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Michelle Frantenauk

@michellefrantenauk.bsky.social
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Anti-populist, anti-fascist, political news junkie …throw in some cats, italian food, TV, graphic design…even though it feels like the left is being pecked to death by ducks, I believe humans are fundamentally kind, and I won’t give up on progress. Melb 🇦🇺

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Michelle Frantenauk @michellefrantenauk.bsky.social · 3h
The younger generations get done over again by Boomers. Unleash Australia, give me a break… more like hogtying us to pollution, racism, social inequality because they want to go back to some fairytale notion of the good old days. (As a GenXer, I’m blaming a good chunk of them as well). Disgraceful 🙄
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Michelle Frantenauk @michellefrantenauk.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
What are the chances of me ever seeing a fairywren. 😍🧐
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Michelle Frantenauk @michellefrantenauk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Boy the Greens have a deep bench… will be interesting to see who comes out on top…
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Michelle Frantenauk @michellefrantenauk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Can we just skip to this part and not have to experience all the crazy divisive volatile ratbaggery that would be unleashed on us if One Nation win power…. #auspol
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Michelle Frantenauk @michellefrantenauk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Righto so almost 700k unemployed is probably enough to start dropping interest rates… these are people’s lives not percentages and statistics. If people lose their jobs, livelyhoods, families, they should sue the reserve bank.. absolutely ridiculous metrics to curb inflation. Must be another way.
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Michelle Frantenauk @michellefrantenauk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Oh please can someone AI this and add Pauline Hanson…
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Michelle Frantenauk @michellefrantenauk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Right, so capital punishment, white Australia policy, no super and nuclear bombs… the hits keep on coming. 🙄😳
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Michelle Frantenauk @michellefrantenauk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
If we don’t have a manufacturing sector the least we can do is support science & research. Medical breakthroughs can change a whole countries GDP these days. More bold moves, you hold the floor, we’re about to lose the lot @albomp.bsky.social @markbutlermp.bsky.social @timayres-minister.bsky.social
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Michelle Frantenauk @michellefrantenauk.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Scrub out Trump and replace with Hanson… 📕
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God @thegodshow.com · 20/09/2026
The president banned reporters for asking questions. He can’t defend his record. And if you can’t take the heat, then get out of the kitchen.
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Michelle Frantenauk @michellefrantenauk.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
So this is why I never go on Facebook… also has any other news site confirmed this apart from Herald Sun and Leader Facebook groups … also look at these comments… 🙄😳🤪 @news.abc.net.au
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Michelle Frantenauk @michellefrantenauk.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Michelle Frantenauk @michellefrantenauk.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Sometimes I ponder in despair of the world we could be living in if Donald Trump was not in charge during the pandemic, the genocide of Palestinians, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the regulation of AI and bitcoin, global rise of far right, social division and global warming’s point of no return.
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Game Show Host Delivers Bad Luck News
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David Hamer @davidhamer1951.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Why should the rest of us tolerate anti-vaxxers or kowtow to their ignorant prejudices? They willfully reject centuries of scientific progress and endanger us all. 🤷🙄🤷
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Michelle Frantenauk @michellefrantenauk.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Woke up this morning with my husband asking me what is the greatest rock song of all time? Can you guess…
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Michelle Frantenauk @michellefrantenauk.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Exactly, when I say I want to go back to how everything, was I mean BT (Before Trump) I don’t need to regress all the way back to the 1950s 🙄
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Michelle Frantenauk @michellefrantenauk.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Fuck didn’t think it would hit me this hard. I remember when Prince died, was talking to my husband about who is an equivalent female music titan, snap… we both said Dolly Parton. Lately I’ve been thinking about all this seismic activity, Dolly dying blows through a collective psyche richter scale.
