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A Scot in Oz

@garybryson.bsky.social
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Lefty troublemaker and recovering Glaswegian. I live on unceded Gundungurra and Dharug land in the glorious Blue Mountains west of Sydney. No DMs, please.

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Independent Australia @independentaus.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
AUKUS critics warn the $500 billion submarine deal is sacrificing Australian sovereignty and social priorities to deeper integration with the U.S. war machine. AUKUS Inquiry exposes the great submarine deception ~ Dr John Jiggens buff.ly/s1tEoNT
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AUKUS Inquiry exposes the great submarine deception
AUKUS critics warn the $500 billion submarine deal is sacrificing Australian sovereignty and social priorities to deeper integration with the U.S. war machine.
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OskiDarski @oskidarski.bsky.social · 11h
"🎶There are many, many more of us than you!" uk.news.yahoo.com/moment-hundr...
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Moment hundreds of anti-racist protestors outnumber a dozen far right in Birmingham
Hundreds turned up for the West Midlands Against Racism Unity March and Rally
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 9h
Ireland is pushing a motion to ban Israel from FIFA and UEFA. It has made JD Vance very mad. It's time to remove Israel from world sport, don't you agree?
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 22h
OpenAI’s chief strategy officer will appear at an Australian parliamentary inquiry today. Most of our political class will try to limit this to the recent data breach, but there's a much bigger context to consider... #auspol
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Gekko @gekko.bsky.social · 22h
The Greens under new leadership have made the decision to be a government-in-waiting and many Australians are energised by that Its not only a mess made by Albanese and Labor, its a dysfunctional mess created by major parties in our body politic that serves no-one johnmenadue.com/post/2026/10...
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Greens can hope to pick up the mess Labor and Albanese have made
Labor’s shift to the right has opened political space on its left. If the Greens seriously want to become an alternative party of government, they must take votes from Labor, professionalise and build...
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 1h
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The Shovel @theshovel.bsky.social · 20h
Friends of the dickhead, who believed his car made other cars look “like little bitch hatchbacks”, say he is quietly wishing he had a little bitch hatchback right now. Read the full story: theshovel.com.au/2026/03/18/d...
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Dickhead With Ute Taller Than Himself Not So Fucking Smug About It Now — The Shovel
An Australian man who bought an American pick-up truck the size of a two-storey townhouse because he thought it would make him look tough, has pulled his head in a little after realising he may be spe...
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 10h
"Unfortunately, our coffee is so good that even One Nation members spend their money here — owned and run by a gay, indigenous-descended, trans-inclusive, pro-multicultural, anti-flag, pro-choice, anti-generative AI, Greens voter." 😂
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News to Remember @moments2remember.link · 12h
Thousands are now marching at Cornell University campus, standing in solidarity with Jane Doe. “Tear down the fucking frats. No Justice, No Peace” Thank you to everyone who is protesting. Jane Doe, you are not alone. We are all with you. Justice for Jane Doe.
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Belinda Weaver @longtimeleftie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Holy hell. "The count is stark: the US military controls 17 facilities on the mainland and has access to 75 more Australian-run installations. American defence corporations reach a further 18." Australian sovereignty is DEAD. asenseofplacemagazine.substack.com/p/australia-...
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Australia is now a US base: A foreign military has the run of the country
The Australian continent has always been useful to other people’s wars.
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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 11h
It's a bit greedy and selfish for Gina to control THREE Australian political parties. #auspol #Liberals #Nationals #OneNation
Mining billionaire Gina Rinehart.
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Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 9h
Holy hell. Why isn’t this in Western news? Israeli professor tried to organise simultaneous terror attacks killing and drive out Palestinians. 🤯 www.timesofisrael.com/bar-ilan-uni...
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Bar-Ilan University math professor charged with plotting to murder hundreds of Arabs
Suspect allegedly tried to convince, then blackmail, right-wing politician Moshe Feiglin into helping to find recruits for mass simultaneous attacks supported by 'subversive elements' in IDF
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Rob Arnol @robertarnol.bsky.social · 18h
Remember during the pandemic the western NSW town where the average life expectancy of Aboriginal people was 38 for women and 36 for men? I wonder what was done to improve those numbers?
