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Robert Long

@rlong62.bsky.social
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Public Education Union organiser and teacher TAFE NSW.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The world is 700% richer than in 1970 but the average person is only 8% richer. Because the richest 0.01% are 4000% richer. We are all being robbed every second of every day, and it doesn't matter how much profit or growth there is. It will never reach you.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
My summary of how I would give this speech were I Minister for Employment. Mutual obligations are bullshit. Privatized employment services are cruel. Jobseeker payments are cruel magnified.
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John Lipponen 🇫🇮 🇦🇹 @lippoenen.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 19/10/2025
This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings
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❤️OccupyOneLove❤️ @occupyonelove.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
🐸🦖🦚🦈🐼 We are Americans We are No-Kings Patriots We refuse to hate back We are Americans Country over party Constitution Rule of Law Community Fairness Love 🌻 Bring your costume or inflata Make it fun Stay safe #resist #nokings #protest #vote #inflata #elections #epstein
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Robert Long @rlong62.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
The workers need a fair deal - please sign: www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/fa...
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Fair deal for Timber Workers
On Father's Day this year, the NSW Government announced the creation of the Great Koala National Park by locking up 176000ha of working forest. The next day, me and my workmates (and people at 5 othe...
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Robert Long @rlong62.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Join your union. A good news story for NSW TAFE teachers. These wage theft cases for Union members take months to resolve, but help to ensure other teachers don’t suffer the same loss of income. join.nswtf.org.au www.nswtf.org.au/news/2025/09...
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Have you been underpaid too?
TAFE members have won more than $300k of backpay in the past four months thanks to the NSWTF’s work to resolve issues concerning significant underpayments.
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Robert Long @rlong62.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Changes to capital gains tax and negative gearing are not the only things needed to solve Australia’s housing crisis, but they’re the cornerstones of any approach capable of arresting the raging home price growth that is making a bad problem rapidly worse. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/21465/...
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The cunning design of Labor’s housing policy
Got $75,000 and never owned a home? The Albanese government is here to underwrite your $1.5 million Sydney property purchase through its newly relaxed and expanded Home Guarantee Scheme. First-home bu...
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Robert Long @rlong62.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
The first intergenerational report prepared by Treasury was published in 2002 – all the problems that are now WERE PREDICTED “intergenerational bastardry”. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The Australian concept of a ‘fair go’ is a furphy – especially when it comes to tax, education and care
For years, policymakers and politicians thought they could square the circle: a market-driven economy with a robust social safety net. But that has become harder
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Robert Long @rlong62.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
This Wed 3rd Sept 2025 is our opportunity to recognise and celebrate the efforts of TAFE students, teachers, and support staff for their contributions to our local communities, workforce and economy
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Antoinette Lattouf @antoinettelattouf.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
I’m confused: did a memo go out this week saying it’s finally okay for politicians and the press to be outraged that Israel is starving Palestinians? If so, I didn’t see the memo. But I did see the evidence of this war crime back in late 2023. Where are we at? Starving is bad, bombing is ok?
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
The Israeli Ambassador to Australia should not still be here.
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Rick Morton @squigglyrick.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
The curious case of the disappearing smoking data. The Roy Morgan release was unequivocal: smoking rates among young adults are up after vaping ban which had "demonstrably failed". And then it disappeared and was replaced with something more amenable. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/health/...
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Exclusive: Smoking data taken down after link to vape ban
A report showing increased smoking and vaping among young Australians was pulled after it embarrassed the government and led to complaints from other researchers.
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
🧵 What Zohran says.
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NTEU ACT @nteuact.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
"I'm furious on behalf of my colleagues. I'm furious about the way they've been treated and how it suggests we have to compete with each other. "But, we're sticking together." @nteunion.bsky.social members stand together against #ANU cuts.
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'Awful': Amelia's in an ANU redundancy pool with two close colleagues
The Australian National University announces more staff cuts across academic and professional roles, as part of its broader goal to save $250 million by the end of the year.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Authoritarians depend on fear. Democracy depends on each other.
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Robert Long @rlong62.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Very clever political cartoon about the top 1% loud scare campaign about paying little extra tax. @GoldingCartoons
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Captain Quoll @kudelka.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
This graph is remarkably straightforward.
