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I’m a bass playing, boat building grandad. I follow the ‘train-wreck’ that is AusPol with a macabre interest. Born, lived worked Bunurong all my life. Wish we had more than the last 200yrs of history folded into our culture.
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Watching 7.30 and have to laugh when farmers say they're worried about the plants and animals impacted by transmission towers, without a moment's pause on the fact their very farm exists because most of those plants and animals were disposed of...
December 1, 2025 at 11:42 AM
National Party farmers moaning that power lines will turn their ‘tranquil farms’ into an industrial zone. These farms are already industrial zones! Not a tree left standing, chemicals & heavy machinery… Get out of the way! #AusPol
December 1, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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Any centrist uttering "don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good" is an absolute guaranteed pre-emptive alarm they're about to do something extremely bad
When @australianlabor.bsky.social trots out a warning to The Greens "not to "make the perfect the enemy of the good"" you can absolutely bet they're going to offer up crud & join forces with LNP to deploy media beat up strategies against people who want to prevent rubbishing of EPBC laws
Labor offers Greens forestry deal in exchange for support on environment laws
The ABC has been told the federal government is willing to ensure native forestry complies with tougher new standards within three years if the Greens back the reforms.
www.abc.net.au
November 23, 2025 at 10:44 AM
The adds on #SBSonDemand are beyond a joke
November 23, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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“It’s about damn time we told this story truthfully with the villains in it: we wouldn’t be where we were if the fossil fuel industry had not run a long and fraudulent campaign of climate denial,” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Pelosi calls Trump ‘the biggest con job in American history’ in reply to climate comment
US speaker emerita criticizes Trump’s anti-climate stance and his remarks to the UN general assembly
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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Well, I guess that saves Australia from curling up and dying from hypocrisy.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Turkey to host Cop31 climate conference after Australia drops push to hold it in Adelaide
Fortnight-long event to be held in Antalya but Australia may lead negotiations
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Where were you on the desal plant @keanebernard.bsky.social ? Vic ALP have a long history of stitch ups. #AusPol The rest of Australia desperately needs Jess Wilson to succeed in Victoria www.crikey.com.au/2025/11/19/j...
The rest of Australia desperately needs Jess Wilson to succeed in Victoria
It's critical to taxpayers around the country that new Victorian Liberal leader Jess Wilson defeats Labor and dumps the disastrous Suburban Rail Loop project.
www.crikey.com.au
November 21, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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ABC now running completely untrue propaganda for America and Israel. The bombing hasn’t stopped and it has been widely reported that Netanyahu said to his own people they wouldn’t stop pretty much as soon as trump asked him to.
October 4, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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Malcolm Fraser wanted a new party that's basically 'the progressive Libs' – you could say we now have that in community indies.

But can a structured party do things an indie coalition can't? BK & I discuss on the pod.

Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXfQ...

Listen on Apple, Spotify, etc #auspol
The Fraser Manifesto: A former prime minister's plan to replace the Liberal party
YouTube video by Crikey News
www.youtube.com
October 23, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Waleed Aly, in a sentence or two, just nails the crux of the issue. Fuck he’s good. #AnnabelCrabbs #CivicDuty episode 2
#AusPol
November 19, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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It’s kinda amusing: ‘progressive media’ has tried for years and failed. Now it’s the turn of the federal coalition … you can’t appease the right. You will never give them enough. They don’t want to make peace, they want to destroy you. They hate you.
November 16, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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Under Labor’s environmental reforms, project proponents don’t have to disclose scope 3 emissions, only scope 1 and 2 (see post 2/2 for definition). Why? Official’s avoided answering Senator David Pocock’s question on that🤷‍♂️. Looks like a job for #FOI. 1/2 #climate #auspol
November 15, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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The Australian Government for the past five years has been pushing weapons sales into the UAE at an astonishing scale. This is the result. Australia tying itself to more appalling war crimes, now in Sudan.
November 15, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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“there is a point on the graph where things get Worse, and there you will find Ronald Reagan” stays undefeated
it's fascinating that you can see when exactly the Reagan revolution happened
November 15, 2025 at 9:26 PM
My daughters friend reckons I’m like “a high functioning meth addict…
Just out on missions” 🤣🤣🤣
I’m thinking of having that etched onto my headstone 🪦 🤔 🤣
November 14, 2025 at 7:22 AM
One can’t pardon an innocent person Donald… or could it be the genocidal war criminal you aid and abet is guilty af #AusPol
November 13, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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Scott Ludlam wrote a few things a few years back on “state capture” and it really sums up Australia’s craven giveaway of fossil fuel resources to foreign corps
Australia Institute research shows the gas industry pays ZERO royalties on more than half the gas exported from Australia.

"Other people in the rest of the world are making a fortune out of Australia's gas exports.... Australia is getting taken for a ride."

@richarddenniss.bsky.social

#auspol
November 13, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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Entirely accurate depiction of global capitalism today by NT Socialists member Dani (Insta: enkidooby_doo).
Wonderful artwork by NT Socialists member Dani (Insta: enkidooby_doo). Pretty much sums up the state of the world today. Help us build a movement to overturn this rotten system and build a society that puts people before profit. Join today: victoriansocialists.org.au/join
November 13, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Ooh… unemployment has dropped!!!!
Let’s punish all the kiddies with a mortgage!!!!! Yay #AusPol
November 13, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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Bannon tells GOP: ‘Seize the institutions’ of government now or we’re 'going to prison’ after 2028 johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
Bannon tells GOP: ‘Seize the institutions’ of government now or we’re 'going to prison’ after 2028
“Steve Bannon motivating Democratic voters,” said one historian in response to comments by the former Trump White House adviser.
johnmenadue.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:53 PM
A partial solution to our energy ‘curtailment’ issue would be to extend the battery rebate to homes without solar. This in conjunction with proposed 3hr free energy would soak up excess & allow households unable to install solar to join the renewable market instead of subsidising it. #AusPol
November 10, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Who the fuck is John Laws?
November 10, 2025 at 2:22 AM
The ‘cost of living crisis’ is privatised essential services and under-regulated corporatisation of the rest of the economy and government. I hope people vote to redress this next election #AusPol
November 7, 2025 at 11:19 PM