susiea2024.bsky.social @susiea2024.bsky.social · 03/05/2025Most days I think FU trump. Today, I am prepared to say thank you for your role in our right wing opposition receiving the lowest primary vote since 1930s. Off to celebrate a historic win. Love from Australia 050
susiea2024.bsky.social @susiea2024.bsky.social · 03/05/2025@meidastouch.com Fantastic, really great speech from Senator Penny Wong as she introduces Albo for his victory speech. 060
susiea2024.bsky.social @susiea2024.bsky.social · 03/05/2025@meidastouch.com Australian right wing opposition leader has lost his seat. 040
susiea2024.bsky.social @susiea2024.bsky.social · 03/05/2025@meidastouch.com Australian Election called as a win for incumbent left wing government already, even though early in counting Strong swing away from right wing opposition. Media blaming trump, describing him as toxic to right wing governments. 010
susiea2024.bsky.social @susiea2024.bsky.social · 03/05/2025@meidas Australian Election called as a win for incumbent left wing government already. Strong swing away from right wing opposition. Media blaming trump. 000
susiea2024.bsky.social @susiea2024.bsky.social · 01/05/2025@meidastouch.com Thanks trump, you've turned what would have been a likely right wing victory into a likely left wing victory at our election on 3 May because Australians don't like you or your brand of politics theconversation.com/donald-trump...theconversation.comDonald Trump has cast a long shadow over the Australian election. Will it prove decisive?It’s clear the second Trump administration is radically different from the first. This has rattled the right of Australian politics and worked to Labor’s advantage. 010
susiea2024.bsky.social @susiea2024.bsky.social · 06/04/2025@meidastouch.com Good Australian coverage of "hands off" protests. ABC reported hundreds of thousands of protesters in multiple cities. Good footage of crowds, including Paris and London. 030
susiea2024.bsky.social @susiea2024.bsky.social · 06/04/2025@meidastouch.com Fact check: Aust. Dept of Agriculture confirmed Australia has not banned US beef. Just have to demonstrate it comes from cattle born, raised and slaughtered in the US. 020
susiea2024.bsky.social @susiea2024.bsky.social · 06/04/2025@meidastouch.com From Australian news: "Perhaps historians will one day speak of the Trump years as the start of the anti-Americanisation century. Liberation Day would form part of that narrative, another milestone moment that brought shade on the United States rather than emitting golden sunlight" 010
susiea2024.bsky.social @susiea2024.bsky.social · 06/04/2025@meidastouch.com Australian news reporting on the "global backlash against trump". Highlighted air safety, Gaza, jd vance in Munich, musk and AfD, siding with Russia, gutting agencies, tariffs, threats to other nations, countries around the world rethinking their relationships with US. 011
susiea2024.bsky.social @susiea2024.bsky.social · 06/04/2025@meidastouch.com More from Australian news: America’s first felonious president has already defied courts, maligned judges, attacked individual journalists, sought to re-write the US Constitution with the flourish of his Sharpie pen and said he was “not joking” about seeking a third term. 000
susiea2024.bsky.social @susiea2024.bsky.social · 06/04/2025@meidastouch.com Also from Australian news: trump is hurting the election chances of the right in Australia. Polls currently swinging back to favour incumbent Labor (left) government. 000
susiea2024.bsky.social @susiea2024.bsky.social · 06/04/2025@meidastouch.com From Australian news: As the full consequences of a tariff maniac running amok in the White House become apparent, sending allies into crisis and global financial markets into freefall ... trump finished the week by flying to Florida for a self-congratulatory game of golf. 000
susiea2024.bsky.social @susiea2024.bsky.social · 08/03/2025@meidastouch.com Right wing TV personality, Basil Zempilas, not guaranteed to win seat, against expectations. 010
susiea2024.bsky.social @susiea2024.bsky.social · 08/03/2025@meidastouch.com Votes lost by returning left wing Western Australian government mostly not going to right wing, mostly going to independent or Greens candidates. 010
