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Twang 🍉 @twangmaker.bsky.social · 48m
Some hours after David Shoebridge was elected as the new leader of the Greens, Murdoch's News*com*au has no mention of it. None at all. Murdoch hopes to starve Shoebridge of oxygen, keeping readers in an information vacuum. #auspol
News*com*au main page at 14:05, with stories about Melbourne thugs and Barnaby Joyce's public service hitlist, but with no mention of David Shoebridge being elected as the new Greens leader.
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Twang 🍉 @twangmaker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Hey Jim Chalmers, Are you forgetting that your boss the drooling sycophant Anthony Albanese was the first world leader to voice his full support for Trump's illegal invasion of Iran? Full support for the war that is now smashing Australians. #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... #auspol
theguardian.com
Australia news live: Chalmers says Australians shouldn’t ‘carry the can’ of overseas decisions as cash rate decision due
Follow the day’s news live
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Twang 🍉 @twangmaker.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
JOB VACANCY: Leader of the Australian Greens Who would like Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social to apply for this one? Our hardest working politician, with the ability to both stay calm, while also conveying the existential threat right-wing parties pose to our country. #auspol
Image of Senator David Shoebridge.
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Twang 🍉 @twangmaker.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
There has only ever been one Australian prime minister who supported free university education. Gough Whitlam Gough introduced it in 1974. Bob Hawke got rid of it in 1989, by introducing HECS. #auspol
Image of Gough Whitlam, smiling.
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Twang 🍉 @twangmaker.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Reserve Bank models economics. But should it also model how many deaths of innocent Australians it will cause? #auspol
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Twang 🍉 @twangmaker.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A US court found that Donald Trump raped Ms E. Jean Carroll. But that doesn't bother Albo. Albo moves closer to the rapist to snap yet another selfie with his hero. #auspol
Rapist Donald Trump and Anthony Albanese snuggle up together for another selfie.
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Twang 🍉 @twangmaker.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Hey, Labor MPs, No need to cover up your Woodside Energy logos. We already know you're in the fossil fuel party, working for fossil fuel interests. You don't fool anyone. www.theguardian.com/environment/... #auspol
theguardian.com
Labor MP covers up Woodside logo on Fremantle jumper ahead of AFL grand final
Josh Wilson, federal assistant minister for climate change and energy, joins peaceful campaign against fossil fuel company
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Twang 🍉 @twangmaker.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
TRANSLATION: The Reserve Bank is going to deliberately cause over 100,000 Australians to lose their jobs. This will please their corporate masters, who want the unemployment rate to rise above 4.5% in order to keep worker's wages low. #auspol
ABC News website. Picture of Reserve Bank Governor Michele Bullock. Top headline: Rates set to rise as RBA governor says 'heat' needs to be taken out of job market.
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Twang 🍉 @twangmaker.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
How did Albo and his sidekick Murray Watt manage to approve 37 fossil fuel projects? The sheer scale of it is staggering. Massive coal mines. Oil and gas drilling. Most weeks they approved another one. www.climatecouncil.org.au/resources/al... #auspol
climatecouncil.org.au
The Albanese Government’s fossil fuel approvals - Climate Council
The 37 approvals include new coal mines, a mega-polluting gas export project, and a gas drilling approval until 2080.
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Twang 🍉 @twangmaker.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Anthony Albanese: Did we vote for this robo dystopia you are foisting upon us? Did you mention in your election pledges that you'll be replacing real doctors with AI bots to evaluate the disabled and elderly? No you didn't. You cruel and heartless coward. #auspol
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Twang 🍉 @twangmaker.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
What's worse? A Chinese car, with no evidence that video is being uploaded, or the Western Australian government using AI street cameras to track citizens? Or Tony Burke approving Israeli military software to crack Australians' phones and steal docs & photos? www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09... #auspol
abc.net.au
BYD cuts references to 'China' and 'surveillance' from its privacy policy
The original policy gave the company almost unlimited powers to collect data on its Australian vehicle owners and broad discretion on how this could be disclosed.
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Twang 🍉 @twangmaker.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Albo appointed Susssan Ley to Snowy Hydro. Just like Albo appointed the Murdoch executive as Consul-General New York. There is only one party. The Uniparty. All their differences are just pretend. #auspol
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Twang 🍉 @twangmaker.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Anthony Albanese is such a sycophant. He's even a sycophant when meeting other sycophants. Albo said it was such a "proud moment" for him to get a selfie with Apple's Tim Cook. Albo, stop grovelling, grow a spine, be a leader, not a fanboy. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09... #auspol
Anthony Albanese gets a selfie with Apple Executive Chairman Tim Cook.Two sycophants. Both Albo and Tim Cook love to bow and grovel to Donald Trump.
