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Environment, politics, motorcycles- in that order. wordle scores Blocked- no one cares. Regional VIC, sweary... Tories jog on….

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mariewalsh18.bsky.social @mariewalsh18.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Nicko @vicenvironment.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Australian farmers are world-class whingers. Didn’t want powerlines overhead and demanded they be buried. Now they’re whining about that too …. www.theage.com.au/national/vic... #auspol
theage.com.au
Undersea cable will power Victoria but may ruin dairy farmers
This 345-kilometre power cable is touted as crucial to clean-energy needs. But what if farmers cannot work their land?
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Nicko @vicenvironment.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
WTF is wrong with @albomp.bsky.social and @australianlabor.bsky.social ? There’s one person to blame for inflation ( well 2 ) #trump ( and #Netanyahu ) yet they just can’t bring themselves to name them …. #auspol www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
smh.com.au
Near-record tax take, rising rates: Chalmers blames war as RBA hike looms
The treasurer says petrol prices are fuelling inflation as a near-record tax haul adds to scrutiny of Labor’s economic management.
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Nicko @vicenvironment.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Not forgetting #scottythefuckwit deal with the Indian PM resulting in most outer suburbs now looking like Mumbai …#auspol www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
smh.com.au
The moment Australia’s immigration program went off the rails
Behind the headlines, a little-known legislative instrument was implemented a decade ago that would have a profound impact on Australia’s immigration program.
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Nicko @vicenvironment.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Yep clearly aware of this for quite sometime and using it to clumsily make his case on Ai reform . Well done ALP brains trust …. #auspol www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
smh.com.au
Albanese’s digital crusade puts him on a collision course with Washington. The Medicare hack gives him ammunition
If one were being overly cynical, Albanese could not have been handed a more potent demonstration of the dangers of AI at a more useful moment.
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Nicko @vicenvironment.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I hear @albomp.bsky.social does a mean version of April Sun in Cuba on a Ukulele too…. 🤮 #auspol #scottalbanese…..
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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Please someone write again about Albanese's peerless political instincts
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Nicko @vicenvironment.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This prick is worse than Morrison …. #auspol
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Nicko @vicenvironment.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Precisely . And @albomp.bsky.social Albo the appeaser, Waffles Wong and Mincer Marles cannot bring themselves to criticise the one who cannot be named #trump #auspol . Was there ever a more pissweak #auspol ? www.smh.com.au/business/mar...
smh.com.au
Trump’s war is strangling the world
It’s no surprise Fed chair Kevin Warsh avoided direct references to the war in the Middle East last week. But the consequences of Trump’s misguided adventure are impossible to ignore.
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Nicko @vicenvironment.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
When interest rates rise again next week because of the Orange Clown and Netanyahu’s war…. Just remember who supports it and has consistently failed to call Trump out ….. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03... #auspol
abc.net.au
Australia to provide military support to Gulf states
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese confirms the Australian Defence Force will deploy an E-7A Wedgetail aircraft to the Gulf to help protect and defend the region, providing long-range reconnaissance acti...
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Nicko @vicenvironment.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A race to the bottom of the right-wing-fuckwit barrel, and ALP are in the lead ….. #melbourne #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
theguardian.com
‘Anywhere, anytime’: Victoria police and PSOs to get random stop and search powers after Labor backflip
Premier Ben Carroll adopts Coalition’s stance on Jack’s Law, which gives police and PSOs power to randomly search people for knives with metal detectors
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Nicko @vicenvironment.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Kevin Gallagher from Santos using the ‘nothing to see here ‘ defence on using more gas. Pretty pathetic stuff…. #npc #auspol
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Nicko @vicenvironment.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Are there any cooker parrots? aapnews.aap.com.au/news/quest-t... #auspol
aapnews.aap.com.au
Quest to protect rare parrot from deadly bird flu
Scientists believe the critically endangered orange-bellied parrot is particularly susceptible to the H5 bird flu strain which is spreading across Australia.
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Nicko @vicenvironment.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Old Chip on-his-shoulder up to his usual partisan rant….. www.theage.com.au/politics/vic... #melbourne #springst
theage.com.au
Great SRL Swindle plays us all for mugs
For five years, the rail improvement charge has been the dirty little secret at the heart of the state’s largest transport infrastructure project.
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Nicko @vicenvironment.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
If only we had leaders like this instead of the piss-weak spineless wankers we currently have…. abcnews.com/Politics/bul... #auspol
abcnews.com
'Bully': Feud erupts between Trump and Ontario's Doug Ford over US-Canada trade war
Ford suggested that Canada needed to "throw everything and the kitchen sink" at Trump.
