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marque lawyers @marquelawyers.com.au · 07/10/2026
The impression he gave in those uni days was that he genuinely wanted to burn it all down. Maybe he was just calculating his political future, but he seemed to be a true believer. Either way, he fell in love with something else a long time ago and now he leaves no impression at all.
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Michael Pascoe @michaelpascoe01.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"Some experts"? No, every expert who's not being paid one way or another to support the folly. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Hegseth calls US-built nuclear submarines the ‘apex predator’ of the seas. But are they right for Australia?
Some experts argue Virginia-class submarines government is buying second hand are good for fighting American wars, but not for defending Australia
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John Hanger @jrfhanger.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Good morning with good news: EVs in Australia reach 2035 sales goal a decade early! Plug-in vehicles' share doubles to 25.8% in H1 2026 vs. 12.1% in H1 2025. Sales may be 29% for all of 2026. August EV sales were ~36%, with BEVs a record 24.1%. thedriven.io/2026/09/30/w... #energysky
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"We got there a decade early:" EV industry hails breakthrough year as "average Australians" turn to electric cars
EV lobby hails breakthrough year for electric cars, but warns the market could stagnate if the likes of Toyota convince the government to dilute vehicle emission rules.
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Megan Herbert @meganjherbert.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The inflation problem. My cartoon in today's @theageaustralia.bsky.social and @sydmorningherald.bsky.social
A political cartoon by Megan Herbert showing a single mother, recently made homeless after defaulting on her mortgage repayments (as evidenced by visible paperwork), setting up a new home in a tent with her two young children. Surrounded by their essentials stored in storage and plastic bags, the baby crawls on the grass, his older brother heats some food over a camp stove, and his exhausted-looking mother blows up an air mattress. Watching her, the boy says, "Is this what they means when they say 'inflation is the problem,' Mum?"
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🇦🇺 WyndhamVic @wyndhamvic.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Do you remember which idiot said this > [An electric vehicle] "... won't tow your trailer. It's not going to tow your boat. It's not going to get you out to your favourite camping spot with your family..." 🤣
abc.net.au
One EV sold every 100 seconds as Australia catches up to the world
Electric cars have become mainstream in the past decade, making up one in four new car sales.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Stop reporting property like it is a share market
ABC headline: Australia faces “biggest property downturn in 40 years”, raising recession risk.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Raising the rate of JobSeeker would save lives" Charmaine Crowe from ACOSS for @thepointau.bsky.social thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
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Raising the rate of JobSeeker would save lives
For decades, successive governments have kept unemployment payments in Australia below all accepted measures of adequacy - JobSeeker now sits at just 41% of the minimum wage, and Youth Allowance is ev...
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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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Philip Thalis @philipthalis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
On the enshitification of product design & its effects on our daily lives - a topic that gets way too little attention. Good industrial design of the real world so often neglected, making fussy, brittle products rather than easy-to-use elements made to last, rather than throw away
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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 24/09/2026
Your package of F-35 parts could not be delivered and has been taken to the nearest Auspost collection point
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🇦🇺 WyndhamVic @wyndhamvic.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Japanese car makers continue to double down and fluff around with Hybrid fossil fuel motors which are now the world's most unreliable and shoddy drive trains in the world car market.
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Peter Anderson @zerogeewhiz.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I’m going to be on ABC Radio Brisbane at 2:40-ish to explain it’s not just Chinese EVs that have terrible cybersecurity. Tune in, stream, make your new monumental barbecue a military installation.
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Wendy Harmer @wendyharmer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
My God, the Coalition is pathetic. A new curriculum focusing on "Western Culture"? As we sit at the bottom of the world with the Asian and Pacific nations as our neighbours? Wake me up when this shit is over!
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Jane Caro @janecaro.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
In Australia, we publicly fund privilege, not opportunity.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"Can someone explain why – in an economy in which the central bank has decided we need almost 700,000 people to be unemployed – those people live in such dreadful poverty that it can make you up to 10 times more likely to die in the prime of your life?" www.theguardian.com/business/gro...
theguardian.com
In such a rich country, it is shameful how many Australians on jobseeker are dying in desperate poverty | Greg Jericho
Lifting the abysmally low jobseeker rate to the poverty line would save thousands of lives
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
My column on how the level of Jobseeker kills people. And those running the economy for over 30 years have decided that is how it should be. www.theguardian.com/business/gro...
theguardian.com
In such a rich country, it is shameful how many Australians on jobseeker are dying in desperate poverty | Greg Jericho
Lifting the abysmally low jobseeker rate to the poverty line would save thousands of lives
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Nick @knockaboutwok.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Another koala and joey, suburban Brisbane park. #koala
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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Given the Coalition is now suddenly very concerned over what will happen if people retire while renting, a reminder they knew this was coming while Frydenberg was treasurer - their own review into retirement income highlighted this was a problem. They did nothing. treasury.gov.au/publication/...
