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Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 1d

FOI DIVISION
UNKNOWN MEASURES
#auspol

Anthony Albanese wearing a Joy Division Unknown Pleasures t shirt altered to say FOI DIVISION
UNKNOWN MEASURES
With the graphic obscured

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Adam R Houston @healthlawadamh.bsky.social · 4d

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Screenshot of the title and subheading of the article linked in the quoted post.

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 5d

It wasn't anti-white to support boycotting South African teams under apartheid.

It's not Russophobia to support boycotting Russian teams after the invasion of Ukraine.

And it's not antisemitism to support boycotting Israeli teams after a genocide.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 6d

A nationwide backlash to AI data centers is brewing.

And for good reason: while AI enriches Big Tech CEOs and props up the stock market, data centers are sucking up communities’ water and power.

When the AI bubble bursts, the rest of us will be stuck holding the bag. Be warned.

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Barbara Pocock @barbarapocock.bsky.social · 6d

Labor’s 5% deposit scheme will push 🏠 prices up & make the housing crisis worse. Instead: build public & affordable housing, fix CGT & NG taxes & cap rents. There are solutions. www.deepcutnews.com/p/labors-5-d...

Labor’s 5% deposit scheme will only make the banks richer – and that’s the point

The government’s new housing policy will see banks pocket billions in extra interest and saddle a generation with more debt

www.deepcutnews.com

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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 7d

Millions of Americans are marching against Trump today. I sure hope no leader from Australia is about to pop over and bend the knee to him, offer him tribute and fawning adoration, maybe some of our resources and real estate for US military bases. Surely that won’t happen.

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Tim Hollo @timhollo.bsky.social · 8d

Manufacturing consent

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

Queensland anti-renewables group cited nonexistent papers in inquiry submissions using AI, publisher says

Exclusive: Rainforest Reserves Australia has published submissions naming nonexistent government authorities and a nonexistent windfarm

www.theguardian.com

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Captain Quoll @kudelka.bsky.social · 9d

Gotta pay for that AFL stadium though. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

'Major reputational risk': Briefing gives warning to Tasmanian arts minister

"Dangerously low" arts sector funding has rendered the Tasmanian industry "highly vulnerable", with funding stagnant since 2016-17, the state government has conceded.

www.abc.net.au

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Frances Green @franciegreen.bsky.social · 9d

Co Health clinics are such an important resource to inner Melbourne communities. This is a terrible development.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Cohealth CEO says closure follows 'death by thousand cuts' from government

Inner-city Melbourne community health service cohealth will be shuttering its GP services at the end of the year, citing escalating costs and aging infrastructure.

www.abc.net.au

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 9d

“The environment minister wants to pass a major re-write of federal nature laws this year, encouraging miners to lobby the Coalition to work with Labor to help rush it through parliament in the final three sitting weeks”

Just contemplate that sentence.

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

With climate trigger axed Labor wants to rush new environmental laws through after ‘positive’ talks with Coalition

Proposed timeframe leaves 12 days to scrutinise most significant changes to national environmental protection regime since 1999

www.theguardian.com

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 10d

Palestine’s most popular leader, Marwan Barghouti, was beaten unconscious and has his ribs broken by Israeli prison guards and his family fears for his life, his son has said, citing evidence given by former Palestinian detainees released this week as part of the ceasefire deal.

Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti assaulted by Israeli prison guards, son says

Family fears for 66-year-old’s life after assault while he was being transferred between prisons

www.theguardian.com

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · Jun 5

The biggest problem with the ALP right now is it is led by someone who irrationally hates the Greens.

He doesn't really like to "fight Tories"; he loves to fight the party that reveals his actual lack of "left-wing" positions.

Someone needs to tell him to get over his uni politics crap.

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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 11d

The tyrant that Albanese and Wong keep trying to ingratiate us with keeps ordering extrajudicial murders

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 11d

"The main actors of the genocide will have to answer to justice."

Spain’s PM Pedro Sanchez says the ceasefire deal ending Israel's war on Gaza should not mean Israel’s conduct should be forgotten, saying “there cannot be impunity”.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/ky7rx1

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 11d

Israeli forces kill several Palestinians in Gaza as the Israel-Hamas ceasefire comes under growing strain.

Israel imposes new Gaza aid restrictions as truce comes under strain

Israeli forces kill several Palestinians in Gaza as the Israel-Hamas ceasefire comes under growing strain.

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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 12d

With US science & research tanking, an independent CSIRO, weather bureau and medical/science grant systems in Australia are more crucial than ever. #csiro #bom #sciencesky
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Albanese urged to ‘secure the future of science’ as CSIRO reckons with ongoing decline in funding

CEO Doug Hilton says the agency’s budget allocation ‘has not kept up with the cost of doing science’

www.theguardian.com

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1EarthMedia @1earthmedia.bsky.social · 14d

The Knitting Nannas have gone global ... led by Aunt Tifa.

#AuntTifa #KnittingNannas #GrandmasUnite #UmbrellaSquad #IamAuntTifa

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Barbara Pocock @barbarapocock.bsky.social · 14d

Huge rally for Free Palestine today - I think the biggest ever. South Australian’s want a just, lasting peace, Palestinian statehood and self-determination, hostages free, pursuit of war criminals and an end to any Australian public investment in armaments.

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David Lamond @davidlamond.bsky.social · 14d

Today’s discussion another excellent example of why there is simply no alternative on Sunday at 9.00am to the #SundayShot! Thanks @ronnisalt.bsky.social, @grogsgamut.bsky.social, @davemilbo.bsky.social, @boganintel.bsky.social, and, as always, @deniseshrivell.bsky.social! #auspol

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 15d

Journalists among the dozens of Palestinians wounded amid escalation in Israeli violence during olive harvest season.

Attacks by Israeli army, illegal settlers injure 36 in occupied West Bank

Journalists among the dozens of Palestinians wounded amid escalation in Israeli violence during olive harvest season.

bit.ly

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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 16d

New:
Censorship by any other name.
The National Press Club cancelled a speaker, Chris Hedges, who planned to address the mass killing of journalists in Gaza. The mainstream press didn’t report it.
nickfeik.substack.com/p/censorship...

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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 16d

How very Pocockian. The only parliamentarian to have captained an elite national sports team got expelled from the parliamentary sports club for expressing principles about the sinister cavortings of the gambling industry.

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 16d

Former Wallabies star David Pocock booted from parliamentary sports club

Exclusive: Senator accused of bringing social club into disrepute after raising concerns about its association with betting lobby Independent ACT senator David Pocock – a former Wallabies captain – been banned from attending parliament house’s social sports club after raising concern about its sponsorship by the gambling industry. The former rugby star was on Thursday night told he was no longer welcome at Australian Parliament Sports Club events, and accused of politicising the organisation. He has been removed from group chats discussing its events. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz.bsky.social · 16d

Thoughts On The Ceasefire News

When an agreement was reached late last year it never made it beyond the first phase and then the Trumpanyahu administration declared a siege and resumed the killing.
www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/thoughts-o...

Thoughts On The Ceasefire News

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

www.caitlinjohnst.one

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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 16d

Can we please have a government run along the principles of whatever a Pocock person says?

Barbara Pocock @barbarapocock.bsky.social · 16d

How we ‘fess up when we mess up shows who we are. Pay it all back Deloitte. And apologise. Give yrsrlf some procurement teeth Labor: the capability to ban for poor behaviour, commensurate with the misdemeanour, up to 5 yrs.

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 16d

"I have a big report on what Andrew Hastie is doing". Great. You are writing a story on something that impacts precisely zero public policy.

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