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Andrew W

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Retired progressive Australian. Getting more, not less, radical as I age. Anti-fascist pluralist living in Narrm. Opinionated. Hopeful.

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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 2h
Israeli soldier names what Australian PM @albomp.bsky.social, FM @senatorwong.bsky.social & DM Richard Marles refuse to #EndImpunity #EndGenocide #EndOccupation #EndApartheid
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
One in six Australian children live in poverty. Major parties who do nothing about this - except make it worse - can not pretend to support 'social cohesion'. #AntiPovertyWeek #EndChildPoverty #RaiseTheRate #inequality #auspol
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
"the only politics that can work [is] one that stops promising 1965 and starts arguing about 2035. Who owns the housing. How work is taxed against wealth. Who pays for an older country. What a decent life looks like when growth is slow." #inequality #auspol pearlsandirritations.com/post/2026/10...
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The thirty years that were never normal
The post-war decades created an extraordinary period of rising wages, affordable homes and economic security. Those conditions are gone. Politics must stop promising their return and start deciding ho...
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Tim Baxter @timinclimate.naruresearch.com.au · 15/10/2026
Love to see the Minister caught in either incompetence or a lie by work I put out last month. No, Minister King: Your government hasn't even come close to implementing the Pepper Inquiry's recommendations on Beetaloo. You don't get to claim completion when you're less than 5% of the way there.
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Resources minister faces calls to correct her claim all Beetaloo emissions will be offset
Madeleine King told press club emissions from NT fossil fuel basin ‘are accounted for and offset’ but research found 95% of emissions this decade would not have to be offset
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
I will not repost such horrific videos. But it really is past time that Australia's prime minister should show some moral leadership and stand up to Trump, and call out his dangerously psychopathic behavior for what it is. #auspol
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Debbie Northway 🇦🇺🦘🐨 @debbienorthway.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
#Australia #BenCousins
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Jim Chalmers @jimchalmers.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
⁨GET THE FACTS: The Coalition doubled Australia's gross debt even before COVID, and racked up almost two thirds of total gross debt. Between 2013-2022 the Coalition racked up more than $600bn of gross debt, and debt went from $257bn in 2013/14 to $542bn in 2018/19.⁩
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Emma Shortis @emmashortis.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
“Australia opposes the death penalty in all circumstances for all people.”* *Except, apparently, when Pete Hegseth wants to put it on the telly.
Senator Penny Wong tweet from May 2023:

“Australia condemns Iran’s barbaric abuses of human rights and reaffirms its call on Iran to immediately cease all executions.

Australia opposes the death penalty in all circumstances for all people.

We will continue to work with partners to hold Iran to account.”
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 12/10/2026
Australia Institute analysis shows Australia is on the verge of its “biggest improvement in housing affordability in 50 years”. Read more here: australiainstitute.org.au/post/turn…
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Viktor 🇵🇸🍉🦘🦘🪃 @viktx.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
@albomp.bsky.social @australianlabor.bsky.social @tonyburkemp.bsky.social Today your Israeli mates murdered the father of the groom. His name was Iyad. Your Israeli mates are sadistic war criminals and you do nothing no concrete action..nothing Vote Greens for a humane Australia Free Palestine


BREAKING: Israeli forces kill elderly Palestinian man during his son's wedding in central Gaza

