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Andy Paterson

@agpat.bsky.social
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Retired minimalist. Found a place in the Central Wheatbelt of WA. Every day I'm amazed with the resilience of this Earth and the persistent damage we humans inflict upon it through consumerism. Heart failure survivor. O

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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 19h
House prices falling by a percentage not seen in 40 years does not mean house prices have fallen to affordable levels - it is just that we have seen them increase so much year on year, that falls seem significant BUT IT DOESN'T MAKE HOUSING AFFORDABLE IT JUST MEANS THE HOUSING MARKET HAS BEEN BROKEN
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 11h
The worst people in the world.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 13h
Zionism and Zionists are evil. Judaism and Jews are not. It is crucial not to conflate Judaism and Jews with Zionism and Zionists. There are MANY Anti-Zionist Jews. www.jvp.org
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Jewish Voice for Peace
We have a plan to end U.S. support for Israel's oppression of Palestinians. Join us. You belong here.
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Matt Golding @goldingcartoons.bsky.social · 22h
Why do we need politicians and economists while we have the Reserve Bank governing our lives? Richard Sykes, Bell Park @theageaustralia.bsky.social letters
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Rex Patrick @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social · 22h
Defence Minister Richard Marles is oblivious to that which is obvious to everybody else: Britain cannot deliver our future #AUKUS subs on schedule (if at all). Luckily for Richard, it’s only our money and national security that’s at stake. #auspol
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Why Britain cannot deliver SSN-AUKUS on schedule
Britain says SSN-AUKUS remains on track. But its shipyards are already stretched while new reactor and workforce capacity is still being built. Australia is betting heavily on that gap being closed in...
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Crikey @crikey.com.au · 18h
As Bob Brown often used to say: “We’re not here to keep the bastards honest. We’re here to replace the bastards.” www.crikey.com.au/2026/10/01/g...
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'A solid politician with good ethics': Crikey readers give their verdict on the new Greens leadership
Though he "isn't a Mamdani", David Shoebridge seems to be in your good books. And with his deputy, Steph Hodgins-May, readers are hopeful for the Greens' future.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 18h
Societies that still have the death penalty have something broken within them.
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Mehreen Faruqi @mehreenfaruqi.bsky.social · 19h
August was the hottest month in global history and yet, NSW has just approved the biggest coal mine expansion ever proposed in the state. It is scandalous that Australia is leading negotiations at global climate talks, including in the Pacific next week.
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Approval of biggest coal project in NSW planning commission’s history described as ‘infamous betrayal’
Independent Planning Commission says climate change impacts from Hunter Valley project will be ‘outweighed’ by economic benefits
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Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 19h
Have you read this (by me) yet? #Auspol
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Megan Herbert @meganjherbert.bsky.social · 20h
The inflation problem. My cartoon in today's @theageaustralia.bsky.social and @sydmorningherald.bsky.social
A political cartoon by Megan Herbert showing a single mother, recently made homeless after defaulting on her mortgage repayments (as evidenced by visible paperwork), setting up a new home in a tent with her two young children. Surrounded by their essentials stored in storage and plastic bags, the baby crawls on the grass, his older brother heats some food over a camp stove, and his exhausted-looking mother blows up an air mattress. Watching her, the boy says, "Is this what they means when they say 'inflation is the problem,' Mum?"
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Jessica D. M. 🇺🇦 🇦🇺 🇨🇦 🇵🇦 🇬🇱 🪃 🟧 @jessicaperthwa.bsky.social · 18h
#Auspol @laboraus.bsky.social @albomp.bsky.social
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Dr Monique Ryan @mon4kooyong.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Donald Trump's war with Iran has sent energy prices through the roof - Australians are fighting back by putting solar panels on their rooftops. In the first half of 2026 we installed 180,878 rooftop solar systems and 276,011 home batteries, massively exceeding expectations.
