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Oldwhitebeard49

@oldwhitebeard49.bsky.social
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Old Aussie codger. Pro social justice, equity, refugees and asylum seekers. Anti genocide, economic inequality and oppression of any kind. Occasionally prickly, like an echidna. The Great Emu war of 1932 was won by the Emus!

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Oldwhitebeard49 @oldwhitebeard49.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
My dear old grandma,shearers' cook, had a saying that's apposite: Time to pull out digger, the dogs are pissing on your swag.
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Oldwhitebeard49 @oldwhitebeard49.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Fell short of standards" is a heck of an euphemism for death by gross negligence.
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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ivanka Trump dressed as a Balkan embassy bay window pelmet monorail through a bird sanctuary with a valance and a substandard-housing juliet-balcony collar.
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Oldwhitebeard49 @oldwhitebeard49.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Federation of the follicly challenged? Denture advert? Albo, what were you thinking? www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Everyone is talking about Albanese’s selfie with Trump. What was the PM thinking? | Tom McIlroy
Trump is not popular in Australia, even if the prime minister views close ties with the US as a key pillar of foreign policy
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Oldwhitebeard49 @oldwhitebeard49.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Apart from everything else, this is plain embarrassing. Dinosaurs, tiny brain, lived on earth for around 170 million years. Going strong till they lucked out with a flying rock. Not their fault! Homo Sapiens, stable genius and all, gonna fuck it up in less than ONE mill.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 17/09/2026
As I’m arranging interviews for the high-level UNGA week, this made my day.. 😆
@c405b • 6 hours ago
How can I trust you if you spell, 'honest', incorrectly?
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@onestnetwork • 8 seconds ago
This is the outlet name - ONEST.
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Oldwhitebeard49 @oldwhitebeard49.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
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Phil Leighton @joseph-yossarian.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
How can you possibly write that? We have the living example of his miraculous ear to behold. Surely if an ear shot through with a high powered rifle can be healed then the miracle of the $5000 checks will happen. Have faith.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 06/09/2026
I haven’t been indicted yet.
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Oldwhitebeard49 @oldwhitebeard49.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Good to see Marnus maintaining form. 4 from 9 balls totally justifying selectors lack of imagination.
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Oldwhitebeard49 @oldwhitebeard49.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Today's 'no shit, Sherlock' newsflash.
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Count Binface @countbinface.osintnet.uk · 06/08/2026
Clacton's beach is a no-swim zone due to sewage, but Nigel Farage's career is floating on a £5m mystery. As a bin, I know how to handle rubbish. Let's take out the trash on August 13th! #CountBinface #Clacton" Bong.
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Oldwhitebeard49 @oldwhitebeard49.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Posting this article so you too can have the joy of reading the line: "Sam Newman, whose thoughts on ruckwork carry more weight than all his other views combined". #aussierules www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/a...
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From the Pocket: Max Gawn has legitimate claims as the best ruck in Australian football history
Comparing footballers of different eras is fun but ultimately futile. But by any measure the Melbourne skipper is a giant of his craft, his era and his sport
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chercat208.bsky.social @chercat208.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
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Oldwhitebeard49 @oldwhitebeard49.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
You have to be a certain type of shit to sue someone who wants to stop you enabling child porn.
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Robyn in the west - a difficult woman @robyninthestix.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
The arrogance of power: Labor’s complacency is becoming its biggest threat open.substack.com/pub/newpolit...
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The arrogance of power: Labor’s complacency is becoming its biggest threat
From $10,000 dinners and corporate-sponsored conferences to ignoring party members and abandoning struggling communities, Labor is displaying the complacency that eventually destroys governments.
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Oldwhitebeard49 @oldwhitebeard49.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I think I'm going to cook American tonight. Anyone know where I can get some laxative lettuce, salmonella eggs and botulism beans de café?
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Oldwhitebeard49 @oldwhitebeard49.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
I've read a lot of comments / anecdotes about Sam Neill. And about Lindsey Graham. There's a lesson there for how you should live your life.
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Oldwhitebeard49 @oldwhitebeard49.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
We're there.
Meridian fountain with brown water after Trumpian renovations.
ETTTTS.
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Rosie de Difficult Kat 🌱🍉🍉 @rosiedekat.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
💯🎯👇🏻
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Dr nick nobody @nicknobody.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Paying a racist South African to represent the apartheid genocidal regime of Israel is a stain that Labor will never recover from #auspol
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 09/07/2026
Day Two in a nutshell
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Oldwhitebeard49 @oldwhitebeard49.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Where's the grey Wiggle when you need him?
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Oldwhitebeard49 @oldwhitebeard49.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
And this is Australia: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcZr...
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Socceroos celebrate migrant roots and address anti-immigration sentiment before World Cup
YouTube video by Guardian Australia
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Oldwhitebeard49 @oldwhitebeard49.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Mick Ryan, a very knowledgeable military and war analyst/commentator has addressed one of my favourite bits of Aussie history. The Great Emu War. Spoiler: the emus won and they didn't have the machine guns. mickryan.substack.com/p/the-emu-wa...
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The Emu War: A Case Study in How Not to Fight a Learning Enemy
What a failed military campaign against Australian emus can teach today's military leaders about retaining professional excellence, adaptation and the discipline of matching means to ends.
