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Grumpy boomer. Wurundjeri lands. Vote Yes, Vote Left. Goons, Goodies, Monty Python, Blackadder, Yes Minister, etc. Beatles, Pink Floyd, Bowie, Elton John and great British Bands. Cornwall and Family History. Beer that you drink at room temperature.

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mariewalsh18.bsky.social @mariewalsh18.bsky.social · 19h
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JeffJL @jeffjl54.bsky.social · 11h
Any company that makes a billion dollars in revenue should not have tax breaks or exemptions.
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MingTheMerciless @mingthemercyless.bsky.social · 11h
Sadly it's not a joke. theshovel.com.au/2026/10/07/a...
theshovel.com.au
Albo Takes Break From Approving Fossil Fuel Projects To Tell Pacific Nations About El Nino — The Shovel
Swapping his favourite Woodside polo for a colourful Fijian shirt, Albanese – whose government has approved 37 new or expanded fossil fuel projects since taking office – told the summit that “climate ...
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Shake it to the Left @babelfish9.bsky.social · 11h
Nice, and makes sense. However there are not nearly enough charging places on our major highways. Would be good if you did something about stopping fossil fuels and emissions and Taxing the Gas.
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🔵Blue Dot Buckeye🔵#Blues 🦋💙🌊🗽🌪️ @buckivotesblue.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
What a total POS. #Blues #Cornell7
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The Israel lobby and their accomplices globally put so much effort into pointless policing of speech, to distract from what is really needed; policing the actions of the genocidal apartheid state.
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Shake it to the Left @babelfish9.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This is what the fundamentalist xians want and pray for. Also project 2025. China should threaten the US with nukes if he gets his finger on the button.
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Nicole Chvastek @nicolechvastek.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/t... Note to Media: Violent authoritarian threats are not normal. One Nations threat to jail political rivals is a chilling warning about how they intend to corrupt our sacred independent judiciary. Who reported that? No-one. The latest “Truth Lies&Media” is live!⚡️
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Truth, Lies and Media
News Podcast · Updated Weekly · Broadcast journalist Nicole Chvastek and Australia's pre-eminent journalism ethics expert Denis Muller seek out the media industry's good, bad and ugly, taking you behi...
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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Zionist Israel is an insane racist apartheid terrorist state. Israel is committing genocide. Sanction Israel. Expel the Israeli Ambassador. #auspol #StopTheGenocide #EndTheOccupation #FreePalestine #SaveLebanon 🇵🇸 🇱🇧
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Gekko @gekko.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
johnmenadue.com/post/2026/10...
johnmenadue.com
The great AUKUS deception: Australia pays to defend America
AUKUS has been sold as a plan to strengthen Australia’s defence. Its deeper purpose is to bind Australia permanently into US military strategy against China and make American security dependent on Aus...
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Viktor 🇵🇸🍉🦘🦘🪃 @viktx.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
@albomp.bsky.social @australianlabor.bsky.social You are complicit in a genocide of thousands of defenceless Palestinians. SANCTION ISRAEL NOW EXPEL DIPLOMATS FREEZE TRADE CONDEMN THE GENOCIDE CLEAN OUT YOUR ZIONIST LOBBYISTS
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Florid Man @humintel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Oh look, the British political establishment found a reason to nuke the Green Party. The fact that any ethno-state is built in a foundation of racial bigotry, is totally immaterial. Zionism is racism and genocide. #FreePalestine #FromTheRiverToTheSea
independent.co.uk
Greens’ ‘Zionism is racism’ worse than anything under Corbyn, antisemitism tsar warns
Exclusive: Lord Mann claimed the way some of the party’s members were being treated was ‘unprecedented in Westminster since the Second World War’
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darktaro87.bsky.social @darktaro87.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Free Palestine, Forever. 🇵🇸 Palestine is about people, families, homes, identity, dignity, and the right to live freely and safely. Freedom, equality, justice, and human rights should belong to everyone without exception. For peace. For dignity. For freedom. #FreePalestine #PalestineForever #🇵🇸✌️
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Kate-Eviva @kate-eviva.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Excellent article. The continuation of this appointment is actually causing outrage. Long after it is clear that special privileges here for a sector of one community because they are committed to #genocide and war #crimes is shameful it continues. #auspol
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The governor of California Gavin Newsom response to Trump: "He is deranged and dangerous." Trump: "[Iran] can take out a city. Let them take out Lo Angeles or San Diego. This is a very small price to pay. It's essentially almost over with,"
https://x.com/GavinNewsom/status/2107288831112466787
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Shake it to the Left @babelfish9.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... What not just nationalise the profits, from all stores.