lyad Taha Harb was shot and killed by Israeli forces while attending his son's wedding in the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza Strip.
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
No surprise; Australia's political & media establishment won't even acknowledge the Red Lines Package: - Labor knows its pretence of upholding international law and human rights would look even more hypocritical, and - politicians & media would need to confront the "G" word. #GazaGenocide #auspol
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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 11/10/2026
Seven of nine planetary boundaries have now been crossed, yet Australia still expands coal and gas while talking up its climate credentials. Humanity’s safe operating space is shrinking fast, Peter Sainsbury writes. #Climate #Environment #auspol
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Raymond Wilton @raymondwilton.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
michaelwest.com.au/groomed-capt... He didn’t arrive by accident. He was built for it. 2003, before he held any significant office, Minns selected for AIJAC Rambam Israel Fellowship – all-expenses-paid with one purpose: take promising Aust political figures to Israel, immerse them, & bind them
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Groomed, captured, deployed. How the Israel lobby runs Chris Minns - Michael West
Police brutality, intimidation, harassment, free speech attacked. NSW Premier Chris Minns was groomed for Israel, writes Andrew Brown.
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"Government hypocrisy in maintaining the charade of Australia as a global climate leader is beyond belief, particularly its insistence that Australia is doing its utmost to assist 'Our Pacific Family'" #ClimateCrisis #auspol pearlsandirritations.com/post/2026/10...
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Australia’s climate policy – a crime against humanity
Australia cannot credibly claim climate leadership while expanding coal and gas exports that accelerate global heating, deepen Pacific vulnerability and lock in further human suffering.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 08/10/2026
V v good new @earthjustice.org report on the genuinely nutty numbers behind the data centre fossil fuel boom in the US This new update shows emissions from off-grid gas plants for data centres are WAY worse than previously estimated earthjustice.org/feature/data...
Climate & Public Health
▪ Massive scale and impact: The scale of both total
and individual BYOP proposals is massive. As of
August 2026, there are nine proposed gas BYOP
projects that are 4.5 GW or larger. If all are built,
nine of the top 10 largest power plants in the U.S.
would be data center gas BYOP.
Altogether, the current 177 GW of gas proposals
would emit over 400 million metric tons of carbon
dioxide equivalent ( MTCO 2e) annually, increasing
the U.S. power sector’s total emissions by 23% .
Ozone and particulate matter pollution from
these projects could cause an estimated $5 –10B
in monetized health damages each year. 1
▪ Majority gas: Building on prior reports, we
estimate that for current BYOP proposals,
approximately 80% of energy generation will
come from gas.
▪ Inefficient gas technologies with more air
pollution: More than half of disclosed gas BYOP
capacity uses technologies that are less efficient
and more polluting than typical gas power plants.  Majority gas:  Building on prior reports, we estimate that for current BYOP proposals, approximately 80% of energy generation will come from gas.

 Massive scale and impact: The scale of both total and individual BYOP proposals is massive. As of August 2026, there are nine proposed gas BYOP projects that are 4.5 GW or larger. If all are built, nine of the top 10 largest power plants in the U.S. would be data center gas BYOP.

