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Christine H

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Living on the unceded land of the Menang Noongar people. Leftie, proudly working class. It's time for a Republic and a Treaty. Science fiction and history fan and a bit obsessed with crochet. No DM's.

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Jessie L @jessielilley.bsky.social · 3h
Need a home in Australia in a housing crisis? Go work for a Texas gas company.
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Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 4h
Ant Sharwood's new book, with Anna Langford: www.goodreads.com/book/show/24.... It's an important story.
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The Last Snow Gum: Loving and saving the most precious …
Snow gums are the most beautiful trees on Earth. But th…
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Double Down News @doubledown.news · 10h
Zionism Is Racism: THIS EXPLAINS EVERYTHING! Richard Sanders EXPOSES Green Party Smears
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Zionism Is Racism: THIS EXPLAINS EVERYTHING! Richard Sanders EXPOSES Green Party Smears
WE ARE BEING LIED TO
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Christine H @lillypadleftie.bsky.social · 11h
Bit of an electrical storm in Perth tonight.
Photo of lightning above Perth city this evening.
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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Media Watch had a crack at us last night over #flydubai. We gently remind them of their own epic fail #auspol michaelwest.com.au/flying-high-...
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Flying High Dubai. MWM responds to ABC Media Watch - Michael West
ABC Media Watch has accused this reporter of "perpetuating unsubstantiated conspiracy theories" online. We say the ABC has failed
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Dr Craig Buchanan FSAScot @buchanan.today · 13h
Heading home after a large but entirely peaceful protest against the Land Forces Expo in Perth. This is what democracy looks like!
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 13h
Very sad news. #RIP www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...
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Breaking: Veteran news anchor Richard Morecroft dies, aged 70
Morecroft was a regular presence on television screens for more than 30 years.
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Kon Karapanagiotidis @kkarapanagiotidis.bsky.social · 14h
Angus Taylor is punching down again today bragging he will cut our Refugee and Humanitarian intake by a staggering 50%. You have to go back to 1977-78 for the last time Australia’s refugee and humanitarian intake was just 10,000 places. (That was the year when Malcolm Fraser established our first
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Barbara Pocock @barbarapocock.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Labor's spend on KPMG has nearly doubled from $32 mil in 2024-25 to $59 mil in 2025-26. Labor has been watching a repeat of scandals & still hasn’t delivered meaningful reform. The temporary month-to-month freeze on KPMG is nothing but a pathetic, tokenistic punishment.
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 05/10/2026
See more highlights from the latest episode of Dollars & Sense on YouTube. @grogsgamut.bsky.social @skyelark.bsky.social #auspol youtu.be/4tl8bylfptM?...
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Households will struggle “for not much good” due to interest rate hike
YouTube video by The Australia Institute
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Sirius Star 🍉 🍉 🍉 @siriusstar3.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“Labor does not consult with or listen to the wider population or to Labor constituencies in the poorer half of the community. Rather, it is a classical crony government, in many respects worse than the Morrison government, governing for its mates, its donors and itself.” #Auspol
Article excerpt 
Albanese has shifted his party sharply to the right in pursuit of his aim of making Labor
"the natural party of government"
". Doing so is helping to squeeze the Coalition between Labor and Pauline Hanson's One Nation party. Not coincidentally his policy shifts have made Labor more attractive to an array of fundamentally anti-Labor vested interests and put Labor in their thrall. Mates, cronies, party donors, lobbyists and insiders work to the
disadvantage of the interests of the constituencies he has pretended to champion.
Albanese knows this but thinks he can get away with it. Those fashioning the pitch for the Greens as a party of wider influence would argue that Albanese and Labor can no longer be seen to be a progressive party, or a socially democratic one. Labor's internal administrative structures have atrophied, to the benefit of party insiders, who have always included Albanese himself. The party conference is about as responsible to or responsive to a wider Labor membership as the Chinese Communist Party. As in China, party meetings are stage-managed to predetermined
conclusions.