theguardian.com
Max Chandler-Mather pitches Mamdani-style $25bn plan to nationalise 200 Coles and Woolworths supermarkets
Former MP and Green Institute head says proposal for publicly owned supermarket chain will ease grocery prices
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SUPPORTING PALESTINE @apirus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
www.thenational.scot/news/2660527...
thenational.scot
Fury as BBC's Laura Kuenssberg snubs Greens on party conference weekend
The BBC's flagship Sunday politics programme failed to include a Green Party representative – despite the party's conference taking place this weekend
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bystander1.bsky.social @bystander1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"Enter Stephen Conroy. His TG Public Affairs, quickly becoming known as the Grim Reaper of CEOs, is the lobbying machine that Palantir has now put on the job to rehabilitate its image down under."
afr.com
Palantir calls on Stephen Conroy for reputation rehabilitation
With $17 million in federal government contracts on the line, the spy data giant is desperate for friends in Canberra.
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Tom Booker @tbooker1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Rebecca 🦋 @rebecca79903973.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Absofreakinlutely They Should......
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mariewalsh18.bsky.social @mariewalsh18.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Same here.
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
HAPPENING IN AMSTERDAM: 250,000 PRO-PALESTINE protesters screaming: F*ck Israel, F*ck Netanyahu 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
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Shake it to the Left @babelfish9.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
They should be charged $1b per day for the damage they have caused.
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Shake it to the Left @babelfish9.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Blaming Mossad is anti-zionist, anti-Israel, anti-genocide. Not antisemitic.
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Shake it to the Left @babelfish9.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/here-is-wh...
councilestatemedia.uk
Here is why we now know the Flydubai story must be false
Here is why we now know the Flydubai story must be false.
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Max G @maximgrosky.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Questions! #israel #uae #usa #palestine #zionism #zionazis #crimesagainsthumanity #boycottdivestsanction #genocide #freepalestine #fromtherivertothesea 🇵🇸 🍉 www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/here-is-wh...
councilestatemedia.uk
Here is why we now know the Flydubai story must be false
Here is why we now know the Flydubai story must be false.
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
What is Palantir doing in Australia? #auspol
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Shake it to the Left @babelfish9.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
And giving away our offshore gas for free. And giving billions to Trump for zero subs. And making Australians go without.
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Shake it to the Left @babelfish9.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Slept through it.
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Shake it to the Left @babelfish9.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
He wants the nuke codes, that current top generals would deny him.
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Andys Theory 🦋⚡️💎 @andystheory.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Thank God. The book about this war will not read like 13 days in October. It’ll be more like 13 seconds inside the ketchup-stained situation room. 😂
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Exorbitant >$1 million dollar salaries to help them justify Future Fund investments in arms manufacturing companies & neo-Nazi billionaire's companies❓
abc.net.au
Weapons makers among the Future Fund's investments
The federal government has quietly published the Future Fund's half-yearly report and it reveals a portfolio that includes weapons makers and SpaceX.
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Viktor 🇵🇸🍉🦘🦘🪃 @viktx.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Wakeup Albo and start listening to Australians instead of your lobbyists. You are compromised by gambling, mining and the Zionist Federation of Australia.
