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Sarah Wood @sarahwood.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Just so we’re clear…
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Peggy Sanders @peggysanders.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
“An amazing thing has happened. Our taxpayer-funded think-tank Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) has commissioned analysis by Robert Macklin which shows that the public debate on Australia’s defence has been biased.” johnmenadue.com/post/2025/08...
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Layered perversion of Australia's defence policy
An amazing thing has happened. Our taxpayer-funded think-tank Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) has commissioned analysis by Robert Macklin which shows that the public debate on Australia’s...
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David Marler @qldaah.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
The New South Wales Liberal party will launch a court challenge after losing the Sydney seat of Bradfield, asking a judge to recount some of the ballots that led to independent Nicolette Boele’s 26-vote margin. #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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NSW Liberals to launch court challenge after losing Sydney seat of Bradfield to teal independent
Independent Nicolette Boele defeated Gisele Kapterian with wafer-thin margin of 26 votes after dramatic election recount
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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 30/06/2025
The greatest contribution the Teal movement has achieved so far has been to mobilise communities of volunteers in their hundreds demanding a new politics for Australia and has attracted some promising young people. #auspol #Teals
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The contemporary world is run by political dinosaurs facing extinction
An aging generation of mostly male leaders is presently occupying the commanding heights of the most powerful states around the world.
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Gwynne Hogan @gwynnefitz.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
In a lengthy exchange, with ICE Deputy Field Director Bill Joyce, Reps Nadler and Goldman are denied the ability to visit the 10th floor. Joyce says it's not a detention facility it's just a place ppl are housed for several days w/out beds.
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🦘Roseanne @roseanneb.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Paid for his creativity and propaganda? #Newscorpse www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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News Corp boss earns $42m as highest-paid CEO of Australian-listed company
Analysis shows local chiefs earning 55 times more than average workers in Australia amid call to keep watch for ‘egregious’ bonuses
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ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Investigators in Queensland have launched a public appeal to identify a pair of e-bike riders after a "horrific" incident that left a five-month-old girl in hospital.
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Footage released of suspects after baby sprayed with fire extinguisher
Investigators in Queensland have launched a public appeal to identify a pair of e-bike riders after a "horrific" incident that left a five-month-old girl in hospital.
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Debbie Northway 🇦🇺🦘🐨 @debbienorthway.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Translation: we are still doing nothing
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
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genericitis @genericitis.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Because of course they did.
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Jo Dyer @instanterudite.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Ahead of tomorrow's #SundayShot, here's some Saturday night reading for you. My latest for @theshot.net.au about our Ugly Ally. theshot.net.au/uncategorize...
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Would you like ICE with your fascism? - The Shot
Trump's America has descended into fascism, attempting to rule by fear and force. Los Angeles is resisting. We all need to resist.
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Scott Hamilton @sdhamiltonvic.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
A timely reminder #StrongerTogether #NoKings
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Emily Mayo @emilymayo.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
This is a fucking tragedy. I have no idea what happened! I think I need a new knife. (I only have two sharp knives in the house for reasons). Any tips for a multi use knife? I’m so sad.
A photo of a knife with the tip gone.
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The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · 14/06/2025
From confinement to food, lessons learned behind bars could be key to surviving on the red planet.
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Living on Mars: are there lessons from the terrible conditions of prisons?
From confinement to food, lessons learned behind bars could be key to surviving on the red planet.
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Tim Ritchie @timritchie.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
The build estimate was $7m, ended up costing $102m, but turns out the House is invaluable. And in a very Australian way of doing things, it was mostly paid for by a state lottery. You don’t always get the perfect shot, but sometimes you do. Sydney on a winter’s dawn.
Architecture
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Same here.
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
BREAKING: Senator Padilla after being thrown to ground and cuffed: “If this is how this administration responds to a senator with a question, if this is how the department of homeland security responds to a senator with a question, you can only imagine what they're doing to farmworkers..."
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Ronni🧂Salt @ronnisalt.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
With today's announcement of the end of ABC's #QandA let's all raise our glasses to one of the show's finest moments Conservative politician Sophie Mirabella's concern for her fellow guest who fainted right next to her live on the show back in 2012 Ten months later she lost Indi to Cathy McGowan
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Marta Balan @martasb.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
I was there as part of the audience and was shocked by her reaction. On the other hand, Greg Combet rushed to help the person who collapsed
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mariecolemanao.bsky.social @mariecolemanao.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Genocide by starvation johnmenadue.com/post/2025/06...
