@aussieleftie.bsky.social
Proud Australian
Socialist, reader, music lover.
Baby Boomer.
Murdoch media is a cancer on the planet.
Socialist, reader, music lover.
Baby Boomer.
Murdoch media is a cancer on the planet.
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"Trump would be odds-on to fail any Australian Values test."
@abulrizvi.bsky.social
And the related issue:
How can the Albanese govt claim to uphold 'Australian values', when their foreign & defence policy is tying us closer to the fascist Trump regime? #auspol
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/12...
@abulrizvi.bsky.social
And the related issue:
How can the Albanese govt claim to uphold 'Australian values', when their foreign & defence policy is tying us closer to the fascist Trump regime? #auspol
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/12...
Would Donald Trump pass an Australian Values test?
As the Coalition considers adding an Australian Values test to the Character Test, Abul Rizvi asks a simple question: what happens when you apply it to someone whose behaviour is extensively documente...
johnmenadue.com
December 13, 2025 at 9:38 PM
"Trump would be odds-on to fail any Australian Values test."
@abulrizvi.bsky.social
And the related issue:
How can the Albanese govt claim to uphold 'Australian values', when their foreign & defence policy is tying us closer to the fascist Trump regime? #auspol
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/12...
@abulrizvi.bsky.social
And the related issue:
How can the Albanese govt claim to uphold 'Australian values', when their foreign & defence policy is tying us closer to the fascist Trump regime? #auspol
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/12...
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The Albanese govt needs to do two things to save the #NACC:
- sack Brereton
- amend the legislation so it stops covering up corruption, and actually investigates it. Publicly. #auspol
www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...
- sack Brereton
- amend the legislation so it stops covering up corruption, and actually investigates it. Publicly. #auspol
www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...
‘His position is untenable’: Corruption watchdog boss stares down resignation demands
The nation’s first federal anti-corruption commissioner is facing growing calls to resign after he became embroiled in another potential conflict of interest controversy.
www.theage.com.au
December 12, 2025 at 9:31 PM
The Albanese govt needs to do two things to save the #NACC:
- sack Brereton
- amend the legislation so it stops covering up corruption, and actually investigates it. Publicly. #auspol
www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...
- sack Brereton
- amend the legislation so it stops covering up corruption, and actually investigates it. Publicly. #auspol
www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...
I wonder how this poll would go in Australia #auspol
Kowtowing, sucking up, throwing billions at their military establishment.
Good governance, or complete gutless capitulation?
Kowtowing, sucking up, throwing billions at their military establishment.
Good governance, or complete gutless capitulation?
📊 For leaders like Germany’s Friedrich Merz and France's Emmanuel Macron, our first international POLITICO Poll makes particularly grim reading.
They are seen by their own voters as having largely failed to handle Donald Trump effectively so far: www.politico.eu/article/dona...
They are seen by their own voters as having largely failed to handle Donald Trump effectively so far: www.politico.eu/article/dona...
December 11, 2025 at 11:16 AM
I wonder how this poll would go in Australia #auspol
Kowtowing, sucking up, throwing billions at their military establishment.
Good governance, or complete gutless capitulation?
Kowtowing, sucking up, throwing billions at their military establishment.
Good governance, or complete gutless capitulation?
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December 10, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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"Australians are no closer to learning what changes Hegseth’s department is seeking to #AUKUS"
That's the problem.
US-sycophant Marles
has secret talks with fascist war criminal Hegseth
about a 'deal' for Australia to hand over $370b+
to be Trump's lapdog. #auspol
www.smh.com.au/world/north-...
That's the problem.
US-sycophant Marles
has secret talks with fascist war criminal Hegseth
about a 'deal' for Australia to hand over $370b+
to be Trump's lapdog. #auspol
www.smh.com.au/world/north-...
Marles refuses 12 times to say what the Americans want in AUKUS review
Marles and Foreign Minister Penny Wong met their American counterparts Pete Hegseth and Marco Rubio in Washington for annual talks amid what Rubio called “real momentum” in the alliance.
www.smh.com.au
December 8, 2025 at 11:18 PM
"Australians are no closer to learning what changes Hegseth’s department is seeking to #AUKUS"
That's the problem.
US-sycophant Marles
has secret talks with fascist war criminal Hegseth
about a 'deal' for Australia to hand over $370b+
to be Trump's lapdog. #auspol
www.smh.com.au/world/north-...
That's the problem.
US-sycophant Marles
has secret talks with fascist war criminal Hegseth
about a 'deal' for Australia to hand over $370b+
to be Trump's lapdog. #auspol
www.smh.com.au/world/north-...
In case Penny was too busy to notice global strategic realignment.
