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Tom Gonda

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Australian semi-retired biomedical researcher, leftish political and social outlook, concerned about climate change and the post-truth world we seem to be entering.

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Tom Gonda @tomgonda.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This would be almost funny if it weren’t absolutely true. 😡
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the Juice Media @thejuicemedia.com · 03/09/2026
The Australien Government made an ad about carbon offsets and koalas, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative 🌏🌳🐨 💛 produced by our Patrons 🙏 support us on Patreon: patreon.com/thejuicemedia ☕ buy us a coffee: ko-fi.com/thejuicemedia
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Tom Gonda @tomgonda.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I suspect most of that 38% would say black is white if Trump said so.
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Tom Gonda @tomgonda.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
What is the world coming to….?😥
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Tom Gonda @tomgonda.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The only “deals” Trump makes are those where he coerced or bribes others into doing what he wants. When coercion and bribes don’t work, no “deals” get done. Just look at the wars in the Middle East for example.
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Tom Gonda @tomgonda.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Not just voters but the Murdoch-dominated media. And the same mentality and negativity is still preventing real action on many vital fronts such as climate change, protection of the environment, gambling advertising, proper reform of the higher education sector, and many others.
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Tom Gonda @tomgonda.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Didn’t take Hanson long to contradict him! Usual chaotic behaviour from One Nation.
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Tom Gonda @tomgonda.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Absolutely. This legislation is so weak and ineffective that it’s not worth the paper it’s written on. The gambling lobby must be popping the champagne. 😡
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The Point @thepointau.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
“When carbon credits, are traded as offsets, they don’t reduce emissions: they maintain the status quo. They don’t advance decarbonisation: they simply allow emitters to continue business as usual” writes Bob Debus. Read the full piece on The Point: thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
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Tom Gonda @tomgonda.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
A backward idea is entirely consistent with the rest of her “policies”. They’re not really policies though, more sound grabs and thought bubbles reflecting uninformed simplistic thinking coupled with grievance.
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Tom Gonda @tomgonda.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
I hereby withdraw all my previous criticism of Trump. He has now proved himself to be the genius he has always claimed to be. Who else but a strategic and diplomatic genius could stop a war he himself started? Breathtaking!
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Tom Gonda @tomgonda.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Anyone taking bets on who’ll violate it first? Netanyahu is the obvious choice but is he willing to risk Trump’s anger if he does? Or will Netanyahu just step up his war on Gaza? His survival depends on having at least one ongoing war.
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Tom Gonda @tomgonda.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m... This is truly Orwellian. Putin and Xi claim to be “stabilising” and oppose “the law of the jungle” after Putin invades Ukraine with support to Russia from Xi.
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Xi and Putin condemn ‘irresponsible’ US foreign policy at Beijing summit
Chinese and Russian leaders boast of close ties and warn ‘of a drift back to the law of the jungle’
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Tom Gonda @tomgonda.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
The whole submarine saga is just about the biggest and most expensive total stuff-up we’ve ever seen.
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Tom Gonda @tomgonda.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Yeah I saw that. Pathetic.
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Tom Gonda @tomgonda.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
As the old adage goes “Every problem looks like a nail if the only tool you have is a hammer”
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Tom Gonda @tomgonda.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Saw a bit of Afternoon Briefing today with a junior fed minister or something was asked about increasing our fuel reserves. Answer started with “we’re focused on blah blah …” Whenever you hear that it means “I can’t and won’t answer the actual question”. Waste of breath.
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Tom Gonda @tomgonda.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
No it was not a surprise at all. Albo is terrified of the big business lobbies - gas, mining, gambling etc. Such a disappointment.
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Tom Gonda @tomgonda.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
And they’ll threaten us again with not investing further. So we’re expected to believe that they’ll walk away from billions in profit if they can only make slightly fewer billions. Yeah, sure they will.
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Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) 🦠🤧🧬📑🦟🧀 @mackayim.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
A taken of two paths. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...
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Australia faced the same dilemma as China in 2004 but made the wrong call
While the rest of us count the cost in higher fuel costs, higher inflation and a weaker economy,  China — the actual winner of the war — will be enjoying a surge of global interest in its solar panels...
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Tom Gonda @tomgonda.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
The fact that we recognise that the Palestinians are suffering horribly at the hands of Israel (with US support of course) doesn’t mean we have whitewash and support everyone who opposes Israel and the US. For example, Iran’s brutal repression of its own people shouldn’t be forgotten.
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Tom Gonda @tomgonda.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Some of each. Murdoch media, LNP etc support it but others,like our government, are just too spineless to say anything.
