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Jen

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I like gardening, sewing, baking, cats and looking after people and the world around us. Been a veterinarian and a school librarian and now have my head in the garden. Living on Wurundjeri land.

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Voices Of Chisholm @voicesofchisholm.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
See you tomorrow #Chisholm #Ashwood #Malvern ! (Grab your tickets if you haven't already...) #AUSpol #VICpol voicesofchisholm.org/how-can-we-d...
Event reminder: It's tomorrow!
(Thursday, 18th June)
Join us for an evening of lively debate where we discuss...
How can we do democracy Better?
With Special Guest Speaker
Zoe Daniel
Former MP for Goldstein
Followed by a Q&A Session
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Hildemara🌷 @hildemara.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
#AusPol #NeverMagaHs #KeepFascismOut #OneNationOligarchyPuppets #NeverHanson Who else finds the Press intimidated by Hanson ??? 1-4 🪡
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The Shovel @theshovel.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Man Who Supports One Nation and Socceroos Suffers Mental Breakdown After Former Refugee Scores World Cup Goal
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Man Who Supports One Nation and Socceroos Suffers Mental Breakdown After Former Refugee Scores World Cup Goal — The Shovel
A man who within the last 24 hours has both called for an end to all immigration to Australia and chanted ‘Aussie Aussie Aussie’ at a World Cup live site, was said to be in a serious but stable condit...
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Absolutely thrilled by the news @joshbornstein.bsky.social is joining @australiainstitute.org.au to go after corporate power.
Acclaimed lawyer and author Josh Bornstein to join The Australia Institute to tackle corporate power

MEDIA RELEASE | 1 May 2026

The Australia Institute is proud to announce that acclaimed lawyer and author, Josh Bornstein, will be joining the organisation in the newly created role of Director, Corporate Regulation.
 
Josh will work alongside The Australia Institute’s existing research team, developing bold new proposals to rebalance power in Australia’s economy.
 