Is this an Albanese Liberal government, or a Labor one? Many of Labor's old constituents see the broad policies of the Albanese government as
being in no significant way different from those of the Coalition parties which preceded it. It has become at least as deceitful and dishonest about sincere action on climate change. It is now the party of big coal and big gas. Nearly always, more frequently under present environment management, the interests of the fossil fuels industry, and their subsidiary the West Australian government, will be preferred over environmental, heritage or Aboriginal interests. That the handmaiden of this surrender is the environment ministerNor has Labor, on its record, any reason for seeing strident criticism from within as some sort of undeserved betrayal. The Albanese government deserves no leave pass. Nor anything like a pass mark for generally good conduct. It is not a model of good
government, of effective government or efficient government. It has become the problem.
Good intentions cannot excuse bad performance Insiders and intimates of ministers get secretive deals and jobs, some of which involve a major corruption of principles of open, transparent and accountable government. Labor does not even have open debate within its caucuses, because the two senior faction leaders, Albanese and Richard Marles, play the politics of reward and punishment, and the
allocation of jobs, not by merit but by loyalty and silence. Labor does not consult with or listen to the wider population or to Labor constituencies in the poorer half of the community. Rather, it is a classical crony government, in many respects worse than the Morrison government, governing for its mates, its donors and itself. It treats public money and things as spoils to be distributed among its own. It listens primarily to vested interests paying for their access. Labor has consciously nobbled many of the watchdogs and anti-corruption agencies. Indeed, Labor has attempted to completely strangle freedom of information and might have succeeded had it not been for Green and
independent outrage. Labor policies and practices on immigration neither follow the party's own policies nor the
nation's broad economic interests but are a reprehensible piece of pandering to
manufactured One Nation panic. This has not been an occasion in which the party, perhaps reluctantly, switches to accommodate vagaries of public opinion. Labor's policies damage the nation economically,
morally, socially and culturally.
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Resistance Daily Mission @bluebanditjim.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is the way.
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Lilly @lillyull.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
WA Greens MLC Sophie McNeill recently raising ire in WA parliament over the Cook Labor government not only moving to host the Land Forces 2026 weapons festival, but further, to rollout a security regime to conceal these arms dealers from the public. Another Premier who's a law unto themselves.
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“A US Military Outpost”: WA Greens MLC Sophie McNeill on Land Forces and AUKUS
WA Greens MLC Sophie McNeill has been keeping the Cook Labor government honest, when it comes to security around Land Forces 2026 and ongoing AUKUS developments.
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Doug Cameron @dncameron.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Don’t listen to religious extremist and warmonger Hegseth and his sycophantic mate Marles who claims “shared values” with this obnoxious and dangerous fool. Military experts, politicians, diplomats peace activists, unions, faith groups all oppose the madness that is AUKUS.
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Twang 🍉 @twangmaker.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
No journalist has ever asked Pauline Hanson: Do you support Australia sending financial aid or weapons to Ukraine? Why not? Why do they ask David Shoebridge about everything, but ask Pauline Hanson nothing? Why the double standards?
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💚🌏Myles🌏💚 @rainbowregionmyles.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Aged care is absolutely fucked. Older people waiting for care, families drowning, providers stretched to breaking point, and somehow the government managed to underspend by $1.4 BILLION. That’s $1.4 billion of care that never fucking happened!! #auspol
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How the Australian Government 'saved' $1.4BN on aged care
Australian Government spent $1.4 billion less on aged care in FY26 than it budgeted for, upsetting Catholic Health Australia and Bolton Clarke.
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Nicole Chvastek @nicolechvastek.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The ABC is kicked out of One Nations Vic policy launch as the party announces it would axe Treaty with Indigenous Australians-you know the ones Pauline Hanson slandered as “the most primitive race on earth” Hey media. Report that THEY’RE RACISTS “Truth Lies&Media” is live! Promo Match Frame Editing
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WA Orchids @wa-orchids.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Noongar season of Kambarang is upon us, a season characterised by an abundance of spring wildflowers. Here’s a few of the amazing wildflowers that are blooming around WA’s Southern forests at the minute IDs in ALT #ozflora #wildoz #nativeplants #inaturalist #spring #bloomscrolling 🌿
Hyalosperma cotula - a small daisy like flower of white and yellowStypandra glauca - nodding blue lily - a striking purple flower with promyyellow anthers Pauridia occidentalis - small yellow flower with four petals Utricularia multifida - pink petticoats- close up of a small pink flower with a yellow ruffled centre at the top
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Crikey @crikey.com.au · 02/10/2026
Opinion | The prime minister seems ruffled by the Greens' new leadership. He's right to be, writes Rachel Withers. www.crikey.com.au/2026/10/02/d...
