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@jim1984.bsky.social
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Adelaide, Australia. Kindness matters. A firm believer in social democracy. Paying close attention to the world and I love the many great young, and not so young, people in it. There is much goodness in this world despite the ugliness of the oligarchy.

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Jim @jim1984.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Well done AHA - perfect ad for our troubled times here.
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Jim @jim1984.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Perhaps universal childcare and aged care should be run by not for profit only.
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Jim @jim1984.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Albo was once an ALP man but now just another conservative puppet. The three G’s summarise it almost perfectly, the first two selling out Australians and the third selling out humanity. I would add Aukus as another sellout of Australians.
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Jim @jim1984.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Big Tech is profiting from online harms inflicted on Australians. One thing would change this faster than any regulator: the right for you to seek compensation. Sign the @australiainstitute.org.au petition now: nb.australiainstitute.org.au/big-tech
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✍️ PETITION: Make Big Tech pay when they harm Australians
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Excerpts from the tremendous public service & public resource that is the HANSON DOSSIER - the "complete public accountability record of Pauline Hanson. Drawn from court judgments, parliamentary records, AEC data, and verified journalism" Share it & keep it handy‼️ 👉 thehansonrecord.com
Excerpt from the HANSON DOSSIER

Senator Hanson had a tendency to make racist, discriminatory, hateful, derogatory and Islamophobic statements, particularly in relation to persons of colour, migrants to Australia and Muslims. She was found to be an argumentative witness who would say anything which came to mind if she felt it would suit her at the time. - Justice Angus Stewart, Federal Court of Australia - Faruqi v Hanson, November 2024. 
This is a formal judicial finding made after hearing Hanson testify under oath. It is not a political opinion. It is the considered judgment of an Australian Federal Court judge.Excerpt from a section titled The Verdict in the HANSON DOSSIER

Pauline Hanson has spent 30 years telling Australians she is one of them. A battler. A plain-speaker. A politician who cuts through the rubbish and fights for ordinary people against a self-serving political class and the wealthy elites who have rigged the system. That story does not match what she has actually done.

She has been found guilty of racial discrimination by the Federal Court of Australia. She has been suspended from the Senate and censured 55 votes to 5. Her senior staff were caught on hidden camera trying to sell Australia's gun laws to American lobbyists for up to $20 million. She personally cast doubt on the Port Arthur massacre on hidden camera. She has accepted a $2 million plane from Australia's richest billionaire and undisclosed jet flights from that same billionaire. She billed taxpayers to attend that billionaire's fundraising events on a luxury cruise ship. She placed her daughter in a $150,000 taxpayer-funded job and banned the journalist who asked about it from all future access. She attended just 12 per cent of Senate estimates hearings over her career while being paid a full senator's salary. She promoted vaccine misinformation linking vaccines to autism and cancer. She published a book claiming Aboriginal women ate their babies to "demonstrate savagery" and used it to raise funds for her party.Excerpt from a section titled The Verdict in the HANSON DOSSIER cont'd

While doing all of that, she has voted against wage increases for workers, against childcare funding for families, against housing affordability policies, against public school funding, against renewable energy, against renters' rights, against COVID vaccine urgency as Australians were dying in aged care, and against nearly every social safety net mechanism that would actually help the working-class Australians she claims to represent.

She changed her party's constitution in 2017 to give herself lifetime leadership and the sole right to choose her own successor, making One Nation constitutionally indistinguishable from a personal fiefdom. Seven senators have quit or been expelled from the party since 2016. The party founded on anti-establishment populism is now bankrolled by a mining billionaire worth tens of billions of dollars, flying on her private jet and attending her fundraisers on a luxury cruise ship.

The people who pay the price for Pauline Hanson's political career are the ordinary Australians she claims to represent. The record is public. The choice is yours.Excerpt from the HANSON DOSSIER

Table comparing the policy position of One Nation, Labor, Coalition and the Greens on 13 policies relating to: Climate Science, Gun Laws, Worker Pay Rises, ABC and SBS, Renewable Energy, Housing Affordability, Childcare, Public School Funding, Abortion Rights, UN Membership, Multiculturalism, Trans Healthcare, and Press Freedom

