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Sabrina Balfour @sbalfour.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
I can’t see corruption 😆 “The change drew accusations of “jobs for mates” from across the aisle, with a string of former colleagues and one-term MPs elected under Mark McGowan being appointed to powerful, influential or lucrative roles.“ www.watoday.com.au/national/wes...
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‘Jobs for the boys’? Labor slashes wait times for ex-MPs to join WA government boards
Previously, a member of a state government board or committee was ineligible for remuneration if they were a member of parliament within the last 12 months.
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Sabrina Balfour @sbalfour.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
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Australian protesters ‘outraged’ over Israel’s war on Gaza, government’s ‘complicity’: Analysis
YouTube video by Al Jazeera English
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Thousands took to the streets of Melbourne too in solidarity with the people of #Gaza. (📸 Shazl Harro)
A lady is walking along the street holding a large banner which says;
Australian Jews Say Sanction Israel.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
NEW: Incredible scenes in Sydney, Australia today as tens of thousands march for Gaza, demanding an end to the genocide. #MarchForHumanity (🎥 Ema Franklin)
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LisaZed 👩🏻‍🎨 🌏 🐨🌳🇪🇭🇺🇦 @lisazed.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
AP:"Thousands of demonstrators marched across the Sydney Harbour Bridge on Sunday in support of Palestinians. The bridge was closed to traffic for longer than expected after the group changed its route." Get your facts right AP - the protestors did not change 1/... #auspol youtu.be/t1kOkose1_k?...
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Thousands march across Sydney Harbour Bridge in support for Palestinians in Gaza
YouTube video by Associated Press
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Sabrina Balfour @sbalfour.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Showing the world what Australia stands for. The Australian government doesn’t represent Australian values www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Sydney Harbour Bridge: Tens of thousands turn out for pro-Palestine march
The Sydney Harbour Bridge was closed by the march, after it was authorised to go ahead by the Supreme Court hours earlier.
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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
This what Israel has done to Gaza. Forbidden pics by a Washington Post photographer whose Jordanian air crew didn't pass on Israel's order to only photograph aid being dropped. City, suburbs, schools, people: bombed to rubble. People being starved in makeshift camps on road roundabouts. #Genocide
Aerial shot of Gaza City, burned and bombed into burned and shattered, unliveable wreckage as far as can be seen.Whole area that used to be houses, shops, public transport routes, made into rubble and blackened, unliveable ruins. Aerial shot shows vast area entirely obliterated as habitable, attacked again and again by Israeli forces. Several wrecked Gaza schools, shown from the air, pulverised by Israel's forces: windows all gaping, bombed out and covered in ash and dust. Some people are trying to live in makeshift camps amid the destruction, in former quadrangles and bomb sites. Aerial shots of neighbourhoods with destroyed apartment buildings, houses, offices and shops, all bombed by Israel's government. Starving people are trying to live in tents and makeshift cubbies on the former roundabouts on a main road.
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Sabrina Balfour @sbalfour.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Hey @albomp.bsky.social gonna do anything? “Uncle Ned Jampijinpa Hargraves has penned a letter to the prime minister demanding urgent intervention in the Northern Territory's youth justice system.” www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
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'They are using their power to destroy us': Elder’s urgent appeal to PM
Warlpiri elder Ned Jampijinpa Hargraves joins growing calls for federal intervention into law and justice policies in the Northern Territory.
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Sabrina Balfour @sbalfour.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Fvck off Tony
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Sabrina Balfour @sbalfour.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
It is another tech bubble but it will leave a legacy observer.co.uk/news/columni...
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Paying geeks $200m but slashing jobs – this is what an AI...
The tech giants are spending fortunes on ‘ultra-smart’ algorithmic experts – but to the cost of other staff
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Sabrina Balfour @sbalfour.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
NOT NEWSWORTHY FOR MSM “Delegates from 180 countries will meet in Geneva from 4 August tomorrow for the final negotiation of a UN treaty to limit plastic pollution.” Anyone knows Australian government position? Fossil fuels again eh observer.co.uk/news/science...