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Michelle Frantenauk @michellefrantenauk.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Noooooo. God damn it. That was tough news to wake up to. I feel so lucky to be in her timeline… was there truly a more beautiful, inspiring, brilliant and caring human being. Devastated. She had become quite unwell recently and now resting in glittering peace, man the world will miss Queen Dolly.
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Dolly Parton's Sparkling Wink
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Michelle Frantenauk @michellefrantenauk.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
So I went to see The Odyssey at IMAX with my film buff husband… well he isn’t called Mr Contrary for nuffin. On leaving the cinema: “would rather have watched it on an iWatch, it made me regret reading the book” 😏🤭 For his full review see here… boxd.it/fTqDMv
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A ★ review of The Odyssey (2026)
So much better than the book; they dialled down all the crazy boring sex, gods,and sacrifice shit it’s full of, and dialled up the bit we love and know best, ol’ Trojy boi, along with lots of impossib...
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Michelle Frantenauk @michellefrantenauk.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Perfect…. Stealing this for State Vic one nation voters …. Like seriously
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Michelle Frantenauk @michellefrantenauk.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Pauline’s mentor 🙄 am I the only one that can clearly see a horrible future Australia under ON control, we were leaders not followers.… lost our cajones (pardon my Spanish) hashtag despair
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Tony Lastname @rivernewstc.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
😎🪴🌵 There are alternatives to coal, gas, and oil. And there are alternatives to data centers, but there are no alternatives to clean air and clean drinking water
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Michelle Frantenauk @michellefrantenauk.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
My god, she overlooked a lot of good despite all the angry toxic Murdoch hate, flooding the zone. What a shame.
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Purplepingers ☭ @purplepingers.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
It’s genuinely insane that after only investigating 956 properties for not paying the Vacant Residential Land Tax the SRO received $38 million. They should investigate every single one of the 100,000 empties in Metro Melbourne. www.realestate.com.au/news/taxdodg...
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Michelle Frantenauk @michellefrantenauk.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Rusted on Labor/Greens voter…this is about the Labor Movement, and social progress, no spin will dig Allan out of this, fresh legs are needed for any chance in November. It’s not a LNP/Nats scenario we are fighting, it could well be invisible candidates of ON leading the state. Ay Caramba!
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Michelle Frantenauk @michellefrantenauk.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
If you haven’t had a chance to see it yet…. This documentary includes some great archival footage at the time, of a news reporter asking people on the street what they think about the WAP….yeah nah we are not going back 'SIGNORINELLA - LITTLE MISS trailer' share.google/atubcALetEQp...
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SIGNORINELLA: LITTLE MISS
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Tim Stephens @proftimstephens.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
“Pauline Hanson has used an interview with the far-right activist Tommy Robinson to blame the end of the White Australia policy for creating what she sees as problems with migration.” Looking forward to Hanson’s poll numbers sliding further after this. #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Pauline Hanson laments end of White Australia policy and talks up daughter’s leadership potential
Appearing on a podcast with the far-right UK activist who goes by the name Tommy Robinson, Hanson makes evidence-free claims about migrants
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Michelle Frantenauk @michellefrantenauk.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Suffer in ya jocks 👏🤩
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Michelle Frantenauk @michellefrantenauk.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Guess I better get up then
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Michelle Frantenauk @michellefrantenauk.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Why are my twitchy senses telling me the Moira Deeming will defect to be One Nations state party leader 🤔
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Michelle Frantenauk @michellefrantenauk.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Well I better get to work early today….because somebody will be having a 2hr lunch break Go Roos ⚽️🦘
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Michelle Frantenauk @michellefrantenauk.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
First came the pseudo-experts in climate science, epidemiology & energy supply, now within a month everybody is an investor, financial advisor & demographer… so it’s no surprise that a grifting, racist senator from a tiny radical party is seen as qualified to run the whole country.
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Greg Davies: I Give Up
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Michelle Frantenauk @michellefrantenauk.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Knowing what we do of the mayhem and destruction a populist fascist leader can do… can we skip the ON experiment and just go back to normal programming albeit with fine tuning for the sake of democracy and our country. This is exhausting and ridiculous.
