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#134YearsInSolidarity 🇦🇺🇮🇪 @laborforus.bsky.social · 8h

I've been to the mountain a few times. Disappointing lack of boobs. I think it's BYO now.

#134YearsInSolidarity 🇦🇺🇮🇪 @laborforus.bsky.social · 10h

FML

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Dan Jago @dj1au.bsky.social · 11h

Don't worry, Jake Tapper is just about to get onto it, once he's sold enough books on Biden.🙄

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#134YearsInSolidarity 🇦🇺🇮🇪 @laborforus.bsky.social · 10h

We can't even create a consultative committee with no legislative power to give effect to an existing constitutional power? Odds of a major constitutional overhaul lower than a ducks nuts #auspol

Bruce Williams @brucewilliams4.bsky.social · 7d

A republic in the too-hard basket www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/interna... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au
50 years after the dismissal of the Whitlam government, Australia is still not “a fully independent nation”, our becoming a Republic remains stuck in the too-hard basket.

A republic in the too-hard basket

On the eve of the 50th anniversary of the Dismissal, the prime minister made it clear he will not pursue a republic – a further setback to a process that has long been under way.

www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au

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#134YearsInSolidarity 🇦🇺🇮🇪 @laborforus.bsky.social · 10h

Extend back to 74 and take my sister please 🤞

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#134YearsInSolidarity 🇦🇺🇮🇪 @laborforus.bsky.social · 10h

Please let this be real ♥️ youtube.com/shorts/ipXLB...

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S. K. Riley @skriley.bsky.social · 16h

This Is Australia 🌊 🦘🏖️

'Out on the patio we'd sit
And the humidity we'd breathe
We'd watch the lightning crack over canefields
Laugh and think
this is Australia.'

~ GANGgajang

#ThisIsAustralia #GANGgajang #SoundsOfThen #SurfMusic
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUA1...

Sounds Of Then (This Is Australia) (Remix)

YouTube video by GANGgajang - Topic

www.youtube.com

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Spooky Matt Grote @mattgrote.bsky.social · 18h

I cannot stress enough how important it is to have an enormous cat

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#134YearsInSolidarity 🇦🇺🇮🇪 @laborforus.bsky.social · 13h

And the one in my roof.....

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Rob Sica @robsica.bsky.social · 15h

Why We Need to Talk About Left-Wing Authoritarianism | Luke Conway - Viewpoints

This episode delivers a thought-provoking exploration into how authoritarianism manifests on both sides of the aisle, why it’s often overlooked on the left, and what might be done to foster healthier,...

viewpointspodcast.ca

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Rob Sica @robsica.bsky.social · 15h

"The perceived legitimacy of repression to uphold what citizens see as fair and just often outweighs demands for liberal rights or democratic processes." scholar.google.com/citations?vi...

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The Chaser @chaser.com.au · 19h

It's the topic everyone in Canberra is talking about and now thanks to ChaserBet, you can win big on this bizarre story!

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#134YearsInSolidarity 🇦🇺🇮🇪 @laborforus.bsky.social · 13h

Won't need to.... 400m wasted. The transition cannot be stopped, b3cause of economics the ALP seeded 15 years ago.

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#134YearsInSolidarity 🇦🇺🇮🇪 @laborforus.bsky.social · 13h

FFS

dee_le_brun @deelebrun.bsky.social · 14h

NSW Police massively over estimate the number of anti-Semitic incidents,explain that they're not lying, just incompetent.

#auspol #antisemitism #nswpolice

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

NSW police wrongly categorise ‘significant’ number of incidents as antisemitic

Anti-Palestinian graffiti and verbal abuse of pro-Palestine protestors incorrectly recorded as antisemitism in figures government cited to defend restrictions on protests

www.theguardian.com

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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 1d

RBA Governor Michele Bullock confirms Labor has turned the economy around with wages now rising, inflation down, interest rates down, taxes down.
“Real per capita wages are now above what they were pre COVID”
Lisa Darmanin “so overall that’s a pretty good story?”
Bullock “Yes”✅ #Estimates

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#134YearsInSolidarity 🇦🇺🇮🇪 @laborforus.bsky.social · 1d

I love watching Tories suing one another all over the country... #auspol

Vaxatious Litigant 💉 @exposingnv.bsky.social · 1d

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

David Sharaz served bankruptcy papers by Linda Reynolds

Brittany Higgins's husband David Sharaz is served bankruptcy papers by former Senator Linda Reynolds, as she tries to recover damages awarded to her by a Perth court for defamation.

www.abc.net.au

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#134YearsInSolidarity 🇦🇺🇮🇪 @laborforus.bsky.social · 1d

😀

Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 1d

It's also worth asking: could the Nobel Peace Prize committee have picked a winner who could anger Trump any more?

1) a woman
2) from Latin America
3) specifically Venezuela, which he appears to particularly hate
4) won for promptong democratic rights

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Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 1d

Congratualtions to María Corina Machado for winning this years Nobel Peace Prize for her work promoting democratic rights in Venezuela.

Has the world, collectively, ever been happier over who won the prize?

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Venezuelan politician María Corina Machado wins Nobel peace prize

Leader of country’s opposition receives award after scrutiny surrounding committee and comments by Donald Trump

www.theguardian.com

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Australian Labor @australianlabor.bsky.social · 1d

Australians have clocked up more than 2 million visits to Labor's free Medicare Urgent Care Clinics!

More free health care when you need it, right across the country.

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wheelyweb @wheelyweb.bsky.social · 1d

Careful there, Steve. Next you’ll be saying Bernie Sanders can’t talk about workers rights & social democracy while being a multi-millionaire.
I get your point but he wasn’t born in a bubble. But King Charles or others born into extreme privilege, I’m with you.

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