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Helen

@heleng-gee.bsky.social
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Politics | Science | Food & Wine | Music | Australia Lifelong learner, always busy, work with numbers, hope to travel more.

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Mark Kenny @markgkenny.bsky.social · 9h
Trump cannot understand Zelenskyy because Zelenskyy thinks being rich & powerful are less important than defying an invader & his saving his country. To Trump this is pig-headed, stupid. To Ukrainians, & non-sociopaths everywhere, it is simple patriotism. It is what any real leader would do.
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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 14h
In 2025, Australians gave Albo's Labor Govt a landslide victory and an increased majority. I think this cartoon sums-up what many of us are now thinking. Vote @greens.org.au. #auspol Image credit: @MWhalan on X.
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 10h
Raf nails the links between Taylor's migration 'policy' and the racist rhetoric of the global #FarRight. He gets credit for doing so. But the real issue is how rare it is for mainstream journos to provide that critical context. They are too focused on the odds to consider the stakes. #auspol
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Nicole Chvastek @nicolechvastek.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
One Nation anoints itself judge jury and executioner by threatening to jail political rivals - then admits a neoNazi to its campaign launch while chucking out the ABC. Note to Bizarrely passive media - THIS IS NOT NORMAL “Truth Lies&Media” is live!⚡️ Promo Match Frame Editing #auspol #NewsCorpse
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Dee Madigan @deemadigan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Also nobody refused her service. Nobody told her to go back where she came from. She got her coffee. The café just chose where the profit went. That's not exclusion. That's a business making a choice, which is something One Nation usually defends.
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Every new mine heats our planet, harms millions and cooks our global reputation. Labor is selling out our planet and future for coal & gas corporate profits.
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
They don’t trust Australia to fix a problem when Labor keeps making it worse. Approving NSW’s largest ever coal project just weeks before COP shows how unserious Labor is on climate.
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Labor’s hypocrisy on coal and gas means Australia’s climate authority, especially with our Pacific neighbours, is falling apart. Pacific Island leaders are boldly fighting to protect their nations from deadly global warming caused by coal & gas. It’s literally a life and death struggle for them.
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Allowing Open AI to call these “rogue agents” lets them dodge responsibility - they made them, directed them and set them free without caring about the consequences. Our laws need to catch up to hold them accountable before worse happens.
Screenshot of newspaper article title Rogue OpenAI agent enters another NSW government website, tech giant says
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Dr Blair Williams @blairwilliams26.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Oh my goddddd I haaaate these yank tanks!!! If you're too big for a generously-sized carpark, you're too big for the road! Tax these out of existence 😤😤😤 #YankTanks
A giant chevrolet yank tank, badly parked
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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
House prices falling by a percentage not seen in 40 years does not mean house prices have fallen to affordable levels - it is just that we have seen them increase so much year on year, that falls seem significant BUT IT DOESN'T MAKE HOUSING AFFORDABLE IT JUST MEANS THE HOUSING MARKET HAS BEEN BROKEN
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Got a bit angry today in my column www.theguardian.com/business/gro...
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If turbocharged petrol prices are driving up inflation, then why are Australia’s unemployed on the line? | Greg Jericho
Avoiding a rise in unemployment is important for the RBA – but apparently not a dealbreaker
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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The RBA media team is becoming known for contacting journalists and media outlets critical of its decisions and decision making process - but the criticism doesn't actually go far enough. www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...
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Households in pain – but our budget crisis has an obvious answer
Australia is at a tipping point. Choosing the brave route – taxing gas and raising revenue – would also, in this case, be the right one.
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"It should not go unnoticed that whenever the inflation conversation takes hold, profits never enter the chat. The usual suspects are happy to talk further cuts – to services and jobs – but never actually raising funds from those businesses that benefit from our pain." #RBA #inequality #auspol
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Under Labor we have seen wages flat line, the rise of the far right and record war profits from fossil fuels going untaxed. We think these are ‘somewhat concerning’.
Albanese says new Greens leader's remarks 'somewhat concerning'
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Helen @heleng-gee.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Agree - from what I have seen he has been great in the Senate. Hoping for good things.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We’re buying subs from the US because insane nutters on Govt think we need to defend ourselves against China, which the US is proposing to sell weapons to…
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Still so little information from the Albanese Government over what data they are planning to hand over to Trump. Every level of this Government is just addicted to secrecy. This agreement will cover our information, surely the public should know about negotiations.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 26/09/2026
I feel like one of the most radical, best and most rebelliously good things you can do right now in the informational online space is just....give people credit, love, support and shoutouts. Even if they just inspired you or prodded a thought you built on, name them and thank them loudly.
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is why fuel prices are pushing $3 a litre. Because Trump has no idea how to end the war he (and Netanyahu) started with Iran. That’s the war that Labor, the Coalition and One Nation all cheered on in February. It’s the war the Greens opposed. The only party that did.
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Helen @heleng-gee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
At least she gives it a go 🙂
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Helen @heleng-gee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
lol I enjoy your daily updates. Do you partake on your own or have friends to share
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The Labor Government says not to worry about the OpenAI Medicare hack because they have referred it to the Labor-controlled joint committee on AI for inquiry 👀👀👀
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Crowbar @crowbar.wtf · 23/09/2026
There’s being civil to the deranged leader of a country you have to deal with… …and then there is taking a grinning selfie with one.
