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A coastal person trapped inland, but the Bush Capital grows on you, eventually. #CBR

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Mike Funnell @mikefunnell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I thought my camera walk this afternoon would be a bust — overcast, stiff breeze 💨 .. and then it started to sprinkle 🌧️ The birds were staying away (showing more sense than I had). Before packing it in, though, I thought to check just a couple of spots I've had luck with. Persistence pays off 😃
An Eastern Spinebill feeding below an orange Grevillea blossom.
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ellecee4291.bsky.social @ellecee4291.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Evidently Pauline Hanson mightn’t understand how complex reducing immigration would be? No sh*t Sherlock! It’d be a miracle if she understood any political policy complexity #insiders #ABCinsiders
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ellecee4291.bsky.social @ellecee4291.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Senator Sarah Hanson-Young using what seems to be a poker analogy “the government has to put its cards on the table” criticising the gov’s proposed #gambling legislation. Irony? #ABCinsiders
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ellecee4291.bsky.social @ellecee4291.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
“The NACC carries on, making minor findings and working mostly in secret. It has been defined by its incompetence. Its own operations have been more stumbling and inept than anything it’s investigated. It spent its first year uncertain about what corruption actually was.”
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ellecee4291.bsky.social @ellecee4291.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
“Hanson’s party is grievance dressed up as fortitude….It is one woman’s prejudices seen through the wrong end of a kaleidoscope.”
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ellecee4291.bsky.social @ellecee4291.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Well there’s one thing #AI will never be able to do, scape as it might, and that’s political cartoons. An AI David Rowe? I don’t think so! #abcinsiders #insiders #talkingpictures
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ellecee4291.bsky.social @ellecee4291.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Did the overseas (English) born Tony Abbott really say that #multiculturalism” hasn’t worked? Well, he can always go back to where he came from if he’s not happy here! #insiders #abcinsiders
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ellecee4291.bsky.social @ellecee4291.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
“Not one dollar cost to the taxpayer” #PaulineHanson says? So Gina is paying for all of Hanson’s overseas working holiday? Nothing from her taxpayer funded senator’s salary? #abcinsiders #insiders #onenation
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ellecee4291.bsky.social @ellecee4291.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
The only policy #PaulineHanson and her #OneNation have is chaos, and she hasn’t costed that either. #abcinsiders #insiders
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ellecee4291.bsky.social @ellecee4291.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Just started watching #insiders, who is the f*cking LNP idiot? Ahh, the shadow minister for housing. Did he actually just say the “communist Albanese government”? Sounds very Trumpian. #abcinsiders
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go follow @news.abc.net.au @abc-news.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
GP clinic network hit by major cyber breach: www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-15/part…
abc.net.au
GP clinic network hit by major cyber breach
Partnered Health, which operates more than 50 general practice and skin cancer clinics across Australia, has identified more than a dozen clinics where it fears patient information was taken.
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ellecee4291.bsky.social @ellecee4291.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
A winter harvest from lavenders which flower all year, now hanging up to dry.
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ellecee4291.bsky.social @ellecee4291.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
“Many journeys, one jersey” !
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ellecee4291.bsky.social @ellecee4291.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
One interesting aspect of the heatwave in Europe is that in Switzerland the water needed to cool a nuclear plant is too hot to use, so nuclear power (supposedly always available) is then not viable. www.swissinfo.ch/eng/energy-t... #insiders
swissinfo.ch
Swiss nuclear power station shut down as river warms
Beznau nuclear reactors taken off grid due to river water overheating.
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ellecee4291.bsky.social @ellecee4291.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Dan Tehan on #insiders, asked if he, HE, would be willing to be in a coalition with One Nation. “We’re not talking about that”. Says he’s only interested in being in a coalition with the Nats. Does the equivalent of putting fingers in ears and going “LaLaLaLa”.
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ellecee4291.bsky.social @ellecee4291.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
“So when someone tells you multiculturalism has failed, ask them to be specific”. Rather than the dumb ravings of Hanson & her downright stupid idea of “monoculturalism”, here are some statistics which demonstrate the success of Australia’s multiculturalism:
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ellecee4291.bsky.social @ellecee4291.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
“Every sentence was three words longer than she expected it to be. Each idea was read as if for the first time.”
