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Enduring the dwindling fire of my working life - thank dog for politics

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Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 11h
Introducing Dodgy Brothers Data Centres! Blazing hot deals on all your data feeds! Buy now, fry later!
Fast Forward comedy duo the Dodgy Brothers
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Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 17h
Finally! A good news climate story!
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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 17h
NDIS [cuts] not saving money. Transferring the costs [to health system - feds to states] Claudia Weisenberger michaelwest.com.au/stranded-tho...
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nordacious @nordacious.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Signed, packed, and shipped ❤️ These ones are headed south to the APAN Melbourne Fundraising Dinner Auction this Saturday, raising funds for their ongoing advocacy and work to influence Australian public policy on Palestine. Tickets are still available: members.apan.org.au/civicrm/even...
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Raymond Wilton @raymondwilton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This👇🏻
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Derek Jarman 🤘🏏⬛🔴 @derekjarman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Hey, @australianlabor.bsky.social, stop being cunts. Don't fucking pixel bitch about the victims of Robodebt; it was an egregious crime committed by the state against it's most vulnerable. Just pay the compensation. #auspol
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‘You’re denying what you did to my son’: mother of robodebt victim told she is ineligible for compensation
Commonwealth lawyers argue Jarrad Madgwick, whose death by suicide was highlighted at royal commission, ineligible as he only received provisional debt notice
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Ronni🧂Salt @ronnisalt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Oh dear, that is a shame. Anywhoo, I sorted all my paperclips entirely by shade and structural rust level this morning. .
A soc-med post by the Australian announcing the death of Jeffery Archer, accompanied by a photo of Archer in a navy jumper and open necked-shirt looking at the camera like a convicted perjurer, forger and shameless bullshitter
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
In 1995, 14 wolves were released in Yellowstone National Park. No one expected the miracle that the wolves would bring. Original post
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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
these are racist people and they want no Black people here - Rose Laynbalaynba, YiSSA shelter resident and language lecturer at CSU on the forced removal of Aboriginal people from YiSSA. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
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NT government moves 150 Darwin homeless shelter residents out of town
Up to 150 residents at a Darwin homeless shelter will be relocated 100 kilometres south to Batchelor after the site's owner and the Northern Territory and federal governments could not agree on a fund...
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3wombats @3wombats.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
theaimn.net/the-crime-of...
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The crime of being Aboriginal
“He was naturally suspicious of white strangers, having spent twenty-seven months in prison for actions would not have been ‘crime’ had a white man committed them.” (In the spirit of Crazy Horse, page...
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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Every red dot represents a child killed by Israeli forces in Gaza. 20,179 Palestinian children have been confirmed killed by Israel in Gaza. I expect Penny Wong is "deeply concerned". #auspol #GazaGenocide #FreePalestine
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Tony Nicholson @tonynicholson.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Thank you Cathy. We’re not all brainwashed.
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Louise Milligan @milliganreports.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Please watch Monday 8.30 ABC #4Corners: Christian Brothers Inc. Deep dive into Catholic order adopting litigation strategies more akin to a corporation than a religious body. Did expecting survivors to line up like creditors in a corporate collapse happen in a vacuum? I went to Ireland to find out.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Uh what? www.newsweek.com/allison-guer...
newsweek.com
Woman who exposed FBI official for working with Russian oligarch found dead
A judge praised Allison Guerriero for her "extraordinary contributions" to counterespionage ops on behalf of the United States.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This summer Britain burnt. 3000 people died from the heat. Yet this Government is drilling for more gas, despite scientist warnings & it won't make a difference to bills in the UK. We need to double down on renewables, not bend to the wishes of fossil fuel bosses. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Jackdaw gas field set to be approved as soon as mid-September, sources say
The government is set to give the go-ahead for the gas field off the coast of Aberdeen, the BBC understands.
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Marcus Kelson @marcuskelson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
And to summarise we are fucked… www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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BoM forecasts strongest El Niño on record as research points to ‘alarming’ climate change influence
Bureau of Meteorology suggests El Niño has already broken records, with Pacific Ocean temperature change exceeding 2C in six months
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
In the past, the rich used to pay higher taxes. Now, the government pays the rich interest on a swelling debt, caused largely by lower taxes on the rich. It's a big switcheroo that we need to talk about if we're going to talk about the national debt.
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The Secret Way the Rich are Getting Richer
The biggest untold story about how we pay for government involves a big switcheroo by America’s wealthy. Watch.
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Rob Arnol @robertarnol.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Morning. ☕️
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Viktor 🇵🇸🍉🦘🦘🪃 @viktx.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
www.change.org/p/we-demand-... Approaching 29,000 signatures Great Stuff!
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Sign the Petition
We Demand Accountability: Remove Jillian Segal from Public Office
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 22/08/2026
Australia Institute research shows that nurses pay more tax than gas and oil companies. Meanwhile, multinational gas companies get 56% of our gas for free and then export it overseas. Sign the petition: nb.australiainstitute.org.au/fix_ga…
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Sally @wooferunleashed.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Could someone explain to me why our government just gave $2 billion to save the Tomago Smelter from closing, and saving lots of people’s jobs, when the owners - Rio Tinto - posted making $10 billion? Why couldn’t they pay for it?
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 13/08/2026
“Labor's cruel NDIS cuts will make it worse for families like mine.” – Greg Jericho, Chief Economist, The Australia Institute Read here: www.deepcutnews.com/p/health-minist…
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Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
It's my final week as a Guardian cartoonist ☹️ and here's my third last cartoon. It's a gamblin' one www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Will the government get it right on gambling reform? | Fiona Katauskas
Anthony Albanese is weighing up the options
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
California has the chance to rein in out-of-control corporate power — but Big Tech is spending millions to stop the plan. Here’s what you need to know.
