AM
missamy231.bsky.social
And again, another hot day and mobile and mobile data are very intermittent.
Screen shot of Telstra website confirming mobile and data outages.
January 26, 2026 at 4:58 AM
missamy231.bsky.social
I really don't think this is good enough.
This summer, each time the temperature has passed 35-36° Telstra mobile outages have occurred.
It's constantly calls dropping out and very limited internet.
On days when we're at such high temps this is dangerous.
Screenshot of Telstra website confirming mobile service outages including internet in Melbourne
January 24, 2026 at 4:21 AM
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For years, I've run a workshop on writing fight scenes. As a writer and a martial artist, it's kinda my specialty. People kept asking if there was a resource to follow the workshop. So I wrote one. It's a short ebook and I've just done an entirely revised edition.
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January 23, 2026 at 11:34 PM
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alanbaxter.bsky.social
This might be the best review I've ever had for anything I've ever written. My mind is blown. Thank you so much, Jim and Ginger Nuts! A fantastically detailed and inciteful review. It's so cool when someone absolutely gets what you're trying to put down. Wow.
January 23, 2026 at 10:10 AM
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A quick look at those Nats and Nats members of the LNP Qld who will have to move seats now the Nats no longer sit with the Libs.

By my count - 15 Libs on the front bench, 16 on the back bench. lulz
January 22, 2026 at 5:04 AM
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instanterudite.bsky.social
For those asking, the #SundayShot returns on Sunday February 1. If you haven't already, get ready for 2026 by subscribing to our channel so you never miss an episode👇!

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The Sunday Shot
The Sunday Shot streams at 9am AEDT each Sunday. The Shot's Jo Dyer and Dave Milner are joined each week by a roster of Australia's best independent journalists and thinkers to discuss what's been ha...
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January 22, 2026 at 12:38 AM
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Nationals now calling another emergency party room meeting. Whole bunch threatening to resign, demanding the Coalition end. Australians are the biggest losers from these terrible hate group laws, but the political instincts of Ley and her team are almost unmatched for grasping stupidity
January 21, 2026 at 6:48 AM
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theshot.net.au
If you'd like to support our journalism, we have a new range of merch!! Grab the t-shirts (designed by Fiona Katauskas) before the government makes them illegal.
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New Merch Xmas 2025
There is no ethical consumption under capitalism, but this is as about as close as it gets.  Our new shirts and totes are designed by legendary cartoonist Fiona Katauskas. They're screen-printed in Me...
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January 21, 2026 at 7:45 AM
missamy231.bsky.social
Magnificent words by Ronni
ronnisalt.bsky.social Ronni🧂Salt @ronnisalt.bsky.social · 10d
My latest article in @theshot.net.au on the dark days of McCarthyism coming to Australia to eclipse our cultural landscape under the guise of eradicating communism - whoops sorry - antisemitism

The Adelaide Festival, the arts and the dark arts

#allfeedbackwelcome

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The dark arts - The Shot
The ideology of the Israel lobby in Australia is this - burn it to the ground rather than ever allow an opposing voice.
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January 21, 2026 at 7:41 AM
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Dad, what's a pulpit?

Where the minister gives his sermon from. How much?

Eight hundred.

DREAMIN'.

🏡 tees: tinyurl.com/bd8xvv7u
Cream-yellow T-shirt hanging on a wooden hanger outdoors, surrounded by soft green foliage. The shirt features a pop-art illustration of Daryl Kerrigan from The Castle, smiling and giving a thumbs-up, with a suburban house behind him. The text “Tell Him He’s Dreamin’” appears in bold lettering beneath the portrait.
January 19, 2026 at 9:35 AM
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Gobsmacking to hear Sussan Ley demanding the PM apologise for taking 25 days to call the Bondi RC — when she never supported a Royal Commission into her party’s illegal Robodebt scheme, and has never even apologised for driving Australians to their deaths. #auspol
January 19, 2026 at 5:24 AM
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Was the wife of a Macquarie Bank exec with no Library expertise appointed to the board of #StateLibraryVictoria last year, only now on the website? Did the Bank just invest in a start-up backed by SLV President Christine Christian? Did she find that company through her Library-backed start-up hub?
January 18, 2026 at 11:23 PM
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🎥 Al Jazeera's Tareq Abu Azzoum reports from Gaza on the past 24 hours, as intensified Israeli airstrikes target residential homes, killing civilians
January 18, 2026 at 8:30 PM
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can confirm.
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS 1967 conflicts. When the 1973 conflict erupted it was expected in Australia that my Government would favour Israel. I soon learned that our predecessors had been privately less committed to Israel. The Israeli ambas-sador, whom I knew well, made an urgent request to see me alone. He told me that the French manufacturers would not replace the Mirage fighters which Israel had lost and his Government wished to borrow ours. He suggested a discreet means of delivery. I told him of my misgivings but said that I would seek urgent advice from the Department of Foreign Affairs: When I told Waller he snorted: 'They put the same proposition to Gorton after the 1967 war.' On this occasion Australia had to practise its professions of even-handedness. Australia's Permanent Representative to the UN, Ambassador Sir Laurence McIntyre, was President of the Security Council when the war broke out. Despite some political pressure and even blackmail brought to bear on me the Government gave him every support. Australia was under a heavy international obligation to do everything possible to bring the hostilities to an end. My Government offered a joint force of approximately 440 personnel to the UN Emergency Force. A year later I told the UN General Assembly that Australia would give the Secretary-General every three months a list of its units which were available for UN peace-keeping purposes. The Fraser Government immediately cancelled this commitment. I had sufficient experience in the US and in Israel to know that there is not such a monolithic view on Middle East affairs in either country as one would derive from Western wire-services and feature writers. In June 1967 I had spent a morning in Washington at the Pentagon discussing the situation in Viet Nam with an assistant secretary and his officials. At luncheon the news came through that Israel and its neighbours were at war. Our numbers swelled to a score. For the next half-hour the Americans were totally pr… pic of a worn copy of The Whitlam Government 1972-1975 by Gough Whitlam (Penguin, 1985), cover, closed, on a faded wooden table.
January 18, 2026 at 5:32 AM
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“New technologies will come along to save the environment.” What they said versus where we are:

From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
January 8, 2026 at 9:37 AM