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Denise Difficult-Shrivell

@deniseshrivell.bsky.social
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Australian political campaigner, commentator & SpinProof podcaster. Frequently makes good & necessary trouble. TrueNorth weekday substack #auspol

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Lizzy Schofield @musictplove.bsky.social · 4h
A not to be missed cortisol lowering real journalism in action discussions. This is the hope we desperately crave ,for as Dave says a less overtly shitty Australia. So incredibly grateful for all involved.
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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 5h
The Sunday Shot will be back the Sunday after next (18th) with Hannah Ferguson and an in-depth exploration of why she is attempting to unseat the Prime Minister and her ideas for a better/less overtly shitty Australia
Dave and Hannah sitting in the park talking politics
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everaldatlarge.bsky.social @everaldatlarge.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Made it around #Uluru on my 95th birthday. So many friends helped me walk the 11kms. And so far we have raised 105000 dollars for @DorcasACTS. My grateful thanks.
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Denise Difficult-Shrivell @deniseshrivell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
My example is... In the last decades at least 60 former defence ministers, senior officers and officials have moved into weapons firms or lobbying companies 😮
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Denise Difficult-Shrivell @deniseshrivell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This recent comment got me thinking... "It was eye-opening for people in the community to get an insight into how party politics works on an issue like this & how this can trump acting in your constituents’ best interests" What #auspol things shock you?
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coupdegraz7.bsky.social @coupdegraz7.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
#auspol #datacentre #communityaction
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Denise Difficult-Shrivell @deniseshrivell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
From Sasha > "It was eye-opening for people in the community to get an insight into how party politics works on an issue like this and how this can trump acting in your constituents’ best interests"
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Denise Difficult-Shrivell @deniseshrivell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A quick Q&A profile with my friend Sasha - who has done a great job with others in Lane Cove to stop one the of many planned data centres #auspol > womensagenda.com.au/latest/sasha...
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Sasha Titchkosky on how a Sydney community fought a $1.2 billion data centre development and won
Sasha Titchkosky shares how a local community stopped a data centre and why the fight against future projects continues.
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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Trump: I’m gonna make billions in crypto, sell US foreign policy to the highest bidders and make all corruption legal now One Nation: built a shed
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Denise Difficult-Shrivell @deniseshrivell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Such a good TrueNorth this afternoon. Independent news media have really stepped up this week. If you are not already a subscriber - then do yourself a favour #auspol > truenorthnews.substack.com
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TrueNorth Independent News Update | Substack
TrueNorth curates the best news & views from Australia’s independent publishers, journalists & commentators - delivered to your inbox FREE every weekday at 4pm. Join thousands of Australians who trust...
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Denise Difficult-Shrivell @deniseshrivell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Now is the time of monsters #auspol
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Blair Palese @blairpalese.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Looking at Aust hitting 80% clean #renewableenergy in the grid & 1/2 a million #EVs on the rd w/ a super El Niño summer coming & screaming #COAL & #GAS is the very definition of stupid! #auspol #liberals reneweconomy.com.au/coalition-vo...
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"Dumb and desperate:" Coalition panned after vowing to scrap renewable, EV and climate policies
Federal Coalition vows to detonate most of Australia's efforts to decarbonise "within 30 days" of winning power, including the advance of renewables and the emissions-curbing policy it introduced.
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Dan Ilic @danilic.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Some personal news mumbrella.com.au/poking-fun-a...
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‘Poking fun at power’: Dan Ilic to lead GetUp
Presenter and comedian Dan Ilic is set to take the reins of activist group Getup just months after it made headlines after ambushing Pauline Hanson’s National Press Club appearance by unfurling a remo...
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Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Ashamed but not surprised to discover that these shameless areshole grifting gronks are fkn Strayan
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Good to see this finally get coverage in my old paper. This is the same mob who campaigned against me, but it wasn’t sufficiently newsworthy then.
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Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Follow this very important special independent news focus from a range of outlets on the crises overwhelming the Northern Territory. Betraying children, fossil fuel, US militarisation. Don’t miss it. #Auspol truenorthnews.substack.com/p/sun-20-sep... @deniseshrivell.bsky.social
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This place is so messed up and dysfunctional and the rest of the country is paying for it all without truly
understanding the extent of the corruption and dysfunction going on here.
