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Rowan Rafferty 🍉🍉🍉

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Living on Turrbul and Yuggera land. Never ceded! Moved to West End from Noosa, it seems somehow more real. Music, politics, environment & a bit of fun!

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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
House prices falling by a percentage not seen in 40 years does not mean house prices have fallen to affordable levels - it is just that we have seen them increase so much year on year, that falls seem significant BUT IT DOESN'T MAKE HOUSING AFFORDABLE IT JUST MEANS THE HOUSING MARKET HAS BEEN BROKEN
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ConvictDifficultChick☮️ 🍉🕊️ @convictchick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
#DavidShoebridge #auspol
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Rowan Rafferty 🍉🍉🍉 @rowan-rafferty.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Listen, think, then vote! Can't see the difference, then look again. Go David.
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Rowan Rafferty 🍉🍉🍉 @rowan-rafferty.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
@davidshoebridge.bsky.social Congratulations. Now the work really starts!
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Rowan Rafferty 🍉🍉🍉 @rowan-rafferty.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Good ole Angus. Such a dufus! www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Australia news live: Angus Taylor accuses PM of ‘swanning around’ at UN instead of making fuel cheaper; NSW renters to benefit from new laws
Follow the day’s news live
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Rowan Rafferty 🍉🍉🍉 @rowan-rafferty.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
If there is one reason why the cristafulli government needs to be removed, its the 630 diesel bus fleet he's just ordered. Distgusting, just DISGUSTING! #stevenmiles
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Rowan Rafferty 🍉🍉🍉 @rowan-rafferty.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Liars and frauds make up much of this country's zionist population. As a sponsors of terrorism and war crimes, it is terrifying that previous (respected) members of the Australian business community are revealing themselves as zionists and fellow travellers. Be wary my friends!
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Rowan Rafferty 🍉🍉🍉 @rowan-rafferty.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Anton Issa live at the Avid Reader - 18 September 2026
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Rowan Rafferty 🍉🍉🍉 @rowan-rafferty.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Well done, primarily, to Jackie Lambie for getting the Govt to backdown over the Veterans Cap legislation. @jackielambie
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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Migrant debate is just hot air looking for a problem www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...
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Recycled migrant fuss is just a hot-button topic looking for an issue
With all the talk about Australia’s migration "issue", there is one question that has remained noticeably absent.
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Rowan Rafferty 🍉🍉🍉 @rowan-rafferty.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Mr Albanese, a suggestion as to where Mr Marles might wind up under.
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Rowan Rafferty 🍉🍉🍉 @rowan-rafferty.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Anti-sematism is a scourge. Anti-zionism is another thing altogether. Who in their right mind would support genocide and is attendant "malpractice"? The RC, screamed for by pro-zionist forces, is now coming to deliver a reasonable point of view, and its protagonists are attacking it! Bring it on!
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Rowan Rafferty 🍉🍉🍉 @rowan-rafferty.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: act.350.org.au/petitions/pr...
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Protect Larrakia Country: Stop the Middle Arm Gas Hub
Together, we can stop the gas hub and protect Middle Arm. Sign the petition to support a Larrakia-led future that centers culture, biodiversity, and climate safety.
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Rowan Rafferty 🍉🍉🍉 @rowan-rafferty.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
You already know about malinauskus, what makes you think his attitude on the MotorGP would be any different? #sanumpties
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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
David Shoebridge rips into Defence Dep Sec. Celia Perkins after she tries putting a “blanket gag” on their evidence from being posted on social media, coz apparently it could be “taken out of context” Shoebridge “it’s so obviously inappropriate!”🔥 Absolutely disgraceful #auspol
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Rowan Rafferty 🍉🍉🍉 @rowan-rafferty.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Marles is about to build up US troops in Australia. Is it China or dealing with those nasty "domestic" terrorists that he's working towards. #marlesout
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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Here's @boganintel.bsky.social "The IDF ran in the Sydney Marathon the same week they spat on Zomi Frankcom’s grave"
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The IDF ran in the Sydney Marathon the same week they spat on Zomi Frankcom’s grave - The Shot
The iconic Sydney Marathon hosted more than 40 current and former IDF personnel on the weekend. In the same week,...
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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
According to the officer, each runner was assigned between four and six police, dressed as competitors, running the 42 kilometres beside them. michaelwest.com.au/sydney-marathon-…
Sydney Marathon. Who told NSW Police to run bodyguard for Israel’s army?According to the officer, each runner was assigned between four and six police, dressed as competitors, running the 42 kilometres beside them.The point is bigger than six runners. Up to 40 current and former IDF soldiers were admitted to Australia without any apparent screening, for a fun run, in the face of public anger at who they were and what they had reportedly done in Gaza.Public picks up the tab
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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The Shot has the right to "self-defence"
The Shot has the right to “self-defence”

In Crikey, Sami Shah stated that The Shot is anti-Semitic, describing our masthead as “an attempt at a satirical site for people who found Facebook comments insufficiently moderated” and our work as “Practically demonstrations of antisemitism". Embarrassingly, in the same week, The Australian more accurately described us as “left-wing” and “probing the limits of law and language”.  
 
