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@jc2042.bsky.social
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Retired community sector worker and volunteer, including Indigenous rights, environment, housing, governance, community arts and broadcasting. Donations for Palestine via PCRF-A.

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Joel Jenkins @boganintel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
'In a week of threats and walkouts, Australia looked like the pariah at a UNGA in disarray' My latest on the circus at the UNGA: '“Cracks have become canyons”' #auspol open.substack.com/pub/joeljenk...
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“Cracks have become canyons”
In a week of threats and walkouts, Australia looked like the pariah at a UNGA in disarray.
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Jess Saphia @jesssaphia.bsky.social · 17h
It’s humans who own these agents and direct their tasks. Laws must hold #AI users & companies accountable for outcomes #auspol
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Twitter Exile @twitter-exile.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
#GetUpAustralia We paid a visit to #Westpac tower in #Gadigal/Sydney to tell them what we think of their use of #Palantir. The writing is on the wall: Palantir must go. Thanks to #NasserMashni from @apan4palestine.bsky.social for adding his voice to this. #FreePalestine #AUSPOL #NSWpol #Palestine
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PERFECTLY NORMAL @nzpom.com · 02/10/2026
Call to action for overseas Kiwis There's thousands of you in Australia, please help us boot out this awful coalition government🙏🏼 #auspol #nzpol
greens.org.nz
A call to action for friends of overseas New Zealanders
We are building a future where we do more, faster, to protect our planet and make sure everyone is treated equally.
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sLAPtHEcAT @slapthecat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
#auspol #ALP #Genocide hey JOSH BURNS & #JillianSegal @australianlabor.bsky.social THIS🇮🇱IS🇺🇸YOUR #ZIONISM 🇮🇱☢️🤷🏻‍♂️🪖🐂💩 👀👃🏻🌏 be like 🇮🇹 Francesca 🤘🏻💯👑🙇🏻 the #Albanese we need #BOYCOTT #DIVESTMENT #SANCTIONS #BDS #𝗜𝗦𝗥𝗔𝗘𝗟 𝗜𝗦 𝗔 𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗥𝗢𝗥𝗜𝗦𝗧 𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗧𝗘
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Mehreen Faruqi @mehreenfaruqi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
August was the hottest month in global history and yet, NSW has just approved the biggest coal mine expansion ever proposed in the state. It is scandalous that Australia is leading negotiations at global climate talks, including in the Pacific next week.
theguardian.com
Approval of biggest coal project in NSW planning commission’s history described as ‘infamous betrayal’
Independent Planning Commission says climate change impacts from Hunter Valley project will be ‘outweighed’ by economic benefits
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💚🌏Myles🌏💚 @rainbowregionmyles.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Our fucking sovereign wealth fund is making money from students paying $519 a week to share a room while Youth Allowance is $677 a fortnight. We're using public wealth to profit from a housing crisis instead of fixing it. How completely insane have we become? #auspol
michaelwest.com.au
Future Fund earns big returns on extortionate student accommodation - Michael West
As rents and cost of living rise, Future Fund is making strong returns from Australian housing, including student accommodation.
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downunder 🇦🇺 @sabrinanotowar.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
#auspol 🇦🇺 #RedLinesPackageAust
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Felicity Tilley @flickytill.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The current level of support payments is so far below the poverty line that it’s a death sentence. @albomp.bsky.social #auspol
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Kerry Jaggers 🇦🇺 @kerryjaggers.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
An accurate encapsulation of LNPs plan to address climate change. Spoiler alert - there isn't one. #auspol
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jc2042.bsky.social @jc2042.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
#MossadMinns
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Andy Paterson @agpat.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Yep, the great card trick. What you meant to say Jim, is consumers will continue to pay the same, banks will continue to charge their fees and businesses will adjust their price for goods and services to maintain the status quo. Consumers save not one cent from this policy.
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Rising Tide Australia @risingtideaus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
ANZ refuse to clean up their crap climate policy, instead they arrested six of us trying to do it for them. What's with that? Their Board has an opportunity this Nov to bring ANZ into line with the other three 'big 4' banks & rule out funding the North to East Australia pipeline. C'mon ANZ!
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Joel Jenkins @boganintel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"It is a military colony of the United States", for all intents and purposes, in all but name" Diplomatic heavyweight former Ambassador John Lander sets straight the nature of Australia's alliance with the United States. Link: youtu.be/huf5-dAnazQ #auspol
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Lizzy Schofield @musictplove.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Any thoughts Jillian Segal? Any thoughts to those politicians wanting us arrested for opposing genocide by saying words ????? #auspol #freepalestine
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Dr Alan Nixon @alangnixon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
#Neoliberalism is cancer, #auspol #Australia
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Independent Media Australia. @indymediaaus.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
A final call for your help pearlsandirritations.com/e/daily/20… #Auspol
pearlsandirritations.com
A final call for your help
P&I is reaching more readers, attracting younger voices and becoming an increasingly important part of Australia's democratic conversation. But as we enter the last week of our fundraising campaign, John Menadue writes, our independence depends on you.
