Reposted by @rfig.bsky.socialPaul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Corruption Corruption wherever you look 🙄🤬 12016
Reposted by @rfig.bsky.socialstranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Greg Sheridan on Insiders says he doesn’t want US AI firms held legally accountable for hacking Australians because then “they won’t come here." Apparently adding AI regulations to keep Australians safe is an act of “self sabotage” 🙄 Absolute bootlicking trash on ABC. #auspol 46282101
Reposted by @rfig.bsky.socialKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 26/09/2026The NSW Department of Planning skipped consultation when issuing application rules for a proposed gas-fired power plant to run a data centre campus in the Southern Highlands. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...abc.net.auNSW Planning fails to consult key agencies over data centre gas plantThe NSW Department of Planning has admitted it made an error when it skipped consultation with key agencies regarding a proposal for a major gas plant to power data centres. 36427
Reposted by @rfig.bsky.socialKatie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility 5776502129
Reposted by @rfig.bsky.socialRex Patrick @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social · 25/09/2026UN AI scientific panel: “There is no assurance that humans can reliably keep AI agents under control today, particularly as they become more capable, harder to monitor and better at finding loopholes or hiding their activity” #auspoltheguardian.comOpenAI hack on Australian government reveals anxiety at heart of global artificial intelligence dilemmaAs the UN warns traditional safeguards are ‘unravelling’, Donald Trump says he will encourage, not restrain, the AI race 22114
Reposted by @rfig.bsky.socialCAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026NEW: OpenAI's agents also tried unsuccessfully to hack another Australian government agency, say researchers who believe this is "first reported instance of agents hacking a government". They claim bots left traces of trying to exploit a vulnerability on the AIHW website www.abc.net.au/news/... 23410
Reposted by @rfig.bsky.socialMichael Dowling aka MeckeringBoy @meckeringboy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026It time to make the fossil fuel companies pay for the damage they do (and have done) and for the decommissioning, removal, restoration, rehabilitation that should be their responsibility 100%. Make the polluters pay. No more public money for fossil fuels. 14115
Reposted by @rfig.bsky.social3wombats @3wombats.bsky.social · 24/09/2026These arseholes never clean up after themselves 1917150
Reposted by @rfig.bsky.socialPaul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The depth of Israel's international isolation is difficult to fathom if you're just watching mainstream media. But these images do not lie. Look at all these delegates leaving the General Assembly in protest as soon as Netanyahu takes the podium... 20192110
Reposted by @rfig.bsky.socialDeepcut News @deepcutnews.bsky.social · 23/09/2026For the first time, an Australian court has heard expert evidence linking Pine Gap to Israel's atrocities. Prof Richard Tanter tendered a 34-page report to the Alice Springs Local Court in a case involving two protestors. www.deepcutnews.com/p/pine-gap-l...deepcutnews.comPine Gap linked to Israel’s atrocities, NT court toldExpert evidence was tabled in the defence of two protestors charged for an offence at the US spy base 5113103
Reposted by @rfig.bsky.socialSandy Horne @sandyhorne.bsky.social · 21/09/2026ABC's Australian Story tonight was excellent. It's about Australia's first Indigenous ophthalmologist. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...abc.net.auEyes on the Prize | Kris Rallah-BakerFollow the latest headlines from ABC News, Australia's most trusted media source, with live events, audio and on-demand video from the national broadcaster. 412728
Reposted by @rfig.bsky.socialLynnette Dobson . Because truth is golden.🔑 @lynnettedobson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Source: Sydney Criminal Lawyers The premier of NSW has been referred over claims he’s been pressuring police to suppress “lawful public assemblies” when he doesn’t agree with what’s being voiced. Sue Higgisom is right to proceed here . #Auspol www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/nsw-pre....sydneycriminallawyers.com.auNSW Premier Chris Minns Has Been Referred to the State Police WatchdogNSW Greens MLC Sue Higginson referred the premier over claims he has been pressuring police to suppress “lawful public assemblies” when he doesn’t agree with what’s being voiced. 13017
Reposted by @rfig.bsky.socialNick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Another one to add to the politician’s bullshit phrases list: “What I WILL say…” (ie I’m not answering the question you asked, instead I’m rolling out my talking points). 57727
Reposted by @rfig.bsky.socialThe Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 15/09/2026It's time to put it to the people. Join the call for a plebiscite on a 25% gas export tax! ✍️ Sign the petition: gas-plebiscite.australiainstitute.org.augas-plebiscite.australiainstitute.org.auA National Plebiscite for a 25% Gas Export TaxVoters across the political spectrum support a 25% tax on gas exports. So, let's put it to the people. Join the call for a national plebiscite and let Australians decide. 2136
