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tinnytimes.bsky.social @tinnytimes.bsky.social · 1d

Unions, in particular the AMWU, agitated the Bligh Labor govt for a gas reservation policy. Outright refusal resulted; apparently the great god of “market forces” (as opposed to the ineptitude of a govt hellbent on privatising & a company with the predictive capacity of an ouija board) prevailed.

How a boardroom mistake in Adelaide 15 years ago cost you a fortune

It was a primary force behind Australia’s inflationary surge, it’s forced businesses either to the wall or to shift offshore, undermined national industry policy and resulted in the loss of countless ...

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tinnytimes.bsky.social @tinnytimes.bsky.social · 4d

Shocked, I tell you! Shocked!

White House slams Trump’s perceived Nobel peace prize snub as ‘politics over peace’

President has ‘heart of humanitarian’, spokesperson says after unsuccessful bid for prize amid Gaza ceasefire deal

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tinnytimes.bsky.social @tinnytimes.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks to the Blessed Linda Reynolds, we now have another definition for “pyrrhic victory.”

David Sharaz served bankruptcy papers by Linda Reynolds

Brittany Higgins's husband David Sharaz is served bankruptcy papers by former Senator Linda Reynolds, as she tries to recover damages awarded to her by a Perth court for defamation.

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tinnytimes.bsky.social @tinnytimes.bsky.social · 6d

It’s Liberal. Ergo, it’s a stuffup.

What a thrill, to receive an email from your local parliamentarian when you’ve just become a new Australian citizen.

Especially when you’re 3rd generation Australian.

Liberal MP sends email wrongly congratulating people for becoming citizens

A mass email from a Liberal MP wrongly congratulates many people across northern Victoria on becoming new Australian citizens.

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tinnytimes.bsky.social @tinnytimes.bsky.social · 6d

"This morning, we see the bailout and I always worry about the jobs…and the economic prosperity of every region that gets a massive hit when there's uncertainty about the future. But it appears this is just a bandaid and it's not good enough."

Ley, supporting jobs, prosperity, & confusion.

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tinnytimes.bsky.social @tinnytimes.bsky.social · 7d

Let’s see. Price leaks, resigns, accuses Ley of leaking. Dutton didn’t leak - somehow private conversation is now all over 🤷‍♂️Ley didn’t leak but Hastie’s rep now mud (leaks). & Hastie still banging on about turning Libs into PHON or the antipodean Reform. Like Abbott, up to his neck w Tories.

Clear?

Liberals play blame game over Hastie leak as Ley denies it came from her

Opposition Leader Sussan Ley called a meeting in Canberra on Monday after a report earlier that day that Peter Dutton had been highly critical of Andrew Hastie’s work ethic.

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tinnytimes.bsky.social @tinnytimes.bsky.social · 7d

Wasn’t that long ago when our LNP overlords equated ABC reports with those fm Pravda. And bleating McKenzie perhaps forgets, we have states which regulate driving instructors, not the Commonwealth (which in her previous incarnation as a Govt minister she would not hesitate to remind colleagues of).

Estimates gets heated as McKenzie tells minister 'get off your arse' over assaults

Frustrated by what she sees as inaction over a 7.30 investigation into alleged sexual assaults made by driving instructors, Nationals Senator Bridget McKenzie demands action from the government.

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tinnytimes.bsky.social @tinnytimes.bsky.social · 8d

Appears our favourite toxic misogynist has indulged in a hair weave, or some other form of follicular deception.

tinnytimes.bsky.social @tinnytimes.bsky.social · 8d

If losing 2 PMs is (to paraphrase Wilde) carelessness, what does it mean to lose 5 in 2 years? The Australian experience of Rudd/Gillard/Rudd/Abbott/Turnbull/Morrison in 13 years is being challenged for its political barnyard irrelevance.

Why has France has gone through five prime ministers in two years?

The sudden resignation of France's prime minister — the country's fifth in two years — has put President Emmanuel Macron in a bind.

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tinnytimes.bsky.social @tinnytimes.bsky.social · 8d

Ley is going nowhere, fast, but that won’t stop her targeting transgender issues. Law’n order is the only thing she can advocate on without being backgrounded into irrelevance by her own colleagues.

Child abuse should be condemned & punished, whoever the perpetrator.

Coalition tries to wedge Labor on mandatory child abuse sentencing

Opposition Leader Sussan Ley raises the case of a trans child abuser as she seeks to pressure the Albanese government to create mandatory minimum jail terms for child exploitation offences.

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tinnytimes.bsky.social @tinnytimes.bsky.social · 11d

“There’s no challenge to Sussan – I support Sussan,”

I guess at least he didn’t burble on about being “ambitious for her” like Morrison of the 6 Ministries.

