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Francis Markham @francismarkham.bsky.social · 8h

*University governance crisis intensifies*

Careers in limbo after graduates discover university courses were never accredited

Students have been left with HECS debts and careers that are "non-existent" after completing degrees that were not accredited. Class actions have been launched against two Australian universities.

www.abc.net.au

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 6h

The “at least they are better than the LNP” line from Labor rustedons is wearing increasingly thin. #auspol

Michael Dowling aka MeckeringBoy @meckeringboy.bsky.social · 8h

Words I did not ever expect to hear about any *Labor* government:

“…analysis by Centre for Public Integrity showed secrecy has increased under Labor compared with Morrison gov.”

It’s time for:
Open and honest, transparent government.
FOI
@albomp.bsky.social

@australianlabor.bsky.social
#auspol

Michael Dowling aka MeckeringBoy @meckeringboy.bsky.social · 10h

“For a gov promising more transparency, the withholding of the doc written shortly after May election by the Dept of Climate Change, Energy, Environment & Water is puzzling. But then again, analysis by Centre for Public Integrity showed secrecy has increased under Labor compared with Morrison gov.”

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Michael Dowling aka MeckeringBoy @meckeringboy.bsky.social · 6h

It’s time to hold the much demanded royal commission into Australian media, and especially the [globally recognised] cancerous Murdoch media.

It’s time for laws requiring truth in media and politics.

Mark @mtsyd.bsky.social · 9h

Genghis Khan says Attila the Hun is a bad man! 😂
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/o...

News Corp Australia chair says social media platforms are ‘true monsters’ and ‘torment our children’

Michael Miller also says media must unite against second ‘big steal’ by tech companies seeking changes to copyright law to access content for free

www.theguardian.com

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Andrew Wilkie MP @andrewwilkiemp.bsky.social · 11h

Distressed to hear Madeleine Habib’s boat has been intercepted & boarded by IDF. Yet another breach of int law by Israel. I’m in Canberra & liaising now with the PM’s office. Israel must immediately release all on board including our brave Tasmanian Madeleine #auspol #politas

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Oliver Townshend @olivertownshend.bsky.social · 11h

Why are the Department of Communications creating email addresses and then not monitoring them? I don't think it's acceptable, even if you send out notifications. Automated systems can go back years and may still use them. I do think bureaucrats don't understand IT. #auspol

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Barbara Flowers @babsflowers.bsky.social · 6h

Is she another $900,000 per annum completely pointless nonentity

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Charles Tuise @ctuise.bsky.social · 11h

Yeah, love being an Aussie Taxpayer footing the bill for yet another monumental failure of public servants to provide service they are highly paid to do. Like a very bad Utopia episode #Auspol

stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 14h

Home Affairs Sec Stephanie Foster exposed as overly determined Not to Answer & take things ‘on notice’

Shoebridge “You’re taking on notice your failure to answer on notice, Q’s I asked u on notice, about Q’s that u responded on notice, to answers u haven’t given on notice”🤯ffs #Estimates

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Barbara Flowers @babsflowers.bsky.social · 6h

Murdoch media is a monstrous canker that's been trying for decades to destroy western democracies (which include a great many children)

Barbara Flowers @babsflowers.bsky.social · 9h

"Professor of Public Policy and Law at Griffith University, A J Brown, made the uncontested point that if the general public thinks there is a problem with corruption there is a problem with corruption"

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A culture of leniency. Exposing wrongdoing or protecting wrongdoers? - Michael West

Corporate regulator ASIC lets crooked bankers walk free, and the notional anti-corruption commission ignores Robodebt.

michaelwest.com.au

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Barbara Flowers @babsflowers.bsky.social · 10h

Exactly. But our dreadful media will probably start doxing them soon

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Barbara Flowers @babsflowers.bsky.social · 11h

"NewsCorp has reported legal experts believe Reynolds could struggle to recover her costs if she wins her defamation case against Ms Higgins because a $2.4m compensation payout may be “protected” if the former political staffer is forced into bankruptcy" kangaroocourtofaustralia.com/2025/08/28/w...

