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Wants no Australian to live in poverty! 🇦🇺 Melbourne based. Progressive Software Engineer Active transport Macroeconomics I block political rusties.

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Independent Media Australia. @indymediaaus.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 5h
Antisemitism envoy continues to push to outlaw criticism of Israel www.greenleft.org.au/2026/1464/anal… #Auspol
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Antisemitism envoy continues to push to outlaw criticism of Israel
Jillian Segal, Australia’s unelected Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism, continues to push to insert a Zionist definition of antisemitism — prejudice towards Jews — into all Australian institutions because it serves to stifle criticism of Israel. **Paul Gregoire** reports.
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Kevin Bonham @kevinbonham.bsky.social · 7h
#RedbridgeAccent Vic (state) ALP 24 L-NP 30 ON 24 Grn 16 (!) Ind/other 6 (seems too low) Their 2PP respondent prefs 56-44 to L-NP My est 53.5 to L-NP Their ALP vs ON respondent prefs 55-45 to ALP My est 50.5 to ON I'd expect an L-NP majority off these primaries. #springst
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@lizglab.bsky.social @lizglab.bsky.social · 7h
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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 10h
In 2025, Australians gave Albo's Labor Govt a landslide victory and an increased majority. I think this cartoon sums-up what many of us are now thinking. Vote @greens.org.au. #auspol Image credit: @MWhalan on X.
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Philip Thalis @philipthalis.bsky.social · 16h
Excellent article on the problem & some of the fundamental reforms needed to super’n inAust. & we need to reverse it’s current settings of boosting inequality
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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
They should all be doing this because they know that he's a prolific liar and a con man with absolute bad intentions toward this country. If they don't, then they're complicit.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 18h
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Paul Gregoire @paulrgregoire.bsky.social · 19h
As the LECC inquiry into the use of excessive force by NSW police at the anti-Herzog rally continues, calls are rising to remove the power the NSW police commissioner has to refuse to hand over evidence 👇 www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/nsw-pol...
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NSW Police Watchdog Must Be Given the Power to Require Evidence of Brutality
There are calls to empower the police watchdog to require evidence regarding the use of excessive force by police during the protest against Israeli president Isaac Herzog.
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AB @ab-aus.bsky.social · 17h
The super system is neoliberal independentaustralia.net/politics/pol...
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Private super: Paul Keating’s innocent fraud
The problem with providing for an ageing population is not the money, it is the real goods and services.
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AB @ab-aus.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
REA still listing houses as price withheld. Wtf
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Ben Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
What’s happening to our climate is utterly terrifying. We’re looking at 4 degrees above average this southern summer www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Jaw-dropping’ El Niño bursts through temperature record months before peak
‘Godzilla-level’ phenomenon is supercharging the climate crisis and will have a huge impact on communities across the world
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
There's a change.org petition to remove Jillian Segal as Australia’s Antisemitism Envoy. Please consider reading and signing this petition. Zionism is NOT Judaism. Opposing Zionism is not antisemitism. Criticising Israel is NOT antisemitism. #auspol #FreePalestine c.org/5mJWQnkPQL
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We Demand Accountability: Remove Jillian Segal from Public Office
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onion person @junlper.beer · 09/10/2026
elon musk has more empathy for lines of code than a majority of humanity
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Zelenskyy says Trump has betrayed Ukraine.
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AB @ab-aus.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Josh Burns is a dickhead. Who votes for these dickheads?
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Electoral Commission warns of ‘intolerable risk’ of interference, cyberattack at NSW election www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw...
smh.com.au
Electoral Commission warns of ‘intolerable risk’ of interference, cyberattack at NSW election
NSW Electoral Commissioner Rachel McCallum has warned a multimillion-dollar funding shortfall means the election in March could be vulnerable.
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AB @ab-aus.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
ALP is more hostile to the left than they are to the right. They take the left preference vote for granted. Hopefully they will be sent a message at the next elections. #AusPol
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Independent Media Australia. @indymediaaus.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026
Labor should not take Green preferences for granted pearlsandirritations.com/e/daily/20… #Auspol
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Pearls and Irritations
P&I; — independent commentary on public policy, politics, and Australia's place in the world
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AB @ab-aus.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
That gnome fuckhead
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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Be warned! If you're a pro-Palestine Victorian voter: Melbourne-based pro-Israel activist Avi Yemini, who served in Israel's military, has registered the fake Pro-Palestine Party for the upcoming Victorian election. Yemini's goal: redirect votes to right wing, pro-Israel parties. #auspol #springst
Pro-Israel activist Avi Yemeni.
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AB @ab-aus.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Would be amazing
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Russia has been banned from International Football for 4.5 years. Israel who are committing Genocide hasn't been banned for 1 second. Ban Israel.
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KatOtis! @kat-otis.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Don't threaten me with a good time...
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AB @ab-aus.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Hope it ever gets released to the public.
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AB @ab-aus.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I believe the Tassie ALP did refuse to form government. Madness.
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Dr Sally @drsally.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The new slogan👇🏼 You heard it here first!
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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Vic Greens launched their campaign last night to a packed crowd. Fiery speeches from Hannah Thomas and the new federal leadership of Steph Hodgins-May and David Shoebridge went over well. The message has sharpened: "We're not here to make Labor better, we're here to replace them
Assorted pics from the Greens campaign launch, featuring the party's leadership and a packed crowd
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@lizglab.bsky.social @lizglab.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“Bitter Teals,” writes Josh Frydenberg, before opening a filing cabinet labelled GRIEVANCES 2010–2022. It takes courage to revisit your greatest political defeat and ask the difficult question: what was wrong with everybody else?
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Michael McFaul @mcfaulmike.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
What is going on with our president? Calling people "THE ENEMY" for exercising their First Amendment rights is deeply disturbing. That's what autocratic leaders do, not American leaders. Doing so for such a trivial, vain matter is just nutty.
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mariewalsh18.bsky.social @mariewalsh18.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Last Night, I joined the NSW Greens. I have Voted Labor, State & Federal since Geoff Whitlam in 1972. Now, with IDF trained Police, with Assault Machine Guns, roaming our Streets. NSW Labor Party chose Minns as Premier (we didnt) & have supported his Madness A VOTE for LABOR is a VOTE for NETANYAHU
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Anthony Klan @anthonyklan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Josh Frydenberg *again* in headlines over a “comeback”. It’s (again) worth remembering that as Treasurer he secretly deleted the key findings of a probe into corruption at the top of the corporate regulator. Surely that excludes one from politics? (ICYMI): theklaxon.com.au/frydenberg-d...
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***SCOOP*** Frydenberg abandoned amid ASIC salary cap scandal - The Klaxon
Key government officials, including Treasury Secretary Stephen Kennedy, refuse to back Treasurer Frydenberg’s unsubstantiated claims that the ASIC corruption review found no wrongdoing.
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John Pollock @karlcotton.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
America is not our friend. #usbasesoutnow #sinkaukus #auspol
theguardian.com
Execution TV? Pete Hegseth has taken the once ‘greatest democracy’ to a horrific new low | Paul Daley
A proposal to livestream the killing of Nidal Hasan by firing squad opens a window ever wider to the Trump administration’s complete moral vacuity
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Kevin Bonham @kevinbonham.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Note that 1. this seems to be based on voting intentions data collected over half a year (!) 2. there are no seat by seat or other primary vote figures based on which to comment on the seat total conclusions (unlike with MRPs released by other pollsters) #springst www.roymorgan.com/findings/103...
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AB @ab-aus.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Bit of a problem that the ALP refuse to form a minority government...
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polqat @polq.at · 09/10/2026
ALP/Greens currently projected to win Victorian election 2026 Shame Ben said he'd rather hand over the keys than work with the Greens #auspol
Overall Victorian Election Result on Current Projections