Sami singled out two article headlines, The royal commission into the hurt feelings of genocidal psychopaths and Updates from the royal commission into the selective outrage of Zionists, which he clearly didn’t read before accusing us of sloppy “media criticism”. The headlines were mine, the body copy written by Joel Jenkins. They were no-bullshit, reality based tear downs of the fascistic assaults on our democracy, which all of us can see so plainly with our own eyes. Even liberal Zionist cowards like Shah. 

During a mass slaughter that our government is supporting materially and diplomatically, it's not good enough to have segments of the indie media community trying to un-stretch the Overton Window back inside the borders set by decades of hasbara, horrifically biased and supremacist mass media, and the whims of the genocidal psychopaths. We don’t know how many Australians love milquetoast fence-sitting during atrocity, but Pew research shows that 80% of us despise Israeli atrocity and fascistic overreach into our democracies.

Description continued on next slide As a credo, I try to treat people with the same level of respect I am shown. We have done more serious analysis and investigative reporting on this depravity than Crikey has, a much larger outlet with more staff and resources. Over the years, The Sunday Shot has also platformed many Crikey writers. Needless to say, that moment has passed us by.

To make such petty remarks at some of the few unvarnished truth-tellers in Australian journalism on this subject, in this moment of abject moral failure, of cowardice and of complicity, speaks to the hollow pettiness of Shah’s analysis. Focus on what really matters, please. 

There is enough genocide apologia in the corporate press already. It's pathetic to see it in the indie space, too. Do better, Crikey, your readers expect more. 

