Barry Steele
@barrysteeleau.bsky.social
Retired old Democratic Socialist
Call me Comrade
Ex farm worker, layabout, fisherman, scientist, geospatial consultant, company owner, CIO,CTO, cleaner
It was better to be 20 in the 70's than 70 in the 20's
Rich Countries Shouldn't have poor people
Call me Comrade
Ex farm worker, layabout, fisherman, scientist, geospatial consultant, company owner, CIO,CTO, cleaner
It was better to be 20 in the 70's than 70 in the 20's
Rich Countries Shouldn't have poor people
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Albanese govt has done nothing to fix processes and culture behind #robodebt.
They've prosecuted #whistleblowers, abused #FOI, expanded secrecy, and knackered the #NACC, with no consequences for the guilty.
Robodebt could happen again.
Avoiding government embarrassment is not a priority. #auspol
They've prosecuted #whistleblowers, abused #FOI, expanded secrecy, and knackered the #NACC, with no consequences for the guilty.
Robodebt could happen again.
Avoiding government embarrassment is not a priority. #auspol
"Albanese government staffers – as well as senior Commonwealth public servants – privately fume at what they claim are abuses of laws and practices surrounding transparency by people whose sole aim is to embarrass the government."
Exclusive: PM’s office directs lobbyists to use encrypted, disappearing messages
Multiple sources confirm the Albanese government has pushed lobbyists and industry groups to use encrypted messages and verbal briefings when proposing policy ideas, to avoid FOI and disclosure requir...
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
December 6, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Albanese govt has done nothing to fix processes and culture behind #robodebt.
They've prosecuted #whistleblowers, abused #FOI, expanded secrecy, and knackered the #NACC, with no consequences for the guilty.
Robodebt could happen again.
Avoiding government embarrassment is not a priority. #auspol
They've prosecuted #whistleblowers, abused #FOI, expanded secrecy, and knackered the #NACC, with no consequences for the guilty.
Robodebt could happen again.
Avoiding government embarrassment is not a priority. #auspol
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They cannot be given authority to forcibly remove anyone from their vehicle this way. Think about how bad actors would abuse this power.
December 6, 2025 at 1:15 AM
They cannot be given authority to forcibly remove anyone from their vehicle this way. Think about how bad actors would abuse this power.
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Fresh insight into why Labor is refusing to release the AUKUS review. US Undersecretary of Defence Elbridge Colby is backgrounding journalists on the upcoming US National Defence Review, calling Israel an “partner” and Australia “dependent.” That’s how they think. thenightly.com.au/politics/aus...
Why Australia is facing ‘dependent’ status over AUKUS deal
The Pentagon’s review has affirmed the timeline for the ambitious nuclear-submarine endeavour, but another key US defence document is soon expected to refer to Australia as a ‘dependent’ rather than a...
thenightly.com.au
December 5, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Fresh insight into why Labor is refusing to release the AUKUS review. US Undersecretary of Defence Elbridge Colby is backgrounding journalists on the upcoming US National Defence Review, calling Israel an “partner” and Australia “dependent.” That’s how they think. thenightly.com.au/politics/aus...
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“Richo told Marles to get closer to NSW branch and to Anthony Albanese. Very soon, there was an unofficial pact. When Bill Shorten stumbled again as leader three years later, Marles and Albanese acted immediately on the Richardson-brokered alliance.” www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politic...
The Richo pact: How Graham put Albanese in charge
Behind the glowing tributes to Graham Richardson is a factional deal that the controversial former minister helped broker to make Anthony Albanese leader.
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
November 28, 2025 at 10:54 PM
“Richo told Marles to get closer to NSW branch and to Anthony Albanese. Very soon, there was an unofficial pact. When Bill Shorten stumbled again as leader three years later, Marles and Albanese acted immediately on the Richardson-brokered alliance.” www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politic...
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Yes we could! #SystemicChange now! #auspol
140,000 homes are currently being left vacant in Australia. 32,000 homes in Melbourne alone!
Air BnB has 160,000 homes on its books.
There are thousands of developers land banking properties in our cities.
We could legislate the end of a housing crisis very quickly.
Air BnB has 160,000 homes on its books.
There are thousands of developers land banking properties in our cities.
We could legislate the end of a housing crisis very quickly.
