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Fatty Lamb

@fattylamb.bsky.social
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Positive about the future with no nuclear industry, a peaceful democratic world, lots of music and harmonious existence. Let’s overcome division based on hate and greed. (Delusional? Hope not)

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Fatty Lamb @fattylamb.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Feel threatened by AUKUS, #auspol #AUKUS www.icanw.org/nuclear_arse...
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Which countries have nuclear weapons?
There are 9 countries armed with nuclear warheads. Find out which countries have nuclear weapons still and what this could mean for everyone.
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Fatty Lamb @fattylamb.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
It’s time to send the US military home. #auspol #AUKUS youtu.be/HRrlFYg2QkI?...
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Bob Dylan - License to Kill (Official Video)
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Fatty Lamb @fattylamb.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Paul Keating revealing how the sleazy Australian Newspaper creates foreign policy division and how Richard Marles colludes and undermines our Sovereignty. #auspol #AUKUS johnmenadue.com/post/2025/06...
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Australia: A sovereign continent not for Marles to gift away
Yesterday’s statement by Defence Minister Richard Marles that Australia’s geography and continent would be crucial to any United States prosecution of a war against China will go down as a dark moment...
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Scott Hamilton @sdhamiltonvic.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Posco Holdings, the holding company of Korean steel giant Posco Group, said Friday it has opened a key minerals research center in Australia to secure a technological edge in advanced materials, spanning steelmaking, battery materials and rare earths‘ #Perth www.koreaherald.com/article/1049...
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Posco opens minerals lab in Australia
Posco Holdings, the holding company of Korean steel giant Posco Group, said Friday it has opened a key minerals research center in Australia to secure a technol
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Fatty Lamb @fattylamb.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
The irony is that UK and US are subjecting AUKUS to far more scrutiny than it has ever received here, given Labor signed up to the disaster within hours of Scott Morrison announcing it in the hope of altering his hopeless political trajectory. #AUKUS #auspol www.crikey.com.au/2025/06/12/t...
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Trump's AUKUS blackmail is Albanese's chance to ditch a disastrous deal — but he won't
Australia is now the only participant not reviewing AUKUS. It's the perfect time for the government to walk away and guarantee our naval future with different partners.
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Fatty Lamb @fattylamb.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Australia’s foreign policy resembles a house with too many builders and no building plan. It’s a mess – caught between rhetorical independence and practical US subservience. We lack the clarity and courage to act with true sovereignty. #auspol #AUKUS newpolitics.substack.com?utm_source=n...
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New Politics | Substack
New Politics is an independent media organisation providing news, analysis and a review of Australian politics, seeking the answers to the questions the mainstream media never asks, offering bold opin...
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Scott Hamilton @sdhamiltonvic.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
‘The value of a large green iron industry to Australia's economic prosperity can be substantial - we estimate export income building to nearly $400bn over time.’ - Superpower Institute #GreenIron #renewables media.streem.com.au/restricted/l...
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Ian.🇦🇺🇬🇧🦅 @ianausbrit.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
We only need to look at the insane escalation of events on the streets in America. Which are entirely the Trump regimes fault, to realize that AUKUS is unworkable, & security / sovereignty threat to Australia.
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Dr H Crum (PhD) @minnie-bannister.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
No one lobbies as hard and as secretly as the defence industry and its mostly expolitician lobbyists. Billions of government money going to them depends on it. Quit #aukus now. #labor #auspol
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Sandra M Aus @igfbss.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Signed and recommended you do too. The former PM was censured by Parliament for his secret ministries. A principal instigator of Robodebt, lied to the French President while signing the worst defence deal ever (AUKUS). Shouldn't get any award.
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Fatty Lamb @fattylamb.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
AUKUS was conceived entirely in secret and sprung on the Australian people overnight without any consultation. It still has not been subject to any serious parliamentary or democratic scrutiny. #auspol #AUKUS #nuclear johnmenadue.com/post/2025/06...
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Friday essay: let’s rethink Australia’s national security – and focus on fairness and climate action, not blind fealty to the US
The change in the US after Donald Trump returned to power should make us think deeply whether Washington's aims and policies will offer us the security we need.
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Fatty Lamb @fattylamb.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
AUKUS requires disposal of high-level ☢️ from ☢️ reactors in the submarines and defence-related ☢️ and hazardous waste, including visiting US and UK ☢️ submarines and warships. Storage systems are unreliable and hazardous for thousands of years. #auspol #nuclear #AUKUS johnmenadue.com/post/2025/06...
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US military waste contractor with flawed safety record backing Australian N-waste dump
A US military mega-contractor assisting an Australian company to develop a proposal for a nuclear waste dump in Central Australia has a flawed safety record in handling nuclear waste storage.