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Australians backing rooftop solar, home batteries in record numbers | Clean Energy Council
As conflict far from Australia’s shores drives up fuel prices and renews inflation pressures, households are increasingly taking energy security into their own hands.
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Larissa Waters @larissawaters.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The biggest coal mine expansion ever proposed in NSW has been approved by the Minns government. It threatens to wipe out Australia's emissions reductions. This is a major test for Anthony Albanese and Murray Watt; they cannot provide federal approval to a project of this scale.
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tonywindsor.bsky.social @tonywindsor.bsky.social · 22h
Man doing his job gets “acknowledged”…
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BRICS News 📄 @bricsinfo.bsky.social · 21h
JUST IN: 🇺🇸🇮🇷 US kicks out Iranian delegation who had "overstayed their welcome" following UN general assembly, Axios reports.
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 20h
Australia’s multibillion-dollar online gambling industry is effectively regulated by a NT body with no full-time staff. @justinedavismla.bsky.social joins @ebonybennett.bsky.social to discuss how the NT became the de facto national regulator & her proposal to lift standards. 🎧 theaus.in/4jhnKz9
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NEW EPISODE | How the NT won Australia’s race-to-the-bottom on online gambling regulation
Listen to Follow the Money now via the link or wherever you get your podcasts
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Blakandblack @blakandblack.bsky.social · 19h
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander workers earn an average of 84 cents for every dollar earned by other Australian workers, a new Indigenous-led study has found, amounting to a $3 billion annual shortfall in wages. www.sbs.com.au/nitv/article...
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Indigenous workers are paid 16 per cent less than their counterparts
The disparity is responsible for some $3 billion in lost wages for Indigenous workers, and could reach $170 billion by 2050, with Indigenous women facing the biggest pay gap.
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Blakandblack @blakandblack.bsky.social · 19h
If the pillowcase fits…
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The Saturday Paper @thesaturdaypaper.com.au · 19h
Bob Brown on why Labor's most intense vitriol is reserved for the Greens: trib.al/up6DzTI
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Why Anthony Albanese hates the Greens
Unlike Julia Gillard’s joint signing of the agreement on the Clean Energy Act in 2011, Albanese has never held a meeting in public with the Greens. He routinely meets Greens leader Larissa Waters, but you wouldn’t know it. It’s as if Labor won the last election outright and the Greens don’t exist.
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Crikey @crikey.com.au · 20h
News Corp continues to make serious money in Australia while paying no tax, writes Bernard Keane. www.crikey.com.au/2026/10/01/n...
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The Saturday Paper @thesaturdaypaper.com.au · 20h
In a scathing interview, Tuvalu’s climate minister criticises Australia’s inaction on phasing out fossil fuels, and the ‘unacceptable’ absence of global leaders at the Pacific talks. trib.al/DtsUrQ1
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Tuvalu criticises its ‘good neighbour’
In a scathing interview, Tuvalu’s climate minister criticises Australia’s inaction on phasing out fossil fuels, and the ‘unacceptable’ absence of global leaders at the Pacific talks.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 21h
Kogan CEO in June: Ruslan Kogan says changes to Capital Gains Tax will attract migrants motivated by “sick NDIS scams” and the welfare system." Today ATO Tax data for Kogan Pty Ltd: Income: $642.3m Taxable income: $0 Tax paid $0
Screenshot: "Sick scame": Kogan boss unleashes on Albanese government's capital gains tax changes"

rich lister Ruslan Kogan has issued an epic rant about Anthony Albanese's tax changes, warning they risk attracting a specific type of migrant to Australia'sSpreadsheet screenshot of ATO corporate tax transparency data

KOGAN AUSTRALIA PTY LTD: Total income $642,335,009; Taxable Income $0; Tax payable $0
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 21h
Last month Santos CEO Kevin Gallagher told the National Press Club that Santos and the gas industry had not lost its social license
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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 21h
Consultants have made a killing corporatising universities. But the UOW inquiry into mates's deals may mark the peak. Heads are rolling. Adam Lucas and James Guthrie #auspol michaelwest.com.au/university-g...
