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Lindsay Parry @lins-oz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

My friend Fenna sent me a photo of one of her patios. We turned it into something akin French Impressionist.

Lindsay Parry @lins-oz.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Bill Kelty said the tax rate should be lowered to about 39% and designed with a laser focus on building wealth for younger wage earners “who have no access to privileges”. Once workers paid GST, income tax, HECS debts and rent, many young people “have got f---ing nothing, they’re really struggling”

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Lindsay Parry @lins-oz.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

At the heart of his vision is an Australia that is neither strategically subordinate to the US nor resigned to Chinese dominance, a country confident enough to preserve its sovereignty while navigating between the region’s two great powers.

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Lindsay Parry @lins-oz.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

"Abbott says War Memorial shouldn’t ‘dwell on’ frontier conflicts" He and main stream media hasn't the guts to call it what it was. 400 documented state sanctioned massacres of at least 10,000 indigenous land owners left out of official history books and school lessons. Always Was, Always Will Be

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Lindsay Parry @lins-oz.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Australia : AI and its quest for unlimited access to copyright, power, water and spineless politicians. "I think we need a bigger island" (Thx to OSLO in today's @thesaturdaypaper.com.au )

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Lindsay Parry @lins-oz.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Priorities.....by Oslo - The Saturday Paper

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Lindsay Parry @lins-oz.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Watching a livestream of the Kennedy Centre in USA with workmen removing part of the signage. Not quite as dramatic as the toppling of the Berlin Wall but just as historic?

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Lindsay Parry @lins-oz.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Angus Taylor and the Liberal Party’s Moral Decline PJ Keating 16 April 2026 A snip: "How dispiriting for the rest of us is Angus Taylor’s cowardice in not even attempting to stand and argue for principles that have been integral to Australia’s strength - principles his party has long championed."

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Lindsay Parry @lins-oz.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

The wider MAGA-sphere will not be happy. They invested a lot in propping up this guy in Hungary.

Viktor Orbán ousted after 16 years in power as Hungarian opposition heads for election landslide

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Lindsay Parry @lins-oz.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

While we watch the man baby wanting to kick the nuclear football, I think all the pet owners on here would have their own opinion of a President of the United States who does not have a pet. The first presidency to claim the honour.

A dog house in the guise of the White House with cobwebs

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Lindsay Parry @lins-oz.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Have you read Rick Morton's latest ? rick-morton.ghost.io/nacc-for-mis... "What knowledge of corruption we might make out comes only from squinting, looking for clues in an agency that appears to regard the digestive tract of hierarchy as all middle intestine; no guts and no arsehole."

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Lindsay Parry @lins-oz.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

I asked AI what it was. This was the reply.

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Lindsay Parry @lins-oz.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Iran: Even a "surgical" war that avoids cities would still involve striking oil terminals and ports. Experts at Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan have warned that any conflict in the Gulf no matter how targeted would likely trigger a global recession due to the immediate closure of the Strait of Hormuz.

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Lindsay Parry @lins-oz.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Mike Brady at Oceanliner Designs... YouTube

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Lindsay Parry @lins-oz.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Weapons (human remains) of mass destruction. I kid you not. Anzac war graves bulldozed during the war in Gaza. The reason ? "... underground terrorist infrastructure was identified within the cemetery and in its surrounding area, which the IDF located and dismantled"

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Lindsay Parry @lins-oz.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Niki Savva: "Liberals with a flair for black humour predict it will get worse before it gets much worse....." Tony Barry: "“These guys are arguing over who gets to be mayor of Hiroshima as the Enola Gay appears over the horizon.” (Illustration by Dionne Gain)

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Lindsay Parry @lins-oz.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Louise Adler said during an address in Brisbane to mark the United Nations Day of Peace in September 2024:

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Lindsay Parry @lins-oz.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

"Australia faces no credible military threat from China. The real danger lies in uncritical alignment with US strategy, fear-driven rhetoric and the steady erosion of national sovereignty. The only potential China threat we face is acting as a proxy for the US." @johnmenadue.com

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Lindsay Parry @lins-oz.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Some headlines in today's The Saturday Paper

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Lindsay Parry @lins-oz.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

“The first thing you need to do is be trusted yourself, and yet Brereton continually seems to be unable to understand that.”

Exclusive: Anthony Albanese overruled push for public NACC hearings

Jason Koutsoukis The Saturday Paper can reveal that the prime minister and other ministers from NSW intervened in cabinet to constrain the operations of the country’s leading integrity body.
“The first thing you need to do is be trusted yourself, and yet Brereton continually seems to be unable to understand that.”

