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tzortzo.bsky.social @tzortzo.bsky.social · 8h

Albanese is a craven career politician who has self interest as his top priority, followed closely by the interests of lobbyists. He is as corrupt as his bedfellows in the LNP.

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Rosco The Grouch @roscothegrouch.bsky.social · 4h

Yes. Excellent.

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Peggy Sanders @peggysanders.bsky.social · 16h

Thank goodness for the cross bench.

Holding @albomp.bsky.social Labor Government to account.
#auspol

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Rex Patrick @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social · 16h

ICYMI #auspol

FOI amendment bill. A transparency counter-revolution. - Michael West

The biggest ever assault on government transparency has been launched by Labor's tabling of the FOI Amendment Bill 2025.

michaelwest.com.au

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Rex Patrick @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social · 16h

It’s great to see the cross bench coming out early and with strength opposing the Govt’s evil #FOI Amendment Bill. Here’s @helenhainesindi.bsky.social’s amendment killing off the ability of the Govt to charge FOI applications fees and for officials to summarily dismiss FOI requests. #auspol

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Rosco The Grouch @roscothegrouch.bsky.social · 9h

😂🤣

Boiling Boy @dreweliotcurtis.bsky.social · 9h

Cartels are for sure offering CBP and ICE bounties now that officers have been pulled off of tracking them down in order to go after empanada vendors, nannies, and inflatable unicorns. Makes total sense.

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Boiling Boy @dreweliotcurtis.bsky.social · 9h

Cartels are for sure offering CBP and ICE bounties now that officers have been pulled off of tracking them down in order to go after empanada vendors, nannies, and inflatable unicorns. Makes total sense.

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Rosco The Grouch @roscothegrouch.bsky.social · 9h

So IDF shooting Palestinians it doesn't like while Hamas executes informers and collaborators.

Ceasefire. What ceasefire?

www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/world/2...

Cracks in shaky ceasefire as Palestinians killed, aid halted

Israeli forces are restricting aid into the Gaza Strip after hostage families expressed dismay that only four of 28 bodies were returned.

www.thenewdaily.com.au

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Rosco The Grouch @roscothegrouch.bsky.social · 13h

I curiously find myself wishing it was he who was posthumous. 😆

Rosco The Grouch @roscothegrouch.bsky.social · 15h

Trump posthumously awards Charlie Kirk the Presidential Medal of Freedom

Donald Trump debases everything he touches. The man is a disgusting piece of work.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Trump posthumously awards Charlie Kirk the Presidential Medal of Freedom

President presented award to Kirk’s widow, Erika, on what would have been the far-right commentator’s 32nd birthday

www.theguardian.com

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Debbies @7debbies2.bsky.social · 15h

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Spectral Phoenix 🇦🇺🐈🐈 @spectral-phoenix.bsky.social · 15h

I don't think the 'cease fire' will hold. You can call me a pessimist.

As for the Dunt (Dumb...t), he's just confirming what we already know. No surprise.

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Rosco The Grouch @roscothegrouch.bsky.social · 15h

Trump posthumously awards Charlie Kirk the Presidential Medal of Freedom

Donald Trump debases everything he touches. The man is a disgusting piece of work.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Trump posthumously awards Charlie Kirk the Presidential Medal of Freedom

President presented award to Kirk’s widow, Erika, on what would have been the far-right commentator’s 32nd birthday

www.theguardian.com

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Rosco The Grouch @roscothegrouch.bsky.social · 16h

‘I am the only one that matters’: Trump deals praise and insults at Gaza summit

Self-styled world’s greatest peacemaker calls Meloni ‘beautiful’ and Erdoğan a ‘friend’…

Gives new meaning to Hubris.

I think this will unravel. Any odds?

#Gaza #hubris #Trump

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

‘I am the only one that matters’: Trump deals praise and insults at Gaza summit

Self-styled world’s greatest peacemaker calls Meloni ‘beautiful’ and Erdoğan a ‘friend’, but takes jab at Iraqi and Canadian leaders

www.theguardian.com

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Rosco The Grouch @roscothegrouch.bsky.social · 16h

I watch in horror from half a world away as events unfold in the US. How ordinary folk become complicit as Trump's ICE Gestapo.

No man is an island. Everything is connected to everything else. Every word. Every kind act. Counts.

To remain silent is to be as complicit as they are.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 7d

I refuse to let hopelessness prevail. This may just be one essay, by a lawyer few have heard of, in a newsletter read by a fraction of the public. But I will not stay silent.

Will you?
www.democracydocket.com/opinion/i-re...

I Refuse to Stay Silent. Will You?

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Rosco The Grouch @roscothegrouch.bsky.social · 18h

No reason whatsoever. (though there must be something - hmm, checking…) It is why there is a "debate" about an Australian republic with a president instead of a Governor General.

Google's AI summary tells me this. Though it doesn't actually answer the question.

How the monarchy works in Australia:

Head of State vs. Head of Government:
Australia is a constitutional monarchy, meaning the King is the head of state, but the head of government is the Prime Minister.

Governor-General's Role:
The Governor-General is the King's representative in Australia and exercises the King's powers, including giving Royal Assent to laws passed by Parliament.
Advisory Principle:
The King appoints the Governor-General based on the advice of the Australian Prime Minister, and the Governor-General must act according to constitutional conventions and the advice of Australian ministers.
Ceremonial Functions:
The monarch's role in Australia is mostly symbolic and doesn't involve the day-to-day governance of the country.
Power is Delegated:
The King's powers in Australia are delegated to his representative, the Governor-General, who performs the functions of the head of state.

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David Pocock @davidpocock.bsky.social · 1d

We don’t have a gas shortage, we have a gas export problem. Santos are gaming the system and pushing up the price of gas paid by 🇦🇺 households & industry.

We don’t need new projects, we need to reserve uncontracted export gas for 🇦🇺 now!
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Why Santos is behind your soaring electricity and mortgage costs

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 ...

www.abc.net.au

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Rosco The Grouch @roscothegrouch.bsky.social · 1d

She has a shred of decency, does she?

Rosco The Grouch @roscothegrouch.bsky.social · 1d

Interesting. I am suffering from lie fatigue syndrome, and no longer interested in hearing, seeing or reading anything about Donald Trump, his progeny or the goons he surrounds himself with or what they purport to have said.

#uspol #Trump

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 2d

Remind me, who was the president who sat on his fat ass in the White House cheering this on during J6?

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Rosco The Grouch @roscothegrouch.bsky.social · 1d

Hmmm, yes. Good point. Nothing like a few facts to set the record straight. 😀

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 1d

Just a quick reminder that the disagreement over the globe between Columbus and his peers wasn't about the SHAPE, but about the SIZE—and that in that dispute, Columbus was the one who was wrong.

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 1d

No he didn’t and no we shouldn’t.

“no educated person in the history of Western Civilization from the third century B.C. onward believed that the Earth was flat”

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Paul Dutton @pdutts68.bsky.social · 1d

Amazing how reducing crime is never connected to lifting people out of poverty.
#AusPol

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 1d

Soon it will be show us your papers. This must stop.

A tweet by James Surowiecki replying to David J. Bier. Surowiecki asks, “Where in the Immigration and Nationality Act does it say that US citizens have to prove that they're citizens or else be arrested?” The quoted tweet by Bier reads, “ICE agents to US citizen: Turn around or you're getting the dog,” accompanied by a photo of a man wearing a face mask and standing near vehicles at night.

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Rosco The Grouch @roscothegrouch.bsky.social · 2d

It sure is.