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Greg Tuck

@tuckyswans.bsky.social
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Author, political observer and commentator, poet, lyricist who promotes the advancement of women.

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Greg Tuck @tuckyswans.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
My view on the latest from #PeteHegseth. The use of #testosterone boosting shots by the US may have some unintended consequences. The troops may have difficulty finding the battlefront and with so much testosterone present, no-one will ask for directions.
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Greg Tuck @tuckyswans.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Free speech is taboo if you criticise #Israel for what their government not their religion is doing in the Middle East. Is this the sort of society that we wish to be in - one so ignorant that they confuse #Judaism and #Zionism. One is a religion. One is a political movement.
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Greg Tuck @tuckyswans.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
To the tune of Edge of Reality (Baum/Giant/Kaye) as sung by Elvis Presley The great big orange boof head Is divorced from reality Rambles a lot but then says nothing He’s verging on insanity (1/2)
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Greg Tuck @tuckyswans.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
"China is at fault we should ring them up and complain!" Angus Taylor says only to be informed that the phones aren't working. (1/2)
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Greg Tuck @tuckyswans.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
At the Royal Commission into antisemitism Jillian Segal keeps saying that the ABC and SBS are being discriminatory criticising the actions of the Israeli government. Anti-semitism is about religious beliefs and not governments. She needs to separate the two. We should be able to criticise Zionism.
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Greg Tuck @tuckyswans.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Belgium big winners. #Trump big loser............ oh and that also happened in the soccer.
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Greg Tuck @tuckyswans.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
The Victorian media have been targeting Jacinta Allen unmercifully for months and trying to give clear air and promote the opposition leader, Jess Wilson. Then #MoiraDeeming becomes front page news and will be for weeks and people will soon ask, "Jess who?"
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Greg Tuck @tuckyswans.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Has #DonaldTrump put a tariff on sunlight in the Southern Hemisphere? It may be hot in Europe, but it is bloody cold here in Melbourne.
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Greg Tuck @tuckyswans.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
#PaulineHanson is saying that Australians should all speak the same language. That is startling for two reasons. The first is that according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics and the 2021 census only about 3.4% of Australians report speaking English "not well" or "not at all." (1/2)
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Greg Tuck @tuckyswans.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
#SarahMartin is an example to other journalists. She asks the hard questions and is firm but polite. There should be no hate directed towards her by anyone, least of all #PaulineHanson Some journalists seem to forget what their job is. It is not to blindly accept and repeat things that may be untrue
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Greg Tuck @tuckyswans.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
We hear that we are not getting new interim Virginia-class submarines until the nuclear ones arrive. Our Defence Minister thinks that is good as spare parts will be available. A few questions come to mind. Why the need for spare parts unless there is no warranty on the new subs? (1/4)
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Greg Tuck @tuckyswans.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Can someone please explain to me how people illegally seized in international waters and taken to Israel against their will, can now be classified as being deported from Israel. The media should refrain from casting these people as deportees. Shouldn't they be seen as the victims of a kidnapping?
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Greg Tuck @tuckyswans.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
@dontattempt.bsky.social is there a word to describe the point where there are two possible directions in a story, and you don't know which one because someone has ripped the next few pages out. e.g. As she lay on the bed, he decided to take off.... and run for his life ...... his clothes.
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Greg Tuck @tuckyswans.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Trump's soliloquy to the tune of I Gotta Be Me (Marks) as sung by Sammy Davis Junior I’m always right and I’m never wrong On God’s holy throne is where I belong People wanna be me, they wanna be me The best there can be, is what I am (1/4)
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I've Gotta Be Me - Sammy Davis Jr.
YouTube video by The Official Sammy Davis Jr.
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Greg Tuck @tuckyswans.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
In Guardian Australia a simple explainer is supposed to show "Jan's" investment property worth $1m. It basically says that she will pay more in CGT because it will add more to her taxable income. In the comparison, they conveniently forget to add Jan's salary in on one side, just to prove a point.
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Greg Tuck @tuckyswans.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
If the RBA is an acronym for Really Bloody Awful, they are living up to their name with their likely decision to be made to raise interest rates..
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Greg Tuck @tuckyswans.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
NEWSFLASH! Selfless Donald Trump has decided that every school in the US will have a ballroom to prevent school shootings.
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Greg Tuck @tuckyswans.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Looks like Trump's Epic Fury was a suicide mission, or rather a murder/suicide. He has basically killed off his own potential “big, beautiful” legacy as a president, while terminating many Republican chances at the mid-terms.
