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Grant Brookes (he/him/ia) @grantbrookesnz.bsky.social · 1h

Simeon Brown tells young jobseekers to “get a paper run” on RNZ this morning 🙀

He is so out of touch, he thinks neighbourhoods still get a daily newspaper delivered
#nzpol

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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 9h

I put in a request - haven’t heard anything

Jason Andrade @jasonandrade.bsky.social · 10h

I assume eleventy jillion journalists have asked you this already @jay.bsky.team but does BlueSky have a statement on the Australian age enforcement of social media (legislation) and how are you going to go about doing it for an entire country?

Or do you drop Australian access?

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David Ettershank MP @davidettershankmp.bsky.social · 9h

The Allan Labor Government is walking away from sensible cannabis law reform. To put it mildly, we’re pissed.

Sadly, the government has made this decision out of fear of losing a law-and-order election.

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Rationalist Society of Australia @ausrationalist.bsky.social · 14h

In a letter to us, the Australian Bureau of Statistics has rejected concerns that the continued use of a coercive and biased religion question in the Census is discriminatory and breaches the country’s international human rights commitments. Read more: rationalist.com.au/abs-chief-re...
#auspol

ABS chief rejects claim Census religion question is discriminatory for assuming every Australian has a religion | Rationalist Society of Australia

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has rejected concerns that the continued use of a coercive and biased religion question in the Census is discriminatory and breaches the country’s internation...

rationalist.com.au

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Paul Fawcett @paulyfawcett.bsky.social · 14h

I just listened to his interview on ABC Melbourne and it basically was this

“We will dissolve a democratically elected body to work with people we decide represent the community.

But we have no actual unique plans other than to cut down what has happened under Labor and to go back to the past.”

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Paul Fawcett @paulyfawcett.bsky.social · 14h

This is a massive disappointment from the Victorian Government.

They will continue to destroy people's lives and waste police resources, to continue a failed crackdown on a practice that has been happening for thousands of years and has no victims.

#vicpol

www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victori...

www.heraldsun.com.au

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Kent Parkstreet, Laird of Doofus @kentparkskeet.bsky.social · 4d

Is Linda Reynolds the worst person in Australia?

#AusPol

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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 19h

here's one of the ads

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 18h

Whatever they signed in Egypt is bs. Thank you for the attention to this matter.

Details? Check the latest livestream where I read out the exact “document” they signed. [pinned post]

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Mike from sunny Perth @mikethecavedweller.bsky.social · 20h

Also Barnaby Joyce addressing a rally of cookers pre last election never faced little if any scrutiny. Something smells

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Paul Dutton @pdutts68.bsky.social · 23h

Babet gets away with disgusting language on social media and is never held to any standards.
Lydia Thorpe, however ….
#AusPol

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Paul Fawcett @paulyfawcett.bsky.social · 19h

It sounds like the extent of those developments will be that they: Think very very hard about it for many years.

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Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 1d

The remarkable ramp-up in support for One Nation continues.

(Few seem to be explicitly polling Palmer. This assigns an arbitrary 2% support to the 'Trumpet' party based on the 2025 election result.)

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2covet @2covet.bsky.social · 1d

#nzpol 🤣🎯💯

Roaring Marmot @roaringmarmot.bsky.social · Dec 2

Somewhere out there is the star who made this...

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Paul Fawcett @paulyfawcett.bsky.social · 1d

For anything?
Any hope at all?
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Anyone?

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Penny Allman-Payne @pennyallmanpayne.com · 1d

🚨 BREAKING: Brand new @ACOSS report finds 1 in 7 Australians are living in poverty, including 757,000 children. Millions of families are struggling while our leaders sit on their hands and let it happen.

Poverty in Australia 2025: Overview – Poverty and Inequality

povertyandinequality.acoss.org.au

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Paul Fawcett @paulyfawcett.bsky.social · 1d

Can we make it a legal requirement that if you copy and paste the url of a website into the search function of its own app it finds the thing you are looking for??

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Paul Fawcett @paulyfawcett.bsky.social · 1d

How will they know the age of the person using YouTube if they are not signed in?

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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 1d

Under questioning from Liberal senator Sarah Henderson, Lord explicitly admits that Google/YouTube believes it is out of scope of the teen social media ban.

Doesn't budge on any info re: a legal challenge

CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 1d

YouTube's Public Policy/Government Affairs senior manager Rachel Lord comes out swinging at the internet search code/teen social media ban inquiry.

"The legislation will not only be extremely difficult to enforce, it also does not fulfill its promise of making kids safer online"

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 1d

As of now there is nothing Albanese's govt has done that has changed the country in any structural way.

No change at all to how the fundamental debates of the nation are addressed.

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Magenta Kaos of Bright Hairy News @xkaosmagex.bsky.social · 1d

Shout out to @laura-kiwi-birb.bsky.social for sending me this!

@iamprettyawesome.bsky.social @chewienz.bsky.social @detectiverogers.bsky.social ffs a member of the Atlas Network won the Nobel Peace prize.... Where aren't they at this point 👀

#AtlasNetwork #nzpol

Image of a post by the Atlas Network congratulating Maria Machado for winning the Nobel Peace prize. Explaining their long professional relationship with her

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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 1d

Senator Henderson to Yahoo: "You're displaying on your front page... a photo which looks like a woman exposing her buttocks. Then when you go into it, you see that those are two. bald heads in front of the woman... Can I ask you to explain why this is on your front page?"

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Maranoa Girl @maranoagirl.bsky.social · 1d

From Alan Kohler. Australians join race for fusion energy as AI pressure on electricity sector starts to bite. The two great technology revolutions of the modern era — artificial intelligence and renewable energy — are colliding.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

A meeting in China this week may hold the key to our energy future

The two great technology revolutions of the modern era — artificial intelligence and renewable energy — are colliding.

www.abc.net.au

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 1d

tell me more about republicans being the pro-business party.

www.nbcnews.com/business/bus...

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Paul Fawcett @paulyfawcett.bsky.social · 1d

The Victorian government increases the rate of the landfill levy so highly that people start illegally dumping rubbish.

Then takes the increased revenue it receives from the levy and give it back to councils to clean up the illegally dumped rubbish that is a direct result of the increased levy.

$21.5m boost for Victorian illegal dumping taskforce - Inside State Government

The Victorian Government has announced a $21.5 million boost to the state’s Illegal Dumping Taskforce to assist councils and public land managers to clean-up illegally dumped waste. Minister for Envir...

www.insidestategovernment.com.au