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Rob

@crigs.bsky.social
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I am interested in Climate Change, SF (hard) environment, gardening, cooking, and beaches. In many ways an old school left social democrat but politically the climate emergency is my overarching political concern. Blocking no profile, no posts followers.

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Rob @crigs.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It's barbaric.
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Rob @crigs.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This brings to mind his deathless quote " I like fighting Tories. That's what I do." Which in 2012 almost meant nothing but being pals with someone who aids and abets the far right in 2026 is the final comment on Albanese's particular brand of bullshit.
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Rob @crigs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Could it also be that the era of inflation busting cheap goods coming out of China is not factored into inflation targets? 2.5 to 3% inflation might be an historical anomaly.
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Rob @crigs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Are average Australian homes really worth a million dollars?
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Rob @crigs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Would it be fair to say the Greens have a pretty steady 14%? And would it also be fair to say that the ALP will be losing seats to the Libs, ON and the Greens?
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Rob @crigs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/environment/... I don't think we are getting there fast enough. Only ¼ of cars sold are EVs. It should be half at least. It is interesting where the buyers are though. "Tarneit, in Melbourne’s west, was the individual postcode with the highest uptake."
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An EV sold every 100 seconds: Australian demand for electric cars more than doubles
A record 157,957 new EVs were sold nationally between January and June, according to the Electric Vehicle Council
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Rob @crigs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We can't build affordable housing or the infrastructure to support it but we can sure build data centres and the infrastructure that supports it damn quick.
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Rob @crigs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"On every issue, Labor has done the least it can do." www.deepcutnews.com/p/this-labor...
deepcutnews.com
This Labor government is the Ed Sheeran of Australian politics – Amy Remeikis
There is more opportunity to push back against toxic centrism
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Rob @crigs.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
As a Victorian, an Australian and someone of the Australian left, I find myself conflicted. I can't see the ALP winning. I can't see some sort of ramshackle left coalition governing. I CAN see a series of short term Lib/PHON/PHON defector coalitions that sink PHON nationally. #auspol
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Rob @crigs.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
As a Victorian, an Australian and someone of the Australian left, I find myself conflicted. I can't see the ALP winning. I can't see some sort of ramshackle left coalition governing. I can see a series of short term Lib/PHON/PHON defector coalitions that sink PHON nationally.
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Kevin Bonham @kevinbonham.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is just Barnaby freelancing and showing that any government propped up by One Nation will be chaos even in the negotiation phase. The average One Nation voter does not care less about Barnaby's rural boondoggles. www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
smh.com.au
Joyce names price of One Nation backing Angus Taylor
Liberal MPs suggested Barnaby Joyce was making up the supposed talks about a hung parliament and believe his behaviour and public appearances were increasingly erratic.
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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 27/09/2026
Trump told the UN he could “annihilate” Iran. He did not explicitly mention nuclear weapons, but the power to order their use rests with one president. The world cannot afford to dismiss the danger, Connie Peck writes. #Iran #NuclearWeapons
pearlsandirritations.com
Trump's nuclear threats against Iran must be taken seriously
Trump stood before the United Nations and threatened to “annihilate” Iran. With the authority to order a nuclear strike resting in the hands of one US president, the consequences of treating such threats as mere bluster could be catastrophic.
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Rob @crigs.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I've come to the same conclusion except it would be tactical nukes. The conventional bombing campaign against Iran has run its course so too has economic sanctions.
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Rob @crigs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It's like Germans turning on Hitler because you couldn't get a decent strudel in 1945.
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Rob @crigs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The AFL seems to be getting the pre game entertainment about right the last few years.
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Michael Taylor @ausindimedia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
As Trump is threatening to annihilate a country Albo can’t wait to get a selfie with the guy. theaimn.net/someone-wasn...
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Someone Wasn’t Reading the Room
There are occasions in international politics when a photograph says rather more than the people in it probably intended. The United Nations General Assembly is one of those occasions. World leaders gather in New York [...]
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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
AUS PM Anthony Albanese didn't have to get a selfie with a man found liable for sexual abuse. He chose to do so. Maybe Scott Morrison's wife Jenny could explain to him why this is so offensive. 😔 #auspol #VAW
US President Donald Trump and Australian PM Anthony Albanese
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Rob @crigs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I hope he gets excoriated for this when he gets back. He probably won't though because the Australian political class refuses to admit that we allied with a failed state led by a demented, morally repugnant, conman.
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Rob @crigs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Except for Anthony Albanese.
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Rob @crigs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Is there no limit to Albanese's obsequiousness when it comes to Trump? Albanese is always going on about being underestimated his whole life. It looks as though public opinion was pretty much on the money in considering him to be a politically and morally insubstantial nobody. He has no core.
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Sirius Star 🍉 🍉 🍉 @siriusstar3.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Good to catch up with a rapist, felon, pedo, murderer of 120 children, hey anthony conman? No low is too low. #Auspol
