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Colleen Strider 📎 @wetdreamteam.bsky.social · 4h

From The Saturday Paper editorial today:
Scott Morrison 🤮

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Colleen Strider 📎 @wetdreamteam.bsky.social · 4h

The hate speech laws that resulted should be repealed.

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Jane Smith @janehappywife.bsky.social · 6h

Quality of data used to write legislation MUST be irrefutable. This is unforgivable.

#NSWPOL
#AUSPOL

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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Paul Boland @paulobear.bsky.social · 6h

What a week for Independents - Sophie Scamps. Zali Steggall, Monique Ryan, Kate Chaney, Allegra Spender, Andrew Wilkie, David Pocock.
Gambling
Lobbying
Preventative health
CDC
FOI
While others ………. , these contribute positively.
#auspol

Jars @benarman.bsky.social · 6h

Given a choice between protecting its citizens from harm, or protecting those who inflict the harm, @albomp.bsky.social chooses the latter every time.
👉Gambling
👉Environment
👉Climate
👉Aged Care

Gough would be spinning in his grave.

Dr Monique Ryan @mon4kooyong.bsky.social · 6h

Every time the government accepts money from the gambling industry, it increases its debts to companies whose business models are based on preying on young and vulnerable people, and doing them harm.

The Albanese government does this again and again.

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

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Rod Moffatt @politikarma.bsky.social · 5h

Albanese believes his own B.S. and is becoming increasingly hostile to being held to account.
Hubris has replaced humility
#auspol

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dee_le_brun @deelebrun.bsky.social · 5h

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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Kate-Eviva @kate-eviva.bsky.social · 8h

🙏👏👏👏👏
So shocked. The #ALP #integrity is trashed. We urgently need a new system. #auspol

The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 10h

This is not just the appearance of conflict of interest, it is corruption of democracy pure and simple.

Gee, if only those First Nations people had thought of having a Voice to Parliament via a “Sports Club”.

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Nevyn @skobeloff.bsky.social · 8h

@albomp.bsky.social public enemy

#auspol

Mehreen Faruqi @mehreenfaruqi.bsky.social · 1d

Genocidal war criminal nominates his weapons dealer for the Nobel Peace Prize and our Foreign Minister fawns over it.

Embarrassing.

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sustainableauspol.bsky.social @sustainableauspol.bsky.social · 8h

This was never a war
It was & is a genocide

Israel has lost the moral right to exist

ALL illegal settlements post 1974 must be returned to the Palestinians they were stolen from

Israel MUST pay reconstruction costs for Gaza & give up all those with arrest warrants for war crime trials

#Auspol

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Jenny Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithWatermelon🍉🍉 @joneshowdareyou.bsky.social · 8h

Please explain to me, @senatorwong.bsky.social, exactly how a GENOCIDE committed with impunity by Israel with mostly weapons and bombs and other artillery provided by the USA "has been the greatest contribution to peace in the Middle East."

I'll fucking wait. #auspol #GazaHolocaust

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Colleen Strider 📎 @wetdreamteam.bsky.social · 4h

He is spineless and soulless.
#NotMyPM
#Auspol

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robfollis.bsky.social @robfollis.bsky.social · 7h

Shame on you @albomp.bsky.social #auspol

Tim Hollo @timhollo.bsky.social · 11h

An utterly shameful list of murderous, ecocidal, omnicidal acts by a government that loves to claim it cares

The strategy of trying to get Labor and the bureaucracy to act is an abject failure. Government is a failed institution, most clearly when it comes to climate.

Time to build the next system

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.

www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au

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Colleen Strider 📎 @wetdreamteam.bsky.social · 5h

He just said that he's brought peace to the middle east for the first time in 3,000 years. 😂

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twinfold @twinfold.bsky.social · 9h

Of course they did, because they're idiots egged on by a terrorist lobby groups acting under the guise of Zionism, cowering to the media and politicians to make links that were never there.

#FuckAntisemitism #FuckZionism #FreePalestine #SanctionIsrael #auspol

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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Maggie @warblingon.bsky.social · 21h

A Lobby Group? 95% of Aussie voters don't know about LOBBY GROUPS but really BIG MONEY is in charge of Australia.

We no longer have a democracy as BIG MONEY has control of our Govts (both parties) regardless of how we vote!

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mon0497 🍉☮️ @mon0497.bsky.social · 23h

What a crooked, calculating narcissist Albo has turned into. Perhaps he always was

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Sir Crus†abread✝️⚔️🥖🛡️👨‍🏭🗡️🎸💜⚡🔫👾🍾🎆🌹 @gormangee.bsky.social · 23h

Anthony's story.

My mum raised me in public housing as a single parent. In 1963, that was a brave call. Mum’s aspiration was that my life would turn out better than hers.

It was because of her that a working class boy from council housing would one day become president of a political lobby group.

Electricity coin powered meter of yore (and future, it would seem)

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Eric Arfabee @ericarfabee.bsky.social · 22h

Uhhh, the ‘Albo judgement bus’ left for good the day he attended that f$&kwit Sandilands wedding.

He’s been a major disappointment I’m afraid. And I loathe the LNP.

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Colleen Strider 📎 @wetdreamteam.bsky.social · 8h

I'd prefer he resign as PM.

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Tom Dowling @tomdowling.bsky.social · 22h

PM (Positively Morrisonian) Albanese strikes again.

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Belinda Weaver @longtimeleftie.bsky.social · 23h

He is literally an #Albo-tross. Labor will be finished if they don't boot out this blinkered, stubborn, petty, punitive autocrat.

He gets worse and worse.

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Ronni🧂Salt @ronnisalt.bsky.social · 23h

The Aust Parliament Sports Club (the one that ditched David Pocock) is now formally registered as a lobby group👇🏽

Anthony Albanese is the President of the Aust Parliament Sports Club.

That means the Prime Minister of Australia is currently the president of a lobby group.

Just utterly unbelievable.

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MediaActive ▪️EQUALITY ▪️JUSTICE ▪️PEACE @mediaactive.bsky.social · 8h

“Cast out the dissenter for he has (oh the horror!) “politicised” the club. #auspol #freespeech #democracy rss.com/podcasts/tra...

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Kate-Eviva @kate-eviva.bsky.social · 8h

Who would believe it! The disinformation now flowing freely from the #police. Seems the main beneficiaries of the current #policies will be people paid to create and report FAKE anti-semitism. #auspol

PK 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @paul.kidd.id.au · 9h

Gosh gee whiz who would’ve guessed 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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PlsUseYourBrain @useyourbrain.bsky.social · 8h

"Which is why it’s past time for the government to put a stop to new developments, to “face down” the industry and dare it to campaign against them.

That would require a degree of courage that we have not seen to date."
– Mike Seccombe

#AusPol
#ClimateCrisis
#FossilFuels
#GutlessAlbo

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.

www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au

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