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Mel Halpin @melhalpin.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

This is what happens when politicians actually represent the needs of their constituents and are not beholden to big money donors - brilliant work @allegraspender.bsky.social #auspol #VoteIndependents

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Mel Halpin @melhalpin.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

As we witness the last desperate, savage gasps of the old paradigm play out in the Middle East, the late Tony Benn’s speech remains as relevant today as it was on the day it was delivered. #WarWithIran youtu.be/A7ciGW7h7PI

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Tony Benn's incredible speech against the war in Iraq

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Rutger Bregman @rutgerbregman.com · 19/01/2026

It's that magical time of year when private jets descend on a Swiss mountain village to discuss climate change and poverty! Anyway, here's my annual reminder. I'll stop posting this when they stop avoiding the real issue: their own massive tax avoidance 💰

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

In 2026 I want all of the decent people to remember one thing. You aren’t meant to be this disciplined, this self-sacrificing to survive. The environment is supposed to support good living. We can have that. You are not a failure. That is politics. That is all.

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Mel Halpin @melhalpin.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Happy 2026! 🥳 May this year be one where those of us who can, don’t just list the problems we see in this world, but do our best to be part of the solution. As Rutger says “Follow the Gandalf”!

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Mel Halpin @melhalpin.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

We must not let the tragedy of Bondi be used by a select few to advance their own divisive political agenda. Please join thousands who have signed this petition to demand evidence based reforms to address antisemitism, racism, gun violence & uphold human rights jewishcouncil.good.do/unity/jewish...

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SIGN ✍️ We will not be divided after Bondi

Add your name to the Jewish Council petition today

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Jewish Council of Australia @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Media release: Unity must guide the Government's response to Bondi attack, not divisive pro-Israel wishlist Full release available at the link in our bio.

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Mel Halpin @melhalpin.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

“Hate begets hate; violence begets violence," Dr. Martin Luther King Feeling heartbroken tonight. Praying for all affected in Bondi, for peace, for a remembrance of our shared humanity and inherent connection to each other. ❤️🙏

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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 19/11/2025

If AI succeeds, we need universal basic income, and if AI fails, we need universal basic income. Also, we should have implemented UBI decades ago when working class incomes first decoupled from productivity growth.

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Mel Halpin @melhalpin.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

This. Decades of worsening wealth and income inequality hasn’t happened by accident, but by design. The good news is it can be redesigned. Time for major tax reform. Time for Universal Basic Income. Time to get Big $ out of politics and break up media monopolies. #auspol #UBI #TaxTheUltraWealthy

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Mel Halpin @melhalpin.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Attn Sydneysiders 🎙️🎄 Our much beloved Wayside Chapel are calling on those who can donate to their Christmas appeal - $27 can sponsor a meal w all the trimmings to feed a person doing it tough & help them feel loved this festive season. Go to 👇 donate.waysidechapel.org.au/christmas

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Bring joy and connection to our community this Christmas!

Donate a gift this Christmas to ensure everyone can gather around the table over the festive season.

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Mel Halpin @melhalpin.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Around the globe, we’ve had decades of the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer. Enough. A new world is coming and those who have benefited most from the old one know it. #TaxTheRich #UBI

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Mel Halpin @melhalpin.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Govts around the world, no matter which side, are busy jumping over themselves to maintain the wealth and power of the people & things they actually represent. Only when we get money out of politics, will we see any real change towards making life easier for the masses. #Auspol #TaxTheUltraWealthy

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David Pocock @davidpocock.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Formal recognition of the state of Palestine overnight is a welcome step but we must also listen to the experts outlining what further steps Australia & other nations must take to prevent the ongoing genocide in Gaza. www.afr.com/politics/fed...

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Australia must do more to end Gaza war says author of ‘genocide’ report

Chris Sidoti, author of an independent UN probe alleging Israel is guilty of genocide, has urged Australia to step up efforts to end the Gaza war

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Jewish Council of Australia @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

We're launching a campaign to end the genocide in Gaza. Sign our petition to call on the Australian government to sanction Israel NOW. Tomorrow we'll be in the Daily Telegraph and the Herald Sun so please: Snap a photo of yourself with the ad and tag us www.jewishcouncil.com.au/2025/09/peti...

