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Anomander @anomander.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Dumping AUKUS would pay for all of it, and more.
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⚡🇵🇸😞🇨🇦🇪🇺 Sandrew @sandrew-0.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
USA military using a.i. chatbots nearly started WW3: "...almost got us to armageddon, not caused by “rogue, superintelligent AI”, but by government reliance on error-prone systems that are marketed by their manufacturers as being close to superintelligent." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Forget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M Bender
The risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals
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David Marler @qldaah.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Adani Mining's total income for 2024-25 from its Queensland Carmichael coalmine was $1,315,844,890. It's taxable income was zero. Since opening in 2021 its tax payable has been zero. #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Billions of dollars, none of it taxed: ATO reveals the tech giants paying zero income tax
Database names big companies – including Microsoft subsidiary and Netflix – that pay little corporate tax but notes there could be legitimate reasons
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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🚨🚨 @coe.int of Europe said yesterday that the #US formally notified it that it would leave the Group of States against Corruption, or #GRECO. Only two other countries have left GRECO before — #Russia and #Belarus. The fall of the #US on the world scene is striking. apnews.com/article/trum...
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US withdraws from European anti-corruption panel in latest shift away from global groups
The Trump administration has withdrawn the United States from a top European anti-corruption watchdog.
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“What NSW exports as coal, we import back as bushfires, floods, heatwaves and droughts. Climate harm does not stop at the border, and neither does the responsibility for it.” - Greg Mullins We have learned nothing. #ClimateCrisis #nswpol #auspol
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The Point @thepointau.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"JobSeeker now sits at just 41% of the minimum wage, and Youth Allowance is even worse at 34%" writes Charmaine Crowe, Program Director for Social Service at the ACOSS. Read the full piece on The Point: sbrew.link/h5nIyjVF
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Piper Furiosa 🇵🇸🏴🌲🏴‍☠️ @piperfuriosa.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
With alt text for anyone who needs it:
A purple chart by the Sexual Violence Center of Cork (whose logo of a few steps leading up to a door is is in the upper right hand corner of the image, titled: "How to avoid sexual assault! :A Quick And Easy Guide*." The asterisk goes to the bottom left, where it says "*for perpetrators."

There are six numbered lighter purple boxes, stacked in 2 rows and 3 columns. The text in the boxes says the following:

1. DON'T PUT DRUGS IN PEOPLE'S
DRINKS

2. USE THE BUDDY SYSTEM!
IF YOU CAN'T STOP YOURSELF FROM SEXUALLY ASSAULTING
SOMEONE, ASK A TRUSTED FRIEND TO ACCOMPANY YOU AT
ALL TIMES TO STOP YOU.