Chris Walsh - NT Independent
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Independent news media matters
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
AI data centres are projected to use 13 per cent of Australia’s electricity and 20 per cent of Sydney’s water within a decade. These things are mushrooming across the country and Labor has issued a “consultation paper”. Like New York, we need a moratorium not a survey.
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Sam W 🖤💛❤️🌻🦋☮️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈✌️🫢 @sassisam.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Must read story by @amyremeikis.bsky.social Be angry and bring attention to what’s going on in the NT under the CLP. 🖤💛💔 www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic... #auspol
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Gagging and blacklisting – what's really going on in the NT
Amid Hanson’s latest controversy, Australia’s most right-wing government announced yet another devastating decision for Indigenous people.
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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Had an excellent chat about my recent Nauru Airlines piece (The Point) with the Spin Cycle crew on RRR. Starts around 2mins in
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Programs: Spin Cycle – 17 September 2026, Spin Cycle — Triple R 102.7FM, Melbourne Independent Radio
An episode of Spin Cycle on 17 September 2026
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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“Anthony Albanese will use his government’s commitment to online safety and tackling climate change as selling points for Australia’s bid to join the UN Security Council” WTF. You mean a social media ban that has failed completely, and the safeguard mechanism con while we export more gas than ever?
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PM to spruik digital safety bona fides in UN Security Council bid
Anthony Albanese will use his government’s commitment to online safety and climate change as selling points for Australia’s candidacy.
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marque lawyers @marquelawyers.com.au · 18/09/2026
The thing about the Howard-era ministers is that they've never realised how much their own instinct for technocratic cruelty influenced the national attitude to migrants and refugees, leaving a lasting residue of nastiness.
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Andrew Wilkie MP @andrewwilkiemp.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Scandalous that big oil companies are pocketing $700k a minute profit while some families are going without meals & pensioners are forced to choose between filling the car or a prescription. Australians aren’t fooled by the economic jargon trying to hide price gouging #auspol #politas
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Denise Difficult-Shrivell @deniseshrivell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Never forget the enablers #auspol
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mariecolemanao.bsky.social @mariecolemanao.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Watching TV coverage this morning. Joined by the aged care service carer, chap from subcontinent, with anxious expression. These hard working carers ought not be made anxious by nativist bigots, who sure won't be staffing age care.
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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
It's Thursday. I do not have it in me to even pretend
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Denise Difficult-Shrivell @deniseshrivell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Hi Jenny. Such a great show. Sadly I’m insure of their plans. Haven’t been directly involved for some time now.
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Ronni🧂Salt @ronnisalt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Is anybody else just finding the world so depressingly awful and finding it too hard to look at the news or social media every day? Just me?
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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Labor: Let’s tell Australians that we’re cracking down on intl students, but tell intl students that Australia is wonderful and welcoming. And the whole university funding model will be based on their fees. Yes that’ll work.
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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Several of One Nation's leaders have expressly said they will ban all abortion for all girls & women, then 'clarified' they meant just the ones they decide should be forced to give birth. Believe them first. Believe them when they're not spinning. A One Nation vote is a vote for forced birth.
One Nation's NSW boofhead leader in orange short and hat caught saying it will wipe out abortion rights for girls & women, then saying whoops I meant just the ones we decide must give birth.
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Denise Difficult-Shrivell @deniseshrivell.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Things are grim 😩😞 #auspol
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Emma Shortis @emmashortis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Proud to be here representing @australiainstitute.org.au at the Red Lines Package launch - a suite of legislation that would draw red lines around Australian complicity in genocide, war crimes and illegal settlements. www.redlinespackage.com.au
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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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Denise Difficult-Shrivell @deniseshrivell.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Read this! Being done in our name with our public money. Beyond belief. The deliberate cruelty 😡#auspol Read more of this investigation by Nick Feik here > thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
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Ronni🧂Salt @ronnisalt.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This was a massive hit back in 1971. Not my book of course - the song Who remembers who sang it, and in what production? A sneak preview of my promo video for my new novel #TheCross ✞ The mysteries and sleuthing of Adelaide, Valdene, Wayne and Jack continue, (and of course, Elvis and Sly) 🙏🏽
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Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
God. Read this
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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Why does this micronation, the third smallest country in the world, with no tourism and fewer residents than Horsham, have an international commercial airline – let alone one with seven Boeing 737s? How our immigration politics corrupts everything:
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Why is Australia propping up Nauru Airlines to keep offshore detention alive?
