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Sean Macleod

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Chris Jack 🇺🇦 @chrisjackis.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Didn’t realise this was possible: you can opt out of gambling ads on SBS On Demand. Log into your account, tweak your preferences, done in under a minute. Feels like a small workaround while the Federal government drags its feet on a proper ad ban. #auspol #EndGamblingAds
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The Shovel @theshovel.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
The 15-year-old can't use TikTok, but is comforted by the fact he’ll be old enough to watch a thousand ads from Sportsbet about the latest odds at Randwick. theshovel.com.au/2024/11/11/t...
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Teens Facing Social Media Ban Relieved They’ll Still Be Able to Watch Gambling Ads — The Shovel
“Social media causes anxiety and depression, ruins relationships and is incredibly addictive. On the other hand, gambling does all those things too wields enormous power over governments. So it makes ...
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
The November monthly temperatures have been released and 2025 looks set to be the 2nd hottest year on record. Remember when warming apparently stopped in 1997? That is more than 0.5C ago.
Chart showing the global land sea temperature anomaly from the 1880-1901 average - it shows in the past year to Nov temperature were more than 1.4C hotter than that base and are heating faster than the 1965-2010 range.
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Dr Monique Ryan @mon4kooyong.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Gambling ruins lives. It is absolutely unacceptable that the Albanese government will continue to choose vested interests over the wellbeing of Australians and hide behind a watered-down policy - if they ever introduce one. We need action on gambling harms now.
afr.com
Labor tipped to drop proposal for online gambling ad ban
Political and industry sources expect Communications Minister Anika Wells to crack-down on illegal offshore gambling websites.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 06/09/2025
"The high costs and long timelines of new nuclear power plants severely limit any impact on near-term decarbonization goals. Wind and solar are achieving rapid scale and greater cost-effectiveness, making them central to immediate emissions reduction" globalenergymonitor.org/report/nucle...
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Nuclear outpaced fourteen to one by wind and solar in Europe
Key points Limiting warming to 1.5°C is the internationally recognized target of the Paris Agreement, as reaffirmed at recent UN climate summits. However, scientific assessments indicate that this thr...
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Jo Dyer @instanterudite.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
What a debt we owe @asherwolf.bsky.social.
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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
I've seen ABC refer to the Nazi rallies as "anti mass immigration rallies" over and over, exactly what Nazis want labelled as, legitimising them. In contrast, not once have I heard the Palestine rallies called anti-genocide or anti-colonial. I wonder what that's about 🙄
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Prof Matt Haggis 🐀 🍉 @matthaggis666.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Maybe you should release a statement condemning the neo-Nazi rallies taking place? Antisemitism Envoy Jillian Segal: #auspol
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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Minister for protecting gambling is now minister for wrecking FOI
abc.net.au
Labor plans to make it harder to access government information
A new proposal would introduce a fee for Freedom of Information requests and tighten the rules around the release of documents related to government deliberations.
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Jo Dyer @instanterudite.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Government secrecy and obfuscation was one of the key reasons we chucked out Morrison and his putrid pals. What the hell is the former Minister for Gambling doing now? www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
abc.net.au
Labor plans to make it harder to access government information
A new proposal would introduce a fee for Freedom of Information requests and tighten the rules around the release of documents related to government deliberations.
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Lenore Taylor @lenoret.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... The suckers here are us...
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Despite $22bn promise, Adani has paid zero corporate tax in Australia and experts think it won’t ever pay a cent
Adani’s Australian assets regularly report annual losses despite strong revenue, in part due to big related-party payments
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Chris Rudge has a peer reviewed article out which reveals an estimated 15,000 social security recipients were wrongfully convicted of criminal offences between 1991 and 2011 in a scandal he is calling ‘the omissions affair’. This was the precursor to Robodebt welfare.substack.com/p/the-unexam...
