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My name is Blue Canary. At times I drunk-tweet. These are the times I sound completely sane and rational. Escaping from Elon Musk. Twitter: twitter.com/mark_melbin Threads: www.threads.net/@mark_melbin Mastodon: mastodon.online/@mark_melbin

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Mark @mark-melbin.bsky.social · 3m
Is it schoolies week already? #auspol
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Mark @mark-melbin.bsky.social · 1h
Dim Tim Wilson: "The core driver of the problem with #inflation that Australia is experiencing is coming from Govt Spending." If Govt Spending is the core driver of inflation then WHY did the RBA cut rates on: ⬇️ 19/02/2025 ⬇️ 21/05/2025 ⬇️ 13/08/2025 #auspol #InterestRates #Iran
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Mark @mark-melbin.bsky.social · 3h
I was worried the #Greens were going to elect a clown as its new leader. #auspol
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Mark @mark-melbin.bsky.social · 7h
EXPLOSIVE revelations from RBA Gov Michele Bullock, who confirmed Australia was ON TRACK to return to the 2%-3% #inflation target UNTIL Iran blew everything out of the water. 🌊🦈 Govt Spending not the deal-breaker as claimed by Dim Tim Wilson. #auspol #InterestRates #Iran🇮🇷
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Mark @mark-melbin.bsky.social · 21h
Tim Wilson claims the LNP and One Nation are running the government. 🤪 Is Dave Hughes writing Wilson’s scripts or vice versa? #auspol #LNP #OneNation #corruption
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Mark @mark-melbin.bsky.social · 22h
Cooker embarrassed by Elon Musk’s neo-Nazi Grok AI. #auspol #debt #AI #cookers
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Mark @mark-melbin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
From Thursday Oct 1st Labor is banning credit card surcharge fees, saving consumers $1.6 billion annually. This #CostOfLiving measure will be lost in today's orgy of interest rates coverage by the media. Labor, the battlers' unsung hero. #auspol #journalism #InterestRates
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Mark @mark-melbin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
One Nation is worried about ‘illegals’. 🟧 ON Leader, Pauline Hanson: 78 days in prison for fraud. 🟧 ON Treasurer, Alexander Jones: Pleaded guilty for fraud. $1k fine. 🟧 ON Campaign Manager Sean Black: Convicted of rape & assault. #auspol #OneNation #migrants #crime
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Mark @mark-melbin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#auspol #wages #CostOfLiving #Trump #GOP #oligarchy
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Mark @mark-melbin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Labor surges in the #polls in Victoria following the switch to Ben Carroll. The LNP / One Nation Uniparty slumps. #auspol #springst #Labor
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Mark @mark-melbin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
One Nation declares victory for the November Victorian state election. Unbeatable. #auspol #springst #OneNation #WharfieTime
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Mark @mark-melbin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
💰 Deficit: $6 Billion better than forecast 💰 #Debt: Down $10.6B 💰 Debt: $197B less than forecast 💰 #Budget: $230B better off cash balance 💰 Interest payments: $70B saved 💰 Payments: Down $1.4B 💰 Receipts: Up $4.6B (super/investor income) #auspol #Labor
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Mark @mark-melbin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#4Corners is claiming voters in the seat of Farrer are switching to One Nation due to: 1. Cost of Living. ON opposed minimum wage rises. 2. Immigration. ON wants more migrants than Labor. 3. Water buybacks. BARNABY! Three reasons to NEVER vote for #OneNation. #auspol #Watergate
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Mark @mark-melbin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#4Corners is investigating the rise of #OneNation in the polls. It's not complicated. 1. Sky News angertainment. 😡 2. Endless free publicity from the media. 3. The 'street cred' of an ex-PM, Barnaby Joyce. 4. The media obsession with polls over policy (PK). #auspol #journalism
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Mark @mark-melbin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
USA homebuyers vs sellers. So, it’s not just migrants… #auspol #property #RealEstate
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Mark @mark-melbin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
2023: One Nation treasurer Alex Jones pleads guilty to attempted electoral #fraud after trying to deceive the QLD Electoral Commission over the timing of a $24k claim for payment. He was fined $1k with no conviction recorded. #auspol #OneNation #ShedGate www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
theguardian.com
One Nation faces being struck off in Queensland after failing to file audited financial statements
Breach exposes Pauline Hanson to possible fines as party given deadline to comply by 18 August
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Mark @mark-melbin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Barnaby Joyce spent half an hour shooting the breeze with neo-Nazi Thomas Sewell at a Canberra casino. Barnaby CLAIMS the thing that put him off was Sewell vilifying migrants... which is One Nation's only policy. Sewell is backing #OneNation. #auspol #neoNazis
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Mark @mark-melbin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#Insiders Classic Hits, 2020: Greg Sheridan and David 'The Village Lost Its Idiot' Speers praise the strong leadership of Donald Trump during the COVID-19 pandemic... after he told his followers to drink bleach. #auspol #journalism
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Mark @mark-melbin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#Insiders backs Recycling => Murdoch stooge Greg Sheridan. Wardrobe, arguments, Grecian 2000, all the same. 2020: "Maybe Trump deserves a second term". "The legions of Trump haters in Western media and academe cry out for an end to the horror". #auspol
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Mark @mark-melbin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
James Ashby’s and Pauline Hanson’s One Nation isn’t a political party, it’s a money-making operation. The biggest suckers are their candidates. #auspol #OneNation #grifters www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
abc.net.au
'Insidious money grab': Aspiring candidates slam One Nation processes
Former One Nation candidates reveal they’re walking away from the party after witnessing its operations behind closed doors.
