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Nancy Georges 🇦🇺 @nancygeorges.bsky.social · 5h

Define Bat Sh!t Crazy:

The DILETTANTE @demwar.bsky.social · 5h

Maria Corina Machado of
Venezuela wins Nobel Peace Prize.

In related news, the defence forces of Venezuela and Norway on high alert.

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Nancy Georges 🇦🇺 @nancygeorges.bsky.social · 6h

Horrific!!

Nancy Georges 🇦🇺 @nancygeorges.bsky.social · 6h

Oh God!! I hope she’s home safe and soon!

Dave Earley @earleyedition.bsky.social · 6h

An Australian woman who has not agreed to sign a waiver acknowledging she sought to 'illegally break Israel’s naval blockade' on Gaza will be “indefinitely detained” in Israel’s Ketziot prison unless she agrees to sign the waiver.

Australian woman on pro-Palestinian aid flotilla will be ‘indefinitely detained’ by Israel unless she signs waiver

Madeleine Habib, who captained the Conscience ship, was arrested by Israeli forces on 8 October and detained in Israel’s Ketziot prison

www.theguardian.com

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Nancy Georges 🇦🇺 @nancygeorges.bsky.social · 6h

It’s not good enough!!! Isn’t this a HUGE part of their job?? Turning up to work?? Major change needed!!
Not turning up to parliament?! Bravo @sophiescamps.bsky.social ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
#auspol

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Nancy Georges 🇦🇺 @nancygeorges.bsky.social · 1d

This was exactly my objection to Merivale taking over Rose Bay RSL!! Any business that doesn’t pay its staff properly tells you they don’t value anything but money.
We seem to live in a world where bad actions have so little consequences for filthy rich. I know 1 day it will change.Hope it’s soon.

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Nancy Georges 🇦🇺 @nancygeorges.bsky.social · 1d

Why would they not want to answer??
Hiding something? Unlawful? Illegal? Unethical? All of the above??
If they don’t know the answer then no job for them!!
Not good enough @albomp.bsky.social

#auspol

stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 2d

Home Affairs Sec Stephanie Foster exposed as overly determined Not to Answer & take things ‘on notice’

Shoebridge “You’re taking on notice your failure to answer on notice, Q’s I asked u on notice, about Q’s that u responded on notice, to answers u haven’t given on notice”🤯ffs #Estimates

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Nancy Georges 🇦🇺 @nancygeorges.bsky.social · 1d

Yep. I was never a fan but I am so disappointed to have been right.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 9d

What a line from the Pope! I am so pleased he is carrying on Pope Francis’ advocacy for immigrants.

More pointedly, the pope said, "Someone who says, I'm against abortion, but is in favor of the death penalty is not really pro-life. Someone who says, I'm against abortion but I'm in agreement with the inhuman treatment of immigrants in the United States, I don't know if that's pro-life."

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Nancy Georges 🇦🇺 @nancygeorges.bsky.social · 2d

Agree!!

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Nancy Georges 🇦🇺 @nancygeorges.bsky.social · 2d

So now we know Penny Wong supports the rorts?? Oops I mean lobbyists??
Disgusting.
What a decent ethical person would say is that’s not right, let’s look into it to make sure it’s all above board!!
#auspol

Crikey @crikey.com.au · 2d

Independent Senator David Pocock and Labor's Penny Wong clashed in Senate estimates yesterday over whether the Parliamentary Sports Club could be considered a lobby group, as reported in Crikey last week. The club is registered as such, and lists Responsible Wagering Australia as one of its clients.

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Nancy Georges 🇦🇺 @nancygeorges.bsky.social · 2d

Yep!

Crikey @crikey.com.au · 2d

AI should be treated as a risk management problem — and we need flexible policymaking processes to deal with its unknowable future, @keanebernard.bsky.social writes.

Can wise heads fix the hard problem of AI policy?

www.crikey.com.au

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Crikey @crikey.com.au · 2d

The annual corporate tax transparency report gives us a glimpse into the finances of companies that usually keep things quiet.

Ferrero vs Ferrari: Which Italian giant pays more tax in Australia?

www.crikey.com.au

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Crikey @crikey.com.au · 2d

As if it wasn't having enough problems, Qantas cabin staff have "leaked" fresh information about ongoing bathroom problems on local flights.

