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Lizzie

@wizzyb79.bsky.social
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Lost my previous account at TassieLizzie and all contacts. 😓 Interests, sociology, politics, feminist, old lefty, croquet. Tassie girl from way back. Love my dog Gilly and OH. Please follow if you were on my previous lovely list. No DM’s or chats please.

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Lizzie @wizzyb79.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Join the call for Australia’s media companies to stand together and refuse to cover One Nation events until the bans are lifted. abcfriends.au/actions/boyc...
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Open Letter: Boycott One Nation press conferences - ABC Friends
One Nation has banned the ABC and The Guardian from its press conferences. In a democracy the public has a right to know what their political representatives
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Lizzie @wizzyb79.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Come & try croquet in Hobart, Tasmania. Fun, friendship, fitness.
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Lizzie @wizzyb79.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
ABC Friends want to hear how you watch ABC news and current affairs, what you think of the coverage, and what you’d like to see more or less of. It only takes a few minutes. abcfriends.au/actions/abcn...
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2026 ABC News Survey - ABC Friends
The ABC is Australia's most trusted source of news. But after years of funding cuts, there are fewer journalists, less investigative reporting and fewer
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News to Remember @moments2remember.link · 16/08/2026
ICE entered a small Maine town searching for someone with a removal order. Instead, an officer killed 26-year-old Joan Sebastian Guerrero—who officials admit was not the target. With no body-camera footage, furious protesters are demanding the truth. #Biddeford #ICE #Justice
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ICE Kills 26-Year-Old Who Wasn’t Even Its Target—Then Furious Protesters Flood a Tiny Maine City Demanding Answers
Joan Sebastian Guerrero was reportedly on his way to work when federal immigration officers surrounded the area near his Biddeford home. He was not the person they had come to arrest. Minutes later…
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Rolf Meier 🌐 @openeysdown.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
⚠️ Israeli troops raid a pre-wedding henna celebration in Umm al Fahm: guests are forced to lie face down at gunpoint btw’n overturned chairs. ‼️Terrorism has a name: Israel‼️
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Australian Politics 🇦🇺 @auspol.info · 04/08/2026
$368 billion — and Parliament has never properly examined it. The US and UK are reviewing AUKUS. Australia isn't. 66% of us want an inquiry. (australiainstitute) If it's a good deal, scrutiny won't hurt it. #auspol Sign: nb.australiainstitute.org.au/aukus_parlia...
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✍️PETITION: AUKUS ties Australia closer to Trump – Parliament must scrutinise it now!
Launch a Parliamentary Inquiry into AUKUS NOW! Australia Institute research shows a majority of Australians support a parliamentary inquiry into AUKUS ✍️ Add your name now >
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Lizzie @wizzyb79.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Get lots of sleep. We need you to keep writing your wonderful books!
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Kerrie B @wheels002.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
“They can edit him out” and they did #WorldCup
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Kevin Bonham @kevinbonham.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Few factual issues in this Abbott op ed: 1. Franklin is not a Federation division. In the 1901 election Tasmania was contested as a single five-member division, the five single seats started from 1903. 2. There is no seat of Truganini in the ACT. archive.md/EsHvu
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Kevin Bonham @kevinbonham.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
The first one is a common understandable mistake. The second one is baffling, bizarre even by Abbott standards and another damning indictment on the non-editing of op eds for factuality. AI?
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Kevin Bonham @kevinbonham.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
A former PM, current President of the Liberal Party and recent author of a history of our democracy is inventing an electorate name that doesn't exist and the national broadsheet is printing it. Seriously, what?
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bystander1.bsky.social @bystander1.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
"And her escape from the press seemed like the routine of a reclusive pop diva, not a serious politician. It was comic, but revealing. Tough politicians take questions. Weak ones run away."