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Nicko @vicenvironment.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is straight out of the discredited Pharmacy lobby handbook …. All a bunch of money laundering grifters … #auspol
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God @thegodshow.com · 24/08/2026
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Nicko @vicenvironment.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Price gouging, mega-profit industry doesn’t like new plan to reduce price-gouging and mega-profits.. www.theage.com.au/national/vic... #auspol #melbourne
theage.com.au
‘Who will staff them?’ Dentists slam Labor’s promise of free dental care
Victoria’s dental industry has attacked a plan to establish 10 free public dental clinics, warning it is a political ploy that could increase years-long waiting lists.
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Nicko @vicenvironment.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
The yokels love him…. Same light as Ned Kelly …. Hicks … www.smh.com.au/national/sti... #auspol
smh.com.au
‘Still Kelly country’: Life in Porepunkah after Dezi Freeman, as locals pick up the pieces
A year on from the killing of two police offers, the remote community in Victoria’s idyllic high country is still recovering, but deep divisions linger.
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Nicko @vicenvironment.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Same same . Waffles Wong ‘deeply concerned’ again …. What a thoroughly emaciated government we have …. #auspol www.smh.com.au/world/middle...
smh.com.au
Israeli ambassador breaks silence as IDF review clears soldiers over Zomi Frankcom death
Israel’s ambassador to Australia has defended the IDF’s finding that there was “no reasonable suspicion of criminal misconduct” in the deaths of Zomi Frankcom and six other aid workers.
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Nicko @vicenvironment.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Another Seinfeld presser about nothing from the hapless @albomp.bsky.social and his phone call with the Orange clown . Zero mention on his illegal war in Middle East and direct effect on Fuel prices, but plenty on giving them discount critical minerals and money for Aukus…. #auspol
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Nicko @vicenvironment.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Welcome to the third world…. www.smh.com.au/business/com... #auspol
smh.com.au
Virgin plane aborts take-off as Qantas plane crosses Sydney runway
The incident, also involving a Qantas 737, is the third such occurrence in Sydney airport in under three weeks, with links to air traffic control.
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Nicko @vicenvironment.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Our money thrown away to a multinational that pays fuck-all tax … welcome to New Labor …. #auspol
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Nicko @vicenvironment.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Not sure I’d be taking the advice of a senile old coot who lost his own seat ….. www.smh.com.au/politics/fed... #auspol
smh.com.au
Howard’s advice to Liberals to win back voters flocking to Pauline Hanson
The former prime minister’s intervention comes as new One Nation MP David Farley failed to echo Pauline Hanson’s key lines on immigration in his first speech.
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Robynne @haddagutful.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
NSW Supreme Court says criticism of Israel not antisemitic in graffiti case open.substack.com/pub/deepcutn...
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NSW Supreme Court says criticism of Israel not antisemitic in graffiti case
Judge rebukes state for seeking to add man who defaced property with anti-Israel slogans on terror watch list
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Robynne @haddagutful.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
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Royal Commission into Antisemitism a "$131 Million Whinge" - Michael West
Royal Commission into Antisemitism will not defeat antisemitism. It is a government buying absolution with $131m of public money
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Nicko @vicenvironment.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Jimmy Saville-Jones….. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08... #auspol
abc.net.au
Alan Jones allegedly kissed 17yo student at property, court told
Veteran Sydney broadcaster Alan Jones arrives at court for the first day of his indecent assault and sexual touching trial.
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Nicko @vicenvironment.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I’m calling bollocks . Never happened . Never been asked religion by any Doctor . Ever . www.smh.com.au/national/nsw... #auspol #rc
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Jewish patients discouraged from care by discriminatory doctors’ posts, regulator warns
The Royal Commission on Antisemitism has heard doctors’ social media posts damaged trust in the medical system at large.
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Nicko @vicenvironment.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
The wicked witch is dead #Springst ….
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Nicko @vicenvironment.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Waffles Wong. Still unable to criticise #Trump … pathetic #abc #auspol
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Nicko @vicenvironment.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Gone … www.theage.com.au/politics/vic... #springst #auspol
theage.com.au
Extraordinary meeting of Labor conveners resolves to move against Jacinta Allan
Allan remained defiant as factional conveners from across the party broadly agreed her days as premier were numbered.
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Nicko @vicenvironment.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Dump #aukus @albomp.bsky.social you useless Cnut ….. www.smh.com.au/world/north-... #auspol
smh.com.au
‘Unjustified’: Trump hikes tariffs on Australia to 12.5 per cent over ‘forced labour’
The Australian government slammed the new tariffs – which will rise from 10 per cent, under the guise of human rights – and said they should be removed.
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Nicko @vicenvironment.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Imagine paying all that money for a dream holiday and seeing these 2 scrags by the pool 🤮 #auspol www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
smh.com.au
Aussie battler: Hanson joins Gina poolside on White Lotus holiday in Sicily
Photos posted to Instagram show Hanson spending time poolside at the Grand Hotel San Pietro in the resort town of Taormina, while Rinehart swims.