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Robert Long @rlong62.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Superannuation stoush “If we can’t even roll back tax concessions for which, everyone agrees, there’s no policy intent or purpose, that is only going to affect 0.5 per cent of Australians, then what hope have we got of getting more serious tax reform up?” www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politic...
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Super stoush reveals teals’ leanings
The attacks on Labor’s proposed superannuation tax reform have exposed inconsistencies in the progressive agendas of the independents.
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Sydney Knitting Nannas and Friends @knitnannassyd.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Help Murray Watt to choose the future and world heritage over Woodside's 4.3 billion tonnes of climate emissions. knittingnannas.org/2025/05/26/a...
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Action of the Week 25 May 2025
In the next week Murray Watt plans to make a very big and consequential decision about the North West Shelf gas project. He’s brand new in the Environment job but hasn’t spoken to the Traditional O…
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Rob Arnol @robertarnol.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05... Remember, it took just 72 years from the beginning of the colonisation of Tasmania to the death of Truganini.
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They resisted the world's most powerful empire, but are not recognised
They fought to defend their land, families and culture, and drove the colonial powers to a state of panic, losing everything in the process. But Tasmanian Aboriginal resistance warriors still have no ...
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ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Decades after Aboriginal families were forcibly relocated from their homes on the banks of the Murray River at Robinvale, the community is working to reclaim the site through an annual cultural event.
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River of tears now brims with hope as traditions pass to new generation
Decades after Aboriginal families were forcibly relocated from their homes on the banks of the Murray River at Robinvale, the community is working to reclaim the site through an annual cultural event.
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Owen From Ohio @owenfromohio.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
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Robert Long @rlong62.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Exclusive: How Abbott and Credlin control the Liberals www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politic... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au
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Exclusive: How Abbott and Credlin control the Liberals
Liberal MPs reveal how the former prime minister and his close confidante have been at the centre of a string of disastrous decisions that led to the party’s stunning election loss and the collapse of...
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rb-citizen 🌏🦘 🇵🇸🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🍉 @rb-citizen.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Better tell Albo.
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Robert Long @rlong62.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Leigh continues: “We’re certainly more unequal than we were. “I’d be concerned about consumption inequality, wealth inequality and income inequality. All of those measures have risen over the last generation. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Andrew Leigh says Australia one generation from ‘US-style inequality’ as Productivity Commission targets corporate tax
Of all Andrew Leigh’s many portfolios, he considers productivity the most important. But can the government’s reforms bear fruit by the next election?
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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
After a landslide election win, a newly re-elected Labor Govt ministry has been sworn in. So the first topic of discussion for the panel on last Sunday's #Insiders? The Coalition! *sigh* 8min in and I may have to stop watching. It's insultingly irrelevant. 🙄 #auspol #AusVotes25
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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
SkyAfterDark RWNJ Peta Credlin has called on Labor to stop their Tax on people with $3million+ in Super saying multibillionaire corporate magnate Gerry Harvey has labelled it “stupidity of the highest order” 🤣 I’m liking this tax even more now.
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Jo Dyer @instanterudite.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
This is quite an extraordinary table from Streem showing how many seats each party would have won if their share of seats matched their share of media coverage during the campaign. You're not imagining it. The Murdoch press et al didn't shut up about Dutton. Lucky no-one was listening. #auspol
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Robert Long @rlong62.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
The LNP and the real hate media It should finally be recognised that Sky News and certain newspapers are no longer news services, and they are in part responsible for the resounding thrashing of Peter Dutton and his team www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topi... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au
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The Coalition and the real hate media
As editor of the British tabloid rag The Sun in the 1980s, Kelvin MacKenzie had a favourite description of how to make the lives of public figures unpleasant – his journalists were instructed to “stic...
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Robert Long @rlong62.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
You will not be surprised that @PeterDutton_MP & his LNP COALITION WILL RIP $431 MILLION FROM TAFE students, teachers, support staff and local colleges We must continue the rebuilding of TAFE after the disaster of the last LNP govt #dontriskdutton
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Robert Long @rlong62.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
When will Peter Dutton visit a location where he is proposing a nuclear site? www.skynews.com.au/australia-ne...