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Twang 🍉 @twangmaker.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Britain orders 29 battery powered long distance passenger trains. The diesel era is over. Australia is in a fuel crisis. Battery tech improves every year. The future is electric. www.bbc.com/news/article... #auspol
bbc.com
Will battery-powered trains change the future of UK rail travel?
New battery-powered trains to be built by Alstom may lead the way for a new electric future of rail travel.
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Twang 🍉 @twangmaker.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
If Channel 9, Channel 7, SBS and the Murdoch media were truly serious about protecting our democracy, they would walk out on Pauline Hanson's press conferences and boycott her in solidarity with The Guardian and ABC journalists who Hanson banned from them. #auspol
Pauline Hanson with anger in her eyes after she gets asked a difficult question at a press conference.
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Twang 🍉 @twangmaker.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Saudi Arabia hosted US military bases to be under the US umbrella of protection. Now Saudi Arabia is under attack by Iran & Houthis, but the US has abandoned the kingdom at its time of need. The same will happen to Australia. The US won't protect us. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0... #auspol
washingtonpost.com
As attacks choke off Saudi oil, kingdom confronts limits of Trump’s friendship
Riyadh is paying a steep price for the Iran war. Help from Washington remains circumscribed.
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Twang 🍉 @twangmaker.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
More than 24 hours after a shark killed a man in Perth, the fisheries minister issues an order to find and kill the shark responsible Journalists failed to ask the minister how the shark will be identified from other sharks Or will they kill any shark? www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09... #auspol #wapol
abc.net.au
Greg O'Neill identified as fatal shark attack victim
The family of a 63-year-old man who was fatally attacked by a shark yesterday has paid tribute to him, describing him as a devoted family man and ocean lover.
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Twang 🍉 @twangmaker.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Anthony Albanese is like a circus dog. Jumping on command, and dancing to the beat of Netanyahu's drum. #auspol [Apologies to @cathywilcox.bsky.social for using your cartoon]
A circus dog wearing a pretty green dress.
Anthony Albanese behaves like this. He jumps on command of a higher power.Cartoon of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu beating a drum. This is a cropped extract of Cathy Wilcox's Grass Roots cartoon.
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Twang 🍉 @twangmaker.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Housing crisis? There's an acute shortage of tradespeople We need more immigrants, not less We need to bring more tradespeople into Australia who have the skills to build houses And the government needs to commission more public housing That's how you fix it. Not by cutting immigration. #auspol
Image of a house under construction.
Australia has an acute shortage of tradespeople.
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Twang 🍉 @twangmaker.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Tony Burke is a disgrace. At a time when our country desperately needs someone to fight the far-right and stand up for immigration, which keeps our country functioning and our economy afloat... ...along comes Burke and joins the far-right with an anti-immigration stance Vote this guy out👇 #auspol
Tony Burke, who spends all his time approving visas for IDF soldiers, and scheming anti-immigration policies.
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Twang 🍉 @twangmaker.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Here we go: The National Party wants entire new coal power stations built just to power data centres... so they can steal our creative works, steal our jobs, steal our water, cause a climate catastrophe and destroy the planet. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09... #auspol
abc.net.au
Coal-fired power needed to bolster $32bn Qld data centre, Nationals MP says
Nationals MP David Littleproud is backing more coal-fired power stations and nuclear energy to underpin the enormous energy requirements of a $32bn data centre.
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Twang 🍉 @twangmaker.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Turkey is not a nice place Police are rounding up lesbian and gay people. Let's boycott Turkish products. Start by boycotting Beko appliances. www.theguardian.com/global-devel... #auspol
theguardian.com
Turkey detains dozens in crackdown on LGBTQ+ activists and journalists
Protesters teargassed as minister claims widespread raids and arrests under obscenity laws were to ‘protect families’
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Twang 🍉 @twangmaker.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Just like we still need a federal ICAC with sharp teeth, to weed out corruption, we also need a permanent federal watchdog to guard against foreign interference, backed by much stronger laws. We need to stop the foreign billionaires, the Israel lobby, the bot farms, the Atlas Network etc #auspol
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Twang 🍉 @twangmaker.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Anthony Albanese. Traitor to the nation. He's about to commit his most heinous act against artists, musicians and creative people in Australia, by allowing US AI bots complete access to their works for free. Albo isn't working for Australians. He works for Trump, Bibi, and his own career. #auspol
Evil Albo seen with a frown upon his face.
Being a traitor to the nation does not make one happy.
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Twang 🍉 @twangmaker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
👇This is corruption. The transport minister accepts a gift from Qantas of free platinum status rewards membership for her lifetime. This is the company she's supposed to be regulating. www.afr.com/rear-window/... #auspol
afr.com
Transport minister given free Qantas platinum status for life
Catherine King accepted the airline’s top-tier membership, which gives the federal cabinet minister privileges and freebies until the day she dies.
