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Peter Murphy @peterkmurphy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I gather than Jim Chalmers is extremely charming in person.

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Peter Murphy @peterkmurphy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Was this the article you were talking about? bsky.app/profile/pete...

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Peter Murphy @peterkmurphy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

So if Shoebridge is a garbage person, doesn't that make Albanese, Wong and Marles each the equivalent of that giant garbage compactor on the Death Star? Only one of them would set "national interest" as _not_ selling F35s to states to kill Gazan toddlers. Guess which one?

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Peter Murphy @peterkmurphy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

In other words, making it up as they go along.

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Peter Murphy @peterkmurphy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Except it's always been "national and strategic interest" as seen by self-selected stakeholders, hasn't it? I guess there are Australian officials to think it's in Australia's national and strategic interest to allow F-35 parts to be shipped to Israel (even if they end up killing Gazan toddlers).

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Riddle me this - right now the Greens have the balance of power - should the ALP negotiate with them or the LNP? You love hypotheticals, I’ll stick with the fucking reality that the ALP decided the life skills my daughter receives don’t improve her wellbeing and so should not be funded.

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Peter Murphy @peterkmurphy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Let's say Albanese/Chalmers/Marles does their best Bill Leak impression, falls headfirst off a balcony, and gets possessed by the evil spirit of Billy Hughes. Of course they're _entitled_ to try to pass legislation with PHON support. That's not exactly "governing from the back benches", is it?

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Peter Murphy @peterkmurphy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A key difference between PHON and the Greens is that one has been known to racially discriminate against people like my wife and the other never has.

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Peter Murphy @peterkmurphy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

When folk think "we end up like Israel", they think of genocide and bombing babies. Not five (5!) parties in a coalition government. Isn't that another day ending with "y" in Europe?

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Peter Murphy @peterkmurphy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"Let's do a concept album about dragons destroying the earth (as a metaphor for climate change destruction). And it's all metal and every song's a banger." AI could never. music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth and the Beginning of Merciless Damnation

Album • King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

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Peter Murphy @peterkmurphy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Not many of the anti-migration folk left in the Greens, and the fewer the better.

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Peter Murphy @peterkmurphy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Not everyone is happy with David Shoebridge's ascension to the leadership of the Greens. (It's true about my mum, FYI. She's also far, far better on trans issues than Drew.)

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Drew Hutton
5 hours ago ·
I’ll ask the new Greens leader, David Shoebridge, the same question I asked Mehreen: will he issue a statement supporting a two-state solution, condemn Hamas and criticise the use of “globalise the Intifada”?
And how are the Greens going to fight One Nation when they think a man can be a woman, won’t criticise Hamas and continually wear keffiyahs and have no idea how to communicate with ordinary Australians who aren’t young, live in the inner-city and have university degrees?
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Drew Hutton the Greens already condemned Hamas in 2023. What's the point of condemning it again, especially as Israel has killed more 70 times the people in multiple countries in the last three years that Hamas did on one evil day?
Seriously, if three years later of multiple Israel-led homicides in not just Gaza but the West Bank (and Lebanon!) still leaves you thinking "condemn Hamas", I say you're a man living in the past. Even my mother is more adaptable than you (and she's four years older!)
https://greens.org.au/news/australian-greens-statement-one-month-after-terrorist-acts-hamas-israel
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Peter Murphy @peterkmurphy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I didn't expect this. Health comes first; she can take all the time she needs. She's not stepping down from the Senate, just the leadership. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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Larissa Waters steps down as Greens leader due to ill health

Ballot for new leader expected next week after Waters quits to manage pre-existing kidney disease that has ‘declined significantly’

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Peter Murphy @peterkmurphy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I'm surprised an US LGA can go "Rightio" to a drone delivery service without getting the feds involved (their equivalent of the Civil Aviation Safety Authority) to greenlight it first.

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Peter Murphy @peterkmurphy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

L. Ron also achieved military command, even if he wasn't very good at it; his sole bit of combat was depth charging an underwater iron ore deposit, thinking it was a Japanese sub. It's bad being relieved of command after 80 days, but that's 80 more than Elon ever got.

