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Gary Tippet. Once award-winning scribe now superannuated scribbler. Ex-Age & Sunday Age. Interests: Politics, Aussie Rules, Food & Wine, dogs. Leans left. Melbourne/Naarm. Oz.

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tippsu.bsky.social @tippsu.bsky.social · 1h
When RoCo writes it, you should read it.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1h
Today, Pretend Patton lectured men who don't, unlike Pete Hegseth, have makeup rooms, on the traditional norms for manliness.
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Cam Walker @camwalker.bsky.social · 1h
Today's headlines: - Antarctic winter sea ice falls to third-lowest level on record as scientists warn of ‘now problem’ - Evidence builds showing climate change could be intensifying El Niño events - Ocean heatwaves are hiding months of extra warming Meanwhile, One Nation:
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Rex Patrick @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social · 2h
Defence Minister Richard Marles is oblivious to that which is obvious to everybody else: Britain cannot deliver our future #AUKUS subs on schedule (if at all). Luckily for Richard, it’s only our money and national security that’s at stake. #auspol
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Why Britain cannot deliver SSN-AUKUS on schedule
Britain says SSN-AUKUS remains on track. But its shipyards are already stretched while new reactor and workforce capacity is still being built. Australia is betting heavily on that gap being closed in...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h
The fact is Trump not only lost his war but it's the biggest L the US has taken at least since Vietnam. Our bases are destroyed & abandoned, Iran is emboldened, China is toying w/ us. Hegseth & co want to move on to culture war slop, but they got routed & we'll be dealing w/repercussions for decades
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Adam Morton @adammorton.bsky.social · 20h
A story of our time: Approval of biggest coal project in NSW planning commission’s history described as ‘infamous betrayal’. Independent Planning Commission says climate change impacts from Hunter Valley project will be ‘outweighed’ by economic benefits.
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Approval of biggest coal project in NSW planning commission’s history described as ‘infamous betrayal’
Independent Planning Commission says climate change impacts from Hunter Valley project will be ‘outweighed’ by economic benefits
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Victorian Socialists @vicsocialists.bsky.social · 19h
Given Wonthaggi was known for much of the 20th century as 'red Wonthaggi' - the site of multiple fierce industrial battles between Australian governments and the communist-led miners' union - it's highly doubtful this is the first time the red flag has been planted in Bass.
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tippsu.bsky.social @tippsu.bsky.social · 18h
Attention @weratedogs.com Here’s one for you from Downunder.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 29/09/2026
Google Maps images show scale of Israel's destruction of Gaza, where more than 74,000 Palestinians have been killed.
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Satellite images show Gaza in ruins three years into Israel's genocidal war
Google Maps images show scale of Israel's destruction of Gaza, where more than 74,000 Palestinians have been killed.
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Heroine, definitely
nytimes.com
Heroine or Public Enemy? The Israeli Blocking Much of Netanyahu’s Agenda.
Gali Baharav-Miara, Israel’s first female attorney general, has stopped many of the government’s efforts to remove constraints on its power.
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tippsu.bsky.social @tippsu.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Know known as SpaceXplode.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Captain Iran.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Anti-vaxxers deserve your total contempt.
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Dan Ilic @danilic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Newscorp spreads climate denialism in Australia — and now?
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Google has started updating satellite images of Gaza. Holocaust. (📸 Barry Andrews MEP, European Parliament)
A single building is left standing amidst utter carnage. Every single building has been levelled across a few square miles pictures. Google maps identified one pile of rubble as a school.
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tippsu.bsky.social @tippsu.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Their flights were scheduled to leave at Wharfie Time.
thewest.com.au
‘Disgrace’: Dockers fans hit back as Perth flights cancelled
‘It’s cost me $6000 for return flights with Virgin and another $3100 today to get back with Qantas instead. It’s an absolute disgrace – we came over for the grand final and can’t get home.’
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jeniport.bsky.social @jeniport.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Naturally, I must concur. But despite equal Proud Mum energy, this is terrific, people-oriented journalism. #ABC
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tippsu.bsky.social @tippsu.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Proud Dad moment. In case you missed it in this stacked-with-highlights Grand Final week, this is a brilliant, inspiring, moving yarn from my boy, Harrison Tippet on the ABC. It’s about what footy can mean to its people and communities, their health, well-being, and spirit. Kicks a goal #AFL #FOOTY
abc.net.au
How 'Auskick for oldies' is saving lives in country Victoria
Aussie Rules football for over-35s is booming in country Victoria, where players are reaping the rewards of community and connection.