#auspol
#auspol
Putin’s Playbook: What Russia Has Wanted for 20 Years
To understand why the NSS tracks so neatly with Russian objectives, you have to begin with those objectives. The Kremlin’s priorities have been remarkably consistent:
To understand why the NSS tracks so neatly with Russian objectives, you have to begin with those objectives. The Kremlin’s priorities have been remarkably consistent:
December 8, 2025 at 11:27 AM
In case Penny was too busy to notice global strategic realignment.
#auspol
#auspol
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
#auspol @albomp.bsky.social
Honest to god, is our government paying any attention at all?
The US has pivoted to Russia.
But we keep throwing billions their way to build subs, they will never send to Australia, except maybe as an attack force.
#fuckAUKUS
#auspol @albomp.bsky.social
Honest to god, is our government paying any attention at all?
The US has pivoted to Russia.
But we keep throwing billions their way to build subs, they will never send to Australia, except maybe as an attack force.
#fuckAUKUS
Kremlin praises Trump's national security strategy
The strategy argues the US should revive the 19th century Monroe Doctrine, which declared the Western hemisphere to be Washington's zone of influence.
www.abc.net.au
December 8, 2025 at 10:37 AM
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
#auspol @albomp.bsky.social
Honest to god, is our government paying any attention at all?
The US has pivoted to Russia.
But we keep throwing billions their way to build subs, they will never send to Australia, except maybe as an attack force.
#fuckAUKUS
#auspol @albomp.bsky.social
Honest to god, is our government paying any attention at all?
The US has pivoted to Russia.
But we keep throwing billions their way to build subs, they will never send to Australia, except maybe as an attack force.
#fuckAUKUS
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SNL on Trump’s fake peace prize.
December 8, 2025 at 12:36 AM
SNL on Trump’s fake peace prize.
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Labor being conned by AUKUS and the writings and world view of a muddled Diktator
It is costing us BILLIONS
It is going to cost LIVES
It will deliver NOTHING
It will demonstrate that Albanese, Wong and Marles are just a sub-branch of AMERIKA
𝐕𝐎𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐒 𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐓 𝐍𝐎𝐓 𝐈𝐆𝐍𝐎𝐑𝐄 𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐅𝐀𝐑𝐂𝐄 𝐀𝐍𝐘 𝐋𝐎𝐍𝐆𝐄𝐑
It is costing us BILLIONS
It is going to cost LIVES
It will deliver NOTHING
It will demonstrate that Albanese, Wong and Marles are just a sub-branch of AMERIKA
𝐕𝐎𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐒 𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐓 𝐍𝐎𝐓 𝐈𝐆𝐍𝐎𝐑𝐄 𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐅𝐀𝐑𝐂𝐄 𝐀𝐍𝐘 𝐋𝐎𝐍𝐆𝐄𝐑
December 8, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Labor being conned by AUKUS and the writings and world view of a muddled Diktator
It is costing us BILLIONS
It is going to cost LIVES
It will deliver NOTHING
It will demonstrate that Albanese, Wong and Marles are just a sub-branch of AMERIKA
𝐕𝐎𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐒 𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐓 𝐍𝐎𝐓 𝐈𝐆𝐍𝐎𝐑𝐄 𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐅𝐀𝐑𝐂𝐄 𝐀𝐍𝐘 𝐋𝐎𝐍𝐆𝐄𝐑
It is costing us BILLIONS
It is going to cost LIVES
It will deliver NOTHING
It will demonstrate that Albanese, Wong and Marles are just a sub-branch of AMERIKA
𝐕𝐎𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐒 𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐓 𝐍𝐎𝐓 𝐈𝐆𝐍𝐎𝐑𝐄 𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐅𝐀𝐑𝐂𝐄 𝐀𝐍𝐘 𝐋𝐎𝐍𝐆𝐄𝐑
Conclusive proof that this is a shit deal for Australia
#DitchAUKUS
www.9news.com.au/national/auk...
#DitchAUKUS
www.9news.com.au/national/auk...
Pentagon confirms it's moving ahead with AUKUS nuclear submarine deal
The Pentagon has finished its review of the AUKUS defence pact between Australia, the US and UK, confirmin...
www.9news.com.au
December 7, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Conclusive proof that this is a shit deal for Australia
#DitchAUKUS
www.9news.com.au/national/auk...
#DitchAUKUS
www.9news.com.au/national/auk...
The best statement of the situation i have read to date.
A decomposing president who is easily fooled and is only running on his cruel and self-serving instincts is the ideal puppet of the wealth and oligarchical classes interested in dismantling government and requiring widespread oppression to continue hoarding resources.
December 5, 2025 at 12:17 AM
The best statement of the situation i have read to date.
