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Hazel 🇦🇺
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Just a soul whose intentions are good. Writer. Reader. Gin appreciator. Iyengar yoga student. Policy over party. Dogs are 😀
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Hazel 🇦🇺 @plmg53.bsky.social · May 3
I wonder which lessons the LNP are going to fail to learn from from this election #AusVotes #auspol
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Hazel 🇦🇺 @plmg53.bsky.social · 9h
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/21803/...
Inside Albanese’s FOI reforms: ‘He hates transparency’
Labor’s reforms to freedom of information laws are opposed by every public submission made to the Senate, with the government’s record on secrecy worse than Scott Morrison’s.
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
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Hazel 🇦🇺 @plmg53.bsky.social · 1d
Yep, his swipe at you was pure arrogance, and the rest of his answer was questionable to say the least.
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Hazel 🇦🇺 @plmg53.bsky.social · 1d
No, the Libs will fall in behind it.
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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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Hazel 🇦🇺 @plmg53.bsky.social · 1d
This country needs more Pococks and fewer Albos, Marles, Wongs, Farrells etc.
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Hazel 🇦🇺 @plmg53.bsky.social · 1d
I get a sense they on a “get Pocock” campaign. The way he was treated by Farrell in estimates was so dismissive. Pocock lobs truth bombs and Labor doesnt like it.
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Hazel 🇦🇺 @plmg53.bsky.social · 1d
If they ever do cave to pressure they will cook up the weakest legislation ever, and ‘tick it off” the list eg. The NACC. Then they will flex to point how much better they are than the opposition. I despair.
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Hazel 🇦🇺 @plmg53.bsky.social · 1d
Yes I caught that last bit. Jaw dropping arrogance and the flex to beer excise was a massive wtf.
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Hazel 🇦🇺 @plmg53.bsky.social · 2d
Omg this man has no common sense, no practicality. The learned helplessness is off the charts.
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Hazel 🇦🇺 @plmg53.bsky.social · 3d
The winker strikes again.
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Hazel 🇦🇺 @plmg53.bsky.social · 5d
What pray tell are these "eight fights" of which he speaks. And wtf did he actually do?
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Hazel 🇦🇺 @plmg53.bsky.social · 5d
The bloke has been a politician all his life, no local government administraion experience, and he hasn't had a job for nearly 4 years. This will not go well for us poor Shoalhaven ratepayers.
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Hazel 🇦🇺 @plmg53.bsky.social · 5d
Try and deal with matters that can be addressed in the present. Hopefully enough good decisions in the present will pay dividends in the future.
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Hazel 🇦🇺 @plmg53.bsky.social · 5d
PS. I didn't become a journalist - life took me elsewhere.
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Hazel 🇦🇺 @plmg53.bsky.social · 5d
As a kid I was thrilled to receive the letter. As an adult looking back nearly 50 years later I can appreciate what an act of generosity that was. What a guy!
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Hazel 🇦🇺 @plmg53.bsky.social · 5d
Ray Martin was on ABC's #TheAssembly last night, answering questions from aspiring journalists on the spectrum.
As a kid in the late 1970s I wrote to Mr Martin asking"how do you become a journalist". His answer was a 6 page typed letter on 60 minutes letterhead.
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Hazel 🇦🇺 @plmg53.bsky.social · 9d
Way worse.
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Hazel 🇦🇺 @plmg53.bsky.social · 10d
As a Shoalhaven ratepayer...this will go precisely as I fear it will. The council is already in deep trouble. This is not the bloke to fix anything. Jobs for the boys, through and through.
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Hazel 🇦🇺 @plmg53.bsky.social · 11d
So well deserved. What a book! Forensic detail of what went wrong married with emotional punch of the devestating consequences. Bravo!
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Hazel 🇦🇺 @plmg53.bsky.social · 12d
if he thinks this sort of behaviour is ok, no wonder the NACC has been such a monumental dud re Robodebt.
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Hazel 🇦🇺 @plmg53.bsky.social · 13d
Omg - how clueless is this guy?
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 15d
Recently @amyremeikis.bsky.social reminded my of Umberto Eco's 14 points of "eternal fascism" in which "it is enough that one of them be present to allow fascism to coagulate around it".

And well , there is a sh*it load of coagulation happening.
1. The cult of tradition. 2. The rejection of modernism. – Ur-Fascism can be defined as irrationalism.” 3. The cult of action for action’s sake. – Thinking is a form of emasculation.” 4. Disagreement is treason. 5. Fear of difference. – The first appeal of a fascist or prematurely fascist movement is an appeal against the intruders. 6. Appeal to social frustration. 7. The obsession with a plot – At the root of the Ur-Fascist psychology there is the obsession with a plot, possibly an international one. The followers must feel besieged.” 8. The enemy is both strong and weak – By a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak. 9. Pacifism is trafficking with the enemy. 10. Contempt for the weak. 11. Everybody is educated to become a hero. – heroism is the norm. This cult of heroism is strictly linked with the cult of death.” 12. Machismo and weaponry. – both disdain for women and intolerance and condemnation of nonstandard sexual habits, from chastity to homosexuality 13. Selective populism. – the emotional response of a selected group of citizens can be presented and accepted as the Voice of the People. 14. Ur-Fascism speaks Newspeak. – all the Nazi or Fascist schoolbooks made use of an impoverished vocabulary, and an elementary syntax, in order to limit the instruments for complex and critical reasoning.
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Hazel 🇦🇺 @plmg53.bsky.social · 19d
An AI version of Albo.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 23d
Painting by Sylvia Ken, Indigenous artist from the Amata community in South Australia, relates to the Seven Sisters creation story #WomensArt
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Hazel 🇦🇺 @plmg53.bsky.social · 22d
Centrism gone mad