Reposted by @beldame.bsky.socialJohn C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 08/10/2026My least popular opinion remains that ethno-essentiallist attacks on multicultural identity (as in, It's Not Real) is an import from American racial frameworks. 68310
Reposted by @beldame.bsky.socialShane Carrow @shanecarrow.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I was already probably going to break from 15 years of voting Green and return to Labor at the next election, but this is the final straw for me www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...theage.com.auThe Greens’ defence red lines: No weapons for Ukraine, curtail the US allianceDavid Shoebridge believes the Greens can win votes by campaigning to scrap the AUKUS nuclear-powered submarine pact and legalise recreational cannabis. 6222
Reposted by @beldame.bsky.socialEmma Jacobs @emmavj.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Keep thinking about burnham saying he prefers poetry over fiction (sorry not to think more about fiscal balances) 4232
Reposted by @beldame.bsky.socialIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026From Politico. That motion is absolute fucking poison and by failing to stand up to it, the Greens have allowed that poison to seep into the party. 4436873
Reposted by @beldame.bsky.socialThe Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com · 02/10/2026Governments in rich nations tend to spend more on health. Do we really want them to spend less?theconversation.comAre Australians really overtaxed? It depends what you think government should do 0139
Reposted by @beldame.bsky.socialInside Ukraine 🇺🇦 @insideukraine.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Andy Burnham’s government is looking for a British alternative to U.S. tech firm Palantir for major NHS and Ministry of Defence contracts as part of its “Buy British” push. 67028
Reposted by @beldame.bsky.socialPossum @pollytics.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Are they the same? CGT/Neg gearing reform? Changing the Stage 3 tax cuts to be proportional across the income spectrum instead of the top 10%? Funding the renewables transition instead of sabotaging it? Free Tafe? Bulk Billing expansion? There is no uniparty - just stuff you disagree with 192
Reposted by @beldame.bsky.socialPossum @pollytics.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Because the Greens aren't the government and don't have demographic representative weight substantial enough to be dictating government policy. If we go down this route, we end up like Israel - where small parties dominate government policy and direction. Doesn't that work well eh. Time to grow up.. 354518
beldame.bsky.social @beldame.bsky.social · 27/09/2026This is refreshing, to say the least. Bravo Andy Burnham. 🙌 000
Reposted by @beldame.bsky.socialRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.theintercept.comDoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam 6594022411830
Reposted by @beldame.bsky.socialThe Saturday Paper @thesaturdaypaper.com.au · 22/09/2026Jason Koutsoukis on how News24, the rebranded Sky News, is driving the rise of One Nation: trib.al/xHXZ7Mztrib.alInside the Murdoch television deal driving One NationA content deal that came out of frustration when Lachlan Murdoch and Bruce Gordon failed to take over Network Ten is now pushing regional voters to Pauline Hanson. 0913
Reposted by @beldame.bsky.socialGaby Hinsliff @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social · 05/09/2026I’ve been a bit quiet on here lately, and this was why www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comLosing a parent is a bewildering, lonely experience. Here are the things I wish I had known before | Gaby HinsliffThere’ll be exhaustion, love tinged with occasional rage, even moments of black humour. But my mum would want me to tell you: don’t be afraid, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff 13467591
Reposted by @beldame.bsky.socialEvonomics: The Next Evolution of Economics @evonomics.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Venture capitalist @nickhanauer.bsky.social: "Since 1975, roughly $79 trillion has been redistributed upward from the bottom 90% to the top 10% — not through theft, but through the steady accumulation of rules written to favor capital over labor, shareholders over workers, assets over wages." 196
Reposted by @beldame.bsky.socialJim Chalmers @jimchalmers.bsky.social · 02/09/2026GET THE FACTS: New numbers just released show that workers’ share of national income is the highest in a decade. More than half of national income now goes to workers, under Labor. Under the Liberals and Nationals it was less than half. 2289
Reposted by @beldame.bsky.socialPossum @pollytics.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Hi @australiainstitute.org.au I appreciate that few are across the mechanics of our energy industry, and may have misunderstood what the PM said at NatCab. However this piece was published AFTER Bowen's clarification. It is clear disinformation - will you remove it? thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...thepoint.com.auAI data centres are about to become Australia's newest gas backed pollutersNational Cabinet has just made its choice on how Australia's AI boom gets powered. The Albanese Government went into this week's meeting insisting new data centres will be powered by renewable energy ... 74516
