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Mr Denmore

@mrdenmore.bsky.social
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Ex-journalist, ex-broadcaster, ex-Catholic, ex-X, ex-hausted. Mr Denmore is the long-term nom-de-plume of now retired Australasian journalist and corporate communications hack, Jim Parker www.jparkermedia.com.au

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Mr Denmore @mrdenmore.bsky.social · 23h
Australia's trend unemployment rate has risen from 4% to 4.6% in two years and is still rising, yet the RBA is persisting in raising cash rates because of a global oil shock. It is ideological madness and it must be close to pitchfork time.
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Mr Denmore @mrdenmore.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The RBA raising interest rates for the 4th time this year due to rising oil prices arising from a foreign war. Those prices are a tax on consumers and hit young workers the hardest. Cashed-up and debt-free boomers like me benefit from higher rates. Criminal madness by the RBA.
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Mr Denmore @mrdenmore.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Greens looking good in NZ election campaign. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...
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Green Party surges to record high as Labour, National slump to 28%
The party has climbed up four points in latest poll.
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Mr Denmore @mrdenmore.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The New Testament according to Trump.
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Mr Denmore @mrdenmore.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The Middle East is on fire but the tabloid blow-ins at ABC News are leading their morning news bulletin with car crashes and domestics. Why I prefer SBS.
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Mr Denmore @mrdenmore.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
In what universe do the imbeciles in the ALP think that continuing to kowtow to Trump’s insane regime and the Murdoch crime family is good politics? Someone needs to roll that spineless lisping prick
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Mr Denmore @mrdenmore.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
How predictable. The supremely cynical Albo stitching up a deal with the Coalition on gambling ‘reform’. Another victory for ‘sensible centrism’
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Dr Monique Ryan @mon4kooyong.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
80% of Australians support a complete ban on gambling advertising. It’s time the government got on board. Join the campaign today to call on the federal government to protect young Australians from the predatory gambling industry and free our feeds from gambling ads.
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Mr Denmore @mrdenmore.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
With the two major parties clearly owned by the US security establishment, the defence lobby and the Sinophobes, Australia needs a referendum on AUKUS or give up on the pretence that we are a working democracy.
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Mr Denmore @mrdenmore.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
‘Australia’s no-holds-barred bipartisan embrace of AUKUS is likely to be one of the worst defence and foreign policy decisions our country has made,’ writes former Foreign Affairs Minister Gareth Evans. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/defe...
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The case against AUKUS
As this week’s ALP National Conference will confirm, the Albanese government remains strongly wedded to the AUKUS nuclear-propelled submarine project. But the project was misconceived from the outset ...
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Mr Denmore @mrdenmore.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Demarcation dispute in legacy media land. “We will decide how bullying is defined and who is bullied,” writes septugenarian shockjock Neil Michell from his own bully pulpit. www.smh.com.au/national/the...
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These ‘witches’ claim to have brought down Kyle, Karl and Alan Jones. In fact, they’re bullies
But by what right does activist group Mad F---ing Witches appoint itself as guardian of what is proper and fair? How representative are they of the “real” audience?
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Eddy Jokovich @eddyjokovich.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Today’s podcast: podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/t... At Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/58CY...
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The price of speaking out: Art, Palestine and the MSO
New Politics: Australian Politics, News, Analysis & Commentary · Episode
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Mr Denmore @mrdenmore.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Where are all the 'freedom' warriors when an artist loses his job for dedicating a piece of music to journalists killed in Gaza? MSO clearly is putting the sponsorship dollars from the vile Zionist lobby ahead of artistic integrity. theconversation.com/the-mso-and-...
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The MSO and Lattouf rulings are seemingly at odds. Where does this leave free speech at work?
The court has found the cancellation of Jason Gillham’s concert by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra was not prohibited by Australian workplace laws.
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Mr Denmore @mrdenmore.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
What is it with the gerontocracy in the USA? People just hanging on forever in Congress and the Supreme Court well into their dotage, blocking younger people with new ideas and when they should be out in the garden with their grandkids enjoying retirement.
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Grandpa Abe's Confused Exit in The Simpsons
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Mr Denmore @mrdenmore.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
‘The significance of Harry’s reunion meeting with his father, King Charles, cannot be overstated,’ gravely intones the ABC News reporter. Actually, it can and you just did.
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Spongebob Nobody Cares Meme
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Mr Denmore @mrdenmore.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
What is wrong with the ALP in its refusal to tackle the gambling industry?? Is there anyone with a conscience in that party ready to speak out? It just defies reason
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Mr Denmore @mrdenmore.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
I’m another baby boomer who has done well out of the house price lottery. But I also want to see prices become more affordable so my adult children are not shut out of the market. I really don’t understand why Angus Taylor and the looney Libs find that so hard to understand. Anyone??
