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Robyn @jailbirdstreet.bsky.social · 7h

This shit wasn't surprising under Morrison but it's fucking reprehensible under Albanese. Yet more evidence that he is a maga-loving neoliberal dickhead completely owned by corporations.

birdsongish.bsky.social @birdsongish.bsky.social · 7h

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

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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Robyn @jailbirdstreet.bsky.social · 13h

You're a monster. Be gone from my sight.

Robyn @jailbirdstreet.bsky.social · 13h

The consultancy firms are a fig leaf, they allow Labor (& the LNP before them) to outsource policy work & pretend it's independent, when in fact they all work for the corporations that own both major parties

Barbara Pocock @barbarapocock.bsky.social · 3d

Bloody hell don’t these massive contract bids💰 provide for a proofread/reference check?? Just so bloody, unbelievably shoddy. www.afr.com/rear-window/...

KPMG corrects its own phantom reference

Deloitte isn’t the only big four firm slipping up on its citations, though it’s still the only one blaming the robots.

www.afr.com

Robyn @jailbirdstreet.bsky.social · 14h

Why don't you care about the murder of babies, children, civilian adults, journalists, medics and ADI workers by Israel?

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Robyn @jailbirdstreet.bsky.social · 14h

Jesus wept.

The guy renamed Defence the Department of War and Wong says this bullshit.

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.

Robyn @jailbirdstreet.bsky.social · 16h

Or enough money for a bribe...

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Robyn @jailbirdstreet.bsky.social · 16h

They aren't curious enough to find out they misunderstood Darwin. They're just desperately trying to quell their fear of uncertainty by pretending they are superior.

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Robyn @jailbirdstreet.bsky.social · 16h

Maybe we should start a petition to the PM? Shame him for being such a Murdoch stooge.

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Robyn @jailbirdstreet.bsky.social · 1d

Poor old Peta Murphy. Worked through cancer and died of it while fighting to ban gambling ads, only to have her 'comrade' Albanese sell the party out to the gambling industry for a few magic beans

The DILETTANTE @demwar.bsky.social · 1d

How it started:

Albanese - “we will ban gambling ads and take on the gambling industry”

How it’s going:

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Robyn @jailbirdstreet.bsky.social · 1d

Easy, cut the salary in half.

The Age (unofficial) @theage.nzcow.com · 1d

📢 Amid the discussion about whether we need more MPs, we should also explore how to get better ones.

In the debate about more federal MPs, let’s ask how we get better ones too

www.theage.com.au

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Ronni🧂Salt @ronnisalt.bsky.social · 1d

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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Robyn @jailbirdstreet.bsky.social · 1d

The LNP only know how to privatise public assets

Robyn @jailbirdstreet.bsky.social · 1d

The images of Palestinian children celebrating the (temporary) cessation of bombing are heartbreaking.

What monsters Israel and it's enablers have become.

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Robyn @jailbirdstreet.bsky.social · 1d

That's what they say...I reckon it's so people are desperate so will accept shitty jobs with bullying bosses.

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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 1d

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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Robyn @jailbirdstreet.bsky.social · 1d

We do know that countries like France and Korea have spent billions and billions and still do not have safe storage or disposal.

Rex Patrick @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social · 1d

The Govt has developed preliminary costs for the storage & disposal of #AUKUS high level nuclear waste. You’re not allowed to see what it is and the Senate is not being told either. The only thing we do know is that you’ll be paying for it. #FOI #auspol

AUKUS nuclear waste costs? Government: we know but we're not saying - Michael West

The Government has calculated preliminary costs for the treatment and storage of high-level radioactive waste from AUKUS submarines.

michaelwest.com.au

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Robyn @jailbirdstreet.bsky.social · 1d

Competence & vision = Greens.
Greed & bullshit = LNP aka Lying Nasty Party

Gavin Miller @glmiller.bsky.social · 2d

Competence and vision: how to be a successful opposition
@fmols.bsky.social
theconversation.com/competence-a...

Competence and vision: how to be a successful opposition

Winning government from opposition broadly involves three stages: establishing competence, offering an alternative vision of government, and surviving the campaign.

theconversation.com

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Robyn @jailbirdstreet.bsky.social · 2d

The heartless cruelty it takes to do this is beyond my comprehension

Rick Morton @squigglyrick.bsky.social · 7d

The NDIS algorithm is on the way, and no they don't want you giving them any evidence about your disability. In fact, they are going to make it next to impossible. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/health/...

Algorithm to be used for NDIS plans

The government is using an ‘instrument’ designed by the University of Melbourne to reassess support payments for disabled people.

www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au

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Wild🌻Flower @pamelawf.bsky.social · 3d

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Robyn @jailbirdstreet.bsky.social · 2d

I just spent some time with my adorable 10mth old grandbaby. She loves looking at trees and flowers, touches them quite gently (for the most part!). She had a funny reaction to an acacia, huffing & burbling like they were having a big old gossip #besotted

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Robyn @jailbirdstreet.bsky.social · 2d

I genuinely think at least part of Trump getting elected is down to Batman and Iron Man telling us a billionaire will save us.

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Robyn @jailbirdstreet.bsky.social · 2d

Labor lie and lie and lie about Israel

Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 2d

More information on this to come today in Senate Estimates, where I am questioning the Department of Defence.

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Robyn @jailbirdstreet.bsky.social · 2d

#AmListening open.spotify.com/track/6L5BZE...

First heard this age 11/12 at boarding school. Until I was about 36 I thought it was Knights in White Satin, and imagined a blonde man in a billowy white satin shirt riding a white horse across a moor whenever I heard it 😂

Nights In White Satin - Single Version / Mono

open.spotify.com

Robyn @jailbirdstreet.bsky.social · 2d

The Greens are busy in Parliament talking about genocide & the climate crisis & the threat of AI & dodgy consultants & corporations paying no tax...but all the media talks about is the LNP's infighting.

No wonder people think we can't do better.

David Marler @qldaah.bsky.social · 2d

Good thing they weren't elected to government. 🤡 #auspol

‘A clown show’: Jacinta Price hits out against Liberal infighting and leaking

8 October 2025

Sky News host James Macpherson discusses Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price hitting out against Liberal Party infighting.

“The Liberal Party is an absolute clown show, I’m not saying that, Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price is saying that,” Mr Macpherson said.

“She told 2GB Radio listeners this morning that colleagues needed to stop leaking against one another.”

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Robyn @jailbirdstreet.bsky.social · 2d

❤️

Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 2d

Joy — like music, like love — is one of those entirely unnecessary miracles of consciousness that give meaning to survival with its bright allegiance to the most alive part of us www.themarginalian.org/2025/07/04/m...