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How worried is Labor about new Greens leader David Shoebridge?
It seems Anthony Albanese would rather only One Nation spoke to voters’ “searing anger”, even if it means more seats for the right than the left.
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Rex Patrick @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
We have a right to know where #AUKUS nuclear waste will be buried, and how our Foreign Investment Review Board decides if Aussie companies can be sold to foreigners. Despite the Govt appealing my #FOI wins, and seeking legal costs if I lose, I’m in for the fight. Game on! #auspol
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Last month Santos CEO Kevin Gallagher told the National Press Club that Santos and the gas industry had not lost its social license
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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 30/09/2026
If turbocharged petrol prices are driving up inflation, then why are Australia’s unemployed on the line? | Greg Jericho
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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 * Get our new political email, free app or daily news podcast And here we are again. Hello darkness my old friend. Interest rates up again and talk of a recession if needed. The Reserve Bank’s enacting legislation gives it a dual mandate – “price stability [ie stable inflation] and the maintenance of full employment in Australia.” But in reality the RBA seems to ignore the “full employment” aspect overall, and we now need to worry about a recession. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s Politics, really newsletter here Continue reading...
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"I am taking part in the sporting boycott of Israel… I am doing this because Israel is committing genocide in Gaza." Australian women's chess champion Heather Richards' boycott is reported overseas. But apart from indies like @index.lamestream.com.au.ap.brid.gy , gets little attention at home.
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Deepcut News @deepcutnews.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
For a glimpse into @DavidShoebridge's vision, he wrote this for Deepcut a month ago. www.deepcutnews.com/p/we-can-bea...
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We can beat the 1 per cent – David Shoebridge
Australia’s Left must unite and rise to meet the moment
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SallyRCbra @srpassesiton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Steph only has 495 followers just now. Let’s give her a wider voice (even if you’re not a Greens voter, people need to consider her work as Deputy Leader) #auspol
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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
David Shoebridge fired up, gloves off, puts everyone on notice, “We’re here to beat down One Nation.” “We’re here to replace Labor.” 🔥
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Deepcut News @deepcutnews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Albanese's proposal to water down Australian copyright to appease AI companies is a "terrible betrayal", writes Richard Flanagan in a blistering piece. "A government that doesn’t understand its nation’s culture is a government incapable of leading the nation." www.deepcutnews.com/p/the-great-...
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The great betrayal? AI imperialists and Albanese – Richard Flanagan
Australians should be furious that Anthony Albanese has opened the floodgates to American AI companies
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Wild Colonial Girl - Voting Green 💚 = Voting against genocide 🍉 @colonialgirl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
You can find membership forms there, too. #JoinTheGreens 💚 #VoteGreen
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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Huge Congrats to David Shoebridge, he brings the fire, the fury, and accountability our parliament needs right now. I think things are about to get a little bit wild. Parliament won't know what hit it.💥🔥 #auspol
Image showing Senator David Shoebridge in the Senate and text stating his new role of leader of The Greens.
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Deepcut News @deepcutnews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This Labor government is the Ed Sheeran of Australian politics, @amyremeikis.bsky.social writes. "On every issue, Labor has done the least it can do." www.deepcutnews.com/p/this-labor...
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This Labor government is the Ed Sheeran of Australian politics – Amy Remeikis
There is more opportunity to push back against toxic centrism
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Rex Patrick @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
UK Prime Minister Burnham wants submarines and shipyards to be his country’s economic engine. Why not, especially when Australian taxpayers are helping foot the bill. #AUKUS #auspol
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Crikey @crikey.com.au · 28/09/2026
Waleed Aly's Quarterly Essay is illuminating in parts, but is ultimately unable to fully interrogate where the threats to liberalism come from. www.crikey.com.au/2026/09/28/w...
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Waleed Aly's essay on liberalism can't see the crisis right in front of its face
While it’s instructive and illuminating in parts, Waleed Aly’s Quarterly Essay, Time of Monsters, is ultimately unable to fully interrogate where the threats to liberalism come from.
