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Michael Barnes

@barnesm31.bsky.social
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I smell blood and an era of prominent madmen. Science is cool. Born in 1966, Whitefella living on the land of the Wurundjeri people. LGBTQIA+ rights are human rights. Refugees are welcome, racists are not.

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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Michael Barnes @barnesm31.bsky.social · 15h
From your lips to God's ear.
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Freethinkers United For Change @freethinkersunite.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 21h
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Drag Rat Survivor II: Your Sister is a Werewolf @dragratsurvivor.bsky.social · 20h
So if you meet with these historians I'll tell you what to say Tell them that the Nazis Never really went away They're out there burning houses down And peddling racist lies And we'll never rest again Until every Nazi dies
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Chumbawamba - The day the nazi died
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Michael Barnes @barnesm31.bsky.social · 22h
There is always time to punch Nazis.
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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Heads-up! Any time NewsCorpse tries to promote Josh Frydenberg or suggest he should return to federal politics, I like to remind people of his illegal misleading Chinese language corflutes in AEC purple, telling voters the "correct" way to vote. 😠 #auspol #KooyongVotes
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Sue Barrett - Onward We Press @suebarrett.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
There are more of us than you think. The real freeloaders aren’t migrants or people on welfare. They’re gas exporters paying less tax than beer drinkers, and 200 people holding $707 billion. They have the money. We have the numbers. We are the change. suebarrett.substack.com/p/there-are-...
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There Are More of Us Than the Freeloaders Need You to Believe. We Are The Change.
Most Australians want the same things: A home. A fair share. A liveable future. A small few are taking far more than their share and they’re counting on you never finding out how many of us there are.
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Michael Barnes @barnesm31.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Hopefully the same will happen in Oz.
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TKarney @pecunium.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Fix your economy with this one weird trick
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Michael Barnes @barnesm31.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I don't understand how they thought anyone would think positively of them for this farce.
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Appalachian Blue @republicofcascadia.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
A reminder that the Australian defence department has a number of contracts with the genocide-enabling Elbit Systems, and the Australian Future Fund holds shares in the company. #auspol
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Michael Barnes @barnesm31.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Imagine how many would be suspended if they did that in Oz.
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Michael Barnes @barnesm31.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Suffer in your jocks Netanyahu Neten Navi Pillay was chair of ​the United Nations Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory ​that concluded last year that Israel has committed genocide in Gaza.
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LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
IRELAND: When Ireland’s library workers drove the far-right out publicservices.international/resources/ne...
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When Ireland’s library workers drove the far-right out
Far-right agitators spent more than a year targeting Ireland’s public libraries and the people who work in them, until library workers in Fórsa organised and drove them out. At PSI’s Public Services F...
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Michael Barnes @barnesm31.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Ahh my apologies.
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Michael Barnes @barnesm31.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Still an intial trial to identify issues is welcome, I am not sure if 10 is enough, just right or too many.
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Michael Barnes @barnesm31.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The Victorian Greens have proposed 10 trial sites across the state as one of the proposals they are bringing to the state election. Will give time to evalute before the next federal election.
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Michael Barnes @barnesm31.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Hard to have a migration policy with numbers unless you set a population policy with numbers.
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Michael Barnes @barnesm31.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
As a Victorian I wish Senator Bobet would focus on getting elected as the ACT senator and stop being a Victorian senator (sorry ACT, but we have had him long enough)
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Damian @damo1954.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Capitalist Lunacy #climatecatastrophe www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...
abc.net.au
Town questions $15b data centre set to use enough power for 1m homes
One Wagga Wagga resident says she feels "back-stabbed" by the development, while others say the town needs more industry.
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Dee Madigan @deemadigan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Also nobody refused her service. Nobody told her to go back where she came from. She got her coffee. The café just chose where the profit went. That's not exclusion. That's a business making a choice, which is something One Nation usually defends.
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Michael Barnes @barnesm31.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Same. Looking at the other major parties I agree more with the Greens policies than anything the ALP, LNP or PHON claim.
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John Donegan @donegan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I’m spoiled for choice at the upcoming Victorian election 1: @vicsocialists.bsky.social 2: Greens 3: Indy 4: Israel 5: Israel 6: Israel 7: Israel
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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I can't believe the party that enacted the first new anti-trans legislation since Thatcher and is still selling arms to the IDF is now stamping their feet and refusing to work with Greens, a party that, just to remind you, HASN'T said "please work with us, Labour".
