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Glyn @glyneast.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
So they'll raise rates in response to international factors and punish again domestic mortgage holders while we all wait for the appearance of the big scary wages price spiral. It would be laughable if not so serious. #auspol
thepoint.com.au
More rate rises are coming, but don’t expect your wages to rise with them
In their appearance before the House Economics Committee on Friday, the executive of the Reserve Bank made it quite clear that we can expect more interest rate rises to come, but made little suggestio...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A macho culture of performative selfishness might start on the roads, through racing, rolling coal, ever bigger SUVs ... But it doesn't end there. If we want to live in a decent country which values human life, we need to change this culture. My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Driving that’s too fast, too dangerous and utterly lawless: why do we tolerate this petro-masculinity? | George Monbiot
In towns and in the countryside, I see 4x4s and pick up trucks driven without care or consicence. It’s a Magafication of transport, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Glyn @glyneast.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Government's not actually governing, just marginalising and blaming. It's woeful #auspol Also check out Amy's excellent book 'Where it all went wrong' for more.
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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Here's me. 'Penny! Are 191.5 tons of nitrocellulose we sent to Israel “nonlethal in nature”?'
theshot.net.au
Penny! Are 191.5 tons of nitrocellulose we sent to Israel “nonlethal in nature”?  - The Shot
Like Macklemore and Ed Sheeran, and Ed Sheeran’s band and Ed Sheeran, relations between Penny Wong and myself are “complicated”....
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Glyn @glyneast.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Shameful. 'Can someone explain why – in an economy in which the central bank has decided we need almost 700,000 people to be unemployed – those people live in such dreadful poverty that it can make you up to 10 times more likely to die in the prime of your life?' #auspol
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Glyn @glyneast.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Compelling perspective, but it's easier for pollies to turn us against others, than to express this sort of vision #auspol
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The Chaser @chaser.com.au · 16/09/2026
Pauline Hanson has written a helpful guide on who to direct anger at so you can keep being as angry as she needs until the next election: preview.mailerlite.io/emails/webvi...
Pauline's Guide for Who to Hate - The Chaser Weakly
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Glyn @glyneast.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
100% needed if we are to avoid the 'inequality wars' in the future. #auspol
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 15/09/2026
Offsetting fossil fuel emissions is like thinking that going for a walk makes up for having a cigarette. That's the logic our governments use to justify fossil fuel expansion. 📺co-CEO Richard Denniss delivers his keynote address at today's #ClimateIntegrity Summit 2026 @richarddenniss.bsky.social
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Mark @mark-melbin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
2012: "The shadowy world of #IPA finances" #auspol #ThinkTanks www.abc.net.au/news/2012-02...
abc.net.au
The shadowy world of IPA finances
The IPA knows that its credibility would be shot if it were seen to be the mouthpiece of big business with an interest in undermining climate science and climate policy.
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Amante2 AmeliaBee7 @amante2ameliabee7.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Because it’s never been about actually governing; it’s only about fuelling irrational rage so the masses will remain oblivious to the unchecked control and grifting that power can offer her and her billionaire ‘mates’
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
In my continuing series on how much Australians have turned away from travelling to the USA since Trump was elected: "The World Cup wasn’t even enough to convince Australians to travel to the USA" thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...
thepoint.com.au
The World Cup wasn’t even enough to convince Australians to travel to the USA
It’s official: not even the World Cup can make Australians travel to the United States anywhere close to the degree they did before Trump came to power. As I have noted before, when a World Cup is hel...
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I've done a deep-dive on the Harborne and Delo mega-donations over the weekend, and whether they may have to be handed back From my reading, a lot of unlikely things have to be true at once for the two £36m 'gifts' to be allowed once the (retrospective) Representation of the People Bill becomes law
bylinetimes.com
Why Reform UK Could Be Forced to Hand Back Their £72m Donations From Crypto Billionaires
Christopher Harborne and Ben Delo gave a record £36 million each over the weekend to Nigel Farage's party, but a new law means they may have to take it all back
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The Shovel @theshovel.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Yet another example of a right-wing-libertarian-anti-government-anti-welfare fuckwit not having the self-awareness to realise that they themselves are ACTUALLY FUNDED BY TAXPAYERS. Read the full story: theshovel.com.au/2026/09/14/f...
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Oli Mould @olimould.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The Premier League and Sky Sports doing all their 'suicide prevention' campaigning, then cutting immediately to adverts for betting companies is the kind of jarring juxtaposition that is symptomatic of late capitalism
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John Quiggin @johnquiggin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Australian media: Migrants are pushing house prices up, and that’s a disaster Also Australian media: Tax policy is pushing house prices down, and that’t a disaster #auspol
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Riddle me this. If somebody donates £36 million to a political party and £5 million to its leader, how is the £5 million not political? Asking for a parliamentary standards commissioner.
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The world’s scientists breathed a sigh of relief this week as temperatures in the UK dropped below 35 degrees, meaning that everything is fine and we can go back to burning fossil fuels forever without any worries. From the Private Eye archive. Issue 1682, August 2026.
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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
One Nation and the myth of a monoculture that doesn’t exist Max Jeganathan reports. Read it here: michaelwest.com.au/one-nation-and-t…
Michael West Media story graphic
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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Whether or not the digital duty of care is good policy is one thing. But pretending the Coalition is against it because of ‘freedom of speech’ or ‘protecting the press’ is delusional - ESPECIALLY from Sarah Henderson www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...
thenewdaily.com.au
Coalition's leading culture warrior ties herself in free-speech knots
Henderson has made a career out of declaring what she believes free speech to be, seeking to squash views she doesn’t personally agree with.
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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
This is not only stupid but extremely dangerous. Turning off police cameras just guarantees more abuse, zero transparency, and taxpayers footing the bill for the fallout. Cameras protect the public, and honest cops.
Sky News headline reading NSW One Nation leader Mike Newman declares police should be able to turn off body cams to physically retaliate against violent criminals
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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Here's a French video (with English subtitles) about what would happen if the far-right racists got their way and all foreigners and people of colour were forced to leave.
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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Today’s poem is called ‘You Can’t Judge a Book’.
You Can’t Judge a Book
 
