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Marius Coomans

@mariushendrik.bsky.social
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Retired, ex sailor, ex techie, loves JS Bach, enjoying our first electric car. Ex Dutch, now Aussie. Married to @joy1944 #bach #byddolphin #byd www.coomans.com

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Agnes Mack @agnessmack.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
David Pope in Canberra Times
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Marius Coomans @mariushendrik.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Good on Crickey & Bernard to keep the Bastards honest... www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/11/n...
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With no opposition, Labor is acting increasingly fast and loose with your money
Labor is handing millions of taxpayer funds to private equity firms with no rationale beyond propping up manufacturing. Along with its new raid on super, it shows a disregard for being careful with ot...
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Matt Kirkcaldie @matttkk.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
A point which I never see raised is that the cost of the stadium would be borne by all taxpayers, whereas the profits and economic benefits would accrue to businesses catering to the resulting traffic, and the AFL. Seems like a massive expenditure of public money to benefit the private sector.
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Marius Coomans @mariushendrik.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Australia needs to diplomatically disengage from our 'dangerous ally' johnmenadue.com/post/2025/09...
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Australia needs to diplomatically disengage from our 'dangerous ally'
It seems likely that our prime minister will meet Donald Trump at the United Nations General Assembly later this month.
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Marius Coomans @mariushendrik.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
I snuck into St Barnabas while the rehearsal was on, before this afternoon's wonderful Bach concert by the Sydney Cantata Project. #bach #10outof10 #sydneycantataproject
Orchestra and chorus rehearsing in a futuristic looking church with a high ceiling
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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
I would like to place a bet of fifty gazillion dollars that post-politics, Richard Marles will somehow find a job for a weapons company that helps America slaughter millions of brown people for squillions of dollars
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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 20/08/2025
Don't miss John Menadue on ABC Radio National's Late Night Live, with David Marr, tonight. The wide ranging interview will cover John's significant contribution to Australia life including the importance of an independent media, such as Pearls and Irritations. 10PM on Radio National. #auspol
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Jane Caro @janecaro.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Zoe Daniel is such a loss to our parliament. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The attack on Australia’s net zero target is reckless and gutless. Voters expect more than ‘intergenerational bastardry’ | Zoe Daniel
While Barnaby Joyce and Michael McCormack try to ditch the 43% net zero 2030 emissions target, Australia’s net zero target for 2035 has not yet been set
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Marius Coomans @mariushendrik.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
New map for justice www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/edit... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au
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New map for justice
Occasionally a sentence will arrive and through its gentle, balanced clauses, through the patience of its metre, it will suggest a fresh reality. The words will not be new but their force will be. It ...
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Marius Coomans @mariushendrik.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Cartoonists provide the clearest perspective....
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World War 3!? Whose idea was that? | First Dog on the Moon
The world is up in arms and maybe even ending! What is going on. I’m frightened!
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
The United States never has enough money to keep people alive at home but always has enough money to kill people overseas.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
no accidents
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Mark Ogge @markogge.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Who’d have thought that the first priority for the new term of @australianlabor.bsky.social government would to give away $200+ billion of Australia’s gas to a multinational gas exporter …and trash indigenous heritage and add 4 billion tonnes of emissions australiainstitute.org.au/post/great-g...
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Marius Coomans @mariushendrik.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/06... Paul... please come back and run this piss-weak joint...
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Australia: A sovereign continent not for Marles to gift away
Yesterday’s statement by Defence Minister Richard Marles that Australia’s geography and continent would be crucial to any United States prosecution of a war against China will go down as a dark moment...
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Marius Coomans @mariushendrik.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Why does it take Al Jazeera to give a voice to thoughtful Americans like Jeffrey Sachs? youtu.be/4ivEWwaGQBI?...
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“Washington has the delusion it still runs the show”: Jeffrey Sachs on a multipolar world | UpFront
YouTube video by Al Jazeera English
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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 12/06/2025
Paul Keating says US Aukus review could ‘save Australia from itself’ as sceptics hail chance to exit pact
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Paul Keating says US Aukus review could ‘save Australia from itself’ as sceptics hail chance to exit pact
Former PM Malcolm Turnbull and former foreign minister Bob Carr say Australia must seize chance to urgently review its defence needs * Australia news live: latest politics updates * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast A chorus of Aukus sceptics, including former prime ministers Paul Keating and Malcolm Turnbull, say a US review represents an “opportunity” for Australia to escape a controversial deal that would cost hundreds of billions of dollars and leave Australia, ultimately, less able to defend itself. The US department of defense has announced a 30-day review of the Aukus nuclear-powered submarine deal “ensuring that this initiative of the previous administration is aligned with the president’s ‘America first’ agenda,” a Pentagon official said, “and that the defense industrial base is meeting our needs”. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading...
