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RhonaE @rhonae.bsky.social · 9h

Chris Hedges giving talk which was cancelled by the National Press Club in Australia - through Israeli pressure I believe. This is the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist subject of David#LNL last night.

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Explanation of Journalist Chris Hedges’ talk on Gaza genocide

RhonaE @rhonae.bsky.social · 1d

Queensland Lib/Nat Govt., just slammed the door on Adoption access. Like their National counterpart, they are mimicking the UltraRight path of such as the Trump regime.

RhonaE @rhonae.bsky.social · 1d

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BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ on X: "Good morning and Happy Sunday to everyone who was THRILLED to see 7 million people participate peacefully in No Kings protests: not just in Blue states, but in red states, and all over the world! A complete rejection of trump's fascism. Make sure everyone sees this! https://t.co/olTp8koEvB" / X

Good morning and Happy Sunday to everyone who was THRILLED to see 7 million people participate peacefully in No Kings protests: not just in Blue states, but in red states, and all over the world! A complete rejection of trump's fascism. Make sure everyone sees this! https://t.co/olTp8koEvB

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RhonaE @rhonae.bsky.social · 1d

@australianlabor.bsky.social

RhonaE @rhonae.bsky.social · 1d

No, I don’t support this and I am growing more and more concerned that the Party I joined nearly 2 decades ago, is still treading the ‘least line of resistance’ politically. The Liberals &Nationals are in decline, in immense disarray, as they should be with their

RhonaE @rhonae.bsky.social · 1d

…obstruction to transition to a healthyPlanetEarth. The ideology ‘Beliefs’ of Libs&Nats have proven to be detrimental to good governance, as is focussed on Neoliberal/Libertarian ideology which over the 11 years of Howard & 9 of 3Lib.,PMs only benefitted those of wealth&big Corps. @AustralianLabor

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RhonaE @rhonae.bsky.social · 1d

No, I don’t support this and I am growing more and more concerned that the Party I joined nearly 2 decades ago, is still treading the ‘least line of resistance’ politically. The Liberals &Nationals are in decline, in immense disarray, as they should be with their

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Nancy MacLean @nancymaclean.bsky.social · 6d

I read @chuckcollinswrites.bsky.social's new book #BurnedByBillionaires. It's an incisive must-read account of how we are all being hurt by those with excessive wealth, also providing hard-won wisdom about what can be done to unrig the system before they wreck our world www.burnedbybillionaires.com

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RhonaE @rhonae.bsky.social · 6d

Absolutely - as proven over nearly one decade in power, problems LNP caused,all originated then, ie Housing(voted against all assistance/Energy; axed CarbonPRICE/NO EnergyBILL&suppression of price increase/wages restraint/contracted Pub.Serv. jobs 2Priv./biz/Rorting/austerity etc

Anne Ruston coalition govt Aged people gt general amount of money.

PM Morrison ‘Age of entirtlement ‘ is over.

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Antfarmer @antfarmer.bsky.social · 6d

Sorry to let you know Senator Paterson your party won’t ’become’ a soulless party aimed at a narrow few as you say. It already is. #RNBreakfast

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RhonaE @rhonae.bsky.social · 6d

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

'Frankly outrageous': LNP government faces new 'jobs for mates claim'

Queensland's Crisafulli government is embroiled in a new "jobs for mates" claim after it appointed a Liberal National Party powerbroker to oversee the state's lead agency for disaster recovery.

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RhonaE @rhonae.bsky.social · 8d

JohnAnderson Nat.Pty ex Leader - Page research centre & affiliation ARC. aligned with IPA/CIS/MenziesResearch/AtlasNetwork/CPAC/Advance -FossilFuels…Coal.

Page Research Centre (bit like IPA and CIS & Menzies research RW orgs affiliated with Atlas Network

RhonaE @rhonae.bsky.social · 8d

2nd: Why isn’t Hastie’s penchant for Fossil Fuels, particularly COAL, ever discussed? He apparently wishes to Lead on day -

John /anderson National Party & John Howard

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RhonaE @rhonae.bsky.social · 8d

@kjbar.bsky.social Having read yr article on Hastie, I just wish to add my thoughts. First: are there ANY moderates in the Liberal P? Certainly not in the Nats.Any Liberal who accepts their ‘Beliefs’ cannot,to my mind, be Moderate!