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'Absolute muppet': Voters clash with anti-nuclear protesters who delay Dutton press conference
Peter Dutton’s campaign event in the ultra-marginal seat of Gilmore has been interrupted by wild anti-nuclear protesters, causing the Opposition Leader's press conference to be delayed.
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Robert Long @rlong62.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Is Peter Dutton’s leadership weak? Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has refused to say whether a Liberal Party candidate who apologised for derogatory social media posts should be disendorsed ahead of Saturday's federal election. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...
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Dutton won't say if Liberals should dump candidate over offensive posts
In the social media posts, Liberal candidate Vivek Singha used a derogatory term for Indigenous Australians and made disparaging comments towards federal Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek's persona...
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Robert Long @rlong62.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Over more than two decades in parliament, Dutton has assembled extraordinary personal wealth – routed through family trusts, investment companies and real estate deals, most of it invisible to voters. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politic... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au
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How much are Dutton and Taylor actually worth?
The opposition leader and his prospective treasurer are among the richest people to ever sit in parliament – although their wealth is held in a series of complex arrangements that would breach the min...
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Kon Karapanagiotidis @kkarapanagiotidis.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
The ASRC has so far held 4 Federal Election Candidates Forums. All candidates are invited to each forum. Most importantly to give refugees attending a chance to ask each candidate where they stand. For a fourth time in a row the Liberal Party candidate declined to attend.
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Louise Milligan @milliganreports.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
I’ve been working on Monday's election #4Corners. It's a bit spicy. A bit sweary. IMHO, a cracking good watch. Spent some time on the buses. It was... real. Or, to be precise, it wasn't real at all. But insight into a high stakes election in a high stakes world. #auspol
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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Liberal & Labor powerbrokers behind new dark money campaign outfit - adds to far-right Advance Aust - to hit Teals & Greens #auspol #election2025 Investigation by Wendy Bacon & @yaakov-aharon.bsky.social michaelwest.com.au/labor-and-li...
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Dark Money: Labor and Liberal join forces in attacks on Teals and Greens - Michael West
Teals and Greens are under attack from another pro-fossil fuel pro-Israel lobby, as well as far-right lobbyists Advance Australia.
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Robert Long @rlong62.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Don’t Risk Dutton Another back flip. Duttons Coalition confirmed it would axe Labor’s tax breaks for electric vehicle drivers – just two days after he ruled out scrapping it. So tax break for purchasing petrol - no tax break electric cars. Can’t trust Dutton - can’t believe a word Dutton says.
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the Juice Media @thejuicemedia.com · 23/04/2025
Peter Dutton made a new election ad, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative. #auspol
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Honest Peter Dutton Ad
YouTube video by thejuicemedia
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 23/04/2025
#5: Close superannuation tax loopholes The Albanese Government proposed to reduce concessions on super balances over $3 million. This would only affect the top 0.5% of super balances and help restore fairness.
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 23/04/2025
#4: Close tax loopholes for luxury utes Huge, American-style utes have increased in number on our roads, fuelled by tax concessions: exemptions from the Luxury Car Tax and loopholes in the Fringe Benefits Tax.
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 23/04/2025
#3: End fossil fuel subsidies In 2023-24, the Federal Government provided $11.8 billion in fossil fuel subsidies, with increases forecast for future budget years.
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 23/04/2025
#2: Reform negative gearing & the capital gains tax discount The combination of these tax concessions for housing investors has inflated house prices well beyond incomes and made it harder for people to buy a home to live in.
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 23/04/2025
#1: End the gas industry’s free ride In 2023-24, just $1.1bn was raised by the PRRT. Australia collects 5x more from students repaying HECS!
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 23/04/2025
Policy of the Day: Five ideas to make our tax system better. If we make the gas industry pay their fair share, reduce loopholes that benefit the wealthy, and stop subsidising fossil fuels, we can collect more revenue to build world-class services that a country like Australia deserves.
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 21/04/2025
"Government should be involved in the housing market." @amyremeikis.bsky.social on the important role government can play (and indeed already does) in housing. Hear more on the latest episode of Follow the Money. #auspol 🎧 theaus.in/4jluuZS
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SallyRCbra @srpassesiton.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
About Atlas network
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
But sure, meritocracy. Got it.
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