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Lisa Catara (official)💎 @lisa-catara.bsky.social · 4h
I GENUINELY don't understand the obsession w/Starbucks products. It's rubbish. The coffee is too acidic and over roasted. You can barely discern any flavor. The consumables are barely food. Everything is overpriced. Why stay loyal to low quality product? Shop small businesses ☕️
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Gekko @gekko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Gina the Unelected Billionaire, the puppeteer behind One Nation, the primary bank account underpinning One Nation - clearing office space for Pauline Gina - you didn't even attend the One Nation launch in Victoria! You've never stood for election You just buy people
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Lilly @lillyull.bsky.social · 21h
David Pocock’s Commonwealth Land (Affordable Housing) Bill would require affordable housing to be built into residential development on Commonwealth land. It deserves support because public land should deliver lasting public value, not simply the highest possible sale price.
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Public land should deliver public value
David Pocock’s Commonwealth Land (Affordable Housing) Bill would require affordable housing to be built into residential development on Commonwealth land. It deserves support because public land shoul...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 5h
Not that anyone needs a reminder but this man has the nuclear codes. Far too many people will just shrug this off or find some way to justify it. But Trump is unwell, incoherent, and a danger to us all.
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Eddy Jokovich @eddyjokovich.bsky.social · 19h
Something about the #FlyDubai story doesn't add up. Conflicting accounts, extraordinary claims, unanswered questions – and an extraordinarily convenient political narrative. Why didn’t journalists check the stories? The Weekly Brief from New Politics: www.newpolitics.com.au/p/why-the-fl...
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Why the FlyDubai story doesn’t add up, a Greens left turn and Australia’s politics of power
The FlyDubai narrative deserves more scrutiny, Shoebridge pushes the Greens towards the populist left; One Nation gets closer to Rinehart; Big tech and AI; and Labor pushes another massive coalmine.
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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 10h
It's always good to know who you're really voting for. #auspol #Labor #Liberals #OneNation #Greens
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 3h
Finland orders halt to work on Google data centers over environmental concerns
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Finland orders halt to work on Google data centers over environmental concerns
Regulators have ordered the company representing the US web giant in Finland to stop building data centers until it can demonstrate compliance with environmental laws. Officials are investigating whether trees and soil were cleared before the company carried out an impact study.
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3wombats @3wombats.bsky.social · 17h
These things are all take with very little give back
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 18h
#AUKUS is a costly, stupid and strategically dangerous investment in US sycophancy. But what has got not enough publicity is that the "ludicrously overstaffed Australian Submarine Agency" has "1,200 people and growing". How many staff does it take to send money overseas? #EndAUKUS #auspol
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livesarah @livesarah.bsky.social · 19h
Sounds like Shoebridge is doing just about everything right then, yeah? 🖕
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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 14h
“The three Gs – gas, gambling and Gaza” - Albo under pressure from Hannah Ferguson in his own seat. @michaelpascoe01.bsky.social #Grayndler #auspol #polls michaelwest.com.au/albos-suppor...
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Albo's support down. Could he really lose his seat? - Michael West
It seems unthinkable, but could a PM enjoying a two-to-one margin at the last election be tossed out of parliament at the next?
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 23h
Reminder - Japan imports more gas from Australia than it needs, and so it onsells it to other countries for a profit. www.afr.com/world/asia/a...
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Australia moves to calm Japan’s jitters over gas reservation policy
Treasurer Jim Chalmers used a large business gathering near Tokyo to promise executives that Australia would remain a dependable energy supplier.
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ABC News Australia @news.abc.net.au · 05/10/2026
Norway proposes temporary ban on smart glasses amid privacy fears
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Norway proposes temporary ban on smart glasses amid privacy fears
The push comes amid growing ethical and privacy concerns around the new devices, which have been marketed by technology giants such as Meta.
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Scotland's No1 Comrade @scotlandscomrade.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Monsters of pure evil. #IsraelisAGenocidalState #Warmongers
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angry-goddess.bsky.social @angry-goddess.bsky.social · 21h
How to buy government by Gina Rinehart #auspol
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MingTheMerciless @mingthemercyless.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I signed The Australia Institute's petition to phase out fossil fuels, even though I don't think our opinions will make any difference to turncoat weasels like @albomp.bsky.social's policies while pay for policy corruption (ie: 'donations') exists nb.australiainstitute.org.au/phase-out-fo... #auspol
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✍️ ADD YOUR NAME: Phase out fossil fuels
Emissions reduction targets won’t solve the climate crisis if they’re built on fiction. It's time for the government to tackle the biggest source of carbon emissions in Australia – fossil fuels.