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Twang 🍉 @twangmaker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Only months after leading the Liberal Party to abandon Net Zero, Susssan Ley takes up a job in renewable energy. The Albanese Labor government just appointed Ms Ley to the board of Snowy Hydro. www.afr.com/policy/energ... #auspol
afr.com
Labor recruits Sussan Ley to key renewables role
Labor has appointed former Liberal leader Sussan Ley to the board of Snowy Hydro, just weeks before the unveiling of a major cost review of the troubled project.
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Twang 🍉 @twangmaker.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
So, @chrisbowenmp.bsky.social , what have you done in the past 6 months to electrify agriculture & trucking in Australia? Trump's narcissism means he can't stop. Result: fuel shortages. This war will continue as long as Trump is in office. Prepare! www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... #auspol
theguardian.com
Australia news live: escalating Middle East conflict will see prices rise again, Chris Bowen says
Follow live updates
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Twang 🍉 @twangmaker.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
An IDF soldier just shot an unarmed Palestinian man in the leg, caught on video 👇 No problem for Australia. That IDF soldier will now qualify for a place in the next Sydney Marathon He just needs to ask Tony Burke for a visa and a cheer squad awaits him www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s... #auspol
theguardian.com
IDF soldier filmed shooting Palestinian in leg amid West Bank settler standoff
Incident is latest to raise questions over Israel’s ability or willingness to stop violent settlers in occupied territory
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Twang 🍉 @twangmaker.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Hello ABC? Where are you? If you're really our ABC, you'd be covering the court case, where the Zionist Federation of Australia dropped its case against journalist Mary Kostakidis. But the ABC is too afraid of the Israel lobby itself and won't cover it. Same for Mary's former employer, SBS #auspol
Image of journalist Mary Kostakidis, smiling.
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Twang 🍉 @twangmaker.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
In the UK, if you support Palestine and oppose genocide, you get arrested and jailed. This is where Australia is headed too. #auspol
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Twang 🍉 @twangmaker.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
So what does Albo believe in? He believes in: • Supporting the illegal settlements in the West Bank • Red carpet welcome for Herzog • Weapons shipments to Israel • No action on flotilla rapes & torture • Visas for IDF runners & Golani Brigade • No action for Zomi Frankcom • Jillian Segal #auspol
Anthony Albanese is fully behind Netanyahu's Israel
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Twang 🍉 @twangmaker.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Australia's most powerful politician is... Jillian Segal She wields power in local, state and federal levels. She controls more ministries than Scott Morrison did. All government members obey her commands. Now, how can she be stopped ? A legal challenge, maybe ? #auspol
The Antisemitism Envoy, Jillian Segal, rears her head.
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Twang 🍉 @twangmaker.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
First, people with disabilities had their services severely cut in order to pay for AUKUS submarines. 👇Now we learn that personal details of all NDIS recipients has been given to the notorious Palantir and its far-right billionaire owner Peter Thiel. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... #auspol
theguardian.com
NDIS data may have ended up in Palantir’s analytics platform as part of efforts to curb fraud
Exclusive: The Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission, which has access to NDIA data, used Palantir as part of a multi-agency fraud taskforce
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Twang 🍉 @twangmaker.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Of all people the Coalition could wheel out to criticise Albo's pork barrelling, they wheel out Bridget McKenzie just to remind everyone how the Coalition behaved when it was in power. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... #auspol
theguardian.com
Australia politics live: McKenzie ‘very surprised’ by PM’s honorary membership at golf course given $6m grant
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Twang 🍉 @twangmaker.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
By cuddling up ever closer to the United States, Australia is going to become more isolated from our traditional friends like Canada. #auspol
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Twang 🍉 @twangmaker.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This is war. The United States is trying to destroy Canada. Destroy its economy, until it agrees to become the 51st state of the USA. Does Australia help our Canadian friends? No. Under Albo we joined the American side. edition.cnn.com/2026/09/07/e... #auspol
edition.cnn.com
Canada’s retaliatory tariffs take effect as Trump threatens to ban Bombardier jet sales in US | CNN Business
President Donald Trump on Monday threatened to ban the sale of Canadian Bombardier jets if they are not built in the United States, hours before Canada moved forward with $20 billion worth of retaliat...
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Twang 🍉 @twangmaker.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The Swiss government is removing US software from its government and military systems. This is for national security reasons. The US can't be trusted. Australia is doing the opposite. Adopting US and Israeli systems (like Palantir & Cellebrite) wherever it can. itsfoss.com/news/switzer... #auspol
itsfoss.com
Switzerland's Federal Government is Replacing Microsoft on 3,000 Computers
This is the pilot phase, with 3,000 workstations moving away from Microsoft 365. The federal administration has over 54,000 computers.
