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Robert Maxwell

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Lapidarist, Glass worker. Loves food and travel. Thinks too much for my own peace mind addicted to novelty

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My Giddy Aunt (Australia) @mygiddyaunt.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Greens' Sophie McNeill in WA telling it like it is about US occupation - school kids 'trade day' used as an opportunity to recruit for the US war machine. Despicable #auspol www.instagram.com/reels/DdLQxC...
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Sophie McNeill on Instagram: "📣STOP RECRUITING OUR KIDS TO AUKUS @WALABOR! Went to a pretty frustrating AUKUS community forum hosted by @abcperth yesterday in Rockingham. Nadia & her team were grea...
4,109 likes, 416 comments - sophie_mcneill1 on September 11, 2026: "📣STOP RECRUITING OUR KIDS TO AUKUS @WALABOR! Went to a pretty frustrating AUKUS community forum hosted by @abcperth yesterday in R...
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Pepper Qi @pepperqi.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
LOL #finance #economy I hope you're not going to give anymore money to USA, Senator Chalmers @jimchalmers.bsky.social Australian taxpayers shouldn't be propping up the drowning man - time to let go of his hand to save our country from being pulled under by "Uncle Sam" #Auspol FK #AUKUS Vote 1 🦔
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Jessica D. M. 🇺🇦 🇦🇺 🇨🇦 🇵🇦 🇬🇱 🪃 🟧 @jessicaperthwa.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
#Auspol @laboraus.bsky.social @albomp.bsky.social
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Viktor 🇵🇸🍉🦘🦘🪃 @viktx.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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Jenny O’Connor @jenocon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Empty words from a hollow man. #auspol #climatecrisis #fossilfuels www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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‘Short on substance’: Albanese urges climate action on world stage – but advocates say Australia failing on fossil fuels
Prime minister says ‘climate security is the new national security’ in keynote speech in New York
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PaulWA14 @paulwa14.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Trump Rejects Iranian Proposal for Cease-Fire and Opening of Strait www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/u... Trump seeking a political gain from a war he initiated! America has much to answer for in giving this malignancy the presidency.
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Trump Rejects Iran’s Cease-Fire Proposal to Reopen Strait of Hormuz
The president said the deal was not “acceptable” and demurred on whether he would restart military strikes after the midterm elections.
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is why fuel prices are pushing $3 a litre. Because Trump has no idea how to end the war he (and Netanyahu) started with Iran. That’s the war that Labor, the Coalition and One Nation all cheered on in February. It’s the war the Greens opposed. The only party that did.
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Steve Moskal @samoskal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
'Ai' agents do *not 'create their own ideas' - anthromorphising to recast blame to inanimate poorly designed/managed software,failure to manage complexity. If the s/w agents change tact, this is designed in based on trained and changed real time data. Hacking of their logs has also done this #auspol
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"The words 'fiscally responsible' vanish when government ministers speak of military spending – replaced instead with ‘record funding’." @deepcutnews.bsky.social #EndAUKUS #auspol www.deepcutnews.com/p/albanese-c...
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Albanese can find $425bn for defence – but not $126bn for free childcare
Defence spending is outpacing inflation as the government says it can’t afford universal childcare, dental or lifting JobSeeker above the poverty line.
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PaulWA14 @paulwa14.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
‘No Beardos, No Weirdos, No Wimps’: Hegseth Lays Out His Military Vision www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/u... He is saying out loud, No Weirdos! He needs to look in the mirror because by any measure #Kegsbreath is a real #Weirdo
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In Speech, Hegseth Targets Diversity, Transgender People, Reporters and Iran
In his “State of the Force” address, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth focused on the culture war and accused reporters of “treason” over Iran war coverage.
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PaulWA14 @paulwa14.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The religious RWNJ #Zealotry on display from #Kegsbreath is really really scary 💩. What sort of world are they trying to create while tearing down the one we already have? What will it mean for our children & grandchildren? 🇺🇸the world will not forgive you for a very long long time for this!