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Raymond Wilton @raymondwilton.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
National Party senator Bridget McKenzie publicly identifies as a zionist. She is actively outspoken on her pro-Israel stances. As we know zionists are all in for genocide & the mass murder of women & children. She wouldn’t have to worry about travel money for European racism & right wing talkfests👇🏻
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
With the carnage of the war on Iran, the world has forgotten what US-UK-EU-backed Israel did to Gaza. Survivors of the genocide live in a hellscape of rubble and ash, which looks like the aftermath of a nuclear war… And the world looks away.💔💔💔
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Australian Politics 🇦🇺 @auspol.info · 18/07/2026
🚨 Pauline Hanson’s Channel 7 interview with Tommy Robinson signals an alarming shift. Lucy Hamilton breaks down how billionaire-backed networks are importing toxic far-right Islamophobia into Australia. Read the urgent analysis here: lucyham29.substack.com/p/emergency-pauline-hansons-interview
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Get Out The Mid Term Vote @gotmtv.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 14/07/2026
Ed Husic tells Labor to get tougher on AI companies as letting them self-regulate ‘doomed to fail’
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Ed Husic tells Labor to get tougher on AI companies as letting them self-regulate ‘doomed to fail’
Labor MP also says watering down copyright rules is ‘going against the ethos’ of his party The Labor MP Ed Husic says any moves to water down copyright law to benefit AI companies would be “going against the ethos” of the party, urging his colleagues to place stricter rules on the big tech firms or be “doomed to failure”. Ahead of Anthony Albanese’s major speech on artificial intelligence on Wednesday, the Media Entertainment & Arts Alliance – the union for journalists, artists and creatives – called on the government to enact tougher new copyright rules to prevent creative works being taken to train AI models. Continue reading...
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Tim Stephens @proftimstephens.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
'Former PM Malcolm Turnbull has launched a scathing attack on Rupert Murdoch and his global media empire, suggesting their local media titles should be treated “like the drunk that you see late on a Saturday night, raving and screaming and raging at the moon”.' smh.com.au/business/com...
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Treat Sky News like a ‘drunk raving at the moon’: Turnbull
The former prime minister has told Labor and the ABC to stop paying attention to the Murdoch media empire.
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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Maybe ABC's Charlie Pickering will interview Dave Hughes and Karl Stefanovic on the challenges of being an underdog Average Aussie Good Bloke multimillionaire conservative white man. 🤔 #auspol #media #journalism
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Andrew Gardiner @ajgardineresq.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Was Karl hoping for a like from Elon? There I was, thinking only Ralph Babet and Drew Pavlou were that pathetic ... #auspol
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Dennis Neader @denzosaurus.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
#Rodomonts Fuck yeh @ronnisalt.bsky.social don’t hold back. But, WTF is wrong with MSM to accept this dross?
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David @daverino.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Nobody, and I do mean nobody, needs fucking dirty, energy sucking, water guzzling, slop generating, creativity sucking, plagiarising, surveillance enabling, data centres
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tonywindsor.bsky.social @tonywindsor.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Caravan Parks in Queensland offering discounts to stay for extra nights. The political scare campaign by One Nation and others has worked as inland areas report low numbers of visitors. Well done ON Well done Angus Putting small business at risk. Don’t vote for the racists they don’t vote for you.
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msnaught.bsky.social @msnaught.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Wow - get your friends, famiĺy, contacts in the SF area on it! Not a huge fan of corporate behemoth that owns ABC but this kind of gov't behavior is unacceptable and they're only big 3 broadcast network standing up/pushing back - we should support that. See if your local ABC station needs support.
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Lizzie @wizzyb79.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Hear, hear!
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Andrew Wilkie MP @andrewwilkiemp.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
The Fed Govt is seeking to open up new areas of ocean between Tas and Vic for the oil and gas companies. This priceless natural environment is already under threat from the twin climate and extinction crises. We should end this madness now. #auspol #politas
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tonywindsor.bsky.social @tonywindsor.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
One Nation leader Miss Sogyny now vomiting all over women’s rights in her quest to be considered a thinker.She joins the Predator and numerous other offenders against women.
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Lizzie @wizzyb79.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
A fearless, independent ABC that is free for all Australians is worth fighting for. Sign the petition to reject calls to defund the ABC force it onto a subscription model that would price out the Australians who need it most. abcfriends.au/actions/keep...
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Keep the ABC free for all Australians - ABC Friends
Calls to defund the ABC and force it onto a subscription model would destroy what makes the ABC unique: its obligation to serve every Australian, regardless
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Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Watching a flu outbreak sweep through a major military training installation after Hegseth pointlessly politicized the vaccine requirement is a reminder that viruses are unimpressed by amateur political theater. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/u...
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Scores Fall Ill at Air Force Base After Hegseth Makes Flu Vaccine Optional
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Michael Erard @michaelerard.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
my keyboard burning because I'm sending this to so many people napinillos.substack.com/p/the-honest...
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The Honest Case for the Humanities
Or: Why I’m Tired of My Colleagues Making Arguments That Only Work on Us
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papaesoco.bsky.social @papaesoco.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
LOL, I'm not a Gynecologist, but, I know a Cunt when I see one!!
