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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 16h

NSW ICAC was widely condemned by politicians & the media after they took just under 2yrs to conclude their investigation into Gladys Berejiklian’s corruption.

Is anyone condemning the NACC who after well OVER 2yrs is still investigating Robodebt? Why not? #auspol

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OMG.WTF 🇦🇺 🇲🇪 🇿🇲 @amsickofpollies.bsky.social · 13h

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This short video on Plenary Authority is very interesting & disturbing

Plenary authority, explained

YouTube video by Lawyer Oyer

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Michael Dowling aka MeckeringBoy @meckeringboy.bsky.social · 13h

≈“…Israelis openly & explicitly saying attacks on Gaza havent ended, & Trump saying they have. It’s not often you see these 2 govts directly contradicting each other w mutually exclusive positions in ways that’ll necessarily be proven or disproven by events...”

www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/israeli-of...

Israeli Officials Are Openly Saying They Plan To Resume Attacks On Gaza

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):

www.caitlinjohnst.one

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 1d

NAAC defends the decision not to hold robodebt public hearings. Pathetic www.canberratimes.com.au/story/908769...

National watchdog defends no robodebt public hearings

The national anti-corruption commission is investigating six public officials tied to the illegal robodebt scheme that resulted in...

www.canberratimes.com.au

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David Pocock @davidpocock.bsky.social · 2d

The Albanese govt’s first term was the second most secretive on record.

Rather than changing their ways, they’re doubling down and tightening our FOI system to make it even harder to get information. Not a single expert or member of parliament outside of the Labor party has backed their new bill.

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Alice K @coalisdead.bsky.social · 13h

@albomp got rid of professor Andrew Leigh because he cares about inequality, isn’t aligned to a faction, knows what he’s doing and isn’t a populist control freak like the PM

The result, 1 in 7 are living in poverty, not 1 in 8. 1 in 6 are children - 757,000

www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/new...

Poverty in Australia increases to 1 in 7 people: new report

The number of people living in poverty in Australia has increased to 1 in 7, according to a new report released today, at the start of Anti-Poverty Week.

www.unsw.edu.au

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Michael Dowling aka MeckeringBoy @meckeringboy.bsky.social · 12h

“Global warming from Woodside’s massive Scarborough gas project off WA coast would lead to 484 additional heat-related deaths in Europe alone this century, & kill about 16 million additional corals on the Great Barrier Reef during each future mass bleaching event, our new research reveals.”
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The Saturday Paper @thesaturdaypaper.com.au · 15h

This week, the global energy thinktank Ember reported that in the first half of this year, renewable energy overtook coal as the world’s biggest source of electricity.

Renewables plus storage are rapidly reducing the demand for fossil fuels. satpa.pe/NShqxvw

Labor’s slate for fossil fuel approvals

The Albanese government has already approved 31 fossil fuel projects, and more than that are waiting, even as renewables overtake coal as the top source of electricity.

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The Saturday Paper @thesaturdaypaper.com.au · 15h

Of 48 submissions received by the inquiry into the government’s proposed amendment to Australia’s Freedom of Information bill, not a single public submission came down in favor of the proposed amendment. satpa.pe/6C7KO6b

Inside Albanese’s FOI reforms: ‘He hates transparency’

Labor’s reforms to freedom of information laws are opposed by every public submission made to the Senate, with the government’s record on secrecy worse than Scott Morrison’s.

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The Saturday Paper @thesaturdaypaper.com.au · 12h

Editorial: A decade ago, it would have been unthinkable for a man who led the country to go and shill for a foreign military. Decency and clearance would have restrained it. AUKUS is less a security partnership and more a one-man superannuation scheme. satpa.pe/2kRfq9r

The one-man super scheme

Of all the things Scott Morrison does not understand, and the list is long and often embarrassing, somewhat in the shape of his prime ministership, China would rate very close to the top.

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

Criminal.

Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 1d

NAAC defends the decision not to hold robodebt public hearings. Pathetic www.canberratimes.com.au/story/908769...

National watchdog defends no robodebt public hearings

The national anti-corruption commission is investigating six public officials tied to the illegal robodebt scheme that resulted in...

www.canberratimes.com.au

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Andys Theory @andystheory.bsky.social · 15h

Of course, it’s like looking up a check on your bank statement. Either you paid it or not. Shockingly simple, easily proven. Do they teach investigative journalism anymore? Based on this, Joe should have gotten the Nobel. He never bombed a nuclear plant.