you can’t judge a book
by its cover

but neither can
you cover a judge
with a book

unless the book
is a foldy-out one
with a map or something


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Matt Golding @goldingcartoons.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Why Rinehart is pushing to make Hastie an outcast, and backing Hanson to bring him down. www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...
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Tim Baxter @timinclimate.naruresearch.com.au · 10/09/2026
Santos boss Kevin Gallagher spoke at the National Press Club on Wednesday. It'll blow your mind to discover that he spread an awfully large amount of shit. Me in The New Daily:
thenewdaily.com.au
Profits of doom: Gas boss stretches the truth at press club
Countries across our region are seeing gas as a strategic liability. That’s good for climate and energy security, but bad for gas executives.
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Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Policy has intended effect, now here’s the traffic and weather.
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
NEW Why holding a placard is a terrorist act, while causing disruption in a balaclava is not The mess caused by ministers and the police not taking terrorism law seriously By me at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

Recent events in England now reveal the practical difference between terrorists and protesters. It would seem that terrorists peacefully hold placards and get immediately arrested, while protesters wear black uniforms and balaclavas and disrupt infrastructure and do not get arrested.

How did we get into this mess? How have we placed ourselves in the position where terrorism legislation is used to detain and prosecute peaceful protesters, while those adopting the terror tactics of private armies seem to be free to do as they wish?

