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Rod Moffatt @politikarma.bsky.social · 6h

The terminal assessment of the incumbent @albomp.bsky.social
@australianlabor.bsky.social Govt will deduce:

“It would have been better if it had actually tried…and failed.

Instead it failed to try…and failed”

Voters do not reward mediocrity and inertia

#auspol

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coupdegraz7.bsky.social @coupdegraz7.bsky.social · 4h

#auspol #nzpol #AtlasNetwork

Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 6h

The “Eye of Seymour” 🤣 (Deputy PM) here is the #AtlasNetwork connection to #NZpol
The list of atrocious decisions logged are classic Atlas partner efforts to take from the public to fatten the mega rich’s (offshore) bank accounts.

Don’t vote LNP, Australia. The worst neoliberals are back. #auspol

the Juice Media @thejuicemedia.com · 10h

The Government of New Zealand has made a new tourism ad and it's surprsingly honest and informative!

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Maggie @warblingon.bsky.social · 6h

Well nothing has changed.

Govts today sell off our mineral resources to internationals who pay no tax and then we subsidise them from tax-payer's $s as well.

+ Aussies can't afford to eat red meat now 'cos we sell it all o'seas & we can't compete on price! 😡 #auspol

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coupdegraz7.bsky.social @coupdegraz7.bsky.social · 4h

#Australia #auspol #OligarchicMajorParties

Michael Dowling aka MeckeringBoy @meckeringboy.bsky.social · 13h

In 1997 then “geniuses” treasurer Costello & PM Howard sold off our gold reserves.
Gold sold: 167 tonnes
-Proceeds received in 1997: AUD $2.4 billion

-If we still owned that gold today (spot price ≈ AUD $6,054.50/troy ounce, 7 Oct 2025):
≈ AUD $32.51 billion.

👉🏻We’d be $30+billion richer today.

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coupdegraz7.bsky.social @coupdegraz7.bsky.social · 4h

#auspol #rullingclass #duopoly #lobbygroups

koz @auskoz.bsky.social · 6h

#auspol
Its like they're all part of an exclusive 'Club' 😎

Ronni🧂Salt @ronnisalt.bsky.social · 6h

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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coupdegraz7.bsky.social @coupdegraz7.bsky.social · 4h

#auspol #australia #lobbylanddownunder

fernandolongo.bsky.social @fernandolongo.bsky.social · 5h

This is the fundamental problem with our Democracy - it can be bought by vested interests - and both major parties like it that way #auspol #australia
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Sportsbet dines with government minister at Labor fundraiser despite calls to reject lobbying from industry

Exclusive: Dinner occurred on the same day that four crossbench MPs held a press conference calling on government to ignore lobbying from gambling industry

www.theguardian.com

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coupdegraz7.bsky.social @coupdegraz7.bsky.social · 4h

#auspol

#134YearsInSolidarity 🇦🇺🇮🇪 @laborforus.bsky.social · 5h

I love watching Tories suing one another all over the country... #auspol

Vaxatious Litigant 💉 @exposingnv.bsky.social · 10h

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

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QOTL 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦 @iamqotl.bsky.social · 5h

A good question. Almost. I would suggest Morrison and Tudge surpass her. Just saw People v Robodebt, so they’re criminality stings raw.

But to be honest, all of Morrison’s last cabinet were a basket of deplorables.

#auspol

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Kent Parkstreet, Laird of Doofus @kentparkskeet.bsky.social · 7h

Is Linda Reynolds the worst person in Australia?

#AusPol

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Jeremy @qandainpublic.bsky.social · 5h

Think about this, Gina made all her money from her father's prospecting and dirty deals with Murdoch to get permits. Yet while sucking up to DJT she has effectively built up China. All their cities and the steel is made of Australian Iron Ore. #auspol

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coupdegraz7.bsky.social @coupdegraz7.bsky.social · 5h

#Auspol #ParliamentarySportsClub
#gamblinglobby
#LobbyingIsBribing

Dr Monique Ryan @mon4kooyong.bsky.social · 13h

The gambling industry is predatory and insidious.

I quit the Parliamentary Sports Club a few weeks ago, when I discovered it had registered as a lobbyist group and was sponsored by the gambling peak body.

The industry will do anything to wield influence on pollies, and hates being called out.

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coupdegraz7.bsky.social @coupdegraz7.bsky.social · 5h

#Auspol

MaxWatching @maxwatching.bsky.social · 9h

Turnbull states "You chose a cheap shot that will have no effect on the outcome of your anti-gambling campaign."

😂😂😂 Turnbull has no insight that in kicking Pocock out that Turnbull himself had delivered a huge escalation in the mind of the public! What a 🤡

www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...

David Pocock kicked out of social sports club

Senator David Pocock is dismayed at being booted from a parliamentary social sports club over his concerns about a gambling lobby sponsor.

www.thenewdaily.com.au

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coupdegraz7.bsky.social @coupdegraz7.bsky.social · 5h

“…the Prime Minister of Australia is currently the president of a lobby group.”
#Auspol #lobbygroup #AusPariamentSportsClub

Ronni🧂Salt @ronnisalt.bsky.social · 6h

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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coupdegraz7.bsky.social @coupdegraz7.bsky.social · 5h

#Auspol #governance #priorities #CSIROfundingcuts

MingTheMerciless @m1ngthemerciless.bsky.social · 5h

Cuts to CSIRO funding are false economy, but you already know that @albomp.bsky.social. What we voters don't know is which welfare for the wealthy program won't be cut as a result. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... #auspol

The mood is ominous at CSIRO as jobs disappear ‘by stealth’ – and staff are wondering who’s next

National scientific agency has been ‘reshaping its research portfolio’ to deal with an imminent funding cliff in 2024

www.theguardian.com

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coupdegraz7.bsky.social @coupdegraz7.bsky.social · 5h

“To paraphrase Groucho Marx, who'd want to belong to a club that would accept Responsible Wagering Australia as one of its sponsors?” #Auspol #ParliamentarySportsClub #gamblingsponsorship #ResponsibleWageringAustralia

Rachel Withers @rachelwithers.bsky.social · 12h

Imagine kicking the former national rugby captain out of your sports club instead of the gambling lobby.

