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James @jpopps.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
If you live in the real world, where what something costs triggers actual decision making, you instinctively could tell that late last year. It wasnt just coles and woolworths. All retail and hospitality where clearly looking at their competitors, and it was just a ping ponging of raising prices.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
By @joshbornstein.bsky.social "Why the looming visit by Israel’s president may backfire on Anthony Albanese" www.abc.net.au/religion/jos...
abc.net.au
Why the looming visit of Israeli president Isaac Herzog may backfire on Anthony Albanese - ABC Religion & Ethics
The Prime Minister is not known for taking big risks — but the visit of Isaac Herzog risks jeopardising his government’s efforts to address escalating tensions within the Australian community over Gaz...
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Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Average people who commit crimes don’t have a chance to comment on statements about their guilt before they’re issued by the police. Why the hell do companies who do wrong things get given this option by ACMA? www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
abc.net.au
'Shocking at every level': Watchdog deleted quotes after Sportsbet pressure
Gambling giant Sportsbet pressured the Australian Communications and Media Authority into "watering down" enforcement announcement, the ABC can reveal.
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Pat McCaffrie @patmccaffrie.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Janet, you literally work for an organisation that hosts its own awards ceremony cause the Walkleys didn't give them enough participation awards.
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Adam @kels316.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
all of this, but also people go to tertiary education that should just go to a trade or whatnot. And a lot of things that should be trades suddenly became degrees. We need to unfuck tertiary education, big time.
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Dr Alex Wodak AM @alexwodak.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
“In just four years, multinational companies made $170 billion exporting Australian gas royalty-free” The Australia Institute @richarddenniss.bsky.social
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James @jpopps.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Beers just need to be cheaper at the pub
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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
God forbid that we'd tax gas companies or tech giants or superannuation funds properly tho
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James @jpopps.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
More to the point, it really is a f*cken vile ad
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James @jpopps.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
I asked a mate if he remembered it. Didnt, but he found it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=A52Y...
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Private Health Incentive Scheme Advertisement - Australia 1997
YouTube video by HFBS Archive
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James @jpopps.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
The four corners is good, maybe i should have kept reading. eh
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James @jpopps.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
My thoughts today, didnt even finish the article. Could see there was a deeper dive with other experts, but alas, didn't care enough.
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Rick Morton @squigglyrick.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
I’m sure this point has been made elsewhere but not only did they openly lie about how many recommendations were in the robodebt final report, the one they erased was to reform FOI and now they’re heading in the opposite direction. Surprise is not a feature of my reaction.
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Adam @kels316.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
on the weekend I was talking to a bloke that runs a concrete business. A developer he did work for just phoenixed owing $4.7mil to sub-contractors. Sold his $4mil house to his wife for $40k just beforehand. Owes $1mil to the ATO. I get yelled at if there's a can of coke on a fuel reciept.
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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Why would anyone want to get relations ‘back on track’ with a nation committing genocide? www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...
thenewdaily.com.au
'Back on track'? Why that's the wrong question on Israel
After all we've seen in Gaza, when do we stop pretending that Israel has any moral authority to criticise any other nation state?
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James @jpopps.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Last governed in majority. Missed a couple of words.
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Crikey @crikey.com.au · 19/08/2025
The "Canberra fix" we should worry about is how huge corporations devote all their efforts to protecting themselves and extracting favours from government.
crikey.com.au
A roundtable of corporate clowns exposes the real 'Canberra fix' plaguing our economy
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James @jpopps.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
The climate catastrophic lie machine. The most succinct, hilarious and frighting phrase.
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James @jpopps.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
They have another one down byron way somewhere. also I was sceptical when i heard about it, but the one here in Darwin goes off.
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James @jpopps.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
found them, no
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James @jpopps.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Oh god, I have no words
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James @jpopps.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Unbelievable. See in Australia we have 10-15 corporations, mainly mining, gambling and grocers. Now thats a democracy.
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James @jpopps.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
As a gay man he absolutely is. I see it more as a hope and a threat that we all feel. Yeah probably ignorance of the fact that any trials after state violence is mostly performative and scalps a few sacrificial lambs.
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Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
If we treat the housing crisis like we do climate change it will be easy to reach that target. Just bring in 'housing offset schemes' where companies get ax breaks for not demolishing housing, experiment with 'housing capture and storage technology' etc
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James @jpopps.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Ive done that the last few weeks, lamb and Guinness stew. One can for the stew, five for me.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
One of the things I most resent about AI is the way it has inserted itself, unwelcomed, between me and my students, especially the ones I don't know all that well yet. I hate that every time I read a piece of student writing a small piece of me is thinking "is this a robot or a person?"
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James @jpopps.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Seems a good argument for not outsourcing it
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Kevin Bonham @kevinbonham.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
ACT Senate 2CPs Pocock 75.6-24.4 Liberal Labor 72.3-27.7 Liberal Pocock 60.0-40.0 Labor Lib result so terrible that even if only one of Pocock or Labor contested Libs still wouldn't have won a seat.
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James @jpopps.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
At the very first hurdle, falls over. Embarrassing
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Ray Martin @raymartin55.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Three Chinese warships sailed into Sydney Harbour in June 2019 At the time reportedly unannounced The Government of the day was … umm … the LNP Government The Defence Minister was Linda Reynolds The Home Affairs Minister was - checks notes - one Peter Dutton ... #auspol
Chinese Ships sail into Sydney. 2019
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Of course they came first for Trans Men and Women because that’s what the Nazis did. You go after the smallest most vulnerable groups and then you see you get away with it and you keep on going.
