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@lancecalhoon.bsky.social

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Aussie dad with Irish streak. Legislative drafter. Whitlamite. My interests are pretty niche: sports, music, movies, games. GWJ. May contain traces of Partridge. Walking on Ngunnawal land.

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Beddy @lancecalhoon.bsky.social · 7d

when you hate the song the DJ is playing, but the fellas are cutting sick on the dance floor

Beddy @lancecalhoon.bsky.social · 22h

My brother gets viscerally angry with me if I don't watch TV shows in a timely fashion.

eg I am about 6 seasons behind in Taskmaster and he is FURIOUS.

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 22h

He’s real-life Posting Through It

Defector @defector.com · 2d

Bill Burr keeps cycling through excuses for doing the Riyadh Comedy Festival: defector.com/bill-burr-ke...

Bill Burr Keeps Cycling Through Excuses For Doing The Riyadh Comedy Festival | Defector

By default, Bill Burr exists in a state of his ass being chapped, but clearly it’s been feeling more chapped than usual. The comedian has continued to address his decision to perform at the Riyadh…

defector.com

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Possum @pollytics.bsky.social · 22h

Gives the government cover to send Brereton to the knackery, revisit public hearings procedures, update prioritisation of investigative areas etc.

Simple low hanging fruit stuff with no downsides.

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Possum @pollytics.bsky.social · 22h

Reforming the NACC is some low hanging fruit shit. The simple political lines that "We created the first national corruption commission, it's done a god job, but we've seen where the rubber meets the road that it needs to be more robust. <insert actual reform>" Vote winner with easy Senate passage.

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benjamin @benjamino.bsky.social · 23h

Here's the thing, the whole point of 'sponsoring' these things is you don't have to directly lobby or strong-arm, the appeasement becomes tacit - see also the National Press Club quietly slurping cash from multiple weapons companies and fossil fuel climate crims

The Centre for Public Integrity’s executive director, Catherine Williams, said the club offered “an invaluable opportunity for monied interests to build relationships with members of parliament and their staff”.

“Let’s be real about it: if the access isn’t perceived to be valuable, why is it sold as a benefit of membership?” Williams said.

RWA’s chief executive Kai Cantwell said it did not use the club to lobby politicians.

“RWA’s work on regulation and harm reduction happens through the proper parliamentary and regulatory processes, not on the sporting field,” Kantwell said.

“Like other industries, we occasionally take part simply to enjoy exercise and socialising – something important for all Australians, particularly in high-pressure roles.”

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Beddy @lancecalhoon.bsky.social · 22h

exactly, not like Responsible Wagering Australia is sponsoring Croydon Fitness Centre

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Paul Slimin' @legendsofthepaul.bsky.social · 6d

The right employs a two-track strategy to win the war of persuasion: to liberal audiences that hate your ideas, push the “open inquiry, everyone’s voice must be heard” to work your way in, but to conservative audiences do whatever is necessary to prohibit liberal views.

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Barbara Pocock @barbarapocock.bsky.social · 1d

How we ‘fess up when we mess up shows who we are. Pay it all back Deloitte. And apologise. Give yrsrlf some procurement teeth Labor: the capability to ban for poor behaviour, commensurate with the misdemeanour, up to 5 yrs.

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 23h

Potter Adults.

Bone Tower @bentobitt.bsky.social · 1d

These cunts look like they were cast in a Mitchell and Webb sketch about themselves.

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Beddy @lancecalhoon.bsky.social · 23h

same -- canberra is so much stinkier than I imagined

Beddy @lancecalhoon.bsky.social · 1d

It's got Kim Beazley and Tony fkn Abbott on it

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Beddy @lancecalhoon.bsky.social · 1d

American evangelicals are uniquely bullshit-coded

Francis Ford Copulate @francis-f-copulate.bsky.social · 1d

and here i was thinkin jesus was a donkey guy

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Beddy @lancecalhoon.bsky.social · 1d

it's hard not to think they also booted him because he was smashing them on the field

Beddy @lancecalhoon.bsky.social · 1d

disgraceful shit

Beddy @lancecalhoon.bsky.social · 1d

The different exhibitions at the AWM have different sentiments, like tree rings or rock layers. You start in the "Lest We Forget" room and exit through the "Sign Up Today" gallery (feat. B Roberts-Smith)

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Beddy @lancecalhoon.bsky.social · 1d

I did know that about the fuckin War Memorial though, which is a complete travesty of the reason the AWM was established

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Beddy @lancecalhoon.bsky.social · 1d

I did not realise that arms manufacturers sponsored the National Press Club until this story came out but jfc how compromised can you be

Donna Benenson @donnabenenson.bsky.social · 1d

"...the NPC’s list of sponsors reveals the problem. Among them are no less than ten firms with links to the arms industry that is profiting from Israel’s destruction of Gaza, including four of the very largest defence manufacturers in the world – BAE, Raytheon, Lockheed Martin and Thales."

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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Beddy @lancecalhoon.bsky.social · 1d

see also: national press club

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Possum @pollytics.bsky.social · 1d

Another reminder - because far too many people don't seem to know it - this guy tried to *PREVENT* war crimes investigations. The only whistle he tried to blow was his own.

Why some of you held him up as some kind of heroic figure makes my brain bleed.

ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 1d

The former military lawyer was sentenced to five years and eight months in jail after sharing classified material with journalists in a case that has raised debate about whistleblower laws.

David McBride loses last-ditch effort to overturn conviction

The former military lawyer was sentenced to five years and eight months in jail after sharing classified material with journalists in a case that has raised debate about whistleblower laws.

www.abc.net.au

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Robert Merkel @rgmerk.bsky.social · 1d

This kind of thing gives me the absolute screaming shits. It’s the same as Qantas and the bloody chairman’s Lounge at a smaller scale: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Former Wallabies star David Pocock booted from parliamentary sports club

Exclusive: Senator accused of bringing social club into disrepute after raising concerns about its association with betting lobby

www.theguardian.com

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Beddy @lancecalhoon.bsky.social · 1d

yes! also if the club is more professional than "a bunch of MPs and staff having a kick" and is actually organised by a corporation run by someone who is not an MP or Parliamentary staff, then it deserves scrutiny

Beddy @lancecalhoon.bsky.social · 1d

I mean, how very dare anyone bring POLITICS into the Parliamentary Sports Club

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Beddy @lancecalhoon.bsky.social · 1d

Biggest recent scalp was ASIC with ANZ, mostly because ANZ was caught so red-handed, it figured that admitting the charges would bring the fines down under $300M

Beddy @lancecalhoon.bsky.social · 1d

The NACC has not done anything about Robodebt but dropped the hammer on the executive bureaucrat who gave her sister a job

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Beddy @lancecalhoon.bsky.social · 1d

ATO winds up a dozen small businesses a week for overdue BAS while the multinationals and miners pay next to nothing

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