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Lindsay Parry @lins-oz.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

"Robo-debt was a spivvy, slick, slogan-driven lazy shortcut. It was illegal; it ignored due process; and it didn’t save money. Its costs are still growing. It spat on Australians. The new welfare cop beat up everyone it saw, rorted the payroll, cost billions in compo and left its own unpaid debt."

Opinion
This zombie scandal will haunt the Libs, unless they eject Morrison.
Malcolm Knox
Journalist, author and columnist

Robo-debt was a spivvy, slick, slogan-driven lazy shortcut. It was illegal; it ignored due process; and it didn’t save money. Its costs are still growing. It spat on Australians.
The new welfare cop beat up everyone it saw, rorted the payroll, cost billions in compo and left its own unpaid debt.

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Lindsay Parry @lins-oz.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Hmmm. Be careful what you wish for. From SMH:

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Lindsay Parry @lins-oz.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Rick Morton is living in Paris - as if you all didn't know that. "And then Julia Zemiro came to visit and my wonderful friend Meg Clement and I took her out for dinner and drinks. Could it get any better? " Nervous Laughter <rick-morton@ghost.io>

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Lindsay Parry @lins-oz.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

The devastating human story behind one of the Australia’s greatest political scandals premieres on 24 September on SBS and SBS on Demand. "SBS has never been afraid of bold storytelling and The People vs Robodebt is a shocking tale that goes to the very heart of inequality and social cohesion....."

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Lindsay Parry @lins-oz.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

SMH today: it was “highly implausible that this was not co-ordinated at the highest levels of the party and the Brethren”. "Dutton did not respond to a request for comment. Both Dutton’s office during the campaign and the Brethren denied high-level co-ordination of the campaign effort." B.S.!

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Lindsay Parry @lins-oz.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

1855 - Abraham Lincoln - he would "prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty - to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy".

1855 - Abraham Lincoln responding to the rise of the Know-Nothing Party, a political movement that was anti-immigrant and anti-Catholic. Expressed his preference for emigrating to a place like Russia if America truly abandoned its founding ideals, stating he would "prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty - to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy".

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Lindsay Parry @lins-oz.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Ask ChatGPT about anti-vax, sovereign citizens, conspiracy theories, and this is a summation:

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Lindsay Parry @lins-oz.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Aldi smoked salmon - PACKED in Poland - sourced from 'aquaculture Norway'. Norway salmon - "faces ongoing challenges with environmental sustainability, salmon welfare, and disease" And the Aldi Fresh Tasmanian Salmon Fillets ? Duh. Tasmanian !! "Wild caught salmon" in a supermarket? No such thing.

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Lindsay Parry @lins-oz.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

"A few days ago, Ley implored delegates at the Queensland Liberal National Party’s annual convention to take up her message of modernisation and getting back in touch with the wider society. They responded by voting overwhelmingly to ditch the party’s target of net zero by 2050." Shaun Carney SMH

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Lindsay Parry @lins-oz.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Pro-Palestine protesters are seen during the Palestine Action Group's March for Humanity in Sydney (Flavio Brancaleone/AAP PHOTOS)

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Lindsay Parry @lins-oz.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Numbulwar dancers perform a traditional dance during the 25th annual Garma Festival in Gulkula, NT. (James Ross/AAP PHOTOS)

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Lindsay Parry @lins-oz.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Thanks to Matt Doran: Two leading Israeli human rights groups accuse their country of committing genocide in Gaza By Middle East correspondent Matthew Doran

Two leading Israeli human rights groups accuse their country of committing genocide in Gaza
By Middle East correspondent Matthew Doran

Two Israeli human rights organisations, B'Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights Israel, have labelled the country's actions in Gaza as "genocide".

B'Tselem compiled testimony as well as details of mass killings, destruction of infrastructure, forced displacement, mass arrests and alleged abuse of Palestinians in Israeli jails.

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Lindsay Parry @lins-oz.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

A China shock 2.0 is emerging to rock America (Jeremy Warner, The Telegraph, London) "..the MAGA agenda is heavily focused on fighting the last war – on bringing manufacturing jobs lost to China and elsewhere back to the US."

According to the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), the US-led China in 60 of 64 frontier technologies as recently as 2007, judged by share of the world’s most-cited research, while China led the US in three.

However, by 2023, these rankings were reversed, with China leading in 57 of 64 key technologies, and the US in seven.