rfig.bsky.social @rfig.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Lol. It's self serve now. Recently went through shoe boxes finding sizes and trying them on. 011
Reposted by @rfig.bsky.socialThe Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 11/09/2026Labor has backed down on requiring gas exporters to reserve 20% of their exports for Australians. Now they'll only have to reserve UP TO 20%. Reminder: 'up to 20%' includes 0%. 🫠 #auspol @richarddenniss.bsky.social 2114791
Reposted by @rfig.bsky.socialKasey Jones @nikitairoh.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Your beliefs begin and end with you. Let people be. 1199
Reposted by @rfig.bsky.socialMichael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 10/09/2026The former chief executive of the National Disability Insurance Agency now runs Australia’s largest NDIS equipment retailer. michaelwest.com.au/inside-job-how-f… 812169
Reposted by @rfig.bsky.socialRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Enjoy weekends? Thank a union. (Miss you, Dolly.) 10475601836
Reposted by @rfig.bsky.socialPeter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Huge congratulations to the wonderful @davidshoebridge.bsky.social and the @greens.org.au for THIS 👇 important win. Outstanding. #auspol #Coles #Palantir 818750
Reposted by @rfig.bsky.socialLucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Absolute perfection from @cathywilcox.bsky.social #Auspol 4173101
Reposted by @rfig.bsky.socialAl Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 05/09/2026Israeli forces bar Israeli and Palestinian activists from delivering food and medicine to homes besieged by settlers.aljazeera.comIsraeli police kill Palestinian in Jerusalem as army blocks aid for QusraIsraeli forces bar Israeli and Palestinian activists from delivering food and medicine to homes besieged by settlers. 13132112
Reposted by @rfig.bsky.socialKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 02/09/2026Just so SO infuriating. You have to hold up and orient a smartphone to record! It doesn't need a recording light because it has a clear physical signal! These people are such liars! 918233
Reposted by @rfig.bsky.socialMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Octavia E. Butler’s novel “Parable of the Talents” depicts a dystopian United States run by Christian Nationalists. Their slogan is “Make America Great Again.” Published in 1998, many years before Trump’s political career, but this poem in the book prophesied Trump. (Poem from @zymplex.bsky.social) 541963740
Reposted by @rfig.bsky.socialThe Saturday Paper @thesaturdaypaper.com.au · 28/08/2026Albanese locked in Scott Morrison's grotesquely unfair GST deal for Western Australia and allowed fossil fuels to underpin a rapid rollout of data centres in Queensland and the Northern Territory. It was not a good week in Australian politics. trib.al/iQ8iNPvtrib.alAnthony Albanese’s rough weekIt wasn’t a great week for politics and policy in Australia. A grotesquely unfair special GST deal for Western Australia, originally crafted by Scott Morrison, was cemented in by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, despite advice that it’s a stinker and should be reversed. 12513
Reposted by @rfig.bsky.socialBill Browne @browne90.bsky.social · 27/08/2026... and it generally costs between $1,500 and $5,000 to get access to a federal minister. www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...smh.com.auLeaked emails reveal how much it costs to dine with Albanese and senior MPsLeaked emails reveal Labor is raising hundreds of thousands of dollars through its Federal Business Forum while it prepares a donations crackdown. 163
Reposted by @rfig.bsky.socialBill Browne @browne90.bsky.social · 27/08/2026One of the effects of the rushed Labor-Liberal deal to change Australia's election laws is that many cash-for-access payments will go unreported. Labor agreed to lift the disclosure threshold from $1,000 in the draft to $5,000 in the final version ... australiainstitute.org.au/post/stich-u...australiainstitute.org.au"Stitch up" Labor and Coalition Deal on Electoral ReformLast night, Liberal Senator Jane Hume announced they’d done a deal with the Albanese Labor Government on electoral laws – and some twelve hours later, it 175
Reposted by @rfig.bsky.socialBill Browne @browne90.bsky.social · 27/08/2026"Any money being paid to dine with the PM should be a matter of public record – why is it a secret?" Geoffrey Watson in @australia.theguardian.com on Anthony Albanese's cash-for-access dinners. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...theguardian.comIt shouldn’t be a secret who the prime minister has dinner with, and what was discussed. Australians deserve to know | Geoffrey WatsonAny money being paid to dine with Anthony Albanese should be a matter of public record 21712
Reposted by @rfig.bsky.socialProfessor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 27/08/2026If you want to be taken seriously as a journalist, don't let politicians perpetuate historical myths and lies. Like it's really not that hard to fact check this stuff and then ask hard and inconvenient questions of politicians speaking nonsense during interviews. 18133
Reposted by @rfig.bsky.socialGlen @gergyl.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Is our ABC replaying this one? www.deepcutnews.com/p/segals-pla...deepcutnews.comThe new McCarthyism: Gaza and Australia – Richard FlanaganThis is the full text of a powerful speech Flanagan delivered at the the Festival of Dangerous Ideas on August 22 34117