As if to prove a point, leaked Qantas group chats reveal a gross problem

www.crikey.com.au

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Crikey @crikey.com.au · 2d

What’s in the incoming brief from the climate change department that's so sensitive that the Albanese government is bucking the Senate to keep it secret?

The Albanese government is tying itself in knots to keep this document secret

www.crikey.com.au

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Crikey @crikey.com.au · 3d

Opinion | Crikey has compiled a list of all the questions that should be asked at Senate estimates. Let the art of the non-answer begin!

Here's a list of questions for Senate estimates that will probably, definitely, not be asked

We’ve compiled a short list of the questions that could be asked at estimates, but probably won’t be.

www.crikey.com.au

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Julie Cohen ❌👑 @filmmakerjulie.bsky.social · 2d

Look what’s chalked all over the sidewalks of Bloomfield, NJ.
Free speech is a power we should use while we can.
Chalk is cheap.
#NoKings October 18.

Chalk on sidewalk: yellow crown with a pink X thru it.

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Nancy Georges 🇦🇺 @nancygeorges.bsky.social · 2d

@christinatalks.bsky.social is spot on!!
There is a connection between Americans being woken from their beds in the middle of the night by the freezing cold water.
What do you think?
Disgusting isn’t it??
#uspol
youtube.com/shorts/owoXq...

October 6, 2025

YouTube video by Christina Talks

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 2d

Donald Trump has heard the wails and lamentations of all the Rust Belt communities left behind by neoliberalism, and he has a message for them: fuck you and die

Emily Pontecorvo @emilypont.bsky.social · 2d

Some additional info on the new list of axed DOE projects circulating.
- All 7 H2 Hubs
- All 13 IRA grants to convert at-risk auto plants to EV mfg
- 11 of 15 grants to speed domestic clean energy mfg in former coal communities
- 10 of 38 grants for battery materials
heatmap.news/politics/doe...

Trump to Axe All 7 Hydrogen Hubs, Bucking Bipartisan Law

A new list of Department of Energy grants slated for termination will hit clean energy and oil majors alike, including Exxon and Chevron.

heatmap.news

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Andrew Levesque @andrewlevesque.bsky.social · 2d

democracyforward.org/the-peoples-...

The People’s Guide to Project 2025

We read Project 2025’s Mandate for Leadership so that you don’t have to.

democracyforward.org

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Nancy Georges 🇦🇺 @nancygeorges.bsky.social · 2d

When a woman is assertive Media say she’s ’RAGING’. Any decent person reading Nagi’s post understood exactly what she was saying. Daily Mail once more showing why legacy media will one day disappear and how they just make up stuff. Bravo Nagi creator of Recipe Tin 👏🏼👏🏼 ⭐️ #womensvoices #medialiteracy

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Nancy Georges 🇦🇺 @nancygeorges.bsky.social · 2d

Yes! The Community Independents are proving their amazing commitment to their
Constituents, our country AND the planet!!
This is what politics will look like in the future I am sure.
Sadly we live in the end of the thrashing selfish dinosaurs trying to stay relevant. #auspol #politics

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Nancy Georges 🇦🇺 @nancygeorges.bsky.social · 3d

100% agree. We don’t need anymore proof that @albomp.bsky.social & his government serve themselves & their donors not the Australian people!! Pity @jimchalmers.bsky.social is part of that group!! Jim wanna start your own party?? Decent, smart, forward thinking, everything your boss isn’t!
#auspol

David J. @mallee-man.bsky.social · 4d

Very much agree with @sdhamiltonvic.bsky.social , the Albanese govt are betting on the wrong horse by continuing to support the gambling lobbyists and their insidious, mindnumbing advertising ... trashing their "social contract" with the wider community! 😡😤😖😎

Scott Hamilton @sdhamiltonvic.bsky.social · 4d

Watching 4 Corners on Gambling endemic in AUS.

I am ashamed of the Albanese Gov for not implementing the Peta Murphy Report ‼️‼️‼️

#auspol #StopGamblingAdvertising
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

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Biggie @biggienotsmalls.bsky.social · 3d

This is a political time to wake up EVERYDAY prepared to Speak Truth to Power!......

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Biggie @biggienotsmalls.bsky.social · 3d

Change my mind.......🤔

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Biggie @biggienotsmalls.bsky.social · 3d

💯💯💯

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