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PaulWA14 @paulwa14.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Real change for Australia @albomp.bsky.social yeah right! Tinkering around the edges does not constitute change. •a proper return on our resources #TaxTheGas •come clean on #AUKUS •Say no to US bases #AmericaIsNoAlly •stop denying the #GazaGenocide & sanction #Israel. #auspol #Gaza #Genocide
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Lilly @lillyull.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
www.crikey.com.au/2026/07/27/d...
crikey.com.au
Defence is now more wasteful — and secretive — than during the Coalition era
In another example of Labor's obsessive covering up of Defence failures, allegations of a major scandal involving Henderson shipyard in Perth will be cloaked in secrecy.
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Lilly @lillyull.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Antisemitism Envoy Jillian Segal holds power over what Australians may say, teach, report and believe. No election gave it her. michaelwest.com.au/the-segal-st...
michaelwest.com.au
The Segal State: the office Australia never voted for - Michael West
Antisemitism Envoy Jillian Segal holds power over what Australians may say, teach, report and believe. No election gave it her. Andrew Brown
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Shake it to the Left @babelfish9.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
No @albomp.bsky.social Real change is Taxing Gas, Oil, Coal and mega wealth. Kill AUKUS. Stop new Fossil extraction. Stop resource guzzling AI centres. Stop the genocide and arse licking Trump. Fund NDIS, public health and Education. Raise the rate. #auspol Among other things.
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Shake it to the Left @babelfish9.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
What's with the over-coverage, over Zionist sympathy with this fight on the plane. So obviously a Mossad plot.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Pissedoffpundit @pissedoffpundant.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Ette Media @ettemedia.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Ette Media, in partnership with mathematician and data analyst Dr Richard Bean, reviewed and analysed 42 interviews from ABC's 7.30 programme between mid-2022, when Sarah Ferguson began her stint as host, until the end of August 2026. We've made this article free to access. Read the deep dive below:
ettemedia.com
War of words: How ABC 7.30’s interview approach differs widely by conflict
An exclusive data analysis of interviews conducted on ABC’s 7.30 — and what they tell us about the broadcaster's bias.
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Shake it to the Left @babelfish9.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s... Who gives a fuck about what Netanyahu says. He only lies.
theguardian.com
Pilot who stabbed co-pilot on Israel-bound plane may have tried to crash it, says Netanyahu
Accused pilot being questioned in Saudi Arabia as Israeli officials investigate if incident was attempted terror attack
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Matt Golding @goldingcartoons.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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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Shake it to the Left @babelfish9.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Something for @davidshoebridge.bsky.social Tax the rich, tax Profits, tax wealth. Tax the gas. Tax corporates. Kill AUKUS, shut down the Zionist lobby. Sack Segal. No more fossil fuels.
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Crikey @crikey.com.au · 01/10/2026
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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Lilly @lillyull.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Congratulations, News Corp, on celebrating 11 years of not paying a single cent in tax. But per new ATO data released today, the Murdoch company isn’t even the worst offender. A slew of corporate entities made a motza off Australia and paid zilch in tax. www.crikey.com.au/2026/10/01/n...
crikey.com.au
News Corp celebrates more than a decade of paying zero tax in Australia
News Corp continues to make serious money in Australia while paying no tax. But even the Murdoch monolith isn't the nation's worst tax dodger.
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Shake it to the Left @babelfish9.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... Tax Profits. No offshoring.
theguardian.com
Microsoft’s datacentres and Optus owner among firms paying zero tax on billion-dollar Australian revenues
ATO database names big companies – including Microsoft subsidiary and Netflix – that pay little corporate tax but notes there could be legitimate reasons
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The Point @thepointau.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"The cash rate cannot reopen a shipping lane, lower the global oil price, manufacture diesel, rebuild after a climate disaster or reverse an insurer’s withdrawal" writes Professor Ray Wills and Professor Peter Newman AO. Read the full piece on The Point: sbrew.link/pE9mwxB0
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