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 03/06/2025
Australia must resist US bullying to increase its military spending – Allan Behm in @australia.theguardian.com "Setting an arbitrary percentage of GDP is no way to calculate budget priorities...Let us all hope that Albanese can maintain his poise & resist strident calls for military boosterism."
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Australia must resist US bullying to increase its military spending | Allan Behm
It’s up to Anthony Albanese to decide Australia’s budget priorities – rather than allowing us to get sucked into a contest between US and China
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Scott Hamilton @sdhamiltonvic.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
‘Introducing a green iron production tax credit of $170 per tonne could temporarily address the lack of a carbon price, the report found, while grants of up to 30 per cent could help to establish early green iron projects.’ #GreenIron Let’s get going AUS. #auspol reneweconomy.com.au/australia-ur...
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Australia urged to spend big while green iron is hot
Australia could replace carbon-intensive exports with green iron and quadruple earnings, a report says, but it needs to act soon and decisively to seize the opportunity.
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Fatty Lamb @fattylamb.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Future energy trade will be dominated by trade in goods from clean energy. Energy-intensive industries will migrate to regions where cheap renewable energy exceeds domestic needs. Australia is one of those rare regions. #auspol #cleanenergy #renewables www.superpowerinstitute.com.au/work/green-i...
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A Green iron Plan for Australia: Securing prosperity in a decarbonising world
Australia is uniquely positioned to become a world leader in green iron production. With soundly based policy settings and timely action, this opportunity can underpin prosperity for generations.
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Fatty Lamb @fattylamb.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
“It is surely high time for the Australian Government to abandon the dangerous illusion that being tied hand and foot to the US as we presently are, provides us with security and protection.” #auspol #AUKUS johnmenadue.com/post/2025/05...
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US decays; for Australia, independence beckons
Donald Trump is not an aberration, but rather a symptom of the disease, not its cause.
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Scott Hamilton @sdhamiltonvic.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
‘Fortescue is proposing to construct a huge 2.1 GW wind farm & battery energy storage system (BESS) to help eliminate the burning of fossil fuels at its giant Pilbara iron ore operations.’ NOW STOP SUBSIDISING FOSSIL FUELS, Jim ‼️ #auspol reneweconomy.com.au/fortescue-la...
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Fortescue lays out plans for biggest wind farm in Australia to help eliminate fossil fuels at giant mines
Andrew Forrest’s Fortescue lays out plans for a 2.1 GW wind project to help eliminate use of gas and diesel at its iron ore mines by the end of the decade.
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Scott Hamilton @sdhamiltonvic.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
‘In 2024, Japan onsold at least 600 petajoules (PJ) of Australian LNG to overseas markets, and potentially 800PJ, more than Eastern Australia’s annual domestic gas consumption.’ @ieefa-northamerica.bsky.social Briefing today ieefa.org/resources/ho...
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How Japan cashes in on resales of Australian LNG at the expense of Australian gas users
As both Eastern and Western Australia face gas shortfalls, Japan is onselling vast volumes of Australian LNG at a handsome profit.
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ᑕᕼᗴᖇYᒪ @cheryl2877.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
~ Pope Leo ~
To be called woke in a world that sleeps through suffering is no insult 

~ Pope Leo ~
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3wombats @3wombats.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
I just signed @australiainstitute.org.au's petition: Demand the gas industry pays royalties! Will you join me? nb.australiainstitute.org.au/collect_gas_...
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✍️ SIGN: Demand the gas industry pays royalties!
Australia Institute research has found that 56% of gas exported from Australia attracts zero royalty payments, effectively giving a public resource to multinational gas corporations for free. We need...
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Rex Patrick @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Canada sub proposal: 12 large Air Independent Propulsion subs with first delivery in 2032 for AUD$27B. Low US dependence. Australia #AUKUS sub scheme: 8 nuclear subs with (an unlikely) first delivery in 2035 for AUD$368B. Total US dependence. 🤦‍♂️ #auspol
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5 things to know about South Korea's military submarine pitch to Canada | CBC News
CBC News was recently granted exclusive access to both Hanwha Ocean and Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) as well as senior South Korean defence officials to learn about their pitch to Canada. Here are f...
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Fatty Lamb @fattylamb.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
“On AUKUS, for instance, the government must build its “ social licence” from the public to sustain such a massive deal across generations. Australians need to be better informed about — and consulted on — the decisions they will ultimately pay for.” #AUKUS #auspol johnmenadue.com/post/2025/05...
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After its landslide win, Labor should have courage and confidence on security – and our alliance with the US
The re-election of the Albanese Labor Government by such a wide margin should not mean “business as usual” for Australia’s security policy.
