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A T Tate

@spudonthetracks.bsky.social
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Then: Journo stuff 1984-2021 (ABC/BBC/TheAge).🗞️📻💻 Now: Zombie apocalypse prep.🧟

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered.
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gypsyrose18.bsky.social @gypsyrose18.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Honorable. Just wish Chief Justice Robert’s had a speck of Jack Smith in him
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A T Tate @spudonthetracks.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Dave Lennon @davelennon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
it worked so of course it had to go... bless Howard for saving us from socialism and showing us the benefits of capitalism via the jobs network
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Sue Young @suetas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Australians – remember the CES?
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A T Tate @spudonthetracks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
www.instagram.com/reel/Dd1YNpT... When the Murdoch media talk about crime. #auspol
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Alex Gibney @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The trailer for my new film, "Musk," has just been released.
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A T Tate @spudonthetracks.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Wharfie time? … still shockers! #afl
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David Astle (alias DA) @dontattempt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Wharfie Time? More like Pier Pressure. What a game. #AFLGF
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Deepcut News @deepcutnews.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Victorian Labor's ban on datacentres in residential areas is not quite a ban. They'll just be built 150m from your home instead. @purplepingers.bsky.social: "150 metres isn't a ban on data centres in residential areas, that’s just down the road."
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
CEO pay is up 1,316% since 1978, while typical worker pay is up just 28%. CEOs are now paid 325 TIMES as much as the typical worker in their industry, according to @epi.org Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?
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Blair Palese @blairpalese.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Not sure Albo would know “bravery in #climate action” if it hit him on the head! “Biggest #coal project lines up for approval as Albanese calls for "bravery" in climate action” #auspol reneweconomy.com.au/biggest-coal...
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Biggest coal project lines up for approval as Albanese calls for "bravery" in climate action
As the PM calls for climate "bravery" at a global summit in New York, NSW regulators prepare to sign off on a major new coal mine extension described as a "carbon bomb."
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teresalfenton.bsky.social @teresalfenton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Stop Them Now.
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pa-kid.bsky.social @pa-kid.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Murdoch's ultimate goal is to spread Foxes hateful propaganda to every nation in the world. Might be a good idea to stop him. While we still have a world left.
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Kevin @libpatriot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
After what happened in America, you still allow him to run a "news" organizastion in your country?
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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
2/ Murdoch & Bruce Gordon failed to buy Network Ten. Their workaround: give Sky News content to regional broadcaster WIN free, gaining a mass audience without comparable regulatory review. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/media/2...
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Inside the Murdoch television deal driving One Nation
A content deal that came out of frustration when Lachlan Murdoch and Bruce Gordon failed to take over Network Ten is now pushing regional voters to Pauline Hanson.
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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
1/ America’s Fox News model is being rebuilt in Australia, one empty local-news market at a time. Murdoch’s hard-right channel now reaches regional voters free. The warning for us: when local journalism dies, propaganda does not leave the space empty. #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy
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Wouldn’t it be great if we ran out of hate @wnhy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Visual of #ElNiño from Earth null school show spot temps up to 5.5C #SSTA moving toward the 3.4 region. Get those #bushfires plans ready folks and be prepared to pay more for food. #auspol #climatecrisis
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ScubaSuzyQ💙🦋 @susanmcgraw88.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Please take time to slowly read these warning, signs of fascism and then read it again and again and again and share it with others. Thank you. 💙🇺🇸 #ProudBlue #DemVoice1 #USDemocracy
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
For those who have forgotten the past 40 years: Tax cuts for the rich ...don’t trickle down Boosting military spending ...doesn’t bring peace Slashing regulations ...doesn’t create jobs Folks, we’ve seen this all before.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 19/09/2026
🚨 Obama rejects the argument that the market and lawsuits alone can keep AI companies in check: “That’s not how we treat airlines, or drug companies, or food companies.” He says there’s “no replacement” for effective government regulation.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Hey, News Outlets! How about just ignoring Donald Trump? It will drive him crazy. His parents never gave him enough attention, so he is still a thirsty brat who needs CONSTANT attention. Start the news with "Trump lied again today" and then move on to news about people/things that are interesting.
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A T Tate @spudonthetracks.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Hey #AFL there is NO mention in official protocols of removing your hat for the Australian national anthem - that is an American affectation. Do better than making us little yanks. #auspol www.pmc.gov.au/honours-and-...
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
For Australians not paying attention: This is the incompetent, racist, misogynist, Christian nationalist zealot and serial liar who our government has outsourced our defence policy to. #EndAUKUS #auspol
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Kos doesn't go far enough. This is not just the media amplifying Hanson's cruelty and grievance politics. It's about power. It's Murdoch, Rinehart, Musk et al who encourage Hanson to punch down in response to people's legitimate concerns with a failed system. Instead of blaming the billionaires.