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The treaty that could end the plastic deluge | The Observer
Microplastics have found their way into our oceans, our food and even our brains. But the man behind landmark research into ‘the small stuff’ thinks a UN...
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Sabrina Balfour @sbalfour.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
“If states are breaching their Closing the Gap targets…there must be real consequences. Albanese should start by withholding federal funding to the NT Police and calling a National Cabinet meeting on deaths in custody and child jailing… “
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Sabrina Balfour @sbalfour.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
NOT NEWSWORTHY FOR MSM “Earlier this week, Senator Thorpe successfully moved a motion - passed in both Houses of federal parliament – urging nationwide action on the crisis of First Nations deaths in custody” Why hasn’t @albomp.bsky.social acted? nit.com.au/02-08-2025/1...
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“Beads and trinkets”– Lidia Thorpe slams Prime Minister’s “exercise in optics” at Garma
Independent Victorian senator Lidia Thorpe has slammed Anthony Albanese's 'annual excursion to Garma' as having become 'an exercise in optics, an attempt to Blackwash the Labor Party'.The Gunnai, Gund...
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Sabrina Balfour @sbalfour.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
A reality check on the gap between government spin and the effect of the law www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aC_...
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Is the "ban" on under-16s from YouTube constitutionally valid?
YouTube video by Constitutional Clarion
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Sabrina Balfour @sbalfour.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
“The tens of thousands of people who will march across the Harbour Bridge tomorrow are crying out for moral leadership. It is a time for all of us, including those in positions of power, to do everything they can to halt an active genocide and stand with the people of Gaza.“ 👏
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Sabrina Balfour @sbalfour.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
A neoliberal response from a neoliberal government. Mining given unfettered access to traditional lands as condition for Federal funding? Not this year, but perhaps next? www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
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PM announces Indigenous economic development plan at Garma
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese unveils a plan to lift Indigenous communities out of poverty, saying it's time First Nations people were supported to "unlock the true potential of their land".
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Sabrina Balfour @sbalfour.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
“passed motions do not bind government…. “ What is the point of being @australianlabor.bsky.social member? aapnews.aap.com.au/news/palesti...
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Palestine permeates Labor as leaders focus on elections
Tensions are evident at a Labor state conference where members staged a silent protest and powerbrokers met party faithful to discuss policy and elections.
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Pete Milne @petemilne.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Days after Woodside said its "long history of operating excellence" made it a suitable operator for the ageing Bass Strait regulator NOPSEMA slammed it for a string of preventable safety and environmental incidents on three bungled offshore decommissioning jobs www.boilingcold.com.au/woodside-sla...
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Woodside slammed for preventable offshore incidents
Regulator NOPSEMA has directed Woodside to properly plan its work after a series of preventable safety incidents off the WA and Victorian coasts.
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Sabrina Balfour @sbalfour.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Don’t think Burgess is across his brief. Certainly good at saying what the government of the day wants to hear. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Foreign spies are targeting defence employees working on Aukus, Asio boss reveals
Public servants and private contractors with access to sensitive national security information are making it easy for spies, including by posting on LinkedIn, Mike Burgess will say in a speech
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Sabrina Balfour @sbalfour.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Interesting both US and Singapore Security annual reports see the growth of ISIS in the Pacific and SE Asia spurred by Gaza as the number one security threat. Meanwhile Australian security thinks surveilling public servants is the main threat. www.mha.gov.sg/docs/default...
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Sabrina Balfour @sbalfour.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Australian aid used to create police states in the Pacific. Securing free democratic nations or entrenching dictatorships and oligarchies? nit.com.au/01-08-2025/1...
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Pacific, Australia police forces to discuss regional deployments
Pacific police chiefs are scoping areas where additional assistance can be deployed as Australia helps scale up regional security responses by training local officers.The first contingent of Pacific p...
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John Quiggin @johnquiggin.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
It’s official: Portugal prepares to recognise state of #Palestine. Meanwhile #Albo dithers - it's what he does best. #auspol www.portugalresident...
