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David Lamond @davidlamond.bsky.social · 47m

The #NACC is #NACCered
#auspol @themonthly.com.au
@karenmmiddleton.bsky.social

The Monthly @themonthly.com.au · 1h

A key architect of the corruption commission calls for its head to resign after the latest controversy | Karen Middleton
mnth.ly/t4yK20Z

Brereton for the NACCery?

A key architect of the corruption commission calls for its head to resign after the latest controversy

mnth.ly

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Margaret Bell 🔔 @margbell.bsky.social · 37m

And we should get a refund

Margaret Bell 🔔 @margbell.bsky.social · 5h

A mix of organic rye and high protein white flours
(Caputo 14%, Caputo Cuaco 13% and Lighthouse bread 12%)
1/8th rye and a mix of the above
Started about a year ago - still learning

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Margaret Bell 🔔 @margbell.bsky.social · 5h

Used to love his presentation of The World Today when it was a proper 50-minute, in-depth current affairs program on Radio National

Margaret Bell 🔔 @margbell.bsky.social · 5h

So true
Such fun
Very delicious!

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JRBsays @jrbsays.bsky.social · 8h

#TooManyMen

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

Man charged with murder over woman's death in Melbourne's north

A 50-year-old man faces court charged with murder after the death of a 44-year-old woman in Epping on Thursday night.

www.abc.net.au

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Lisa the Antifascist “Leftist”🇦🇺 @lisatellstruth.bsky.social · 7h

I would also like this (my upcoming 60th) birthday wish granted

Tony Cartledge @decentral21.bsky.social · 8h

It's my birthday in a few weeks and what I really want is journos like Amy Remeikis, Dave Milner, Michael West, the Crikey team, and other Independent media allowed into #auspol pressers to ask the questions I want answered. Could someone organise that for me? Yeah, that'd be great, thanks.

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Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 9h

Brooklyn Dad Defiant 😎

Good morning and Happy Friday to everyone who agrees that RFK Jr, the head of HHS, should resign in disgrace for not knowing the baby is not "in her placenta," and if trump had any brains, he'd be embarrassed too.

8th grade Biology students know this.
How humiliating.

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Ewart, Dave @davidewart.bsky.social · 8h

When will the Australian government issue a travel warning for travel to USA #auspol

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

Golly the obvious dirty politics and lobby bias is becoming ridiculous. What is the #PM thinking!!

Ronni🧂Salt @ronnisalt.bsky.social · 20h

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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MingTheMerciless @m1ngthemerciless.bsky.social · 16h

First no Nobel Prize even though I've ended more wars than have ever been fought, and now this !?!

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Iris Cook @montrose.bsky.social · 15h

Fitting

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Purplesouth @purplesouth.bsky.social · 10h

6 figure (price) “Swiss” watch sold under “Trump” is a piece of shit made in Wyoming, United States.

Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 12h

Trump's "Swiss[Chinese]-made" watch grift can be traced back to a shell LLC with an address in a strip shopping center in Wyoming. The company also sells Viagra-laced “Male Enhancement Honey” products, which the FDA has warned Americans not to use.
www.cnn.com/2024/10/17/p...

The curious hunt for the company behind Trump’s new ‘Swiss-made’ watches | CNN Politics

CNN searched for the maker of the candidate’s new ‘Swiss-made’ timepieces. The search dead-ended in a Wyoming shopping center.

www.cnn.com

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Rosie de Kat 🌱🍉🍉 @rosiedekat.bsky.social · 10h

#auspol #ClimateCrisis

Chaotic weather outlook raises prospects of summer bushfires across east

An atmospheric 'tug of war' is taking place this spring for control of Australia's weather, and it is a forecasting nightmare.

www.abc.net.au

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Dr Craig Buchanan FSAScot @buchanan.today · 18h

The truth about alcohol and fat consumption. 👇🏻

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Raymond Wilton @raymondwilton.bsky.social · 1d

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... “Being kicked out of the club for raising concerns around gambling lobbyists buying access to the club shows the influence vested interests have here in parliament and just how normalised this has become,” Pocock said.

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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Margaret Bell 🔔 @margbell.bsky.social · 1d

🍀💐🐞

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they_paved_paradise @treemuseums.bsky.social · 1d

Labor can't hide forever behind a novelty check sized medicare card embossed with a shiny image of Whitlams face, as they shit out big lumps of coal they've been gorging on with Gina/LNP, and sit and rub petroleum oil into the feet of their fossil fuel overlords, really getting it into the bunions

Ebony Bennett @ebonybennett.bsky.social · 1d

Australia has one of the worst extinction records on Earth — and Labor’s doing a deal with the Coalition to overhaul nature laws.

Labor can’t protect nature while protecting polluters.

My column for tomorrow's @canberratimes.bsky.social #auspol >
www.canberratimes.com.au/story/908547...

This shocking deal is a gross betrayal of millions of voters

Here's what Labor would do if they gave a rat's about the environment.

www.canberratimes.com.au

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Robynne @haddagutful.bsky.social · 1d

Australian Nobel laureate's work is changing the world

www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/people/...

How Nobel prize winner Richard Robson is changing the world

Nobel Prize winner Richard Robson is still working in the lab at nearly 90, mentoring students, teaching and collaborating.

www.thenewdaily.com.au

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LIV 🌻🍉😷 @mmechomski.bsky.social · 1d

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

I’m sure this is fine. abcnews.go.com/US/dominion-...

Dominion Voting Systems sold to company run by former Republican election official

Dominion Voting Systems, which sued Fox over its reporting on the 2020 election, has been sold to a seemingly new election company run by a former GOP election official.

abcnews.go.com

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Ian Farquhar @ianfarquhar.bsky.social · 1d

Yep, that’s how it’s done: increase the sentence. If he was “trapped”, he should have gone to the police. You know, rather than sexually assaulting an unconscious woman. Pathetic.

Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 1d

Gisele Pelicot was dragged back into court this week because one of her convicted rapists decided he didn’t want to “bear the burden” of being labelled a rapist.

He appealed and made her re-live the horrific crime.

The court denied his appeal and handed him a longer sentence.

Man who appealed Pelicot rape conviction handed longer jail term

A French court increases by a year the jail term of the only man who challenged his conviction for raping Gisèle Pelicot.

www.bbc.com

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Daryl Maguire’s tractor @daryltractor.bsky.social · 1d

Putrid

David Pocock @davidpocock.bsky.social · 1d

Even after being found guilty of 'officer misconduct' for mishandling the Robodebt referral, Commissioner of the NACC continues consultancy role despite concerns of perceived conflicts of interest.

At $820k/year surely he can focus on doing one job well?

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

Corruption watchdog head 'consulted' for ADF inspector general 11 times

Paul Brereton and Labor politicians had previously stated he had stepped away from the body and resigned as assistant inspector-general of the ADF prior to taking on the top integrity job.

www.abc.net.au

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Daryl Maguire’s tractor @daryltractor.bsky.social · 1d

Anyone else see Albo’s presser just now where he laughed off Pocock’s concerns re SportsBet access, dismissed news re Brereton secretly consulting 11 times whilst heading up the NACC, and tried to segue into how he had frozen beer excise?

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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 1d

www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

Americans don't buy RFK Jr.'s medical quackery

Most Americans give a failing grade to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. according to a new poll released on Thursday from nonpartisan health policy group KFF. The survey ...

www.dailykos.com

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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 1d

www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

RFK Jr. again shows he knows dick all about autism

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Thursday came up with a new and novel way to blame parents for their children's autism, this time linking circumcision with the ...

www.dailykos.com

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