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@THE-Russell - You don't like opinions? Here's mine! @the-russell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The federal government will facilitate the building of AI data centres across Australia, soaking up our sparse water and overloading our electricity grid while causing mass unemployment. All of this and to top it off, each data centre only requires 15 people to operate! #auspol
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Wendy Harmer @wendyharmer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Watching the Yanks desperately trying to get the vote out for the mid-terms and advising folks of their rights as voters - makes me SO grateful for the AEC. Tweaks I'd make - four year terms and fixed election date. Stop the endless media fixation and political opportunism.
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Purplepingers ☭ @purplepingers.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Labor’s Andrew Giles is preferencing the Liberals, family first, trumpets of patriots and a former one nation candidate over Victorian Socialists in Scullin, that’s not a great look.
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Lilly @lillyull.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I almost hope this happens. It might open Albanese's and the rusted ons' eyes. ifloz.substack.com/p/trumps-abo...
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marque lawyers @marquelawyers.com.au · 24/09/2026
Man allowed to address UN General Assembly while subject to an arrest warrant of the International Criminal Court on war crimes charges, sure why not
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George's Σουβλάκια🏺🥙 @thebigsouvlaki.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"China holding sensitive F-35 jet parts diverted to Hong Kong after leaving Australia" When you have one of the 3 Stooges as Defence Minister, this was bound to happen.
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Christine H @lillypadleftie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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The Cowichan Sweater: Waterproof Armor of the Coast Salish
YouTube video by Kristine Kelly
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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 24/09/2026
Chinese EVs are under scrutiny over spying and hacking fears. But cybersecurity risks extend to all connected cars, and Australia needs universal protections rather than a new China scare, Peter Newman writes. #auspol #ElectricVehicles #Cybersecurity
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Chinese cars under the bed: a new and dangerous conspiracy
Chinese electric vehicles have become the focus of a new security scare, but connected cars from every country carry cybersecurity risks. Australia needs stronger protections without allowing fear of China to derail the clean energy transition.
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Rob Arnol @robertarnol.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
😂😂🤣🤣 Appropriate.
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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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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Concern? How about arrest the f*cker?? Cripes. If you or I hacked Medicare, the AFP would bash down our doors. AI does it? Oopsies! I am concerned! www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Anthony Albanese says OpenAI agent hacked Medicare and he expressed ‘extreme concern’ to Sam Altman
Prime minister says he told chief executive he was disappointed it had taken company ‘way too long’ to inform government of breach
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
When Donald Trump celebrates war profiteering, peddles conspiracy theories, threatens Iranians with annihilation, calls for a coup and slanders the ICC, what does our Prime Minister do? He takes a selfie with him. Seriously cringeworthy stuff.
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Albanese to deliver hypocritical speech telling China and the US not to use the Pacific as a chessboard. When he has reinforced Australia's role as a US pawn. #EndAUKUS #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
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PM set to warn China and US the Indo-Pacific not their 'chessboard'
In a major foreign policy speech set to be delivered in New York, Anthony Albanese will declare the post-1945 world order "is no longer fit for purpose" and warn China and the US the Indo-Pacific is n...
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Lilly @lillyull.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A children's hospital in Perth cancels an education event because it features someone who they fear supports ending the genocide of children... michaelwest.com.au/hospital-can...
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Hospital cancels education event fearing pro-Palestine bias - Michael West
Last week, Perth Children's Hospital cancelled a scheduled 'Grand Round' because of "perceptions of pro-Palestinian bias”.
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TheFinnigans @finnigans.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
If China President Xi at UNGA making a open threat to annihilate another country eg Philippines. You @albomp.bsky.social and FM @senatorwong.bsky.social would be on @news.abc.net.au Condemning China 24/7. Instead, you took a selfie with Mein Trumpf. Your hypocrisy is truly appalling
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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
all I’m seeing is US billionaires testing western political tolerance for their polycidal poison machines. You know, like Israel does.
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Ette Media @ettemedia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
In this episode Antoinette takes a close look at the politics and culture journal Quarterly Essay. Plus, we discuss Australia's complicity in the years-long “civil war” in Sudan, and the high school reporters taking their principals to court cover freedom of speech. Listen below:
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Who writes a Quarterly Essay? Australia’s complicity in Sudan war + high school reporters sue principal
Podcast Episode · We Used to be Journos · 22 September · 54min · Video
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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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