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Dr Blair Williams @blairwilliams26.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Here's my piece on the misogynistic intent of calling women a witch in @theconversation.com! "Calling a woman a “witch” reinforces the idea that women who seek or have political power are not to be trusted. They are cast as inherently deceitful, dangerous, and diabolical." #AusPol
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Why is it misogynistic to call a woman a ‘witch’?
From the middle ages on, threatening the patriarchy by displaying ambition or failing to conform to societal gender norms was taken as evidence of witchcraft.
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ellecee4291.bsky.social @ellecee4291.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
“The real issue is not Brereton. If he is a distraction it is not from the commission’s good works but from its flaws. The legislation that established the NACC was a neutering instrument. It was designed through compromise to give only the appearance of transparency.” How true, how predictable!
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ABC News Australia @news.abc.net.au · 27/05/2026
abc.net.au
As the debate heats up, migrants are quietly keeping the bush running
Amid ongoing discussion about Australia's immigration intake and migration policies, regional residents say many industries in the bush cannot survive without overseas workers.
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ellecee4291.bsky.social @ellecee4291.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Used to have Gang Gangs visiting our deck, up 15 at a time. Hardly even seen them now and only as a couple flying by when you might hear them calling to each other - they have a very distinctive call, like a rusty gate.
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ellecee4291.bsky.social @ellecee4291.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Are #OneNation candidates always reject candidates from other parties? And do One Nation voters actually put any effort into thinking about its policies? Or have they just “had a gut full”, or various gut fulls, or many many gut fulls? #ABCinsiders #insiders #Farrer
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ellecee4291.bsky.social @ellecee4291.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
And just whose fault was the failure of #TheVoice vote Matt Canavan? Seem to remember that your LNP opposed it, virtually guaranteeing its failure. #ABCinsiders #insiders
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ellecee4291.bsky.social @ellecee4291.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Well, Matt Canavan, back in the 70s, at UNSW, Asian students, predominantly Chinese, were sometimes in the majority in engineering lectures and tutorials. Those who stayed on in Australia after finishing their degrees enriched our nation and society. #ABCinsiders #insiders
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ellecee4291.bsky.social @ellecee4291.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Seems that government policy or governments’ policies on indigenous affairs has, like health, education etc etc, fallen through the cracks between federal, state and local government responsibilities. Just another “Failure of Federalism”. #insiders #ABCinsiders
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ellecee4291.bsky.social @ellecee4291.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Bloody hell, Matt Canavan spent 15 nights in a swag and KNOWS the electorate of Farrer? #insiders #ABCinsiders
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mariecolemanao.bsky.social @mariecolemanao.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/a...
theguardian.com
‘He needed intensive care and a team of specialists. He got me instead’: an outback doctor on treating patients a long way from help
After working in post-conflict zones, Damien Brown thought he was ready for anything. Then he moved to the Northern Territory, where his 20-bed hospital had to serve an area the size of Norway
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ellecee4291.bsky.social @ellecee4291.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Can’t imagine a “formal” request for defence assets to assist the US to get out of the mess Trump has created would come to Australia from the US without “informal” discussions/negotiations about what “help” Australia could/would be able to supply happening first. #ABCinsiders #insiders
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ellecee4291.bsky.social @ellecee4291.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Def Min Marles on #ABCinsiders: the situation [ie US vs Iran etc] is in flux. Flux??? Translation: we haven’t a clue
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ellecee4291.bsky.social @ellecee4291.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Angus Taylor’s ‘Australian Values’ policy is either absolutely desperate or absolutely hopeless…oh, WTF, it’s both!
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ellecee4291.bsky.social @ellecee4291.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
On #insiders some mind blowing cognitive dissonance: @tonyburkemp.bsky.social said that while 33 of the 34 Australian citizens (women and kids) in Syria don’t pose a threat to Australia, but whatever, “we don’t want them to come back”. Presumably including kids who didn’t have a choice?
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ellecee4291.bsky.social @ellecee4291.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
On #abcinsiders “Intergenerational inequity” seems to mean old people are inconveniently living too long, not politely, quietly dying off! All the tax changes in the world aren’t going to kill off the old just for convenience the government.
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ellecee4291.bsky.social @ellecee4291.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
On #abcinsiders Speers interviewing the Treasurer. While Speers says he’s aware of the facts that the Treasurer is patiently explaining to him, Speers still wants his gotcha moment.
charmers.is
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ellecee4291.bsky.social @ellecee4291.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Read this and weep!