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Kathy ☘️Irish Kat☘️🐈 @soberdeaconess.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
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Rob Arnol @robertarnol.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Morning. ☕️
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Ewart, Dave @davidewart.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
youtube.com/shorts/irWDp... wake the fuck up
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NOBODY Is Talking About This...
YouTube video by Australian Greens
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KQ5 @kq5.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
You don't even have to ask the question, "Are Republican voters just plain stupid?" They are. Can't read, can't do one iota of research? I'm not even American & I know more about your politics than most MAGA/GOP voters. Pathetic.
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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
the humanity❤️ www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...
abc.net.au
Villagers hold vigil for stranger as PNG boat tragedy victims wash ashore
Twenty-seven people including families with young children went missing after two boats capsized in rough seas in Papua New Guinea's north-east on Saturday.
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Rob Arnol @robertarnol.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Morning. ☕️
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Data houses. My @smh @theage cartoon.
Single frame.  A row of data centres with construction team including Ute marked “DATA-CON”and crane upstage. Downstage a man in construction overalls marked “DATA-CON” talking to another in a suit with briefcase and rolled plans, says, “When the crash comes, we can refit them as cheap housing for people who don’t mind a lack of windows.”
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GreyBruceInfo- Part Owner of Canada 🇨🇦 @brucegreyinfo.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Because he knows The Art of the Deal. “Master negotiator,”he told us.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
The reason why ICE agents continue to shoot people is because nothing ever happens to them when they do. They essentially have been granted full immunity for whatever they choose to do to people by a lawless regime of thugs.
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Rob Arnol @robertarnol.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
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Holly 🇺🇸🦅 @msdesignerlady.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Opposition can be communicated in different forms, sometimes it's a sweet melody, with a strong message. Please, listen... #ImpeachIndictRemove
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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
breathtakingly beautiful dazzling I love this Aunty her art and story so much🤩 www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...
abc.net.au
Aboriginal artist recreating 'oldest living weaving practice' with glass
Lower Southern Arrernte woman Jenni Kemarre Martiniello creates glass artworks by combining a centuries-old Italian glassmaking technique with millennia-old Indigenous weaving practices.
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Rosie de Difficult Kat 🌱🍉🍉 @rosiedekat.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
theconversation.com
Sydney’s 1789 smallpox epidemic came from the First Fleet and killed up to 220,000 Indigenous Australians: new research
New mathematical modelling shows the first smallpox epidemic among Aboriginal people in the Sydney region may have spread thousands of kilometres and lasted decades.
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Rob Arnol @robertarnol.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
The real Taste of Tasmania. 🖤💛❤️
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Jinjirrie @jinjirrie.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Will the Ziogull correct her manifestly duplicitous evidence to the Bell Commission? Time to fire your obnoxious Captain's pick, @albomp.bsky.social www.deepcutnews.com/p/jillian-se... #IsraelFascism #auspol #Palestine
deepcutnews.com
Jillian Segal claimed Gaza death toll is 'grossly inflated'. Here are the facts.
Legal expert warns Segal could be in breach of Royal Commission Act over 'misleading' claims
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Kent Parkstreet @kentparkskeet.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
NSW Police, it’s never ending. #ACAB
abc.net.au
NSW Police officer taken into custody after sexually assaulting then-wife
A NSW Police officer has been taken into custody after his bail was revoked by a judge, two days after he was found guilty of choking and sexually assaulting his then-wife.
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Ronni🧂Salt @ronnisalt.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
🤔 Hmmm, somebody with millions in disposable income and the capacity to tap into dark networks in the developing world and who has come out publicly in the past 12 months to support One Nation? It's a mystery Nicole - a total mystery 🤔
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Maranoa Girl @maranoagirl.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Rebels* in Indonesia's* restive* eastern region of Papua killed a US civilian pilot & set his plane on fire. They say the aircraft was used to carry troops; the Indonesian military denies it. ***Problem? Papua's not Indonesian. www.freewestpapua.org/info/history... www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Gi0... 2/
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History of West Papua - Free West Papua Campaign
History of West Papua Early days West Papua was originally populated by Melanesian people some tens of thousands of years ago. After little contact with the Western world, it was finally formally colo...
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 03/07/2026
Israel drops the world’s biggest non nuclear bomb on Lebanon. Corporate media is silent. The United States must hold these war criminals accountable.
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Kent Parkstreet @kentparkskeet.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
The Christian Brothers is an international organisation. They own property, an investment company, US auto repair shops, they’re rich. Placing the Australian section in a compartment and claiming it’s broke is a classic Catholic trick. Possibly legal, not moral. They continue to be bastards.
abc.net.au
Victims 'blindsided' by moratorium on Christian Brothers' abuse cases
Lawyers argue the court's decision to grant a moratorium had thrown abuse survivors into uncertainty.
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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
apropos LRT, I want to add: Sarah’s testimony is the first from this Royal Commission that I have read - I am not watching livestreams, just clicking intermittently on ABC and Guardian reports - which resonates (to me) as a specific account of antisemitism. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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As an Australian Jew who publicly supports Palestinian freedom, I’m targeted by my own community – and neo-Nazis | Sarah Schwartz
Jews should be able to criticise the actions of Israel without risking exclusion from communal life
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Stock trades by President. The blatant corruption is just staggering
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