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Paul Bongiorno @paulbongiorno.bsky.social · 1d

Cruel ageism - I know some very fresh thinking progressive 81 year olds but otherwise you are right.

Paul Bongiorno @paulbongiorno.bsky.social · 1d

Happy birthday, Liberal Party of Australia www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topi... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au
Happy birthday indeed. There’s much more pain ahead if Abbott and Credlin continue to hold sway.

Happy birthday, Liberal Party of Australia

On Monday, the Liberal Party turns 81. Of several possible birthday options, the Liberals observe October 13, 1944, the date on which a conference of anti-Labor parties called by founder Robert Menzie...

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Paul Bongiorno @paulbongiorno.bsky.social · 1d

How super strengthens Australian democracy www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topi... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au
Some long overdue fact checking. Someone should tell the prophets of gloom in the opposition.

How super strengthens Australian democracy

Before I was a politician, I was a day labourer. For many of my older co-workers, after four decades on a building site, the pension was hardly something to look forward to. The superannuation savings...

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Paul Bongiorno @paulbongiorno.bsky.social · 3d

A disaster on many levels …bloody AI knows nothing.

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Paul Bongiorno @paulbongiorno.bsky.social · 3d

Source: The Monthly
The appointment of Bretton to the NACC candidates on many levels and just not the conflict of interest issues.
A black letter lawyer who is unwilling to name and shame corruption, the very essence of a corruption commission.

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Paul Bongiorno @paulbongiorno.bsky.social · 6d

www.smh.com.au/business/the.... A warning to Sussan Ley and her troglodytes Canavan, Joyce and Price.

Trump is leading America into an energy crisis

The US is in danger of losing the global AI race for the most banal and careless of reasons.

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Paul Bongiorno @paulbongiorno.bsky.social · 6d

www.smh.com.au/politics/fed.... OMG

The meeting where Dutton and Hastie’s relationship fell apart

In an exclusive extract, Niki Savva reveals details of the shadow cabinet meeting that irreparably damaged Peter Dutton and Andrew Hastie’s relationship, and how Dutton panned his frontbenchers’ polic...

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Paul Bongiorno @paulbongiorno.bsky.social · 9d

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Well I never.

‘He wasn’t this national hero’: US college students voice concern over Charlie Kirk’s idolization

Black, brown and LGBTQ+ students across the US are puzzled by all the praise the far-right commentator has received after his killing

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Paul Bongiorno @paulbongiorno.bsky.social · 9d

Anthony Albanese’s seat at the periodic table www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topi... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au

Anthony Albanese’s seat at the periodic table

Just after sunrise on Wednesday morning, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese landed back in Sydney after a trip that positioned Australia exactly where he wanted it to be in international affairs.

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Paul Bongiorno @paulbongiorno.bsky.social · 9d

A republic in the too-hard basket www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/interna... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au
Maybe the question should be do we really need a head of state?

A republic in the too-hard basket

On the eve of the 50th anniversary of the Dismissal, the prime minister made it clear he will not pursue a republic – a further setback to a process that has long been under way.

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Rick Morton @squigglyrick.bsky.social · 14d

What a ride. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Writing the book on Robodebt drove Rick Morton mad. Now it's won him $80k

Journalist Rick Morton didn't want to write a book about Robodebt. Now that book, Mean Streak, has won the Prime Minister's Literary Award for non-fiction.

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Paul Bongiorno @paulbongiorno.bsky.social · 13d

Labor’s CDC lacks budget and vision www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topi... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au

Labor’s CDC lacks budget and vision

Never before has Australia more needed a full-service, independent Centre for Disease Control, able to address the rising challenges of disease, both infectious and non-communicable. Medical experts f...

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Paul Bongiorno @paulbongiorno.bsky.social · 18d

An autocorrect I didn’t pick up… not a Democrat, a democrat.
It did it again but I was on to it this time.

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Paul Bongiorno @paulbongiorno.bsky.social · 18d

The speech of a Democrat committed to international peace and prosperity. Calling for UN reform to guarantee its essential survival as a forum for a rules based world order

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Paul Bongiorno @paulbongiorno.bsky.social · 18d

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It's well beyond time our politicians kicked their US habit

So Anthony Albanese has secured his one on one meeting with Donald Trump and we are all supposed to pretend this is a good outcome.

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Paul Bongiorno @paulbongiorno.bsky.social · 20d

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

Fiona Stanley ‘ashamed’ after hospital bearing her name cancelled event featuring Palestinian Australian doctors

Exclusive: Distinguished professor says she considered asking hospital to remove her name after event on doctors’ experiences in Gaza was abruptly called off

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Paul Bongiorno @paulbongiorno.bsky.social · 20d

www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/world/m...

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Paul Bongiorno @paulbongiorno.bsky.social · 22d

www.smh.com.au/world/north-...

Under Trump, America’s descent into authoritarianism may be unstoppable

Like the famous Ernest Hemingway quote, the demise of American democracy has happened gradually and now, all at once.

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Paul Bongiorno @paulbongiorno.bsky.social · 23d

theconversation.com/jimmy-kimmel...

Jimmy Kimmel’s cancellation is the latest sign we’re witnessing the end of US democracy

Under the Trump administration, the widespread, coordinated suppression of dissent is ripping apart the fabric of American political life.

theconversation.com

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Paul Bongiorno @paulbongiorno.bsky.social · 23d

The unravelling of the Liberal Party www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topi... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au
Ah Yes . Hard to disagree the evidence is compelling

The unravelling of the Liberal Party

Clearly, not everyone saw delusion in Jacinta Nampijinpa Price’s run for, and subsequent attacks on, the Liberal leadership. Her actions have been embraced by the Murdoch mob, in particular the excita...

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Paul Bongiorno @paulbongiorno.bsky.social · 23d

How to achieve the new climate target www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topi... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au
Matt Kean’s analysis is instructive. He actually spells out an approach his Liberal colleagues federal and state could beneficially ( for their political survival) emulate.

How to achieve the new climate target

Picture 2035, a decade hence: 31 million Australians are taking pride in the progress we’ve made to tackle climate change. Our homes and offices have become hyper-efficient and cosy, with many generat...

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Paul Bongiorno @paulbongiorno.bsky.social · 23d

Exclusive: Government refuses to release climate security report www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politic... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au
Our only hope is people power - vested interests will never capitulate to any reality until it is too late.

Exclusive: Government refuses to release climate security report

MPs are demanding the government make public a ‘terrifying’ intelligence report on climate change to support this week’s National Climate Risk Assessment and target.

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Paul Bongiorno @paulbongiorno.bsky.social · 23d

Albanese braces for meeting with tattletale Trump www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topi... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au

Albanese braces for meeting with tattletale Trump

Of all the things that could have gone wrong ahead of Anthony Albanese’s first face-to-face meeting with Donald Trump, few would have predicted the involvement of one of Australia’s most lauded journa...

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Paul Bongiorno @paulbongiorno.bsky.social · 24d

Australia would have been very different place if Bill Shorten won the 2019 election

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Paul Bongiorno @paulbongiorno.bsky.social · 24d

? - this doesn’t make sense.Free speech is free.
I thought MAGATS believed that. Apparently it is a one way street.

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