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Carolyn

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Nature and environment- if it doesn’t exist, neither do we. Public education- yes private schools - no Wind and solar - yes Unions- yes Fair pay and conditions-yes Tax the rich and companies - yes Stop logging our forests in Australia - yes

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Chris Bowen @chrisbowenmp.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Some huge news on Cheaper Home Batteries.
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TheFinnigans @finnigans.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
OMFG JFC, A WOKE after Sex to hear and see Lazy Sussssssssssssan whinging about everything under the heaven. Especially the Palestine Sydney Harbour Bridge Protest March. She is making Whinging Wendy an intellectual giant
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TheFinnigans @finnigans.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
That's why Lazy Sussssssssssssan is so so so stoooooooopid #insiders
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Maralyn Parker @maralynparker.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Wow I didn’t know that - 1 % of investors own 25% of investment properties. In that case yes indeed I agree with Sally - only one investment property should be eligible for negative gearing
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Bill Sayers @sundermeijer.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Watching Sally McManus this morning on Insiders. How impressive! David Spears watched his stats chart on OECD company tax rates blow up in his lap. Real Labor values on show.
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Ben Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
It’s almost as though universities have been taken over by a class of soulless executives who loot their public institutions for perks and salaries
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Tim Dunlop @timdunlop.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
The culture wars are messy
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Remember all that fulminating in the billionaire press about "free speech" (ie their freedom to abuse Muslims, trans people etc with impunity)? Now that people are being arrested for speaking about an issue of the utmost gravity, the self-appointed guardians of liberty have fallen strangely silent.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Among yesterday's arrestees is Deborah Hinton, an 81-year old retired magistrate with an OBE. That's Yvette Cooper's idea of a terrorist. Language has been turned on its head. The law has been turned on its head. Murdering children is righteous. Trying to stop it is terrorism.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Provide diplomatic cover, weapons and espionage support for war criminals. Arrest those protesting against war crimes as terrorists. How many people voted for this?
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Carolyn @mummacaz.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Trump, his minions may do us a favour on AUKUS www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...
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Trump and his minions may yet do us a favour in ending AUKUS
The US must be told that we will not be involved in any way and at any time in a war with China over Taiwan.
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TheFinnigans @finnigans.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
OMFG JFC Praxie @mspraxis.bsky.social My Anus, my Anus spewing his shits on Taiwan. He doesn't seem to understand what The Taiwan Status Quo is.
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Carolyn @mummacaz.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Will it also be live streamed for those of us outside of Sydney?
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Crikey @crikey.com.au · 18/07/2025
News Corp is now just a real estate and B2B sales company with a newspaper division, Daanyal Saeed writes.
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How does News Corp make its money?
News Corp doesn't make the bulk of its money through news anymore. So where do the millions come from? New financial statements give us a hint.
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John Birmingham @birmo.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
... perhaps the reason there’s been a measurable increase in attacks on the Jewish community in Australia may be due in part to a supermassive increase in genocidal attacks on the Palestinian community in Gaza by the Israeli state.
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Carolyn @mummacaz.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
The profiteering by the banks must be stopped. It costs them nothing to perform these transactions. And while your there RBA(stacked by the LNP to pass Labor’s week legislation) cut interest rates.
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Ronni🧂Salt @ronnisalt.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Here's a couple of recent examples I found of political graffiti, both of them from inner/urban Sydney. Abolish Australia! The president of the USA is the devil. It's political opinion. Now put the word Israel in there or Netanyahu's face and suddenly to them it's become, erm . . . "racist"
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Carolyn @mummacaz.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
The Gaul and hubris of Segal and her backers. Sack her today
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 15/07/2025
If the Government is interested in tax reform, we have a few ideas. Between taxing the gas industry, fixing tax loopholes and ending fossil fuel subsidies, these changes could raise up to $63 billion, supporting better services and reducing inequality. ▶️ australiainstitute.org.au/post/5-sugge...