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ellecee4291.bsky.social @ellecee4291.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
On #abcinsiders @albomp.bsky.social just said that the the then LNP coalition was focussed only on what it was against re the gun laws & hate legislation. The non-Labor conservatives are and have always been focused on what they’re against. They & their donors are against Labor. Simples!
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ellecee4291.bsky.social @ellecee4291.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
One rather lonely male king parrot, his mate flew straight into our closed windows and couldn’t fly away and is now at the local vet. ☹️
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ellecee4291.bsky.social @ellecee4291.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
So now @albomp.bsky.social has folded to injudicious & wickedly socially divisive demands for a premature federal royal commission, how to avoid compromising the entirely proper investigations & subsequent legal/court processes that are one of the pillars of our democracy? We can’t.
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ellecee4291.bsky.social @ellecee4291.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
And criminals don’t care about the rule of law. We’re just not used to a so called democracy and self proclaimed “leader of the free world” being so blatant about it.
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ellecee4291.bsky.social @ellecee4291.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
The Saturday Paper editorials are the highlight of my Saturday mornings, and this one, on Trump’s so called “Secretary for War”, was brilliant!
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ellecee4291.bsky.social @ellecee4291.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
“AUKUS is a once-in-a-century folly. It’s a defence policy written by a tourism executive. At great expense, it makes the country less safe. It is to Labor’s immense shame that it lacks the courage or insight to walk away from it and from the cartoon administration that is still pushing it.”
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ellecee4291.bsky.social @ellecee4291.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
The LNP opposition, having supported the under 16 social media ban, now smells blood in the water esp around Minister Wells and opportunistically is now NOT going to support the implementation of the ban? How desperate is that @sussanley.bsky.social? #abcinsiders
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ellecee4291.bsky.social @ellecee4291.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
So David Speers on #abcinsiders thinks it is a valuable use of interview time with the PM @albomp.bsky.social to constantly ask pathetic gotcha questions on ministerial travel expenses?
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ellecee4291.bsky.social @ellecee4291.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
“Our security is in Asia. Our national prosperity and wellbeing are tied to Asia. Our sovereignty and agency are severely degraded by continuing to invest in a self-defeating relationship with the US based on a policy to contain and dominate China”
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ellecee4291.bsky.social @ellecee4291.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
How pathetic @sussanley.bsky.social looked criticising @albomp.bsky.social’s tee shirt. Did she really think this is what an opposition leader should focus on? Who is advising her?
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ellecee4291.bsky.social @ellecee4291.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Listening to Matt Canavan pontificating on #NetZero on #insiders, but am none the wiser about his or the Nats or the Coalition’s policies, apart from he’s “not against all renewable energy”. Welcome to the 20th Century Matt, but you’re still a century or more behind reality. @abc-news.bsky.social
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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 20/10/2025
Desperately seeking submariners: why keeping nuclear-powered boats afloat will be Australia’s biggest Aukus challenge
theguardian.com
Desperately seeking submariners: why keeping nuclear-powered boats afloat will be Australia’s biggest Aukus challenge
A vast and highly trained workforce is needed to command, crew, supply and maintain nuclear submarines. Some say that’s impossible for Australia * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast “Vice-Admiral Mead, you’re free to go home … good to see you cracking a smile.” The head of the Australian Submarine Agency had spent a withering three hours before Senate estimates, parrying a barrage of questions about Australia’s ambitious Aukus nuclear submarine plan: interrogatives on consultants, on hundreds of millions of dollars sent to US and UK shipyards, on sclerotic boat-building on both sides of the Atlantic. Continue reading...
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ellecee4291.bsky.social @ellecee4291.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
“AUKUS is less a security partnership and more a one-man superannuation scheme.”
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ellecee4291.bsky.social @ellecee4291.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Of course, the Liberal Party could consider selecting, endorsing and even supporting sane reasonable electable candidates, maybe even, or maybe especially, women. Just a thought, after all, every democracy needs a strong opposition to hold government to account. #insiders
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ellecee4291.bsky.social @ellecee4291.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Perfect!
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ellecee4291.bsky.social @ellecee4291.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
FFS Albo, just don’t invite Trump here! #abcinsiders #insiders @albomp.bsky.social
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