Here’s a question you’ve probably never asked yourself: Why does Nauru Airlines exist? There’s a simple answer – Australia’s offshore detention regime. Australia’s “resettlement” program in Naoero req...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/09/2026
Ossoff: "We are witnessing people drunk with power who are utterly reckless, utterly corrupt, and obviously believe that they live with impunity. They believe they're untouchable. They believe they're invincible. Let's prove them wrong."
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Denise Difficult-Shrivell @deniseshrivell.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Today is International Day of Democracy. Democracy is under threat globally, even here in Aust, where we have the structures but not always the practices. Every issue we face can be solved by active participation. No one is coming to save us but us. What will you do? 🙌 #auspol
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Denise Difficult-Shrivell @deniseshrivell.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
And thanks to Cheek Media for this very powerful and distressing article today as part of this week's independent news media's focus on the NT. Read more here #auspol #NTIndieFocus > cheekmedia.substack.com/p/police-sta...
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Denise Difficult-Shrivell @deniseshrivell.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
And thanks to Cheek Media for this very powerful and distressing article today as part of this week's independent news media's focus on the NT. Read more here #auspol #NTIndieFocus > cheekmedia.substack.com/p/police-sta...
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Pat Hudson Cartoons @hudsoncartoons.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Absolutely chuffed and amazed to have won the best political cartoon category in the Rotary Cartoon Awards at the National Cartoon Gallery on the weekend 😁- a big thank you and congratulations to all #auspol
Logo of the National Cartoon Gallery @ The Bunker, Coffs Harbour and the logo of Rotary.
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Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"There was a lot of men sitting right next to that man and they were just looking up and looking back down at their phones," she said. "No one helped her, which is really, really, really disappointing."
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It's Monday and #PointLive is back. @amyremeikis.bsky.social was up and going at 6:46am, so you owe it to her to go have a read live.thepoint.com.au
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The Point Live: Independents unite over 'red line', Andrew Hastie continues crusade against One Nation. As it happens.
David Pocock, Sophie Scamps and Lydia Thorpe, have come together to support 'red line' legislation which aims to push the government to strengthen international law, with aChris Sidoti, Gillian Triggs...
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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Support independent media where you can x
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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Let me know what areas you would like to see covered - we are building a lovely loyal audience and would love you to be part of it. Trying to cover live parliament a little differently, but also absolutely accurately. So you'll find Gaza, gas and other issues covered as they are
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The government just appointed Sussan Ley to the Snowy Hydro Ltd Board, and seriously... GIVE ME FRICKEN STRENGTH live.thepoint.com.au
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The Point Live: Independents unite over 'red line', Andrew Hastie continues crusade against One Nation. As it happens.
David Pocock, Sophie Scamps and Lidia Thorpe, have come together to support 'red line' legislation which aims to push the government to strengthen international law, with Chris Sidoti, Gillian Triggs ...
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Denise Difficult-Shrivell @deniseshrivell.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
TrueNorth will curate all content produced by independent news media into a special NT Focus newsletter this Saturday. Please sign up to TrueNorth (& share) here > truenorthnews.substack.com
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TrueNorth Weekday Independent News Update | Substack
TrueNorth curates the best news & views from Australia’s independent publishers, journalists & commentators - delivered to your inbox FREE every weekday at 4pm. Join thousands of Australians who trust...
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Denise Difficult-Shrivell @deniseshrivell.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Our biggest threat comes from hosting US bases on Australian soil - and I can never forget or forgive the Labor Party for putting us in this position. We had such hope! 😢 #auspol
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Denise Difficult-Shrivell @deniseshrivell.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Greg Barns for Pearls and Irritations on The NT’s dangerous addiction to punishment here #auspol #NTIndieFocus > pearlsandirritations.com/post/2026/09...
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The NT’s dangerous addiction to punishment
The Northern Territory’s soaring imprisonment rates, punitive youth justice policies and rejection of expert advice reveal a system failing Indigenous communities and strengthening the case for urgent...
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Denise Difficult-Shrivell @deniseshrivell.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This week, various independent news media outlets will put their focus on the Northern Territory & its government, driven by actions which is mostly going unreported in the rest of Australia. Listen to the 7am Podcast here #auspol #NTIndieFocus >> podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/7...
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Something is seriously wrong in the Northern Territory
Podcast Episode · 7am · 13 September · 19min
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