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Richard Brimble

@rich-b.bsky.social
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Sydney Swans tragic. Metal maniac. Father to two dogs and two humans. Living on Darkinjung Country.

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Richard Brimble @rich-b.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
This reads as though the cost of those in SIL’s needs to be slashed. However not one person living in a SIL wants to be there. Those people need support, it’s a non negotiable www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...
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Crackdown on unregistered NDIS providers coming in bid to save $6b a year
NDIS Minister Mark Butler will announce reforms to the disability scheme on Wednesday that will aim to save more than $6 billion a year by 2035 — and the largely unregulated market of NDIS providers i...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
When oligarchs talk of “personal liberties and free markets” they mean their own liberties to become even richer and more powerful. When oligarchs speak of “freedom,” what they actually seek is freedom from accountability. Know the truth.
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Mary Marjorie @marymarj.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
They wore Israeli flags on their lapels & screamed at the Prime Minister for being circumspect after a terror attack - but will take a stand on "principle" AGAINST hate laws" and gun control? I don't understand? 🤔 Are these the hypocrites who many journalists called genuine? #auspol
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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Gotta say, it’s apt - even just - that the first parties burnt by the grotesque politicisation of Bondi are those who fanned the flames in the first place.
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Threat of Coalition split as three Nationals quit opposition frontbench
Three Nationals senators have resigned from the Coalition’s shadow cabinet following their split with the Liberals over hate laws, in the latest blow to Opposition Leader Sussan Ley.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Swalwell: He couldn't run a casino, and now he's going to run a country in South America while he fails to run a country in North America?
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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
it's time to play America's favorite new game, 'what the fuck am I waking up to now'
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 03/01/2026
BREAKING: The United States appears to have begun bombing Venezuela. Massive airstrikes are underway. War is here.
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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
"I'm a proud Muslim, coloured boy from Pakistan, who was told that he would never play for the Australian cricket team. Look at me now. And you can do the same." What a legend. Thank you, Usman.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Be aware - pretty much everyone in the press gallery calling for a Royal Commission into antisemitism is doing it because they are completely annoyed the government is not "listen to meeeeeeeeee".
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Cheryl Kernot @cherylkernot.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
A good read, Barry. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/20892/...
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How Labor factions actually work
Laws are like sausages. It is best not to see them made.                                  – Attributed to Otto von Bismarck During the turbulent but productive Whitlam era, every caucus meeting was a ...
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David Leavitt @davidleavitt.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Repost if you agree
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Jane Caro @janecaro.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
At risk of being rude, have others noticed the extreme irony of the National Party (self declared ‘friend of farmers’) breaking up the coalition because they oppose Net Zero while Australia languishes under extreme floods in NSW and extreme drought everywhere else? No? Just me, then?
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dee_le_brun @deelebrun.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
What do these Liberal Leaders have in common? Menzies, Holt, Gorton, McMahon, Sneddon, Peacock, Howard, Hewson, Downer, Nelson, Turnbull, Abbott and Dutton. They all held seats that are no longer represented by the Liberal Party. #auspol #LNP
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Anthony Klan @anthonyklan.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
It's always hardest on the children...
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Richard Brimble @rich-b.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Nats playing hard ball
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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 16/05/2025
“Poor man wanna be rich. Rich man wanna be king. The king ain’t satisfied ‘til he rules everything.”—Springsteen, Badlands
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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 17/05/2025
Be proud. Proud of whom you love. Proud of who you are. Proud of who you are becoming. Because your journey is your power. Always remember: Europe is your ally. I am your ally. This week and every week. Be proud. Always.
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Eric Bananarama @ericbanana.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Half a million Gazans are living in ‘catastrophic’ hunger. The Gaza Strip is likely to fall into famine if Israel doesn’t lift its blockade & stop its military campaign, food security experts have said in a stark warning. Thread .. 🧵 #auspol @albomp.bsky.social
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Half a million Gazans are living in ‘catastrophic’ hunger. Experts warn it’s likely to get worse
The Gaza Strip is at high risk of falling into “outright famine” if Israel doesn’t lift its blockade, food security experts warn.
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 12/05/2025
A gas exploration drilling rig has appeared within sight of one of Australia’s most loved natural wonders, the 12 Apostles. We don’t need to turn our iconic natural wonders into gas fields. We need to prioritise Australians over exports. @emmashortis.bsky.social went to take a look ⤵️
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There's a huge new gas rig looming over our 12 Apostles
YouTube video by The Australia Institute
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Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Happy Mother’s Day www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...
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Israel is keeping up its blockade of aid as kids starve to death
As the total ban on any humanitarian aid entering Gaza stretches into its third month, doctors warn babies are starving in hospitals.
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Louise Milligan @milliganreports.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Laura: “The Coalition resorted to anti-immigration sentiment, attempted to fuel irritation with welcomes to country…spoke about a woke school curriculum & raged about hate media. It prosecuted all these points with.. support of News Corp's newspapers &..Sky News. newsapp.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...
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This election result shows Labor learned a lesson that the Coalition did not - ABC News
The comprehensive nature of this win gives Anthony Albanese the chance to change the narrative of our politics.
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Richard Brimble @rich-b.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
It has been so long since we have not had culture wars or grievances dominating our politics — or its undertones — it is hard to imagine what it might look like. It opens up the scope for rational discussion about policy at a time when we need it. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...
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Beyond Dutton's loss, this is a chance for a new type of politics in Australia
The comprehensive nature of this win gives Anthony Albanese the chance to change the narrative of our politics.
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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Oh lordy, Jacinta Price. What a fiasco. Just a melange of slogans. Literally saying Aboriginal people should be heard after helping to defeat The Voice.
