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That's insane. Not even just for the homeless. If someone's drunk too much at the bar, I want them sleeping it off in their car, not driving home because a DUI is treated as the lesser offence.

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Peter Caffin @pcaffin.bsky.social · 9h

Yep. Nobody ever accused Albo of being clever. You cut the cost cutting measure, costs will increase.

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Peter Caffin @pcaffin.bsky.social · 18h

Unfortunately, I think it's a case of this...

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Peter Caffin @pcaffin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Yep. The 'professionals' in the so-called party of business have apparently never seen a Bell Curve, so the notion that elections are won at the centre of that Bell Curve is utterly alien to them. Boggles me how these incompetents score post-politics directorships when they're so clueless.

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Gekko @gekko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The Greens under new leadership have made the decision to be a government-in-waiting and many Australians are energised by that Its not only a mess made by Albanese and Labor, its a dysfunctional mess created by major parties in our body politic that serves no-one johnmenadue.com/post/2026/10...

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Greens can hope to pick up the mess Labor and Albanese have made

Labor’s shift to the right has opened political space on its left. If the Greens seriously want to become an alternative party of government, they must take votes from Labor, professionalise and build...

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Peter Caffin @pcaffin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I think you'd be lucky in Gaza to find a building to throw people off. Seen the satellite images on Google Maps lately?

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Peter Caffin @pcaffin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Gotta pay for AUKUS somehow, apparently.

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Elly @ellybaxter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

So interest rates have to go up because we need 100,000s people to lose their jobs, but a climate catastrophe coal mine has to be expanded because we can't use 1,500 jobs? I'm not indifferent to the material conditions of workers, but this system sure is.

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Peter Caffin @pcaffin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

.... and they've blocked me. You just know these people are going to do the same thing again next time. They don't seem to understand (or care?) that support for genocide can be an absolute red line, that they will not cross, for people. It's weird.

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Peter Caffin @pcaffin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The DNC and RNC gave them a choice between two candidates who support genocide and ethnic cleansing. I'm not American, but if I were, there's no way I could vote for either of them. Yeah, Trump is a sh*t President. So nominate better candidates. That impossible choice didn't need to be impossible.

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Peter Caffin @pcaffin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It's for the best. You don't want someone like Trump owning a dog. He'd only mistreat it.

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Peter Caffin @pcaffin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Caring about inequality, to me, is the living embodiment of 'the fair go' that Australians used to swear by as an essential part of our national character. An increased vote for progressive indies and Greens would be great. (I'd even settle for Labor belatedly learning to be better people.)

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Peter Caffin @pcaffin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Add to that, because turning up to vote's compulsory, the polling places know how many ballots to print and how many staff they need to handle the flow. You may get a long queue at some of them during peak times, but the queue moves fast, and elections are always held on a Saturday ☺️

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Peter Caffin @pcaffin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Aw, blocked. Truth hurts, I guess.

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Peter Caffin @pcaffin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Yep, thoroughly one-eyed Labor. Sorry mate. If you can't see where Labor's been thoroughly subpar, you're useless to them. Nobody needs a yes man. Look where that sh*t's left Trump.

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Peter Caffin @pcaffin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Do you mean someone with a vocabulary, with views you don't agree with? Or is there more to it than that?

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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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Peter Caffin @pcaffin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

After a term of non-stop coal and gas mining approvals and renewals, you still think Labor were serious about environmental bills? Have you seen how little use the HAFF has been? You'd need to be very one-eyed Labor to not see their objections were pretty well bourne out in the end.

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Peter Caffin @pcaffin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If the ABC's not invited, I don't see the point of their covering it at all. If something newsworthy happens, they can always cover the wire reporting later. If not, ON's campaign made their choice and their opponents get the air time instead.

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Peter Caffin @pcaffin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Careful. You'd be committing us to supplying weapons to Canada at the rate the Americans are going.

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Peter Caffin @pcaffin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Labor people are so dumb at this. You send the most junior minister you have. They don't get access to the PM for prestige ceremonial duties unless they've earned it.

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Peter Caffin @pcaffin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Democrat centrists played stupid games, and won stupid prizes. The DNC needs to hold open primaries next time, and don't interfere when the results aren't favouring the candidates they personally want.

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Peter Caffin @pcaffin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The problem is the UN was built, from the ground up, to be reform-proof. Any attempts at reform will be vetoed by the forces with an interest in it being weak and weakening it further.

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Peter Caffin @pcaffin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The Greens have tried appealing to reason and common sense, and the FPV's been stuck bobbing around 10-15%. It's time for something different. I've been impressed with the way Shoey's hit the ground running with social media, and the aggro seems more in the tone than the substance. So far, so good.

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Peter Caffin @pcaffin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Problem is he's got another two years to keep firing generals until one of them lets him do it ☹️

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Peter Caffin @pcaffin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Shameless apologist for ethnic cleansing. History won't be kind.

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Peter Caffin @pcaffin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Not believable. The dude funded, supplied and delayed responses to a genocide by pretending there were negotiations going on. Time and again. Just (very belated) revisionist bullsh*t to excuse complicity.

