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Dr Monique Ryan @mon4kooyong.bsky.social · 1d

Every time the government accepts money from the gambling industry, it increases its debts to companies whose business models are based on preying on young and vulnerable people, and doing them harm.

The Albanese government does this again and again.

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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Between The Lines @jhnjhn-318.bsky.social · 7h

The Genocide is not over until the Palestinians are free. Netanyahu cannot be trusted. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OuP...

Over 500,000 march in London to protest two years of genocide in Gaza

YouTube video by Middle East Eye

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Free Palestine 🇵🇸 @samirsilwadi.bsky.social · 10h

Powerful Message from UN's Francesca Albanese to Protestors

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Palm Oil Detectives | #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social · 6h

#News: Giant #cuttlefish are in real danger of #extinction from toxic algal blooms—but Aussie scientists are saving their precious eggs using a wall of bubbles! #Technology helps give them a fighting chance. @palmoildetect #Boycott4Wildlife #SavetheOcean www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Jen G Lambie @jenglambie.bsky.social · 11h

@davemilbo.bsky.social on #TheSundayShot next week interviewing the always insightful Chris Hedges NOT TO BE MISSED.

#NationalPressClubOfAustralia be damned‼️

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David Pocock @davidpocock.bsky.social · 15h

The Albanese govt’s first term was the second most secretive on record.

Rather than changing their ways, they’re doubling down and tightening our FOI system to make it even harder to get information. Not a single expert or member of parliament outside of the Labor party has backed their new bill.

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@gfelljones.bsky.social @20244202.bsky.social · 14h

From Mohamed Ainullah. . .
Omar Yaghi: Refugee from Gaza wins 2025 Nobel Prize in chemistry johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10...

Omar Yaghi: Refugee from Gaza wins 2025 Nobel Prize in chemistry

Born in a one-room home on the outskirts of Amman, the son of illiterate Palestinian refugees from Gaza, Professor Omar Yaghi has risen from the hardships of displacement to the highest pinnacle of sc...

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Mandy Stefanakis @mstefanakis.bsky.social · 1d

Wow! How shamefully revealing! Thank you!

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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 2d

The National Press Club joins a long and sad list of Australian cultural institutions that have surrendered to political pressure (implied or real) and attempted to cancel or censor critics of Israel.

nickfeik.substack.com/p/censorship...

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Mandy Stefanakis @mstefanakis.bsky.social · 1d

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Important article for all!

The fledgling UN tried to rein in mass-scale misinformation. The world turned its back and is now paying the price | Roland Burke

The ruinous result of the US approach to freedom of information and media has made anti-democratic contagion impossible to ignore

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Dr Monique Ryan @mon4kooyong.bsky.social · 2d

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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Rod Moffatt @politikarma.bsky.social · 2d

Principles 101

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Crikey @crikey.com.au · 2d

Opinion | News Corp is an American company that pays no tax in Australia and has a business model of wrecking our social cohesion. Now it's whingeing about AI.

Grand Theft Australia? Foreigner News Corp pays no tax, but has the hide to complain about stealing

www.crikey.com.au

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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 2d

Ludicrous. The NACC is supposed to be independent but Brereton keeps working for the ADF while overseeing potential corruption investigations about it?
The Kathryn Campbell conflict wasn't enough to demonstrate how costly and damaging this is? That mistake already cost the NACC $1.2m to rectify.

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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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 2d

Surely we have to consider the possibility they kicked him out bc he was winning all the footy matches

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

Pocock booted from pollie sports club after criticising gambling lobby sponsor

The former star Wallabies player turned independent senator was kicked out of the social sports club after raising concerns about its links to the gambling industry.

www.abc.net.au

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Barbara Pocock @barbarapocock.bsky.social · 2d

A slap on the wrist behind closed doors undermines the case put forward by Finance that the culture of PwC is all cleaned up, which was their justification for allowing PwC back into the fold of government contracts. #auspol