Will Linda Reynolds have to declare bankruptcy if Brittany Higgins doesn’t pay?

Brittany Higgins might not have to pay Linda Reynolds, the $315,000 plus $26,000 interest she was awarded on Wednesday (27/8/25), if Higgins declares bankruptcy. If Higgins does declare bankruptcy, an...

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Barbara Flowers @babsflowers.bsky.social · 11h

Honestly now the 'ISIS brides' will to be turned into a 'get Albo wedge'... could we just take our international humanitarian responsibilities seriously instead of it all being fodder for the rabid MSM/LNP?

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fiirving.bsky.social @fiirving.bsky.social · 11h

You would think so, wouldn’t you? #albomp.bsky.social
#auspol

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Barbara Flowers @babsflowers.bsky.social · 13h

"under the weight of the destruction of Gaza, famine, dead & orphaned children & anger over the denial of many fellow Jews who refuse to recognize their complicity, consensus has collapsed. The liberal Zionist “center” has lost its hold on American Jewry" www.theguardian.com/world/commen...

The Zionist consensus among US Jews has collapsed. Something new is emerging | Shaul Magid

Two years after the 7 October massacre and the onset of Israel’s slaughter in Gaza, American Jewry has been profoundly transformed

www.theguardian.com

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Thyme to Fight Back 🟧 @thymesup.bsky.social · 1d

Why am I seeing practically nothing about this on the news? Did this huge house just spontaneously blow up for no reason on a Sunday afternoon?
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South Carolina authorities are investigating a fire that engulfed the home of state circuit court judge | CNN

A blaze that engulfed the South Carolina home of a state circuit court judge and her husband, a former state senator, is under investigation, CNN affiliates WCSC and WIS reported.

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 1d

New poll shows that Zohran Mamdani leads Cuomo with Latinos 2:1
www.nydailynews.com/2025/10/07/n...

New poll finds Mamdani outstrips Cuomo 2:1 among NYC Latinos in mayoral race

The poll, commissioned by the Hispanic Federation and conducted by Lake Research, showed Mamdani leading by double digits, receiving 48% of the vote to Andrew Cuomo’s 24%, and Republican candidate …

www.nydailynews.com

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 1d

It would be super cool if when they said this stuff, the interviewer pointed out that we don’t actually have to speculate. We have polling, and it says residents oppose these deployments by HUGE margins.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Rep. Riley Moore: "I think the actual residents of Washington DC are very happy with the outcome. And I think the actual residents of Chicago and our other great cities here in America would actually like to have safe streets and not people murdered every night."

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Barbara Flowers @babsflowers.bsky.social · 19h

2/2 but tawny frogmouths barely get points for trying. Sometimes they reuse the abandoned nests of other birds, but usually they just throw down a few sticks and call it done."

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Barbara Flowers @babsflowers.bsky.social · 19h

"Our tawnies nested in the same copse for three years – though calling it a nest is questionable. Sure, not every bird can achieve the architectural drama of a bowerbird’s podium, or the neat cup shapes made by fantails, 1/2 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Tawny frogmouths take patience to appreciate. They will reward you with insights into their remarkable lives | Stephanie Convery

Spotting tawnies is a bit like completing a crossword: it’s easier once you are familiar with the patterns, but you can always get stumped

www.theguardian.com

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Barbara Flowers @babsflowers.bsky.social · 1d

"I did not imagine it could amount to such calculated annihilation. I did not believe Israel would reach the point of starving people to death, or, on average, erase a classroom of children every single day for two whole years. Nor did I believe the world would permit Israel to do all this"

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Barbara Flowers @babsflowers.bsky.social · 1d

"It feels as if everything has vanished. Not only the tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza erased without graves, as if they had never existed – basic conceptions of morality, decency, compassion, humanity, hope, future."

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