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RhonaE @rhonae.bsky.social · 8d

Must watch - consequences of Global Warming and ‘tipping points’…

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Videa explaining conseuences of Glabal Warming…

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Kity Katz @kitykatz.bsky.social · Nov 20

Treasurer Jim Chalmers must be doing something right - the home page of today's News Corp flagship is liberally littered with articles about him.

Articles by Jack Quail, Greg Brown, Dennis Shanahan, Judith Sloan, Eric Johnston, Tom Dusevic.

Needless to say, all are critical of Chalmers. 🙄 #auspol

The home page of today's The Australian, with six articles critical of Treasurer Jim Chalmers:

"Chalmers’ $230bn Future Funnel for favoured projects" by Jack Quail
Jim Chalmers is overhauling the investment mandate of the Future Fund to drive capital into Labor’s agenda, in a major shift in the role of the sovereign wealth fund established by the Howard government.

"Treasurer eyes a once-in-a-century pot of taxpayer gold" by Dennis Shanahan, National Editor
Jim Chalmers’ fundamental change to the Future Fund provides investment ‘priorities’ where there were none – priorities that align with Labor’s political and ideological agenda.

"Might as well close it: Chalmers’ big call leaves fund without a future" by Judith Sloan, Contributing Economics Editor
It’s Jim Chalmers’ big chance to put his loopy ideas about ‘reinventing capitalism’ to become a ‘values-driven’ system into practice. Labor has never really liked the Future Fund because it’s a reminder of Peter Costello’s success.

"Chalmers the stock picker makes a bad call" by Eric Johnston, Associate Editor
The Future Fund has thrived by having the independence to make its own financial calls. The Treasurer wants to trash this with his own risky bets.

"Is Chalmers living in the same country as the rest of us?" by Tom Dusevic, Policy Editor
Are you better off than three years ago? More Australians, like Americans did a fortnight ago, are saying No.

"ALP sets out pre-poll stall: let’s keep spending" by Jack Quail and Greg Brown
Jim Chalmers has paved the way for additional government spending in the lead-up to the election, as he warned the mid-year fiscal update would show tepid economic growth figures.

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RhonaE @rhonae.bsky.social · 9d

Such a contrast to that of the ….odious…frightening rise to such power ….Trump…. and then also to the Far right Wing winner of the Peace prize, which TRUMP appears to have engineered….

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Obama 'humbled' by Nobel accolade

YouTube video by AFP News Agency

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RhonaE @rhonae.bsky.social · 9d

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Shocking hypocrisy: Nobel Peace Prize winner supports Israel's genocide & Trump's war on Venezuela

YouTube video by Geopolitical Economy Report

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RhonaE @rhonae.bsky.social · 9d

Today I discovered that it is perfectly correct - she DID ring Trump - thoroughly abhorrent. So, she will privatise OIL especially for Trump?

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RhonaE @rhonae.bsky.social · 9d

This is the Nobel PEACE PRIZE winner. Yes, she DID ring Trump & tell him she accepted for HIM! This is highly concerning!

Truth about the Nobel PEACE prize winner

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RhonaE @rhonae.bsky.social · 10d

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Morrison and the secret Pentecostal plan for world domination

Let me tell you about the most brazen assault on Australia’s secular democracy you have probably never heard about.

independentaustralia.net

RhonaE @rhonae.bsky.social · 10d

Did I just hear correctly - Trump just said the NobelPeacePrize winner rang him& said she was sharing it with him,as he SHOULD HAVE WON IT? If that is correct, that is appalling! What a slight against those on the panel & to honour this man who is destroying democracy in the USA is unacceptable.

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RhonaE @rhonae.bsky.social · 10d

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LEO SAYER - "No Fracking Way" with Aussies Against Fracking

YouTube video by Leo Sayer

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RhonaE @rhonae.bsky.social · 10d

Of course Trump ‘didn’t politik’ for the Nobel Peace Prize’ …did he? Of course he DID….
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Marco Foster on X: "Jimmy Kimmel plays a montage of Donald Trump pathetically begging for a Nobel Peace Prize https://t.co/YkX4u9rl9e" / X

Jimmy Kimmel plays a montage of Donald Trump pathetically begging for a Nobel Peace Prize https://t.co/YkX4u9rl9e

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David Marler @qldaah.bsky.social · 13d

"Whether it's holding people in a mothership on the English Channel and then putting them in unsinkable life rafts with just enough fuel to get back to France in the middle of the night, as we did in Java," Tony Abbott declared. #auspol www.9news.com.au/world/tony-a...

'Peaceful invasion': Tony Abbott tells UK to send migrants away on 'unsinkable life rafts'

www.9news.com.au

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