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bystander1.bsky.social @bystander1.bsky.social · 3h

What next? Office building is reported to be in Spring Hill

bystander1.bsky.social @bystander1.bsky.social · 3h

"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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bystander1.bsky.social @bystander1.bsky.social · 4h

DANGEROUS STUFF💥 "With hours left before the funding expires, the Trump administration is pushing to direct more than $175m of the state department’s flagship human rights fund to a slate of awards that includes a huge $40m grant for an anti-communism fund, support for a group advancing white.."

theguardian.com

Trump administration diverts human rights funds to push far-right agenda abroad

Support such as for white Afrikaners and anti-communism reveals how US is redefining what qualifies as human rights

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bystander1.bsky.social @bystander1.bsky.social · 5h

Snippet of Karl's latest interview. Wonder if Karl made this disclosure (below). He sounds like a candidate to be a speaker @ CPAC NatCon Brisbane "" He previously served as the director of public affairs for the Zionist Federation and was a founding trustee of the Campaign Against Antisemitism."

x.com

Karl Stefanovic (@karlstefanovic) on X

You might remember that Oxford Union debate where British broadcaster and journalist Jonathan Sacerdoti argued that the West is right to be suspicious of Islam. He joins Karl tonight to unpack the ...

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bystander1.bsky.social @bystander1.bsky.social · 7h

"If you read the Firmus Grid marketing material sent around on Friday morning you’d be forgiven for thinking it had built dozens of artificial intelligence factories; had operated them for years and could roll out its modular HyberCube technology and sell compute to big United States tech companies"

afr.com

AI ‘chameleon’ Firmus seeks $44b valuation as investor pitch evolves

The truth is the Firmus story has been chopped and changed a lot along the way – and accordingly, the funds it is seeking to raise have changed too.

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bystander1.bsky.social @bystander1.bsky.social · 7h

Premier of Victoria is Ben Carroll - "Not surprisingly, he said, “it is”, before going on to describe the threat as “deeply alarming”. "“Any Americanisation of our judicial system should be deeply alarming to every single Victorian,” Carroll said."

theage.com.au

Doughnuts and Trump: Inside One Nation’s campaign launch

They threatened to throw two former premiers in jail, and flogged off “Pauline pothole detectors” but went low budget on food.

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bystander1.bsky.social @bystander1.bsky.social · 10h

"One Nation leader Pauline Hanson refused to make local policy promises for Geelong during a campaign visit, telling voters "I'm a Queenslander". As reported by the Geelong Advertiser, Senator Hanson deflected questions about local commitments while launching state election candidates."

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bystander1.bsky.social @bystander1.bsky.social · 11h

In Case you Missed It - One Nation's Policies - but where are the cost of living benefits for the "battlers" - did they miss them 🤔

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bystander1.bsky.social @bystander1.bsky.social · 11h

"The concerns about One Nation have also extended to how it raises funds to fight elections. Today, a fresh set of thorny questions have emerged. As the Herald’s Michael McGowan and Max Maddison report, One Nation received nearly $50,000 from one of Australia’s biggest labour-hire firms .."

smh.com.au

One Nation must start answering the hard questions about its finances

For someone so good at dishing it out, Pauline Hanson continues to demonstrate a remarkably thin skin when the blowtorch is pointed back in her direction.

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bystander1.bsky.social @bystander1.bsky.social · 11h

"One Nation received nearly $50,000 from one of Australia’s biggest labour-hire firms after the party performed an eleventh-hour reversal and supported legislation that gutted several legal challenges in which the company, WorkPac, was potentially exposed to $100 million in liabilities."

smh.com.au

A $100m liability, a $50k donation and One Nation’s sudden change of mind

Newly uncovered disclosures show labour hire giant WorkPac paid nearly $50,000 to One Nation, raising fresh questions about the party’s last-minute vote on 2021 industrial relations laws.

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bystander1.bsky.social @bystander1.bsky.social · 11h

Maybe the first sensible headline I've seen from the Murdoch media🤔

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bystander1.bsky.social @bystander1.bsky.social · 12h

"Earlier this month, Germany’s far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) won 43.8 per cent of the vote in Saxony-Anhalt, a state where foreign nationals make up 7.9 per cent of the population – roughly half the national average."

johnmenadue.com

The immigrants leading the anti-immigrant right

Across Europe and the US, some of the loudest anti-immigration politicians have migrant roots, migrant spouses or family histories shaped by migration. The contradiction has done little to slow their ...