3. WHEN YOU COME ACROSS SOMEONE WHO IS DRUNK OR
ASLEEP, THE BEST THING TO DO IS
NOT RAPE THEM. 

4. WHEN YOU SEE A WOMAN WALKING BY HERSELF, LEAVE
HER ALONE.

5. IF YOU ARE IN A LIFT AND
SOMEONE STEPS IN, REMEMBER NOT TO SEXUALLY ASSAULT THEM.

6. CARRY A WHISTLE. IF YOU THINK YOU MIGHT RAPE SOMEONE, BLOW THE WHISTLE UNTIL SOMEONE COMES TO STOP YOU.
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Jessica D. M. 🇺🇦 🇦🇺 🇨🇦 🇵🇦 🇬🇱 🪃 🟧 @jessicaperthwa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#Auspol @laboraus.bsky.social @albomp.bsky.social Let's discuss what causes hate towards Australia's many great Jews
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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
People need to be charged over AI hacking offences. If a human uses a tool to break into a physical premises, they get charged. Same must apply with the people who program AI.
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Pauline Grierson @pfgblue.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Yikes
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Joel Jenkins @boganintel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"We don't acknowledge the fact that the sensible centre is somewhere sitting with Pauline Hanson at the moment" @amyremeikis.bsky.social speaks on how 'civility politics' is killing Australian political discourse. Link: youtu.be/oKyBcrTWA2M #auspol
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⚡🇵🇸😞🇨🇦🇪🇺 Sandrew @sandrew-0.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Apple Idiocy
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Paul Dutton @pdutts68.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is a national disaster! Crisafuli should be held responsible. He should be sacked and an immediate investigation is required into why the State has failed the safety of so many children. It’s a national disgrace. #QLDPol #AusPol
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TheFlyingman @theflyingman.cz · 25/09/2026
So are they also going to get rid off the stupid Copilot key?
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 24/09/2026
Just when I think I can’t hate OpenAI and Sam Altman any more, new details come out about how ChatGPT helped a shooter plan one of the worst mass shootings in Canadian history in Tumbler Ridge, BC. OpenAI made an explicit decision not to report the user to authorities.
motherjones.com
ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals
OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.
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Twang 🍉 @twangmaker.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Living longer & healthier. But not those Australians who have to survive on Centrelink / Jobseeker, that studies show are dying young in poverty because Albo refuses to raise the rate. #auspol
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Chris Sidoti is a globally-respected human rights lawyer and investigator. He is also Australian. But ever since he started presenting the facts about Israeli crimes against humanity, the Australian political and media establishment have done their best to ignore him. #GazaGenocide #auspol
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Australians should not forget: The Israeli president who pardoned this racist murderer was given a special private briefing by the ASIO boss. #auspol
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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Dear ABC News, You continue to publish appalling headlines that minimise men killing women as "women die". Word choice matters. Your editors need to use the words died, killed, or murdered, accurately. #DV #VAW #crime #journalism
Australian ABC News headline:
Three women die in domestic violence-related incidents across NSW
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
AI data centres are projected to use 13 per cent of Australia’s electricity and 20 per cent of Sydney’s water within a decade. These things are mushrooming across the country and Labor has issued a “consultation paper”. Like New York, we need a moratorium not a survey.
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LAFAYETTE @lastudiolafayette.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Every single Pauline Hanson story reporting on her latest racist comments should also include that a court has upheld that she racially discriminated against Mehreen Faruqi.
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Punching a barely conscious man strapped to a hospital guerney: NOT a sackable offence for NSW Police. Chris Minns and Labor have set this standard.
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anticop @anticopofficial.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
As a supporter pointed out, the cops downplay the alleged domestic violence as "historic" when it occurred in the ancient time of... 2025! Hardly a cold case - he was a cop then, and now.
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David Lee @tdavelee.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Israel is a terrorist state actively practicing ethnic cleansing and indiscriminate murder of civilians. Unfortunately, the US continues to fund them, and many democracies continue to trade with them. They should be a pariah state, shunned and isolated by the civilized world.
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Slashdot @slashdot.org · 08/09/2026
LG TVs Caught Spying Even When Offline or On Standby yro.slashdot.org/story/26/09/08/163…
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LG TVs Caught Spying Even When Offline or On Standby
A Gamers Nexus investigation found that LG smart TVs are almost constantly logging and uploading data about owners and their homes, even while they are offline or in standby mode. "The company's TV sets scan Wi-Fi networks for nearby devices, record audio logs through their microphones, and use audi...
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 08/09/2026
A legal report exposes how Israeli universities use a dual-track disciplinary system to target Palestinian students.
aljazeera.com
Israeli academia accused of systemic apartheid against Palestinians
A legal report exposes how Israeli universities use a dual-track disciplinary system to target Palestinian students.
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White Rose Resistance @whiteroseresistance.org · 08/09/2026
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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Spain wants to tax fossil fuel producers in order to fund climate adaptation An application of the 'polluter pays' principle Economists estimate cost of climate-change induced drought in Europe this summer was €50bn, one bank says €180bn Someone's got to pay for it www.ft.com/content/86da...
ft.com
Spain pushes for EU oil and gas tax to pay for climate change response
Rising extreme weather costs fuel campaign ahead of new resilience strategy
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
You know what happens when a plane 'overshoots' a runway. It doesn't just 'return'.
Aerial view of an American Airlines Boeing 737 that overshot the runway, lying wrecked on rocky ground beyond the airport perimeter, fuselage split open and wings buckled, with emergency workers nearby.
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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Extraordinary. Defence’s Celia Perkins says she refused to answer questions on selling off police-used Defence land—despite knowing the answer, coz Shoebridge’s questions are “distressing”🤦‍♂️ Shoebridge “This isn’t dental surgery! You’re meant to give the answers you know!”🔥 ffs
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I don't think it should be controversial to say, "we will not provide financial or military assistance to a country where the Minister of National Security brags about popping people's dreams of 'food' and 'education' then sending them to a prison where they are starved."
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ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
A new Australian study suggests a 20 per cent tax on sugary drinks may prevent 3.7 million cases of tooth decay as well as 306,000 cases of gum disease or complete tooth loss nationally.
abc.net.au
Sugar tax may prevent millions of dental procedures, study suggests
A new Australian study suggests a 20 per cent tax on sugary drinks may prevent 3.7 million cases of tooth decay as well as 306,000 cases of gum disease or complete tooth loss nationally.
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AliceK @coalisdead.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
It can’t be any clearer. Trump/Israel’s Board Of Peace (genocide land theft and murder) considers children to be a Hamas threat, and have no right to enjoy the simple act of flying a kite. Children should accept Taliban style autocracy, starvation, terror & death @albomp.bsky.social ? #auspol
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David @daverino.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
“Documents reveal allegations former KPMG partner Chris Jordan hid money in an offshore bank account to avoid paying tax in the late 1990s. Jordan went on to become the Australian Taxation Office commissioner” www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
abc.net.au
Ex-ATO boss Chris Jordan named by KPMG whistleblower
Former tax commissioner Chris Jordan is accused of receiving more than $1 million in "secret commissions" during his time at KPMG in the 1990s, according to documents seen by the ABC.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 25/08/2026
Another very useful reminder that technology matters, but policy design matters way way way more. We get nowhere until we tackle corporate greed.
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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Must be pretty intoxicating...going from serving politicians as an adviser to having power over politicians AND the prime minister #RevolvingDoors #StateCapture
Caption: Kai Cantwell lobbies policymakers on behalf of sports betting companies (Four Corners: Ryan Sheridan/file)Image of Labor PM Albanese (left) & Liberal opposition leader, Dutton (right) wearing jackets emblazoned with donor logos
 
Text reads: "We'd like to thank our sponsors..." 

