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Gekko @gekko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Let me get this straight .. If VIC voters vote for a govt where Labor and Greens have a majority to form govt, Ben Carroll (Labor) would force a new election to try to overthrow voters? Well .. fuck you Carroll!
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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 30/09/2026
An EV sold every 100 seconds: Australian demand for electric cars more than doubles
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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 * Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Australians are buying electric vehicles at record levels, with sales more than doubling year on year and occurring at a rate equivalent to one EV sold every 100 seconds. A record 157,957 EV sales occurred between January and June – an 117% increase on the same period last year, according to a new report released by the Electric Vehicle Council. Continue reading...
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We (rightly) talk a lot about gas, but we should not forget we export a hell of a lot more coal and most of it is for burning for electricity rather than being used to produce steel. And all of it destroys the planet. #NoNewMines
Charts showing annual exports of thermal and coking coal and LNG since  1960-61

In 2024-25:

Thermal coal: 204,847ky
Coking coal: 146,987kt
LNG: 79,128kt
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Anti-vaxxers deserve your total contempt.
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Matthew Carter @dancingbeavers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This was a great listen: definitely need to take a look into Bell Hooks.
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Betting, Books & Blokes, with Luke Bateman
Podcast Episode · With David Pocock · 12 August · 41min
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Matthew Carter @dancingbeavers.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#Auspol
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Antfarmer @antfarmer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A story you don’t read about coal mines 😏
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Concern? How about arrest the f*cker?? Cripes. If you or I hacked Medicare, the AFP would bash down our doors. AI does it? Oopsies! I am concerned! www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Anthony Albanese says OpenAI agent hacked Medicare and he expressed ‘extreme concern’ to Sam Altman
Prime minister says he told chief executive he was disappointed it had taken company ‘way too long’ to inform government of breach
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White Rose Resistance @whiteroseresistance.org · 22/09/2026
So confident yet so wrong
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punterspolitics.bsky.social @punterspolitics.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A Senate report shows nearly three-quarters of a $500M+ government grant program went to Labor-held seats. When Senator David Pocock tries to table the evidence proving it, the government blocks him from even putting it on the record. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJ-p...
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Labor Just BLOCKED THIS Report. So I Read it. Here's What They Hope You Don't See | Punters Politics
YouTube video by Punter's Politics
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Rex Patrick @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“There’s no avoiding the scale of our responsibility – or the cost of inaction,” says @albomp.bsky.social, the leader of a government that readily and repeatedly approves new, or extends exisiting, fossil fuel projects. 🤷‍♂️ 1/2 #duplicitous #climate #auspol
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No avoiding the cost of inaction on climate, Anthony Albanese says in New York
Before United Nations meeting, prime minister says Australians knows the impact of global heating as well as anyone
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*Equip Goggles* @nikasneko.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
2012: Streaming is actually pretty good *puts away pirate hat*
2026: Exclusive content locked to certain subscriptions *picks back up pirate hat"
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Stop calling it a climate problem. Call it what it is: organized greed. The planet isn’t dying. It’s being killed for profit. The killers have names. And boardrooms. #ClimateJustice #StopEcocide
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K a s s i e D e e @kassiedee.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Countries don’t have rights to exist. People do.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"Can someone explain why – in an economy in which the central bank has decided we need almost 700,000 people to be unemployed – those people live in such dreadful poverty that it can make you up to 10 times more likely to die in the prime of your life?" www.theguardian.com/business/gro...
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In such a rich country, it is shameful how many Australians on jobseeker are dying in desperate poverty | Greg Jericho
Lifting the abysmally low jobseeker rate to the poverty line would save thousands of lives
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 15/09/2026
"If we had started this transition 40 years ago, maybe there was room for these delaying, slower tactics to reduce emissions." "Carbon offsets should be the last option." The Hon Senator Rosa Galvez at today's #ClimateIntegrity Summit 2026 @senrosagalvez.bsky.social
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
‘It’s the best feeling’: how Copenhagen gave cyclists a green wave. “Traffic lights are synchronised so a rush-hour cyclist at 20km/h can catch green lights all the way.” If you want people to choose not to drive, make the non-driving trip better & easier for them. It’s as simple as that, really.
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‘It’s the best feeling’: how Copenhagen gave cyclists a green wave
Traffic lights are synchronised so a rush-hour cyclist at 20km/h can catch green lights all the way
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Matthew Carter @dancingbeavers.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
End the 10 session cap on Medicare rebated psychology services (with an increase not a decrease). #auspol
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Increase the psychology 10-session Medicare cap
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Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
If @albomp.bsky.social’s gov is going to stymie climate action for the sake of foreign corporations (see last post), they sure as hell better start working out how to fund climate disaster mitigation. #Auspol We will not accept the excuse “We can’t afford to help.” theshot.net.au/uncategorize...
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Governments (and their corporate owners) have no safety net plans for our climate permacrisis - The Shot
Australians are walking a tightrope. Imagine a long line of us traversing a chasm. Some of us – not many...
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Larissa Waters @larissawaters.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Woolies and Coles made a combined $2.2 billion in profits last year, while 53% of Australians reported finding it harder to put food on the table. If Aussies are struggling to put food on the table, Coles and Woolies shouldn’t be posting massive profits.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This keeps happening.
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Labor won’t leave AUKUS - only the Greens will
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The Point @thepointau.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
@davidshoebridge.bsky.social delivered a scathing assessment of the $368 billion trilateral security pact at Canberra’s first public hearing, arguing it was a “ridiculously dangerous gamble”. Read the full piece on The Point: thepoint.com.au/new/260904-s...
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
A foreign military is getting more and more bases, control and domination over our country. Labor, the Coalition and One Nation are all celebrating this. They are not on our side.
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Prof Ray Wills @profraywills.futuresmart.com.au · 27/08/2026
It's not an "unseasonably warm" winter It's exactly the winter Australia's regional climate models from the 1990s and 2000s said would happen It's climate change And it gets worse next decade Perisher Snow Stake 27Aug2026 at 0cm www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08... (and thread)
Perisher Snow Stake 27Aug2026 at 0 cm
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Jessica D. M. 🇺🇦 🇦🇺 🇨🇦 🇵🇦 🇬🇱 🪃 🟧 @jessicaperthwa.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
#Auspol @albomp.bsky.social Silence make us complicit in the Genocide. Arrest the 700 Australians who have served in the IDF. Kick out Israel's Ambassador. Sanction Israel
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Kim Wingerei @kimwingerei.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Latest from our AAP #news feed #auspol Ministers downplay gambling reform ahead of conference. Rank and file members of Labor are pushing for the government to go further on gambling measures, as party officials gather for its national confere...
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Ministers downplay gambling reform ahead of conference
Rank and file members of Labor are pushing for the government to go further on gambling measures, as party officials gather for its national conference.
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Fusion Party Australia @fusionparty.org.au · 13/07/2026
The govt knows gambling ads hook kids. Murphy report called for a total ban. Instead we get weak restrictions in 2027. 90% of young pokie users harmed now. Whose lobbyists wrote this delay? #auspol #gamblingharm theconversation.com/...
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Rob Arnol @robertarnol.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
A massive one at that.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Oh this is such sad news. #RIP www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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Anthony Head, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Ted Lasso actor, dies aged 72
British actor starred on the West End before finding international fame in the 90s on Buffy the Vampire Slayer
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Matthew Carter @dancingbeavers.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
#Auspol
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Asking the Government about Reproductive Healthcare
YouTube video by Australian Greens
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Matthew Carter @dancingbeavers.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
www.michaelberkman.com.au/airtrain #Auspol
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50c fares to the airport: buy back the AirTrain!
Thanks to a bad privatisation deal announced by Labor and signed by the LNP, our airport train is being held to ransom by an offshore corporation.
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
I asked the outgoing NACC Commissioner whether he accepts responsibility for keeping his own CEO in the dark about his ongoing defence work. His answer was that his CEO had no business knowing what he was doing on the side 🤯🤯🤯 They just don't think the rules apply to them!
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Dr Monique Ryan @mon4kooyong.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Time’s up. The Albanese Government must do better, to stop Australians being the world’s biggest losers, with gambling losses of $87 million every day. We must ban gambling ads and establish a national regulator.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
. @albomp.bsky.social has said today that @australiainstitute.org.au "needs to be fair dinkum" about gas taxes. Well he keeps saying the PRRT is ramping up. Guess what PM, your own budget papers show there is a ramp...but it ain't heading up. Fair dinkum, mate. Give the gas company spin a rest
Chart showing projexcted PRRT revenue

