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Greg C

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Retired lifelong IT professional. Renovating a cottage near Freycinet National Park and travelling out of the Tasmanian winter to warmer parts in Asia. Avid diver and sometimes bird photographer. Somewhat left of Labor and sometimes left of the greens.

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Twang 🍉 @twangmaker.bsky.social · 10h
US surveillance company Palantir has hired former Labor minister Stephen Conroy to rehabilitate its reputation in Canberra After supermarket giant Coles "was targeted by woke campaigners" it doesn't want its $17 million in federal government contracts put at risk www.afr.com/rear-window/... #auspol
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Palantir calls on Stephen Conroy for reputation rehabilitation
With $17 million in federal government contracts on the line, the spy data giant is desperate for friends in Canberra.
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Sirius Star 🍉 🍉 🍉 @siriusstar3.bsky.social · 18h
“Labor does not consult with or listen to the wider population or to Labor constituencies in the poorer half of the community. Rather, it is a classical crony government, in many respects worse than the Morrison government, governing for its mates, its donors and itself.” #Auspol
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Albanese has shifted his party sharply to the right in pursuit of his aim of making Labor
"the natural party of government"
". Doing so is helping to squeeze the Coalition between Labor and Pauline Hanson's One Nation party. Not coincidentally his policy shifts have made Labor more attractive to an array of fundamentally anti-Labor vested interests and put Labor in their thrall. Mates, cronies, party donors, lobbyists and insiders work to the
disadvantage of the interests of the constituencies he has pretended to champion.
Albanese knows this but thinks he can get away with it. Those fashioning the pitch for the Greens as a party of wider influence would argue that Albanese and Labor can no longer be seen to be a progressive party, or a socially democratic one. Labor's internal administrative structures have atrophied, to the benefit of party insiders, who have always included Albanese himself. The party conference is about as responsible to or responsive to a wider Labor membership as the Chinese Communist Party. As in China, party meetings are stage-managed to predetermined
conclusions.
Is this an Albanese Liberal government, or a Labor one? Many of Labor's old constituents see the broad policies of the Albanese government as
being in no significant way different from those of the Coalition parties which preceded it. It has become at least as deceitful and dishonest about sincere action on climate change. It is now the party of big coal and big gas. Nearly always, more frequently under present environment management, the interests of the fossil fuels industry, and their subsidiary the West Australian government, will be preferred over environmental, heritage or Aboriginal interests. That the handmaiden of this surrender is the environment ministerNor has Labor, on its record, any reason for seeing strident criticism from within as some sort of undeserved betrayal. The Albanese government deserves no leave pass. Nor anything like a pass mark for generally good conduct. It is not a model of good
government, of effective government or efficient government. It has become the problem.
Good intentions cannot excuse bad performance Insiders and intimates of ministers get secretive deals and jobs, some of which involve a major corruption of principles of open, transparent and accountable government. Labor does not even have open debate within its caucuses, because the two senior faction leaders, Albanese and Richard Marles, play the politics of reward and punishment, and the
allocation of jobs, not by merit but by loyalty and silence. Labor does not consult with or listen to the wider population or to Labor constituencies in the poorer half of the community. Rather, it is a classical crony government, in many respects worse than the Morrison government, governing for its mates, its donors and itself. It treats public money and things as spoils to be distributed among its own. It listens primarily to vested interests paying for their access. Labor has consciously nobbled many of the watchdogs and anti-corruption agencies. Indeed, Labor has attempted to completely strangle freedom of information and might have succeeded had it not been for Green and
independent outrage. Labor policies and practices on immigration neither follow the party's own policies nor the
nation's broad economic interests but are a reprehensible piece of pandering to
manufactured One Nation panic. This has not been an occasion in which the party, perhaps reluctantly, switches to accommodate vagaries of public opinion. Labor's policies damage the nation economically,
morally, socially and culturally.