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bystander1.bsky.social @bystander1.bsky.social · 12h

"When the Reserve Bank of Australia lifted its cash rate on Tuesday, with more rate rises in the pipeline, it did so ostensibly to combat an inflation rate swollen by petrol prices and gas bills, not by avaricious wage claims."

theguardian.com

The interest rate rise is the wrong medicine and an even worse alibi | Yanis Varoufakis

Inflation is again being used as an excuse for acts of vandalism on some of Australia’s important institutions

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bystander1.bsky.social @bystander1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Another day, another One Nation fundraiser - and another gag order🤐🙄 Maybe Angus Aiken, one of Pauline's big donors (the one that got to go with Gina to meet Trump when he stumped up with a ON donation), will host at his Vaucluse shack?

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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The funniest thing about the FlyDubai story is watching the entire internet collectively stare at it and go: Oh, this fucking bullshit again Via @skwawkbox.org

thecanary.co

FlyDubai false-flag falls apart more by the hour

The funniest thing about the FlyDubai story is watching the entire internet collectively stare at it and go: Oh, this fucking bullshit again

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bystander1.bsky.social @bystander1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

What a silly woman. Stupid headline grabbing statement. How does she propose to do that? Via a Trump ICE round up & dump method perhaps? In this country there has to be a trial - a Judge/jury decides guilt - a Judge hands down a sentence - not Pauline Hanson She's unfit for public office.

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bystander1.bsky.social @bystander1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"The notion that criticism of Israel is inherently antisemitic has a documented history of failure in the courts, yet Australia’s education, health and arts institutions continue to be cowed into submission, writes Paul Begley."

independentaustralia.net

Australia's institutions yet to follow court rulings on antisemitism

Australia’s courts stand tall on antisemitism while our universities, health and arts institutions continue to be cowed into submission.

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bystander1.bsky.social @bystander1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Experts say the next three months are more likely than usual to be wet and windy – due to a combination of large-scale weather patterns and the “subtle” impact of a supercharged El Niño – increasing the risk of flooding."

theguardian.com

Two million people in England unaware their properties are at risk of flooding

Environment Agency warns residents of 6m at-risk properties to prepare for wet and windy three months ahead

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bystander1.bsky.social @bystander1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Over the past months we have seen Opposition Leader Angus Taylor rail against everything from renewable energy targets, to flag burning, to teaching boys respect in schools, to woke building regulations. He even accused Cricket Australia of 'woke moralising.’"

independentaustralia.net

Angus Taylor's culture wars won't save the Coalition

Angus Taylor harping on about wokeness and culture war politics could drive more voters to One Nation.

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bystander1.bsky.social @bystander1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"One Nation's Narracan candidate Ben Lucas .... ""I don't know if you're picking up on a theme here with One Nation, but we don't need to overlord and control everything — the industry are the subject matter experts," he said."

abc.net.au

One Nation makes election promise to revive Victoria's timber sector

One Nation has promised to resume native timber logging in Victoria if it wins the state election, but the party would not say if it has costed the policy.

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bystander1.bsky.social @bystander1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

How many more are there? Are Australian companies being used as "Crash Dummies", or is this also happening elsewhere? "In June, an OpenAI agent hacked into a New South Wales state government department and accessed historical non-public data on bushfires without authorisation."

theguardian.com

OpenAI disclose another hack on government department in Australia

Attack accessing historical data on bushfires occurred in June but not disclosed by the tech company until Thursday

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Lizzy Schofield @musictplove.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Independent media once again reporting on the slippery slope to our democracy fracturing that everyone needs to know. #auspol

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bystander1.bsky.social @bystander1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Four Corners: Defenceless is reported by Elise Worthington and goes to air Monday, October 5 at 8:30pm on ABC TV and ABC iview.

abc.net.au

Defenceless

Four Corners is the home of Australian investigative journalism.

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bystander1.bsky.social @bystander1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

While the Coalition and One Nations are out yelling/demanding Albanese to overturn the ATO "This credit card ban was initiated by the ATO in response to the Reserve Bank of Australia’s (RBA) economy-wide card surcharge ban."