Fuck fascism. Free Palestine.
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3wombats @3wombats.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Popular opinion
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Twang 🍉 @twangmaker.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
It seems unprecedented that any foreign military be allowed to form a team to run in an Australian marathon. Australia doesn't do military parades. Tony Burke needs to explain to the Australian people why he granted visas to allow the IDF to run through city streets in the Sydney Marathon. #auspol
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
“The #IHRA formulation does not reflect the established usage and understanding of the term ‘antisemitic’ in Australia.” - Justice Fagan The question now is; will the PM respect this and similar judicial findings? Or spinelessly let Jillian Segal and the Israel lobby run 'social cohesion' policy?
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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Keep yourselves safe from the 40 visiting IDF soldiers running in the marathon, Sydney. I'd avoid visiting hospitals if you can, they like to blow those up. Ditto for mosques. Same for Australian war cemeteries. And it probably goes without saying, but keep your kids well away.
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Rowan Rafferty 🍉🍉🍉 @rowan-rafferty.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Just think of what we could do with AUKUS money, including govt building homes to buy and supplying homes to rent. Disgraceful act of Labor govt!
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Rowan Rafferty 🍉🍉🍉 @rowan-rafferty.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Have a look at this. Very sensible idea! www.jonathansri.com/canceltheoly...
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It’s not too late for Brisbane to pull out of hosting the Olympics
'Inevitable' is a political choice
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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I attacked the Liberal Party constantly when they were in government. That's the job, genius!! Think I'm an asshole all you want, I don't think about you
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Rowan Rafferty 🍉🍉🍉 @rowan-rafferty.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I mean absolutely no disrespect to Zomi Frankcom who stood as a fearless aid worker in Gaza, but ... what about the tens of thousands of Palestinians that have died there at the hands of the IDF? No outrage! Wake up albo & partners!
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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Nick McKim lets loose on Labor for being "captured by Zionist interests"—then hits James Paterson straight to the face as he interjects “Mate you’re captured by Zionist interests as well” 🔥 #auspol
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Rising Tide Australia @risingtideaus.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Join a massive, peaceful, and fun flotilla at the world’s largest coal port! Any vessel is welcome—from kayaks to boats to surfboards! No experience is needed to join the flotilla! Bring the kids for live music, food trucks, and fun activities. www.risingtide.org.au/paddle
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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
This very personal speech from Jacqui Lambie won't get anywhere near as much attention as it should - but again goes to choices about who we care about. No one should have to go through this live.thepoint.com.au/2026/08/the-...
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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Here's me. "How the Labor Party sold out to vampiric oligarchs and authoritarian Zionist dickheads"
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How the Labor Party sold out to vampiric oligarchs and authoritarian Zionist dickheads - The Shot
This week, the Albanese government, in goose-stepping sync with the Liberals and One Nation, will push into law the “ASIO...
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Rowan Rafferty 🍉🍉🍉 @rowan-rafferty.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Tonight a look at VAD on ABC Australian Story. For watching!
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Rowan Rafferty 🍉🍉🍉 @rowan-rafferty.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Albanese, are you Morrison lite!
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Rowan Rafferty 🍉🍉🍉 @rowan-rafferty.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Prima facie, all zionists who have a relationship with anyone in the IDF or spoken out in the zionist cause should be removed to Israel and, where necessary, and have Australian citizenship revoked, never to return. This is the only way we can guarantee their safety and those around them.
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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Was just sent this which made me laugh given the company my name is sitting alongside - and this is very lovely but also but from local bookshops if you can! Or borrow from your library. Or drop me a DM and I’ll see if I can get you one 🩷
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Rowan Rafferty 🍉🍉🍉 @rowan-rafferty.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
The ACCC is going to look at food mislabling following the ABC's revelations, Andrew Lee advises. Probably appropriate that they'll get out the wet lettuce leaf to deliver a good thrashing to the naughty supermarkets. We wait with unbridled disinterest for the outcome!
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Joanna Mendelssohn @oldlillipilli.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Richard Marles’ bumbling interview on ABC’s Radio National should convince @albomp.bsky.social not to take holidays + convince his colleagues that this idiot has more ambition than ability #auspol
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Rowan Rafferty 🍉🍉🍉 @rowan-rafferty.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Morrison V. Albanese. Hard to tell the difference, except ALL of Albanese's party is behind him, except Ed Husic. Vote sensibly, it's not that hard! #greens #independants #socialists
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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Arresting all the people calling you genocidal fascists is such a genocidal fascist thing to do
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Rowan Rafferty 🍉🍉🍉 @rowan-rafferty.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Restoration Australia, impractical wankers with lots of money demonstrating the principle that money does not always buy class! Not worth watching. Very dissapointing ABC.
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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Here's my 30-min unedited interview with @davidshoebridge.bsky.social outside Pine Gap. We talk about escaping a rotting American empire, nukes, why the Arrernte want Pine Gap closed, and how it feels like the @albomp.bsky.social government are "in a death cult". www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5VZ...
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"Murdoched" and Raiding Pine Gap - July 26 - Andrew Dodd, Matthew Ricketson, David Shoebridge
YouTube video by The Sunday Shot
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Rowan Rafferty 🍉🍉🍉 @rowan-rafferty.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
The Shot on YouTube with David Shoebridge and others. It's going to be good! #theshot #davemilner #jodyer
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Rowan Rafferty 🍉🍉🍉 @rowan-rafferty.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
$9m per annum for those asylum seekers held on Nauru and still they cannot afford to by food. This cruelty is perpetuated by #albomp. It is disgusting and inhuman! Don't forget when next you vote!
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Rowan Rafferty 🍉🍉🍉 @rowan-rafferty.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
This cause is close to my heart - please consider signing: petitions.getup.org.au/petitions/le... @getup.org.au
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Let me stay in the country I love
The government has the power to change this. They can give young people like me the chance to stay – to study, to work, to build a future in the place we already call home.  Right now, the peopl...
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Rowan Rafferty 🍉🍉🍉 @rowan-rafferty.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: petitions.getup.org.au/petitions/le... @getup.org.au
petitions.getup.org.au
Let me stay in the country I love
The government has the power to change this. They can give young people like me the chance to stay – to study, to work, to build a future in the place we already call home.  Right now, the peopl...
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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Anonymous CSG witness tells RC that criticising Israel is itself a “form of harm” — and that the public should stop being “anti-Israel or anti-Zionist” because it’s harmful to Jewish people & “damaging to social cohesion.” The truth about Israel hurts, so plz stay quiet? Wow.
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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Today, the traditional owners of the land Pine Gap sits on, the Hayes family, handed over a letter demanding the closure of the base, reparations for the stolen land, and compensation to the people of Gaza. www.instagram.com/reel/DbAQG4l...
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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
I got the best compliment today. "Hey Dave, I send your articles to my dad to piss him off".
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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
In the shadow of Pine Gap, I had a great chat with Senator @davidshoebridge.bsky.social about Australian involvement in the US-Israeli warmachine. I'll get that out onto YouTube and Instagram next week, so look out for that (because the algorithm ain't gonna help!).
Two Daves, Shoebridge and Milner, sitting beneath acacia trees on Arrernte land
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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
We've turned onto Hatt Rd to Pine Gap. Felicity Hayes, elder of the Arrernte, and Senator @davidshoebridge.bsky.social are delivering a letter demanding the closure of the US base, reparations for the traditional owners of this land, and for the people of Gaza being hurt by its operations.
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