Albanese's jacket features: Australian Hotels Association, Responsible Wagering Australia (RWA), TAB, Westpac, Santos, Pratt Industries, Uber, nab, Sportsbet, Woolworths 

Dutton's jacket features: Woolworths, Responsible Wagering Association (RWA), Clive Palmer, Uber, nab, Citileases, Santos, Westpac, Australian Hotels Association, TAB, Sportsbet, Coles, Hancock Prospecting

Source of image: Greens campaign material
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 22/08/2026
Over 100 ex-diplomats urge France, UK to sanction Israel over Palestine aje.news/2vhshz
Over 100 ex-diplomats urge France, UK to sanction Israel over Palestine
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Aaron Denney @aaron-denney.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Concentration camps, not prisons.
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
The usual pathetic response from western nations: token sanctions on Israeli individuals and entities, as if they are just 'bad apples'. While completely ignoring the culpability of the genocidal apartheid state who enables, arms and supports #WestBank terrorism by 'settlers'.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 19/08/2026
"The man I’m talking to runs a business called Ghost Metas. He’s one of hundreds of vendors, easily discoverable online, who specialise in disabling the flashing LED light embedded in Meta’s smartglasses that blinks when wearers capture photos, videos and audio" www.theguardian.com/technology/n...
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Did someone wearing Meta Glasses film you today? Are you sure?
People say they’ve been secretly filmed in their own homes, at concerts and at work. Are the wildly popular smartglasses the final nail in the coffin of personal privacy?
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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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Rick Morton @squigglyrick.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Anyway, good luck to the ANU's new Chancellor, former public service commissioner Gordon de Brouwer, who tried to argue before parliament in December that writing down the 'genuine' advice to govt on a yellow sticky note to be thrown away wasn't illegal.
Screenshot of the linked Crikey article which reads:

“That’s illegal,” Senator David Pocock told him. “That’s illegal!”

De Brouwer initially responded: “No, it’s not illegal. They’ve given advice to ministers, they’ve just been selective in what they’ve written down.” 

Coalition Senator James Paterson caught the thread, asking: “How is that consistent with the public servant’s obligation to keep accurate records?”

“Well, I think that’s right,” de Brouwer said.

“And that’s what we found in robodebt was also people didn’t keep records.” 

De Brouwer, who led the Australian Public Service Commission during its disciplinary investigation into current and former public servants involved in the robodebt scheme, was pressed again by Patterson that he had just described something illegal. 

“I don’t know that sticky notes themselves are illegal,” he said. 

Patterson pushed: “But failing to keep records is.”

De Brouwer, who has just been appointed Chancellor at the scandal-plagued Australian National University, then remarked: “Yeah, but, no, no that’s right. I, I, I take that, senator. Uh, I, uh, nah, that’s a, I understand that.”
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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
This Washington Post story about journalists “questioning whether the White House considered their safety” for some reason does not mention that Trump helped Saudi Arabia’s crown prince cover up the murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi
WP: They were on the plane when Trump secretly left. Here’s what they noticed.
The journalists traveling with the president had no idea he had switched planes due to a perceived threat from Iran. Now some say the operation has left them feeling deceived and questioning whether the White House considered their safety.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Any Labor brokens saying you *have* to support them because just think how bad the LNP would be, need to FRO. The legislation makes it possible to cut funding streams by 99% purely by Minsiterial discretion. The ALP did the Libs work for them.
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Emily Lowan (she/her) @emilylowan.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
BC is burning and the status quo is a lit match. #wildfires #bc
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Antipoverty Centre @antipovertycentre.org · 14/08/2026
This family died of poverty, not fire. The article doesn’t address why a couple and their teenage kid were renting an unsafe granny flat, but we know. We urgently need high quality public homes so that people can afford to live, not more “alternative housing” as this article describes it.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Who knew undoing the CGT discount and negative gearing would work? Oh everyone?? My column. www.theguardian.com/business/gro...
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Isn’t it amazing what a policy that actually tackles the cause of outrageous house prices can do? | Grogonomics
Labor has shown what a government can do to improve housing affordability, exposing how pathetic previous attempts had been
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
"For a government battling in the polls, it might be worth it pondering that showing what a government can do is rather more impressive than coming up with excuses for why it can’t." #HousingCrisis #auspol
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