To paraphrase Groucho Marx, who'd want to belong to a club that would accept Responsible Wagering Australia as one of its sponsors?

Bill Browne @browne90.bsky.social · 13h

Making his point for him -- just asking about the power of the gambling lobby gets Senator David Pocock booted from sports club the Prime Minister heads. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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David Marler @qldaah.bsky.social · 13h

Last month Australian ABC journalist John Lyons was told to be quiet by President Donald Trump after he asked about his wealth since taking office. That Four Corners investigative report will air on Monday night (Australian time). www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Chasing Trump's Billions

Four Corners is the home of Australian investigative journalism.

www.abc.net.au

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coupdegraz7.bsky.social @coupdegraz7.bsky.social · 5h

#Auspol #gasexporters #taxavoidance

Hayden Starr @haydenstarr.bsky.social · 10h

After five years at the @australiainstitute.org.au, I'm hanging up my posting gloves.

It's been a privilege working with such an incredible bunch of brave and brilliant people. Thanks to you all for making it so special.

For my last newsletter, I put in a few words of my own ⤵️

Gas exporters pay no tax (again) | Between the Lines

The Wrap with Hayden Starr For the last five years I've worked behind the scenes, helping communicate the Australia Institute's research online and on

australiainstitute.org.au

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coupdegraz7.bsky.social @coupdegraz7.bsky.social · 11h

youtube.com/watch?v=PrZ6...
“Great & this in a wk where the govt (fed & state) handed $600M to Glencore to keep #MtIsasmalter going w/t taking an ownership share, w/t interest payments &…”

#Auspol #Top5TaxDodgers #VivaEnergyLtd #Santos #ConocoPhillips #MineralResourcesLtd #TianqiLithiumEnergy

You’re Paying More Tax Than These Mining Giants ft. Punters Politics | The West Report

YouTube video by The West Report

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coupdegraz7.bsky.social @coupdegraz7.bsky.social · 13h

#Auspol #SenDavidPocock #CommunityIndependents
#gamblingsponsorships

Jude🇵🇸 @sister-ratched.toot.community.ap.brid.gy · 14h

Go David! #auspol
Senator Pocock kicked out of Parliament Sports Club after protesting gambling sponsors.( Paywalled.)
https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/9085531/david-pocock-ousted-from-parliament-sports-club/

Senator Pocock kicked out of Parliament Sports Club after protesting gambling sponsors

The senator was removed on Thursday evening.

www.canberratimes.com.au

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Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · 17h

REMINDER: The Trump regime aren't just fascists, they are PETROfascists. #ClimateSky 🔌💡

New Report Examines Fossil Fuel Ties of Dozens of Trump Administration Hires - Inside Climate News

Public Citizen and the Revolving Door Project found 43 former fossil fuel industry employees among nominees and appointees to agencies charged with enforcing energy and environmental policy.

insideclimatenews.org

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Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 1d

Oh what a surprise. Not. Some of us have warned in the past that this money would have been better spent on adaptation measures and even proper managed population relocation - not this King Cnut (Canute) effort that was doomed to fail due to the sheer magnitude and rate of regional climate change.

Yale Environment 360 @yalee360.bsky.social · 2d

African nations have made little progress on the "Great Green Wall," a 5,000-mile-long band of trees aimed at halting the advance of the Sahara Desert.

Even where communities are planting new trees, few seedlings actually survive, new research shows.

Progress on Africa's 'Great Green Wall' Stalls as Seedlings Die Off

e360.yale.edu

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coupdegraz7.bsky.social @coupdegraz7.bsky.social · 16h

#climatereality

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1d

Just your latest reminder that, although everyone has decided to stop talking about climate change, it is still very much happening -- worse and faster than predicted.

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coupdegraz7.bsky.social @coupdegraz7.bsky.social · 16h

#climatereality

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1d

The verdict? "... the stability of these four tipping elements has declined in recent decades, suggesting that they have moved towards their critical thresholds, which may be crossed within the range of unmitigated anthropogenic warming."

Cool. Cool cool cool.

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coupdegraz7.bsky.social @coupdegraz7.bsky.social · 16h

“Our results call for better monitoring of these tipping elements & for increased efforts to stop greenhouse gas emissions and land-use change.”
#climatereality

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1d

A new Nature study on the four horsemen of the climate-tipping-points apocalypse: "the Greenland Ice Sheet, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, the South American monsoon system and the Amazon rainforest."

Destabilization of Earth system tipping elements - Nature Geoscience

A review of observation-based evidence suggests that four interconnected Earth system tipping elements have moved towards their critical thresholds, highlighting the need for better monitoring and increased mitigation efforts.

www.nature.com

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coupdegraz7.bsky.social @coupdegraz7.bsky.social · 16h

#uspol #realestateinvestors

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19h

Real estate investors now own about 20% of single-family homes in the country.

A big reason why home prices have skyrocketed in recent years is a lack of supply — and investors sinking their teeth into whatever is left on the market is making the problem even worse.

How Wall Street Priced You Out of a Home | Robert Reich

Robert Reich

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