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Doug Cameron @dncameron.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Paul Keating calls out the madness that is AUKUS. We need sensible members of the Labor caucus to speak up and support Keating. Malcolm Fraser’s book “Dangerous Allies” preempted the defeat and retreat of the US in a war with China.We are being treated as mugs by the US and UK!
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James "likely unlawful" Dominguez @jamesjdominguez.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
We should be rejecting Pauline, not copying her homework.
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Doug Cameron @dncameron.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
IMF urges Aus to cut spending.🤬 Labor could cut spending and increase social services by dumping the AUKUS con job. $368B and hundreds of $Bs to house US troops, store and guard radioactive waste. Social priorities or financial support for the US, UK and Israeli arms industry.
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A T Tate @spudonthetracks.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Can someone wake me up when Albo starts fighting Tories! #auspol
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Melissa Sweet @melissasweetdr.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Warning: our democracy won’t survive the death of reading. Read on if you still can | John Harris
While fascists protest in UK ports and purvey nonsense and poison online, ever fewer people have the perspective or analytical tools to challenge them, says Guardian columnist John Harris
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Dr Sally @drsally.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Join the campaign against AUKUS act.getup.org.au/s/DjfCVMec
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Review and Walk Away From AUKUS!
The $368 billion military pact between Australia, the US and UK was signed in secret by Scott Morrison in 2021, and waved through by Labor in a matter of days.
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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Fascism in Britain has not come from nothing. It is the result of decades of Thatcherism and then Austerity.
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💚🌏Myles🌏💚 @rainbowregionmyles.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Albanese has spent years dining out on growing up in public housing. That story means absolutely fuck all if you get to the top and spend your time protecting the economic system that makes sure other kids still grow up poor. #auspol
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💚🌏Myles🌏💚 @rainbowregionmyles.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
We waited a fucking decade to kick the Coalition out and got Albanese; landlords still feasting, fossil capital still laughing, obscene wealth untouched and Australia welded to the US war machine. What exactly did we fucking win? #auspol
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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Actor Jeff Daniels on Donald Trump's second term: "We've lost morality. We've lost decency. We've lost respect for the rule of law. We've normalized verbal abuse. We've normalized bullying. Morality and integrity have gone out the window. We're supposed to elect our best, not our worst."
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A T Tate @spudonthetracks.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
From the Sunday Age archives … #AFL
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Ray Padgett @raypadgett.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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A T Tate @spudonthetracks.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Remove your hats for the national anthem say the #AFL … plot lost.
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
#AUKUS is a massive deception on the Australian public. #auspol
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Doug Cameron @dncameron.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
It is an honour to be part of the team that brought democratic oversight and critical analysis to the AUKUS disaster. Peter and his team of Commissioners have given their time, expertise and commitment for free and have done a great service for the nation. Now for the report!
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Richard Marles, Australia’s Defence Minister, went to the US and surrendered even more control of our defence and our country to the US and its global war machine. Who are these people working for? This makes us less safe, more of a target and less in free. It’s a betrayal.
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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 03/09/2026
Private health insurance is propped up by about $13 billion a year in taxpayer support, yet there is little evidence it takes pressure off public hospitals. Those billions would be better spent strengthening Medicare, John Menadue writes. #auspol #Medicare #Health
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Private health insurance costs taxpayers $13 billion a year. What for?
Taxpayers spend about $13 billion a year supporting private health insurance, yet there is little evidence it relieves pressure on public hospitals or delivers fair value.
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The DILETTANTE @demwar.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Fuck off Marles you traitorous duplicitous prick
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Dave @musodave.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Time for Albanese to fuck off. #labspill needed. Where are the progressive voices in the @australianlabor.bsky.social ? Sick to death of spineless Tory policies from this oxygen thief.
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The DILETTANTE @demwar.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
ALP is a train wreck LNP is a train wreck Constituency is fed up But…… Greens destroyed by years of media attacks One Nation near total media saturation and support Is it any wonder we are here? I told Rudd and Shorten years ago to go after media consolidation. ALP blinked.
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John Kennedy @john-in-geraldton.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
So why is @albomp.bsky.social following this suicide route for Australia? www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/defe...
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How AUKUS could destroy Australia
Recently, both Anthony Albanese and the Pentagon’s No. 3 official, Elbridge Colby, have separately reiterated that the AUKUS project remains ‘full steam ahead’.
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Cate Q @cateq.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
"Tobacco, acid rain, ozone hole, thalidomide, climate: damned scientists just kept getting in the way of profits merely to protect worthless lives." “Hell, if most of the world’s population died of industrial by-products tomorrow, the climate crisis would be solved.”"
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Doug Cameron @dncameron.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
We buy attack class nuclear subs to: Maintain the international rules based order as our “ally” the US attacks the ICC, Protect sea lanes from China our most important trading partner. Defend Australia by surrendering sovereignty and making our cities a nuclear target.🤬
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A T Tate @spudonthetracks.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Essendon chat boards right now. #afl #Itsbeenabigweekinart
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