December 4, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Yes we could! #SystemicChange now! #auspol
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Something for Aussie farmers who keep voting Coalition to think about #auspol You’re gonna lose big time with #climatechange
"the UK summer of 2025 was the hottest in more than a century of records and....made 70 times more probable because of the climate crisis"
3 worst ever harvests since 2020
A years worth of bread lost in 5 years......rationing beckons
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
3 worst ever harvests since 2020
A years worth of bread lost in 5 years......rationing beckons
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
UK farmers lose £800m after heat and drought cause one of worst harvests on record
Many now concerned about ability to make living in fast-changing climate after one of worst grain harvests recorded
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Something for Aussie farmers who keep voting Coalition to think about #auspol You’re gonna lose big time with #climatechange
Why is this complete fuck-up still employed?
Stephanie Foster roasted after admitting has spoken to NACC Commissioner about her Chief of Staff’s corruption case & likely kept No record
Shoebridge “You have a chat with the Commr of the NACC about a corruption investigation about your own COS & u don’t even keep a record”🔥 #Estimates
Shoebridge “You have a chat with the Commr of the NACC about a corruption investigation about your own COS & u don’t even keep a record”🔥 #Estimates
December 4, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Why is this complete fuck-up still employed?
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Admin review tribunal no longer authorised to alter a person’s plan or reinstate funding.
AI generated
No right to appeal
Unqualified assessors
If you require support & preparation of thickened fluids or texture modified food for dysphasia & the system decides you don’t? You could die
#NDIS #Auspol
AI generated
No right to appeal
Unqualified assessors
If you require support & preparation of thickened fluids or texture modified food for dysphasia & the system decides you don’t? You could die
#NDIS #Auspol
Most NDIS participants will lose external avenue to appeal funding amounts under new system, Senate estimates told
Administrative review tribunal no longer authorised to alter a person’s plan or reinstate funding, agency confirmed
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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Australians have a right to access government information and to understand how decisions are made on their behalf. I just signed this @australiainstitute.org.au petition calling to end government secrecy: nb.australiainstitute.org.au/end_governme...
#FreedomOfInformation #FOI #auspol
#FreedomOfInformation #FOI #auspol
✍️ ADD YOUR NAME: End Government Secrecy
Australians have a right to access government information and to understand how decisions are made on their behalf. But the Labor Government’s proposed changes to freedom of information laws threaten ...
nb.australiainstitute.org.au
December 4, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Australians have a right to access government information and to understand how decisions are made on their behalf. I just signed this @australiainstitute.org.au petition calling to end government secrecy: nb.australiainstitute.org.au/end_governme...
#FreedomOfInformation #FOI #auspol
#FreedomOfInformation #FOI #auspol
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Another $95m in military aid and a new defence super-agency while homelessness rises and communities burn in heatwaves. We always have money for weapons. Never for human wellbeing. War budgets grow exponentially. Social budgets are forever fucking begging.
#auspol
#auspol
December 4, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Another $95m in military aid and a new defence super-agency while homelessness rises and communities burn in heatwaves. We always have money for weapons. Never for human wellbeing. War budgets grow exponentially. Social budgets are forever fucking begging.
#auspol
#auspol
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"Centrelink has refunded only 338 of the 44,000 people who overpaid their debt to the social services provider, with Services Australia confirming to SBS News the total amount refunded is already at $2.9 million.
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average amount already paid to the 338 who have received money is around $8,579 each"
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average amount already paid to the 338 who have received money is around $8,579 each"
Nearly 44,000 Australians are owed Centrelink refunds. Around 2,700 had died before the problem was identified
"The welfare system is full of holes like these because Labor and the Liberals have spent decades harassing welfare recipients" @pennyallmanpayne.com
www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
"The welfare system is full of holes like these because Labor and the Liberals have spent decades harassing welfare recipients" @pennyallmanpayne.com
www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
December 4, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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This is the way quality representatives follow through 👏🏼👏🏼 #DavidPocock #Auspol
December 4, 2025 at 1:37 AM
This is the way quality representatives follow through 👏🏼👏🏼 #DavidPocock #Auspol
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It’s a disgrace.
“Despite Home Affairs assurances that controversial offshore processing program has “significantly matured ($)” over 10 yrs, whistleblower accounts suggest otherwise. & legislation threatening 2 years’ jail for any who speak out remains intact.”
michaelwest.com.au/from-tampa-t...
“Despite Home Affairs assurances that controversial offshore processing program has “significantly matured ($)” over 10 yrs, whistleblower accounts suggest otherwise. & legislation threatening 2 years’ jail for any who speak out remains intact.”
michaelwest.com.au/from-tampa-t...