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Mark @mark-melbin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Aug 2026: “One Nation MP Barnaby Joyce has declined to guarantee that his party will deliver a lower permanent #migration intake than Labor.” #auspol #OneNation #xenophobia
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Mark @mark-melbin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Susan Sarandon = Jill Stein = Putin’s Puppets. #Russia #Israel #misinformation
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Mark @mark-melbin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
2009: #KKK: We have infiltrated One Nation. #auspol #OneNation #racism
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Mark @mark-melbin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Dave Hughes attacks the inexperience of Victorian LNP leader Jess Wilson. #auspol #springst #LNP
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Mark @mark-melbin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
#LNP 'Christian' support group the Exclusive Brethren have described as Jews as 'evil, malicious infidels'. #auspol #Christianity #antisemitism
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Mark @mark-melbin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
#Trump #ICE #beef #MAGA #FAFO
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Mark @mark-melbin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#health #COVID19 #vaccines #WearAMask #misinformation
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Mark @mark-melbin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
One Nation's Pauline Hanson portrays herself a straight-shooter who backs Australian values. The media perpetuates the myth. Reality check: She's just like Trump. An immoral grifter who'll say anything for a vote and some cash. #auspol #OneNation #rape #grifters
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Mark @mark-melbin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“Victoria's overall #crime rate fell by 3.8 per cent in the 12 months to the end of June 2026.” - Car theft: ⬇️ 5% - Youth crime: ⬇️ 8% - Carjackings: ⬇️ 25% - Home invasions: ⬇️ 27% #auspol #springst #Labor www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
abc.net.au
Youth crime down as Victoria's crime rate continues to fall
Home invasions, carjackings and robberies all fell in the 12 months to the end of June, but police say their work is "far from over".
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Mark @mark-melbin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The UK media piled on the free publicity for Reform UK for years then proclaimed them as shoe-ins for government in the next UK election in 2029 (3 years away). Leaders change. Corruption is exposed. Polls change. Expect #OneNation to tank in the #polls by 2028. #auspol #UK
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Mark @mark-melbin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Dave Hughes defends the racism of Australia's answer to the KKK, Pauline Hanson's One Nation. Under Hanson's White Australia policy Hughes' wife Holly, of Sri Lankan descent, would not be welcome in Oz. #auspol #OneNation #racism #KKK
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Mark @mark-melbin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
UK PM Andy Burnham announces a National Centre for Information Defence to “detect, attribute and disrupt” #misinformation attacks by foreign powers using intelligence agencies, law enforcement & #SocialMedia companies. #auspol #Israel #Russia #Murdoch www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
theguardian.com
New UK agency to fight ‘information warfare’ from likes of Russia, Burnham tells UN
PM aims to ‘stem poisonous tide’ of disinformation and deepfakes with National Centre for Information Defence
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Mark @mark-melbin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
People attempting to draw comparisons between the KKK and Pauline Hanson's One Nation are way out of line. The fashions are completely different for starters. #auspol #OneNation #KKK #racism
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Mark @mark-melbin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Dave "I'm not a racist but" Hughes thinks anyone who attacks One Nation, Australia's answer to the KKK, is being paid by Labor. Given Labor also paid everyone who booed Hughes at the footy they must have deep pockets! 😂 #auspol #springst #OneNation #KKK #KKooKers
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Mark @mark-melbin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"Finland’s battle against fake news (Murdoch) starts at preschool". Australia is WAY behind in the battle against #misinformation. #Education is the solution stopping the One Nation neo-Nazis but we're not acting. #auspol #Finland www.afr.com/world/europe...
afr.com
Finland’s battle against fake news starts at preschool
For decades, the Nordic nation has woven media literacy into its national curriculum for students as young as three years old.