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Scott Hamilton @sdhamiltonvic.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
‘given the new power of the Nationals and regional Liberals in the party room, we may not have seen the last of #nuclear fantasies in Australia.’ That may well be, but SHOW ME THE WATER, Mr Littleproud ‼️‼️ #auspol #AusVotes25 Nats are 4 miners not 4 farmers ‼️‼️ theconversation.com/pie-in-the-s...
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Pie in the sky? After the Coalition’s stinging loss, nuclear should be dead. Here’s why it might live on
Coalition support for nuclear power in Australia may survive their devastating election loss.
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Renew Economy @reneweconomy.com.au · 05/05/2025
The coalition’s nuclear power plan “bombed at the ballot” and is now off the table, climate action and renewable energy groups say
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Coalition power plan “nuked” at poll: climate groups
The coalition’s nuclear power plan “bombed at the ballot” and is now off the table, climate action and renewable energy groups say.
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Tammy Wolffs @tammy-w.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Guess Mike Pezzullo can put his house back on the market now? #auspol #AusVotes25
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jimaxon66.bsky.social @jimaxon66.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Andrew Hastie is worse than your run of the mill pentecostal,he is a "Young Earth Creationist", a belief the earth is 6,000 years old,this may well be the leader of the parliamentary Liberal Party.
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Louise Milligan @milliganreports.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Laura: “The Coalition resorted to anti-immigration sentiment, attempted to fuel irritation with welcomes to country…spoke about a woke school curriculum & raged about hate media. It prosecuted all these points with.. support of News Corp's newspapers &..Sky News. newsapp.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...
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This election result shows Labor learned a lesson that the Coalition did not - ABC News
The comprehensive nature of this win gives Anthony Albanese the chance to change the narrative of our politics.
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Michael Taylor @ausindimedia.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Australian voters have resoundingly rejected Peter Dutton and his nuclear plan. theaimn.net/coalition-nu...
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Coalition nuked
Media Release: The Climate Council In response to the Australian Federal Election result so far, the Climate Council CEO Amanda McKenzie said: Australian voters have resoundingly rejected Peter Dutton...
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Fatty Lamb @fattylamb.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
The immediate threat of Nuclear energy for Australia has taken a rest with the defeat of the LNP. Australia has chosen a renewable energy future. We need to educate our communities on the dangers of possible Nuclear weapons on our shores and review AUKUS. #nuclear #AUKUS www.acf.org.au/climate
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Renewable Powered Australia
Our communities and wildlife are at the frontlines of climate impacts. Floods, heatwaves, droughts and bushfires are getting more frequent and more extreme. People all over Australia are speaking out,...
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Fatty Lamb @fattylamb.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
“Minority or not, the message for Labor this time around isn’t ‘keep-offering-people-the-same-as last-time and call it stability’, it’s ‘use the chance you have been given to change things, before people force change upon you’.” #auspol #election2025 www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...
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If the Albanese government is re-elected, it needs to do more
If Albanese and Labor don’t do something with power to measurably improve people’s lives this time around, they risk losing it all.
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Bruce Williams @brucewilliams4.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
www.crikey.com.au/2025/05/02/p... The modelling for the Coalition’s signature nuclear policy was created by pro-nuclear boffins who have a cosy relationship with Nuclear for Australia, an organisation with ties to the Liberal Party.
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Dutton's 'independent' nuclear modelling was created by a pro-nuclear think tank
The Coalition has been plugging its nuclear modelling over the course of the election campaign — but was the advice actually as independent as it claims?
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Fatty Lamb @fattylamb.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Australian RW fringe has had a lust for ☢️ weapons since 1953. In 2021 IPA releases its ☢️ policy quickly embraced by Dutton’s LNP. The policy emphasises the synergy between Energy and Military ☢️ application. ☢️ is about weapons. LNP=RW fringe! #nuclear #auspol. johnmenadue.com/post/2025/05...
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No, it is not time for Australia to acquire its own nuclear weapons
Clive Hamilton’s proposal that Australia should consider acquiring nuclear weapons relies on several flawed assumptions. The biggest of these is the myth that nuclear weapons make us — or anybody — sa...
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Fatty Lamb @fattylamb.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Power prices have decreased by 11.5% across Australia since June 2022, and yet we are told that power prices are out of control. We are currently transforming to a renewable energy economy. Power prices will rise if we adopt ☢️. #auspol #election2025 #nuclear www.theguardian.com/business/gro...
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Getting tangled up talking about inflation, Peter Dutton has blown the opportunity he was handed | Greg Jericho
Cost-of-living problems are real – there’s no need for the Coalition to use even bigger numbers
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Scott Hamilton @sdhamiltonvic.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
BREAKING NEWS: Coalition Costings Confirm They Will Axe All Major Smart Energy & Smart Transport Programs - @smartenergycouncil.bsky.social #auspol #AusVotes25
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Fatty Lamb @fattylamb.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Just released by Saul Roche, a great piece of truth telling. #closethegap #auspol #noroomforracism open.spotify.com/track/68j57J...