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Let’s be clear it’s the American billionaire owners of tech platforms pushing extreme and dangerous content and systems including to Aussie kids - Trump won’t reign them in but we must.
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is an extraordinary act of direct foreign interference by the US embassy in domestic Australian politics. The Australian government should publicly respond by rejecting efforts by the US embassy to dictate how Australia legislates for a digital duty of care.
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Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Maybe the RBA and the government should be focusing on the ‘company profit-price spiral’ 🤷
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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Our Prime Minister tagging in his selfie mate, an adjudicated rapist and felon.
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Purplepingers ☭ @purplepingers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
who needs a toilet i guess 22A Ash Street, Terrigal NSW #shitrentals
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angry-goddess.bsky.social @angry-goddess.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
@albomp.bsky.social #auspol
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Alt: Little Girl's Annoyed Eye Roll
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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
the ALP are so cooked, giving this guy an iron grip over the whole party. And for what
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Helen @heleng-gee.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Yes, definitely makes every day a bit brighter 🌞
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Deepcut News @deepcutnews.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Victorian Labor's ban on datacentres in residential areas is not quite a ban. They'll just be built 150m from your home instead. @purplepingers.bsky.social: "150 metres isn't a ban on data centres in residential areas, that’s just down the road."
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Helen @heleng-gee.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Great to see the doggos ♥️ Hope you are well and enjoying the spring sunshine 🌞
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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
David Pocock fires up on the $10K donation scheme running since 1999 just to get the PM's ear, reserved for people with ‘money & power’ “If you have cash, you can get access” “A nurse who’s lost their brother to a gambling addiction…she doesn’t have $10K” What a crock. Scrap it.
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The Prime Minister thought he may as well make it official - Labor is run by and for Newscorp and the 1% - so he has appointed former Newscorp exec under hard-right Lachlan Murdoch to plum NY diplomatic job
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The Greens are on the side of the public, protecting our data, keeping power prices down, preserving jobs and defending our national interest from vampire US Big Tech. I can’t believe how we are the only party making this case in Canberra.
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
AI data centres are projected to use 13 per cent of Australia’s electricity and 20 per cent of Sydney’s water within a decade. These things are mushrooming across the country and Labor has issued a “consultation paper”. Like New York, we need a moratorium not a survey.
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Tim Stephens @proftimstephens.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
BRS to teach legal studies #auspol
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Kent Parkstreet @kentparkskeet.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Just saw Sheeran’s band has quit his tour. Brilliant. It’s a shame musicians possess more courage than our politicians.
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Doug Cameron @dncameron.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
IMF urges Aus to cut spending.🤬 Labor could cut spending and increase social services by dumping the AUKUS con job. $368B and hundreds of $Bs to house US troops, store and guard radioactive waste. Social priorities or financial support for the US, UK and Israeli arms industry.
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Helen @heleng-gee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I was thinking yesterday that I would just like to withdraw into my own bubble. But history tells us that doesn’t work either. So I am just trying to place limits on my media exposure.
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
UNSW and the University of Sydney are signing huge deals with chat GPT. Students can't afford a haircut but they're stuck with a lifetime of debt. Meanwhile vice chancellors are handing our universities to AI vampires on a million bucks a year.
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Doug Cameron @dncameron.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The arrogance of Trump Republicans telling us we should “welcome” nuclear armed attack submarines to Australia. Nonsensical word games calling US bases “rotational” can’t hide the fact we have abrogated our sovereignty and US nuclear armed subs will be stationed in Australia.
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Pat Hudson Cartoons @hudsoncartoons.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A neutral gig #auspol #USPolitics #UKPolitics #EdSheeran
Editorial cartoon. A view from a stage lined across the top with Ukraine flags. Loads of sound equipment, some instruments but the musicians have vanished. Standing alone front of stage on a Palestinian flag is Ed Sheeran as he says to the crowd (of a single colour) “and now here’s another non-political acoustic ballad”
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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Every single Pauline Hanson story reporting on her latest racist comments should also include that a court has upheld that she racially discriminated against Mehreen Faruqi.
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marque lawyers @marquelawyers.com.au · 15/09/2026
The court also found that "Senator Hanson has a tendency to make negative, derogatory, discriminating or hateful statements in relation to, about or against groups of people relevantly identified as persons of colour, migrants to Australia and Muslims, and to do so because of those characteristics."
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Always worth remembering, the only reason we see Barnaby so much on TV is because Hanson, despite 30 years as a politician, cannot find a coherent thought with a map, flash light and two days worth of rations. ABC etc should stop giving Barnaby the free air time and demand the leader of the party.
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Nick Bryant. @nickbryantoz.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It’s a chilling thought. The lawmakers on Capitol Hill who refuse to regulate guns after decades of mass shootings are the same lawmakers overseeing the rapid and dangerous advances in AI.
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Doug Cameron @dncameron.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Convoluted answers, jargon and broad based assertions. Marles claims the govt is transparent on AUKUS which has been deepened and augmented🤷‍♂️😂 None the wiser after this mind numbing #7.30 interview. Eternal optimism no substitute for transparency, accountability and honesty
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