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James Partridge

@jimbo4759.bsky.social
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Retired psych nurse, believe in social democracy & UBI (universal basic income), live on Jerrinja and Wandi Wandian country, proudly gay 🏳️‍🌈

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Eddy Jokovich @eddyjokovich.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
The Gaza plan rewards Israel and punishes the victims – the analysis from New Politics: READ, SHARE, SUBSCRIBE. #GazaCeasefire #AUSPOL @dlew919.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/newpolit...
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The Gaza plan rewards Israel and punishes the victims
Those responsible for the devastation and genocide are being rewarded with the control of Gaza. This is the obscenity at the heart of this peace plan.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
"Ed Husic on the money: gas industry profiteering is costing Australians" by Matt Saunders #ThePoint thepoint.com.au/news/251125-...
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Ed Husic on the money: gas industry profiteering is costing Australians
Ed Husic’s ‘breaking ranks with Labor’ speech in parliament yesterday which claimed gas exporters are profiteering from Australians and driving up domestic energy prices, is right on the money and wel...
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Dr Richard Denniss @richarddenniss.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Peter Costello is to blame for our health crisis. He promised the states his GST was a growth tax that would provide sustainable funding for states but its failing But we don’t have to increase the GST its time to tax gas and give the $s to the states thepoint.com.au/opinions/202...
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Australia’s health system is in intensive care, and the GST flatline is to blame
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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Zali Steggall says it’s time to stop pretending gas is needed, as gas companies are taking us for a ride. “Australia does not have a gas shortage problem. We have lots of gas.” Says moving toward electrification is better tor ppl’s “health & their wallets.” #HouseOfReps
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 21/11/2025
Conditions that led to genocide in Gaza remain precarious given lack of accountability, says rights advocate Yuli Novak.
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Despite Gaza ceasefire, ‘we haven’t seen the worst’: B’Tselem chief
Conditions that led to genocide in Gaza remain precarious given lack of accountability, says rights advocate Yuli Novak.
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Barbara Pocock @barbarapocock.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
This is what our amendment was all about, giving workers back their time. 💚
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Jim Pembroke @jimpembroke.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Meanwhile, deluded Coalition determined to drive Australian industry into this asset train wreck. #auspol www.9news.com.au/national/sou...
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South Korea's move to ditch coal rings alarm bells for Australian exporters
South Korea's pledge to phase out thermal coal should be a wake-up call for Australia's fossil fuel indust...
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Barbara Pocock @barbarapocock.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
As we wrap up another Trans Awareness Week filled with celebration and pride, let’s take a moment to observe a more solemn occasion - Trans Day of Remembrance. Today we honour & remember those who have tragically lost their lives to transphobic violence, discrimination and hate.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 20/11/2025
Gaza's Health Ministry says Israeli attacks also wounded 77 people, fuelling panic across the war-ravaged enclave.
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Israel kills at least 28 Palestinians in wave of Gaza ‘ceasefire’ attacks
Gaza's Health Ministry says Israeli attacks also wounded 77 people, fuelling panic across the war-ravaged enclave.
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Pat Simons @patsimons.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Spending $300bn to secure $9tn in investment upgrading infrastructure across the entire economy would match the scale of the climate crisis and rebuild the economy for the 21st century. Instead of talking about opportunity we're stuck fact checking bullshit. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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The $9tn cost to Australians: how a ‘misrepresented’ figure on net zero took on a life of its own
A network of climate academics called Net Zero Australia say the actual cost of building a low-carbon energy system to Australians would be about $300bn
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Loony Left Media 🚨#TaxTheGas + KillAUKUS @loonyleftmedia.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Dear Journalists, when Coal-ition Climate deniers Sussan, Dan & David are out there gaslighting the electorate in interviews claiming their poppycock energy policy will quote, keep the lights on, can just one of you ask for a single example of when the lights went out #LNPEnergyHoax #LNPClimateCon
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Kent Parkstreet @kentparkskeet.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
#genocide
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Israel used widely banned cluster munitions in Lebanon, photos of remnants suggest
Exclusive: Images are first indication that Israel has used cluster munitions in nearly 20 years
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El Gibbs @bluntshovels.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
'The family said they were heartbroken by the incident but determined for change. "We are here because we want answers, we want accountability, and we want real, immediate change to ensure no other First Nations child is ever treated like this again," they said.' www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
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Aboriginal teen mistakenly pulled from bus at gunpoint after 'racial profiling'
The family of a 17-year-old Indigenous boy says he was racially profiled when he was pulled from a Canberra bus by police officers who handcuffed him before realising he was the wrong person.