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Tim Goodacre - Writer @timgoodacre.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
#AusPol
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PaulWA14 @paulwa14.bsky.social · 4h
How is something like the First Nations Treaty impacting the lives of the #PHONy racist supporters, HOW? #auspol
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Robynne @haddagutful.bsky.social · 4h
They don’t want First Nations people to have any rights, it gets in the way of their mining and destruction of the environment.
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Phil BuildTheFutureNow @philsustainability.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Is AI is the new Dutch Disease? Like past oil booms, AI acts as a black hole, sucking up global capital, top talent, and power grids while crowding out the rest of the economy. Iran war and tariffs don’t help
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Robert Maxwell @robmax4.bsky.social · 4h
Labour had a chance but they decided to sacrifice the future to keep their arse on the seat.
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Dennis Neader @denzosaurus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Because Watt is Minister for (fucking) Environment #DumptheDuopoly
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Dennis Neader @denzosaurus.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Can we make #WhatWouldJesusDo go viral?
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Jewish Council of Australia @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Our statement responding to the news that Israel will not be pursuing criminal liability for the murder of Zomi Frankcom or her fellow aid workers. We renewed calls for sanctions, the expulsion of the Israeli ambassador, and demands for justice: www.jewishcouncil.com.au/2026/08/comp...
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Simon Gosden @simongosden.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Nigel Farage tells BBC he 'wasn't listening' during foreign donor talks filmed undercover. That’s pathetic, it’s like a year 9 student claiming the dog ate my homework.
bbc.co.uk
Nigel Farage tells BBC he 'wasn't listening' in foreign donor talks
The Reform leader also told the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg that his family are "begging" him to leave his job.
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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 07/09/2026
Australia’s top bureaucrats want to block sharing of clips from parliament on social media to save them from ‘ridicule’
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Australia’s top bureaucrats want to block sharing of clips from parliament on social media to save them from ‘ridicule’
Secretaries board concerned material posted without proper context as Greens warn ban could result in lack of transparency The nation’s top bureaucrats want the Albanese government to ban video footage from parliamentary hearings being edited and shared on social media by politicians, in an extraordinary attempt to stop online ridicule and abuse. But the Greens say highly paid public service chiefs shouldn’t be allowed to control footage from open parliamentary hearings, warning the proposed controls would limit a key tool of government transparency. The secretaries board – made up of the heads of government departments and chaired by the Prime Minister and Cabinet boss Steven Kennedy – said they were concerned about material from hearings being presented online without proper context. Continue reading...
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Greg C @tasgreg.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
And apparently only Jesus Christ can do economic modelling/costings now! Barnaby used to demand this from Labor but I guess it's not thing ON can do. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Barnaby Joyce says Nationals won’t commit to net zero carbon emissions without seeing ‘menu’
Deputy PM says push towards 2050 target is like being served ‘sautéed gherkins and sashimi tadpoles’ at a restaurant
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Jinjirrie @jinjirrie.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
'More than 500 Australian doctors and medical students, including a Nobel laureate, have signed an open letter calling on the federal government to “move from statements of concern to action” regarding Israel’s genocide in #Gaza.' www.deepcutnews.com/p/500-health... #BDS #Israel #auspol
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500+ health professionals defy AHPRA in open letter on Gaza
Nobel laureate among signatories who declare that silence on the slaughter of Palestinian children is a "failure of our ethical obligations”
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Jean Proudman @bluejeans58.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
michaelwest.com.au/send-israeli...
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Send Hillel Newman home: Australia has tolerated his contempt long enough - Michael West
Sneering, denying, lecturing, lying. Andrew Brown puts the case for the Australian government to expel Israeli Ambassador Hillel Newman.
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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Irish President Catherine Connolly to Trump, “I conveyed the strong view of the Irish people that the normalisation of war and genocide can never be accepted'. Trump walked away angry & pouting as usual whenever he encounters a strong intelligent woman. Another day. Another embarrassment. ==========
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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"Britain is putting sanctions on Israel's illegal settlements, but what about UK nationals who live on them? Labour's Sam Rushworth asks Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband if he will take action against them." youtube.com/shorts/nYgHM...
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Will Israeli settlers from Britain face sanctions?