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Rhuta Bhayga @rhutabhayga.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Not sure if an Aussie actually said this, but it is 100% true. If the U.S. is circling the drain it's because Republicans have led us here, and yam tits is billing us for the headstone. (apologies for mixed metaphors)
This Australian's reply to Trump's rant about “NATO not being there for America” is perfect.
"Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage.
You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail.
Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates.
Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you.
And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban thanked you very much for losing again.
And you're calling Greenland poorly run?
Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no.
'NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan…
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Oldwhitebeard49 @oldwhitebeard49.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Israeli Jesus music no less.
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Oldwhitebeard49 @oldwhitebeard49.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
On no. They arrested the algae.
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Oldwhitebeard49 @oldwhitebeard49.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Hey. I just realised what the reflecting pool reminds me of. Newsboys' Club circa 1958, swimming pool below Herald Sun building. The scum was probably mostly due to me and my fellow paper selling street urchins, but someone was definitely skimming the chlorine budget.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 23/06/2026
Iranian leadership meeting with Pakistani leadership in Islamabad. The video, in English, was posted by the Pakistani government 2 hours ago. Pay attention to the language, and the message. “Brotherhood has no questions to answer”
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Oldwhitebeard49 @oldwhitebeard49.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Hey. Where do I get paid to be a pro algae protestor? George Spirogyra???
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Oldwhitebeard49 @oldwhitebeard49.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
When a news article leads with the words "Trump says ", I stop reading. There's just no point.
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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Trump is passed out again today in the Oval Office... Zzzzzz!!!
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Oldwhitebeard49 @oldwhitebeard49.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Dominion Voting Systems, do your thing!
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Oldwhitebeard49 @oldwhitebeard49.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
@opdeatheaters.bsky.social @youranoncentral.bsky.social do your thing. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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‘Refugees Are Welcome Here’ site could be part of ‘connected campaign’ to funnel votes to One Nation in Victoria
Exclusive: Rightwing activist denies responsibility for set of aspiring political parties and their potential preferences, as Guardian analysis suggests links
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Rumours that the govt are about to to target family discretionary trusts in the Budget is a very good thing. My column www.theguardian.com/business/gro...
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In this budget, all eyes are on CGT. But Labor’s rumoured family trust tweaks might also help fight tax inequality | Greg Jericho
If Albanese’s newest budget can tame discretionary trust tax dodging, it will be a good step in ensuring the rich are treated the same as the rest of us
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
If the govt targets discretionary family trusts there will be a lot of guff about how they will hit middle Australians just trying to get by. Don't believe it www.theguardian.com/business/gro...
Chart showing that 63% of the income from trusts is in the top 10% of taxable income (would be more if it was *total* income)
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Oldwhitebeard49 @oldwhitebeard49.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Existing gas contracts won't be taxed. Existing property investors not taxed. I was an existing consumer pre GST. Where do I apply for 26 years refund? #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Massive profits already earned by property investors to be shielded from Chalmers’ CGT changes
Treasurer tells Commonwealth Bank podcast that he aims to ‘recognise the decisions that people have taken in the past’
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Oldwhitebeard49 @oldwhitebeard49.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Iranian trolling not restricted to Lego. Tasnim News subeditor joins in: www.tasnimnews.ir/en/news/2026...
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Iranian Snooker Player Vafaei Beats Trump - Sports news - Tasnim News Agency
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – English snooker player Judd Trump was sent crashing out of the World Snooker Championship as a dramatic day at the Crucible concluded with Iran’s Hossein Vafaei clinching a final fra...
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
if only Louis XVI had had a ballroom he might be alive today
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anita72.bsky.social @anita72.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
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M Dv-us @drdvus.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
ConocoPhillips is up before the gas tax committee right now. It is trying to tell us the ATO company tax data is misleading. I can't think why they might want us to believe that. live.thepoint.com.au
Table showing ConocoPhillips Australia Gas Holdings income taxable income and tax paid from 2014-15 to 2023-24. Despite over $15bn in income it has paid $0 company tax. $0 PRRT
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 17/04/2026
Boy I love being a sailor on the USS Tripoli. It's dinner time now, I hope the chef is serving carrots and flipper again
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Oldwhitebeard49 @oldwhitebeard49.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Hero
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skeeter devilpenis @guypussy.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
i feel like this thing should be called a grinklestink
the weird piece of grey unappetizing meat slice from a soldiers plate today
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Oldwhitebeard49 @oldwhitebeard49.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Cathy nails it as usual.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
“viktor orban has more integrity than the US president” is not a phase i thought i’d ever say but here we are
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Tollytb🇮🇪🇪🇺🇨🇦🇬🇧 @tollytb.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
My girlfriend just asked, "Why are you making pancakes for the dog?" "Because he can't cook." 🐢💨
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Oldwhitebeard49 @oldwhitebeard49.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Credit where due. The sub-editor at Tasnim News Iran with a totally balanced account, almost as balanced as Trump 🙃: www.tasnimnews.ir/en/news/2026...
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SNSC Issues Statement about Iran’s Victory over Enemies - Politics news - Tasnim News Agency
TEHRAN (Tasnim) - The Supreme National Security Council issued a statement regarding the US's acceptance of Iran's conditions to end the war.
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