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Mark @mark-melbin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Trump’s decision to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children” Media? Anti-#abortion grifters? #auspol #OneNation #journalism #Christianity hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-s...
hsph.harvard.edu
USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
The Trump administration’s decision to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths from infectious diseases and malnutrition, accord...
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Mark @mark-melbin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
BREAKING: Pauline Hanson denies any link to One Nation. 🤪 #auspol #OneNation #KKK
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Mark @mark-melbin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Earlier: Anti-abortion grifter Joanna Howe is angry that Christian terrorists aren't allowed within 150 metres of #abortion clinics in Australia. #auspol #Christianity #grifters #terrorism
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Mark @mark-melbin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
One Nation’s Pauline Hanson attacks Channel Nine for platforming a Hate Group. 🧐 Please Explain Poorline. #auspol #OneNation #racism #KKK
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Mark @mark-melbin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Dave Hughes: "The #corruption of this Victorian Labor Govt over the last 12 years is why I’m doing this." Liar. He's doing this due to FEDERAL Labor's sensible adjustments to Negative Gearing and CGT. Greed. 9 Years of LNP Corruption and Lies. Part 2. ⬇️ #auspol #springst #LNP
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Mark @mark-melbin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Dave Hughes: "The #corruption of this Victorian Labor Govt over the last 12 years is why I’m doing this." Liar. He's doing this due to FEDERAL Labor's sensible adjustments to Negative Gearing and CGT. 9 Years of LNP Corruption and Lies. Part 1. ⬇️ #auspol #springst
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Mark @mark-melbin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Dave Hughes aka DH: "Any facts presented that Labor/Greens don’t like are labeled ‘#misinformation’. It is a catch all term and doesn’t require explanation." The Misinformation of Dave Hughes Explained. #auspol #cookers #disinformation
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Mark @mark-melbin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. The ABC should cut ties with right-wing hack Latika Bourke, and right-wing hack Patricia Karvelas, but it won’t. #auspol #journalism
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Mark @mark-melbin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Brendan O’Neill of Spiked Online defends the #FreedomOfSpeech of John Cleese following his recent brainwashing into #Islamophobia. #journalism #misinformation
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Mark @mark-melbin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“no increased risk of 4-year all-cause mortality in individuals aged 18 to 59 years vaccinated against #COVID19, further supporting the safety of the mRNA #vaccines” #health jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Mark @mark-melbin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Francesca Albanese, the UN’s special rapporteur on the occupied territories, supposedly opposed to Israel’s #genocide in Gaza, calls for the genocide of the people of Ukraine at the hands of Russia, placing the blame on NATO. #auspol #Israel #Russia #propaganda
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Mark @mark-melbin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The word of the day is: Selfish #Trump is a creation of the oligarchs, their right-wing think tanks, and their media armies. The media let Trump get away with a spiralling cesspit of human rights abuses UNTIL it affected them and their profits. #auspol #journalism #misinformation #fascism
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Mark @mark-melbin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“ProPublica’s analysis of CDC data found the rate of deaths involving ectopic pregnancies has nearly doubled.” Meanwhile in Australia right-wing grifters like Barnaby Joyce of #OneNation & Joanna Howe want to ban #abortion (for votes). #auspol #health www.propublica.org/article/ecto...
propublica.org
Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.
With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...
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Mark @mark-melbin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Right-wing hack Latika Bourke promotes a vid of her own lame question about polls and Bondi as being ‘brutal’. Delusional. #auspol #journalism
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Mark @mark-melbin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"Based on 5,000 similations of today's polling aggregates". 1. Polling aggregates give appalling pollsters a foot in the door of credibility they don't deserve. This smells like information laundering. 2. 5k simulations? Why not 6k Why not have faith in 1 simulation? #auspol #polls #misinformation
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