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Dark Matter Zine @darkmatterzine.bsky.social · 16h
the ABC has accused the Greens of becoming “populist” and shifting to the right to chase the PHON vote. I read probably half or more of that article and they didn’t provide ANY justification for that claim. Media is out with knives, even Aunty.
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MediaActive ▪️EQUALITY ▪️JUSTICE ▪️PEACE @mediaactive.bsky.social · 17h
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Ette Media @ettemedia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Our data dive highlights how the public broadcaster can — at times — echo the Australian government’s views and international relationships, despite evidence and the expectations of international law. This was particularly prevalent with one country: Israel. Listen to the full episode below.
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EXCLUSIVE: ABC 7.30’s interview bias unpacked
Podcast Episode · We Used to be Journos · 29 September · 1hr 24min · Video
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Tomorrow's front page 📰 New satellite pictures lay bare Israel's destruction of Gaza
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patriciaadvocate.bsky.social @patriciaadvocate.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If rules are gone at the White House…. www.facebook.com/reel/1590723...
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marque lawyers @marquelawyers.com.au · 28/09/2026
Google is updating its satellite images of Gaza. The comprehensiveness of effort required to reduce an urban landscape to this is beyond imagining. Literal carpet bombing.
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mariewalsh18.bsky.social @mariewalsh18.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Greg C @tasgreg.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
#4Corners #ABCNewsBreakfast While we make a big drama on the Chinese electric cars spying on us.... Let's also note the Ford, Tesla, Toyota, Mazda, Kia and Hyundai connected brands. I think I am equally concerned about the Ford and Tesla origins along with the Chinese brands.
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Greg C @tasgreg.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
#BirdLife #Wildlife #SriLanka Asian Green Bee Eater at Yala National Park
 Little green bird on a stick
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Greg C @tasgreg.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
#BirdLife #Wildlife #SriLanka A Malabar Pied Hornbill at Yala National Park
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marque lawyers @marquelawyers.com.au · 15/09/2026
Ed Sheeran explains that he has nothing to do with the Ed Sheeran tour that features Ed Sheeran playing Ed Sheeran songs, thereby restoring his reputation completely.
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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Good question
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Greg C @tasgreg.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Oh dear! A$150,000 tax bill. Out of the blue, a notice from the tax office. Really? A burger shop owner doesn't have an accountant to sort it out. Albo and Labor make it so difficult. Then, we find, she was a director and sold the company to her husband #auspol au.finance.yahoo.com/news/burger-...
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
It’s been 10 years since Robodebt began and there’s still no government commitment to introduce safeguards for automated decision-making tools in the Australian Public Service www.medicalrepublic.com.au/no-more-robo...
medicalrepublic.com.au
No more Robodebt: new push for guardrails on government algorithms - Medical Republic
A new private member’s bill would impose mandatory transparency, human oversight and review rights as automated decision-making expands across aged care, the NDIS and other Commonwealth services.
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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"Britain is putting sanctions on Israel's illegal settlements, but what about UK nationals who live on them? Labour's Sam Rushworth asks Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband if he will take action against them." youtube.com/shorts/nYgHM...
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Will Israeli settlers from Britain face sanctions?
YouTube video by Declassified UK
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Greg C @tasgreg.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
And they are not alone there! Source: Simple Flying share.google/SRhbA4VtOZ6A...
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How Ryanair Built Europe's Most Profitable Airline By Making Flying As Uncomfortable As Possible
The airline seemingly doesn't see comfort or luxury as essential for being successful.
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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Irish President Catherine Connolly to Trump, “I conveyed the strong view of the Irish people that the normalisation of war and genocide can never be accepted'. Trump walked away angry & pouting as usual whenever he encounters a strong intelligent woman. Another day. Another embarrassment. ==========
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Jean Proudman @bluejeans58.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
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Send Hillel Newman home: Australia has tolerated his contempt long enough - Michael West
Sneering, denying, lecturing, lying. Andrew Brown puts the case for the Australian government to expel Israeli Ambassador Hillel Newman.