2026-27: $1.9bn
2027-28: $1.75bn
2028-29: $1.55bn
2029-30: $1.25bn
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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 14/05/2026
Australia on track to eliminate cervical cancer by 2035. In 2021, there were no cervical cancer cases diagnosed in women under 25 for the first time since records began in 1982 Science! www1.racgp.org.au/newsgp/clini...
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newsGP - Australia set for world-first cervical cancer elimination
Vaccination programs have played a key role, and GPs remain ‘instrumental’ in boosting screening rates to reach the 2035 target.
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Jacqui Lambie @jacquilambie.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
The govt are tabling their response to Peta Murphy's 2023 'Win Some, Lose More' Gambling report TODAY - tabling it AFTER the budget LOCK UP - This is an insult to all the Australians who have fought for a ban of gambling advertising. SHAME! #auspol
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Matthew Carter @dancingbeavers.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
#Auspol
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The Major Parties are FAILING, it’s Time for Change — Max Chandler-Mather
YouTube video by Australian Greens
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Susan 🌻🇺🇦🌻🐨🇦🇺🐨 🍉🇵🇸🍉 @drzuess.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
#auspol Gas Industry profits mean big political donations to the ALP & LNP. 50%⬆️of NDIS participants are in the lower socioeconomic group. They can't afford to make political donations. Who is benefitting from the Govts recent announcements???
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David D @bjbagginsinoz.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
I think everyone can now see that the "top priority" of the ALP is to keep fossil-fuel donations while everything else - environment, building an economy powered by cheap renewables, earning revenue from our exported gas - can be sacrificed. Do Australians vote for traitors? #auspol
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Matthew Carter @dancingbeavers.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Thank you @punterspolitics.bsky.social and @richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol
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Japanese Government collects more tax from Australian gas than Australian Government!
YouTube video by The Australia Institute
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Debbie Northway 🇦🇺🦘🐨 @debbienorthway.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
#auspol #Australia
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Kate-Eviva @kate-eviva.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
So @abcnewsbot.bsky.social @senatorwong.bsky.social and @albomp.bsky.social can we please be treated like adults about the insane #US politics. #auspol
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Jennifer Crawford @ournewhomecoach.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Ok so fuel tax doesn’t work anymore because of EVs. Tax tyres instead. All vehicles have tyres. #Auspol.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
"The president's case against wind are literally the rantings of an old man. I've seen grandpa Simpson make more sense."
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Matthew Carter @dancingbeavers.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
#Auspol
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Why Politics is (Literally) 10X WORSE Than It Used To Be | Punters Politics
YouTube video by Punter's Politics
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Dr H Crum (PhD) @minnie-bannister.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Australian voters are suckers for a fossil fuel industry sob story. The industry cannot pay more taxes or royalties because its SO expensive making huge profits. #auspol
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