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Just the four words "Tony Abbott doesn’t understand" is a handy all-purpose headline for whenever Sir Pository opens his mouth. #auspol
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Australian Politics 🇦🇺 @auspol.info · 14/06/2026
Why has the media gone completely silent on this? A sitting congressman made explosive allegations on the record regarding what is hidden in the blocked Epstein files. People are demanding transparency and pushing to make this trend again. 👇 substack.com/@mjfree/note...
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😱 And just like that, it’s completely VANISHED from the media. A sitting congressman, Ted Lieu, said on the record the Epstein files are being blocked because they show Trump raped and threatened to ...
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Australian Politics 🇦🇺 @auspol.info · 14/06/2026
One Nation's sharp anti-abortion pivot isn't happening in a vacuum. From Barnaby Joyce at pro-life rallies to MAGA-style influencer tactics flooding Aussie politics, the religious right's US playbook is landing here. Worth reading before assuming 'it can't happen in Australia. tinyurl.com/dreuws8u
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One Nation’s anti-abortion turn shows MAGA’s creeping power in Australia
Despite a long history of being pro-choice, Pauline Hanson is adopting an array of Trumpian tactics – including trying to wind back abortion access.
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Nicole Chvastek @nicolechvastek.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
The biggest threat to our lives is not “non citizens”, not the brown people living next door - it is the blood sucking bullshitting tax free billionaire grifters who own our politicians. So of course The Age bury that ACTUAL NEWS but inconvenient truth somewhere past page 20 in the business section
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Lizzie @wizzyb79.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Really concerned about Utas here. Used to be so good. Now? Rubbish.
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Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
I love what I do & I like to think it’s important & benefits society. But, governments & all universities need to ask themselves, what do we really want unis to be, & who are we really supposed to serve? Not the glossy brochure answers. We’re at a crossroads in the sector. This can’t go on.
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Lizzie @wizzyb79.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Hd. Stray get in once, peed in the toaster on the way out the kitchen window! That smell🤮
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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
I no longer watch ABC's #Insiders. (I haven't for a couple of years now.) I couldn't even watch last Sunday's interview with @greens.org.au Senator @davidshoebridge.bsky.social bc Speers interrupts him non-stop. Speers talked over Shoebridge THREE TIMES IN ONE SENTENCE! TWICE!! Unwatchable. #auspol
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Australian Politics 🇦🇺 @auspol.info · 07/06/2026
Australia’s far-right is building "hostile counterpublics" through US-based training and disinformation. This movement threatens democratic norms by fueling radicalization and social division. Vigilance and factual information are essential to protecting our community. #auspol tinyurl.com/bp99vdsr
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Far right content creators training in the US
Australia's far right is connecting with far right/"Christian" extremists in the US. They are creating their own online ecosystem here. The "common sense" they are promoting is titillating bigotry.
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Lizzie @wizzyb79.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Ours not out yet, here in Southern Tassie
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Lizzie @wizzyb79.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Mine not out yet. Very wet and cold in Tassie.
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Kent Parkstreet @kentparkskeet.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
And again, our ABC reporting the press release instead of reporting the reality.
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Michael Dowling aka MeckeringBoy @meckeringboy.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Our ABC spent big$ of the promo that had David Speers saying “All the news. All verified.” Neither statement was/is true.
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Australian Politics 🇦🇺 @auspol.info · 16/05/2026
A look into the international funding and ideology behind recent far-right rallies reveals a coordinated effort to challenge secular, pluralist societies. From London to Australia, understanding these networks is vital to defending an inclusive future. #auspol tinyurl.com/ye2xccyu
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"Western Civilisation": the far right's weapon of choice
When we hear the terms "Western civilisation" and "Judeo-Christian," we need to know what the Right intends people to understand. Far right supporters of Israel are using it to divide us.
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Dean from Australia @deanfromaustralia.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
If One Nation are seriously considering running Ben Fucking Roberts-Smith against Andrew Hastie, they may as well explore the option of getting Martin Bryant out on day release to run in Goldstein. #auspol
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Jessica D. M. 🇺🇦 🇦🇺 🇨🇦 🇵🇦 🇬🇱 🪃 🟧 @jessicaperthwa.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
#Auspol With Angus cutting Immigration, where will we get the many tradies we need to build the homes he promises? Then we still need nurses and Drs etc.
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