YouTube video by Declassified UK
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
It’s been 10 years since Robodebt began and there’s still no government commitment to introduce safeguards for automated decision-making tools in the Australian Public Service www.medicalrepublic.com.au/no-more-robo...
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No more Robodebt: new push for guardrails on government algorithms - Medical Republic
A new private member’s bill would impose mandatory transparency, human oversight and review rights as automated decision-making expands across aged care, the NDIS and other Commonwealth services.
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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Good question
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mariewalsh18.bsky.social @mariewalsh18.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Tomorrow's front page 📰 New satellite pictures lay bare Israel's destruction of Gaza
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Ette Media @ettemedia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Our data dive highlights how the public broadcaster can — at times — echo the Australian government’s views and international relationships, despite evidence and the expectations of international law. This was particularly prevalent with one country: Israel. Listen to the full episode below.
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EXCLUSIVE: ABC 7.30’s interview bias unpacked
Podcast Episode · We Used to be Journos · 29 September · 1hr 24min · Video
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MediaActive ▪️EQUALITY ▪️JUSTICE ▪️PEACE @mediaactive.bsky.social · 10h
#vicpol
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Dark Matter Zine @darkmatterzine.bsky.social · 8h
the ABC has accused the Greens of becoming “populist” and shifting to the right to chase the PHON vote. I read probably half or more of that article and they didn’t provide ANY justification for that claim. Media is out with knives, even Aunty.
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Sirius Star 🍉 🍉 🍉 @siriusstar3.bsky.social · 11h
“Labor does not consult with or listen to the wider population or to Labor constituencies in the poorer half of the community. Rather, it is a classical crony government, in many respects worse than the Morrison government, governing for its mates, its donors and itself.” #Auspol
Article excerpt 
Albanese has shifted his party sharply to the right in pursuit of his aim of making Labor
"the natural party of government"
". Doing so is helping to squeeze the Coalition between Labor and Pauline Hanson's One Nation party. Not coincidentally his policy shifts have made Labor more attractive to an array of fundamentally anti-Labor vested interests and put Labor in their thrall. Mates, cronies, party donors, lobbyists and insiders work to the
disadvantage of the interests of the constituencies he has pretended to champion.
Albanese knows this but thinks he can get away with it. Those fashioning the pitch for the Greens as a party of wider influence would argue that Albanese and Labor can no longer be seen to be a progressive party, or a socially democratic one. Labor's internal administrative structures have atrophied, to the benefit of party insiders, who have always included Albanese himself. The party conference is about as responsible to or responsive to a wider Labor membership as the Chinese Communist Party. As in China, party meetings are stage-managed to predetermined
conclusions.
Is this an Albanese Liberal government, or a Labor one? Many of Labor's old constituents see the broad policies of the Albanese government as
being in no significant way different from those of the Coalition parties which preceded it. It has become at least as deceitful and dishonest about sincere action on climate change. It is now the party of big coal and big gas. Nearly always, more frequently under present environment management, the interests of the fossil fuels industry, and their subsidiary the West Australian government, will be preferred over environmental, heritage or Aboriginal interests. That the handmaiden of this surrender is the environment ministerNor has Labor, on its record, any reason for seeing strident criticism from within as some sort of undeserved betrayal. The Albanese government deserves no leave pass. Nor anything like a pass mark for generally good conduct. It is not a model of good
government, of effective government or efficient government. It has become the problem.
Good intentions cannot excuse bad performance Insiders and intimates of ministers get secretive deals and jobs, some of which involve a major corruption of principles of open, transparent and accountable government. Labor does not even have open debate within its caucuses, because the two senior faction leaders, Albanese and Richard Marles, play the politics of reward and punishment, and the
allocation of jobs, not by merit but by loyalty and silence. Labor does not consult with or listen to the wider population or to Labor constituencies in the poorer half of the community. Rather, it is a classical crony government, in many respects worse than the Morrison government, governing for its mates, its donors and itself. It treats public money and things as spoils to be distributed among its own. It listens primarily to vested interests paying for their access. Labor has consciously nobbled many of the watchdogs and anti-corruption agencies. Indeed, Labor has attempted to completely strangle freedom of information and might have succeeded had it not been for Green and
independent outrage. Labor policies and practices on immigration neither follow the party's own policies nor the
nation's broad economic interests but are a reprehensible piece of pandering to
manufactured One Nation panic. This has not been an occasion in which the party, perhaps reluctantly, switches to accommodate vagaries of public opinion. Labor's policies damage the nation economically,
morally, socially and culturally.