“China has built the foundations to position itself as the world’s leading science and technology superpower, by establishing a sometimes stunning lead in high-impact research across the majority of critical and emerging technology domains,” the ASPI says.
A China shock 2.0 is emerging to rock America
Xi Jinping and China’s catch-up and overtake approach to the technologies of the future
All of the world’s top 10 research institutions in some technologies are based in China, and are already collectively generating nine times more high-impact research papers than the second-ranked country (most often the US).

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Lindsay Parry @lins-oz.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Interesting to see how China sets up its meeting room. (Too bad if you get hayfever.)

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Lindsay Parry @lins-oz.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

This was always what #AUKUS was about. Being subsumed (pun intended) into the US military. "a guarantee that it supports the US in any conflict" I trust Paul Keating on this one: "...the most poorly conceived defence procurement program ever adopted by an Australian government"

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Lindsay Parry @lins-oz.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

@allanpatience.bsky.social - @johnmenadue.com "There is no sign that Senator Wong, or anyone else in the Albanese go-slow government, has an inkling about what post-ANZUS options Australia should be considering." "...... the Chinese state is now the major force that has to be reckoned with ...."

Australian foreign policy is in the doldrums
Allen Patience - Pearls and Irritations
Opinion polls indicate Australians are at last waking up to the fact that their country’s security reliance on Trump’s US is no longer tenable.

Indeed, it never has been. A complete foreign policy overhaul is now urgently needed. But Australia’s foreign minister is dithering. Is she not up to the task?
There is no sign that Senator Wong, or anyone else in the Albanese go-slow government, has an inkling about what post-ANZUS options Australia should be considering.

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Lindsay Parry @lins-oz.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

22nd June. 1941. Operation Barbarossa. 22nd June. 2025. Operation Polls Boost Needed.

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Lindsay Parry @lins-oz.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

PJK:Marles ‘careless betrayal’ over China: “Yesterday’s statement by Richard Marles amounts to nothing more than a careless betrayal of the country’s policy agency and independence in its ability to make decisions in its own national interest and not in the interest or interests of another country.”

Labor elder Paul Keating has launched a scathing tirade at Defence Minister Richard Marles.Credit: Kate Geraghty, Alex Ellinghausen
Thanks Paul Keating:
“Yesterday’s statement by Richard Marles amounts to nothing more than a careless betrayal of the country’s policy agency and independence in its ability to make decisions in its own national interest and not in the interest or interests of another country.”

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Lindsay Parry @lins-oz.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

From The Atlantic - an article by Charley Locke. "Baby Boomers’ Luck Is Running Out" It applies to Oz as well. Have you noticed who the workers are in many aged care settings ? "The long-term-care workforce is disproportionately made up of immigrants."

A photo by Peter Marlow / Magnum - lady on a beach.
From The Atlantic - an article by Charley Locke.
"Baby Boomers’ Luck Is Running Out"
It applies to Oz as well.
Have you noticed who the workers are in many aged care settings ?
The long-term-care workforce is disproportionately made up of immigrants.

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Lindsay Parry @lins-oz.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Paul Keating re #AUKUS: "the calling of the Pentagon review should be the catalyst for the government to get on with the job of forging a relevant, distinctly Australian path for the country’s national security, rather than being dragged along on the coat-tails of a fading Atlantic empire."

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Lindsay Parry @lins-oz.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Tasmania to have an election on the merits - or not - of building a white elephant and bankrupting the state. From The Saturday Paper and Richard Flanagan "the AFL callously insisted it go in the heart of historic Hobart, the worst act of civic vandalism since Sydney’s Cahill Expressway"

The Saturday Paper -
Richard Flanagan on Tasmania’s political crisis: ‘Bankrupting itself to build a white elephant’

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Lindsay Parry @lins-oz.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

"The moment had finally come, and it was every bit as lowdown, vindictive, personal, petty, operatic, childish, consequential, messy and public as many had always expected it would be." NYT I do recall that this was predicted.

Elon Musk with President Trump at the White House in March, during happier days.Credit...Haiyun Jiang for The New York Times

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Lindsay Parry @lins-oz.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

United States vetoes UN resolution calling for immediate ceasefire in Gaza The remaining 14 UN Security Council members voted in favour of the resolution, which demanded an "immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire" between Israel and Hamas

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Lindsay Parry @lins-oz.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Today in @thesaturdaypaper.com.au - not so sure about 'exclusive', as we #auspol folk might have suspected . . . . (Jason Koutsoukis. is The Saturday Paper's special correspondent.)

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Lindsay Parry @lins-oz.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

ABC calls the latest as Season 22 when it is actually season 25. 5 episodes plus a revisit episode being the last episode which aired in the UK 30 Oct 2024. But at least ABC finally gets them.

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