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Sharty Mcscrote (Sandy D AU) 🍉🍉 @shartymcscrote.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Anthony Albanese. The John Howard of Ed Sheerans #WeakButStillAnnoyinglyRacist #TheSkidMarksWontWashOut #auspol
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Kent Parkstreet @kentparkskeet.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
He’s done it again. I can’t vote for a party led by a man who takes cheery selfies with a rapist who just threatened to annihilate a nation. I just can’t. This is sickening and embarrassing. Albanese makes us all look foolish. #AusPol
Selfie, taken by Albanese, with Trump, both grinning like imbeciles.
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Rob @crigs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Australian PM got a selfie with the blood thirsty maniac on the same day. It's one of those classic elite versus popular opinion scenarios because the media here in Australia is totally ignoring it.
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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Our Prime Minister tagging in his selfie mate, an adjudicated rapist and felon.
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Royce Kurmelovs @roycerk2.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I'm sure this will go down well.
Photo of Anthony Albanese and Donald Trump together, smiling, on the sidelines at the UN General Assembly.
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Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Albo really is a *massive* disappointment and national embarrassment. Cozying up to a convicted felon and warlord trashing the law, human rights, environment, climate, and global economy, for a vanity pic!
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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Is Anthony Albanese TRYING to lose the next Federal election?!?! #auspol #USA
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Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This photo reminds me of when Neville Chamberlain did a cheery selfie with Hitler in Berlin, and all the threats of aggression and belligerent posturing magically went away and Germany returned to it's normal peaceful ways
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6 News Australia @6newsau.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has posted a selfie with US President Donald Trump, after the pair spoke on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly Trump has previously strongly praised Albanese, saying last year that the PM has "done a fantastic job"
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
When Donald Trump celebrates war profiteering, peddles conspiracy theories, threatens Iranians with annihilation, calls for a coup and slanders the ICC, what does our Prime Minister do? He takes a selfie with him. Seriously cringeworthy stuff.
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Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Apart from anything else I wouldn’t be actively advertising my ‘Six Degrees of Jeffrey Epstein’ score
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Alice Grundy @alicektg.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Interesting choice from the PM given the popularity levels for the US Prez in Australia. Australia Institute polling in May found 52% of respondents said that, out of Trump, Putin and Xi, Trump was the biggest threat to world peace. cdn.australiainstitute.org.au/2026/05/1802...
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Margaret Rose @margaretrose.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Albanese likes creepy people. Kyle Sandilands, Jillian Segal, Donald Trump. His continued display of his low moral compass is sickening. He is repulsive to me. #VoteHannahFergusonGraylander
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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Please someone write again about Albanese's peerless political instincts
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Rob @crigs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Unfit to lead anything but the walking dead liberal party.
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Rob @crigs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Brisbane is a very arrogant team. I want to see them pants by Freo.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Two men who regard their own voters with contempt
Screenshot of Albanese’s obsequious selfie photo of he and Trump
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Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
What a brilliant example for little Aussie kids. Even if you grow up in public housing you can still aspire to stand next to a corrupt pathological narcissist, compulsive liar, sex abusing bully who’s destroying the world order, the global economy and the environment, smile and get a selfie
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Rob @crigs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
You never really fail or face consequences if you're a Liberal. Once you realise that it all makes sense.
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marque lawyers @marquelawyers.com.au · 23/09/2026
guaranteed vote winner
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The Chaser @chaser.com.au · 23/09/2026
"It's not fair, I give him everything and Mamdani gives him nothing. It should be me." chaser.com.au/general-news...
A photoshopped image of a sad Anthony Albanese in bed scrolling pictures of Zohran Mamdani and Donald Trump.

Chaser satirical headline: "Albanese wishes Trump would look at him the way he looks at Mamdani"
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Rob @crigs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We will end up being the last ally of America. The last scared outpost of a dead empire.
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Rob @crigs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I love his line about being underestimated his whole life. Maybe everyone was right all along.
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Rob @crigs.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
If there is any sort of economic lobby be it fossil fuels, gambling or even farmed salmon-! they piss their pants and roll over. Everytime.
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Rob @crigs.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
They've taken up the space the liberals vacated.
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Rob @crigs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Brownlow night is still reassuringly naff. #brownlow #afl
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Rob @crigs.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I hate Hanson with every fibre of my being but her comment was calculated to start the sort of conversation you can see on this thread about Albanese's hypocritical lack of action on housing. He loves his origin myth. It might be the only thing he believes in.
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Douglas Ogg @dougogg.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I hate to sound like a Luddite, but I agree with this.
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Rob @crigs.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Let's face it the Coalition and the far right get a boost from the algorithms of social media.
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