2022 Victorian Election
2026 Projections
Change in Seats
ALP
56
40
-16
L-NP
28
31
+3
ONP

11
+11
Greens
4

+2
Total
88
88

ALP/Greens
60
46
-14
L-NP/ONP
28
42
+14
Source: Roy Morgan Single Source. March 2026 - September 2026. Base: Victorian electors aged 18+, n=7,708.
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AB @ab-aus.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Instagram footage of Ben Carroll stating he would hand the keys back rather than form government. www.instagram.com/reel/DeGCaTc...
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AB @ab-aus.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Here you go www.instagram.com/reel/DeGCaTc...
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AB @ab-aus.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Ben Carrol said it directly (multiple times) in an interview the other day. Something about handing the keys back if they could not form outright government
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Tax billionaire wealth. I frankly don't care if a billionaire can make a second billion. I'd rather have the average person be able to make their first $100k.
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KDR&Bear @kdrandbear.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I’m 72 and I’m here to tell you that the Progressive Democrats are what the Democrats were before the corporate money started flowing into their campaigns! 🤦🏻‍♂️
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AB @ab-aus.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Surely they are just trying to frighten people into preferencing the ALP first rather than actual progressive parties or independents... Surely they would not refuse to form government? #AusPol
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AB @ab-aus.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Do you believe the ALP when they say they will not form a minority government? Does it make you less likely to vote for them given they refuse to follow the will of the people? #auspol
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Public Transport Users Association @ptua.org.au · 08/10/2026
Station car parks are full early in the morning. Expanding them is incredibly expensive and never meets demand. Vastly improving feeder buses, walking and cycling options is a better, more affordable, more scalable way of getting people to the station.
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Melbourne train station carpark overflowing just weeks after opening
This train station in Melbourne's booming outer west has been open for less than a month, but is already experiencing growing pains.
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burnt undertones @burntundertones.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
He makes a good point.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026
This afternoon in Marble Hill, a New Yorker was shot by an ICE agent in a residential neighborhood. Early reports indicate agents surrounded him and a 5-year-old child in his car before firing multiple rounds. We believe the child was physically unharmed.

This is an unconscionable and incredibly serious situation. I have called the President; when we speak I will demand that he ends all ICE enforcement actions in our city. I will not stand by while ICE agents terrorize our communities.

Our thoughts are with the injured New Yorker and his family tonight. We are praying for his recovery.

Get ICE out of our neighborhoods. Get ICE out of our hospitals. Get ICE off our streets. Get ICE away from our children.

Abolish ICE.
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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 08/10/2026
As we mark three years of Israel's U.S.-funded genocide in Gaza, Palestinian poet @mosababutoha.bsky.social wrote a powerful poem for Zeteo and we're sharing it here without a paywall. Watch:
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Dan Ilic @danilic.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It's 4am — I have too many tabs open in my brain. It's going to be like this until January I think.
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