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Mr Denmore @mrdenmore.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Reminder to the press gallery as they roll out the boilerplate language on tax reform changes. This is what a ‘backflip’ looks like:
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Dana Bergstrom @danambergstrom.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Essential reading for Australians👇👇👇👇👇 Foreign interference in Aus politics Thanks @auspoldaily.bsky.social for such clear articulation
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Mr Denmore @mrdenmore.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
A new book focusing on media coverage of Gaza - like the recent ABC 7.30 report interview with a flotilla victim - shows how judgements regularly made in other contexts become controversial only when applied to the state of Israel.
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Friday essay: How to Sell a Genocide exposes the double standards of reporting on Gaza
Almost all major human rights organisations agree the destruction of Gaza meets the legal definition of genocide. Yet liberal news outlets still do not use the word.
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Mr Denmore @mrdenmore.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Israeli police force Gaza flotilla activists to kneel with hands bound, video shows - www.reuters.com/world/middle...
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Israeli police force Gaza flotilla activists to kneel with hands bound, video shows
The video shows dozens of detained activists kneeling in rows with their hands zip-tied behind their backs, in what appears ​to be an outdoor Israeli port facility.
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
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Mr Denmore @mrdenmore.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
As News Corp attacks sensible tax reform via its news pages, recall that by far its most profitable investment in Australia is its majority stake in the digital real estate giant REA Group, which has a market value of $22bn and an EBITDA margin of 62%. Of course they hate attacks on property spivs!
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Mr Denmore @mrdenmore.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Amid the media's hysterical pearl clutching over the Budget, ask yourself: If by some miracle the Libs regained power, would they restore the Howard era CGT discount and NG regime? The answer is NO. Both fiscal reality & demographics are against them. It's all noise and confected outrage, folks.
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Mr Denmore @mrdenmore.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Journo to Albo: ‘Will you apologise to the people who voted for you after you said you wouldn’t change CGT or negative gearing?” Umm, I don’t think the geared up spivs concerned about losing their tax perks ever voted for the ALP.
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Mr Denmore @mrdenmore.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
‘But you said we’d stop for an ice cream.’ The press gallery’s infantile squawking about ‘broken promises’ ignores that the silly ‘rule in-rule out’ games in election campaigns are for the media’s own benefit. The rest of us in the real world simply don’t care. It’s good policy we care about.
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Mr Denmore @mrdenmore.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
One wonders at the intelligence of the Australian electorate when they vote for the hatchet-faced woman’s party of grifters as an expression of the interests of the ‘underdog’ when she’s getting flown the world around by a fascist billionaire masquerading as a poet.
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Mr Denmore @mrdenmore.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
If the Libs’ identity crisis explains One Nation and the inevitability of a coalition between the two, surely the ALP will finally twig that its own demise will only be prevented by enfranchising its left flank and forming a coalition with the Greens?
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Mr Denmore @mrdenmore.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
The electorate in Farrer
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Blazing Saddles: The Sheriff's Iconic Line
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Mr Denmore @mrdenmore.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
I see the Bondi Royal Commission has devolved into ‘someone once said something nasty to me because I am Jewish’. We all despise prejudice against ANYONE based on race or religion but why is legitimate criticism of the state of Israel over genocide of Palestinians always recast as anti-semitism?
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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 06/05/2026
The recommendations from the interim report of the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion are tentative, lightweight and backed by scarcely any supporting analysis. Paddy Gourley urges Commissioner Bell to take into account in her final recommendations the Netanyahu government' s resp…
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Light rations from the Antisemitism Royal Commission thus far
The recommendations from the interim report of the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion are tentative, lightweight and backed by scarcely any supporting analysis. Further recommendations must take into account the Netanyahu government's responsibilty for the stimulation of antisemitism here and around the world. 
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Mr Denmore @mrdenmore.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Schoolboy stuff, except the kids are better behaved. The lower the stakes with these clowns the lower the behaviour. www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
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‘That’s assault’: One Nation volunteer grabs Liberal senator’s phone in clash outside polling booth
The clash came as the pair disagreed over this masthead’s revelation that One Nation’s contender David Farley had previously attempted to stand for the Labor Party.
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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 05/05/2026
To join the latest US initiative to open the Strait of Hormuz, the Maritime Freedom Construct, while hostilities continue would make Australia an accessory to the international crime of waging an aggressive war, says Crispin Hull. #Iranwar #auspol
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Australia: don’t join the war crime
Australia is expected to consider this week a request from the US to join a coalition of allies in a military effort, the 'Maritime Freedom Construct', to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Australia should refuse, even in the unlikely event that others join.