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Nicko @vicenvironment.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Meanwhile, the shiver in search of a backbone running our country continues the platitudes….. www.smh.com.au/business/mar... #auspol
smh.com.au
Trump’s absurd and illegal plan will backfire on him
If we wanted more proof that Donald Trump has no real strategy in the war he started, we just got it.
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Nicko @vicenvironment.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I’m sure China are petrified given Mincer Marles statement that he’s deeply concerned ….. #auspol
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Nicko @vicenvironment.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Fuck off Tiley . cunt www.theage.com.au/sport/tennis... #auspol
theage.com.au
‘I was on Novak’s side’: Outgoing Tennis Australia CEO has no regrets about deportation saga
Craig Tiley is at the end of his 21-year tenure in Australian tennis, and he spoke exclusively to this masthead about some of the sport’s big issues.
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Nicko @vicenvironment.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Yokel hayseed Dan Tehan is like a talking scarecrow…. Is this really what the #lnp have become? #insiders
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Nicko @vicenvironment.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Taking the piss …. www.theage.com.au/politics/vic... #Melbourne #springst
theage.com.au
Premier blames inflation, not corruption, for Big Build cost blowout
In a lengthy, combative exchange with journalists, Jacinta Allan refused to accept that the wages bills for Big Build projects were excessive or that unjustified union demands had driven up the cost t...
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Nicko @vicenvironment.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
The chinless wonders wankers club …. www.smh.com.au/business/com... #auspol
smh.com.au
‘I didn’t think it was that bad’: Billionaire James Packer defends Karl Stefanovic
Nine executives have spent much of Thursday finalising the terms of the Today host’s departure from the network.
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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 23/06/2026
Exactly 10 years since the Brexit vote, the verdict is in.
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Nicko @vicenvironment.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Brought to you by the hapless Allan Labor government - conservation haters and Nationals wannabes….. #melbourne #springst
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Rosie de Difficult Kat 🌱🍉🍉 @rosiedekat.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
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Victoria ended native forest logging. So where are these trees coming from?
Four Corners follows the logs, and the money, to uncover how efforts to end logging have shifted the timber trade across state borders.
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Nicko @vicenvironment.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
I’m no fan of the Allan government, but this headline is comical . 1 point drop since last poll = ‘End of Days’ ? More shite from #nine - #melbourne #springst #auspol www.theage.com.au/politics/vic...
theage.com.au
‘End of days’: Labor’s own supporters say time’s up for Allan government
The latest Resolve Political Monitor results confirm most Victorians yearn for political change, and declare the two-party system dead amid surging support for One Nation.
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Nicko @vicenvironment.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Given the growing tension between Trump and Netanyahu- my money was Israel shot it down to draw the US back into conflict…. www.iranintl.com/en/202606095... #us #iran #auspol
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Iran says it didn't deliberately target US chopper over Hormuz - Al Jazeera
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Nicko @vicenvironment.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
#myki has been a clusterfuck from day 1 . Billions wasted, commuters stuck with a slow, clunky, dated system . it’s still not as good as systems in use for years in Perth, London, Singapore, Bangkok & Europe. Heads should have rolled years ago. www.theage.com.au/national/vic... #melbourne #springst
theage.com.au
Some commuters can finally ditch myki cards. But there are key exceptions
Those on trams and buses will still need a physical card. And myki passes won’t be supported by the new system.
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
The US Secretary of War said he was going to disregard rules of engagement in war saying, "Who cares what other countries think." I asked if the Albanese Government cares. Turns out they care a lot about AUKUS.
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Nicko @vicenvironment.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
We’re being led down a slippery slope with an out of control regime by the perfumed Warlard Mincer Marles and a piss-weak PM ….. www.smh.com.au/world/asia/h... #auspol
smh.com.au
Hegseth praises Australia for ‘stepping up’ as he shifts tone on China
While the US defence secretary struck a more conciliatory tone on China, Defence Minister Richard Marles said the seabed was “becoming a battlefield”.
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Sharty Mcscrote (Sandy D AU) 🍉🍉 @shartymcscrote.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Israel are the lowest forms of life since the primordial ooze #EnemiesofHumanity
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Nicko @vicenvironment.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Abbott Plotting? Bring the popcorn and tissues , likely to be the most entertaining comedy since the Two Ronnies ….. www.smh.com.au/politics/fed... #auspol
smh.com.au
Abbott plots ‘people’s revolt’ in return to politics as Liberal president
Former prime minister Tony Abbott said he believed it was his duty to serve the Liberal Party in a time of “existential crisis”.
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Nicko @vicenvironment.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
An unelected, highly paid ( by us ) official who apparently doesn’t understand basic governance … wtf is @albomp.bsky.social on ??? #auspol
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