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The unexamined precursor to Robodebt
How a long-forgotten episode involving the wrongful conviction of 15,000 Australians for unproven welfare offences prompted the creation of the Robodebt scheme
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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Oh well at least we have the NACC to expose any corruption 🤗
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Good!!! A farm is NOT MEANT TO BE IN YOUR SUPER!!! The ONLY reason anyone would put a farm in their super IS TO AVOID PAYING TAX!!
Story in The Australian

Super tax ‘the last straw’ for this cattle farmer
Helen Trinca
Craig Huf, a farmer from Burringbar in far north NSW, will pull one of his farms out of super because of the tax on unrealised capital gains

Cattle farmer Craig Huf says the federal government’s proposed superannuation tax will likely be the “straw that breaks the camel’s back” forcing him to pull his $3m farm out of his self-managed super fund.
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Yale Climate Connections @climateconnections.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Of the 20 costliest weather disasters in history, four have occurred in just the last year.
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U.S. socked with 15 billion-dollar weather disasters during the 1st half of 2025 » Yale Climate Connections
Four of the top 20 costliest weather disasters have occurred in the last year.
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Got a ConEd alert telling me to use less energy during the heat wave and this is all I can think about.
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It's so cool that cities are like "oweeease only turn your AC on if you're actively dying and don't go below 79
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while the Al nobody asked for is slurping up the power grid to make 1 image of a girl with 5 tits
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Peggy Sanders @peggysanders.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Monday July 7 anniversary Robodebt Royal Commissioner Catherine Holmes’ referral report NACC - included sealed chapter - recommended 6 individuals for civil and criminal prosecution for their roles in the illegal Robodebt scheme. michaelwest.com.au/happy-nacciv....
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Happy NACCiversary. Celebrating two years of not very much - Michael West
The NACC celebrates its second anniversary this week, but has the much-heralded initiative lived up to its expectations?
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Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
For all those reactionary centrists who thought Kim Williams might not be a Murdoch-adjacent plant at the ABC. #auspol
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Quentin Dempster @quentindempster.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
US tech giants Amazon, Google, Meta, Netflix, Disney took $A15B in revenue from the lucrative Australian market yet paid only $A254M in local tax through creative (profit shifting) evasion. David Chau ABC finance. Hey @jimchalmers.bsky.social
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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
finallly someone with institutional authority has said it: the Aust executive class panic and fold when targeted by highly orchestrated pro-Israel campaigners. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/j...
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Federal court rules ABC unlawfully terminated Antoinette Lattouf after ‘orchestrated campaign by pro-Israel lobbyists’
Journalist was taken off air three days into five-day contract in December 2023 after sharing Gaza post on social media
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 25/06/2025
If you win the Miles Franklin Literary Award, you'll receive $60,000 but pay as much as $20,000 of that back in tax. If you *bet* on the winner of the Miles Franklin, your winnings are tax free. Removing this tax is a small way we can support our authors, writes @alicektg.bsky.social.
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Here's something absolutely cooked about books in Australia
Winning authors pay tax. Mug punters, that's another story.
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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
So @antoinettelattouf.bsky.social has won her case against the ABC. Now, how about ABC managers sit in court again, preferably in The Hague, for genocide apologia and warmongering? Israel/US has killed half a million ppl in Gaza, and the state broadcaster has excused it every step
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 23/06/2025
West Australians reading the latest budget should be outraged: "Australia is being robbed of its resources and our governments are entirely complicit," said @markogge.bsky.social speaking to ABC. "WA motorists will be paying 6x the amount in car rego fees as the gas industry pays in royalties."
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Budget reveals WA oil and gas royalties in rapid decline
Shared revenue from Australia's largest mainland gas project has dropped by more than 70 per cent in three years, contributing less than 1 per cent of the state's revenue this financial year.