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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I wonder if ABC News will air this clip of Majed Bamya, the Palestinian Ambassador to the UN. He draws a clear distinction between Jews around the world and the actions of the govt of Israel, debunking the myth that criticism of Israel is anti-Semitic. #IsraeliWarCrimes #GazaGenocide
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Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
In an age of failing economies and a neofascist backlash, what we need is Marxism. To free ourselves from our technofeudal overlords, we must think like Karl Marx. The corporations are asset-stripping our brains, but we can take back control. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🍉 @chrishehim.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
'Careless' is polite for corrupt. David Crisafulli found to be ‘careless’ in not declaring $200k in payments related to company he ran. This follows a 2020 inquiry that found he failed to disclose interests as director and secretary of a company www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... #auspol
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David Crisafulli found to be ‘careless’ in not declaring $200,000 in payments related to company he ran
But Queensland premier is not in contempt of parliament over the payments, ethics committee finds
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
There was a column in the SMH about how a couple with $8m in combined super wanted to avoid paying tax. The columnist pointed out if one super balance went from $3.0m to $3.4m the liability for the new super tax would be.... $7,056. Yep on $400,000 earnings www.theguardian.com/business/gro...
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Super tax debate highlights everything wrong with Australia’s media and economic system | Greg Jericho
The way superannuation is mostly covered by the media in Australia is about how to avoid paying tax and how to use it to fund inheritance
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
We have sob stories about people with $5.5m in super, advice for those with $8m in super for how to avoid tax. It’s not just the tax system that needs fixing - also our media My column. www.theguardian.com/business/gro...
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Super tax debate highlights everything wrong with Australia’s media and economic system | Greg Jericho
The way superannuation is mostly covered by the media in Australia is about how to avoid paying tax and how to use it to fund inheritance
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Carolyn @mummacaz.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
ITA and the board should be personally responsible for the pecuniary penalty that will be handed down. It was their political connections that caused this situation.
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Crikey @crikey.com.au · 26/06/2025
“Arthur Sinodinos is, of course, our former ambassador to the United States representing Australia,” said one ABC presenter on June 12. But that's not his only relevant role.
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ABC and others fail to mention close AUKUS connection of Sinodinos and Fitzgibbon
Arthur Sinodinos told Crikey he and Joel Fitzgibbon do not get paid for their work for business group AUKUS Forum.
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Carolyn @mummacaz.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
ITA and the board should be made PERSONALLY responsible for the pecuniary penalty that will be determined. It was their political connections that caused this problem.
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The Saturday Paper @thesaturdaypaper.com.au · 24/06/2025
For Liberal Senator Alex Antic, Donald Trump is more than a political idol. He’s a blueprint for how to dominate a party from the inside, humiliate opponents and control the narrative, writes Jason Koutsoukis. trib.al/M8Pb1e2
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Carolyn @mummacaz.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Shows the infiltration of US everywhere.
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Willy Skinner @willygrant.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Just going to put this here.
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Carolyn @mummacaz.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/re...
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Return Northern Beaches Hospital to Public Hands
While operated by the for-profit company Healthscope, Northern Beaches Hospital has been plagued by persistent complaints. Staff, patients, and families report chronic understaffing, poor patient outc...
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Carolyn @mummacaz.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
www.resources.nsw.gov.au/news-article...
