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3wombats @3wombats.bsky.social · 18m

If you have the money to save the money

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Miscellaneous Loose Unit @misc-loose-unit.bsky.social · 1h

We need to smash the Murdoch Stokes corporate shareholder owned media in Australia

Also teach young people civics politics and real Australian history in schools

Also tax churches especially American prosperity cults

#auspol

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Michael Dowling aka MeckeringBoy @meckeringboy.bsky.social · 1h

We Australians seem to be very vulnerable to right wing media/political forces/oligarchs’ manipulation. I hope this changes as the younger generations come to voting age.

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Paul Austin @paulnaustin.bsky.social · 43m

Here’s some good news: Play your cards right, and your household energy bills could halve by 2050

New Grattan Institute report by Alison Reeve and Tony Wood

grattan.edu.au/report/bills...

#auspol #ClimateEmergency #NetZero #coal #renewables

Bills down, emissions down: A practical path to net-zero electricity

Australian household energy bills are set to halve by 2050, leaving ‘policy room’ for the federal government to cut emissions in the electricity sector without hurting households.

grattan.edu.au

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DispatchesfromBizarro @mrdahl15.bsky.social · 29m

Sunday night treat (while we wait):

Hearing LBJ describe the way his trousers cut him 'tween the nuts and the bunghole.
Gifted to #auspol
Happy Monday.
youtube.com/shorts/eHJwo...

Presidential Records #lastweektonight

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

youtube.com

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3wombats @3wombats.bsky.social · 29m

Lovely 🤗

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Jane Barnes @jane13barnes.bsky.social · 37m

Granddaughters Rosie & Ruby bringing tears and lumps of Joy in my Heart. We are so blessed to have these gorgeous ones in our lives 🙏💞♥️#somewhereovertherainbow

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3wombats @3wombats.bsky.social · 30m

www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Ceasefire live: aid trucks enter Gaza as Hamas confirms it will begin releasing Israeli hostages on Monday morning

Israel’s military says it has completed first phase of withdrawal, ahead of Monday peace summit in Egypt

www.theguardian.com

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@THE-Russell - You don't like opinions? Here's mine! @the-russell.bsky.social · 1h

*COMPARE THE PAIR:

Nelson Mandela addressed a crowd of 40,000 on the steps of the Sydney Opera House in 1990.

Today, 40,000 people were banned from a pro-Palestine protest to the same Sydney Opera House steps on the grounds of public safety.

WHY...?
#auspol #NSWpol

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3wombats @3wombats.bsky.social · 1h

Americans wonder why we get involved with their politics. Try to tell us it’s none of our business. Oh yes it is

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3wombats @3wombats.bsky.social · 1h

Why this is permitted is beyond me

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Henning Pedersen @hepedk.bsky.social · 2h

12/10 2025

Aljazeera Live updates

#auspol #nzpol #cdnpol #cdnpoli #uspol #iepol #ukpol #frpol #eupol #depol #nopol #sepol #fipol #dkpol

aje.io/ac2qc0

Bulldozers clear rubble in Gaza City as Israel-Hamas ceasefire holds

Preparations are also under way for a Gaza ceasefire summit in Egypt, with US President Donald Trump expected to attend.

aje.io

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Lawyer Adam Houda @lawyeradamhouda.bsky.social · 1h

SHAME ON ST VINCENTS HOSPITAL!!!!!
'Cardiologist Peter MacDonald Can’t Save Lives as the Zionist Lobby Has Seen Him Suspended' www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/cardiol... #IsraeliNazis #PalestinianHolocaust #IsraelTerroristState #auspol

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3wombats @3wombats.bsky.social · 1h

Why isn’t Pine Gap on there?

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Marcus Kelson @marcuskelson.bsky.social · 1h

The decline of small town Australia is deeply saddening to me, so many amazing memories and histories being gobbled up by time.. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

A quarter of this town's population has vanished. Experts say that could be terminal

In the Yarriambiack Shire, 350 kilometres from Melbourne in Victoria's rural north-west, virtually all of the towns are shrinking.

www.abc.net.au

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Anthony B, @swearyanthony.bsky.social · 7h

It's grimly funny that all of the build outs of new data centers for AI will be fucked without new power, and the Trumpists have killed or blocked 20GW or more of new solar and wind. And the lead time for new gas plant is *years*.

Samhain Goldstein @goldstein.bsky.social · 22h

Canceling the 21st century version of the Hoover Dam to own the libs. This would have been such an easy thing for Trump have named after himself. Really wasted opportunity for a narcissist like him.

Interior cancels largest solar project in North America

It's the Trump administration's latest move to slow or block major clean energy projects.

www.politico.com

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OMG.WTF 🇦🇺 🇲🇪 🇿🇲 @amsickofpollies.bsky.social · 1h

This will not end well……

And, at some point, TACO

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3wombats @3wombats.bsky.social · 1h

You don’t carpet bomb an area holding hostages if you care at all about the hostages.

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Sarajadebl @sarajadebl.bsky.social · 1h

#MelissaMcIntosh #Insiders
The hostages were never a priority, they were an excuse for #Netanyahu
committing #Gazagenocide
Why does she think his own people are so angry with his government because the hostages were not a priority and were put at risk .

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Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 1h

The Sunday Shot should have a Talking Pictures like segment

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ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 2h

The federal government is sticking to its position of not negotiating with cyber criminals, despite hackers releasing personal data from millions of Qantas customers onto the dark web and threatening to target Australia.

Government holds firm on not paying ransom to hackers

The federal government is sticking to its position of not negotiating with cyber criminals, despite hackers releasing personal data from millions of Qantas customers onto the dark web and threatening to target Australia.

www.abc.net.au

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Andy @vicozandy.bsky.social · 1h

It would be nice if we had competent enough law enforcement to trace them and arrest them.
I know they are probably OS from "sensitive" countries that can't be upset, but at least some reasonable attempts should be made to stop the cyber/phone crime torrent.
Corp. data mgmt laws would help too.

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Jessica D. M. 🇺🇦 🇦🇺 🇨🇦 🇵🇦 🇬🇱 🪃 🟧 @jessicaperthwa.bsky.social · 1h

youtu.be/hcdvVtSlSEc?.... Do Americans and others still want to fight a roo?

So you think you can beat a kangaroo??? #askanyaussie #crocturnbull #australia #kangaroo

YouTube video by Croc Turnbull

youtu.be

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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 1h

Those two names alone guarantee that the people of Gaza are fucked.

Trump is obviously a serial sexual predator whose judgement is ravaged by syphilis; Sisi is an idiotic monster who massacres organised political movements www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Donald Trump and Abdel Fatah al-Sisi to chair Gaza peace summit on Monday

Meeting will take place in Sharm el-Sheikh and include leaders of the UK, Italy, Spain and France

www.theguardian.com

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