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Newly formed community group in the Federal seat of Perth. Doing politics differently, starting with listening. On Whadjuk Noongar country.

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Perth Listens @perthlistens.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Victorians go to the polls in November. There’s a lot at stake for climate action, integrity in politics, gender equity and more. Not just in Victoria but federally. Help communities win, donate to C200's community accelerator fund now. #Independents #Auspol www.climate200.com.au/community-ac...
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The Community Accelerator Fund
One Nation’s Trump-style divisive politics are a danger to our democracy, women's rights and climate action... but we have a plan.
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Independent Australian media have clocked that One Nation is copying Netanyahu campaign ads, says @lucyham.bsky.social. Something we woudn't expect mainstream media to inevestigate. #auspol lucyham29.substack.com/p/brief-who-...
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Brief: Who is running marketing for Pauline Hanson’s One Nation... apart from pro-Israel figures.
It has just been revealed that One Nation’s latest advertisement is an AI slop (almost) word-for-word copy of an ad for Netanyahu. The video for their Victorian launch was more toxic AI slop.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Remember: Wealth cannot be separated from power. We're seeing in real time how the extreme concentration of wealth is distorting our politics, rigging markets, and granting unprecedented power to a handful of people. Taxing the rich isn't just an economic issue, it's a defense of our democracy.
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David Pocock @davidpocock.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
🇦🇺 households are dealing with interest rate rises while corporate profits increase & multinational tax loopholes remain unaddressed. In this ep we talk about this + the trade-offs around AI & update on what’s happened lately in the senate & in parliamentary inquiries. youtu.be/90IuwGjfzz8
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Who pays? - AI, rate rises and our biggest tax bludgers
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Perth Listens @perthlistens.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A beautiful morning to join Perth Listens meet and greet in Stuart Street Reserve at 11am. We will be near Parkside Coffee on the southern side of the park. Grab a coffee and come and tell us what matters to you. No speeches. No agenda. Just coffee and conversation. #Auspol
Stuart Street Reserve, Perth
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nevyn @nevyn8.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
#racistbots #onenation #dodgy #media #auspol #australia
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💚🌏Myles🌏💚 @rainbowregionmyles.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Our fucking sovereign wealth fund is making money from students paying $519 a week to share a room while Youth Allowance is $677 a fortnight. We're using public wealth to profit from a housing crisis instead of fixing it. How completely insane have we become? #auspol
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Future Fund earns big returns on extortionate student accommodation - Michael West
As rents and cost of living rise, Future Fund is making strong returns from Australian housing, including student accommodation.
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The Point @thepointau.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
For Australians dealing with a cost-of-living crisis due to soaring oil prices that have led to huge profits for gas companies, the figures are a slap in the face. Read the full piece on The Point: sbrew.link/jiwpRnTN
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Perth Listens @perthlistens.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Political Gadgets - Find My Electorate helps find your electorate, and maps state and local government boundaries. #Auspol
Map of the Federal seat of Perth, State electorate and City of Perth areas.
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Perth Listens @perthlistens.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Interesting synopsis of Australia's intergenerational report 👇 More workers, higher household incomes, more tax revenue and a larger productive economy. And the energy transition is a defining structural shift where Australia has advantages if we play our cards right. #renewables #Auspol
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Dr Monique Ryan @mon4kooyong.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Australians have embraced clean energy because it works, and communities like Kooyong rejected expensive, slow, risky nuclear fantasies in favour of faster action on climate change in 2022 and 2025.
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Perth Listens @perthlistens.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Dr Monique Ryan, independent MP for Kooyong, doing the work for all Australians 👇 Support, donate, vote independent. #independents #Auspol
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The Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com · 23/09/2026
Incoming electoral reforms will cap the amounts parties can spend on election campaigning, but it’s still far too high. Here’s what the rules should be instead.
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New rules finally put a ceiling on money in politics – but the cap is double what it should be
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Perth Listens @perthlistens.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Woohoo 💃 welcome @voices-of-hasluck.bsky.social Doing politics differently for our neighbours in Hasluck, Western Australia. Support, donate, vote independents. #independents #Auspol
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Perth Listens @perthlistens.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Perth Listens hold regular meet and greets to hear from the people of Perth about what matters to them. Join us at 11am on Saturday 3rd October in the Stuart Street Reserve, Perth. No speeches. No agenda. Just coffee and conversation. #Independents #Auspol www.perthlistens.com.au/civicrm/even...
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Meet & Greet in Perth
2026-10-03 • 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM Stuart Street Reserve Stuart Street Perth, WA 6000 Australia Join us at Stuart Street Reserve in Perth for our October Meet & Greet. If you've been wondering what Pert...
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Perth Listens @perthlistens.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Reminder for people living in the Federal electorate of Perth 👇 Perth Listens is keen to hear from you. Our Listening Report will be built around responses to the survey here www.perthlistens.com.au/surveys/comm... Support, donate, vote independent. #independents #Auspol
Map of the Federal electorate of Perth.