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Mr Denmore @mrdenmore.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Someone is going to have to explain to me how raising interest rates domestically lowers global oil prices. ‘When the only tool you have is a hammer…’ #RBAclueless
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a man standing next to a stump with a can of beer on it
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The Monthly @themonthly.com.au · 23/04/2026
Read more: mnth.ly/P0s7PKu
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 22/04/2026
Australia Institute research shows Australia’s gas tax system is failing – billions in exports, but falling returns to the public. These are Australia’s resources. It’s time we get a fair return. ✍️ Add your name to the petition calling for a 25% tax on gas exports: theaus.in/3OIgCP4
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Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Great interview w @punterspolitics.bsky.social on 7am podcast this arvo. It’s worth understanding why the system doesn’t think Aussies own our mined resources. It’s a century of hard work to fight decolonized countries thinking we had a say in our wealth. #auspol open.substack.com/pub/lucyham2...
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How should we respond as Moneyland works to screw us ever further into submission?
The ultra rich are crushing living standards and protest rights. There is a parallel in the brutality against Palestinians and in America's gulags. We do not have long to challenge the trajectory.
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Mr Denmore @mrdenmore.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
"Why does the NDIS get such detailed media & govt scrutiny, when Defence - also large and growing just as rapidly - suffers far worse rorting and incompetence and gets rewarded with billions in extral funding?" asks @keanebernard.bsky.social of @crikey.com.au www.crikey.com.au/2026/04/23/l...
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Labor at last finds courage on refocusing the NDIS. Whether bureaucrats can deliver is another matter
Labor's NDIS reforms address the grim maths that some people diagnosed with a disability will need to miss out on services, which must be priorities for those with functional impairment.
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Mr Denmore @mrdenmore.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
ALP too scared to take on the gas industry that strips billions from our country each year; but not shy about kicking the crutches out from under hundreds of thousands of disabled Australians. So gutsy Albo.
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Patrick Dunleavy @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
MAGA Increasingly Believes Trump Assassination Attempt Was Fake. President Trump’s base seems to be turning against him like never before. newrepublic.com/post/209222/...
newrepublic.com
MAGA Increasingly Believes Trump Assassination Attempt Was Fake
President Trump’s base seems to be turning against him like never before.
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Mr Denmore @mrdenmore.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
“America now doesn’t even pay lip service to global norms - in fact it celebrates flouting them. It is increasingly acting like a rogue state”: Former UK Conservative Government Minister Rory Stewart. youtu.be/eoP-oHVTWrs?...
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Iran War: The Art of The No Deal.
YouTube video by The Rest Is Politics
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Mr Denmore @mrdenmore.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
European political expert and crack negotiator ‘JD’ now adds master theologian to his skillset with advice to the Pope to ‘stick to matters of morality’ - (other than murder, rape, fraud, theft, creating craven images and destroying civilisations, of course) www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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JD Vance defends Trump amid spat with Pope Leo: ‘Stick to matters of morality’
Catholic vice-president effectively tells Leo to stay in his lane after pope criticized the White House over the Iran war
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Mr Denmore @mrdenmore.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Israeli has never signed the nuclear non-proliferation treaty; it has nuclear weapons; Iran has signed the treaty; it does not have nukes. Why are journalists not tackling Trump on this question? Why is it OK for Israel to have nukes and Iran not?
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Mr Denmore @mrdenmore.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
“Tony, I’ve already told you once. Five decades of the rosary, and only then can show us all your Big Jet Plane. But make sure you clean yourself up afterwards.”
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Mr Denmore @mrdenmore.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
US economics professorJames Galbraith (son of the legendary JK Galbraith): “The foundations of world power just shifted. This is a defeat at the very core of the oil-dollar system, on which American power has rested for 50 years.” www.thenation.com/article/worl...
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The Ceasefire Just Showed the World That US Military Power Is Obsolete
With the illusion shattered, now is the chance for the US to liberate itself from a broken imperial model.
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Mr Denmore @mrdenmore.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
When does the US finally cut its diseased umbilical cord with Israel? You’d have to think that after recent events, that time is coming. It’s interesting, for instance, to see many on the right in the US starting to give Bibi and his gang of honorary whites the side-eye.
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Juan Cole @jricole.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
How Iran won the Iran War
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How Iran won the Iran War
Iran likely inflicted a billion dollars worth of damage on the 13 US military bases in the Middle East, most of which seem destroyed.
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Possum @pollytics.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
So the US spent billions blowing shit up in Iran, now the rest of the world will spend billions on tolls to move stuff through the straits to rebuild the shit that the US and Israel blew up. Got it. We have to subsidise stupidity
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Mr Denmore @mrdenmore.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Now watch Trump and his lickspittles declare victory in opening the Strait of Hormuz, which was open in the first place before the US and Israel bombed Iran.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 07/04/2026
BREAKING: Trump agrees to suspend 'bombing and attack of Iran' for two weeks reut.rs/3PU6iny
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