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Tammy Wolffs

@tammy-w.bsky.social
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Living on Ngunnawal Country (Canberra), Australia, interested in social policy, health policy, politics and my community. Love music and dancing (mostly blues), movies and hot summer days (and nights).

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Tammy Wolffs @tammy-w.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Not sure yet whether this will be a break or departure from @bluesky - feeling very disillusioned right now. Thought this would be a great platform to express myself on #auspol and social/health policy, and have reconnected with many from X, and found others to follow and who have followed me. /1
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Tammy Wolffs @tammy-w.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Hartcher wants Marles to be as effective a Defence Minister as he is a hatchet man. Suspect his talent is building and wielding his own - not national - power! #Insiders #auspol
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Jessica D. M. 🇺🇦 🇦🇺 🇨🇦 🇵🇦 🇬🇱 🪃 🟧 @jessicaperthwa.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
#Auspol With the Greens being required to pass Legislation ( unless Labor do deals with the Coalition ). Labor and the Greens should work very hard at passing Legislation with little Drama. Thr Greens have a chance to rebuild confidence in them if they are seen to respect Labors mandate.
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Eric Bananarama @ericbanana.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Starmer’s ‘nothing’ deal with Trump is a warning sign for Albanese This is a list of concessions more than a trade deal, and one in which the UK is still subject to billions worth of tariffs that didn’t exist last year. #auspol
smh.com.au
Starmer’s ‘nothing’ deal with Trump is a warning sign for Albanese
Both leaders claimed a much-needed political win. Given the Trump administration’s desire to keep most tariffs in place, that might be all that’s up for grabs.
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Tammy Wolffs @tammy-w.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Marles is all about building his power base. If positions were decided on talent, rather than numbers, perhaps he’d be for the chopping block, instead of Dreyfus and Husic. #auspol
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Tammy Wolffs @tammy-w.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Price believes she’s going to save the Liberal Party. Clearly doesn’t get that her divisive, combative and right wing politics were part of the problem. The Libs ignored the 2022 election postmortem. With Price taking a leadership role, will they do the same in 2025? #auspol
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Tammy Wolffs @tammy-w.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
The Greens were elected to negotiate better outcomes. Instead, they obstructed until the 11th hour and then let everything through. Yet, they still want to blame preferences (in a preferential voting system). #AfternoonBriefing #auspol #AusVotes25
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Hannah Shelley, MLIS (Maggots, Lycanthropes & Ice Skeletons) @hannahshelley.site · 05/05/2025
Can’t believe I’m saying this, but the Greens should take a leaf out of Peter Dutton’s book and show some dignity in defeat. Whining about preferential voting - a cornerstone of fair representation in Australia - because it's not going their way, is a very bad look. #auspol
abc.net.au
'Tough results' for Greens, as leader Adam Bandt fights close contest for his seat
The Greens camp watches the vote count with bittersweet feelings, after two losses in Queensland but the chance of gains elsewhere. Meanwhile, their party leader remains in a close fight, his vote goi...
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Tammy Wolffs @tammy-w.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Holly Hughes won't be voting for Taylor in the leadership ballot. Not only stabbed her in the back, but developed no economic policy in 3 years, can't sell a message, was no challenge to Chalmers, divisive ... #RNBreakfast #auspol #AusVotes25 #postmortem
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Tammy Wolffs @tammy-w.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Holly Hughes submitted 7 fully costed mental health and suicide prevention policies that went down a black hole. She says colleagues had similar experiences. #RNBreakfast #auspol #AusVotes25 #postmortem
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Tammy Wolffs @tammy-w.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Guess Mike Pezzullo can put his house back on the market now? #auspol #AusVotes25
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Tammy Wolffs @tammy-w.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Zero lessons learnt! #auspol #AusVotes25 #SMH
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Pnkl @bopeep99999.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Seismic. Not a single mainstream media outlet predicted or supported this result. From the Guardian & ABC to Sky News. Roy Morgan polling closest to nailing it, months ago, and they were dismissed as "outliers".... #auspol
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Tammy Wolffs @tammy-w.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Or, as articulated by Laura Tingle, "... the Greens adopted grievance politics. And they have also been comprehensively rejected." #auspol #Ausvotes25 #RealityCheck www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...
abc.net.au
Beyond Dutton's loss, this is a chance for a new type of politics in Australia
The comprehensive nature of this win gives Anthony Albanese the chance to change the narrative of our politics.