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Peter Murphy @peterkmurphy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

How do I watch TV? Like so many people (I guess), by random cut up scenes on YouTube. I could throw money and time at streaming the entirety of "Better Call Saul" - it's pretty great, by all accounts. At the end, I can't be bothered. Give me a good, 2 hourish movie instead, almost every time.

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Peter Murphy @peterkmurphy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Looking at the list makes me think "Watching TV is an active investment in time that I have chosen not to do". There are so many series here I have not watched at all, and there are no series listed I've watched in their entirety (with the exception of Shōgun).

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Peter Murphy @peterkmurphy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It sounded like an Onion article, but Albertans are deadly serious about their rat free status. They even have their own ra(b̶b̶i̶)t proof fence along the Saskatchewan border.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The British right has now descended to the point where 'the England team are not English' is becoming the consensus position

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Peter Murphy @peterkmurphy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Especially when those ideas are counterfeit. "Imagination expands the universe" is not an Einstein quote. AI must have confused him with Deepak Chopra, or some other stupid New Age guru.

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Peter Murphy @peterkmurphy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Gaining a bottle of wine from a child custody battle sound pretty erroneous to me.

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Peter Murphy @peterkmurphy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Maybe Derek's a Motie Mediator. (Only Niven/Pournelle readers will get this.)

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Peter Murphy @peterkmurphy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It's like Orwell survived his TB, and wrote a farcical sequel to 1984. All torturers have KPIs, and O'Brien has to justify his interrogation of Winston and Julia as meeting his '99.9% of Party-hostile viewpoints quashed' targets. en.vietnamplus.vn/new-regulati...

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New regulation on political, ideological work in Party highlighted at national conference

The regulation, adopted at the second plenum of the 14th Party Central Committee and issued as Regulation No. 19-QD/TW on April 8, 2026, marks the first comprehensive and systematic framework governin...

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Peter Murphy @peterkmurphy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

He's an Uncle Wizard🎵 There has to be a twist 🎶 He's an Uncle Wizard 🎵 Aslan is fucking pissed...🎶

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Peter Murphy @peterkmurphy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

There's many things wrong with this, but it's the transparent ballot boxes that stand out for me. Has the Russian government ever heard of this thing called "secret ballot"? I doubt it would pass muster with the Australian Electoral Commission.

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Peter Murphy @peterkmurphy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Salary caps sounds like a particularly USA problem. Other countries have no problems paying senior public servants more than their politicians. The Australian PM gets 600K AUD/yr. His cabinet secretary gets 1M AUD/yr. (Whether you get value for money is a separate question.)

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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026

Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!

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Peter Murphy @peterkmurphy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Sorry - I meant "one child families", which is even more dramatic.

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Peter Murphy @peterkmurphy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

You're on the money, Mark. (And even many migrants aren't having that many kids either. In 90s, houses got down to 3 bedrooms, but the amount of one-parent families these days means the spares are used for offices/study rooms/toy rooms, and so on.)

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Peter Murphy @peterkmurphy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I'd actually like to expand the number of countries where visitor visas aren't necessary at all. Yes, I'd include VN.

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Peter Murphy @peterkmurphy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Here's my policy for the Greens - make all entry visas cheaper and easier to access. (And that includes Visitor visa 600, for the record.)

As it says: Key Findings: Australia Visa Fee Increases from 2015 to 2026 for Student 500, Partner 820, Skilled 189 and Graduate 485. Going up from left to right, but really climbing after 2022, when the ALP got elected, and accelerating upwards in 2025.

Generated by Mistral AI, so numbers could be shaky. But it does seem to point to what's happening.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

this is the most mental energy I've given to either Macklemore or Ed Sheeran in my life but I am REALLY interested to see whether the trend of other artists dropping out continues to the point where this tour becomes radioactive for everyone still involved, possibly up to and including Ed

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Peter Murphy @peterkmurphy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

In normal countries, "public office serves as a means to extraordinary wealth" is called corruption.