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ACW1234 @acw1234.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
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Lisa the Leftist @lisatellstruth.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
#AbolishCruelCoerciveMutualObligations
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Nick Miller @nickdmiller.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Media scare campaigns work: 21% of people - and 32% of 25-34 year olds - say the superannuation tax change will have an impact on their retirement plans even though it won't, for almost all of them.
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💧Bee - Difficult 🐝🌿❤ @belindajones68.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
If Santos is bought by an Abu Dhabi company, then they should be ineligible for Australian taxpayer subsidies & should be made to pay a flat rate of company tax of 30% No tax minimisation Australian taxpayers should not have to fund rich oil nations 🐝 #auspol
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 12/06/2025
Protecting superannuation tax concessions for the wealthy won't help future generations. Addressing climate change and the housing crisis will. @richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol
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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
It’s almost 2yrs since the day Commissioner Catherine Holmes handed down her final report on Robodebt & referred those responsible for criminal prosecution. It was a day we felt like finally something was happening. I’m so sorry to all victims who are STILL waiting for justice.
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The Chaser @chaser.com.au · 12/06/2025
"Nice deal you got there" chaser.com.au/general-news...
“Hahahahahahaha” – Emmanuel Macron
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
The attempt to change super tax concessions has worried the extremely wealthy that people will realise just how rigged the system is in their favour. And they worry it might finally be the start of attempts to address the growing wealth inequality in this country www.theguardian.com/business/gro...
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Wealthy Australians are worried we might realise how rigged the system is in their favour | Greg Jericho
The discussions around the absurdly small changes to tax on superannuation should be the start to addressing the growing wealth inequality in this country
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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
If anyone you know believes this narrative, they're either very racist and totally down with fascism, or they're stupid as shit and need to avoid things like boiling water and sharp objects. Either way, keep your distance.
Trump claiming that LA is "occupied by Illegal Aliens and Criminals"
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
We always hear that farmers will be smashed by the super tax changes. But last year ASFA noted that "The reality is quite different" "nothing to do with primary production or the only connection is owning a boutique winery that is run at a tax loss." 😬 www.superannuation.asn.au/wp-content/u...
The characteristics of those who would pay Division 296 taxation Some public commentary tends to suggest that the main categories of individuals impacted by the proposed tax are current and retired farmers and elderly widows who like to punt big on tech stocks. The reality is quite different. It would be much more accurate to categorise those more commonly affected by the proposed tax as being older wealthy males living in affluent areas of capital cities or affluent retirement regions who have never had anything to do with primary production or the only connection is owning a boutique winery that is run at a tax loss. The ATO sample of individual taxpayer data can be used to estimate the characteristics of those would be affected by the new tax as the unit record data includes both superannuation balance and other demographic and financial data. ASFA analysis of that data indicates that in terms of national split of those likely to be affected, around 40 per cent of the total affected are female and 60 per cent male.  Those affected are relatively old, with 85 per cent aged over 60 with 46 per cent aged over 70.  As such many of the group would be receiving tax free income from superannuation and currently tax free investment earnings on their superannuation balance up to the level of the Transfer Balance Cap. However, not all are retired, with around 30 per cent receiving wage and salary income, and with around 5 per cent having wage and salary income over $200,000 a year.   Around 5 per cent of those with over $3 million in superannuation have farm income either direct or through trust or partnership distribution, but in many cases it is not substantial, with other income received. At least some of those with farm income live in inner capital cities and could be described as Pitt Street or Collins Street farmers.
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Crikey @crikey.com.au · 10/06/2025
Scott Morrison shouldn't have received a King's Birthday honour — but no politician should. And the whole honours system should be tightened, writes Bernard Keane.
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Ban politicians from getting awards. You shouldn't get a prize just for showing up to work
Politicians shouldn't receive honours. Our national awards system already lacks credibility, with too many handed gongs for too little.