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University governance flaws exposed. End of consultants' bonanza? - Michael West
Heads rolling after NSW Legislative Council released its report into university governance, highlighting transparency and accounting issues.
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Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Here is @crikey.com.au with my 1st on CPAC Australia branding itself as NatCon this year. That is 😬. It ties the 🇦🇺 Right with 🌎 Christofascist politics (see Malcolm Robert’s proposed “blanket ban” 4 abortion). Also NatCon is driven by pro 🇮🇱 extremists. And… #Auspol www.crikey.com.au/2026/09/30/c...
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CPAC Australia is calling itself 'NatCon' this year. It may mean more than you think
Sure, it's short for "national conference". But CPAC Australia would be well aware it's also the name of another very prominent European conference for national conservatism.
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Paul Begley @yelgeb.bsky.social · 22h
"The question of what substantially different Australia any of the factions proposes to create becomes urgent because the problems confronting government are becoming larger as its political imagination becomes smaller." Stewart Sweeney @johnmenadue.com johnmenadue.com/post/2026/10...
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Labor’s Left has won the party. So what happened to the Left?
Labor’s Left has the prime minister, the numbers and formidable control of the party machinery. What it lacks is a program for changing Australia. After decades spent accumulating power, the bigger qu...
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OMG.WTF 🇦🇺 🇲🇪 🇿🇲 @amsickofpollies.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This sort of fall takes house prices back to where they were only a few years ago, when the headlines were about the insane unaffordability. It's the more expensive homes (already over inflated) which are experiencing a drop - the lower end of the market has barely moved.
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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The most radical arm in Australian politics (and the world) right now is the far right. And yet this is the analysis for the Greens.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The only answer to “will we need a recession to get inflation back to 2.5%?” Is “No, what a stupid thing to ask”. Michele Bullock did not give that answer. My column www.theguardian.com/business/gro...
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If turbocharged petrol prices are driving up inflation, then why are Australia’s unemployed on the line? | Greg Jericho
Avoiding a rise in unemployment is important for the RBA – but apparently not a dealbreaker
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 23h
Stop reporting property like it is a share market
ABC headline: Australia faces “biggest property downturn in 40 years”, raising recession risk.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 23h
“Biggest improvement in housing affordability for 40 years”
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Tony Cartledge @decentral21.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I think the greed of the oligarchs has become too much for the world to bear and the backlash is growing. But the resistance will take a long time to bring them to heel. Governments need a strong vein of Community Independents to steer them in the right direction.
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Twang 🍉 @twangmaker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Labor Party = The Fossil Fuel Party NSW Minns Labor just approved this👇 biggest coal project. It will now go to Albo and his sidekick Murray Watt for federal approval. How can we stop them? Those bozos approve every fossil fuel project put before them. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... #auspol
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Approval of biggest coal project in NSW planning commission’s history described as ‘infamous betrayal’
Independent Planning Commission says climate change impacts from Hunter Valley project will be ‘outweighed’ by economic benefits
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Jim Chalmers @jimchalmers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
BREAKING: Card surcharges are now banned. From today, card surcharges are banned, saving Australians $1.6bn. So whether you're at the supermarket or paying bills, the price you see is the price you pay.
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🦎 Jen - It's the Stupid People, Stupid 🐝 @jennifereccles.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“What NSW exports as coal, we import back as bushfires, floods, heatwaves and droughts,” Mullins said. “Climate harm does not stop at the border, and neither does the responsibility for it.”
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Approval of biggest coal project in NSW planning commission’s history described as ‘infamous betrayal’
Independent Planning Commission says climate change impacts from Hunter Valley project will be ‘outweighed’ by economic benefits
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David Neate @neatedavid.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A challenge for David Speers and @news.abc.net.au: stop banging on about "productivity" as if we agree on its meaning, do a deep dive into it & analyse what #productivity means for our society. For starters, if it takes 40 minutes for my bank to answer a phone call, how's that productive business?