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Genocide by starvation
This is the end. The final blood-soaked chapter of the genocide. It will be over soon. Weeks. At most.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
JUST IN: Kilmar Abrego Garcia urges a magistrate judge in Tennessee to give him the fairness and due process he was denied for months in El Salvador and reject the Trump administration’s bid to detain him pending trial. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Sandy Horne @sandyhorne.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
I try to go through life being a decent person. I don't always succeed. But I just don't understand those who seem to go looking for a fight. Or those who seek to bring others down. I don't get it.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Sorry, I’m not listening to folks who criminalize immigrants while voting for a criminal…
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Captain Quoll @kudelka.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Another one in fact
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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Could the news media please stop referrring to them as Israeli "settlers" and use accurate factual terms: Israeli invaders, Israeli pillagers, Israeli marauders, Israeli raiders, Israeli trespassers, Israeli looters, Israeli criminals, Israeli gangs, Israeli terrorists. #IsraeliWarCrimes #WestBank
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Kon Karapanagiotidis @kkarapanagiotidis.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Help the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre remain a place of safety and sanctuary for children seeking asylum this winter by donating to our Winter Appeal: donate.asrc.org.au/donatetoday
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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 10/06/2025
The evidence that China currently presents a direct military threat to Australia amounts to precisely zero. However, to the extent to which we treat China as an enemy state, it will surely become one. #auspol #chinathreat
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Chinese flotilla fallout still has some attempting a beat-up
There is little or no evidence that China poses a direct military threat to Australia. However, the Sinophobes among political ranks and the commentariat are trying to ensure that Beijing will treat Canberra as a hostile entity.
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Greg being very kind calling #qanda a worthy idea.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Private school fees are currently GST free, and now the Libs want to make them tax-deductible??
Liberal spruiks tax-deductible school fees in policy overhaul
Ronald Mizen
Political correspondent
Jun 9, 2025 – 6.08pm

Liberal MPs are canvassing a range of new tax agendas aimed at finding issues to resonate with voters, put them back into contention for government and revive Australia’s lagging productivity.
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David Lamond @davidlamond.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
It will be a very small battle, over a very small, if at all extant, thing #auspol #NOalition
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‘Rambling rubbish’: inside the battle for the soul of the Liberal party in NSW
Increasingly, members want the federal intervention to end, with a return to the status quo or a streamlined committee of NSW figures put in charge
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
We always hear that farmers will be smashed by the super tax changes. But last year ASFA noted that "The reality is quite different" "nothing to do with primary production or the only connection is owning a boutique winery that is run at a tax loss." 😬 www.superannuation.asn.au/wp-content/u...
The characteristics of those who would pay Division 296 taxation Some public commentary tends to suggest that the main categories of individuals impacted by the proposed tax are current and retired farmers and elderly widows who like to punt big on tech stocks. The reality is quite different. It would be much more accurate to categorise those more commonly affected by the proposed tax as being older wealthy males living in affluent areas of capital cities or affluent retirement regions who have never had anything to do with primary production or the only connection is owning a boutique winery that is run at a tax loss. The ATO sample of individual taxpayer data can be used to estimate the characteristics of those would be affected by the new tax as the unit record data includes both superannuation balance and other demographic and financial data. ASFA analysis of that data indicates that in terms of national split of those likely to be affected, around 40 per cent of the total affected are female and 60 per cent male.  Those affected are relatively old, with 85 per cent aged over 60 with 46 per cent aged over 70.  As such many of the group would be receiving tax free income from superannuation and currently tax free investment earnings on their superannuation balance up to the level of the Transfer Balance Cap. However, not all are retired, with around 30 per cent receiving wage and salary income, and with around 5 per cent having wage and salary income over $200,000 a year.   Around 5 per cent of those with over $3 million in superannuation have farm income either direct or through trust or partnership distribution, but in many cases it is not substantial, with other income received. At least some of those with farm income live in inner capital cities and could be described as Pitt Street or Collins Street farmers.
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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 10/06/2025
More than 100 MPs and peers in Westminster have signed an open letter backing legislation to help UK-based survivors of Irish mother-and-baby homes access compensation
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More than 100 MPs sign letter backing Philomena's Law
More than 100 MPs and peers in Westminster have signed an open letter backing legislation to help UK-based survivors of Irish mother-and-baby homes access compensation.