The reason is that for some time British politicians have not taken terrorism legislation seriously, and that ministers have got into the habit of misusing terror laws for easy targets.
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Glyn @glyneast.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Seems to me they want to suppress your earnings while you're working and reduce your super for when you're retired. #auspol
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Glyn @glyneast.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Heave Ho ⚓️ #freo
abc.net.au
Fremantle Dockers show they have the steel to be best in AFL
Fremantle booked a spot in the AFL Preliminary Finals with a stirring win over Geelong, which showed the Dockers have what it takes to go the whole way.
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Glyn @glyneast.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Let's go Freo ⚓️
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"9/11: Can the US ever recover?" by Allan Behm for @thepointau.bsky.social thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
thepoint.com.au
9/11: Can the US ever recover?
As America’s international behaviour since 9/11 so clearly demonstrates, the damage of 9/11 is burned deeply into the American psyche. America is perpetually hyper-vigilant, and perpetually defensive....
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
It is our solemn duty not just to remember what happened 25 years ago but to acknowledge and repudiate the brutality it summoned in America.
robertreich.substack.com
A quarter-century observance
What it still means
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Elizabeth Warren @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Here's what I think about Trump's pledge to give everyone $5,000 if he wins the midterms: It's as real as Trump's promise to lower costs on Day 1. Check the receipts from Groundwork for the 15 times Trump promised Americans $$$. Remember the DOGE dividend?
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Cycling Weekly @cyclingweekly.com · 10/09/2026
Matthew Brennan is not the new Mark Cavendish – he might be even better than that www.cyclingweekly.com/racing/vuelt...
cyclingweekly.com
Matthew Brennan is not the new Mark Cavendish – he might be even better than that
The 21-year-old has won five stages in his debut Grand Tour, but this is just the start
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Glyn @glyneast.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I mean WTF?
abc.net.au
Officer who hit man on hospital stretcher keeps job with NSW Police
A NSW Police officer keeps his job despite being found guilty of assaulting a man who was being wheeled into hospital on a gurney by paramedics.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This week's column is about the Starmer-like self-destruction of the impending decision to approve new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea. It might appease certain lobby groups, but it sabotages Burnham's own project and drives voters away. Utter madness. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Is Burnham trying to appease Trump? Or Reform? What other reason is there for these North Sea oil plans? | George Monbiot
Climate catastrophe is on our doorstep – yet Labour’s impending approval of further drilling will bring more pain for negligible gains, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Today’s poem is called ‘In the Departure Lounge’.
In the Departure Lounge
 
in the departure lounge,
she drew him near,
then softly whispered in his ear,
not words of parting’s sweet, sweet sorrow,
but don’t forget the bins tomorrow



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3wombats @3wombats.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Most enshitification can be traced to the same cause Privatisation
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Dr Sally @drsally.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Did the cops here understand what they’re supporting? Did they feel big and powerful and brave? Hasn’t she got great hair 
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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Sovereignty has become an issue-by-issue choice www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...
thenewdaily.com.au
How sovereignty has become a calculated issue-by-issue choice
Sovereignty should be on the minds of most Australians, but it’s not – mostly because politicians don’t want it there.
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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 09/09/2026
While many remember the national unity and heroic first responders of #September11, the attacks were also used to justify 2 wars, expanded government surveillance and greater presidential power theconversation.com/what-we-forg...
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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 09/09/2026
We cannot make housing genuinely affordable while insisting that house prices keep rising. For most existing owners, lower values change neither the home they live in nor what a replacement home costs, Michael Keating writes. #auspol #Housing #HousingAffordability
pearlsandirritations.com
Lower house prices should be welcomed
Restoring home ownership requires substantially lower house prices – and for most existing homeowners, falling property values need not leave them materially worse off.
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Rafael Behr @rafaelbehr.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
On the urgent task of stopping nationalists, pumped with Maga propaganda and Kremlin money, conniving against liberal democratic Europe www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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European democracies are running out of time to turn away from the abyss | Rafael Behr
Far-right parties, Maga ideology and Kremlin money are conniving to suffocate liberal idealism for another generation, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Reform conference shock From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I did a thing about legitimate concerns, and - you'll thank me later - defined the collective noun for patriots. No paywall. russincheshire.substack.com/p/legitimate...
russincheshire.substack.com
Legitimate Concerns
How politicians turned migration into a permanent panic — and why the facts tell a different story
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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Today’s poem is called ‘Busman’s Holiday’.
Busman’s Holiday


I had always wanted to go 
on a busman’s holiday
so I saved up for ten years

and then five holidays
came along at once.


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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The balaclava blackshirted thugs are a result of a decade of politicians, tabloids and the broadcast media telling racists they have "legitimate concerns." The normalisation of actual fascism rhetoric and action has led to this and is a far greater "legitimate concern" than any migrant on a boat.
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Glyn @glyneast.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Heave Ho ⚓️
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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Since its foundation in 1824 the bravery of Royal National Lifeboat Institution volunteers has saved more than 146,700 lives at sea. Hundreds of those volunteers have died attempting to save others. They are the best of us.
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Bylines Cymru @bylines.cymru · 08/09/2026
A £51mn facility built for border checks now sits unused, raising more questions about the cost and consequences of Brexit | Joe McDonald
bylines.cymru
Holyhead’s empty Brexit border post exposes the price of Brexit red tape
A £51mn facility built for border checks now sits unused, raising more questions about the cost and consequences of Brexit
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