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Greg Tuck @tuckyswans.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
While we are in the midst of major slashing of the #NDIS budget, had it ever crossed the bean-counters’ minds that perhaps we have ordered a #sub or two too many, possibly all eleven? One less sub would almost cover the “required” NDIS savings of $37 billion by 2029-30.
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Greg Tuck @tuckyswans.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
The fact that the #gas industry can run multimillion-dollar ads against any change to their #tax situation indicates that they are worried about the profit margins, and that they have so much money garnered from the current favourable tax arrangement that they can easily afford such an ad campaign.
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Greg Tuck @tuckyswans.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Does Trump realise how insignificant we all are, including himself, in the big scheme of things? He may kill the economy of this world and has the power to blow this planet to smithereens, but this is just one planet in a small solar system, in a galaxy that is just a tiny part of the universe (1/2)
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Greg Tuck @tuckyswans.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
#Trump has just stated that he has now stopped ten wars, obviously referring to #Israel and #Lebanon, and the #Iran war. He conveniently forgets that he started the Iran war and in doing so gave the go-ahead for Israel to attack Lebanon. You don't get a Nobel Prize for stopping a war you started.
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Greg Tuck @tuckyswans.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
@dontattempt.bsky.social what genius decided that the overuse of big words would be sesquipedalian?
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Greg Tuck @tuckyswans.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
The is to the tune of Uptight (everything is all right) (Wonder/Cosby/Moy) as sung by Stevie Wonder “Yes we, have got our policy right, not white, take a hike Yes we, have got our policy right, not white, take a hike” (1/4)
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Uptight (Everything's Alright)
YouTube video by Stevie Wonder - Topic
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Greg Tuck @tuckyswans.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
@rowecartoon.bsky.social I was just wondering about the AUKUS subs. Will they have two periscopes? Surely, they will need peri-periscopes as they travel through the Spice Islands. You may need to alter your cartoons.
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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Oliver Kornetzke on Donald Trump. #USPolitics
“Behold. The festering carcass of American rot shoved into an ill-fitting suit: the sleaze of a conman, the cowardice of a draft dodger, the gluttony of a parasite, the racism of a Klansman, the sexism of a back-alley creep, the ignorance of a bar-stool drunk, and the greed of a hedge-fund ghoul—all spray-painted orange and paraded like a prize hog at a county fair. Not a president. Not even a man. Just the diseased distillation of everything this country swears it isn't but has always been—arrogance dressed up as exceptionalism, stupidity passed off as common sense, cruelty sold as toughness, greed exalted as ambition, and corruption worshiped like gospel. It is America’s shadow made flesh, a rotting pumpkin idol proving that when a nation kneels before money, power, and spite, it doesn’t just lose its soul—it shits out this bloated obscenity and calls it a leader.”
– Oliver Kornetzke 18Aug2025
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mariewalsh18.bsky.social @mariewalsh18.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
youtube.com/shorts/AHATc... JETSTAR - AUSTRALIA
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Pedal Powered Aeroplanes? #fuelshortage #fuel #jetstar #satire
YouTube video by Channel Nein News
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Greg Tuck @tuckyswans.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
France has the Arc de Triomphe and Donald #Trump hopes to build the Arc de Catastrophe.
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Greg Tuck @tuckyswans.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
The wholesale price of diesel at the terminal fell last Wednesday and Thursday then started rising again, according to the Australian Institute of Petroleum. Doesn't the Australian Institute of Petroleum sound a bit like the Ponds Institute - a made up name to add credence to advertising a product?
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Greg Tuck @tuckyswans.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
How do you know when Easter is nearly over? When raisin toast which contains the same amount of bread dough, a quarter amount of the fruit, a fifth of the amount of spices, and a whole lot less flavour; is twice as dear as hot cross buns. Time to load your freezer for an out of season snack!
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Greg Tuck @tuckyswans.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
If the party-political system delays or impedes good decision making; if it forces priorities to change to ones that are not needed; if it increases the stigmatisation of the disabled, of ethnic groups, of women’s rights, of LGNTQI people and others; (1/3)
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Greg Tuck @tuckyswans.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
The cut in fuel excise may take weeks to flow through, pundits say. Yet, when the war started, fuel prices went up overnight. How does that work? At least those hoarders will now have paid too much for all the fuel they have stashed away.