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Tammy Wolffs @tammy-w.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
You'd've thought the message voters sent to the Coalition in 2022 was clear enough. Reckon they heard it this time? #AusVotes25 #auspol
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Tammy Wolffs @tammy-w.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
I seriously don't understand what's happened to the welcoming multicultural Melbourne I grew up in😢 #auspol #AusVotes25 www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
sbs.com.au
Police investigating 'disgusting' display of 'no black', 'no Muslim' votes banners
Police say they are investigating reports of "offensive slogans" displayed above a freeway in Melbourne.
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Tammy Wolffs @tammy-w.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Pretty clear now that the community made a decisive and deliberate choice. There was not a movement to replace Govt members with Greens and independents like in 2022. #auspol #AusVotes25
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Tim Dunlop @timdunlop.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Can we just spare a thought, too, for the official end of News Corp as a political force. No one outside an aging political class pays any attention to them.
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Tammy Wolffs @tammy-w.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
#TheAge reporting Greens running an open ticket in Deakin in retaliation for Macnamara. A seat that could make or break Lib’s Sukkar. For a party that claims it wants to keep the Coalition out, it seems to be cutting its nose off despite its face. #auspol #AusVotes25
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Tammy Wolffs @tammy-w.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Seems Taylor was suggesting the way natural attrition in the #PublicService will work to not replace people, while only cutting Canberra jobs, will be to move a Canberra person to another location whenever someone leaves a regional job. #ChessPieces #auspol #AusVotes25 #RNBreakfast
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Tammy Wolffs @tammy-w.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Despite Taylor’s claims of a long announced policy, the only reference to #vaping in the Liberal Party’s Election Policies’ website is a revenue line in the Budget Plan. #HealthPolicy #auspol #AusVotes25 #RNBreakfast
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Tammy Wolffs @tammy-w.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
#auspol #AusVotes #HealthPolicy
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nightwriter01.bsky.social @nightwriter01.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Dutton is literally walking back on a number of his ‘policies’ with his ‘changes to curriculum to stop indoctrination’ being the latest. So what is it that they actually stand for - nuclear power is all I can fathom. As they say, if you don’t know, vote no #auspol #putLNPlast
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RD @rylandawson.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
This is probably as close to an endorsement from Trump we get in the final days so I’ll take it! Should help hammer the final nail in the Dutton coffin #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
theguardian.com
Trump campaign chief claims he visited Australia to advise Liberals at start of election campaign
Exclusive: Chris LaCivita, Trump’s presidential campaign co-manager, tells undercover reporters he advised on ‘structural issues’ related to Peter Dutton; the Coalition denies LaCivita was involved in...
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Tammy Wolffs @tammy-w.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Peter Dutton packing food for charity, when what people really need is the dignity of increases to income support payments and minimum wages. #auspol #AusVotes25 #RaiseTheRate
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Tammy Wolffs @tammy-w.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
The PM is in fine form at the #NPC, demonstrating the same confidence he did at his address in the week before the last election. Now, as then, it seems to reflect confidence in where his intel is telling him #AusVote25 will land. #auspol
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Tammy Wolffs @tammy-w.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
The discussion on #QandA shifts from First Nations communities/people to migrants to China, normalising racism. The neo Nazis who heckled the ANZAC Day Welcome to Country must be celebrating their win. #auspol #AusVotes25
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Tammy Wolffs @tammy-w.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Can someone please help me understand how, on Friday and Sunday, a mainstream political leader can condemn neo Nazis for interrupting Welcome to Country at an ANZAC Day service and, on Monday, support Neo Nazis’ calls to not have a Welcome to Country at ANZAC Day events? #auspol #AusVotes25
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Fiona @fimelb99.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
I explained informal voting to my 12yo son tonight. Now he wants to grow up to draw a dick on his ballot. I’ve clearly failed as a parent 🤦‍♀️ #auspol
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#135YearsInSolidarity @laborforus.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
So Labor wins the Ch7 debate overall 50-25, or by 50 percent. On the specifics, Labor win at cost of living, housing pooicy, tax policy and the 'zeitguist'. Liberals win at kicking Aboriginals and Sinophobia. #auspol #leadersdebate
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Tammy Wolffs @tammy-w.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
I’d take a bet that Dutton was briefed on the cost of a loaf a bread. 🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚 🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚 #LeadersDebate #auspol #AusVotes
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Tammy Wolffs @tammy-w.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Looks like Dutton, behind in the polls, took a shot and dialled up the aggro - and it backfired! #LeadersDebate #auspol #AusVotes25