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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
In Australia, participation in the democratic process is compulsory. michaelwest.com.au/democracys-despa…
Democracy’s despair. New donation laws to entrench Uniparty powerIn Australia, participation in the democratic process is compulsory.They were voted on by a collusion between them as the Coalition and Labor handled the baton back and forth against muted interjection from troublesome independents and minor parties. That callow inspiration came at a time when independents were on the rise and One Nation was a meElectoral funding preferencing the parties
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Perth Listens @perthlistens.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Independents work hard for all Australians. #independents #Auspol
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Perth Listens @perthlistens.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Remember when the Labor Government were spruiking their industrial relations reforms? ‘Same job, same pay!’ Senator Fatima Payman on being the only independent parliamentarian without any personal staff 👇 #Auspol
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Perth Listens @perthlistens.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Live in the Federal electorate of Perth? Perth Listens invites you to complete our Community Listening Survey, to understand what matters to you. Your responses will form part of our Community Listening Report. #PerthListens #Auspol www.perthlistens.com.au/surveys/comm...
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Community Listening Survey - Perth Listens
Tell Us What You Think If you live in the Federal electorate of Perth, we’d love you to complete our Community Listening Survey so that we can understand what matters to you. Results from this survey and our Community Conversations will be compiled into a Community Listening Report, to be released in 2027. Your responses […]
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Perth Listens @perthlistens.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Perth Listens is one of Australia's community groups who are committed to listening to and engaging with the local community. Our work has boosted Australia's ranking in one of the world's leading democracy indexes. #independents #Auspol
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Dr Monique Ryan @mon4kooyong.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Things you love to see: "The rise of independents and teals...have helped boost Australia’s ranking in one of the world’s leading democracy indexes." citynews.com.au/2026/austral...
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Australia rises as US plunges in world democracy report | Canberra CityNews
The year 2025 is being described as the worst of the century for freedom of expression, media rights, access to justice and more.
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Perth Listens @perthlistens.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Nicolette Boele (independent rep, Bradfield) asked the Treasurer for a nationally consistent definition of affordable housing, so affordable homes can be made for key workers. Treasurer confirmed Govt will. Independents work for all Australians. #Auspol www.nicoletteboele.com.au/housing_peti...
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“Affordable housing” should mean homes we can afford
#BoeleForBradfield
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Perth Listens @perthlistens.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Labor's failure to explain, debate and engage deepens distrust in government. Democracy is not a spectator sport: join your local community group and find your voice. #PerthListens #Auspol
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Perth Listens @perthlistens.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The duopoly re-wrote the rules to rig elections in their favour. Independents Zoe Daniel and Rex Patrick are fighting back, taking their case all the way to the High Court. Watch this case. Democracy is not a spectator sport. #Auspol
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Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @codfather.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
A wonderfully appropriate Banksy
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raven-mumur @raven-murmur.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Doesn't believe in viruses? Bacteria? E-Coli not a thing in the bush, then?
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Michael Pascoe @michaelpascoe01.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
No delusions here about what we've become - a base for B-52s (and anything else Washington fancies) B-52s Deploy for Bomber Task Force to Upgraded Australia Base share.google/eHpH8kptrq57...
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B-52s Deploy for Bomber Task Force to Upgraded Australia Base
Air Force B-52 bombers landed at an air base in northern Australian in a demonstration of the U.S. ability to project force in the Pacific.
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David Marler @qldaah.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The electorate of Farrer produces 6% of Australia's food. The 40% figure MP David Farley frequently quotes applies to the entire Murray-Darling Basin area which includes parts of NSW & Victoria. It's 1 million square kilometres in size. #auspol www.aap.com.au/factcheck/on...
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One Nation MP muddles figures on food production
David Farley MP claimed that 40 per cent of Australia's food comes out of his Farrer electorate, but the real figure is much lower.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Uber just announced it will lay off 10% of its workforce, or around 3,300 workers. Last year, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi made $35M — 360 times his median employee's pay — and announced a $20B stock buyback program to further enrich shareholders and himself. Textbook corporate greed.
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
A foreign military is getting more and more bases, control and domination over our country. Labor, the Coalition and One Nation are all celebrating this. They are not on our side.
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Kon Karapanagiotidis @kkarapanagiotidis.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Can male politicians, influencers and public figures get a grip and stop acting like women have declared war on you. They haven’t. Wanting an end to women being raped and murdered by men and boys being radicalised to hate, fear and resent girls and women is a good thing.
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Barbara Pedersen @barbie4science.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Time has come To pay the rent #Nowar #Auspol youtu.be/dqBRYMdIVzU?...
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Midnight Oil - Beds are burning (Live At Olympics 2000)
YouTube video by Ringo Pebam
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Dr Monique Ryan @mon4kooyong.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Algorithms are actively pushing harmful content at young men, and we know it: within 23 minutes of opening a new account, boys are already being fed misogynistic material. But Matt Canavan's answer is to point the finger at the women who teach our young men consent and respect.