Bringing deep expertise on employment law, industrial relations, discrimination and corporate governance to this role, his research will focus on issues ranging from monopoly behavior and price gouging to regulatory failure and the erosion of democratic accountability.
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bradpsychology @bradpsychology.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Pauline Hanson will not build one school, one hospital or one train station. If you don't like people who are different from you, she will help vent your misguided resentment. That's it. Nothing to make your life better in any tangible way, or that of your children.
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Andrew Gardiner @ajgardineresq.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Like airing the dirtiest of dirty laundry, so many Anglo Australians just don't want a reminder ... #WelcomeToCountry #auspol
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Dawn Whiteside Rubin @dd-rubin.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
I think she meant to say Men's Tennis.
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Derrick ♎ 🟧 🟦#BLM 🏳️‍🌈 @spawn03.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Nothing says respect for the Georgia Women's Tennis team than relegating them to the being the background of the picture.
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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Great to see them putting women right at the front of sport …
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Shell Oil now up. Telling us they are "nation building"
Charts showing Shell's Queensland operations earned $32.292bn 2014-15 to 2022-23 and paid $0 company tax
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Charles Tuise @ctuise.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Imagine being a snr exec in a massive company and knowing as little as this individual. I think the phrase I'm looking for is 'grossly incompetent'.. or maybe 'deliberately deceitful'.. or both #Auspol #TaxGas #TaxCorporationsProperly
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John Birmingham @birmo.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
My head assploded and harsh words came out after reading the ABCs stupidest ever 730 report on EVs
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So, you've decided to write a terrible EV piece.
An early column, because I'm away this Friday.
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JCMartinofBA @jcmartinofba.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Trump doesn't want to extend the ceasefire in Iran. Israeli soldiers and settlers kill 11 Palestinians in Gaza and in the West Bank.
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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Sarah Hanson-Young shreds the QLD Resources Council for recycling the same old arguments against a Tax on Gas that they used against QLD Labor’s Coal royalties in 2022, revealing there’s “more” Coal mines now than in 2022 SHY: “In 2022 there were 52, there’s now 58!”💥 #auspol
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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
David Pocock beside himself as Shell’s Cecile Wake insists she doesn’t know Shell’s revenue, or how much gas they export, while she fronts an inquiry on Gas Exports. Sarah Hanson-Young: “What did you think we were going to be asking you about today?” 🔥🙄 #auspol
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Kon Karapanagiotidis @kkarapanagiotidis.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
We’re in the final hours of our urgent food appeal. Our last big challenge is guaranteeing we can pick up & deliver the food our 2 Food banks need. We need to secure our first EV van as fuel crisis worsens, $73,500 needed to buy it tomorrow. Donate: donate.asrc.org.au/urgent-food-...
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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Are Angus Taylor and Pauline Hanson #unaustralian ? Why do they prefer the profits of a foreign cartel over gas revenues for Australians? Follow the money #murdoch #newscorp #auspol #ABC also debunking the 'defund the ABC' furphy youtu.be/3GMIfOJMX4U?...
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How One Nation and the Coalition sold out Australians | The West Report
YouTube video by The West Report
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Steve Moskal @samoskal.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
The key q'n is will Farrer vote for a far-RW extremist party One Nation, using Trump tactics to lie, divert on economic issues, it representing mining/ petro-state billionaire interests, with overriding goal to turn Australia into a U.S maga lawless white nationalist violent culture #auspol #nswpol
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Meanwhile, the Australian government continues to ship "non-lethal components" [cough cough] for F-35s used by Israel to mass murder Palestinian and Lebanese civilians. And Labor caucus members are too spineless to speak out. #auspol
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Steve Moskal @samoskal.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Surely One nation has lost Farrer with the local rep not being able to answer the (openly pro Trump lawless fascism that profusely lies on false economic promises) billionaire funded question ?! Regionals have access to the Internet dont they ? #auspol #nswpol
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jackhsmit.bsky.social @jackhsmit.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
"One Nation is on track to win the seat of #Farrer. The race is down to either #One_Nation ’s David Farley, or community independent Michelle #Milthorpe. Before the byelection was called, most Farrer watchers believed Milthorpe would take the seat..." #auspol www.deepcutnews.com/p/legacy-med...
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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
It should worry you that the One Nation candidate on track to win Farrer thinks it is "above his paygrade" whether Gina Rinehart is funding the party. www.deepcutnews.com/p/legacy-med...
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Australians are being played by Rinehart and Hanson, and the media is helping – Amy Remeikis
Legacy media's refusal to scrutinise One Nation is going to hurt the country
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
My favourite line so far from the Gas Tax committee is Susan McDonald "I probably know more than 20,000 people who work directly and fairly closely directly with the gas industry." C'mon Susan, the Santos corporate box for the Wallabies vs Argentina Rugby Test Match wasn't that big
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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
So cowed by the foreign gas lobby .. the failure of successive govts is so epic that the Japanese tax *our* Australian gas more than we tax the foreign multinationals which export the stuff #auspol #TAI @kimwingerei.bsky.social michaelwest.com.au/the-gas-tax-...
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The gas ripoff. Japan collects more on our gas than we do - Michael West
The Japanese Government makes more revenue taxing its imports of Australian gas than the Australian Government does from exporters.
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David Marler @qldaah.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Queensland media, Jarrod Bleijie & David Crisafulli are literally laughing at you in the corridors of parliament. What's it going to take to wake you up? #qldpol
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Author @gilduran.com was just banned from “free speech absolutist” twitter for criticizing the Palantir CEO’s manifesto— so here’s his upcoming book: www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...