From Tampa to Nauru. Billion-dollar refugee deal to be scrutinised at last. - Michael West
Following last week's revelations about the "Nauru deal", the Senate voted in favour of a full inquiry into the Government's refugee deal.
michaelwest.com.au
December 4, 2025 at 1:28 AM
It’s a disgrace.
“Despite Home Affairs assurances that controversial offshore processing program has “significantly matured ($)” over 10 yrs, whistleblower accounts suggest otherwise. & legislation threatening 2 years’ jail for any who speak out remains intact.”
michaelwest.com.au/from-tampa-t...
“Despite Home Affairs assurances that controversial offshore processing program has “significantly matured ($)” over 10 yrs, whistleblower accounts suggest otherwise. & legislation threatening 2 years’ jail for any who speak out remains intact.”
michaelwest.com.au/from-tampa-t...
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Neo Liberal Labor
Under @albomp.bsky.social, a robot will now determine my autistic son's NDIS care plan.
With no one held accountable for Robodebt under the utterly pathetic NACC, I guess they think they're in the clear.
#auspol
www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...
Under @albomp.bsky.social, a robot will now determine my autistic son's NDIS care plan.
With no one held accountable for Robodebt under the utterly pathetic NACC, I guess they think they're in the clear.
#auspol
www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...
When 'common sense' cuts are code for a cruel con job
"NDIS costs soar as children flock to scheme" is a headline people accept – but other soaring bills are accepted as a cost of doing business.
www.thenewdaily.com.au
December 3, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Neo Liberal Labor
Under @albomp.bsky.social, a robot will now determine my autistic son's NDIS care plan.
With no one held accountable for Robodebt under the utterly pathetic NACC, I guess they think they're in the clear.
#auspol
www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...
Under @albomp.bsky.social, a robot will now determine my autistic son's NDIS care plan.
With no one held accountable for Robodebt under the utterly pathetic NACC, I guess they think they're in the clear.
#auspol
www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...
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In estimates today the Department confessed to me that older people are having their My Aged Care data stolen by providers for use in sales calls.
This is aged care under Labor: jacking up out-of-pocket costs then letting telemarketers loose to gouge vulnerable people even more.
This is aged care under Labor: jacking up out-of-pocket costs then letting telemarketers loose to gouge vulnerable people even more.
December 3, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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A $171m federal–NSW investment will see solar panels manufactured in the Hunter Valley, signalling a shift from coal to clean energy industry. #Auspol #Energy #Renewables
From coal to solar: a new manufacturing bet in the Hunter
A company headed up by one of the legends of Australian solar research and development has won more than $150 million in federal Solar Sunshot funding to build a commercial-scale PV panel manufacturing plant in one of the nation’s biggest coal hubs – the New South Wales Hunter Valley.
johnmenadue.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:46 PM
A $171m federal–NSW investment will see solar panels manufactured in the Hunter Valley, signalling a shift from coal to clean energy industry. #Auspol #Energy #Renewables
We should never attribute to mendacity what incompetence can just add easily explain
Smells a lot like the Australian government, a not so delicious blend of incompetence, arrogance, laziness, and corruption @australianlabor.bsky.social
#auspol #australia
#auspol #australia
December 3, 2025 at 12:52 PM
We should never attribute to mendacity what incompetence can just add easily explain
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In 1983 Hawke Keating Labor sold out the Australian people & joined the fascist Liberals in an oligarchic Neoliberal fascist anti-democratic duopoly
in 2025 some people, a very few people, start to appreciate the sellout & think that it happened with Albanese
Look back people
#auspol
in 2025 some people, a very few people, start to appreciate the sellout & think that it happened with Albanese
Look back people
#auspol
December 3, 2025 at 9:14 AM
In 1983 Hawke Keating Labor sold out the Australian people & joined the fascist Liberals in an oligarchic Neoliberal fascist anti-democratic duopoly
in 2025 some people, a very few people, start to appreciate the sellout & think that it happened with Albanese
Look back people
#auspol
in 2025 some people, a very few people, start to appreciate the sellout & think that it happened with Albanese
Look back people
#auspol
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“More resources are spent building mines than building new apartments. Despite the enormous harm to the climate that #FossilFuel causes, gov’s still like to tell us that we need to approve new polluting projects to ‘create jobs’. We really don’t.“
#FossilFuel induced #ClimateChange #Auspol
#FossilFuel induced #ClimateChange #Auspol
Climate change will ‘create’ lots of jobs, eg 2000 extra jobs to process the claims from Brisbane floods
Time for new thinking re what kind of jobs we want, not just how many…building new gas & coal doesn’t just cause disasters it diverts workers from useful tasks thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Time for new thinking re what kind of jobs we want, not just how many…building new gas & coal doesn’t just cause disasters it diverts workers from useful tasks thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Rebuilding after climate chaos 'creates jobs', but isn’t economic progress
Climate change will create jobs, but rebuilding what’s been destroyed is not progress.