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Nyukitty ฅ^•ﻌ•^ฅ Nyux @nyukitty.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
same same #Auspol
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Sirius Star 🍉 🍉 🍉 @siriusstar3.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Empathy gap, she would never see the struggles of other people flittering around In her rarefied air. The RBA needs to be disbanded.
illustration 
depicts how financial privilege creates an easier, stepping-stone path to success while a lack of wealth makes the same climb an exhausting, vertical struggle.
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Sirius Star 🍉 🍉 🍉 @siriusstar3.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Subsidies millionaires & billionaires, but won’t raise people out of poverty “It is an indictment on the morality of this gov that it hands out $22.5 billion a year in tax breaks to ppl with the highest superannuation balances, but will not increase payments for the poorest people in 🇦🇺” #Auspol
Article excerpt
KEY STATISTICS
• 1 in 5 working age adults who die by suicide are on the JobSeeker payment 2 • People on welfare (excluding the age pension) are up to 10 times more likely to die
when compared to those not on welfare 3
• The JobSeeker payment is $412 a week - $290 below the poverty line 4 • 18 per cent of people on the JobSeeker payment are owner occupiers (data is not
available on how many are mortgage holders) 5 • People on JobSeeker, Youth Allowance, Parenting Payment and the Disability Support Pension can be subjected to compulsory activities. There are currently 974,000 people in compulsory programs across Workforce Australia, Inclusive
Employment Australia and the Remote Area Employment Service.Illustration 
No one left behind
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Difficult & Problematic @fladdle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“Employers should be required to take active steps to prevent racism. This “positive duty” already exists to prevent sexism. The federal race discrimination commissioner recommended this reform two years ago.” #AusPol
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Queen NomNom De Plume @stinginthetail.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Was scrapped because rich want be carried by poors. Poor cop goods & services taxes everywhere - rich rarely pay without getting a rebate or discount. Poor pay a larger percentage of income in taxes than rich do. Even when they don't earn enough to pay tax. Right there, there's the problem. #auspol
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Hagatha @Hagatha42.bsky.social @hagatha42.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#auspol a pedler of child sexual abuse is the richest man in the world. The whole world knows. Law enforcement knows. The legal system knows. Governments know.
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Barbara Pocock @barbarapocock.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
We have a system that tackles inflation by suppressing the household income of workers while protecting housing wealth & corporate profits. Until the concentration of wealth in the country is confronted, working people will keep paying the price.
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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Lone voice pleads for action in unfolding catastrophe - how are we so good at delivering missiles, but not climate action asks Nepal’s PM at UN www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2026...
thenewdaily.com.au
A lone voice pleads for help addressing this global catastrophe
As the world wrings it's hands over AI, which it seems to be enabling, a lone voice called for help fighting a true global catastrophe.
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JRBsays @jrbsays.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Albo has stolen Malcolm Turnbull’s crown as being the most disappointing PM ever. I suspect even his mum would be disappointed with who he has become. #AusPol
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twinfold @twinfold.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It's insulting to hear you talk about our predecessors, who established the UN to prevent another genocide, while you refuse to name or condemn it while it's happening RIGHT NOW in #Gaza & the #WestBank. "breakdown of trust"? Can you blame us when you get up & lie like this? #auspol #SanctionIsrael
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@THE-Russell - You don't like opinions? Here's mine! @the-russell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Hume says US AI companies should not be prosecuted for breaching Australian websites. Instead, the #LNP will facilitate US AI companies to operate without restriction in Australia, ceding even more of our sovereignty. #FFS! #auspol #Insiders
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QOTL 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦 @iamqotl.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
We need to do what the Dutch have done - and create our own operating systems. Our own cloud network. Leave Microsoft. Leave Apple. The promise of AI is confused and data centres are a destructive distraction to delay what is becoming clearer by the minute. The whole world is being conned. #auspol
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jc2042.bsky.social @jc2042.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
P&I is such a great resource, we can support them by donations. P&I produces thoughtful, thorough & varied topics from journalists, academics, subject experts & sometimes, everyday people. Their fundraising campaign winds up on 30 Sep. #auspol
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Peggy Sanders @peggysanders.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
One way to bypass Aboriginal Land Rights. One of the greatest impediments to mining expansion is Aboriginal Land Rights. That’s why the LNP, Advance and Gina Rinehart want to shut down, discredit, shun, cancel everything that recognises First Nation people of Australia. #auspol
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Michael Dowling aka MeckeringBoy @meckeringboy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It is beyond time to make the fossil fuel companies pay for the damage they do (and have done for decades) and for the decommissioning, removal, restoration, rehabilitation that should be 100% their responsibility. Make the polluters pay. No more public money for fossil fuels.
