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Andrew Gardiner
@ajgardineresq.bsky.social
|Media|#auspol|#ClimateCrisis|Freelance journo writing about politics & the environment. Read my stuff: https://tinyurl.com/AndrewGardiner
#NewsCorpse playbook:
1. Bully Labor government into rushing through social media rules to stave off its slow death;
2. Bag Labor government when those new rules, which Murdoch pushed for, prove unenforceable;

Have I mentioned that prohibition doesn't work? It's in all the history books.
#auspol
December 5, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Not content with traumatising 14 year olds by putting them in gladiator schools, Victoria follows the former Queensland Labor government's model of sending them there for longer.

Still, it's what #NewsCorpse wants. Remind me: did it save the Queensland Labor government?
#auspol
December 5, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Can someone check in on Piers Morgan?
It's 4.25am in Merry Old London. What's the bet he's already snoring? 👇
#Ashes #AUSvENG
December 4, 2025 at 4:25 AM
@albomp.bsky.social lists his "five top artists".

What happened to Joy Division, Albo?
#auspol
December 4, 2025 at 2:31 AM
How can these Advance clowns expect to mainstream fascism when they're so thin skinned? 🤡 ⤵️

(Getting value for your money, Gina? 🤔)
@brenthodgson.bsky.social #auspol
December 3, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Explanatory note for Aussies:
December 3, 2025 at 8:33 AM
I've heard of "driving while black".
"Fishing while brown" is a new one ...
#HegsethWarCrimes
December 3, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Advance anoints its preferred Opposition Leader.
Was there ever any doubt?
#auspol
December 3, 2025 at 8:19 AM
PS: sorry to hear, per this map, that there are no more white South Africans, mate. US and Australia are doomed, too, if we're to believe it ... 🙄
December 3, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Can we get a number on white people's share of the world's 𝒘𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒕𝒉, Elon?

Seems relevant ...
December 3, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Prohibition doesn't work. It's in all the history books ...
#socialmediaban
December 2, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Barnaby Joyce: I was in a "toxic relationship" with the Nats.

It wasn't his first ... ⤵️
#auspol
November 30, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Hobart's proposed AFL stadium would be a state-level AUKUS, siphoning much-needed revenue away from roads, hospitals and social services for years to come.

Just don't tell AFL broadcast rights partner #NewsCorpse:
November 30, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Neo-Nazis, letterboxing in diverse Hawthorn.
What's next? Doorknocking, followed by a sermon on Great Replacement Theory or a brick through the window for non-Aryan residents?

Victoria Police/Government: are there any pro-active ways to kill off this virus before it's too late?
November 30, 2025 at 1:24 AM
#Trump pardons drug trafficker who helped send 400 tons of cocaine to the US.

Gosh, I wonder who advised him on that one?
November 29, 2025 at 8:35 PM
A war crime. Pure and simple.
Do your thing, ICC.
tinyurl.com/5cerz43b
November 29, 2025 at 6:15 AM
@aaronsmith333.bsky.social I want a full report. With pictures.

If the Melbourne Metro stations aren't in the Pyongyang purview of pulchritude, I'll be shattered.
November 29, 2025 at 12:22 AM
What does Vikki Campion think? That last week's Chinese delegation to Canberra left listening devices behind Gough Whitlam's portrait in the Members' Hall?

Moose and Squirrel are on the case, Vik ... 🙄
#auspol
November 28, 2025 at 11:55 PM
More housing; less greyhound racing.
Struggling to see a downside here, #NewsCorpse.
#WentworthPark
November 28, 2025 at 11:20 PM
November 28, 2025 at 8:17 PM
SA Liberals: the gang that couldn't coup straight.
Victorian Liberal Party, it seems you have a rival in the dysfunction department ...
#auspol
November 28, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Jung's "mother complex", all liquored up and wrapped in a bow ...
#auspol
November 27, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Sorry ... this version of "staggering to the crossbench" is more apt:
November 27, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Barnaby: "Littleproud ignored me! Waaaaah! I'm out!"

New England no longer has a local member. Perhaps, post-Tony Windsor, it never did. Now excuse Barn as he staggers over to the crossbench (sound up) ... 👇
#auspol
November 27, 2025 at 2:55 AM
My half of the Comment and Analysis Walkey is quite an honour. Thanks all; I'll be dining out on this for months!

But the trophy, Michael. The trophy. I hope you didn't bronze Johnny the greyhound! 😉
November 27, 2025 at 12:58 AM