Altogether, the current 177 GW of gas proposals would emit over 400 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (mtCO2e) annually, increasing the U.S. power sector’s total emissions by 23%. Ozone and particulate matter pollution from these projects could cause an estimated $5–10B in monetized health damages each year.
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mariewalsh18.bsky.social @mariewalsh18.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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polqat @polq.at · 04/10/2026
“Labor has one core purpose. It gathers together progressive hopes & dreams & it kills them” “People thought Labor were the lesser of two evils. They're just the more competent of two evils” “Labor created One Nation by failing to deal with people's material concerns” #auspol youtu.be/aPvHh1qlmVc
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245: Green shoots in the arm ft. David Shoebridge & Steph Hodgins-May
YouTube video by Serious Danger
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Viktor 🇵🇸🍉🦘🦘🪃 @viktx.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
@albomp.bsky.social @australianlabor.bsky.social AND YOU SUPPLIED THE F-35 RELEASE MECHANISM FOR THE BOMBS YOU DISGUST AUSTRALIA! CALL AN ELECTION VOTE GREENS FOR HUMANITYS SAKE PEACE NOT WAR
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
By blindly forging ahead with the costly, dangerous and strategically stupid #AUKUS project, Albanese and Marles are a clear and present danger to Australian security and sovereignty. #EndAUKUS #auspol
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Peggy Sanders @peggysanders.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Yanis Varoufakis: Inflation is again being used as an excuse for acts of vandalism on some of Australia’s important institutions. #auspol www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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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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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“Australia’s interest rate rise is the wrong medicine and an even worse alibi” Yanis Varoufakis www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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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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Dr Alan Nixon @alangnixon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
#FascistFluffers in #Media, #Australia. #auspol
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sheepRdangerous @sheeprdangerous.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
#Albo THE ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER OF AUSTRALIA. Terrorist #Israel, an abomination, is an apartheid, messianic, sociopathic, psychotic, genocidal cult that rapes and murders men, targets and murders children and women, and steals Palestinian land. #Labor #USA #EU #UK #Auspol –Fascist-Zionism - #Gaza
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💚🌏Myles🌏💚 @rainbowregionmyles.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
We have normalised something completely fucking insane. Australia now has 178 billionaires worth $686 billion, while working people are skipping meals and struggling to pay their fucking mortgages.
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💚🌏Myles🌏💚 @rainbowregionmyles.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Imagine explaining this to people in 2045. "We knew the climate was breaking down, but we approved another 429 million tonnes of coal because shutting the mine was politically difficult." That's essentially the fucking decision Australia just made in the Hunter Valley. #auspol
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Willem Huiskamp @willemh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This has been an open secret in Australia for some time, with the federal government going to great lengths to *appear* as if they have effective climate policy, while rubber stamping mine after mine. It's disgraceful, and they are not held to account for it.
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Vanessa Smith @normalness.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Case study in why I’m glad I’m no longer working in Australian media. They really do expect you to just unthinkingly republish their press releases.
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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
On so many issues (climate, human rights, Palestine) Labor is now right wing. The irrelevant Liberals & Nationals are reps for the fossil fuels & mining industries. Pauline Hanson's One Nation serves Gina Rinehart. The Greens (and some Independents) represent the interests of Australia. #auspol
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Iníon Uí Néill @biallagel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Well, since imports of our coal by China are way down, one has to wonder who benefits. Disgraceful, appalling, unconscionable: Labor. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Approval of biggest coal project in NSW planning commission’s history described as ‘infamous betrayal’
Independent Planning Commission says climate change impacts from Hunter Valley project will be ‘outweighed’ by economic benefits
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Margaret Morgan 🇪🇺🇳🇱🇦🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is a great decision by the Greens. Anyone who's followed his work behind the scenes in the NSW and Federal parliament knows what a fearless, forensic, insightful mind he has. He can cut through just as Australia really needs it. Bravo!
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Nate Cochrane @natecochrane.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Echoes of: “I come to bury Albanese, not to take his 💩 any longer”. #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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David Shoebridge says ‘we’re here to replace Labor’ in first remarks after being elected new Greens leader
Shoebridge, a senator from New South Wales and former upper house state MP, won the role over Mehreen Faruqi and Sarah Hanson-Young
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Wattle It Be @wattleitbe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Show your interested in articles about The Greens by clicking on them. Make news sites statistics show that we need more of this, and to compete with what the billionaires want us to see #auspol www.nine.com.au/australia-ne...
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David Shoebridge elected as new leader of the Greens, vows to ‘replace Labor’
The NSW senator emerged victorious in a secret ballot, and has grand plans for the minor party.
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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 30/09/2026
Australia wants a UN Security Council seat and promises to uphold international law. But from Gaza to Indigenous rights and Diego Garcia, its own record shows how selectively those rules can be applied, John Menadue writes. #auspol #UNSC
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Australia preaches the rules-based order. Its record tells another story
Australia is campaigning for a UN Security Council seat on a promise to uphold international law and defend middle powers. Its record on Gaza, Indigenous rights, military alliances and international rulings tells a far less consistent story.
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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There's just way too much to be very cross about, today. The Australian government investing OUR MONEY in EllenMusk's stupid space project and weapons companies is next level crap. I've disagreed with governments before but I've never been this disappointed in one.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Latest energy figures are out for 2024-25 - once again 83% of Australia's gas is exported or used to convert gas to PNG exports. There is no gas shortage. We do not need more gas. We need to #TAXtheGAS
Charts showing in 2024-25 4,862PJ of gas was exported or used in LNG plants, while only 1,016PJ was use by the domestic economy of mining, manufacturing, residential and gas power plants.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/09/2026
The ICE agent who shot Araujo in a Houston is named GREGORY FEATHERS. Make sure everyone knows.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 28/09/2026
Hey everyone remember how I was saying the AI X-risk criti-hype is a targeted project designed to kill regulations and further ensure an impatient rush on data centre contsruction www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
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OpenAI breach proves need for more data centres, major parties say
Labor, Coalition agree OpenAI's Medicare breach proves the need for Australia to secure "a seat at the AI table" by rolling out data centres nationally.
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soleless.bsky.social @soleless.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
We militarily assist Israel. We take no action against Israel when an Australian citizen is murdered in an IDF targeted attack. We charge the law to protect Israel from criticism. We allow IDF members here for R&R. We don’t walk out on Netanyahu at the UN. We are complicit in genocide.
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Bad_Cyclist @badcyclist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I’m doomscrolling while literally sitting & watching my Mother die slowly in front of me, in an underfunded, understaffed & yet profitable care home in Australia, while our useless leaders pander to Nazis & I’m wondering how we got here. #NothingMakesSense #Auspol #AlwaysLoveYouMum 😞
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tonywindsor.bsky.social @tonywindsor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Farmers who intend to vote for One Nation should know that they are accepting that “climate change” is normal.By doing so they will negate any logical argument for taxpayer assistance when “normal” weather events occur. Don’t ask for help if you deny the very thing you need help to overcome!
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The PM is in the US mugging for selfies with the guy who stripped regulation from some of the world's most dangerous AI companies, while a US company linked to the Trump administration hacked arguably Australia's most sensitive database in a serious attack on our sovereignty.
OpenAI hacked Medicare portal, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says
By political reporter Erin Handley and staff
Topic:Cyber Security

