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Glenn Connley

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Senior Media Advisor at The Australia Institute

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Glenn Connley @glennconnley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Remember this next time you hear the industry's lies about how much they contribute. #taxgas
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Glenn Connley @glennconnley.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The gas industry hates this campaign. So please share this. Big Gas Is Taking The Piss ... the sequel!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6Jf...
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LICK THE PLATE - Tax the Gas Industry
YouTube video by The Australia Institute
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Glenn Connley @glennconnley.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The White House Press Corps' decision to "boycott" Trump by covering him without audio is doing him a favour. He's far less annoying when you can't hear what he's gibbering about. Just don't cover the orange clown at all.
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Glenn Connley @glennconnley.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Demonising those seeking a better life in Australia has been political gold for a generation. It's also a pot of gold for some. thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
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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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Glenn Connley @glennconnley.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
You should see @rodcampbell.bsky.social kicking for goal on the run from 50 ... Footy fans ... and players ... for a gas tax!
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Glenn Connley @glennconnley.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
So, One Nation's Vic leader is a meth user and pervert. Oh, and their super "policy" was never modelled. Yeah, their people and dot points (they call them policies) were always going to live up to scrutiny 😁
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Glenn Connley @glennconnley.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
You think the ship looked bad. What about the poor bastards on it? Hundreds of days at sea and another US military defeat under the guidance of an orange coward who faked injury to avoid serving his country. www.bbc.com/news/videos/...
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USS Abraham Lincoln turned up in Thailand looking rusty - why?
When the USS Abraham Lincoln docked in Thailand this week some people were quick to criticise the condition it was in.
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Glenn Connley @glennconnley.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Ah, the old flag distraction. And it's been dutifully swallowed up by the media. For the record, I would never burn the flag. I'd change it in a heartbeat. After that, instead of burn the old ones, I'd make dog beds out them.
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Rod Campbell @rodcampbell.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
It's a scam, it's a scam, it's a scam. Taxpayers will pay for 95% of the NSW Great Koala National Park. Yet Chris Minns/Bowen say $$ from climate polluters for offsets are essential. Me in The Point: thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
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Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
ICYMI- My #climate cartoon for @thepointau.bsky.social
Scene is a boardroom with a table of suited (mostly) men and women.
On the wall is a sign saying "Fossil Fuel Co" and underneath the boss is saying 'I know people are losing faith in politicians these days but the ones WE own have been terrific"
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Glenn Connley @glennconnley.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
A valediction. My @smh @theage cartoon.
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Glenn Connley @glennconnley.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The world needs fewer Trumps and more Dollys thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
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Famously, fiercely non-political, Dolly Parton could teach our politicians a thing or two
Parton was famously not-political. It’s how she managed to be so political. She refused to become bogged down in terms or fights over identity politics, while she quietly got on with the work of makin...
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Glenn Connley @glennconnley.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
This is one of the bravest things I've ever seen a politician do. Jacqui Lambie tells the Senate the injury which ended her military career was just the beginning of her health hell.
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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Sarah Hanson-Young has absolutely shredded Angus Taylor for turning into Albanese’s “lapdog” & capitulating on gambling reform “How pathetic! What an absolute stitch up!”💥 “Angus Taylor looks more like Toto, than he does the leader of the Opposition”🔥 Brutal stuff.
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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
David Shoebridge rips into the major parties for “meeting in dark rooms” with their “One Nation mates” to give gas corps a free ride despite their “wartime profits” while “cutting the deal to drive 160,000 ppl off the NDIS”💥 #auspol
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Glenn Connley @glennconnley.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Which is more pathetic ... Dave Hughes' mindless bleating on social media ... or Dave Hughes trying to be serious, giving a PRESS CONFERENCE at a Liberal event? I suppose it's too much to ask of a journalist dispatched to cover this "story" to actually fact check some of his bullshit?
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Glenn Connley @glennconnley.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