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Retirement Income Review - Final Report | Treasury.gov.au
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Next to where I’m working in Iceland is a whaling station. They didn’t slaughter any whales this year because the Japanese economy tanked, thanks to Trump’s idiotic actions. So…Trump saves whales*. 🫠 *He also saved a lot of whales by cancelling offshore wind. 🙃 arcticportal.org/ap-library/n...
A dramatic landscape featuring a prominent rocky mountain under overcast skies, with a coastal area in the foreground. In the distance, a few buildings are visible near the water's edge.
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tonywindsor.bsky.social @tonywindsor.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Howard fostered the greed card and pushed race. Hanson fired up the racism debate to divide the nation. Joyce bow adds the gibberish and we wonder what happened to Australia. Perhaps they could look in the mirror and the answer would be obvious!
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Sandy Horne @sandyhorne.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
A closer look at a Sturt desert pea (Swainsona formosa) flower. It is the floral emblem of the state of South Australia and a dramatic pop of colour out in the desert.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
A truly horrific thread
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🇦🇺 WyndhamVic @wyndhamvic.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Putting a nimbus on these religious nutters is no better than smearing lipstick on a pig. Handing them $4bn for Catholic schools NSW is a crime that exceeds biblical proportions.
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livesarah @livesarah.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
In what is possibly one of the pettiest Zionist hit-jobs yet, The Australian’s James Madden, at the behest of the Zionist Federation of Australia, platforms ZFA president Jeremy Liebler’s idea that anti-genocide, anti-Zionist views should preclude an academic from being interviewed about… aged care
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Peter Anderson @zerogeewhiz.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The Venn diagram of "the grid can't cope with EVs" and "we need all these data centres, we'll be fine if we can keep burning stuff" cohorts is, needless to say, a circle. The fact that the cheerleading is coming from the NT and Queensland governments confirms this suspicion.
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Nick Bryant. @nickbryantoz.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
With each passing week, Trump’s presidency looks more and more like a home improvement show aimed at a niche audience of rich retirees in Boca Raton. He is, after all, the main tenant of America’s ultimate gated community. My latest: historyneverended.substack.com/p/pulling-at...
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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Thank goodness for @latingle.bsky.social - it is only because of her reputation and stature that she can speak plainly
abc.net.au
Israel's impunity has been virtually unaffected by collective concern
Even the United States is now criticising Israel's ongoing settler violence in the West Bank as Benjamin Netanyahu, once the "Trump whisperer", becomes the Trump ignorer.
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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The offender is lucky his victims are Aboriginal kids or this would have been investigated as an act of terrorism.
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Fahad Ali @fahad-s-ali.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
However, these precisely the sort of people who are hunted down by the conservative press, smeared and harassed, forced to answer for fabricated nonsense, and driven out of public life. And so I also think it is true to say that Murdoch is the engine of the very problem it claims to oppose.
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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Ambassador Hillel Newman defends Israel’s farce of an investigation into Zomi Frankcom's killing, then pivots to attacking Aussie protesters with already-debunked false claims. Australia shouldn't tolerate this contempt. He must be expelled.
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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Australia’s hierarchy of grief: $131M for one inquiry, empty chairs for First Nations Andrew Brown reports. Read it here: michaelwest.com.au/first-nations-ra…
Michael West Media story graphic
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I asked why the NACC has apparently never looked into billions in sketchy secret Nauru contracts, the answer was simple: nobody could explain it.
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Peter Hollo @peterhollo.com · 14/08/2026
A little-known property of the fruit known as "melons" is at the centre of a political furore in Australia. We are dedicating this week's entire issue of Serious Media Outlet to an in-depth analysis of this fruit and its role in Australia-Japan relations.