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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 20h

As for the US and its supporters on the issue of the ceasefire; do not confine any agreement only to Gaza. Consider the occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem to end. The integrity of our international legal system is otherwise at stake. #auspol #Israel #ICJ #Palestine

Israel’s response to the International Court of Justice

The ceasefire plan in Gaza has dominated our news in recent days and weeks. One aspect of the plan is the obligation of Israel in the first phase to release a number — a large number — of Palestinian prisoners.

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Mark Ogge @markogge.bsky.social · 16h

What do you get when Big Gas lobbyists AEP get scandal ridden consultants EY to do “modelling” to influence the Government’s policies?

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

ACCC urged to probe 'distorted research' behind government gas policy

Advocacy group Climate Integrity has accused the gas industry of using "distorted research", produced by the accounting firm EY, to influence the Australian government's Future Gas Strategy.

www.abc.net.au

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Bill Browne @browne90.bsky.social · 17h

Strong from Sussan Ley re Albanese Govt's proposed FOI crackdown:

"This is not an administrative refinement or merely updating old laws, as the Prime Minister claims. It is a retreat from transparency. A truth tax on accountability." www.canberratimes.com.au/story/908628...

Secrecy is becoming the defining feature of this government

These laws were never intended to make life comfortable for those in power.

www.canberratimes.com.au

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 22h

When Aaron Fucking Rupar is doing more reporting than CBS News and The NYT

I think this was a plotline on the second season of The Newsroom

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

Trump's conversation with Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto is caught on a hot mic. Hard to tell exactly what they are talking about, but Subianto asks Trump about meeting Eric Trump and Don Jr, who supposedly have nothing to do with government while they run the family business.

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David Pocock @davidpocock.bsky.social · 15h

A new study published in Nature Climate Action finds Woodside’s Scarborough gas project could cause 100s of heat-related deaths & exposed 500k people to unprecedented heat.

Govt can’t claim climate leadership while approving projects like this.
www.afr.com//policy/ener...

Forrest-backed study links Woodside mega-project to hundreds of deaths

The research, conducted by academics at ANU, suggests the massive offshore gas project off the coast of Western Australia will cause warming of 0.00039 degrees.

www.afr.com

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gwenoc.bsky.social @gwenoc.bsky.social · 11h

It was not a war.

The majority of people killed were unarmed civilians.

It was, and is, a genocide.

anita72.bsky.social @anita72.bsky.social · 16h

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tinnytimes.bsky.social @tinnytimes.bsky.social · 11h

Unions, in particular the AMWU, agitated the Bligh Labor govt for a gas reservation policy. Outright refusal resulted; apparently the great god of “market forces” (as opposed to the ineptitude of a govt hellbent on privatising & a company with the predictive capacity of an ouija board) prevailed.

How a boardroom mistake in Adelaide 15 years ago cost you a fortune

It was a primary force behind Australia’s inflationary surge, it’s forced businesses either to the wall or to shift offshore, undermined national industry policy and resulted in the loss of countless ...

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 11h

The Israeli deputy foreign minister sits in front of a photograph of the man who oversaw the bombing of a hotel that killed 91 people and condemns Hamas as terrorists.

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 1d

Well done #MediaWatch for highlighting the Albanese government’s shameless attempt to make the #FOI system even worse.

This govt is allergic to accountability. #auspol

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Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 11h

Read this, if only to find the tennis joke.

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The "freedom" warriors attacking our freedoms

While the rest of us get on with paying our bills, massive money and energy is being put into imposing strict controls on what we can do with our bodies and what we can say.

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Market Forces @marketforces.org.au · 13d

Macquarie has betrayed investors and its climate commitments by continuing to support one of Australia's biggest proposed gas developments.

Join the campaign to stop Australia becoming a fracking hellscape. Tell Macquarie to stop financing Beetaloo: marketforces.org.au/beetaloo

Emissions from the Beetaloo sub-Basin would be equivalent to running Australia's largest coal-fired power station, Eraring, for another 83 years.

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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 22h

On the centenary of Thatcher's birth, there have been predictable calls for a memorial to her memory. But Britain's 2300 food banks serve that purpose already.

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Humor For Resistance @funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social · 21h

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trump putting a qatar plane in his mouth like maybe sexually lol

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