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Keryn12🇦🇺 @keryn12.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
What is going on in this idiots head? tRUMP’s ‘wild’ description of the ‘plumber’ (who had never flown a plane) saved the passengers on the Flydubai flight by taking the controls and preventing the plane from crashing.
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Antfarmer @antfarmer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Christian fascist insanity. Taliban in a suit. Farkin hell. Dems better take the mid terms. These people need to be shackled.
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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The Fake Medicare Hack, Netanyahu’s UN Walkout and Palantir’s Data Grab | Scam of the Week Michael West reports. Read it here: michaelwest.com.au/the-fake-medicar…
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Robyn @jailbirdstreet.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Of course the Greens will fight against it. The question is whether the pundits, NGO leaders, union leaders & others will back the Greens, or will they continue pandering to Labor? We've all seen Labor making deals with the LNP to fuck over us & the environment. Get behind the Greens or lose.
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Gnome De Plume (Sista Cate Ruth) ♿🎃👻💀🧛🏽‍♂️ @sistacatruthpurry.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If the mining industry is so bloody lucrative, why does the public purse keep bailing them out? Why is socialism ok when its the rich benefitting from it? #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...
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$200 million package announced for Bell Bay Aluminium smelter
The Commonwealth and state governments say the future of the Bell Bay Aluminium smelter has been secured, with a power deal reached and a $200 financial package announced.
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Big T @big-tony.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Australian inflation is a direct result of Tramps war in Iran. So how will Pauline provide relief? By sucking up to the bloke that caused it? #NotHansonNever
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John Holmes @jhaue.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
World’s oceans absorbed record heat equal to 40 times annual global energy use The injection of thermal energy comes amid an increasing rise in sea levels and continuing acidification www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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World’s oceans absorbed record heat equal to 40 times annual global energy use
The injection of thermal energy comes amid an increasing rise in sea levels and continuing acidification
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Family farm may have to close after 100 years due to skyrocketing diesel and fertilizer prices: "Just being able to come up with the funds to continue to farm is is very difficult."
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Avoiding massive increases in unemployment is important, but, for the RBA, apparently not a dealbreaker. Recessions are horrible things and many a central bank has come a gutser thinking they can just lower rates and get things going again." @grogsgamut.bsky.social #RBA #inequality #auspol
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wastrying.bsky.social @wastrying.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
State of Emergency Declared in Russia’s Breadbasket INSIDE RUSSIA Sep 30, 2026 Konstantin Samoilov breaks down true state of Russian domestic industries, the breakdown of Black Sea logistics, & what this agricultural collapse means for the broader Russian economy. www.youtube.com/live/wx7tvsi...
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State of Emergency Declared in Russia’s Breadbasket
YouTube video by INSIDE RUSSIA
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“"Unfortunately, everything is blocked - no banking service, no money transfer, no power, no internet, no phone. Hence people are in crisis, simply suffering, everyone is desperate and frustrated."”
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Tony Cartledge @decentral21.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“The Reserve Bank simply cannot fix this. Today’s rate rise will do nothing to bring inflation down. What it will do is inflict more unnecessary pain on Australian mortgage holders.” Meanwhile we suffer, but not the rich. Tax the robber barons. #Auspol thepoint.com.au/new/260929-n...
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'No data to support it': RBA inflicts unnecessary pain with latest rate rise
The Australia Institute’s Chief Economist Greg Jericho has slammed the Reserve Bank of Australia’s (RBA) decision to raise interest rates again, arguing there is no data to justify increasing them to ...
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SBS Australia (unofficial) @sbsaustralia.nzcow.com · 30/09/2026
📢 Israeli authorities said the plane plunged 14,000 feet before passengers helped avert disaster.
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Passengers stop co-pilot's alleged bid to crash Tel Aviv-bound flight after stabbing pilot
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