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Climate action is not about saving the planet. The planet will survive. It's about saving PEOPLE from climatological, hydrological, biological and geomorphological collapse.
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whatdowewant.bsky.social @whatdowewant.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Amazing how the zionists can't imagine a democratic state where Palestinians and Jews live side by side. What does that tell you? That they are racists. Zionism is racism
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@alegriaboulangere @alegriaboulangere.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Bezo's ex wife got a huge settlement and that is exactly what this woman is doing with it, without any fan fare!
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Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"Before Stonehenge was raised, before Egypts first pyramid broke ground,before the Nazca people drew their famous lines across the Peruvian desert,someone in what is now southern Arizona shaped a 272-foot fish into the earth On April 23,2026,"a border-wall contractor drove heavy equipment across it"
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Trump's Border Wall Construction Destroys 6,500-Year-Old Arizona Geoglyph – Older Than Stonehenge
Arizona's 6,500-year-old Las Playas Intaglio, the oldest dated geoglyph in the Americas, was irreparably damaged by border wall construction in April 2026.
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AW Sylwester @aw-sylwester.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Freethinkers United For Change @freethinkersunite.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Hegseth also removed the olive branches, a traditional symbol of wishing peace, from the Department of Defense seal. This, in addition to changing the name to "The Department of War," shows the dangerous belligerency that comes from appointing a frat bro who values testosterone over statesmanship.
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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Australia wants a seat on UNGA. Yet our silence over attacks on the ICC, the US attack on Venezuela & Iran rings loudly. Pass the Red Lines Package, says Professor Emily Crawford @SydneyLawSchool #auspol michaelwest.com.au/internationa...
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International law isn't dead. It's being tested. Australia can prove it matters - Michael West
The silence in Canberra over attacks on the ICC, the US attack on Venezuela and the war on Iran rings loudly. Legislate the Red Lines Package.
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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A Scot in Oz @garybryson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The world should accept bad things happening to billionaire tech bros.
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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Chris Minns’ fashion police. Being Palestinian is now a public order offence Andrew Brown reports. Read it here: michaelwest.com.au/chris-minns-fash…
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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Anthony Galloway from The Australian says you have to question One Nation’s priorities, to not let media into their campaign launch in Victoria—but welcomed in a Neo Nazi. 🙄 “How are they still letting these kinds of people in?”💥 They rely on the Nazi vote, Anthony.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Amy notes that China has joined Japan is now onselling Australian gas. FMD we *really* need to tax the gas. Barely a more obvious policy has presented itself. One political party will do it and they will get all the advantage. #TaxTheGas www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...
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Two things easily missed while we were distracted by trivia
In Australia, we’re too busy looking at the next carriage on the political sushi train to realise the track itself is broken.
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3wombats @3wombats.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Gone back for his hat?
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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Chris Minns' fashion police. There's a word for an official govt policy which bans one traditional clothing item but not another. Anybody? Andrew Brown #keffiya #auspol michaelwest.com.au/chris-minns-...
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Chris Minns' fashion police. Being Palestinian is now a public order offence - Michael West
NSW Premier Chris Minns is easily offended and wants to prosecute one cultural group over another because of what they wear.
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nevyn @nevyn8.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
#auspol #australia #onenation #pantonewhite
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Like so many in Australia's media class, Karvelas extols "the sensible centre". A mindless cliche that only protects powerful interests and the neoliberal nightmare, fails to fix rising #inequality, #poverty and the #ClimateCrisis, and fuels One Nation and #FarRight. aka toxic centrism. #auspol
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The best antidote to One Nation's rise would be to fix the economic grievances driving their support. #auspol
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Doug Cameron @dncameron.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Don’t listen to religious extremist and warmonger Hegseth and his sycophantic mate Marles who claims “shared values” with this obnoxious and dangerous fool. Military experts, politicians, diplomats peace activists, unions, faith groups all oppose the madness that is AUKUS.
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@lizglab.bsky.social @lizglab.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Finally, a sensible policy. ‘The Greens support a dramatic downgrading of the US-Australia alliance — including renegotiating the bedrock ANZUS treaty.’ “The US military bases aren’t making us safe; they’re making us a target.”
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New Greens leader: No weapons for Ukraine, curtail the US alliance
David Shoebridge believes the Greens can win votes by campaigning to scrap the AUKUS nuclear-powered submarine pact and legalise recreational cannabis.
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