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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Nick McKim has torched Matt Canavan & Angus Taylor for their misogyny, ‘fueling the toxic manosphere”, ‘blaming women’ & making claims of ‘femisation of schools’ “What does that even mean?” “Real men don’t blame women when life gets tough.”💥💯
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elizabethohara.bsky.social @elizabethohara.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Jesus Christ, and Barnaby’s accountant - for a fee.
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Jinjirrie @jinjirrie.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
'More than 500 Australian doctors and medical students, including a Nobel laureate, have signed an open letter calling on the federal government to “move from statements of concern to action” regarding Israel’s genocide in #Gaza.' www.deepcutnews.com/p/500-health... #BDS #Israel #auspol
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500+ health professionals defy AHPRA in open letter on Gaza
Nobel laureate among signatories who declare that silence on the slaughter of Palestinian children is a "failure of our ethical obligations”
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Greg C @tasgreg.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
#OneNotion #AustralianSuper Is it clear that it's not actually "all their money". The 15% super-im tax will apply but it won't be charged at the full tax rate. So! Some of that is actually a tax discount!
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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 07/09/2026
Australia’s top bureaucrats want to block sharing of clips from parliament on social media to save them from ‘ridicule’
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Australia’s top bureaucrats want to block sharing of clips from parliament on social media to save them from ‘ridicule’
Secretaries board concerned material posted without proper context as Greens warn ban could result in lack of transparency The nation’s top bureaucrats want the Albanese government to ban video footage from parliamentary hearings being edited and shared on social media by politicians, in an extraordinary attempt to stop online ridicule and abuse. But the Greens say highly paid public service chiefs shouldn’t be allowed to control footage from open parliamentary hearings, warning the proposed controls would limit a key tool of government transparency. The secretaries board – made up of the heads of government departments and chaired by the Prime Minister and Cabinet boss Steven Kennedy – said they were concerned about material from hearings being presented online without proper context. Continue reading...
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Simon Gosden @simongosden.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Nigel Farage tells BBC he 'wasn't listening' during foreign donor talks filmed undercover. That’s pathetic, it’s like a year 9 student claiming the dog ate my homework.
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Nigel Farage tells BBC he 'wasn't listening' in foreign donor talks
The Reform leader also told the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg that his family are "begging" him to leave his job.
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Jewish Council of Australia @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Our statement responding to the news that Israel will not be pursuing criminal liability for the murder of Zomi Frankcom or her fellow aid workers. We renewed calls for sanctions, the expulsion of the Israeli ambassador, and demands for justice: www.jewishcouncil.com.au/2026/08/comp...
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Twang 🍉 @twangmaker.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
It seems unprecedented that any foreign military be allowed to form a team to run in an Australian marathon. Australia doesn't do military parades. Tony Burke needs to explain to the Australian people why he granted visas to allow the IDF to run through city streets in the Sydney Marathon. #auspol
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SUPPORTING PALESTINE @apirus.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
#israel #settlements #palestine #west-bank
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Ebony Bennett @ebonybennett.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Zomi Frankcom did not deserve to die. She and her six colleagues were traveling in a clearly marked humanitarian convoy to distribute food to starving Palestinians on a route that had been communicated...to the IDF. It bombed them deliberately and repeatedly. www.theguardian.com/world/commen...
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Zomi Frankcom did not deserve to die. Israel’s refusal to investigate her death and its failure to apologise is despicable | Geoffrey Robertson
The Israeli ambassador has claimed ‘a court came to a decision that there’s no criminal liability’ but there is no evidence that any court has been involved
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The president is making US policy friendlier to North Korea and Russia than Canada and Oman. Are you kidding me?
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ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil was killed and her 21-year-old colleague Zeinab Faraj was seriously injured in IDF strikes that human rights groups allege were deliberate.
abc.net.au
Israel accused of targeting journalists in deadly series of strikes
Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil was killed and her 21-year-old colleague Zeinab Faraj was seriously injured in IDF strikes that human rights groups allege were deliberate.