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Tammy Wolffs @tammy-w.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Paterson prosecuting the same argument on #CostOfLiving as his leader lost with the audience in the last hour. What makes him think him saying them would have a different result? #LeadersDebate #auspol #AusVotes25
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Tammy Wolffs @tammy-w.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Holy sh*t - it’s The Worm!!!!! #LeadersDebate #auspol #AusVotes25
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🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🍉 @chrishehim.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Peter Dutton “I am an emotional person particularly where I see...stories of kids being harmed.” 😳 He's a sociopath! #auspol #AusVotes25 #TemuTrump #qanda #abc730
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Tammy Wolffs @tammy-w.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Does Bridget McKenzie have any understanding of the migration program? She says the Coalition will cut student visas but not working holiday visas because cuts only apply permanent migration🙄 #auspol #AusVotes25 #Insiders
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Tammy Wolffs @tammy-w.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
The hypocrisy of it all! Bridget McKenzie saying people should pay the “real price” of EVs. Yet the Coalition has promised to restore subsidies and remove emission penalties so tradies and other business owners can buy their horrid monster utes at taxpayer expense! #auspol #AusVotes #Insiders
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🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🍉 @chrishehim.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Dutton with disgraced Trump loving candidate Jeremy Neal said there's a lot of diversity in Cairns so he wants to talk to as many old white men, young white men, bald and not bald white men.🙄🤡 #auspol #AusVotes25 #TemuTrump #LNPNeveragain #insiders
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Tammy Wolffs @tammy-w.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Heading to Melb this weekend, so prepolled today. Queue was along right face of the building, with ALP, Pocock, Price how to vote reps. Libs were out in force, too, just along the empty left stretch of the building🤣 No matter, can’t imagine they expect too many Canberra votes! #auspol #AusVotes25
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Guild Navigator Ix @guildnavigatorix.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
I stand with Uncle Mark Brown in Melbourne today #anzac #auspol
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Eric Bananarama @ericbanana.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Teal Seats : Dutton is absent for good reason. Liberals admit that he will drag down the vote for a Liberal candidate in a teal seat if he turns up at a polling station. “It would not be doing them any favours to be seen campaigning with him,” says one. #auspol www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
smh.com.au
How can you tell you’re in a teal seat? Dutton is nowhere to be seen
The Liberals have changed their strategy in the so-called teal seats. But once again, the party leader is seen as kryptonite for Liberal challengers.
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Tammy Wolffs @tammy-w.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Any doubts about the Coalition’s lack of commitment to #ClimateAction? They will: * Remove the penalties on high emission vehicles - keeping the incentive (with the instant asset write off) to buy monster utes/suvs, while * cutting the FBT exemption on new EVs.😡 #auspol #AusVotes25
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Tammy Wolffs @tammy-w.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
A bit of hubris in Littleproud’s claim, “You don’t need to go where you’ve already won the votes.” Pretty sure the people in the electorates earmarked for nuclear reactors that he was talking about won’t be too impressed! #auspol #AusVotes25
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Aaron Dodd @aarondodd.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Dutton's trainwreck defence announcement was everything that is wrong with his campaign #auspol www.crikey.com.au/2025/04/24/p...
crikey.com.au
Dutton's trainwreck defence announcement was everything that is wrong with his campaign
Peter Dutton could have made a virtue of his big increase in defence spending. Instead, the announcement turned into farce, symbolising everything wrong with his campaign.
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Tammy Wolffs @tammy-w.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
The position to abolish the HAFF, to provide homes for low income earners, while allowing draw down of super and tax deductions for higher income home buyers should send a powerful signal to anyone not yet convinced of where the Coalition’s interests lie. #Housing #auspol #AusVotes25
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Matthew Toohey @tooheymatthew.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
My GP referred me to a community mental health clinic recently for (a) advice on possibly adjusting my medication and (b) referral to the (relatively new) Outreach Psychosocial Services support offered through Mind Australia. 1/
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Tammy Wolffs @tammy-w.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Gosh, how much can you squeeze out of the attrition of 41,000 public servants? First it was $8.3b to match Labor’s Medicare commitment. Now (together with tax increases) it’s going to cover $21b in #Defence. #auspol #AusVotes25 #SMH
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Tammy Wolffs @tammy-w.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Butler believes in a strong, expert and committed Department on Health to progress an ambitious #HealthReform agenda. Taking an indiscriminate axe to the public service threatens good public policy. #NPC #HealthDebate #auspol #AusVotes25
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Tammy Wolffs @tammy-w.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Butler rejects Ruston's claim of 88% bulk billing under the Coalition and asks why people should believe another Coalition govt wouldn't cut Medicare again. #HealthDebate #NPC #auspol #AusVotes25
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