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Tom Gonda @tomgonda.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Absolutely true
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Tom Gonda @tomgonda.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
7:30: Albo tied himself in knots trying not to say anything negative about Trump while admitting there has been no regime change and no clear objectives. Also dodged questions about whether he’d raised concerns about economic damage. Read: he’s too scared of Trump to say anything. A gutless wonder.
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Tom Gonda @tomgonda.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Aaah ….. for the good old days. Football,meat pies, kangaroos and Holden cars … and white Australia. 1950s here we come.
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Tom Gonda @tomgonda.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Getting things done - Including rushing into another American war😡
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Tom Gonda @tomgonda.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Stupidity has few limits. What an idiot. Littleproud won’t be missed.
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Tom Gonda @tomgonda.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Here we go again 😡😢
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Tom Gonda @tomgonda.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
No. Never. Just look at those lovely ISIS people the invasion of Iraq created.
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Tom Gonda @tomgonda.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Shameful.
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Tom Gonda @tomgonda.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Watched the movie “Hamnet” earlier today. Brilliant, powerful and really great acting. May not be 100% historically accurate - though probably not too far off - but it really doesn’t matter.
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Tom Gonda @tomgonda.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Because the Trump presidency is a family business, not a government
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Tom Gonda @tomgonda.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Just what we need ….. not. You can’t generate social cohesion by command or legislation. But a good start would have been NOT to invite Herzog here.
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Tom Gonda @tomgonda.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Could conceivably be true but it probably doesn’t take much given the rest of them
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Tom Gonda @tomgonda.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Shame Albo and Minns will never read this.
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Lee Murray (she/her) @cousincat.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
johnmenadue.com/post/2026/01...
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Reflections of an Arab Australian on the new 'hate speech' laws
Australia’s new hate speech laws are landing in a climate of deep mistrust and unequal public empathy. When grief, protest and solidarity are treated as threats, social cohesion becomes a hollow promi...
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Tom Gonda @tomgonda.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Apart from everything in this article: We’re told how we’re NOW in a time of great geopolitical uncertainty that needs a stronger defence force. So can someone please tell me how the f$&* getting submarines in the 2040s (if we get them at all) going to address this?
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Tom Gonda @tomgonda.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
I think by “rules-based order” Rubio means Trump’s rules.
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Denise Difficult-Shrivell @deniseshrivell.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Terrifying to think that today's heat will be a regular part of our kid's and grandkid's futures. As Labor - opens another new fossil fuel project - logs another native forest - legacy media/ABC refuses to play its vital role - and Australians vote for all of it! ☹️ #auspol
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Tom Gonda @tomgonda.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
What a surprise that Trump’s FBI would discourage the investigation …. not.
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Tom Gonda @tomgonda.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Who needs data when you can have outrage?
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Tom Gonda @tomgonda.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
I’m completely disappointed in Peter Malinauskas, whom I thought, until this writer’s week episode, was doing a very good job as Premier. How can he decide in advance what Randa Abdel-Fattah was going to say and then support banning her for saying it?
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Tom Gonda @tomgonda.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Depends; if the children are Palestinian, it seems the answer is yes.
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Tom Gonda @tomgonda.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
The final nail in the coffin of international law. How one deranged narcissist can f..k up the whole world and get away with it is totally beyond my comprehension. And that no-one on the US can or wants to do anything about it is just as bewildering. ☹️😡😢
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Tom Gonda @tomgonda.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Most of those howling for a royal commission only want one to show that they can “force” the government to hold one. They want one as a performance to show how seriously they take the Bondi shooting, not because of what it’ll actually achieve.
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Tom Gonda @tomgonda.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Disgusting. Well if that isn’t a reason to cancel Herzog’s visit, I don’t know what is.
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Tom Gonda @tomgonda.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Maybe they should be called “Narcissus Class”
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Tom Gonda @tomgonda.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Agree completely. Israel is now a sacred cow that can’t be criticised for anything it does. That’s exactly what Israel and the Zionist lobby want. Minns has capitulated to the noisy right wing of the LNP et al and to the general MSM performative outrage.
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Tom Gonda @tomgonda.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
The Coalition’s jumping on the Bondi shooting to blame the government rather than the shooters is just plain disgusting. It’s a transparent and desperate attempt to rescue a fractured shambles of an opposition, fronted by a leader who was heading for the chopping block.
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Tom Gonda @tomgonda.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
FFS. We have a climate crisis, a housing crisis, clogged hospitals, and a whole lot of other problems to boot. So what do we focus on? MPs travel. Not breaking the rules, but supposedly not passing a “pub test” judged by god knows whom. What hope is there…..
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