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Sam W 🖤💛❤️🌻🦋🍉🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈✌️🫢 @sassisam.bsky.social · 18h

So infuriating when we have so many people living in poverty being a rich country and all. No-one left behind he said 🤬

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Sam W 🖤💛❤️🌻🦋🍉🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈✌️🫢 @sassisam.bsky.social · 18h

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Sam W 🖤💛❤️🌻🦋🍉🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈✌️🫢 @sassisam.bsky.social · 18h

🙄 his brain doesn’t exist!

Sam W 🖤💛❤️🌻🦋🍉🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈✌️🫢 @sassisam.bsky.social · 18h

Same!! 🤯

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Sam W 🖤💛❤️🌻🦋🍉🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈✌️🫢 @sassisam.bsky.social · 18h

Hello Australia, are you LISTENING! #auspol 🤬

Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 22h

Cardiff will be the first UK city to introduce a surcharge for oversized SUVs and trucks, "while very large vehicles – those over 3,500kg – will be excluded from residential permits entirely."

Cardiff set to tackle SUV 'carspreading' in UK first

Cardiff Council is set to become the first local authority in the UK to introduce higher parking charges for SUVs and other heavy vehicles, in a move campaigners say will make city streets safer and f...

nation.cymru

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Sam W 🖤💛❤️🌻🦋🍉🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈✌️🫢 @sassisam.bsky.social · 18h

I love this, it would have been great if a private donor said give them $100k each we’ll cover it!

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Rod Campbell @rodcampbell.bsky.social · 1d

My new report is out - Adani sold coal at mates rates to India, avoiding $400m in royalty payments to Queensland

...and Qld's LNP gov doesn't seem to care.

Thread below on how they did it.

Write up in @australia.theguardian.com
@australiainstitute.org.au
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Adani denies claims it sold ‘below-market coal’ leading to Queensland missing out on hundreds of millions in royalties

Adani has strongly rejected the Australia Institute’s findings, including that customers paid an average of $102 a tonne in 2022-23

www.theguardian.com

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 7d

"Darwin, Broome and Port Hedland are predicted to be pushed outside the “human climate niche” — that is, the temperature and humidity conditions in which humans can survive."

#ClimateEmergency

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Sam W 🖤💛❤️🌻🦋🍉🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈✌️🫢 @sassisam.bsky.social · 1d

Him and Linda hateful Reynolds!

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Sam W 🖤💛❤️🌻🦋🍉🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈✌️🫢 @sassisam.bsky.social · 1d

a woman in a trench coat stands on a street with the words nothing to see here

ALT: a woman in a trench coat stands on a street with the words nothing to see here

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Sam W 🖤💛❤️🌻🦋🍉🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈✌️🫢 @sassisam.bsky.social · 1d

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a cartoon character with a long nose is surrounded by pigs

ALT: a cartoon character with a long nose is surrounded by pigs

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Sam W 🖤💛❤️🌻🦋🍉🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈✌️🫢 @sassisam.bsky.social · 2d

Speaking of Nikki where is she? I haven’t seen her column for sometime? Or have I just missed it? Usually it’s a popular share when it’s published.

Sam W 🖤💛❤️🌻🦋🍉🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈✌️🫢 @sassisam.bsky.social · 2d

Yes! The shameful treatment continues against First Nations People! Federal Government need to show leadership pronto! 🖤💛❤️‍🩹 #auspol #qldpol

Larissa Waters @larissawaters.bsky.social · 2d

The regressive actions of the Victorian and Queensland LNP confirm that the Federal government needs to show strength and work for truth, treaty, and a voice for First Nations communities.

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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 2d

In 2010, the Aus and QLD governments allowed a handful of multinational gas giants to begin massive exports of our gas — a decision that's making Australians poorer today.

‘Our gas prices tripled, then tripled again...electricity prices doubled as well.’

@markogge.bsky.social #auspol

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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 2d

Our governments are already caving in to pressure from the gas industry to export our domestic gas reserves.

90% of WA's gas is exported or used for export.

We don't have a gas shortage problem. We have a gas export problem.

@markogge.bsky.social #auspol

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Sam W 🖤💛❤️🌻🦋🍉🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈✌️🫢 @sassisam.bsky.social · 2d

“No-one left behind” 🤬 #shameful #auspol

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Sam W 🖤💛❤️🌻🦋🍉🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈✌️🫢 @sassisam.bsky.social · 3d

Well yes this is very true!

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Sam W 🖤💛❤️🌻🦋🍉🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈✌️🫢 @sassisam.bsky.social · 3d

Once again hard not to generalise that the Liberals/LNP do not like First Nations People having a voice! 🖤💛💔 #auspol

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

Victorian Liberals will scrap Australian-first Treaty within 100 days if elected

The Victorian Liberals will scrap the state's proposed Treaty agreement with First Peoples' if elected. The opposition had previously withdrawn support for the proposed agreement, which is set to be d...

www.abc.net.au

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Sam W 🖤💛❤️🌻🦋🍉🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈✌️🫢 @sassisam.bsky.social · 4d

It’s so hard not to think of them as the most pathetic government there ever was! 😡

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Sam W 🖤💛❤️🌻🦋🍉🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈✌️🫢 @sassisam.bsky.social · 4d

Except caving in! They have the opportunity and all they do is cave every single time 🙄 TACO inspired 🤯

Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 4d

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.

Sam W 🖤💛❤️🌻🦋🍉🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈✌️🫢 @sassisam.bsky.social · 4d

Injustice and unfairness consistently at every turn! 🖤💛💔

elfdock.bsky.social @elfdock.bsky.social · 4d

Ongoing genocide on the First Nations Peoples

She explained that many of her clients didn't have a phone or speak English, making it nearly impossible for them to communicate with their lawyers.

"They're at risk of getting terms of imprisonment and not knowing essentially why," Ms Oliver said.

Kimberley-based lawyers struggling to give Balgo residents access to justice

With in-person court hearings suspended and video links cancelled, lawyers are struggling to ensure access to justice for the remote community of Balgo.

www.abc.net.au

Sam W 🖤💛❤️🌻🦋🍉🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈✌️🫢 @sassisam.bsky.social · 4d

Also the state with the highest climate change impact, we’re stuffed! 😡 #qldpol

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Sam W 🖤💛❤️🌻🦋🍉🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈✌️🫢 @sassisam.bsky.social · 5d

Such a shame. Some good conversions happening internationally. 😕

Sam W 🖤💛❤️🌻🦋🍉🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈✌️🫢 @sassisam.bsky.social · 5d

Don’t we know it! 😡 #auspol

David Pocock @davidpocock.bsky.social · 5d

The Albanese govt’s first term was the second most secretive on record.

Rather than changing their ways, they’re doubling down and tightening our FOI system to make it even harder to get information. Not a single expert or member of parliament outside of the Labor party has backed their new bill.

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David Pocock @davidpocock.bsky.social · 5d

The Albanese govt’s first term was the second most secretive on record.

Rather than changing their ways, they’re doubling down and tightening our FOI system to make it even harder to get information. Not a single expert or member of parliament outside of the Labor party has backed their new bill.

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