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Peter Caffin @pcaffin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Buffet Tax is right there, ready to be enacted by either Labor or the Coalition. Or even One Notion, if they ever have the guts to crawl out of Gina Rinehart's arsehole.

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Peter Caffin @pcaffin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

They've 𝒂𝒍𝒘𝒂𝒚𝒔 needed fact-checking. But with Trump, you can just check the day of the week to see if his lies are timed to make trades on the stock market.

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Peter Caffin @pcaffin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

They're all extremely well qualified. She'd make a good leader, but the only thing that counts against her is she's a known quantity. It's a bit like in cricket: you can be excellent at the game, but when you've been around for a while, the opposition have plans to counter you. Less, for Shoebridge.

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Crikey @crikey.com.au · 02/10/2026

Opinion | For a prime minister seemingly unbothered by the Greens' new leadership, he sure had a lot of advice for David Shoebridge, writes Rachel Withers. www.crikey.com.au/2026/10/02/d...

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How worried is Labor about new Greens leader David Shoebridge?

It seems Anthony Albanese would rather only One Nation spoke to voters’ “searing anger”, even if it means more seats for the right than the left.

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Peter Caffin @pcaffin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

US police don't seem to do any anger management or de-escalation training over there. Would have thought that sort of thing would be the most basic, essential part of the job before anything else. It's how most police around the world maintain safety and public order.

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Peter Caffin @pcaffin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Even if our AUKUS partners came through with their commitments (extremely unlikely!), the end game's so ridiculous: dragging us into a war with China that AUKUS could never win, destroying our trade relationships, and the US would probably pull out from quickly. Nothing about it makes any sense.

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Peter Caffin @pcaffin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Amazing that he said all that back in April and it barely got traction in the news. Over here, a leader saying something like that would be booted out of their party leadership (or the party would be booted out of government). www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

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Trump says it's 'not possible' for the U.S. to pay for Medicaid, Medicare and day care: 'We’re fighting wars'

Trump urged states to fund benefits programs instead because "we have to take care of one thing: military protection."

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Peter Caffin @pcaffin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Any government could have introduced a Buffet Tax at any time over the last 50 years. Labor and Liberals are fully responsible. Business will exploit any loophole, and the ATO only gets to play the hand they've been given by the governing class.

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Peter Caffin @pcaffin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If they're as soft hearted as you feel they are, they'd never be able to put animals to sleep, but they do. It's just a part of the job, and they do it to alleviate suffering. Letting a human suffer or putting them to sleep is exactly the same thing.

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Peter Caffin @pcaffin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'm all for more grandstanding for the Greens, tbh. You do what you gotta do to get the media coverage. PHON understands that, and last election proved it's not healthy for the Greens to stick floating around the 10-15% range.

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Peter Caffin @pcaffin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'll never understand the American preoccupation with "what would our forefathers have done?" Who cares. They were people of their time and their time has long, long passed. The future is for the people alive now and yet to come.

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Peter Caffin @pcaffin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Absolutely barbaric. I'll never understand why they can't just ring up a veterinarian and get it done humanely, if they absolutely must kill.

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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Under Labor we have seen wages flat line, the rise of the far right and record war profits from fossil fuels going untaxed. We think these are ‘somewhat concerning’.

Albanese says new Greens leader's remarks 'somewhat concerning'

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Peter Caffin @pcaffin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

At very best, Labor's centre-right. They introduced neoliberalism to this country. A real party representing labour wouldn't keep the workers' safety net at 65% of the poverty line, kept so low it causes deaths at 4x the rate of the rest of Australia.

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Middle Age Riot @middleageriot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Donald Trump: "We're going to be signing a document renaming artificial intelligence to Super Intelligence. We will also be renaming measles to Happy Rash, the White House to Mar-a-Lago North, the Constitution to Trump Toilet Paper, and child rape to Republican Hug."

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Peter Caffin @pcaffin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Yep, 100% true. At the AUKUS signing, Biden couldn't even remember Scotty's name.

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Peter Caffin @pcaffin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hanson-Young would be good, but I think Faruqi might strategically be the best bet. It would trigger the racists in the major parties (especially PHON) and legacy media to full-blown hysteria.

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Peter Caffin @pcaffin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's bizarre that this UK govt genocide denialism is still going on, when anyone can look up the satellite images of Gaza on Google Maps, and see that just about every house and building has been flattened by missile strikes. It's unimaginable that there aren't enormous numbers buried in the rubble.

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Peter Caffin @pcaffin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Seems to be all political humour and satire, not just newspaper cartooning. Mad As Hell closed up shop on the premise that Shaun Micallef wanted the next generation of comedians to have a go, and the ABC essentially sh*t-canned the entire genre on TV ☹️

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Peter Caffin @pcaffin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Have they adopted neoliberalism as a religion, rather than just a model to help understand the economy? Just bizarre that they've been bone-headed for so long, and nobody's able to clue them in to reality or remove them. Or is there some kind of vested interest thing going on that I'm unaware of?

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