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Karen Black @maisiemontnruby.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Gough Whitlam remembered for universal health care, Bob Hawke, Superannuation,Julia Gillard the NDIS. Albanese unwavering support for Genocide.
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Sabrina Balfour @sbalfour.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Pretty unfvcking believable in a decades long housing crisis @australianlabor.bsky.social
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Sabrina Balfour @sbalfour.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
#AUKUS is a dangerous fantasy www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
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Rebuilding Australia's National Security - ABC listen
Australia’s defence outlook and the preparedness of our nation to adequately defend itself is currently under review and worth further discussion.
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Sabrina Balfour @sbalfour.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Why is the FBI setting up shop in NZ? They are a domestic service for the US. They are not the CIA. Or are Aus/NZ considered US territory already?
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Henryk Klemens @henrykklemens.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Big Fullah G😎arma www.youtube.com/shorts/bQqS7...
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Relive the moment this Jarjum stole the show at the Garma Opening Ceremony Buŋgul 2024 | NITV
YouTube video by NITV
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Markus W. Gehring @mwgehring.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Carefully worded letter but those who signed it, must know better. Palestine has been a UN observer state since 2012 and ICJ just ruled that even loosing criteria (very doubtful) does not call into question statehood. I would fail this essay if it had been an exam. www.thetimes.com/article/7348...
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Palestine pledge could break the law, top lawyers warn Starmer
A letter, signed by 40 peers, explains that the recognition of the territory could break the terms laid out for statehood in the Montevideo Convention
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Peter Fox @peterfox59.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
On this day in 1956 the first poker machines were legalised for used in NSW Clubs. The damage caused since that time is incalculable. From the Archives, 1962: The rise of the pokies www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
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From the Archives, 1962: The rise of the pokies
Six years after their introduction in registered clubs, the Herald examined the social and economic impact of poker machines in NSW.
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Sabrina Balfour @sbalfour.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
NOT NEWSWORTHY FOR MSM More than 600 Indigenous people have died in custody in Australia since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody brought down its findings in 1991. nit.com.au/31-07-2025/1...
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Aboriginal man dies in custody after 'medical episode' at Albany Regional Prison
A 52-year-old Aboriginal man died at Albany Health Campus in the early hours of Wednesday morning, having been transferred from Albany Regional Prison to the hospital.The WA Department of Justice said...
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Sabrina Balfour @sbalfour.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Proud to announce the publication of my book on Bluesky “Penny Wongs Ethics “ Creative Commons licence feel free to use as you please
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Sabrina Balfour @sbalfour.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
More honesty at Get Up than @australianlabor.bsky.social
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Sabrina Balfour @sbalfour.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
“commentary on Albanese’s trip revolved around diplomacy…its real legacy may be economic. As China continues – and in all likelihood, accelerates – its transition to a low-carbon model, Australia can no longer count on demand for its coal and iron ore exports. theconversation.com/chinas-green...
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China’s greening steel industry signals an economic reality check for Australia
The foundations of our economic boom are shifting. Australia needs to position itself at the centre of new green industries.
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Sabrina Balfour @sbalfour.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
They lie, and lie, and lie www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Adani claims its export program helps contribute to sustainable energy – but experts say that’s ‘wilful disinformation’
Indian conglomerate’s claim about exporting coal and its role for developing nations is ‘meaningless sustainability waffle’ and amounts to greenwashing, one says
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Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
@senatorwong.bsky.social will go down in history as one of Australia’s most cowardly and harmful politicians.
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Sabrina Balfour @sbalfour.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
This morning, Canada has announced that it plans to recognise a Palestinian state, putting more pressure on Australia to do the same.(Guardian) Spineless Albo theconversation.com/view-from-th...
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View from The Hill: Albanese wants international cover before Australia recognises Palestine as a state
Albanese is not the first Labor Prime Minister to feel the heat over Palestine but now internal pressure is mounting for the government to go further.