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Tony Martin @tonymartin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Hard to believe the guy who tried to do a secret deal with the NRA to water down Australia’s gun laws for cash would be involved in something dodgy. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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One Nation admits using party funds to build $56,000 shed on James Ashby’s private property
Email to members says money lent to a party-linked company to establish a micro distillery
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AusPoast @daryltractor.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“Football doesn’t promise to be fair.” Name a better sports photographer than the AFL’s Michael Willson. Unmatched.
Photo by Michael Wilson of Fremantle captain Alex Pearce, on crutches, hobbling past the premiership cup after his team lost in the dying moments of the AFL grand final. Pearce suffered a match-ending Achilles injury and watched from the defeat from the sidelines. As an aside, Pearce is a very decent human who didn’t deserve this.
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Luke Foley @lukefoley.me · 27/09/2026
It was the moment that turned everything upside down for them. Freo know that it cost them the premiership. RIP Wharfie Time 💀
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tippsu.bsky.social @tippsu.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Proud Dad moment. In case you missed it in this stacked-with-highlights Grand Final week, this is a brilliant, inspiring, moving yarn from my boy, Harrison Tippet on the ABC. It’s about what footy can mean to its people and communities, their health, well-being, and spirit. Kicks a goal #AFL #FOOTY
abc.net.au
How 'Auskick for oldies' is saving lives in country Victoria
Aussie Rules football for over-35s is booming in country Victoria, where players are reaping the rewards of community and connection.
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Truth 💥 🤣🎉
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Rohan Connolly @rohanconnolly65.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Absolutely unbelievable! 17 points down with 4:18 left on the cloc & still Brisbane get off the canvas. There's been better grand finals but none with a more amazing finish. Will Ashcroft, Zac Bailey enormous, Logan Morris another Lion to pull something out after a quiet day. #AFLGF #AFLFreoLions
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tippsu.bsky.social @tippsu.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
So much for Wharfie Time. They took an early knock-off. #AFLGF
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Luke Foley @lukefoley.me · 26/09/2026
I can’t wait for Fox to get simultaneous broadcast rights, I hope that day comes sooner rather than later.
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Michael Dowling aka MeckeringBoy @meckeringboy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Not a drag queen. Not a migrant. Not a refugee. Not a Muslim.
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tippsu.bsky.social @tippsu.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
One Nation. A perpetual grift and rort machine.
theage.com.au
One Nation defends $56k party spent on Ashby shed as ‘unconventional’ fundraiser
The minor party’s general manager assured members the “unconventional” endeavour would benefit the party.
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marque lawyers @marquelawyers.com.au · 24/09/2026
Man allowed to address UN General Assembly while subject to an arrest warrant of the International Criminal Court on war crimes charges, sure why not
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Wear The Peace @wearthepeace.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Actress Susan Sarandon being arrested earlier today for protesting Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech at the United Nations. One is speaking out against genocide, one is committing it. One was arrested, one was not.
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Peter Monk @unfairrobot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Just a reminder that this kind of dodgy graft is what PHON live for and that this is how they'll run the country. #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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One Nation admits using party funds to build $56,000 shed on James Ashby’s private property
Email to members says money lent to a party-linked company to establish a micro distillery
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tonywindsor.bsky.social @tonywindsor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Mass walkout against mass murderer…Australia sqibbed it.
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tippsu.bsky.social @tippsu.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Latika is a hyper-partisan blot on journalism.
theage.com.au
News24 merch sold using the face of pro-migrant influencer
A Brazilian-Latvian influencer who has spoken out about racism is the inadvertent face of T-shirts for the conservative news and opinion outlet.
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Tim Baxter @timinclimate.naruresearch.com.au · 23/09/2026
While the LNP fall over themselves to prove that they are worse than One Nation, this year's El Niño - which is both stacked on top of and worsened by global use of coal, oil and gas - is anticipated to kill almost half a million people from the heat alone.
theguardian.com
Huge El Niño projected to cause more than 450,000 deaths by February
New report predicts a heavy toll from Nigeria to the US – and comes on top of existing impacts of the climate crisis
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ABC News Australia @news.abc.net.au · 23/09/2026
Majority of Territory Labor caucus opposes fracking, contradicting opposition's official position
abc.net.au
NT Labor fracking stand-off emerges as caucus members voice opposition
Four of Labor's six politicians in the Northern Territory parliament are personally opposed to fracking, contradicting the opposition's official position.