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Don't Tell Me
Saul Roche · It Was Late · Song · 2025
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ladystardust ☮️ @ladystardust64.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Albo is at the #NPC today, again. Dutton wants to be PM of this country and professes himself a 'strong leader' but is too scared and weak to front up to the national press club, attempt to speak coherently, and then answer questions from journalists. Pathetic. Dutton is pathetic. #auspol
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Louise Milligan @milliganreports.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
BREAKING THREAD: 1. Cost of living’s at forefront of #auspol election, so 4 Corners did deep dive into the PM & Opposition Leader’s finances. Analysing complicated document maze, we found Peter Dutton failed to declare to parliament he was beneficiary of family trust. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...
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'Public has a right to know': Peter Dutton failed to declare interest in a family trust
A Four Corners investigation finds Opposition Leader Peter Dutton failed to disclose his interest in a family trust for two years.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Just incase you were wondering why Dutton decided yesterday to label the ABC as hate media.. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...
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'Public has a right to know': Peter Dutton failed to declare interest in a family trust
A Four Corners investigation finds Opposition Leader Peter Dutton failed to disclose his interest in a family trust for two years.
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David Pocock @davidpocock.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Serious concerns about Commissioner Brereton’s impartiality are growing & still, not a single public hearing from the NACC. To restore trust, we need new leadership at the top & public hearings where it’s in the public interest. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...
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Anti-corruption watchdog boss's defence links spark impartiality concerns
The head of Australia's anti-corruption watchdog has been repeatedly photographed in full military regalia since taking on the $780,000 a year role.
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Prof Jenny Hocking @palaceletters.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Look out #Dickson! Dutton just said he's happy for a nuclear reactor to be in his own electorate #auspol #leadersdebate
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Lisa the Leftist @lisatellstruth.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Everything crossed here in #wannon for #AlexDyson 🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡
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Renew Economy @reneweconomy.com.au · 24/04/2025
The Coalition’s own energy policy modelling shows the notional savings of going nuclear are dwarfed by the gutting of Australian industrial capacity
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Coalition’s nuclear gambit will cost Australia trillions – and permanently gut its industry
The Coalition’s own energy policy modelling shows the notional savings of going nuclear are dwarfed by the gutting of Australian industrial capacity.
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Rex Patrick @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
It’s his flagship policy, but Peter Dutton might have twigged to the reality his (economically flawed) nuclear power plan is politically radioactive. He can't admit that, but I don't think he'll be visiting Port Augusta anytime soon. #auspol #saparli
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Exclusion zones: is Peter Dutton’s campaign avoiding proposed nuclear power sites?
The opposition leader says he ‘won’t be able to get to all’ of the seven locations earmarked for flagship nuclear policy, while Labor says he has not been within 50km of any during election campaign
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 23/04/2025
Energy, insurance, and food are all getting more expensive. But the one group paying none of the costs are the giant fossil fuel exporters causing the problem in the first place Join @richarddenniss.bsky.social to discuss the solutions! 📅Mon 28 April 6.30pm 📍Fremantle Town Hall #auspol
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Fatty Lamb @fattylamb.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
AUKUS Pillar Two working exactly as planned, to allow Australia to launder what would otherwise be illegal — or at the very least grossly immoral — weapons sales to Israel through the US. #auspol #AUKUS johnmenadue.com/post/2025/04...
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AUKUS is more than nuclear submarines and that's a problem
When we think of AUKUS, most people picture the dangerous $368 billion gamble on a handful of nuclear submarines. The truth is AUKUS is a lot more, and a lot more dangerous, than these submarines.
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Sandra N @attempt57.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Gina Rinehart, staunch Coalition supporter, as described by her son John Hancock. “But she’s tough. And look, she probably would have been a great soldier or something.” “Whatever’s in her way is just obliterated without further thought.” #auspol #AusVotes
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Inside the bitter billion-dollar feud tearing Gina Rinehart’s family apart
John Hancock has been waging a legal battle against his mother since 2004. He has barely seen her outside of a courtroom since
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Victoria Fielding @drvicfielding.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
The most awkward thing you will see this year 🫣
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Aaron Dodd @aarondodd.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Pezzullo was sacked for breaching the government code of conduct and Dutton wants him back. That tells us everything we need to know about Dutton's respect for morality, decency and the law. Dutton is unfit for public office, let alone the PMship. #auspol www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...
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Dutton says sacked Home Affairs boss Pezzullo ‘should have a role to play’ in nation’s future
Mike Pezzullo says he would be prepared to “again serve my country” if the government asked.
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