Reposted by @rfig.bsky.socialannbrigid.eurosky.social @annbrigid.eurosky.social · 25/08/2026People don’t understand disability in general. They can’t picture it, don’t picture it (even more so for themselves). Until it happens (for some). And the shock can be brutal. 1286
Reposted by @rfig.bsky.socialThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 25/08/2026Bird flu is sweeping across Australia, devastating its unique birds and mammals, many of which are found nowhere else in the world. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/w... 50546259
Reposted by @rfig.bsky.socialProfessor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Lots of workplaces, including mine, have mandatory conflict of interest and anti-corruption training. Meanwhile, in the halls of parliament... 37022
Reposted by @rfig.bsky.socialBethany Williams @bethanyincbr.bsky.social · 25/08/2026I love the politicians who are calling a genocide a genocide & a Zionist a Zionist. Zionists want to pretend that political speech is antisemitic. The majority of Australians have called BS on this, & have had enough of Zionists influencing our government. Well written, @nickmckim.bsky.social 12318120
Reposted by @rfig.bsky.socialProf Samantha Thomas @docsamantha.bsky.social · 20/08/2026“Minister I think many people take offence when the government just makes … stuff up.” #auspol 59948
Reposted by @rfig.bsky.socialAndrew Wilkie MP @andrewwilkiemp.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Three times I’ve introduced a Human Rights Bill. Three times the major parties didn’t support it. A petition signed by over 50,000 Australians demands better. Aus mustn’t remain the only liberal democracy without comprehensive national human rights protections. #auspol #politas 0242115
Reposted by @rfig.bsky.socialKiera Lord @cratesmith.bsky.social · 18/08/2026No fuckwit voting for this knows how hard it is to get support from the NDIS. How fucking impossible it is to constantly prove you still need that support, while at the same time being responsible for chasing down any mistakes the NDIA has made. But you need it so you force yourself to. 34117
Reposted by @rfig.bsky.socialTim Baxter @timinclimate.naruresearch.com.au · 19/08/2026As the government passes cuts to the life-changing and life-saving disability services that your friends and family rely on, please know that the same government is also giving a half billion dollar fossil fuel subsidy to an already vastly profitable mining company that did nothing to deserve it. 213795
Reposted by @rfig.bsky.socialSimon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 12/08/2026This is the latest map of Australia showing the distribution of major non-renewable energy resources by geological basin or deposit. When asked to rank top priorities during high economic pressure, climate change falls down the ranks. Source: buff.ly/nSMZARu 11410
Reposted by @rfig.bsky.socialKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 11/08/2026I don't even need to say it really but....this is very good :) :) 621677
Reposted by @rfig.bsky.socialSimon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 07/08/2026We've had months of legacy media frothing about modest cuts to tax breaks for the wealthy. Great that @news.abc.net.au highlights the reality for those forced to live in #poverty. But misses a key point: this obscene policy failure has had bipartisan support for decades. #inequality #auspol 37738
Reposted by @rfig.bsky.socialAsher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 05/08/2026lol at Coles suddenly sending a letter to Getup demanding they take down digital ads about Coles surveillance data partnership with Palantir because it featured footage of a Coles staff member and “breached their privacy” 416552
Reposted by @rfig.bsky.socialProfessor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Yet again, @albomp.bsky.social's @australianlabor.bsky.social would seemingly prefer to put big business first, no matter the devastating harm it causes to Australian families and children www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08.... Again we ask, who do you serve, Albo?abc.net.auGambling ad reforms at risk as Labor draws line on major changesLabor is unlikely to entertain major changes to its gambling ad crackdown despite the bill being 'friendless' in parliament. 910846
Reposted by @rfig.bsky.socialGreg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Sorry RBA, but mortgages going up DOES affect the cost of living. My column www.theguardian.com/business/gro...theguardian.comThe RBA says rate rises don’t really increase living costs. But the data is clear – they very much do | Greg JerichoThe latest cost of living figures show interest rate rises are having an impact on household costs, despite what the central bank says 3825077
Reposted by @rfig.bsky.socialstranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Sarah Hanson-Young savages Sportsbet GM Jules Norton Selzer after he refuses to answer whether they've ever returned money to victims after it’s found to have been stolen. SHY “I have to take that as a No”💥 Is it because they thrive on criminal money? Shocking. 21319140
Reposted by @rfig.bsky.socialstranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Sarah Hanson-Young left gobsmacked as ACMA admits they provide no policy advice on gambling ads, or how to tackle the harm of inducements, bcoz it’s a “matter of policy - for govt” SHY “But policy is based on advice...”💥 Not just toothless, also muzzled. 1122786