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Pepperpots @pepperpots4477.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
So Gina was pulling the strings all along? I’m shocked! /s #auspol
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Dr Monique Ryan @mon4kooyong.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It's an outrage that foreign tech company's agent can hack one of our key health care agencies - and that we only learn about it months later when the US tech company bothers to email our government.
theguardian.com
Albanese says OpenAI hacked Medicare and told Australia months later via email to generic inbox
Prime minister says he told Sam Altman he was disappointed it had taken OpenAI ‘way too long’ to disclose breach
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JenX_Perth @jenxperth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Perfect analogy 🇦🇺 #auspol #AI #MedicareHack
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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 24/09/2026
Albanese is receiving a Global Citizen Award for his international leadership, but Australia has yet to sign the nuclear weapons ban treaty he once championed. Meanwhile, AUKUS is deepening our involvement in US military operations, Tilman Ruff writes. #auspol #AUKUS
pearlsandirritations.com
Albanese, AUKUS and the broken promise on nuclear weapons
As Albanese receives an international award for his leadership on security, Australia remains outside the nuclear weapons ban treaty he once championed. Meanwhile, expanding US military access raises new questions about Australia’s exposure to nuclear conflict.
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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is set to be the @albomp.bsky.social govt's 38th 🤯 new/extension Coal/Gas project APPROVAL Just as he tells #ClimateWeekNYC it's the turn of politicians to match the "bravery" of survivors of climate devastation—“There’s no avoiding the scale of our responsibility – or the cost of inaction.”
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Lilly @lillyull.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"One conviction a year" For the $60 million it costs us to run the NACC. And we're cutting back on NDIS. You're a disgrace Albanese. I suggest you read this article and watch the video. It's clear to anybody with half a brain that this is pure corruption of our funds.
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Felft @felft.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
#auspol
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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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jc2042.bsky.social @jc2042.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Dear UN Members, For all humanity, do NOT vote Australian PM @albomp.bsky.social for a seat on UN security council. He's a hypocrite on climate-opens more gas & coal almost daily; supplies weapons for genocide in Gaza & Sudan; ignores slow genocide right here; grovels to USA.The betrayals are many!
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Rob Duncan @robduncan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
#auspol #USPOL #USA #us #uspoli #poli #politics #cdnpoli #canada #MeidasMighty #america #communityovercapitalizm #history #Ethics #SocialJustice #LongerTables #DemocraticSocialist #Ecosocialism #Socialist #socialism #LeftIsBest #ClassConsciousness #FalseConsciousness #abolishcapitalism #HumanRights
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JRBsays @jrbsays.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“No avoiding the cost of inaction” How many new coal and gas projects has Albo’s government approved. Fucking hypocrite🤷‍♂️🙆‍♂️🤬 #AusPol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
theguardian.com
No avoiding the cost of inaction on climate, Anthony Albanese says in New York
Before United Nations meeting, prime minister says Australians knows the impact of global heating as well as anyone
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Sirius Star 🍉 🍉 🍉 @siriusstar3.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
anthony conman’s 🇦🇺 doesn’t deserve a seat on the UN Security Council. First Peoples continue to experience worse social & economic outcomes across their lives. Overimprisonment & child removal are going backwards. Ppl with a disability remain segregated in education, housing & employment. #Auspol
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Australian Politics 🇦🇺 @auspol.info · 21/09/2026
$213m in tax-deductible donations since 2013. $125m+ sent to Israel. MWM reports some JNF Australia money reached IDF soldier programs and illegal settlements. The ACNC says its hands are tied. Canada stripped JNF Canada of charity status. Why haven't we? michaelwest.com.au/millions-in-... #auspol
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Millions in tax-deductible donations to IDF, illegal settlements - Michael West
JNF an Australian charity with $200 million in donations is ignoring international law, siphoning money to the IDF and illegal settlements
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A T Tate @spudonthetracks.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Albo: Knighting Tories!
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downunder 🇦🇺 @sabrinanotowar.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
#auspol 🇦🇺 “Only your first preference receives funding from the public coffer. Even if your local #Independent or #Greens candidate has zero to little chance of winning a seat placing them first on your ballot helps them survive to fight another day. #auspol “
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Another fn Capewell (née - fcapas@magpieranting) @anothercapewell.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I’m not sure our current gov is ready for a un seat, doesnt the u n try hard to stop genocide and other illegal behaviours….. wouldn’t the u n prefer less coal and gas emissions by developed countries like ours…. Feels like window dressing not serious business… seems show pony-ish #auspol
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sheepRdangerous @sheeprdangerous.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
— THEIR EVIL CONTINUES UNABATED: — Terrorist #Israel and the #USA a predatory republic: #Labor #OneNation #LNP #Gaza #Westbank #Lebanon #Syria #Iran #USA #EU #UK #Auspol – Fascist-Zionism #NineNews #SBSNews #ABCNews #MSM #DDN www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEbc...
youtube.com
The Video Ed Sheeran Doesn't Want You To See - THIS EXPLAINS EVERYTHING! - Macklemore Knew TOO MUCH
YouTube video by Double Down News
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Kate-Eviva @kate-eviva.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It is all fake. Time to ramp up both #public service #capability and #accountability. Talk is so cheap We need action that is based on an informed and considered. Vision for the way forward as a sovereign nation. #auspol
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