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@benarman.bsky.social
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Park cricketer, dad, husband, stoic, Moldova fan, wanderer of Arabia...

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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"Australia has become fluent in women’s survival strategies, but has very little to say about the men." Andrew Brown on failure of domestic violence responses by authorities/govt #auspol michaelwest.com.au/domestic-vio...
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Domestic violence crisis needs more than words and flowers - Michael West
So far this year, 52 women and 21 children have died from domestic violence in Australia, an epidemic that cannot be stopped by words alone.
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John Birmingham @birmo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
You know one way of stopping AI agents from accessing Australian government data would be by making them have MyGov accounts.
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Jars @benarman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The only difference I can see between Neoliberal Labor and the Liberal party is that they're kinder to workers. That's it. I had such hope for our country when they were elected. They rule for their donors and favoured lobby groups, not us. #auspol
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Doug Cameron @dncameron.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Long and fascinating article by Jason Koutsoukis in the Saturday Paper. Essential reading for those of us who care about working class Australians and their families. Those who oppose neoliberalism, militarism and sacrificing our sovereignty to the Trump regime.
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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 26/09/2026
Same stage. Same climate-security theme. Albanese spoke of Australia’s climate efforts; Miliband called for climate threats to shape national-security planning. What does that contrast reveal about Australia’s approach, David Spratt asks. #auspol #ClimateSecurity
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Albanese vs Miliband at Climate Week: it was no contest
Two leaders shared a Climate Week stage, but their speeches revealed contrasting approaches to climate leadership. Albanese spoke about Australia’s climate efforts; Miliband set out how governments must prepare for climate threats. The question is where Australia’s plan is.
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Jars @benarman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The ABC really has gone to crap 💩 This is news? #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
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The best way to clean your toilet and how often
Most stains present in toilet bowls are due to scale build-up from the water supply, and removing them requires more than your average toilet cleaning, experts explain.
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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 25/09/2026
Immigration dominates the headlines, but voters in focus groups keep returning to housing, bills and politicians who won't listen. The economic frustration behind One Nation's support is being overlooked, Kos Samaras writes. #auspol #Immigration
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Politicians keep talking about immigration. Voters keep talking about their bills
Housing costs, falling living standards and distrust of politicians are driving deep frustration among voters. Yet immigration dominates the national debate, obscuring the economic pressures behind the drift away from the major parties.
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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
David Pocock fires up on the $10K donation scheme running since 1999 just to get the PM's ear, reserved for people with ‘money & power’ “If you have cash, you can get access” “A nurse who’s lost their brother to a gambling addiction…she doesn’t have $10K” What a crock. Scrap it.
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Mark @mark-melbin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
“Rapists would face life imprisonment and repeat family violence offenders up to a decade behind bars under Ben Carroll’s tough-on-crime election pitch.” Devastating news for One Nation candidates. #auspol #OneNation #springst
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Blakandblack @blakandblack.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Former MasterChef host Melissa Leong has launched an extraordinary attack on One Nation leader Pauline Hanson, accusing her of fuelling racism and making Asian Australians feel unsafe.
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Kent Parkstreet @kentparkskeet.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The problem is men. #AusPol
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Three women killed in DV-related incidents in NSW in 24 hours
Three women have died in separate domestic violence-related incidents across New South Wales within 24 hours.
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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 18/09/2026
US submarines at Stirling, B-52s at Tindal and deeper military integration are locking Australia into Washington’s strategic priorities. Taiwan is not an Australian interest worth going to war over, Paul Keating writes. #auspol #AUKUS
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Disturbing admissions from US Republican Congressman
US submarines at HMAS Stirling, B-52 rotations through Tindal and deepening military integration are tying Australia ever more closely to US strategic priorities – including the prospect of war with China over Taiwan, Paul Keating writes.
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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The strangest irony: as a result of supporting this Nauru Airlines, to facilitate Australia’s offshore immigration apparatus, Home Affairs has been abetting illegal immigration. (Read to the end.)