How stupid do you have to be for your ignorance to be highlighted by Sky after darkers and republished by the most right wing News Corpse rag?
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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
David Shoebridge unloads on Labor/ON/LNP for yet again joining forces to block a gas export tax & says it’s time to “replace Labor” — not with parties who “wander off to some Sicilian resort with the billionaire class”🔥 but with the only party who stands up to them, The Greens.
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Glenn Connley @glennconnley.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
How are these executives not in the clink? www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...
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‘What drugs do you want?’: How betting companies lured Luke Bateman into gambling more
“The entire sort of C-suite of the company was there. All the management team administration, and they were sort of all in a backroom doing drugs together,” the former gambling addict said of one even...
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Pauline Hanson: racist www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Pauline Hanson loses bid to overturn Mehreen Faruqi racial discrimination finding
Judges find in Faruqi’s favour after One Nation leader launched an appeal against judgement she had breached Racial Discrimination Act
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 16/07/2026
Junk food companies can't lie about their products being healthy. So why can politicians in NSW lie in their election ads? ✍️ Add your name to the petition for truth in political advertising laws in NSW! ⤵️⤵️⤵️ #auspol @browne90.bsky.social
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Glenn Connley @glennconnley.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
How To Lose Voters 1.0 Angus Taylor: "I know, I'll get a selfie with that whining property investor who used to be a comedian." Pauline Hanson (in Italy): "Hold my beer ..."
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Glenn Connley @glennconnley.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Just when you thought Irrelevant Angus Taylor's political judgment couldn't get any worse Two out-of-touch rich guys walk into a cafe ...
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Glenn Connley @glennconnley.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
News Corpse has failed in its attempt to beat this into a story. Pity. Aussie soccer fans in Seattle chanting ... "Aussies on a bender ... Trump's a sex offender". Truth, as they say, is a defence.
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Glenn Connley @glennconnley.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Whereas Ray Hadley is only Australia's EQUAL WORST radio big mouth since Federation, tied with that disgusting sleaze bag Alan Jones.
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Glenn Connley @glennconnley.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
I've never really been into Dave Hughes' whiny style of comedy. But each to their own. However, his whining about tax is just bullshit. This 'man of the people' is a rich property investor. His social media bleating has more factual errors than a One Nation 'policy'. Spare me.
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Glenn Connley @glennconnley.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
$368 billion is more than $13,000 for every Australian ... from newborn babies to 90-year-olds. But where does that figure even come from? What we do know about AUKUS makes it look like a dreadful deal. I can't help think what we don't know is even worse.
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Glenn Connley @glennconnley.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Loving the old clips of Obama being cheered as he happily, smilingly, awakenly attended sporting events ... compared to snoozing orange clown being booed mercilessly at Game 3 today. American's hate this fraudulent, sleezy, cowardly predator as much as the rest of the world.
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Glenn Connley @glennconnley.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
The more the Herald Sun and Australian attack Jacinta Allan, the more likely she is to win in November. Any reasonable reader can see through the vitriol, misogyny and lies. Murdoch's gross tactics have backfired for years.
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Glenn Connley @glennconnley.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
"Angus didn't do his homework." Cracking headline/caption in Michael West Media today. michaelwest.com.au/angus-cannon...
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Angus. Cannon. Foot. A match made in taxation debate heaven. - Michael West
Angus Taylor says that failing to index income tax thresholds to inflation was a form of 'stealing' from taxpayers. Evidence says otherwise.
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Glenn Connley @glennconnley.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
With friends like these ... Brilliant analysis from @emmashortis.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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What’s a few secondhand subs between friends? Aukus revision shows how the US treats its allies. Will Australia stand for it? | Emma Shortis
As Pete Hegseth reshapes the US military into a hyper-masculine zone of ‘warfighters’, we should ask if this is really who we want to be ‘good friends’ with
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Glenn Connley @glennconnley.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Not sure what kind of hockey Susan McDonald watches, but the budget papers say PRRT revenue is going backwards. Surely she isn't just parroting the gas lobby's lies again. Who needs Treasury data when you can just make sh*t up?
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Lauren Deschain @thatnerdchick.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Thanks, Vonnegut. 💜
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Barnaby Joyce seems to be very exercised about testamentary trusts. No idea why. www.aph.gov.au/-/media/03_S...
Screenshot of Barnaby Joyce's parliamentary register of interests 

