polqat @polq.at · 03/10/2026Labor rusted-ons who say Greens will never get more than 12% of the vote, when Greens get a new leader or policy: #auspol 142
polqat @polq.at · 02/10/2026Israeli media superb on potential deaths of its own citizens. Not so good on actual deaths caused by its own citizens... #auspol 43313
polqat @polq.at · 02/10/2026"To the millions of people in this country and indeed elsewhere who have been moved and outraged by the plight of the Palestinian people, we hear you. You were right!" 172
polqat @polq.at · 01/10/2026Are you a grown adult with an embarrassing problem? Do you get irrationally angry & need to yell at a political party that holds only 12% of the vote but the key to a liveable planet? Luckily there's now a number you can call! The Greens Political Party Helpline is here to tolerate you… #auspol 15418
polqat @polq.at · 28/09/2026Alan Kohler did the cartoon #auspol #AI "markets around the world have been rising, defying the rise in global bond yields, which is normally bad news for shares. But this time is different because of AI, which will apparently kill us all. But for a brief glorious moment, everyone will get rich." 141
polqat @polq.at · 16/09/2026Chris Bowen being patronising, first worldsplaining, and speaking for Vanuatu's Ralph Regenvanu @rregenvanu.bsky.social youtu.be/DfKLi8ttPm0 131
polqat @polq.at · 05/09/2026Van Jackson provides a great explanation of the fascism that is occurring in America, but can equally apply to Australia too. At the 24 minute and 10 second mark, but watch the whole episode featuring @boganintel.bsky.social as well. #auspol 0105
![Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS
[Redacted Friend's Name]: What?
How'd you manage that one?
Zuck: People just submitted it.
Zuck: I don't know why.
Zuck: They "trust me"
Zuck: Dumb fucks.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:was6sb2uub3upqlabkpminek/bafkreiebaejybukc7tmacc4x7n3sl6zljuop47xr3tuf6nwt774ysve5ku)
![Who knew?
Some colonists saw clearly what was happening on the frontier. Edward Wilson, editor of the Argus newspaper lamented in an editorial in 1856:
In less than twenty years we have nearly swept them [First Peoples] off the face of the earth. We have shot them down like dogs. In the guise of friendship we have issued corrosive sublimate in their damper and consigned whole tribes to the agonies of an excruciating death. We have made them drunkards, and infected them with diseases which have rotted the bones of their adults, and made such few children as are born amongst them a sorrow and a torture from the very instant of their birth. We have made them outcasts on their own land, and are rapidly consigning them to entire annihilation.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:was6sb2uub3upqlabkpminek/bafkreifq6ey6gnl2jgfavjnifrczbfkyxlm2jtmztplpm4eieldqdnxpuq)