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Marius Coomans @mariushendrik.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Q&A to be axed... I suggest replacing it with Monday Conference... #someviewersneverforget www.theguardian.com/media/2025/j...
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ABC confirms Q+A to be axed amid wider changes and scores of redundancies across broadcaster
Political and current affairs discussion program being cut alongside the ABC’s Innovation Lab
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Marius Coomans @mariushendrik.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
The real reason for the North West Shelf project.... www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/20889/...
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The real reason for the North West Shelf project
The polluting impact of fossil fuels is not new to those who peddle them. Nearly 30 years ago, when I was an executive at BP, we acknowledged climate change and what it would bring – despite others in...
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Marius Coomans @mariushendrik.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
I can't believe that Labor is leaving @edhusicmp.bsky.social off the front bench.... Doesn't bode well for the next 3/6 years.
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Marius Coomans @mariushendrik.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
But will they listen?
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Marius Coomans @mariushendrik.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Flutes in Situ is a wonderful project of recorder playing in beautiful buildings and places. #recorder #beautifulmusic youtube.com/@flutesinsit...
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Flutes in situ
Created by Nathalie Houtman and Laura Pok, "Flutes in Situ" is a project of video capsules that make the recorder resonate in remarkablesplaces to be discovered. The videos, one per month, promise to ...
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Marius Coomans @mariushendrik.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
I'm looking forward to the next concert by the Sydney Cantata Project on 31st May in Burwood! Love their concerts!!! sydneycantataproject.com
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DPK @lakeoftranquility.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
that’s why a Labor minority government forced into REAL reform (tax, environment, defence) by progressive Independents and Greens would be the best outcome for our country
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Marius Coomans @mariushendrik.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Why is it still impossible for members to log into their account at AustralianSuper? It's been a couple of weeks since the " break-in"... www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...
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'I can't start at zero now': Australians want answers after cyber attack on super
Australians are calling for answers after suspected cyber attacks on multiple large superannuation funds.
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Marius Coomans @mariushendrik.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
A long interview with Jim Chalmers by the Kohler Mob.... pca.st/episode/4964...
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Marius Coomans @mariushendrik.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
How do you sing Bach? Is there a right or best way? #bach www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZrA...
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How we sing Bach | Netherlands Bach Society
YouTube video by Netherlands Bach Society
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Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
This is laughable and disingenuous. How on earth will such a piecemeal effort protect the reef while the very same government continues its love affair with coal and gas? www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...
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Live: Albanese to announce $10m program to protect Great Barrier Reef
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is in Far North Queensland to spruik a new $10 million Reef Educational Experience Fund to protect and promote the Great Barrier Reef. Follow live.
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Marius Coomans @mariushendrik.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
It's about time we stand on our own feet.... #australia #china #usa www.crikey.com.au/2025/04/08/l...
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Labor wants to hand bullyboy Trump Australia's critical minerals. It's treachery
Imagine the reaction if we'd offered China a special deal on critical minerals to escape tariffs?
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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 08/04/2025
It's time to accept that blind commitment to a flawed plan, heading in the wrong direction, is not going deliver a valid sovereign solution, no matter how well the preparatory measures may be going. #auspol #AUKUS
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AUKUS on track? No, Australia needs Plan B now
Last Monday’s AUKUS Security forum at the National Press Club heard arguments of those seeking to support the status quo . It was argued that criticism undermines AUKUS and risks turning the possibility that the US will not be able to spare Virginia class SSNs for sale to Australia from an ‘if’ to certainty.
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Flick Reynolds @flickreynolds.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Anyone else finding it difficult to concentrate on our May 3 election because watching Trump trash the US & turn it into a fascist dictatorship is so compelling? Australia will need a smart, sensible govt right now because of this global insanity. So, that obviously excludes the LNP coalition.