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Media release - Future Jobs and Investment Authority model to secure jobs and economic opportunities in coal mining communities | NSW ResourcesNSW Resources
The Minns Labor Government is partnering with coal-producing regions across NSW to deliver on its election commitment to establish the Fu
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Dr Richard Denniss @richarddenniss.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
The Vice Chancellors of Australian universities are the best paid in the world…and they love to pay big consulting firms for advice on cost cutting…maybe we aren’t paying them enough? Maybe they aren’t paying enough millions for consultants…or maybe Neoliberalism has us on the wrong path yet again
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Rex Patrick @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Today I visited David McBride in prison. It was a reminder of the sad state of affairs we have in Australia where we lock up a war crimes whistleblower and not the war criminals. David’s in good spirits, but please see 2/2 to see how you can help him. 1/2 #auspol
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Kent Parkstreet @kentparkskeet.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Australia is handing over roughly nine billion dollars to US and UK shipyards. This money is committed and probably gone forever. There must be a point where our government sees that this deal is a lemon and stops the financial bleeding. #CancelAUKUS #AusPol
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Quentin Dempster @quentindempster.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Here’s Paul Keating on the Murdochs’ beat-up re “the Chinese are coming”. johnmenadue.com/post/2025/06...
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Australia: A sovereign continent not for Marles to gift away
Yesterday’s statement by Defence Minister Richard Marles that Australia’s geography and continent would be crucial to any United States prosecution of a war against China will go down as a dark moment...
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 18/06/2025
Business groups often say that cutting the company tax rate will lead to more business investment and higher productivity. But Australia Institute research shows that cutting the company tax rate does NOTHING to boost business investment @grogsgamut.bsky.social #auspol
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
It’s quite astonishing that a paper’s “Chief Political Commentator” can so consistently write bad political commentary
SMH screenshot of James Massola’s latest: “Australia thinks of itself as an international player. Trump delivered a reality check”
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Carolyn @mummacaz.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Have they been into her kitchen yet and excoriated her for having an empty fruit bowl?
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dee_le_brun @deelebrun.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
So has #ABCNews done a story yet on how Sussan Ley is assembling a powerful coalition of right-wing pensioners, red pilled tradies, incels and far right religious groups who don't vote, but have proved themselves valuable campaigners. #auspol #abc #sussanley #LNP
Sussan Ley
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
So not a drag queen? Weird.
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Zuvele @zeddog.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
The ABC reports that Angus Taylor is concerned about the Middle East escalation. I'm sorry, but who the f**k cares what Taylor thinks about it? #auspol
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Carolyn @mummacaz.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Trump will only meet if he has the opportunity to try and humiliate our PM like he did with Zelenskyy and others.
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
ABC insists on calling on Joe Hockey for his 'expertise' on #AUKUS. They identify him as former ambassador to the US. But fail to note that he is a current lobbyist for weapons companies in the US and Australia. aka conflict of interest. #ThisIsNotJournalism #auspol www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
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AUKUS deal in doubt following Pentagon review - ABC listen
The United States is reviewing the AUKUS defence agreement with Australia and the United Kingdom.
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everaldatlarge.bsky.social @everaldatlarge.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
For once the National Anti Corruption Commission #NACC has made a wise and correct decision. My best wishes to #BrittanyHiggins for her future life. Higgins' $2.4m payout cleared of corruption www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/2025/06...
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Higgins' $2.4m payout cleared of any corruption
The anti-corruption watchdog says there was no corrupt conduct involved in the $2.4 million compensation payment made to Brittany Higgins.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Of course, journalists in LA should not be targeted by police with rubber bullets. But let's not ignore the real issue of journalist safety
List of the names of the 231 Palestinian, 3 Lebanese and 2 Israeli journalists killed covering Israel's genocide of Gaza since 7 Oct 2023
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
The attempt to change super tax concessions has worried the extremely wealthy that people will realise just how rigged the system is in their favour. And they worry it might finally be the start of attempts to address the growing wealth inequality in this country www.theguardian.com/business/gro...
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Wealthy Australians are worried we might realise how rigged the system is in their favour | Greg Jericho
The discussions around the absurdly small changes to tax on superannuation should be the start to addressing the growing wealth inequality in this country
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Matt Bevan @mattbevan.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
$5m in Trump Coin would probably do the trick.
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 12/06/2025
Protecting superannuation tax concessions for the wealthy won't help future generations. Addressing climate change and the housing crisis will. @richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol
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