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He can't stay awake. Or walk. Or speak. I'm so sick of the GOP denial. The embarrassing flattery parades. The complicit press standing silent while he drones on incomprehensibly or insults colleagues who dare to question his lies. Or laughing obligatorily at his non-jokes. I'm just so tired of it.
December 2, 2025 at 6:59 PM
He can't stay awake. Or walk. Or speak. I'm so sick of the GOP denial. The embarrassing flattery parades. The complicit press standing silent while he drones on incomprehensibly or insults colleagues who dare to question his lies. Or laughing obligatorily at his non-jokes. I'm just so tired of it.
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#auspol
@albomp.bsky.social
How much evidence do you need that the US will sell out their 'allies'?
Yet you put every single Aussie egg into the US basket.
Blind stupity? Blatant corruption?
Or just a weak man, without the spine to tell them to fuck off?
#DitchAUKUS
@albomp.bsky.social
How much evidence do you need that the US will sell out their 'allies'?
Yet you put every single Aussie egg into the US basket.
Blind stupity? Blatant corruption?
Or just a weak man, without the spine to tell them to fuck off?
#DitchAUKUS
It was TRANSLATED by the US from Russian into English, not authored by the US.
November 23, 2025 at 6:44 AM
#auspol
@albomp.bsky.social
How much evidence do you need that the US will sell out their 'allies'?
Yet you put every single Aussie egg into the US basket.
Blind stupity? Blatant corruption?
Or just a weak man, without the spine to tell them to fuck off?
#DitchAUKUS
@albomp.bsky.social
How much evidence do you need that the US will sell out their 'allies'?
Yet you put every single Aussie egg into the US basket.
Blind stupity? Blatant corruption?
Or just a weak man, without the spine to tell them to fuck off?
#DitchAUKUS
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All fucking cowards .
...his administration,
.. and the media that follow him around.
...his administration,
.. and the media that follow him around.
November 19, 2025 at 5:18 AM
All fucking cowards .
...his administration,
.. and the media that follow him around.
...his administration,
.. and the media that follow him around.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
What should happen to leaders who use the military against their own citizens.
#Trump
What should happen to leaders who use the military against their own citizens.
#Trump
Bangladesh court issues death sentence against ex-PM who fled country
A Bangladesh court has sentenced ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina to death after finding her guilty of crimes against humanity.
www.abc.net.au
November 18, 2025 at 10:06 AM
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
What should happen to leaders who use the military against their own citizens.
#Trump
What should happen to leaders who use the military against their own citizens.
#Trump
Hey er - has the Petra Nova CCS plant in Texas stopped capturing CO2 again? Or did they just stop reporting data from 2025 onwards?
www.eia.gov/electricity/...
www.eia.gov/electricity/...
November 16, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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November 10, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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Election of Zohran Mandani as New York Mayor, on a socialist agenda, is a salient reminder to @australianlabor.bsky.social that unambitious, small ideas aren’t what people crave.
Big, bold transformational policies are a must…as is a new generation leader.
Time to ditch @albomp.bsky.social
#auspol
Big, bold transformational policies are a must…as is a new generation leader.
Time to ditch @albomp.bsky.social
#auspol
November 5, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Election of Zohran Mandani as New York Mayor, on a socialist agenda, is a salient reminder to @australianlabor.bsky.social that unambitious, small ideas aren’t what people crave.
Big, bold transformational policies are a must…as is a new generation leader.
Time to ditch @albomp.bsky.social
#auspol
Big, bold transformational policies are a must…as is a new generation leader.
Time to ditch @albomp.bsky.social
#auspol
This is not the country we should be irrevocably tying our strategic future to.
#auspol
#ditchAUKUS
@albomp.bsky.social
#auspol
#ditchAUKUS
@albomp.bsky.social
November 2, 2025 at 11:07 AM
This is not the country we should be irrevocably tying our strategic future to.
#auspol
#ditchAUKUS
@albomp.bsky.social
#auspol
#ditchAUKUS
@albomp.bsky.social
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"Australians are getting ripped off by the gas industry," - Liam O'Brien, ACTU Assistant Secretary told the #RevenueSummit25
Analysis by The Australia Institute shows the ACTU's call for a 25% tax on revenue from gas exports would raise around $12.5 billion annually.
#auspol
Analysis by The Australia Institute shows the ACTU's call for a 25% tax on revenue from gas exports would raise around $12.5 billion annually.
#auspol
October 28, 2025 at 11:46 PM
"Australians are getting ripped off by the gas industry," - Liam O'Brien, ACTU Assistant Secretary told the #RevenueSummit25
Analysis by The Australia Institute shows the ACTU's call for a 25% tax on revenue from gas exports would raise around $12.5 billion annually.
#auspol
Analysis by The Australia Institute shows the ACTU's call for a 25% tax on revenue from gas exports would raise around $12.5 billion annually.
#auspol