[On every single one, One Nation has a regressive, frequently far-right radical stance]
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Jim @jim1984.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
So maybe the ABC and commercial channels will start crossing to him for comments on every relevant daily issue instead of Angus, Pauline and Barnaby. Just hoping anyway …..
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Blair Palese @blairpalese.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Not all men…but it does seem like an ever growing number of men #raping women and getting away with it eh @cornelluniversity.bsky.social?
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Jim @jim1984.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
He will be losing many Labor voters’ support.
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Jim @jim1984.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Which Victorian road was this photo taken on?
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Jim @jim1984.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Our school funding is like the USA’ Jim Crow racial segregation where the Supreme Court laid out the separate but equal doctrine. Except it was never equal and provided institutionalized disadvantage. Shame on our governments and their enablers.
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Jim @jim1984.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
What is there to be triumphant about after losing wars to Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iran, Greenland, Canada …..
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Jim @jim1984.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Re the person with seven homes - I thought stamp duty is paid by the purchaser not the seller.
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Jim @jim1984.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
And a related perspective we don’t often consider:
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Jim @jim1984.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Most of the reporters appear fully complicit with the Trump regime.
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Jim @jim1984.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Sharing this beautiful poem by Linda Ellis as a reminder to us all to live our best dash. m.youtube.com/watch?v=HVLq...
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The Dash Poem (Read by Author) Linda's web site: www.LindaEllis.life
YouTube video by Linda Ellis
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Jim @jim1984.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
PDAs like this are most appropriate and a joy to witness.
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Jim @jim1984.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Can the rest of the world sue Donald Trump and the Republican Party for the damages caused by the illegal war against Iran?
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Jim @jim1984.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The ALP has abandoned Australians, and its own DNA, in favour of the big corporates, Israel and personal self interest. I am disgusted and won’t be voting for them. Greens need to capitalise on this before One Nation does.
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Jim @jim1984.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Seems people who burn flags are more important to this bunch of flogs than women’s safety.
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Jim @jim1984.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Some editor will be in trouble for allowing that misinformation to be published.
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 22/08/2026
Australia Institute research shows that nurses pay more tax than gas and oil companies. Meanwhile, multinational gas companies get 56% of our gas for free and then export it overseas. Sign the petition: nb.australiainstitute.org.au/fix_ga…
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Prof Ray Wills @profraywills.futuresmart.com.au · 22/08/2026
Last century, batteries not included Batteries and electric motors in things that didn't used to have batteries China's AI-powered autonomous 'flying lifebuoy' added to water rescue toolkit
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Jim @jim1984.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Albo might just achieve a Howard and be voted out of his own electorate.
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Jim @jim1984.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I like to stay across currant dietary guidelines.
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Jim @jim1984.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Remarkably, the human collective has leaned nothing from the boiling frog analogy.
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Jim @jim1984.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Heart broken to report that the H5N1 bird flu has reached southern Australia in recent weeks. Today we learned more than 1000 crested terns have perished. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
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Bird flu suspected as 1,000 birds found dead in three mass mortality events
Three mass bird mortality events believed to be linked to the H5N1 avian flu strain have been recorded on islands off SA. In a separate event, more than two dozen penguins have been found dead in Tasm...
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Andrew Wilkie MP @andrewwilkiemp.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The Fed Gov claims “the strongest gambling reforms this country has ever seen”, but that’s because for years govs have done bugger-all. These gutless reforms make minor tweaks which won't protect kids, delink gambling and sport, or stop the suicides. Shame on them #auspol #politas
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Jim @jim1984.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Somewhere on planet earth apparently.
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Jim @jim1984.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
America has the orange TACO. Meanwhile, Australia has yellow back Albanese who won’t challenge the AUKUS debacle, the gambling industry, the Gas Industry, nor will he address the contagion of violence against women. Time to go Albo.
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Jim @jim1984.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Thanks
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Jim @jim1984.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Is this National or Victoria?
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Jim @jim1984.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Fair question though I think more people are asking when will it end?
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Jim @jim1984.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Thanks cor sharing. Is the drive accessible to non 4WD vehicles?
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Jim @jim1984.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
The RBA can ignore it though I think the real issue is Albanese government not having the courage to use fiscal policy levers, and especially taxation rates, to soften spending.
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Laki @lakitukl.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Damn... 300% higher yields for peppers 200% for tomatoes. 65% lower water use for jalapenos. #agsky #agrivoltaics ,🌱🌞🔌..
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Jim @jim1984.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
The govt can still drive change to help reduce the AI data centre power impact. The BYO power is a good start (noting the lack of detail) and maybe the govt could extend home battery scheme for another five years, funded by the removal of diesel fuel rebate from the mining industry.
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
This is an observation that should terrify every person that walks this earth. We have seen AI used already to influence politics. Once intimacy becomes part of the propaganda equation, then propaganda takes on a whole new power dimension. 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬😪 thanks to Yuval Noah Harari for the clip.
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Jim @jim1984.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
That’s a great take. Well said.
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Prof Ray Wills @profraywills.futuresmart.com.au · 29/11/2024
Try bringing coal-fired power to your village by boat or donkey #coal owned by companies #solar belongs to the peeps
Villagers unload solar panels from a boat and carry up the beach Masia woman leads donkey carrying solar to her village
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Jim @jim1984.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Sulphur-crested cockatoo on rare visit to my backyard.
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Jim @jim1984.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
When I was born seat belts weren’t in use.
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Dr Sally @drsally.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
This woman is a nightmare anyone who votes for her needs to have their heads read
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
We do not live in the greatest country on earth. That is the lie they tell us to conceal that we live in the greediest country on earth.
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Jim @jim1984.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Stupid is a stupid does.
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Jim @jim1984.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Around about 28 February2026 when Trump attacked Iran?
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Jim @jim1984.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
I think Neal should stop snacking on fish and penguins for a while and give them a chance.
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Fabulous. The tide has turned in the US. Democrats who call out Israel's crimes are getting nominated and will be elected in November. Democrats who are still taking AIPAC bribes are toast. Time to ensure Australia's Israel lobby loses their inordinate influence on our politics. #auspol
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Jim @jim1984.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Clare O’Neil is always elegant in her representation and provides a perfect example of how a Minister should be behave. Not losing credibility or votes compared to the shrill Liberal banshee.
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equanimity1961.bsky.social @equanimity1961.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
In Australia, dear bigots of One Nation and the Coalition, take note. #auspol #immigration
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