susiea2024.bsky.social @susiea2024.bsky.social · 08/03/2025@meidastouch.com Incumbent left wing state government in Western Australia on track to be returned for record third term. Reduced majority, but still significant majority. Premier Roger Cook referred to JD Vance as a "knob" last week. 020
susiea2024.bsky.social @susiea2024.bsky.social · 04/03/2025@meidastouch.com Great article in The Conversation today: "Has any nation squandered its diplomatic capital, plundered its own political system, attacked its partners and supplicated itself before its far weaker enemies as rapidly and brazenly as Donald Trump’s America?" 031
susiea2024.bsky.social @susiea2024.bsky.social · 08/02/2025@harrylitman.bsky.social The New South Wales (Australian state) Chief Justice criticised Trump, Musk and Zuckerberg yesterday. He said they threatened democracy. He also condemned the J6 and Ulbricht pardons. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...abc.net.auTrump, Musk putting democracy at risk, NSW chief justice warnsNSW chief justice Andrew Bell has issued a stern warning for democracy's future, saying he holds concerns with how Donald Trump, Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk are exercising their immense power. 061
susiea2024.bsky.social @susiea2024.bsky.social · 08/02/2025@mspopok.bsky.social The New South Wales (Australian state) Chief Justice criticised Trump, Musk and Zuckerberg yesterday. He said they threatened democracy. He also condemned the J6 and Ulbricht pardons. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...abc.net.auTrump, Musk putting democracy at risk, NSW chief justice warnsNSW chief justice Andrew Bell has issued a stern warning for democracy's future, saying he holds concerns with how Donald Trump, Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk are exercising their immense power. 020
susiea2024.bsky.social @susiea2024.bsky.social · 02/02/2025@andreachalupa.bsky.social Premier of Victoria (Australia) attended Pride March: "And I say to any right wing leader who wants to take their cues or take their notes from the MAGA movement in the USA that they have to come through me, through the Victorian Government and... the community first." 060
susiea2024.bsky.social @susiea2024.bsky.social · 01/02/2025@meidastouch.com Also from Australian Broadcasting Corporation: To Trump, a tragedy is an opportunity - to play politics. Criticised him for politicising the LA wildfires as well. The most telling aspect of Trump's response to tragedies is what it reveals about his leadership. Great article. 020
susiea2024.bsky.social @susiea2024.bsky.social · 01/02/2025@meidastouch.com From Australian Broadcasting Corp: (part 2) While (rescuers) worked in silence, the commander-in-chief used his platform not to honour their efforts, not to order flags flown at half-mast in respect for the victims, but to make a political point. 010
susiea2024.bsky.social @susiea2024.bsky.social · 01/02/2025@meidastouch.com From Australian Broadcasting Corp: (part 1) Has an American president ever profanely insulted a political opponent (Buttigieg) while trying to console a grieving nation in the wake of a horrific tragedy? 030
Reposted by @susiea2024.bsky.socialMom2Sadie @mom2sadie.bsky.social · 20/01/2025Decided to make this my first post. It is just symbolic BUT we must all do our part to be outwardly a d loudly comrades. 1165109
susiea2024.bsky.social @susiea2024.bsky.social · 22/01/2025@meidastouch.com Marco Rubio is meeting with Australia's Foreign Minister, Penny Wong, today. I hope he knows that she is gay and has more cartilage in the tip of her little finger than the entirety of MAGA and its snivelling sycophantic hangers on. 031
susiea2024.bsky.social @susiea2024.bsky.social · 22/01/2025@meidastouch.com I watched an EV review recently. The vehicle actually had a ZECF rating. ZECF = zero elon cringe factor. 000
susiea2024.bsky.social @susiea2024.bsky.social · 05/01/2025@meidastouch.com Sunday morning here in sunny Western Australia. Drinking coffee and catching up on the news. Thanks MTN, my "go to" news channel now. 041
susiea2024.bsky.social @susiea2024.bsky.social · 04/01/2025@meidastouch.com Congratulations on reaching 3.5 million subscribers 🏆 021
