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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 07/10/2026

AUKUS was sold as a way to strengthen Australia’s defence. Its deeper purpose is to bind Australia into US military strategy against China and make American security dependent on Australian participation, Mike Gilligan writes. #auspol #AUKUS #Defence

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Mr Denmore @mrdenmore.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Having met Shoebridge, I think Albanese should be worried. Shoebridge is tough, smart and instinctive. a killer combo in politics. Australia needs a real opposition given hollowman Albanese's effective coaltion with the right. I'm not sure how the ALP rusted-ons live with themselves.

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Mr Denmore @mrdenmore.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Quite right. No chance of Albo giving into 'fringes' and 'entitled demands'. Tough man. Principled. Governing for the little people.

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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 01/10/2026

Netanyahu denies receiving warnings before Hamas’s 7 October attack. But reports now point to alerts from both the UAE and Egypt, while a source says he privately sought a denial from the Emirati president, Jack Khoury and The Associated Press report. #Israel #October7

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Netanyahu asked UAE leader to deny October 7 warning report, source says

Netanyahu has repeatedly denied receiving warnings before 7 October. Now a source says he privately asked the UAE president to deny one of the accounts.

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Mr Denmore @mrdenmore.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The age of 'independent' central banks is past its use-by date. See this i/v with Leah Downey, a political theorist from Kings College. She argues that insulating monetary policy from democratic accountability concentrates unchecked power in unelected technocrats. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqRu...

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Independent from who exactly? Central banks and democracy (part 1)

YouTube video by Watson School of International and Public Affairs

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Mr Denmore @mrdenmore.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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 · 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 · 02/09/2026

The military industrial complex’s preferred candidate

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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 · 31/08/2026

‘Investment’? Or protection money? Without the protection part.

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Mr Denmore @mrdenmore.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I pay for the digital edition. Much cheaper

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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

They’re all just careerists with their snouts in the trough. Zero principles.

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Mr Denmore @mrdenmore.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

What is WRONG with the ALP? I would really like to hear from some of the rusted-ons on how they rationalise this and how that idiot Marles continues to hold his job. Labor needs to be destroyed at the ballot box.

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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 · 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

ALT: 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

ALT: Spongebob Nobody Cares Meme

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Mr Denmore @mrdenmore.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

They should borrow Gina’s bulldozer & just flatten the corrupt lobbyists. Force them to visit the homes of the people whose sons and daughters have suicided due to gambling harm. Both parties, but particularly the ALP, have enabled this evil industry, which now is as pernicious as the US gun lobby.

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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.

theconversation.com

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 · 18/05/2026

I’d bet that more than 90% of the people who say they prefer Taylor don’t know he is. The point is he isn’t Albo.

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Mr Denmore @mrdenmore.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

And it's not just News Corp. The real estate industry spent more than a quarter of a billion dollars on media advertising last year. Media owners, like the banks, depend on endless property speculation. It's why these people sell the vested interest as the public interest.

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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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a group of cartoon characters holding a sign that says won 't somebody please think of the children

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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

The electorate is much more sophisticated than the media give them credit for. They know promises are contingent. They know that circumstances change. They know that Australia is a cork in a heaving ocean and that the notion that politicians in Canberra can ever deliver absolute certainty is a myth.

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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

And how’s life going for the ‘deplorables’ who thought voting for Donnie would lift them out of poverty?

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Mr Denmore @mrdenmore.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Nether does pandering to them or tip toeing around them. They’re idiots.Those people revel in their own ignorance. We’re in the Age of Stupid.

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Mr Denmore @mrdenmore.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Sorry. Done my bit. This country is mentally deficient

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Mr Denmore @mrdenmore.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

If Australia really thinks the brain-dead, racist idiots of One Notion are the answer to this nation’s challenges, my response is ‘you illiterate morons deserve everything you get’. I’m out of here.

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Mr Denmore @mrdenmore.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

The thing is I totally agree with the spirit of ‘stick it up ‘em’. But the ALP has forgotten that in its drive to make itself acceptable to News Corp and the bond market. Left wing populism is the answer if we are going to defeat plutocrats masquerading as class warriors

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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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