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Greg Tuck @tuckyswans.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Lost and found ad: Backbone required. If found, please return to Anthony Albanese. Has been missing for a while.
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Greg Tuck @tuckyswans.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Politician's travel rorts need to be exposed and politicians fined and not hit with a wet lettuce. One Nation's leader, Pauline Hanson, it appears has received free flights. Tough laws may demand that she "please ex-plane."
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Greg Tuck @tuckyswans.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Has Albo heard wrongly? The public are clamouring for a tax on gas exports and he responds by doing nothing because he thinks that Trump's war against Iran has already led to attacks on gas.
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Greg Tuck @tuckyswans.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
If only the FIFA president had courage, he would punish the US for starting a war, by shifting the FIFA World Cup elsewhere. He would also ask for the FIFA Peace Prize back. Alas it seems that at the moment there is a shortage of balls.
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Greg Tuck @tuckyswans.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Can we please fire up the DeLorean. This Iran war and insane presidency could be easily fixed. Travelling back in time and explaining the benefits of contraception to Donald Trump's parents might be worth a go.
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Greg Tuck @tuckyswans.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Spot the hypocrisy. The #US is trying to affect regime change in #Cuba by weaponising oil with a #blockade on Cuba. The US is trying to affect regime change in #Iran but is now complaining about the weaponising of #oil by Iran as it blockades the Straits of Hormuz.
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Greg Tuck @tuckyswans.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
To Everybody Wants to Rule the World (Orzabel/Stanley/Hughes) as sung by Tears for Fears Doesn't care how many die Doesn't care who won't come back He doesn't want peace Just to be in the news No accounting for his behaviour It's just his basic nature Donald Trump wants to rule the world (1/4)
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Everybody Wants To Rule The World
YouTube video by Tears for Fears - Topic
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Greg Tuck @tuckyswans.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Australia should send ships to help the US. Let's send those nuclear subs that we have been promised.......... oh wait, they are not ready yet? The cost will be more? We won't get second hand ones early in the interim? The time frame for delivery is to be extended? Well #Donald, at least we offered.
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Greg Tuck @tuckyswans.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Could Trump have made a mistake and thought Epstein Island was off the coast of Iran?
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Greg Tuck @tuckyswans.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Donald Trump is keen on litigation. Anyone whose travel plans have been disrupted by him starting an unexpected unsnactioned war should get together and put forward a class action against him to reclaim the money they will lose. Travel insurance does not cover wars, even ones started illegally.
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Greg Tuck @tuckyswans.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
This is to the tune of And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda (Bogle) as sung by Eric Bogle Donald Trump launched an all-out attack Saying that in a few days it'd be over He hit out at Tehran just 'cause he could With Israel he stood shoulder to shoulder. (1/6)
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And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda
YouTube video by Eric Bogle - Topic
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Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
An independent or green MP should just read this in Parliament and then ask Albanese, Wong or Marles why Australia has not declared that it will not support this war initiated by the US and Israel in any form
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Greg Tuck @tuckyswans.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Can we get Mark Carney to stand for pre-selection after renouncing Canadian citizenship and sainthood? He would be the perfect PM for us. He has a backbone and he communicates so well and appears to have morals and ethics. (1/2)
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Greg Tuck @tuckyswans.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
People are accusing #Trump and his cronies of not planning ahead, but think about it. the US overthrows the government in Venezuela and seizes the oil. It creates a war with #Iran restricting the flow of oil out of the #MiddleEast. Which country has lots of oil and can make a profit from a shortage?
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Greg Tuck @tuckyswans.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
I blame the Beachboys for the latest war in the Middle East. If only they hadn't released the hit "Bomb, bomb, bomb Iran" and Trump didn't have it as a ringtone for Netanyahu.
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Greg Tuck @tuckyswans.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Some of the victims of collateral damage caused by Trump's war on Iran are: * Adherence to the US Constitution * Respect for UN charter * Informing allies of intentions * Targeting of only military weapons and personnel * Truth, integrity, and compassion. But personal vanity wins big.
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Greg Tuck @tuckyswans.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Already, the Western media and even the Australian PM are whitewashing the beginnings of a new Middle East war. An "unprovoked attack" is being labelled as a "pre-emptive strike." How soon before murderers and those committing assault use it in courts as an excuse? #Iran #US #Trump #war
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Greg Tuck @tuckyswans.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
This war with Iran could have been prevented. If only the Nobel Peace Prize Committee had awarded Trump a gong......
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