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Derek @derekianrobinson.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
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Derek @derekianrobinson.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 19/11/2025
The attack marks the latest of nearly 400 Israeli violations of a US-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.
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Deadly Israeli attack on Gaza brings death toll since ceasefire to 280
The attack marks the latest of nearly 400 Israeli violations of a US-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.
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sygent.bsky.social @sygent.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Warsaw / Gaza For every Nazi soldier killed by the Jewish resistance in Warsaw, the Germans murdered 50 Jews. For every Israeli killed on Oct. 7, the the IDF has murdered at least 60 Gazans. The "only democracy in the Middle East" is a bloodthirsty barbaric terrorist state. #IsraeliWarCrimes
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Eddy Jokovich @eddyjokovich.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Not sure if it should be titled “the continuing crisis in the Liberal Party” or “the end of the Liberal Party” but, either way, it’s bad news for the LNP. And they don’t deserve to be anywhere near government. Latest New Politics analysis. #AUSPOL open.substack.com/pub/newpolit...
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The continuing crisis in the Liberal Party
For the Liberals to rebuild, they need to confront a truth they’ve refused to acknowledge: the party has been captured by agents of chaos who have nothing to offer.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 19/11/2025
Israel continues to attack Lebanon on a near-daily basis in violation of a yearlong ceasefire with Hezbollah.
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Israeli attack on Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon kills at least 13
Israel continues to attack Lebanon on a near-daily basis in violation of a yearlong ceasefire with Hezbollah.
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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Ed Husic grills ANZ CEO Nuno Matos & asks how it’s fair that ANZ ripped off 65K customers & the worst punishment received by Senior Execs was not getting a bonus, while at same time the bank is sacking 3500 workers who didn’t do a thing wrong. Matos says he’s not proud about it. #Estimates
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Ben Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Don’t tell ScoMo but I believe these electric trains may indeed tow your boat and your trailer
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cdwhite.bsky.social @cdwhite.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
What misinformation actually does : 'His home is 600 metres from the nearest turbine. He has 10 turbines within two kilometres and his bedroom faces the closest tower. reneweconomy.com.au/every-compon...
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Bill Browne @browne90.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
There's a common misconception that preferences explain the thumping majority Labor won at this year's election. Not true -- as @skyelark.bsky.social explains in @thepointau.bsky.social fact check thepoint.com.au/factchecks/2...
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Factcheck: Does Labor owe its parliamentary majority to preferential voting?
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Jim Pembroke @jimpembroke.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
"Part time" Nazi. Full time deported. #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
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South African man taken into immigration detention over neo-Nazi rally
Matthew Gruter spends the night in a detention centre after having his visa revoked for attending a protest organised by the National Socialist Network.
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gwenoc.bsky.social @gwenoc.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
None so blind as she who will not see.
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David Marler @qldaah.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
South Korea to close its coal-fired power stations by 2040. It's Australia's third biggest export in the thermal coal market worth about A$2.3bn this year. They still require metallurgical coal from Australia for steelmaking. #auspol www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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South Korean decision to close all coal-fired power plants by 2040 sounds alarm for Australian exports
Decision announced at Cop30 climate conference signposts risks for Australia’s reliance on fossil fuel exports, analysts say
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Derek @derekianrobinson.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Zoe Daniel has unleashed on Tim Wilson saying he’s now “compromised” after taking a Net Zero policy to the election & turning his back on the ppl of Goldstein “To stay in the party at all, I think is really problematic.” “He failed. He’s ineffective.”🔥 #Abc
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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Pressed to outline how the LNP will reduce emissions with their new energy plan, Sussan Ley says they’ll rely on “breakthrough technologies” in about “25 years time”😳 - ones not invented yet & “we’re not talking about today”🤔 There you have it. As bonkers as it gets. #auspol
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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Sarah Henderson on Sky News confirms that if elected, the Coalition plans to slug taxpayers for new coal mines Henderson “Of course!” Thanks Sarah, you do your thing & we’ll do ours by reminding everyone of this in marginal electorates like Tim Wilson’s at election time. #auspol
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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Sussan Ley on ABCRadio “I want to reassure people listening who care about the climate that I do too” So much care that she’s banking on fantasy emission crunching technologies & will slug taxpayers for new dirty coal until uninvented technologies are invented Just resign Sussan
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 15/11/2025
Palestinian authorities say shadowy companies and entities are working in line with Israel on human trafficking.