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Mel Halpin @melhalpin.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

No notes. Well if there’s one it’s only that I’m upset that as an Australian I can’t vote for Mamdani! Look out world, the time of gross wealth and income inequality is coming to an end. #TaxTheUltraRich #UBI #auspol

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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 28/08/2025

"Feeling trapped and facing eviction, the mother-of-one turned to a charity and asked for £600. The money came through almost instantly... Since receiving her grant, Laura Burns' life has been transformed – she now has a new home, a job and is about to get married." UBI will do so much for so many.

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Jewish Council of Australia @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

With news of further bombings of hospitals in Gaza overnight, Jewish Council executive officer @sarahschwartz.bsky.social explains that this is deliberate, this is a campaign of targeted killings of journalists and we need to take action and end the two-way arms trade with Israel now.

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Universal Unconditional Basic Income @universal4usa.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

#UBI is the ONLY social stability program that recognizes your INHERANT value as a human being. UBI is the foundation that says you- as a person living in a wealthy, technologically advanced country that produces more than enough for all- have the basic right to life free from poverty.

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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 20/08/2025

"People kind of think of centrism as evidence-based policy. 'We'll be sensible and we'll follow the evidence.’ "I hate to break it to you, evidence is often quite radical." Catch Richard Denniss on his tour for his new Vantage Point essay Dead Centre! @richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol

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Mel Halpin @melhalpin.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Decades of centrist timidity have created a chasm of wealth and income inequality. Building an economy that works for ALL Australians will require big, sweeping changes. Let’s see what @australianlabor.bsky.social & @jimchalmers.bsky.social plan to do with their big, sweeping mandate. #auspol

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Jewish Council of Australia @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Recognition of Palestine MUST be combined with actions to stop the genocide. With the deliberate assassination overnight of Al-Jazeera journalists and plans to permanently occupy Gaza, the Australian government must take meaningful action and suspend military contracts with Israel!

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Mel Halpin @melhalpin.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

With all that's going on in the world, I've been reluctant to share more of my 'work' life here, for fear it appears trivial in comparison. At the same time, it's never felt more important to look for and find some light. With that, here's some 'behind the scenes' of our ELEVU start up journey.

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Jewish Council of Australia @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

The Jewish Council was proud to join the hundreds of thousands of Australians marching on Sunday to demand action from our political leadership. We demand an end to the genocide, today!

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Mel Halpin @melhalpin.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

“We are all Palestinians” shout marchers on Sydney Harbour Bridge. Don’t know if I’ve ever felt prouder to be a Sydneysider. #FreePalestine #MarchForHumanity 🇵🇸🇦🇺 www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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Australia news live: huge crowds of pro-Palestine protesters, including Julian Assange, Bob Carr and Ed Husic, begin crossing Sydney Harbour Bridge

Follow today’s news live

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Mel Halpin @melhalpin.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

PSA for all Sydneysiders 🔊 🇵🇸🇦🇺 March for Humanity & Save Gaza, by marching across the Harbour Bridge this Sunday, August 3rd at 1pm - meet at Lang Park. #FreePalestine #SaveGaza #MarchForHumanity

Poster of Palestinian flag over the Sydney Harbour Bridge with “March for Humanity. Save Gaza. March across the Harbour Bridge 1pm Sunday 3rd August. Meeting at Lang Park, Sydney. Organised by Palestinian Action Group.

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

"Turning deliberate starvation into a legitimate and acceptable weapon among Israelis...is the most demonic stage so far in the war Israel has launched on the Gaza Strip. ...it is another means for attaining the objective: #EthnicCleansing." -Gideon Levy johnmenadue.com/post/2025/07...

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The disgrace of deliberate starvation: Israel's war of hunger in Gaza

Israel's plan for the ethnic cleansing of the Gaza Strip is proceeding apace, maybe even better than expected. In addition to significant achievements in systematic killing and destruction already cha...

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Mel Halpin @melhalpin.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

If the decades of widening income & wealth inequality weren’t already enough of a reason for Universal Basic Income, this most certainly is 👇 Governments around the world need to wake up to this reality and change course NOW. #UBI #AI #auspol futurism.com/sam-altman-o...