thepoint.com.au
December 3, 2025 at 7:46 AM
“More resources are spent building mines than building new apartments. Despite the enormous harm to the climate that #FossilFuel causes, gov’s still like to tell us that we need to approve new polluting projects to ‘create jobs’. We really don’t.“
#FossilFuel induced #ClimateChange #Auspol
#FossilFuel induced #ClimateChange #Auspol
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David Shoebridge doesn’t hold back after Chief of Defence David Johnstone repeatedly refuses to state his salary
“You get paid $896,373 a yr, & the Chief of Def in the US gets paid $343,000 a yr. You get paid 3 times as much! Is that why you didn’t want to tell me?”🔥 #Estimates
“You get paid $896,373 a yr, & the Chief of Def in the US gets paid $343,000 a yr. You get paid 3 times as much! Is that why you didn’t want to tell me?”🔥 #Estimates
December 3, 2025 at 6:42 AM
David Shoebridge doesn’t hold back after Chief of Defence David Johnstone repeatedly refuses to state his salary
“You get paid $896,373 a yr, & the Chief of Def in the US gets paid $343,000 a yr. You get paid 3 times as much! Is that why you didn’t want to tell me?”🔥 #Estimates
“You get paid $896,373 a yr, & the Chief of Def in the US gets paid $343,000 a yr. You get paid 3 times as much! Is that why you didn’t want to tell me?”🔥 #Estimates
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#Auspol These pigs inspire women haters in Australia who seek to remove women's rights
RFK Jr: "Two weeks ago we ended, under your leadership, a twenty year war on women".
Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.
Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.
December 2, 2025 at 7:39 PM
#Auspol These pigs inspire women haters in Australia who seek to remove women's rights
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I've worked hard with all non-govt senators to secure release of the Briggs review.
Now it's clear why the Albanese Govt was hiding it for two years.
They are refusing to implement recommendations designed to ensure we have merit-based appointments 🤯
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Now it's clear why the Albanese Govt was hiding it for two years.
They are refusing to implement recommendations designed to ensure we have merit-based appointments 🤯
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Scathing ‘jobs for mates’ review finds appointments to government boards routinely abused
A report by Lynelle Briggs says placements ‘look like nepotism’ and are undermining confidence in government
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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The Australian government's "inaction in the face of the ICJ ruling is the ultimate politicisation, sending a clear message that the protection of humanitarian personnel depends on the identity of the perpetrator." #GazaGenocide #WestBank #hypocrisy #auspol
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/12...
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/12...
Australia’s selective justice on international law is indefensible
Australia has pledged to uphold humanitarian law and protect aid workers. But in the face of an ICJ ruling on Gaza, its own anti-terror and accountability laws remain selectively unenforced.
johnmenadue.com
December 1, 2025 at 8:31 PM
The Australian government's "inaction in the face of the ICJ ruling is the ultimate politicisation, sending a clear message that the protection of humanitarian personnel depends on the identity of the perpetrator." #GazaGenocide #WestBank #hypocrisy #auspol
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/12...
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/12...
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All connected. Trump now giving orders to the Australian government as he is with Venezuela. Australian now viewed as occupied by Trump. And Israel regimes.
Is Australia now controlled by Trump US Regime?
@tonyburkemp.bsky.social
#auspol.
Is Australia now controlled by Trump US Regime?
@tonyburkemp.bsky.social
#auspol.
December 1, 2025 at 8:53 PM
All connected. Trump now giving orders to the Australian government as he is with Venezuela. Australian now viewed as occupied by Trump. And Israel regimes.
Is Australia now controlled by Trump US Regime?
@tonyburkemp.bsky.social
#auspol.
Is Australia now controlled by Trump US Regime?
@tonyburkemp.bsky.social
#auspol.