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Peter Murphy @peterkmurphy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The setting moon, with Venus just behind it.

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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Here's a French video (with English subtitles) about what would happen if the far-right racists got their way and all foreigners and people of colour were forced to leave.

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Peter Murphy @peterkmurphy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It's like asking "Can an entire global ecosystem evolve to adapt to the Chicxulub asteriod impact?" You know what the answer is going to be.

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Rachel Greenham @strangenoises.org · 08/09/2026

everywhere but africa we're a runaway invasive species.

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Peter Murphy @peterkmurphy.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Arguments about the "Media" are a distraction from what's happening in my party: we're too boring and we don't cut through. Mass media is biased, but mass media isn't so mass these days; folk don't get their news from TV or newspapers so much these day. Kos Samaras sounds mostly on the money.

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Peter Murphy @peterkmurphy.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

That's Brisbane, where everyone's favorite season - Spring - feels like the shortest. It's already 31.8° in Ipswich.

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Peter Murphy @peterkmurphy.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The Electoral College is dodgy, but I think he and his fellow Republicans benefit more from the crooked and widespread gerrymandering found in the United States.

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Peter Murphy @peterkmurphy.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I think Sami Shah's criticism holds up quite well, honestly. www.crikey.com.au/2026/07/17/a...

Context lost

The media has given the royal commission’s first interim report similar treatment to allegations of bias in ABC and SBS coverage. It contains 14 recommendations, five of them confidential, largely concerned with security, policing, counterterrorism coordination, firearms and the failures surrounding the Bondi attack.

The Spectator Australia complained that it was “the report that won’t name the problem“, arguing that the inquiry’s commitment to social cohesion prevented it from identifying radical Islam and its alliance with the hard left as the true drivers of antisemitism.

At the other end of the ideological horseshoe, The Shot — an attempt at a satirical website for people who found Facebook comments insufficiently moderated — published “The royal commission into the hurt feelings of genocidal psychopaths“, followed last week by “Updates from the Royal Commission into the selective outrage of Zionists“.

One side thinks the commission is concealing the truth to protect Muslims. The other thinks it is manufacturing a lie to protect Zionists. Social cohesion has been achieved, provided social cohesion means everyone agrees that a sinister religious minority is secretly controlling the process and merely disagrees over which minority.

These framings are not morally equivalent. The Spectator’s determination to explain Australian antisemitism primarily through radical Islam can obscure neo-Nazis, conspiracy movements, white nationalism and antisemitism on the non-Islamist left. But The Shot responding to an inquiry dominated by Jewish Australians describing abuse by collectively presenting them as genocidal psychopaths is not media criticism either. The headlines I’ve cited are practically demonstrations of antisemitism.

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Peter Murphy @peterkmurphy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Trump hates preferential voting is crooked. I'm not surprised. Adding more than one number on a ballot paper would be too suspiciously over-complicated for him.

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Peter Murphy @peterkmurphy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Things have changed in the last 60 years if locals are restricting the R&R that visiting US service people can get up to. Sounds like a good thing, but how are they going to police it? Ban farangs with American accents? thethaiger.com/news/pattaya...

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US Navy face Pattaya Walking Street time limit, cannabis shop ban, restricted zones

US Navy Pattaya visit brings restricted areas, a 2am Walking Street limit and warnings on prostitution and sexual exploitation.

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Peter Murphy @peterkmurphy.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This is not quite "Kristina Keneally chosen as the candidate for Fowler over more deserving local members" levels of ALP cynicism. But it's up there.

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Peter Murphy @peterkmurphy.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Speaking of which, Prince has a new, posthumous, album out - to my surprise. music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Timeless

Album • Prince

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Peter Murphy @peterkmurphy.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I know Katseye, as daughter (12) asked to see their documentary on her birthday. It made me think they were over-sexualized and over-exploited. Someone should tell the members about Dolly Parton: how the royalties from composing 5,000 songs made her a wealthy woman. It'll be a learning experience.

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