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Jason Bateman: That's Enough, Okay?
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Michelle Frantenauk @michellefrantenauk.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Argh this new AI controlled Adobe Illustrator is infuriatingly slow. As an experienced designer over 30 years, I can make changes in a flash, but this Contextual Task Bar is fully slowing down productivity. Seriously what is the point of AI?
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Michelle Frantenauk @michellefrantenauk.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Have we got a Bob Hawke or Obama-ish charismatic politician (any gender) coming up the ranks? If we are going through a superficial ‘voting on a vibe or general feeling’ timeline… it’s the only thing that will save the progressive movement and challenge Pauline’s flood the zone Trumpian approach.
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Michelle Frantenauk @michellefrantenauk.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Can you imagine Pauline Hanson attending a G7 Summit 😵‍💫 Still can’t find out why we were snubbed this year though…
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Michelle Frantenauk @michellefrantenauk.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
YKTFW you are in a reformer class and your mind starts chattering and you’re like, wow I am really getting stronger after a year and a half, could never imagine doing this back then, and like clockwork the universe says… “I’ll be the judge of that” next day you feel a twinge and then start limping 😫
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Michelle Frantenauk @michellefrantenauk.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
…”could have stopped HER do nothing” Didn’t think Australians were so stupid, yet here we are. Apparently people are happy to vote in a party with no experience and only a handful of representation over 30 years to run the whole country. Pumped up by billionaires, rage bait and fear.
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Michelle Frantenauk @michellefrantenauk.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Heading up to help mortar my folks volcanic rock retainer wall… they built them all through Eltham… theirs is starting to bulge and once you see it, you see it everywhere 😩 anyway bought some mortar-della 🤣🤣 provolone and fresh bread, classic italian post lavoro lunch break 😂😂🤌
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Michelle Frantenauk @michellefrantenauk.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Just reminiscing… still my favourite
Trump arrives back from Tulsa rally 2020 after getting punked by K-Pop fans
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Michelle Frantenauk @michellefrantenauk.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Even though I’m now a big girl, 10 years old, I’m still a lil baby 💕🎉🎈
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Michelle Frantenauk @michellefrantenauk.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Just thinking about the ON let pensioners work as much as they like without losing their pension policy…. Sounding a little like a cop out for not increasing pensions so people are not living below the poverty line… don’t like it, get back to work then ya bludger
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Michelle Frantenauk @michellefrantenauk.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Gawd… these new polls 🤢 Vic Labor better pull a rabbit out of a hat or ON ministers with the skill set of Ralph Babet will be left in charge of the Big Build, what gets me, there must be loads of construction workers on these projects on good money who will vote for ON chaos… to spite their face.
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Michelle Frantenauk @michellefrantenauk.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
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Michelle Frantenauk @michellefrantenauk.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Opening a tin of Illy Coffee…. IYKYK 🤭🤭 (came back to the kitchen and was like… what the hell is all this now)
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Michelle Frantenauk @michellefrantenauk.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Hold up what’s this…. Jeeze I never knew this was part of Planets… god damn you learn something everyday!!! My favourite and my best… I thought this had lyrics and they sing it at The Proms… 👏👏👏👏 #abcclassic100
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Michelle Frantenauk @michellefrantenauk.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
No this one is not for me…. Not my favourite or my best…No.3 too much bah da bah da da-da-hi-tat ta tat trumpety trombone and tinkle tinkle to offset the drama #abccclasic100
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Michelle Frantenauk @michellefrantenauk.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Same same for our current housing policy debate…. Investors don’t need charity - they need to pay their fair share
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Delegate Katrina Callsen @katrinacallsen.com · 06/06/2026
Also since I’m up, it’s a good time to remind folks that corporations aren’t people. Data centers don’t need charity - they need to pay their fair share.
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