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Rex Patrick @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
#Breaking: Jacqui Lambie announces a Bill to restrict the pay of Departmental Secretaries. While most Australians are struggling with the cost of living crisis, Secretaries are on $900K+ salaries; some are on more than a million. #ForServiceNotProfit #auspol 1/2
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Ben Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
A bit of a personal note. I’m working on a paper on wage theft from staff at Australian universities at the moment. The level of wrongdoing is nuts. We’re up to $265m in underpayments that have been admitted to by Australian public universities. No university VCs have faced any consequences
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Rex Patrick @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
We need a balanced industry policy that prioritises manufacturing here. Throwing another $200M at one of billionaire Gina Rinehart’s mines to export processed rocks for foreign value-adding while the Whyalla steelworks withers away shows @albomp.bsky.social’s got the balance wrong. #auspol
theguardian.com
Commonwealth to invest a further $200m in rare earth mining project backed by Gina Rinehart
National reconstruction fund to buy stake in Arafura Rare Earth’s planned facility 135km north of Alice Springs
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Matt Quinn (The Electric Rabbit) @electricrabbit.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
No, I don't f**king want to pay for AI that I never asked for. So please ask me if I want it first, and when I say "No", leave my plan alone. More multinationals shovelling craphole AI down your throat.
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Luke @aleofatime.com · 07/01/2025
galaxy brain meme: 
First tier: It’s a conspiracy!
The Government
took down the Parliament 
website on purpose 

Second tier: 
Actually it’s 
just routine
underfunding 
of essential 
infrastructure

Third tier:
Government underfunding of essential infrastructure is a literal conspiracy between Government and
big business
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Rex Patrick @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Government funded lawyers have convinced the new Administrative Review Tribunal of a secrecy loophole that’ll deny any public scrutiny of Dutton’s $331B nuclear power program🤦‍♂️. It’s a dangerous decision that I’m appealing in the Federal Court. 👇Read👇 #auspol
michaelwest.com.au
Dangerous Tribunal decision paves way for Dutton to keep nuclear blow-outs secret - Michael West
The new Administrative Review Tribunal just ruled the $2B, no $6B, no $12B Snowy 2.0 project immune from public scrutiny. The decision paves the way for secrecy over Peter Dutton’s nuclear. Rex Patric...
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Rex Patrick @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
What a legacy of failure from successive Coalition/Labor governments. A manufactured crisis requiring us to import gas - when we’re one of the largest gas exporters. There’s no limit to the gas cartel’s manipulation of governments or the gouging of consumers. #auspol
smh.com.au
‘Time is running out’: Victoria, NSW turn to gas imports as energy crisis nears
Governments are rushing to kickstart Australia’s first-ever gas imports, despite the nation being a top global exporter of the fossil fuel.
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James @jpopps.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
You can only blame the media for so long. The country is crumbling and they are the government. They were granted the opportunity being elected and were licensed by largest parliament petition to do something about it. They didn't.
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James @jpopps.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Yeah it is. But Albo's Labor with all the courage of the lion in the wizard of oz
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Rex Patrick @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Our official inflation rate is but a fraction of the real cost increases being endured by the majority of Australians. At #election2025 Albo will be spruiking about the light at the end of the tunnel, but most electors will be distracted just trying to make ends meet. #auspol
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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
And still no local content quotas for the streamers, even while they collect govt subsidies AND avoid paying tax here www.theguardian.com/media/2024/d...
theguardian.com
Investment in film and TV made in Australia plummets by almost 30%, report finds
Global streaming platforms biggest investors but Australian company Stan contributed the most locally produced titles
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James @jpopps.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
His only job to get elected was "not being Scott Morrison". My little brain spins at where that logically ranks them all on the absolute shitbags pecking order list
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Ben Jenkins @bencjenkins.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Australians should probably be a little less smug about our healthcare as bulk billing doctors become rarer and rarer and gaps become wider. Where do you reckon this is going, exactly?
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 07/12/2024
This is an absolutely incredible example of how, if you ever decide to engage with a right-wing media outlet, *how* you do it almost perfectly. Bravo @risingtideaus.bsky.social!
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Sky News Host PANICS During Climate Activist Interview
YouTube video by fusion
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 06/12/2024
$28 million for Macquarie Harbour "to help salmon companies that are foreign-owned, been making a mincer out of us for years & years & years...their profits are huge & yet, they haven't paid any tax for 3 years. Why aren't they cleaning up their own mess?" - Senator Jacqui Lambie #auspol
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Kent Parkstreet @kentparkskeet.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Bullshit. People who can afford it are taking up private health insurance because the public system is failing them. #AusPol
abc.net.au
Mental health, endometriosis treatment behind a spike in young people taking up private health insurance
Despite a cost-of-living crisis, young people aged 25 to 29 have had the biggest take-up of private health insurance over the last year.
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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
World's richest man buys Overton window-shifting brain rot machine. Helps swing an election, destroying a tolerable website as collateral. Rewarded with a government position that lets him oversee how much funding his direct competitors get. There's just no pretence left with the oligarchs anymore.
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💧 simon holmes à court @simonahac.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
@jacquilambie.bsky.social has put forward a motion to rename labor’s electoral “reform” bill the “snouts in the troughs” bill. …which is fair enough given the two major parties are giving themselves $82.7m in extra taxpayer funds under the bill. amp.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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