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Richard Brimble @rich-b.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
End of an era!!
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Casualties in World War II: Soviet Union: 26,600,000. United States: 407,316. And the Russians got to Berlin first. So, no, the United States did not do "more than any other Country, by far, in producing a victorious result 'on' World War II." That is just propaganda.
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Richard Brimble @rich-b.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Happy election day to all those who celebrate. #auspol
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Louise Milligan @milliganreports.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
This politics nerd is looking forward to the carnival tomorrow, come what may. It’s our Christmas, once every three years. Should be every four & fixed terms, but that’s another conversation. We’re so lucky in Aus to have compulsory voting, preferential system. Happy election all. #auspol 🌭🌭🌭🍿🍿🍿
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/04/2025
it really is astounding that a presidential administration crashed the growth trajectory of the wealthiest country on the planet in basically two months
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Victoria Fielding @drvicfielding.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Catholic Schools should not be allowed to lobby parents to get them to vote Liberal. If you don’t agree with me, imagine the uproar if a public school emailed parents urging them to vote Labor. It is outrageous and unethical, and these schools should be totally ashamed for doing this.
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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
America is not a Christian nation. America is a nation where the rich and powerful have reduced Christianity to just another tool to exploit for their own interests at the expense of the very people Jesus called us to serve: the poor, the hungry, the sick, the stranger, and the oppressed.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 30/04/2025
punching up is so much fun
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💧Bee - Difficult 🐝🌿❤ @belindajones68.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
As the federal election day draws closer, so too does the retirement of Australia's preeminent psephologist, @antonygreenelec.bsky.social Thank you Antony for your amazing work over the yrs, I'll miss you very much, wishing you all the very best 🐝 #auspol #ausvotes #AusVotes2025
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Zali Steggall @zalisteggall.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Voters deserve better than spam texts and misinformation. I've long called for truth in political advertising laws and a ban on unsolicited political messages. It's time our electoral laws caught up with community expectations. #IntegrityInPolitics #AusPol #VoterProtections
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
"Our mainstream media have manufactured public consent to the genocide. ...Tens of thousands of children, women and men have been killed. The media doesn’t care. Perhaps because most are brown Muslims. We owe it to them to continue undeterred." @johnmenadue.com johnmenadue.com/post/2025/04...
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Message from the editor-in-chief: Genocide is not newsworthy in The Australian
Our mainstream media have manufactured public consent to the genocide.The Australian has become a parody of a newspaper.
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Richard Brimble @rich-b.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Be good if men stopped choosing to kill women. Sure public transport on the coast could be better, but let’s talk about the actual problem.
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Richard Brimble @rich-b.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
A true ally ~ Warren Entsch. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...
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The 1980s reunion in a small town pub that changed Australia's future
A crocodile wrangler from the country may sound like an unlikely advocate for LGBTQIA+ Australians in parliament. But Warren Entsch is just that — and it all started in a pub.
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Wendy Harmer @wendyharmer.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Note to Gina Rinehart. Stand for office in a free and fair election. See how you get on. Otherwise, STFU.
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Ian Graves @xskinn.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Sorry Uncle Mark. Ian #AnzacDay2025
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Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) 🦠🤧🧬📑🦟🧀 @mackayim.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
The Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) has excellent "Practice voting" pages for Senate and House of Representatives ballots, allowing you to ensure your vote is correctly filled out on the day, qavoiding and invalid vote. ✒️ www.aec.gov.au/Voting/How_t... ✒️ www.aec.gov.au/Voting/How_t...
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Practise voting - Senate
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KD📚🌎🌊🇺🇸 @kdnerak33.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Those who seek to create registries of people with disabilities are never on the right side of history.
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samtay.bsky.social @samtay.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
#NewsBreakfast glad they mentioned child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church. We must never forget the vast wealth they used to fight Pell’s imprisonment in the High Court. That pope would have approved all those funds to protect a peadophile #auspol
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
If Dutton is serious about a 'powerful deterrent' to child sex offending, he could commit to taking away tax deductibility from churches and other institutions responsible for the care of children, until they can prove they are safe. #ausvotes #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Coalition says a national sex offender register would be a ‘powerful deterrent’. How would it work, and why now?
Proposed 12-month trial would be based on models in WA and UK and overseen by Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission
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Richard Brimble @rich-b.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
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Mike Carlton @mikecarlton01.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Hang on. The Orange Oaf said he’d end the war within 24 hours of getting back in the White House.
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‘Get it done’: Trump threatens to abandon Russia-Ukraine peace efforts
Over the past few weeks, US officials have acknowledged privately that the chances of a quick peace deal in Ukraine have grown elusive.
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Richard Brimble @rich-b.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Umpires ruining this already awful game. #crowsgiants
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Richard Brimble @rich-b.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Giants working hard to make the Crows look good here #afl
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Before the election, I warned that there is no safe haven under authoritarianism. If they can ship Kilmar Abrego Garcia to a foreign prison—accused of no crime, with no trial—they can do it to anyone. Americans of conscience must stand against this now.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Hey, do you know what you call a guy who never admits a mistake, who becomes President of the United States by never admitting a mistake, who then convinces his entire presidential administration to never admit—let alone correct—any mistake, leading to innocents getting life sentences? A sociopath.
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Gerald Butts @gmbutts.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Keep on rocking in the free world. ✌️ m.neilyoungarchives.com/news/4/artic...
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Richard Brimble @rich-b.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Glad NDIA have caught this monster. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...
abc.net.au
How a man under investigation for fraud built an NDIS empire
On the western outskirts of Melbourne, where the paddocks meet new homes, lies the centre of an alleged NDIS fraudster's network.
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