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Jars @benarman.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The Israeli government is pure unadulterated evil. Its leader - the Pol Pot of the Middle East. 👇 Nothing to see here for Albanese and Wong - who invited the President of this genocidal state to our country - and its war criminal IDF soldiers. Sickening. #auspol www.youtube.com/watch?v=sS1X...
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The truth about Hamas and the hostages
YouTube video by Zeteo
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Not sure what is worse: - the huge and increasing presence of US bases, or - Albanese, Wong and Marles lying about them. It is now clear that the biggest national security threat to the Australian people is its own government. #EndAUKUS #auspol
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Jars @benarman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I was always found it cynical when people would say, 'they're both as bad as each other'. I can come to no other conclusion with this pathetic Labor government, which governs in secret in the interests of lobbyists and donors. Albo = Scomo #auspol
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Gekko @gekko.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
It’s relentless It’s going to stay that way until NOTHING is left IT’S GOING TO STAY THAT WAY UNTIL VOTERS RADICALLY CHANGE THE WHOLE BODY POLITIC Vote independent community representatives and hold them directly accountable in your community DEMAND BETTER
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Jars @benarman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Why are our taxes subsidising private health insurance profits - when those subsidies fail to take pressure off the public system (their stated goal)? Government by and for lobby groups. #auspol
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Debbie Northway 🇦🇺🦘🐨 @debbienorthway.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Reinforcing my decision not to vote Labor next election. #Greens #auspol #Australia
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Josh Bornstein @joshbornstein.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The antisemitism royal commission has failed. My column explains what happened:
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The antisemitism royal commission made two big mistakes — will these compromise their findings? - ABC Religion & Ethics
Australian society has been riven by a combustible debate about antisemitism, criticism of Israel and the boundaries of free speech. The royal commission could have provided the intellectual and moral...
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Jars @benarman.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Hard agree with this. Liberal and Labor governments govern in the interest of their donors and large corporations - not us. No wonder people want to park their vote somewhere else.
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Dr nick nobody @nicknobody.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Hey PM @albomp.bsky.social and Minister for Immigration @tonyburkemp.bsky.social how did 40 war criminals get visas to come to Australia, when the UN says their army is committing genocide? How did they pass the character test? #auspol
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Doug Cameron @dncameron.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
If you wonder why the arms industry and gambling industry get bi partisan political support watch #4Corners.The arms and gambling lobby have untold influence.That’s why you get piss weak gambling laws and $368b disasters such as AUKUS. The system sucks and we pay the price!
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•Marns🌿🍉🐸 @marnshibski.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Nick McKim’s response to criticism by Jeremy Leibler of McKim’s statement in the senate that Labor is captured by Zionist interests. What other conclusion can we come to?
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The Shovel @theshovel.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The new rating reflects the Australian Government's feelings today after the Israeli Defence Force said it would not open a criminal investigation into its fatal strike on aid workers, including Australian Zomi Frankcom. Read the full story: theshovel.com.au/2026/08/20/t...
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marque lawyers @marquelawyers.com.au · 20/08/2026
The Israeli Defence Force killed Australian aid worker Zomi Frankcom, investigated itself and has now cleared itself. All eyes on the Australian government. This is a test.
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Prof Samantha Thomas @docsamantha.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
“Minister I think many people take offence when the government just makes … stuff up.” #auspol
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Andrew Wilkie MP @andrewwilkiemp.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
MPs are elected to serve Australians, not the vested interests that profit from gambling harm: gambling companies, media companies & major sporting codes. These corporations are directly responsible for this harm & this Gov is complicit in allowing it to continue. #auspol #politas
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Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Labor: Nobody left behind The Labor government: The algorithm has decided that you are to be left behind #ABCFourCorners
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
“'There are people there who are not worthy of life. They shouldn’t live. They’re not even people,' Ben-Gvir added while calling for the targeted killings of Palestinians in Gaza." The face of Israel. Yet still the Australian govt provides arms and diplo cover for the #GazaGenocide. #auspol
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johnnyhead.bsky.social @johnnyhead.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Grace Kelley lost both hands during the filming of Dial M for Murder, her best friend Audrey chopped her hands off in a sign of solidarity. It’s Hollywood history folks, do your research!