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Sabrina Balfour @sbalfour.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Lol so says Mr Progressive Patriotism without a spine in charge of a do nothing Government. Who are his spin doctors? Do they write for Micallef? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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‘Action, not slogans’: Albanese dismisses pressure from Labor MPs to toughen Israel stance
The prime minister resists demands for more sanctions as clamour grows to follow UK and France in recognising Palestine
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The Japan Times @japantimes.co.jp · 30/07/2025
The United States has said it is aiming to complete a review of its AUKUS security partnership with Britain and Australia by the fall, buying Canberra more time to convince Washington of the pact's importance.
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U.S. to complete review of AUKUS defense pact in fall
The announcement buys Australia more time to convince the Trump administration of the pact's importance.
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Sabrina Balfour @sbalfour.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
This is what @albomp.bsky.social calls Israel’s ‘right to self defence’ Absolute failure
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Sabrina Balfour @sbalfour.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Anything Elon can do, we can do better www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
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‘We have a cloud, and that’s the end’: first Australian-made orbital rocket crashes shortly after takeoff
While Gilmour Space’s Eris rocket lasted only 14 seconds in the air above Bowen, nascent Australian space industry says failed orbit attempt is a launchpad for future success
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Sabrina Balfour @sbalfour.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
“With the UK’s step, other nations may now follow suit, including Australia, which has inched closer to formal recognition in recent weeks.“ Prof Don Rothwell Praise be. But how many will starve and be murdered between now and September? theconversation.com/with-the-uk-...
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With the UK and France moving toward recognising Palestine, will Australia now follow suit?
Australia has placed a number of preconditions on recognition. This kind of decision has long been a complicated and political process.
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Sabrina Balfour @sbalfour.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Just let it all out you little dinosaurs www.youtube.com/watch?v=0w79...
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The problem with Britain’s cursing parrots | Focus on Europe
YouTube video by DW News
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Sabrina Balfour @sbalfour.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Britain would move at the UN General Assembly unless Israel took substantive steps to allow more aid, makes clear there will be no annexation of the West Bank, and commits to a long-term peace process for a “two-state solution” But not @albomp.bsky.social www.straitstimes.com/world/europe...
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Explainer: Why is Britain recognising a Palestinian state? Which other countries have done the same?
The decision follows in the footsteps of France. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.
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Sabrina Balfour @sbalfour.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
This afternoon there is a Greek flagged tanker an hour outside Perth most likely filled with Russian oil sanctioned by Australia. Despite the sanctions Penny Wong has placed no mechanism in place to monitor Russian oil imports through third party vessels. Rendering Australian sanctions useless
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Sabrina Balfour @sbalfour.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
“spokesperson for Foreign Minister Penny Wong said, the mechanisms Australia would need to track and monitor all energy products via third countries are not in place in those countries.” WA TODAY So sanctions are just performative? @albomp.bsky.social
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Sabrina Balfour @sbalfour.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Australia has sanctions imposed on Russian imports in response to its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. These include restrictions on importing, purchasing and transporting oil that originated in Russia. Tanker off Perth is likely to contain Russian crude 1/2
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Sabrina Balfour @sbalfour.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
PM Albanese demonstrated the depth of his extraordinary anti-environmental policies. independentaustralia.net/politics/pol...
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Royal commission now: The case against Albanese’s environmental record
A damning FOI investigation reveals the Albanese Government’s deliberate efforts to undermine environmental protections, sparking urgent calls for a royal commission.
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Christine Milne @christinemilne.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Can anyone point to equivalence? ACF, Greenpeace and WWF are Env groups, ACBF is not. Why are they now incl as key advisers on Env laws and policy to Labor when other genuine Env groups are deliberately excluded? Why aren’t the big three objecting? When does it become state capture? #auspol
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Christine Milne @christinemilne.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
ACBF led by Lyndon Schneiders now has not just Ken Henry on board but also Albo’s former staffer Skye Laris on payroll. It is funded by WA mining money and supports ACCUs for forests as NSW Lab govt awaits Fed Lab decision on method to deliver them. Neat! #auspol
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