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Twang 🍉 @twangmaker.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
👇 Here's Anthony Albanese telling Trump, Australia is enormous, you can put as many US bases there as you want It's there for you to put all the US troops and nuclear submarines You can take our vast minerals resources Our wide brown land is yours for the taking. #auspol
Albo tells Trump, Australia is yours for the taking.
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Twang 🍉 @twangmaker.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Tesla buyers, listen up. It's time you think about the ramifications of your purchase. Part of every dollar you spent on your car went to support the far-right AfD in Germany. Buy from a car maker with a neo-Nazi CEO, and this is what you get👇 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s... #auspol
theguardian.com
Germany’s far-right AfD thanks Elon Musk as France warns state election win a ‘serious moment’
Lead candidate in Saxony-Anhalt welcomes further ‘strong’ cooperation with Musk as French minister says ‘we cannot forget our history’
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Twang 🍉 @twangmaker.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Punter's Politics video: How Singapore achieved a home ownership rate of 90%. youtube.com/shorts/YY5uB... #auspol
youtube.com
What if we just built houses?
YouTube video by Punter's Politics
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Twang 🍉 @twangmaker.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Angus Taylor says he will jail anyone who burns a flag. I say we jail any politician who deceives the Australian people by forging documents. #auspol
Angus Taylor, a politician with one of the lowest IQs in Australia.
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Twang 🍉 @twangmaker.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The collapse of the petrol car market has begun. Put it on a graph, EV sales are experiencing exponential growth. Petrol car sales are in rapid decline. That means: • petrol stations will decline • petrol range anxiety • poor petrol car resale value www.theguardian.com/environment/... #auspol
theguardian.com
EV sales outpace petrol cars for first time as Australians dodge soaring fuel costs
New record for Australia as more than 27,000 EVs sold in August, driven by the rising cost of fuel and new government policy
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Twang 🍉 @twangmaker.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Australia heading for food shortage. Trump is escalating war in Hormuz. Doesn't realise Iran's drones now have capability shut down all alternate oil pipelines in Gulf. Without diesel, agriculture & transport stops. We're the most exposed nation👇 www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-count... #auspol
visualcapitalist.com
Australia Tops OECD Countries for Diesel Use Per Person
This ranking shows the per capita diesel consumption in OECD countries, highlighting how much higher Australia's consumption is than other countries.
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Twang 🍉 @twangmaker.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Albo and Marles are bringing Australia closer to the US and Trump. More US military bases here. More US troops here. More entwined in US weapons systems. More war crimes. Why didn't Albo tell us this before the election? Didn't we vote against Dutton to stop this sort of thing? #auspol
Image of the narcissistic psychopath, known as Trump. Albo and Marles want to get closer to this felon.
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Twang 🍉 @twangmaker.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
We spend billions on AUKUS for an imaginary security threat. But Trump is causing a real security threat by escalating war in the Strait of Hormuz. Iran can cut off Middle East oil totally, halting Asian refineries, and cutting Australia's supply. We need to electrify everything. Fast. #auspol
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Twang 🍉 @twangmaker.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Brutal authoritarian NSW Premier Chris Minns should be arrested and charged. He ordered his police force to bash anti-Herzog protesters. 👇Police officer now caught laughing about punching protester in the head. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09... #auspol #nswpol
abc.net.au
'I punched him in the head': Body-cam footage from Town Hall protest emerges
New police body-cam footage from the February Town Hall protest has captured police boasting about punching protesters.
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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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Twang 🍉 @twangmaker.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Spare a thought today for Zomi Frankcom. She didn't get a chance to attend the Sydney Marathon because she was murdered by the IDF. Meanwhile, due to Tony Burke approving their visas, the IDF team crossed the finish line today in the Sydney Marathon, complete with their own cheer squad. #auspol
Zomi Frankcom, the kind soul bringing humanitarian aid to the people of Gaza.General runners crossing the finish line at today's Sydney Marathon.
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Twang 🍉 @twangmaker.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Demonstrators gather outside Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke's office in Sydney. They are protesting Tony Burke's decision to grant 40 Israel Defence Force members visas to participate in the Sydney Marathon. Video source: Times Of Palestine, which has no presence on BlueSky. #auspol
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Twang 🍉 @twangmaker.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Blame One Nation's win on Labor. Labor, you're not going to win by being right wing & racist like One Nation. Labor, you're not going to win by running a candidate who is a gas lobbyist from Woodside. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08... #auspol
abc.net.au
One Nation secures historic victory in Secret Harbour by-election
One Nation scores a historic win in Western Australia, securing its first lower house seat in the state.
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