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Marius Coomans @mariushendrik.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
It's the time of the year to listen to one of the #Bach great passions. Here is one which just landed on Youtube : www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2x5... The staging leaves me cold, but I never tire of the music!
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Bach - Johannes-Passion | Peter Dijkstra | Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks
YouTube video by BR-KLASSIK
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Marius Coomans @mariushendrik.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
New leader for the Netherlands Bach Society! #bach www.bachvereniging.nl/en/johanna-s...
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Johanna Soller new artistic leader of the Netherlands Bach Society – Bach
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Marius Coomans @mariushendrik.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
@johnmenadue.com I love PearlsAndIrritations, but you could use some more care with the website / links . Today's posts to Bluesky all have dud links... I'm an old, ex web developer manager, would be happy to advise /assist. Love the site, love the writing, hate the link errors.... Marius Coomans
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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 30/03/2025
No city should suffer the moral stain of hosting an embassy representing the racist, genocidal state of Israel. Declare your city nuclear and genocide-free. @bobbobnz #auspol #NZpol
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Declare your city genocide-free: Lessons from New Zealand’s nuclear-free movement - Pearls and Irritations
Wellington kicked off a nuclear free campaign in the 80's. Declare Wellington genocide-free. And if Wellington could, why not other cities?
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Marius Coomans @mariushendrik.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Michael Pascoe speaks the unspeakable... www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topi...
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Trump is not an aberration
It would be comforting to think Donald Trump is an outlier, that this, too, will pass. Alas, while Trump is abhorrent, he is not an aberration. His administration is the fulfilment of conservative Ame...
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Marius Coomans @mariushendrik.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Pete Seeger in Australia in 1963. An American we looked up to. Wonderful, full live concert: youtu.be/aFNC1an4Dk4?... #folk #traditional #peteseeger
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Pete seeger live in australia 1963 HD
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Ern400 @ern400.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
“May I be awkward and have one of each?”
Bunches of tulips for sale.
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Marius Coomans @mariushendrik.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Was using phone to pay and it told me to take my sunglasses off... #BigBrotherPhone
Pair of sunglasses
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Marius Coomans @mariushendrik.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Lovely live #bach concert this afternoon by the Sydney Cantata Project at St Stephens in Newtown. BWV5 and BWV67. Hot!
Orchestra and choir performing BWV67. Jack Stephens directing and singing Bass part.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Bit of tip, ALP - stand up for your country. Don’t be Trump meat puppets
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
The USA is not a friendly nation. It is run by kleptocrats. Any political party not currently looking at reshaping our defence and foreign affairs policies is negligent in the extreme. AUKUS must go. The AUSFTA is dead. We have leverage. Time to use it.
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Marius Coomans @mariushendrik.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
"Australia, it seems, is adrift in a sea of unpredictable global events and changing alliance priorities." Peter Cronau on pearls and Irritations - johnmenadue.com/australias-d...
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Australia’s defence: Navigating US-China tensions - Pearls and Irritations
Intelligence failure to detect live-firing by Chinese warships near Australia, has exposed Defence weaknesses, and that we are all alone.
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Marius Coomans @mariushendrik.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
I love #Bach, listened to most of his works. And then you listen to a familiar piece and look up... Amazing young talent, Alexandra Dovgan. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2N_h...
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J.S.Bach Partita n°6 e-moll, Alexandra Dovgan, La Chaux-de-Fonds, 05.12.2023
YouTube video by Александра Довгань (Alexandra Dovgan)
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Marius Coomans @mariushendrik.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
A palate cleanser.. #bach www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRk3...
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Marius Coomans @mariushendrik.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
I am tired of all the #trump speculation and prognostication, everywhere I turn, even down here in Australia. I think I might go #dark for a while....
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Marius Coomans @mariushendrik.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Argh... Below the belt...
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Azza, woke as hell @aaronduddy.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Love politics? You will love this pod. Best one out there. Humour and information.
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
That last par, who knew?
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Marius Coomans @mariushendrik.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Even to my untrained, amateur ear, BWV1070 clearly isn't #JSBach, no doubt, one of the relatives... #bach youtu.be/S162uebxQk0
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Bach - Orchestral Suite in G minor BWV 1070 - Cicic | Netherlands Bach Society
YouTube video by Netherlands Bach Society
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Cabana equality. My @smh @theage cartoon.
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