Posted about 3h agoabout 3 hours ago, updated 8m ago8 minutes ago
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Anthony Albanese stands in front of flags during a press conference. 
Anthony Albanese says an OpenAI agent hacked a Medicare statistics reporting service portal.

In short: 
The prime minister has had a "frank" discussion with OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman after an AI agent breached an Australian government website. 

The company did not notify Services Australia of the incident until three months after the fact, via email.
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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I can not get past every politician and journalist accepting the ludicrous premise that designing tech to trawl Medicare portals has any rational let alone benign purpose at all. It doesn’t. Nobody needs this shit. They are just testing whether political cravenness still has no limits.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Highest unemployment for 5 years? RBA happy.
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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 23/09/2026
only gonna vote for parties who will arrest these people and bulldoze data centres
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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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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is an extraordinary act of direct foreign interference by the US embassy in domestic Australian politics. The Australian government should publicly respond by rejecting efforts by the US embassy to dictate how Australia legislates for a digital duty of care.
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Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Messed up. Don’t eat Tassie salmon. Toxic industry. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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More than 150,000 underwater explosives used to deter seals at Tasmanian salmon farms since 2016
Salmon companies operating in Tasmanian marine areas deployed almost 1,800 explosives in first half of 2026, government figures reveal
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PlsUseYourBrain @useyourbrain.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A liar and a hypocrite. Seriously threatening John Fucking Howard's longstanding Worst PM title.
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Pandymonium @pandymonium.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
#AusVotes2028 #AusNews #auspol
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The Saturday Paper @thesaturdaypaper.com.au · 19/09/2026
Australia’s conventional sense of patriotism falters the moment it is asked to apply its own standards consistently, writes Marcia Langton. Hanson and One Nation routinely deploy nationalist symbolism, but when politically expedient, the digger is expendable. trib.al/dDqJ82y
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Who gets to be a traitor?
When Pauline Hanson labelled SAS veteran and Liberal frontbencher Andrew Hastie a ‘traitor’ eight times, then animated the insult and pinned it to the top of her social media feed, she did more than provoke outrage. She exposed the conditional nature of Australia’s reverence for military service and revealed how brittle our nationalist mythology becomes when it collides with powerful, wealthy political interests.
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Dr Mark | 北马克 |🍉🇦🇺🇲🇾🇹🇭 @ajaanmark.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Most immigrants are simply better people with better ethics and morals than Anglo racists.
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