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Possum @pollytics.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The hide of chronic political deadshits like Hockey having "budget thoughts". He gave us gigantic deficits, while trying to dismantle superannuation that provides large forward pension savings, and supported a zoo of tax expenditures fucking the budget line for decades www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
abc.net.au
Former treasurer says economic reform in Australia will take 'financial crisis'
Former treasurer Joe Hockey says meaningful fiscal reform is not possible in Australia as it often conflicts with voters' economic self-interest. He says it will take a "crisis" for governments to ena...
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Tim Baxter @timinclimate.naruresearch.com.au · 23/09/2026
Very sensible and serious members of the Australian political commentariat like to claim that climate change has lost its political salience. Meanwhile, the lunatic right barely find the time to discuss anything else.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 23/09/2026
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com It is not too late for radical rethinking before a full-blown A.I.-driven crisis, our columnist @thomaslfriedman.bsky.social writes. “I’d rather be remembered as the boy who cried wolf when the wolf never came than as someone who got eaten by it.”
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Opinion | A.I.: Let’s Not Have Another Failure of Imagination
It’s not too late to avoid the potential disasters of A.I. Covid-19 and 9/11 taught us how to prepare.
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tippsu.bsky.social @tippsu.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Ever regressive, the LNP. And utterly in the pocket of the fossil fuel industry. For the sake of your children and grandchildren and the planet, never ever vote for these future-wreckers.
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tippsu.bsky.social @tippsu.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Mark sounds like something of a prick.
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Australian Conservation Foundation @ausconservation.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Coalition offers no plan to protect Australians from climate harm, announcing it would abolish the safeguard mechanism, scrap new vehicle efficiency standards and offshore wind zones and attempt to lift the national moratorium on nuclear power generation. #auspol www.acf.org.au/news/coaliti...
acf.org.au
Coalition shows it has no climate policy
The Coalition has basically declared it has no climate policy. Its eight energy priorities, announced today, include no plan to provide clean, cheaper,…
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Tim Stephens @proftimstephens.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
On climate policy, the Coalition under Angus Taylor is even worse than under Tony Abbott. #auspol
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Maureen Chuck @irmagherd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"Professor Howe has repeatedly engaged in harassment, abuse, and doxxing of individuals online. Such actions not only violate basic principles of human rights but also foster a toxic environment that is contrary to the respectful discourse that universities should encourage." c.org/wZmNKTg6pq
c.org
Sign the Petition
Demand the removal of Professor Joanna Howe from Adelaide University
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Renew Economy @reneweconomy.com.au · 22/09/2026
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” reneweconomy.com.au/biggest-coal-pr…
reneweconomy.com.au
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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tippsu.bsky.social @tippsu.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Fifth Columnist for PHON, much?
theage.com.au
Alex Antic, now Liberal state president, says Coalition must work with One Nation
His comments came a day before One Nation MP Barnaby Joyce said that he had spoken to “very senior Liberals” about providing the Coalition with supply.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 22/09/2026
Nearly 4m records of enslaved people in 20 former British colonies now searchable online
theguardian.com
Nearly 4m records of enslaved people in 20 former British colonies now searchable online
Exclusive: Collection’s 300,000 pages record lives of enslaved people in countries including the Bahamas, Barbados, Jamaica, Mauritius, South Africa and Trinidad Nearly 4m records documenting the lives of enslaved people across 20 former British colonies have been made searchable online for the first time. The records have been digitised and indexed by the genealogy company Ancestry, which has partnered with the Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery at University College London. Continue reading...
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tippsu.bsky.social @tippsu.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Boycott Tasmanian salmon.
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Dr jwwr @jwwr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Any of these options is fine by the rest of the World. Really.
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aj @strawberry.bsky.to · 21/09/2026
ed sheeran crying on stage reminds me of boyfriends who are caught cheating
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tippsu.bsky.social @tippsu.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Another reason to NEVER buy Tasmanian farmed salmon.
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