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bystander1.bsky.social @bystander1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

What could possible go wrong 🧐🤔 "By installing the tech billionaires Elon Musk and Palmer Luckey to advisory roles in a Pentagon project about the future of warfare, the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, bestowed extraordinary influence on two of Maga’s most significant campaign donors .."

theguardian.com

Hegseth puts the future of warfare in the hands of major Maga donors

Installing tech billionaires Elon Musk and Palmer Luckey to Pentago defense board raises conflict-of-interest concerns

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bystander1.bsky.social @bystander1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"On the morning that Premier Ben Carroll met with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese under grey Melbourne skies to bring forward plans to build a rail line to the airport, Opposition Leader Jess Wilson posted a video committing a future Coalition government to the same thing."

theage.com.au

Call that pork-barrelling? Hold my beer, says Jess Wilson

The Coalition has promised to build a new airport rail station in Keilor East. Pity no one told the transport spokesman who said “there is no public-interest case for it”.

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bystander1.bsky.social @bystander1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"IT IS MORE than half a century since I reported on the great national drama of Watergate. President Richard Nixon’s “dirty tricks” broke the rules for free elections and put U.S. democracy to a critical test."

independentaustralia.net

JEFF MCMULLEN: American angst

Around the world, there is growing consternation about the state of U.S. democracy. The angst is most intense in Washington, DC.

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bystander1.bsky.social @bystander1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"A senior Albanese government climate adviser has challenged the state approval of the largest coalmining development in New South Wales’s history, arguing “climate change isn’t someone else’s problem”.

theguardian.com

Matt Kean warns climate crisis ‘isn’t someone else’s problem’ as largest coal project in NSW history greenlit

Exclusive: Climate Change Authority chair says planning commission did not account for climate-related economic damage in NSW

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bystander1.bsky.social @bystander1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"Former ABC broadcaster Margaret Throsby is facing a long road to recovery after breaking several bones and suffering extensive head injuries in an e-bike collision with two teenagers riding a “fat bike” along a popular coastal walking track in the Illawarra region."

smh.com.au

‘She’s in a lot of pain’: ABC legend Margaret Throsby confronts new injuries after e-bike collision

The former broadcaster is in hospital and coming to terms with the extent of her injuries, her daughter has said.

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bystander1.bsky.social @bystander1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"“The school was founded in 2023 and funded by the Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney, inspired by a conservative political and religious movement in the United States to revive liberal arts-style education. It is part of the US-based Chesterton Schools Network of 60 Catholic classical high schools."

smh.com.au

Hartford College: All-boys Sydney private school to close

Hartford College was the first in the country to offer a liberal arts curriculum. But four years after opening, it will close its doors.

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bystander1.bsky.social @bystander1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"Steven Levitsky, the Harvard professor of government and the co-author of How Democracies Die, said: “Conspiracies are page one of the repressive playbook,” noting that Mao, Stalin, Putin and other authoritarian leaders have historically launched attacks on enemies by floating conspiracies."

theguardian.com

‘Page one of repressive playbook’: critics warn of Trump’s conspiratorial attacks

President’s outlandish and extensive conspiracy theories endanger US freedoms, health and science, experts say

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bystander1.bsky.social @bystander1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"The barrage of racist and generally offensive commentaries on social media followed Germany’s 1-0 defeat by Greece last Sunday, in the Nations League, marking the first time Greece had beaten Germany."

theguardian.com

Jürgen Klopp disgusted by claims his Germany team are ‘not white enough’

Jürgen Klopp has reacted with disgust to a social media debate questioning whether the Germany team he is in the process of forming are ‘white enough’

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bystander1.bsky.social @bystander1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

David Rowe - AFR 🤣 the Trump and Gina balloons Gina Air - Ashby Express 😂

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bystander1.bsky.social @bystander1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

‘Do a deal’: Pauline, Angus and Matt to square off at conservative gathering "One Nation and the Coalition have been urged to make their case to voters then “tally it all up and do deal” after the election."

news.com.au

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the Juice Media @thejuicemedia.com · 01/10/2026

For our friends in Aotearoa-New Zealand as they head to an election on Sat 7 Nov 🇳🇿 👉 Make sure you’re enrolled to vote: https:/:vote.nz 🚨 Enrolments close October 25!

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bystander1.bsky.social @bystander1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

‘Please explain’: Hanson left baffled by Shoebridge’s ‘turtle on a post’ insult. For someone who purports to be a rural champion, she should know, but let me "please explain" it for you When you see that turtle on a post, four things are immediately clear

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