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PA warns against ‘agents of displacement’ in Gaza after South Africa flight
Palestinian authorities say shadowy companies and entities are working in line with Israel on human trafficking.
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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Here's an interesting question: If 153 Palestinians arrived in Australia from Gaza by plane, what would our Australian Labor Govt do?! To complicate the issue, it seems Israel engineered the planeload of Gazans that arrived in South Africa, as an act of ethnic cleansing. 🤔 #auspol #FreePalestine
AfricaNews headline: Ramaphosa says Palestinians who arrived in South Africa will not be turned back
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Peter Gardner @peterdgardner.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
The Liberals dropped net zero. Will it make any difference to Australia’s climate response? theconversation.com/the-liberals...
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The Liberals dropped net zero. Will it make any difference to Australia’s climate response?
Despite the Coalition’s decision reversal on net zero, the momentum on the clean energy transition is unstoppable.
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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
A blunt response by Energy expert Tony Wood on whether Sussan Ley is correct to claim that the Coalition’s new energy policy will “bring energy prices down” Wood “No”🔥 #Abc
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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Sussan Ley asked why they are remaining in the Paris agreement when it demands targets be set & “doesn’t allow backsliding”? Ley says she’s not phased by “some detail in an international agreement” Then why are you in the international agreement? This is bonkers talk. #auspol
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Ronni🧂Salt @ronnisalt.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
This is the correct question
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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Perfect post @demwar.bsky.social. #auspol #NetZero #ClimateCrisis
Screenshot of BlueSky post by @demwar.bsky.social. Text: In breaking news the LNP tells young voters it wants them to die. Very interesting political strategy. And by interesting I mean incomprehensibly idiotic and morally bankrupt.
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Kerry Jaggers 🇦🇺 @kerryjaggers.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Liberals were already irrelevant and unelectable. And by tossing net zero out the window, it confirms that this may in fact be permanent. #auspol
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Dr Monique Ryan @mon4kooyong.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Lower electricity and heating bills, anyone? Liberals: Yeah, nah
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Loony Left Media 🚨#TaxTheGas + KillAUKUS @loonyleftmedia.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Slowly being named and outed with at least one employee sacking a wannabe Nazi. Thanks to the investigative work of White Rose Society
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Engineer. Teacher. Postie: The neo-Nazis who rallied in Sydney
Those who gathered on Saturday include a personal trainer, an English-as-a-second-language teacher and a former bar manager who is facing DV charges.
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The Chaser @chaser.com.au · 13/11/2025
The party denied completely abandoning everything net zero related, saying they are still on track for net zero election wins by 2050. chaser.com.au/national/lib...
Liberal Party hoping to fuck the planet harder than they fucked their chances at the next election
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Graham Lea @evolvable.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Australia's Liberal Party will try to spin abandoning Net Zero as a decision they made to help "everyday Australians", but that is a straight-up lie. This is a policy that doesn't benefit any Australian except those getting rich off climate-destroying and health-destroying fossil fuels. (🧵 5/5)
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Graham Lea @evolvable.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Also, now seems like a great time for a reminder that one of the chief Australian influencers who has rallied people against Net Zero is facing 27 sex offence charges. Such trustworthy. Wow. Maybe we should make... "Oh you're against net zero? Like Alan Jones?" ... a thing? #auspol
Alan Jones looking grumpy because he's finally been called to account for his actions.
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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Whinge and win is exhausting, but can be ignored www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...
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'Whinge and win': We mustn't mistake loudest voices for a majority
Whinge and win is how the bullies, the incompetent and the just plain annoying seem to always get their way.
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Ian Graves @xskinn.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
My thoughts on the Libs dumping the net zero by 2050 agreement. Ian
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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Breaking: The Liberal Party has decided to follow the National Party further to the Right and abandon the Net Zero by 2050 climate target but have agreed to let Moderates promote it as a “welcome outcome” (only if it happens by accident). Shambles. Absolutely embarrassing.
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