Only Oppositions can carry on like a badly-written Shakespeare pastiche. Hastie for OL by mid ‘26 at the latest imho.

Andrew Hastie says there is ‘no challenge’ to Sussan Ley after stepping down from Liberal frontbench

Former shadow home affairs minister claims he quit because he was not given a leadership role in developing policy on immigration

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tinnytimes.bsky.social @tinnytimes.bsky.social · 11d

Jeez but those early mobile phones were clunky.

tinnytimes.bsky.social @tinnytimes.bsky.social · 13d

Racist scum walk among us, spreading their “respectful” hate, facilitated & nourished by our supposedly esteemed institutions.

They give an intellectual veneer to their toxic prejudices, but it’s no different to the hate which spreads from their less articulate nazi-saluting confreres.

Disgraceful

The far-right figures teaching students at a Sydney college

The dean of studies says the country will need political parties for white Australians. A senior lecturer wants an Anglo-Celtic club to inspire fear in “leftist thugs”.

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tinnytimes.bsky.social @tinnytimes.bsky.social · 14d

Acland St?

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tinnytimes.bsky.social @tinnytimes.bsky.social · 15d

Patriotic Trumpet man Palmer is tooting a dud tune from his nether regions in his continuing attempts to use ISDS against the Australian taxpayer.

Bit hard to see how ripping us off amounts to patriotism.

We live in interesting times.

Clive Palmer’s multibillion dollar claims make a mockery of a tribunal that allows foreign investors to challenge court decisions | Patricia Ranald

The billionaire’s last three cases are part of a growing global list from fossil fuel companies against government decisions to reduce carbon emissions

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tinnytimes.bsky.social @tinnytimes.bsky.social · 15d

@firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social proves again why he’s a national treasure.

We need to start a petition so he gets the gig to design the colouring in bookin ‘26.

And - Pizza Duck! Who knew it was a fake that nearly fooled the BOTY judges in ‘24? Great sleuthing, Detective Dog!

Australian bird of the year! A tiny feathery hiatus from the grim day-to-day | First Dog on the Moon

(unless you are a bird)

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tinnytimes.bsky.social @tinnytimes.bsky.social · 15d

Looking in vain for the incredibly tedious interview w the Nong O’Brien on 730 last night.

Sarah so bored she pulled him up during yet another marathon waffle; he started telling a “story” which she reminded him he’d already related on an earlier program.

The bloke is an Olympic-standard bore.

tinnytimes.bsky.social @tinnytimes.bsky.social · 16d

Wondering if Sussan might be biking the travel plans soon?

Ley brushes off Hastie’s immigration claims, saying daily living pressures ‘nothing to do with any migrant’

Opposition leader unconcerned by speculation over possible Liberal leadership tilt by shadow home affairs minister

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tinnytimes.bsky.social @tinnytimes.bsky.social · 16d

Almost Truss-like in its brevity. Tho I notice only the program, & not the presenter, have been axed.

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tinnytimes.bsky.social @tinnytimes.bsky.social · 16d

Her very lazy partisanship is just tiresome. Her rant about the quality of the flight with the PM - inedible sandwiches! What were they thinking? - was a masterpiece of entitled whinging.

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tinnytimes.bsky.social @tinnytimes.bsky.social · 17d

Yes. All somebody else’s fault, apparently.

tinnytimes.bsky.social @tinnytimes.bsky.social · 18d

Fantastic stuff. Leo is a champ. And will grow up to be twice the man as the Tangerine Bloviator with his disgraceful “theories”.

Student compares his autism to 'limited edition Lego' in viral speech

Twelve-year-old Leo is the talk of his community thanks to a speech he made for his school's public speaking competition where he opened up about his neurodiversity.

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Reposted

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19d

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1

Trickle-down economics was always a sham.

Nothing has ever trickled down.

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tinnytimes.bsky.social @tinnytimes.bsky.social · 20d

Contains this gem of doublespeak:

"Look, I support Sussan. Anyone who's speculating otherwise is being mischievous," Hastie insisted…

"As I said, I'm still on the team, I'm a team player, I'm just being a little bolder in some of the policy positions that I think we should adopt."

Clear as a bell

Albanese locks in his Trump moment as Hastie and Ley tussle

It turns out that Prime Minister Anthony Albanese didn't need a can of Diet Coke and a cheeseburger to attracted the US president's attention.

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tinnytimes.bsky.social @tinnytimes.bsky.social · 20d

Imamoglu is a very brave man.

Erdogan is challenging Orban for the title of least democratic leader.

I was elected mayor of Istanbul, but I write this from jail: Turkish democracy is under grave threat | Ekrem Imamoğlu

If our nation slides deeper into autocracy, the consequences will reverberate far beyond Turkey’s borders, says Istanbul’s suspended mayor Ekrem Imamoğlu

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