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Peter Wilkie 🏳️‍🌈
@wilks6.bsky.social
Older than I was. Hunger for social equity, craving a better world for all. AFLW & AFL Hawks fan. I care about animals, nature, life and people. Occasional writer, regular gardener, enjoyer of the ridiculous. Wadawurrung lands. Left & proud of it
Really want to be in minority next time around, eh @australianlabor.bsky.social ?

Ok. No problem. We can arrange that. Start counting the Ministers who will lose their seats. Burke, Albanese, Pliebersek, who else?

You useless, two faced bastards
So ... a dangerous abuser accuses his partner or ex-partner of a violent crime (this is common) & get the cops to charge her, usual delays until it's dropped/heard and now the govt will cut off the accused's entitlements, making her - & her children - wholly dependent on her abuser? Get out of it.
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
November 27, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Groove?

Yeah, why not -

youtu.be/a4xau-JRu3I?...
The Cat Empire - The Car Song (Official Video)
YouTube video by The Cat Empire
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November 27, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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The Koalas are starting to look like they're in the right habitat now! #drawing #koala #wildlifeart #australia
November 27, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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Howard middle class welfare halved capital gains tax on investment properties.
Previously took average of 5 years for homebuyers to save a deposit…today, it’s 10.
This is an appalling legacy for current & future generations.
Stop being meek & gutless & address this obscene rort @albomp.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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Members of the federal government’s own expert advisory panel on sexual violence have called for “urgent” independent national oversight of police after new revelations about Queensland police failures before the killing of First Nations woman Kardell Lomas.
November 26, 2025 at 12:54 AM
"Dogs of war and men of hate
With no cause, we don't discriminate
Discovery is to be disowned
Our currency is flesh and bone

Hell opened up and put on sale
Gather 'round and haggle
For hard cash, we will lie and deceive
Even our masters don't know the webs we weave"

youtu.be/m7VTL_fLt5M?...
The Dogs of War
YouTube video by Pink Floyd - Topic
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November 26, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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Femicide formally passed as law in Italy, with life imprisonment. We so need this in Australia.

This includes stronger measures against gender-based crimes including stalking and revenge porn. Australia needs harsher punishment for these atrocious crimes.
November 26, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Epic, soaring dual guitars call & respond, with a shuffling groove and Phil's storytelling 🎸🤘

"Tell me the legends of long ago
When the kings and queens
Would dance in the realm of the Black Rose
Play me the melodies I want to know
So I can teach my children, oh"

youtu.be/g5ThbMFyBlc?...
Roisin Dubh (Black Rose): A Rock Legend
YouTube video by Thin Lizzy - Topic
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November 26, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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How ludicrous for Labor to cut $5 billion in public services during a cost of living crisis. Every six months the government pays around $5b in Fuel Tax Credits to mining corporations to burn fossil fuels. If Labor is going to cut spending, cut handouts to fossil fuel barons.
November 25, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Fascists doing fascism. America is a failed, third world nation, rapidly descending into Orwellian dystopia

Land of the free? Pfft. Yeah, right
The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious.

The predictive intelligence program has resulted in people being stopped, searched and in some cases arrested.
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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November 25, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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Over 2.6 million welfare payment suspensions in just 13 months. Behind the statistics are real people: those with disabilities, Indigenous Australians, and some of society’s most vulnerable, caught in a system the government admits may be unlawful
www.kingaroy.org/invisible-ca...
The Invisible Casualties: How Australia's Debt Machine Targets Its Most Vulnerable
Over 2.6 million welfare payment suspensions in 13 months—more than five every minute. This feature investigation reveals the psychological toll on people with disabilities and Indigenous Australians ...
www.kingaroy.org
November 25, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Hey hey babe, said the way you move,
Gonna make you sweat,
Gonna make you groove
November 25, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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Say no to an inquiry into the ABC.
Ironically this push for an inquiry is coming from Sarah Henderson who used to be a journalist with @abcnewsaustralia.bsky.social
www.abcfriends.net.au/no?utm_campa...
Say no to an inquiry into the ABC!
Join our call to all senators to oppose Senator Henderson's motion for senate select inquiry into the ABC
www.abcfriends.net.au
November 25, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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November 24, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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Ash Riddell had an extraordinary season, both consistent and mercurial. A deserved #AFLW B&F winner. 🥇
November 24, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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David Pocock arguing in the #Senate against the cancelling of Centrelink benefits pending criminal prosecution. This is what an ethical equality warrior looks like. We need 20 more like him in the halls of power and hope we get them in the next election. He makes me proud to be Australian. #auspol
November 24, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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I just emailed my MP re: Australia's offshore detention, and recommend you do too.
Here's the link: action.asrc.org.au/enddetention
November 24, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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Biggest dole bludger in Australia. She’s done nothing to improve the lives of Australians
November 24, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Shame @australianlabor.bsky.social shame

Even for considering it. Clearly you lot learned nothing from #Robodebt too...

Ok. Then the relevant Ministers can look forward to the same electoral fate as the bastard Libs

Inequality is expensive, you idiots. Stop making it worse
Senator Thorpe criticises the government for ignoring these 100+ experts and groups to sneak the amendment through "without any scrutiny"

"I'd be putting my head down in shame too, Minister"
November 24, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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Australia could do the same! Also #energy and solar panels COUKD be a strategic shade providing #asset on #lakes, to support #agriculture and cool roads and streets. #auspol
China adopts a multi-pronged strategy that treats electricity as the foundational strategic asset.

China met the 2030 target (1200 gigawatts renewable capacity) 5 years early in 2025. Average electricity cost $0.084/kWh.

Where is Australia?

#Energytransition
#Auspol

electrek.co/2025/11/21/e...
Electricity is about to become the new base currency and China figured it out
As we accelerate into an all-electric, all-digital age, the ultimate representation of productive capacity becomes the kilowatt-hour (kWh).
electrek.co
November 24, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Australian native plants as pollinator attractors - not sure the video captures just how busy this Callistemon is, alive with European honey bees, hover flies, native bees & other tiny critters. Late afternoon it's got several kinds of butterflies in it

The birdies love it too 😊🐝🦋
November 24, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Every news bulletin. Every report of the daily atrocity & war crimes, of every innocent child murdered -

"Israel says....."

One culture reporting of a mono cultural view of the world

Death to prove your made up god is superior

These war pigs are subhuman

Those who repeat their lies, pathetic
Dr Assal Rad—

“I still can’t believe the media called this “targeting Hamas”.”
November 23, 2025 at 9:14 AM
"Believing all the lies that they're telling ya,
Buying all the products that they're selling ya,
They say 'jump' and you say 'how high?'
You're brain dead, ya got a fucking bullet in ya head"
November 23, 2025 at 5:26 AM