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Colleen Strider 📎 @wetdreamteam.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Well done everyone who attended. War mongers not welcome on Whadjuk Noongar. #Auspol #LandforcesMustGo #AlwaysWas
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Michael Barnes @barnesm31.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Another for the #notadragqueen
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Ignoble Jim R Houghton @jimrhoughton.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
How can you whinge about being 'hurt' by being snubbed in your local coffee shop, when your whole political purpose is to hurt others on far greater scales? People's reaction to your hate is not a tradable equivalent to your hate in the first place. pulsetasmania.com.au/news/richmon...
pulsetasmania.com.au
Richmond coffee shop publicly shuns One Nation state leader over political beliefs
Lee Hanson says she has been a regular at the shop since it opened…
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Lilly @lillyull.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Crikey With the cost of borrowing surging and inflation up, it's time to call bloated defence spending what it is: an unaffordable indulgence that needs to stop. www.crikey.com.au/2026/10/06/a...
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With the budget in disrepair, bloated defence spending is an indulgence we can't afford
Defence spending blew out by more than any other area of government spending last year. But will the government cut our most wasteful area of expenditure? Unlikely.
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Ren Wyld @wyld.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
They're starting early this time. 6 months away from Adelaide Writers Week, bad faith lobbyists and froth mouthed media are calling for Randa Abdel-Fattah to be uninvited. Ummm. Did they not see how writers stood with her last time? And we'll do it again ...
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wil @wilful.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Is company tax just like completely optional for any new industries these days?
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Michael Barnes @barnesm31.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
At the moment with temperatures dropping it sounds like Ukraine would welcome non lethal aid as well, like fuel, medicine, water etc.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Reminder - Japan imports more gas from Australia than it needs, and so it onsells it to other countries for a profit. www.afr.com/world/asia/a...
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Australia moves to calm Japan’s jitters over gas reservation policy
Treasurer Jim Chalmers used a large business gathering near Tokyo to promise executives that Australia would remain a dependable energy supplier.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Michael Danby says he’s furious Shoebridge is leader of The Greens bcoz he calls out Jillian Segal, opposed Israeli Pres Herzog’s visit & gives prominent Jewish Aussies Louise Adler & Sarah Schwartz a voice. The genocide-complicit Zionists really are panicking over Shoebridge.💥
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Múmer @mumermao.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026
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Michael Barnes @barnesm31.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Did they try that in the Tasmainian election only to end up with the same result.
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I'm very poorly today, very stupid & hate everybody & everything @voxexsinister.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Unpaywalled link to this article: archive.ph/MOsZx (Because fuck the Fin Review.) #auspol
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Tim Baxter @timinclimate.naruresearch.com.au · 04/10/2026
Oh wow. This is proper fucked. That list of folks eligible for a free vaccine is *narrow*. So anyway, we gave BHP $600m in diesel rebates this past year. You know they really needed them because in the same year the company booked a $14b profit.
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Fewer Australians will qualify for free COVID-19 vaccines from October - Australian Pharmacist
COVID-19 vaccines move onto the NIP this week. Who is now eligible for a funded vaccine and what should pharmacists tell patients who aren’t?
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David Marler @qldaah.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The Queensland town of Moura now without a doctor. It has been warning the Crisafulli govt for months that the workload for the single GP at the hospital & practice was too much. The govt repealed the Qld Health Workforce Attraction Incentive Scheme in February 2025. #qldpol
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Michael Barnes @barnesm31.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Is it because of the anti-lockdown cookers who morphed in to hard right nutters?
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mariewalsh18.bsky.social @mariewalsh18.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Same here.
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Vimpete @vimpete.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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John Donegan @donegan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
AUKUS should tighten its belt. Oil companies should tighten their belts & pay tax. Oligarchs should tighten their belts & pay tax. Gas companies should tighten their belts & pay tax. Fuck capitalism, vote Socialist or Green at the next opportunity. #Auspol
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Nathan Wind @nwind.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Jess Wilson, whose spending proposals top around $70bn, now saying there’ll be no new taxes under an LNP government. Strange.
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Michael Barnes @barnesm31.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The cross over I never knew I wanted to see until now.
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tomwellborn3rd @wellborn.net · 01/10/2026
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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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