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David Lamond @davidlamond.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Another incovenient truth proffered by @grogsgamut.bsky.social to rebut the bollocks being shovelled by Timmy "Tossing Wanker" Wilson #auspol
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RCC @forrizzle.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
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Charlie Richmond (Gyro Gearloose) 311.3ppm 🇨🇦🇬🇧☮️⚛️🇺🇦🌈🦋 @charlierichmond.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Sydney can become its own renewable energy zone, take a load off NSW regions | RenewEconomy reneweconomy.com.au/sydney-can-b...
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Sydney can become its own renewable energy zone, take a load off NSW regions
Sydney could use its untapped rooftop solar resource to generate up to 75% of its own electricity – and take some of the heavy lifting away from NSW regions.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Radiosondes on weather balloons are essential for collecting data from the upper atmosphere for accurate forecasting. Due to the mass firing at NOAA, the NWS doesn’t have enough people to launch balloons. 🎈 Accurate weather forecasts save lives. See data here: www.spc.noaa.gov/exper/soundi...
A public information statement from the National Weather Service announces the temporary suspension of radiosonde observations (weather balloon launches) in Albany, New York, and Gray, Maine, due to staffing shortages. The document outlines details about the suspension and provides contact information.
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Meg @megj31.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Today I travelled for the first time on the Sydney Metro - went the whole distance right to Tallawong. Amazing feat of engineering. Made me think of all those underground’s built way back. #Sydney #Metro #Trains
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Peggy Sanders @peggysanders.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
“Under the existing Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act (EPBC), the minister is not required to consider a proposal’s impact on climate change in the approvals process. The absence of a so-called “climate trigger” or “climate considerations” was again brought into focus.” ➡️
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
We’re deeply disappointed in much of the U.S. media. Grateful, however, to international journalists who are telling the truth.
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Emily Mayo @emilymayo.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
JFC.
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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 09/06/2025
Israel does not have a Hamas problem.It has a Palestinian problem because Israel since 1948 has stolen and occupied vast areas of Palestine, including Gaza. JM #auspol #israelpalestine
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More than 600 Australian Jews say 'no' to war in Gaza
More than 600 Jewish Australians have signed a statement calling on Jewish community and religious leaders to speak out against the atrocities of the Netanyahu Government in Gaza.
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Shayne Calliss @shaynecalliss.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
@sandyhorne.bsky.social WYR pair down the creek. I hope they breed up
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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 08/06/2025
As a small, independent media and analysis outlet we cannot cover all issues, so we focus on areas that are calling out for better news coverage and analysis, writes Editor, @catrionaJackso1 #auspol
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Message from the editor
One of the things I love most about this job is the reading and listening (to radio).
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Michelle Fahy @michellefahy.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
He wants to meet Albanese & Wong to discuss how Australia can help on the ground, rejecting the govt’s characterisation that Australia is “not a major player” “We don’t have to be a major player in the Middle East to feed children…to heal children, to help them” www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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This British-Australian doctor has seen the unspeakable in Gaza. He wants to shout from the rooftops
Mohammed Mustafa, who worked at al-Ahli Arab hospital before it was bombed, says ministers are wrong to say Australia is ‘not a major player’
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Tim Ritchie @timritchie.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Kyeemagh is the Gadigal word meaning beautiful dawn. Nestled on the north eastern part of the round that is Sydney’s Botany Bay, it is opposite the industrial zone of Port Botany (you can see the lights centre right). And it was COLD at dawn.
Dawn
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Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
He’s abused: * Honesty & due process in parliament * Asylum seekers & refugees * Ukuleles & Dragon’s music * Curry making * Science & action on climate change * Australia’s global reputation And yet, he’s awarded. These awards and the awards committee are farcical. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...
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Scott Morrison receives Australia's highest honour for COVID leadership
The 30th prime minister has been appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia for his "eminent service" to the country and direction during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Captain Quoll @kudelka.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
I don’t tolerate any form of Nike product www.newarab.com/news/nike-dr...
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Nike drops Australian activist Grace Tame as ambassador over pro-Palestinian posts
Tame, a well-known Australian athlete and activist, has made a number of social media posts decrying Israel's war in Gaza since October 2023.
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