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David Marler @qldaah.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Two more arrests in Brisbane today after a third day of action against Queensland Premier David Crisafulli's speech criminalisation. #qldpol
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Stilgherrian @stilgherrian.com · 17/04/2026
Now that I’m living in Campsie I’ve been using the wonderful Planning Alerts. www.planningalerts.org.au I’ve noticed quite a few development applications (DAs) of the form “Demolition of existing shed and construct a secondary dwelling”. 1/2
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Planning Alerts
A free service which searches Australian planning authority websites and emails you details of applications near you
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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Thu 16Apr2026: • Israel destroyed a high school in Marwahin, South Lebanon. 👇 • Israel has declared its intention to occupy southern Lebanon up to the Litani River • Israel bombed an ambulance • Israel destroyed the last remaining bridge into the city of Tyre. #IsraeliTerrorism #LebanonUnderAttack
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
AOC: Whether it’s people in the Epstein files still roaming free, or the president, a known rapist, continuing to occupy the White House, all of this has contributed to the normalization and the idea that incidents of harassment shouldn’t matter. And I think today was an important turning point
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/04/2026
A woman named Lonna Drewes at a news conference just now accused Eric Swalwell of drugging her drink and sexually assaulting her. Here's part of her statement.
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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
BREAKING: Hundreds of anti-genocide protestors have descended on the NYC offices of @schumer.senate.gov & @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social in protest against their voting for Trump’s war on Iran and support for Israel’s attacks on Lebanon and Gaza.
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AW Sylwester @aw-sylwester.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
BREAKING: Hundreds of anti-genocide activists who were rallying outside the offices of Sen. Gillibrand & Schumer have mobed into the street on 3rd Ave in Midtown Manhattan. They’re calling on Gillibrand & Schumer to vote YES on an upcoming vote to block a weapons sale to Israel.
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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Australian engineer Robert Pether imprisoned in Baghdad for 5 years while DFAT provides training to his accusers. @kimwingerei.bsky.social with the story. #auspol michaelwest.com.au/robert-pethe...
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Robert Pether. Australian falsely accused, stuck in Baghdad, DFAT dithering - Michael West
Robert Pether imprisoned on trumped-up charges is languishing in Baghdad after over five years, while DFAT provides training to his accusers.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
The testimony here about sexual violence by Israel against Palestinian prisoners is so beyond the pale everyone must see it. It is so bad I can’t in good conscience share a quote other than the headline, which somehow manages to understate the horror within. www.middleeasteye.net/news/i-wishe...
‘I wished for death’: Sexual violence in Israel’s prisons is an ‘organised state policy’
Palestinian testimonies reveal how sexual violence, including rape using objects and dogs, is approved by 'highest levels' of Israeli leadership
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Even his cultists on Truth Social aren’t thrilled with this one from the demented megalomaniac.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
🚨 BREAKING NEWS 🚨 (I'm NOT deleting my post below 👇)
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David Marler @qldaah.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Convicted rapist Sean Black is back working for Pauline Hanson at One Nation headquarters. Qld LNP fed MP for Groom, Garth Hamilton, wrote to the House of Representatives Speaker to share concerns of him being in Australian Parliament House. #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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One Nation’s employment of convicted rapist makes it ‘very hard’ to take party seriously, Liberal senator says
James Paterson calls decision by Pauline Hanson’s party to rehire Sean Black ‘absolutely extraordinary’
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Kubar69 @kubar69.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Penny Wong is DEEPLY CONCERNED about @australianlabor.bsky.social political standing. Thanks Fran our brains are completely broken, our politicians are Zionists. @janfran.bsky.social @ettemedia.bsky.social
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Only Fran: Deeply concerned about Israel's attacks on Lebanon, but won't do a thing. Here's why
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marque lawyers @marquelawyers.com.au · 10/04/2026
At some point the political wall of unquestioning support for Israel will start to break down in Australia as well. Israel's continuing actions render it untenable; fiction can only be sustained for so long. Labor will go first, but watch the teals too.
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
We've heard loud and clear in the national youth justice inquiry that over-policing pushes First Nations young people into the prison system. Giving police guns on NT buses is learning all the wrong lessons about how we keep communities safe and kids out of jails. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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‘Inherently dangerous and unnecessary’: NT buses will soon be patrolled by armed officers
First Nations lawyers and politicians warn the change will disproportionately affect Indigenous people, making them feel ‘less safe, rather than more safe’
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Israel is doing everything it can to destroy hopes for peace as it launches a criminal wave of bombings on Lebanon overnight. They have killed more than 250 people and injured over 1,000 more. Global sanctions, global action, is needed, now.
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The Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
I don’t think people around the world realize how bad the attack on Lebanon was today. It’s BAD. Like 9/11 BAD. Hospitals are overflowing and do not have enough blood. We still don’t know what the death toll is. This is TERRORISM. Pure and Simple. April 8. Never forget.
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Kirsti Miller @kirstimiller30.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Testosterone needs to be degendered. Stop talking about testosterone – there’s no such thing as a ‘true sex www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Stop talking about testosterone – there’s no such thing as a ‘true sex’ | Katrina Karkazis
Sports bodies want a biological criterion to indicate an athlete’s sex. But it’s far more complicated than that, writes academic Katrina Karkazis
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TheBossRoss 🧶 @thebossross.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
A different perspective. Always helpful.
Christopher Penn wrote:

Just remember that given the abundance of neurodivergent people in science, it's far more likely that autism causes vaccines.
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
It’s Easter and the US President chose to share this, an unhinged and expletive ridden rant threatening war crimes against the Iranian people. Australians want no part in this and they expect our government to clearly oppose it and organise to prevent it.
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