Reposted by @beldame.bsky.socialPossum @pollytics.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Sad trombone for political nihilists who can't read national cabinet releases properly. www.afr.com/policy/energ...afr.com‘No carve-outs’ for Queensland on data centres, says BowenEnergy Minister Chris Bowen says states will be able to use non-renewable power for data centres only if they can prove it would be cheaper for household bills. 33111
beldame.bsky.social @beldame.bsky.social · 24/08/2026“What catches the eye is the conception of politics underneath the words. Society barely appears. There are identities, enemies, solidarity and declarations of ideological allegiance, but very little sense of the material relationships through which most people actually experience power” Excellent. 010
Reposted by @beldame.bsky.socialmariecolemanao.bsky.social @mariecolemanao.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Thread NDIS: thinking back- designed for a particular seriously disabled popn. One often in residential care. States invited to costshare. States immediately shut all their systems down for all disability types. 73111
Reposted by @beldame.bsky.socialTristan Stewart-Robertson @srtristan.bsky.social · 15/08/2026And the full link is as brutal as the graphic.newscord.orgJason Arday told the press he was at his limit. It answered with 188 more articles. He is dead at 41.A full census of the 249 articles fifteen national outlets published about Jason Arday in 22 days, with the last day reconstructed hour by hour. Every article listed and linked. 26975379
Reposted by @beldame.bsky.socialMartin D.B. Brown @martindbbrown.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Nods. 422564
Reposted by @beldame.bsky.socialDaniel Villar @daniel-a-villar.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Reminds me of a line from (I think) Stuart Macintyre’s Concise History of Australia, that Chifley was voted out in 1949 due to the resentment over high petrol prices by people who couldn’t afford a bus fare when he’d entered office 121
Reposted by @beldame.bsky.socialAustralian Labor @australianlabor.bsky.social · 03/08/202642 years ago this month, Susan Ryan's Sex Discrimination Act came into effect. This is what nation-changing Labor reforms look like. 1234
Reposted by @beldame.bsky.socialCo-operative Party @coopparty.party.coop · 30/07/202680% of England's largest care home providers are owned or backed by private equity. Every pound taken out for investors is a pound not spent on pay, staffing or care. That's why we're calling for care firms owned and run as co-ops to play a bigger part in the UK's social care system. 024
Reposted by @beldame.bsky.socialDee Madigan @deemadigan.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Always enjoy Labor Nat Conf. And this was a cracker. A few thousand people giving up a weekend to argue in public about how to make things better. Some of it I agree with. Some I don’t. But turning up beats sniping from the sidelines. Every time. 134711
Reposted by @beldame.bsky.socialSarah Richards @sarahrichards.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Many Londoncentric voices seem remarkably sensitive about meaningful national thunder being reclaimed by the North. Burnham’s touched a nerve - and history’s on his side: placesjournal.org/article/manc... “Rightly understood, Manchester is as great a human exploit as Athens.” - Benjamin Disraeli. 011
Reposted by @beldame.bsky.socialRobert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Agreed. How Burnham fares remains to be seen, but having leaders who've experienced defeat & tried to learn from it; who are willing to talk about what they got wrong; who've been in politics for more than 5 minutes & whose position has evolved used to be normal. It's not some Scooby-style unmasking 1341767
Reposted by @beldame.bsky.socialHetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Why it matters that @andyburnham.bsky.social is an English Lit graduate. Thoughtful piece from @tanjilrashid.bsky.social magazine.newstatesman.com/2026/07/01/a... 3357
Reposted by @beldame.bsky.socialAndrew Faith @andrewfaith.bsky.social · 19/07/2026According to Andrew Bragg, Australia is the world’s highest taxing country. Among nations tracked by the OECD, Australia's overall tax-to-GDP ratio sits below the OECD average, ranking roughly in the middle-to-lower tier of developed countries. I’d believe the OECD #insiders 1176
Reposted by @beldame.bsky.socialJennifer Williams @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social · 18/07/2026AB, a 🧵 11274110
Reposted by @beldame.bsky.socialJim Chalmers @jimchalmers.bsky.social · 09/07/2026GET THE FACTS: Australia’s gross debt as a share of the economy is lower than any major advanced economy. Gross debt in the last financial year was almost $200 billion lower than what we inherited. 217531