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
For thousands of years, a solar eclipse has been a prophetic harbinger of a spectacular, epoch-making event. Just saying. #VoteBinface #Clacton
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rowecartoon.bsky.social @rowecartoon.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
political pokies
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Jars @benarman.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Love Kos Samaras' insights. Vic Liberal leader today dropped a policy to legislate weekly bin collections - a classic example of what he says they need to do in this article below. 👇 The Victorian election is about to get interesting! #auspol
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Kittylitter @kittylitter.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
#auspol thepoint.com.au/opinions/260... Until it can answer these two questions “what are you going to do about nuclear weapons on Australian territory” and “what are you going to do about nuclear waste management” it can’t proceed in good faith.
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SURF’s up, game’s up: AUKUS is between a rock and a hard place
It’s not often that Sarah Ferguson’s ABC current affairs program 7.30 can be compared with Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, the new meme for everything. Odysseus navigated between a rock (Scylla) and ...
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The Shovel @theshovel.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Governments that struggle to get through the day without claiming to care about the effects of gambling while simultaneously taking money from gambling companies will now have access to a confidential support hotline. theshovel.com.au/2026/08/10/n...
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New Hotline Launched To Help Governments Addicted to Gambling Revenue — The Shovel
Governments that struggle to get through the day without claiming to care about the effects of gambling while simultaneously taking money from gambling companies, will now have access to a confidentia...
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
"Remember the referendum in which Australians voted to create a Voice to Parliament for Israel? You don’t. It never happened. We got one anyway." #auspol michaelwest.com.au/the-segal-st...
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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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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
My @deepcutnews.bsky.social column - in the late 1970s neoliberal con artists unleashed their cancer in to society. Fuck them and the horse they rode on. www.deepcutnews.com/p/neoliberal...
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Neoliberalism has destroyed our social fabric in the name of profits – Greg Jericho
Privatisation has failed. It's time to put public services back into public hands
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Jars @benarman.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Albanese's gambling reforms - Piss Weak. Hard to expect much else from a government run by and for its corporate donors. #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Australian families are losing loved ones to gambling. The industry’s ‘I know nothing’ defence beggars belief | Zoe Daniel
Australians are the biggest gambling losers in the world. Labor’s feeble ‘reforms’ aren’t close to good enough
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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Here's @boganintel.bsky.social. 'The ABC’s intellectual and moral decline comes at the worst possible time'
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The ABC’s intellectual and moral decline comes at the worst possible time - The Shot
Of late, the ABC has been altering the way it sees the world around it. Bound by a national charter,...
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Jars @benarman.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Looks like the Victorian Labor government is in for a reckoning this November... #auspol
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Jars @benarman.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
#NeoliberalLabor Government by cashed-up interest groups. #auspol
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Many of us have called for the removal of Jillian Segal as Antisemitism Envoy. But don't lose sight of the larger threat to social cohesion: a spineless PM who funds and supports her efforts to weaponize antisemitism to suppress criticism of genocidal Israel. And never says no to the Israel lobby.
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Deranged
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Jars @benarman.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
My partner is a gambling addiction counsellor and deals daily with lives destroyed by this malignant industry. Unfortunately for them, and the rest of us, it's the gambling companies that butter the Labor Party's bread. #auspol
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Jars @benarman.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Another great read from our nation's premier journalist - @amyremeikis.bsky.social As ever, #NeoliberalLabor continues to do the very least it can do. www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...
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Time for Albanese to enter the fight against populism
There's a hunger for radical change in Australia, eventually Anthony Albanese is going to have to enter the fight.
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Jars @benarman.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
In these shitty times, InfoWars is literally the funniest thing happening at the moment. Want some belly laughs? Give them a follow and watch on the YouTubes! 👇
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Jars @benarman.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
It's called Genocide @albomp.bsky.social @senatorwong.bsky.social #auspol johnmenadue.com/post/2026/07...
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Genocide, the word Albanese and Wong will never utter
By refusing to name genocide in Gaza, the Labor government avoids the legal and moral obligations that would follow – but not the shame of complicity.
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Jars @benarman.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Are you listening @albomp.bsky.social? This is what leadership looks like. #auspol
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