Name of trust/nominee company
Nature of its operation Beneficial interests
Self; James Michael Joyce Trust Testamentary Trust; Bloodline Beneficiary
Dependent Children; James Michael Joyce Trust Testamentary Trust;  Bloodline Beneficiary

(ii) in which the Member, the Member's spouse or a child who is wholly or mainly dependent on the Member for support, is a trustee (but not including a trustee of an estate where no beneficial interest is
held by the Member, the Member's spouse or dependent children), indicating the name of the trust, the nature of its operation and the beneficiary of the trust.
Name of trust/nominee company
Nature of operation Beneficiary of the trust
Children
Sebastian Joyce Trust; Share Investment; Master Sebastian Joyce
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
This headline is a disgusting lie Special Disability Trusts are not affected *AT ALL* The article even makes it clear the concerns of the bloke (a solicitor with expertise in wills and estates) in this story are not about his disabled son but his other children being able to minimize their tax!
Headlined from The Australian 

Families of disabled children forced to overhaul finances under new Labor tax reformstext of story:

The first trust is a special disability trust, which will be largely unaffected by tax reforms in Labor’s controversial federal budget.

While it has some “limitations” as to how it can be spent, this trust will allow a few trusted people to access enough funds to see Henry properly cared for.

The second is a discretionary testamentary trust, which would be taxed at Labor’s new 30 per cent minimum if it was being established in the future.

Mr Latham told The Australian the initial appeal of a testamentary trust was its flexibility. “What that (trust) was intended to do was provide a pool of funds as a contingency for my son with a disability. But there’s also a broader range of beneficiaries, which includes my other children, so if Henry’s needs were met, there would be flexibility for the trustees to apply the funds more broadly to other beneficiaries,” he said.
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Michigan Maple Man 🍁🇨🇦 🇬🇱🥄🌲🐓⛷️🚵🏼‍♀️🎻🏕️🔨💋🐝🪵🌻🌈❄️🛶💙📎🐸 @mimapleman.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
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Glenn Connley @glennconnley.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Think about this. The Prime Minister of Australia is now openly quoting inaccurate talking points from the gas lobby. Not ATO data. Not his own government's budget papers - talking points from a bunch of foreign-owned companies taking an entire nation for a ride.
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Glenn Connley @glennconnley.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
This is such a great point.
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 14/05/2026
Albanese was asked about a gas tax on SBS, and a few of his answers sounded more like gas company spin than a government making sure Australians get a fair return for their resources! @grogsgamut.bsky.social #auspol
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Glenn Connley @glennconnley.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
How can anybody take a news article seriously when it begins with the phrase ... "A coalition government would ..." ?
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Glenn Connley @glennconnley.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
The Liberal Murdoch budget bed wetting is hilarious. It's like they think they're relevant or something 😄😁😂
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Glenn Connley @glennconnley.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Excellent analysis of what fairly taxing gas exports could pay for: live.thepoint.com.au/2026/05/the-...
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Glenn Connley @glennconnley.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Hume, Duniam and Wilson whining that changes to CGT and neg gearing will deny young Australians the chance to buy investment properties. Do they even know, thanks to Howard, there's a generation for whom a home, let alone a bloody investment property, is an impossible dream? Irrelevant clowns.
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Glenn Connley @glennconnley.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
All this plotting, like they're proposing meaningful reform. Most of the meetings were probably about how they water it down. www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
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Inside PM’s secret meetings to plot a budget bombshell – and the final decision made weeks ago
Weeks after Labor’s monster win, Albanese started thinking big on housing. By last summer, he was hatching a plan - and only two other people knew about it.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Sorry ABC - 8m are not on "income support". My fact check for @thepointau.bsky.social thepoint.com.au/factchecks/2...
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Factcheck: The ABC’s claim that "8 million rely on income support" conflated paid sick leave with income support
The problem is, that the ABC article was not based on data from the Department of Social Services. Rather, it was based on research compiled for a life insurers lobby group, whose board are all CEOs o...
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Ben Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Is there something worse you could do in your career than representing an asbetos company? I guess you could try to destroy one of Australia's leading universities ... www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...
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Julie Bishop resigns as ANU chancellor
The former foreign minister had previously rejected calls from university staff and students to resign.
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Glenn Connley @glennconnley.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
I think this is what they call a good start www.canberratimes.com.au/story/924227...
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Julie Bishop resigns as ANU chancellor
ACT senators respond to resignation.
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 07/05/2026
New Australia Institute polling shows 59% of Australian voters believe Trump is a greater threat to global security than Putin or Xi. A year ago, it was just 31%. "Most Australians are ready to break up with Donald Trump's version of America." @emmashortis.bsky.social #auspol
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Glenn Connley @glennconnley.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
This is how much One Nation cares about Farrer. They screw over a local business - cancelling their election night gathering four days before the vote. Dog act. www.bordermail.com.au/story/924037...
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Party's last-minute byelection booking snub leaves 'bad taste in my mouth'
Planned event for up to 500 people terminated at the last minute.
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