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ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Business owners scan cash notes with blue lights in a bid to avoid being stung, as the Australian Border Force reports a huge increase in the amount of counterfeit cash entering the country.
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Small businesses scan for fake cash as counterfeit seizures soar
Business owners scan cash notes with blue lights in a bid to avoid being stung, as the Australian Border Force reports a huge increase in the amount of counterfeit cash entering the country.
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The wonderfully talented Marsh Family has a new parody of Alanis Morissette's song "Ironic." This will piss off Crybaby Caligula yugely. Isn't he moronic? Don't you think?😅
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Perth Listens @perthlistens.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Busy in Perth city today, despite a little rain. People talking to soldiers, admiring the Bushmaster and patting the horses. Also a blue umbrella 😍 #PerthListens #Auspol
Perth in the rain, with horses and a Bushmaster lurking under the overpass, and a blue umbrella.
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Perth Listens @perthlistens.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Discovered musicians playing in a laneway near me 👇 Then I discovered sometimes local muso Danny Estrin drives his vintage car down the same laneway, while being filmed 🤷 Watching Precious Metal: a Love Story now #lovePerth #PerthListens
Colorful laneway in Perth, complete with a musician playing.
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Doug Cameron @dncameron.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
It is an honour to be part of the team that brought democratic oversight and critical analysis to the AUKUS disaster. Peter and his team of Commissioners have given their time, expertise and commitment for free and have done a great service for the nation. Now for the report!
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
When you claim renewable energies aren’t workable—but you attach solar panels to all your dystopian Flock surveillance cameras.
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Royce Kurmelovs @roycerk2.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Big Four consulting firm Deloitte has been handed a $2.1m contract to provide “management advisory services” to the Illicit Tobacco and E-Cigarette (ITEC) Commissioner despite a decades-long relationship with the tobacco industry. New from me for @deepcutnews.bsky.social.
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The government just gave Deloitte $2.1m to help with tobacco crackdown, despite …
… the consulting firm’s decades-long history of advising the tobacco industry.
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George's Σουβλάκια🏺🥙 @thebigsouvlaki.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
How badly is the @australianlabor.bsky.social political party misreading the mood of Australians ? We will try a little trick in WA whilst promoting our climate change credentials (lack of) at the Pacific Forum. They wont notice a thing. #auspol kangaroocourtofaustralia.com/2026/09/03/h...
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How Labor spoon-fed One Nation the state seat of Secret Harbour in WA
Western Australia’s Labor Party spoon-fed Pauline Hanson’s One Nation Party the state seat of Secret Harbour last Saturday (29/8/26) by running gas lobbyist Georgia Tree as their candidate. The Labor ...
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Perth Listens @perthlistens.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Political donations and funding are a critical part of our democratic processes. Zoe Daniels and Rex Patrick are fighting new Aust electoral finance laws that make it harder for independent MPs and candidates to compete. Democracy is not a spectator sport. #communityindependents #Auspol
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Ian Robinson 🇦🇺🐨🦘 @idrobinson.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
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Regulator hits utility with big fine for 'over-priced' battery power
Batteries have been hailed as an antidote to price pain, but strange charging behaviour in WA has pushed the market higher. Now the regulator is preparing to intervene.
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Perth Listens @perthlistens.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Perth based clean energy developer Frontier Energy secures all the contracts for the largest solar and battery hybrid on Western Australia’s main grid. Work starts next month on the Waroona Renewable Energy Project. #renewables #cleanenergytransition #Auspol
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SANTA CLAUS @santaclausalaska.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
FUN FACT If we switched to all renewable energy, the number of ships crossing the ocean would fall almost in half, slashing global CO2 emissions. Because those ships are JUST carrying coal, oil and gas. ~ Bill McKibben SUPPORT ALTERNATIVE ENERGY SOURCES!
Fun Fact: If we switched to all renewable energy, the number of ships crossing the ocean would fall almost in half, slashing global CO2 emissions. Because those ships are just carrying coal, oil and gas.
- Bill McKibben, Climate Activist
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Maranoa Girl @maranoagirl.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
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How Labor spoon-fed One Nation the state seat of Secret Harbour in WA
Western Australia’s Labor Party spoon-fed Pauline Hanson’s One Nation Party the state seat of Secret Harbour last Saturday (29/8/26) by running gas lobbyist Georgia Tree as their candidate. The Labor ...
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Barbara Pedersen @barbie4science.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
How can we oppose environmental destruction without fighting against those who are determined to bring it about? Recognising that argument, struggle and dissent are a necessary and healthy part of democracy. People, we need to talk 🙏 #Endclimatedenial #Auspol www.crikey.com.au/2026/09/02/n...
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Resisting climate desecration means rebuking 'social cohesion'
Division and polarisation are not, in and of themselves, problems. In the face of an unprecedented crisis, with no obvious solution in sight, the demand for 'cohesion' becomes both utopian and reactio...
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Cat 🐈 @mrsbadcrumble1975.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This post is ten years old and still accurate. #climatechange
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