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LAFAYETTE @lastudiolafayette.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
THIS!
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Lilly @lillyull.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Let's get behind him. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...
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Voter anger is fuelling Greens' populist move to take on the right
David Shoebridge has big ambitions for the Greens, but his party is still wrestling with how to turn voter disillusionment into greater support.
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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I wonder if the Albanese Labor Govt realises that angrily sledging newly-elected @greens.org.au Leader @davidshoebridge.bsky.social simply reveals Labor no longer stands for progressive policies. btw I don't hear Labor attacking One Nation with this same level of venom. #auspol
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LESams @lsam22.bsky.social · 16h
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Josh Bornstein @joshbornstein.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Emergency Exit, a podcast that I narrated about the lives of refugees fleeing fascism to come to Australia, goes live today . Kudos to the good folks at UTS who researched & scripted this story.
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Home - Emergency Exit
Seeking refuge in the shadow of fascism A new podcast uncovering the hidden legal histories of refugees who reshaped Australia. Coming 1st October, 2026.
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Doug Cameron @dncameron.bsky.social · 11h
Don’t listen to religious extremist and warmonger Hegseth and his sycophantic mate Marles who claims “shared values” with this obnoxious and dangerous fool. Military experts, politicians, diplomats peace activists, unions, faith groups all oppose the madness that is AUKUS.
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Robert Maxwell @robmax4.bsky.social · 5h
Nor how long the timber industry would be viable
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Tassie Devil @tassiedevil.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
My Dad used to say, "empty vessels make the most sound." In Pauline Hanson's case, no truer words were ever spoken. She says a lot, but there's no substance to any of the rot that comes out of her mouth. #auspol
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One Nation makes election promise to revive Victoria's timber sector
One Nation has promised to resume native timber logging in Victoria if it wins the state election, but the party would not say if it has costed the policy.
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Woman, Outraged @womanoutraged.bsky.social · 10h
So when the Merriam-Webster definition of Socialism states that the term "refers to a system of social organization in which private property and the distribution of income are subject to social control", am I to understand that this would be controlled by someone other than the POTUS?
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@lizglab.bsky.social @lizglab.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Finally, a sensible policy. ‘The Greens support a dramatic downgrading of the US-Australia alliance — including renegotiating the bedrock ANZUS treaty.’ “The US military bases aren’t making us safe; they’re making us a target.”
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New Greens leader: No weapons for Ukraine, curtail the US alliance
David Shoebridge believes the Greens can win votes by campaigning to scrap the AUKUS nuclear-powered submarine pact and legalise recreational cannabis.
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Lizzy Schofield @musictplove.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Here’s hoping they can be the Lorax party
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CJ @cjvotesblue.bsky.social · 11h
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Twang 🍉 @twangmaker.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
David Shoebridge has been party leader for 3 days. But the media is grilling him on everything from the housing crisis, Jewish relations, party democracy and the war in Ukraine. Pauline Hanson has been leader of her party for 30 years, and she gets grilled on, well, practically nothing. #auspol
Image of newly elected Greens leader David Shoebridge at a press conference.Image of Pauline Hanson scowling, after being leader of One Nation for almost 30 years.
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Twang 🍉 @twangmaker.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
No journalist has ever asked Pauline Hanson: Do you support Australia sending financial aid or weapons to Ukraine? Why not? Why do they ask David Shoebridge about everything, but ask Pauline Hanson nothing? Why the double standards?
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Philip Thalis @philipthalis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
We need more articles in defence of the massive, positive contribution immigration has made to Australia. A contribution that will become all the more essential over this & coming decades. Our prosperity, diversity, hopefully tolerance & humanity all boosted by people settling here. Reject racism
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