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Peter Anderson @zerogeewhiz.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I have not seen the Albanese melon thing but I'm 98.7% sure he was just talking with his hands the same way he often does. The tedium of these discussion and the media actually feeding them oxygen as though there aren't better things to do is unending and I was going to say beneath them, but...
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Sandy Horne @sandyhorne.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Spiny-cheeked honeyeaters squabbling on aloe flowers on the farm.
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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Why can't you tell the Census you're single? Why does it have to be married or 'never married'? Does it not matter if you were a de facto partner for 72.8 years & had eleventy children? Or were married for 4 days? What does 'never married' tell anyone? Is it just a hangover from bachelor/spinster?
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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
So desperate to shield Ben Roberts-Smith from accountability on his alleged war crimes, Pauline Hanson is demanding the criminal code be amended to block retrospective war crime prosecutions. If BRS is as innocent as she claims, why is she so worried? 🙄 #auspol
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Anthony B, @swearyanthony.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
The "renewables vs agriculture" argument is of course, completely ass backwards. See for instance here. Solar panels help crop growth energiesmedia.com/solar-panels...
energiesmedia.com
American farmers slid solar panels over 62,000 acres of farmland, and the biggest payoff had almost nothing to do with electricity
Long rows of solar panels march across the desert, and underneath them, where the ground should be baked and bare, there are rows of green.
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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Dear Australian news media, I have zero interest in your daily coverage of everything Pauline Hanson says and does. Yes, report her policies (when she releases them). But also report the policies of the Greens too. For balance. With some factual analysis of both. Do some bloody #journalism! #auspol
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
The thing about Trump is I think he gets more pleasure winning by cheating than he would winning legitimately. Because getting away with it is his life's work.
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
We need environmental and climate policy set by 11-year-olds, instead of men in their 60s with fossil fuel shares and oil & gas company board seats on offer after they finish their political careers.
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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Rollout starts some time in August , ie, any time within next few weeks (I may have missed specific date) No child should be educated with IHRA The examples in IHRA handbooks literally say accusing Israel’s govt of genocide, even accusing them of racism, is antisemitism.
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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
AHPRA CEO Justin Untersteiner conceded GPs could feel they can’t express a critical view of Israel, it was an excellent cross examination by Kirsten Edwards SC. Untersteiner also admitted they use a data scraping tool to search antisemitic content online, with IHRA as a guide.🚩
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Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
What an amazing story! www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07... Vicky Belando Nicholson is the best of Australia.
abc.net.au
Found lifeless in the water, Vicky is now a swimming gold medallist
Victoria Belando Nicholson was a baby when she was pulled lifeless from the water after falling from a refugee boat. Now she's a swimming gold medallist for Australia.
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The Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com · 27/07/2026
In less than six months, China will start phasing in a world-first ban on hidden car door handles. A US ban may be next. So what’s happening in Australia?
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As China bans new cars with unsafe doors, Australia risks becoming a ‘dumping’ ground
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Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Labor is no longer 'committed to a social security system that keeps people out of poverty'—a refreshing pivot to honesty re: their intentions.
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Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 21/07/2026
Every now and then, it’s worth saying what ought to be obvious: trans people have always existed, and will exist as long as humans do. They’ve not done anything wrong by wanting their existence recognised, supported, and celebrated. The transformation of their existence into “an issue” is evil.
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Keren Lavelle @kerenlavelle.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
A worthy cause – let Ailin, a 17-year-old refugee who fled Iran stay - please sign : petitions.getup.org.au/petitions/le... @getup.org.au
petitions.getup.org.au
Let me stay in the country I love
The government has the power to change this. They can give young people like me the chance to stay – to study, to work, to build a future in the place we already call home.  Right now, the peopl...
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Wendy Harmer @wendyharmer.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
So looking forward to having a yack with my lovely radio pal @robbieb.bsky.social on @2ser.bsky.social tomorrow morning! Community radio is the best-est! About 8.10 am - tune in, radio friends ! xx
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Wendy Harmer @wendyharmer.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
IMPORTANT! For the first time, Australian Conservation Foundation, Wilderness Society, Wilderness Australia & 50 enviro orgs launching the Forest Protection Principles: a shared roadmap to protect and restore Australia's native forests... Sign below!! protectnativeforests.com
protectnativeforests.com
Protect native forests and climate – It's time to end logging and clearing
It's time to end logging and land clearing in Australia
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