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Sam Altman Says OpenAI Is Poised to Wipe Out Entire Categories of Human Jobs

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is warning that entire job categories could be wiped out by artificial intelligence.

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Mel Halpin @melhalpin.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

“I find it so unbelievably evil. It shocks my conscience and my soul..” @anakasparian.bsky.social on IDF killing desperate & starving civilians, including children trying to get food. Ana speaks for everyone with a heart and two eyes right now. Nothing, I repeat, nothing justifies this Genocide.

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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 15/07/2025

If we create a basic income floor below which no one can fall, and set it high enough and alongside other universal needs like healthcare and education, then everyone will be more capable of becoming the best versions of themselves, which in turn means a society that is the best version of itself.

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Mel Halpin @melhalpin.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

“..tinkering at the edges while avoiding any serious confrontation with wealth concentration.” Treasury advice This = millions of desperate, struggling ppl looking for love in all the wrong places aka growing fascism everywhere. Tax the ultra wealthy. Introduce Universal Basic Income. #auspol #UBI

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Ronni🧂Salt @ronnisalt.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

If you believe your social rights are being threatened by this egregious overreach of public censorship, here is the contact link to let ASECA know what you think Keep it civil. Use your voice Your taxes are funding this - you have a right to be heard 👇🏽 #share www.aseca.gov.au/form/get-in-...

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Ronni🧂Salt @ronnisalt.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

A reminder that we're still currently in NAIDOC Week celebrating and respecting the world's oldest living culture. So many good things to cheer on. www.naidoc.org.au/news/2025-na...

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Mel Halpin @melhalpin.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Tax the super rich and introduce Universal Basic Income. Taking millions of people out of survival mode. The world would be a much happier, more dignified, creative, curious & expansive place to live. The exciting thing is - it’s not only possible, I believe it’s inevitable. #UBI #TaxTheSuperRich

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Mel Halpin @melhalpin.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

My latest books have arrived! Watching the direction the world’s been heading, I’ve never felt more compelled to understand how we can create & advocate for a fairer, more inclusive & dignified world. There’s many aspects to how, but Universal Basic Income is undoubtedly a core foundation. #UBI

Two books sitting on top of each other on a desk - “the case for Universal Basic Income” by Louise Haagh and “Moral Ambition” by Rutger Bregman

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Jewish Council of Australia @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

MEDIA RELEASE: Jewish Council condemns FM Wong’s endorsement of US military strike on Iranian nuclear targets, which threatens to escalate a dangerous regional conflict and lead to more death and suffering

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Kon Karapanagiotidis @kkarapanagiotidis.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

It’s Refugee Week! Help the ASRC support refugee families to survive this winter that the Australian Government has abandoned. Donate to our appeal: donate.asrc.org.au/donatetoday

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Jewish Council of Australia @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Today is a national day of action on Palestine. Help push our government to stand against this genocide. Make your voices heard.

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Kon Karapanagiotidis @kkarapanagiotidis.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Today is National Sorry Day. I want to say sorry for the Stolen Generations. Sorry for the record numbers of First Nations children in out of home care today. We need to understand this is not the past, the injustices and trauma continue. We must Listen. Learn. Act #SorryDay

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Mel Halpin @melhalpin.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

This beautiful child, exhausted and traumatised beyond belief is having to beg the world to end this war, on camera. Beg that her life, and so many others, be considered worthy of saving. What do you say in response? @albomp.bsky.social @senatorwong.bsky.social @australianlabor.bsky.social #auspol

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Rutger Bregman @rutgerbregman.com · 15/05/2025

Incredibly powerful investigation in Dutch newspaper NRC: Seven of the world’s leading genocide scholars — including renowned Holocaust experts — describe Israel’s actions in Gaza as genocidal. And according to them, nearly all of their peers agree.

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Mel Halpin @melhalpin.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Wealth inequality is also at the core of the rise in fascism. Far right political parties around the world know the game is rigged against the middle & working class, so best distract them by making out immigrants & trans people are causing their pain. Until we tax the rich/est, nothing changes.

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