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Voices of Wentworth @voicesofwentworth.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
“the science is clear: no fossil fuel projects can be opened if the world is to avoid catastrophic climate change. “Despite this, a slew of polluting gas projects are either poised to begin operating in Australia, or lie firmly in the sights of industry.” johnmenadue.com/post/2025/06... #auspol
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Six more giant gas projects could join Labor's latest carbon bomb
While Woodside's North West Shelf gas plant approval has led to a chorus of protest, there are at least half a dozen more projects in the pipeline that could add to Australia's emissions.
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 10/06/2025
"The vast majority of Australians have got less than $200,000 worth of super." "We're having this entire media obsession about a small increase in the amount of tax that will be paid by people with more than 15 times that." @richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol
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Tim Baxter @timinclimate.naruresearch.com.au · 10/06/2025
Coal and gas generators on Australia's largest grid have broken down 69 times since 1 January 2025. Nice!* * But not actually because many of these are potentially lethal worker safety incidents even before you realise that lives depend on us maintaining a stable grid and this is why we should pha
69 breakdowns since 1 January 2025.
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Rob of Melbourne @robert24039377.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
The Partner Income Test is a dragnet austerity measure that wrongly assumes shared finances based on relationship status, coercing financial dependence and quietly denying support to thousands. It hurts the poor, the disabled and women — quietly and out of view. www.reddit.com/r/Centrelink...
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Matt Golding @goldingcartoons.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Harvard mathematician and satirist Tom Lehrer said that satire died when they gave Henry Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize. Is making Scott Morrison a Companion of the Order of Australia the Australian equivalent? James Proctor, Maiden Gully The Age letters
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Dr Stephanie Dowrick @drstephaniedowrick.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
www.smh.com.au/national/hon... Unlimited thanks to @jennaprice.bsky.social for this brilliant piece expressing what we feel. "Honouring" the dishonourable insults us all...most especially those who directly suffered from the naked racism, greed & cruelty to the most vulnerable of this man's years.
smh.com.au
Honouring Scott Morrison makes a mockery of awards system
The fact that every Australian prime minister gets one of these gongs is another reason to review our honours system.
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Rosie de Difficult Kat 🌱🍉🍉 @rosiedekat.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
theshovel.com.au/2025/06/10/a... #CaptainToto
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Australia To Send Troops To Support America’s Invasion Of America — The Shovel
Citing the two nations’ close historic friendship, and Australia’s long history of supporting American military interventions, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has told Donald Trump that Australia will...
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Jo Dyer @instanterudite.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Once more for those up the back: no. A grand total of 80,000 Australians have super balances of $3m or above, 85% of whom are over 60. The hysteria around these tweaks is simultaneously illuminating and laughable.
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Michael Taylor @ausindimedia.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
“Mr Morrison was given the honour in recognition of his ‘eminent service’ … noting his contributions to his ‘leadership of the national Covid-19 response’.” I believe Scott Morrison is unworthy of this award. Let me make my case. theaimn.net/a-most-unwor...
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A most unworthy recipient
Some things defy belief. This front page story is one: “Former Covid prime minister Scott Morrison has been given the top King’s Birthday honour of an Companion of the Order of Australia for his work....
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Amante2 AmeliaBee7 @amante2ameliabee7.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
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Wayne @shakesfirst.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
He wasn't going to lockdown, that states did. Jobseeker and Jobkeeper supplements were Sally McManus. When asked what he was going to do when the pandemic first started he said he was going to the footy. He would have let it run wild if the states didn't have the constitutional power to ignore him.
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🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🍉 @chrishehim.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Let's get to 10,000! Link here 👉 chng.it/jW7GMnc84d #auspol
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Rudy Terwilliger 🐺 🥷 🍉 @wolftickler2000.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Former PM Scott Morrison: • secretly appointed himself to 5 ministries • bumbled the Covid-19 vaccine rollout • disappeared to Hawaii on a secret holiday while fires raged across eastern 🇦🇺 • cooked up Robodebt, • signed up to AUKUS after lying to France • ruined 🇦🇺’s international reputation
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