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🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🍉 @chrishehim.bsky.social · 9h

This is a much watch. Heartbreaking and infuriating in equal measure.

This should disqualify the Coalition from ever being allowed in government again.
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Tony @tonyshepherd.bsky.social · 9h

Our Prime Minister has never spoken in a manner that fawns over Donald Trump. He has been very diplomatic. He certainly can’t turn around and be completely critical. At the same time. He’s not the type of prime minister that would be a sycophantic arse licker

Tony @tonyshepherd.bsky.social · 9h

Why does the ABC hang on to this outdated thing called #insiders.
This is just sad. David Speers and Melissa McIntosh. Pure tosh.

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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 17h

Melissa McIntosh says she agrees with “both” anti-immigration colleague Andrew Hastie that Australians feel like strangers in their own country & pro-immigration colleague Paul Scarr that migration is needed
I believe this is what is known as having your cake & eating it too🍰🙄 #Abc

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Tony @tonyshepherd.bsky.social · 10h

You expect more intelligence from somebody that has a senator in the Australian government instead of threatening to burn down the house as a parliament

Tony @tonyshepherd.bsky.social · 10h

Australia is much better than this rubbish that she’s putting out

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Tony @tonyshepherd.bsky.social · 12h

Big business is raking in record profits while dodging tax, working people carry the load.
In fact 28% of large companies paid zero tax for the Financial Year.
It’s time big business stepped up and paid their fair share so we can fund the schools, hospitals and services every Australian relies on.

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David Marler @qldaah.bsky.social · 13h

To increase rental supply, in 2022-23 Brisbane Mayor Adrian Schrinner increased rates on those properties operating in the short-term accommodation market. In 2024 conversation permits were required. Then it went quiet. Has this policy helped? #qldpol www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06...

Permits required for Brisbane landlords turning their homes into 'mini-hotels', Airbnbs

Brisbane landlords will need to apply for a permit before they can list their home for short-term accommodation, including Airbnb, the city's lord mayor has announced.

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Tony @tonyshepherd.bsky.social · 12h

The idea that Australians were better off under the Coalition is a myth. Wage growth was stagnant, debt ballooned, and public services were cut. Labor has delivered real cost-of-living relief, stronger Medicare, and better support for education and families. Let’s stick to facts, not slogans.

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David Marler @qldaah.bsky.social · 12h

Qld's pie chomping premier David Crisafulli changed the crime reporting metric. He promised to resign if there weren't fewer victims (later changed to per capita). Not accurate, criminologists say & at least a full year of ABS stats needed; due Sept 2026. #qldpol🔗 www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...