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
lol at Coles suddenly sending a letter to Getup demanding they take down digital ads about Coles surveillance data partnership with Palantir because it featured footage of a Coles staff member and “breached their privacy”
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Wendy&Co @wendy59.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
#Auspol #Genocide #NoMoreWars
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AliceK - globalise the innitafucker @coalisdead.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
They requested people leave. so that they could destroy the main medical warehouse next to Al Aqsa hospital. Tents were destroyed & a few injuries.. but there can be no medical supplies in Gaza. International crimes must be maintained by sadists
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Running out of body bags, using forklifts to transfer corpses into makeshift morgues, a mortician conducting 200 funerals in a month when he usually does 30, crematories running at double capacity… And these senators just want to memory-hole it all www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/n...
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‘We Ran Out of Space’: Bodies Pile Up as N.Y. Struggles to Bury Its Dead (Gift Article)
The coronavirus crisis is overwhelming New York’s system for burying the dead.
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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Watch Commissioner Bell shut down Michael Borsky KC who objects to the mention of “plausible genocide” in Gaza. Bell not having any of it.💥 youtu.be/INOCM-QWnTk?...
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💥Commissioner Bell torches Borsky KC for objecting to the mention of “plausible genocide” in Gaza.
YouTube video by stranger777
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Bill Oddie, naturalist and broadcaster, dies aged 85 www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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Bill Oddie, naturalist and broadcaster, dies aged 85
Coming to fame in The Goodies, Oddie was later known for his wildlife expertise and presented BBC Springwatch
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Greg C @tasgreg.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Watching #ABCNews24 where the university VCs say they failed Jewish students by not (violently) closing as Jewish students were verbally abused ABC has a good protest by showing the 'poor abused' Jewish students carrying a large Israel flag through the protect. Is Zionism and I would tell them to FO
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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
New: The false material and bad-faith arguments presented by Jillian Segal against the ABC and SBS draw attention to deeper flaws in the royal commission
nickfeik.substack.com
A Nadir for the Royal Commission
How it became a platform for Jillian Segal's attack on the public broadcasters
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Always a Difficult Earth Girl🐬🐨🐋🦘🦈 @scuttlebutter1.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Segal's arguments & attacks on media outlets over supposedly 'grossly over-inflated' death, or likely death, tolls tells us all we need to know when she cannot even utter even a ounce of compassion for ANY of the deaths, for any of the 14,000 Palestinians children likely to die BECAUSE OF ISRAEL.
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Greg C @tasgreg.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Interesting the cost for Iran to keep the Straits open was $2mill/ship or $1 to $2 per barrel. The trump wants 20% which is $16 a barrel. Which ransom do we prefer? And is used to be free! #iran #ransom #trump #auspol
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Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Not ABC bias, Ms Segal? Exactly is.
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gmf 1979 🇦🇺 @gmf1979.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Is Facebook going under like all Trump businesses? ==========================
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 11/07/2026
US Congressman Ro Khanna says Israeli settlers armed with US-made rifles detained his delegation while touring Palestinian communities in the occupied West Bank. The Israeli military says troops intervened after receiving reports of blocked vehicles, allowing the convoy to proceed.
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
For the Aussies Segal insists it’s too “difficult” to answer how she justifies attacking ABC’s Gaza coverage, when just 4 of “literally thousands” Ombudsman complaints are actually substantiated.🙄 Pathetic Then attacks ombudsman’s “standards”, wants her personally endorsed standards. Dangerous 🤬🤬🤬
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ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
When a group of Jewish mates decided to support a newly arrived Muslim family, all of their lives would change. Together they have flipped expectations about religion and friendship.
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Two religions, one friendship group and a whole lot of kindness
When a group of Jewish mates decided to support a newly arrived Muslim family, all of their lives would change. Together they have flipped expectations about religion and friendship.
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gwenoc.bsky.social @gwenoc.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
A reasonable question. Who had the answer?
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