Reposted by @beldame.bsky.socialKS_1968 @karenroberts.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Brilliant. And I really want to sing these at Trump. Especially the English one. 😂😂😂 930667
beldame.bsky.social @beldame.bsky.social · 02/07/2026PSA: if your article or post includes the phrases “sit with that for a minute” or “let that sink in”, I will assume you have used AI to write it and will immediately stop reading. 000
beldame.bsky.social @beldame.bsky.social · 28/06/2026Here’s what a real Aussie icon says. Onya, Hoges! “I’ve always had a very simple rule: What makes a good Australian is wanting to be one. “How can it be a monoculture? We’re all migrants, except the Aboriginals, who as far as we know have been [here] for 60,000 years.” www.afr.com/politics/fed...afr.com‘She’s a pelican’: Paul Hogan says no thanks to Hanson’s praisePauline Hanson described the actor and Norman Gunston as ‘essential features of Australian monoculture’. Hogan says the One Nation leader is living in the past. 012
Reposted by @beldame.bsky.socialStay European #RejoinEU 🇪🇺 #FBPE @stayeuropean.bsky.social · 22/01/2026"If the question at the centre of British politics is “who broke Britain?”, let’s be clear and unequivocal. The four horsemen of Britain’s apocalypse are deindustrialisation, privatisation, austerity and Brexit." - Andy Burnhamtheguardian.com'Manchesterism' is building a better politics and a strong economy. The whole country should be inspired | Andy BurnhamWe are the fastest-growing city-region economy in the UK, proof that it is possible to use public funds effectively while reducing crisis spending, says Andy Burnham, mayor of Greater Manchester 22412
beldame.bsky.social @beldame.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Labor today passed the first meaningful tax reform that explicitly and preferentially targeted support to the <90% of us that rely on income from work in OVER 40 YEARS. Yet it seems the BlueSky crowd, while parading as the righteous left, and vanguard against the far right, has nothing to say. 🤷♀️ 000
beldame.bsky.social @beldame.bsky.social · 25/06/2026This is so self indulgent and, given current politics, dangerous. Why not have a plebiscite about immigration numbers then? Or to reverse tax reform? Where does it stop? We have a system of government. You don’t undermine it when you don’t get your way. It’s all about TAI raising money. Shameful. 000
beldame.bsky.social @beldame.bsky.social · 25/06/2026static.klipy.comSister Sings 'Oh Happy Day!'ALT: Sister Sings 'Oh Happy Day!' 000
Reposted by @beldame.bsky.socialJosiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 24/06/2026🔴 How Andy Burnham’s ‘Manchesterism’ Could Really Reshape Britain A new report from key backers of Britain’s likely next Prime Minister sets out what a Burnham Government might look like bylinetimes.com/2026/06/24/h...bylinetimes.comHow Andy Burnham's 'Manchesterism' Could Really Reshape BritainA new report from key backers of Britain’s likely next Prime Minister sets out what a Burnham government might look like 92913
beldame.bsky.social @beldame.bsky.social · 23/06/2026And yet seeks to be prime minister of a multicultural Australia. 🤔 Multiculturalism is a fact. We are a multicultural nation. We are all recent migrants or the descendents of recent migrants other than Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. And they are not of “one nation” either. 000
Reposted by @beldame.bsky.socialDerek gendvil @derekbshelby.bsky.social · 23/06/2026R.I.P. Alan Greenspan: You were charming, thoughtful, powerful, and wrong open.substack.com/pub/robertre...open.substack.comR.I.P. Alan Greenspan: You were charming, thoughtful, powerful, and wrongHis insistence on financial deregulation brought the economy to its knees 124
Reposted by @beldame.bsky.socialGeorge Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 22/06/2026The Starmer government was one of the most left-leaning we’ve had that was almost never identified as such. 295461121
Reposted by @beldame.bsky.socialstranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 22/06/2026KPMG’s Martin Sheppard ends up scolded after treating Senate with contempt insisting he’ll keep records of KPMG’s latest scandal secret O’Neill “You have not had the courtesy or respect to show us the evidence of which you keep absolving yourself. That is your choice!”💥 #auspol 1317968
beldame.bsky.social @beldame.bsky.social · 21/06/2026Yep. All tactics and no values. Time to get rid of the wide-boys in shiny suits with PPE degrees and no working class friends, who have dominated the ranks of advisors and backroom strategists, and have led Labo(u)r leaders down a dead end path for 30 years. 000
Reposted by @beldame.bsky.socialIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Reform’s problem, and it is a very significant one, is that women vote open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/... 731270367
Reposted by @beldame.bsky.socialThe Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Either masterful trolling or an astonishing coincidence for the French to arrange for a humiliating instrument of surrender to be signed at Versailles. 30431128
