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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 11h

To the NACC: can you tell us why there haven't been any public hearings into the Robodebt matter?

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NACC says: No comment.

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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 11h

It has cost $1.138 million and counting for the independent lawyer the NACC has had to hire to fix the mess their Commissioner made of the Robodebt inquiry

Compromised decision making costs public money and trust.

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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 14h

🔥Barbara Pocock slices up Richard Windeyer from Dept of Finance for allowing PwC back into govt contracts
RW “We were making a judgement about when we think the organisation is sufficiently changed & different”🤔
BP “How can u make that judgment over the top of the police?”💥 #Estimates

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Ewart, Dave @davidewart.bsky.social · 11h

Morrison & tudge declined to be interviewed for the robo debt TV series on the ABC it just shows how cowardly the liberals really are #auspol

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Jon Beves @jonbeves.bsky.social · 11h

Fantastic to see one of my chemical heroes, Richard Robson, winning the Nobel Prize for coordination frameworks (MOFs), together with Kitagawa and Yaghi. #ozchem

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 14h

ME/CFS is a devastating condition that has long been denied, dismissed, psychologised and underdiagnosed. Research is at last starting to catch up with it, with glimmers of hope for those who have been left untreated for so long.
There's a huge BUT coming ...🧵
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Scientists develop first ‘accurate blood test’ to detect chronic fatigue syndrome

Research could offer hope for ME patients – but some experts urge caution and say more studies needed

www.theguardian.com

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Charles Tuise @ctuise.bsky.social · 14h

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 · 17h

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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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 16h

The Trump regime is shooting priests with pepper balls.

Hey @albomp.bsky.social - "shared values"?

So we give up what remains of our national sovereignty, and $370 billion for subs that won't arrive?

Time to rethink foreign policy, before we are dragged down with these dangerous clowns. #auspol

John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 18h

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 20h

Here’s video of the incident

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Lilly @lillyull.bsky.social · 15h

$600 million of taxpayer funds for mining company. Why?

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Mining giant gets $600m worth of taxpayer funds to keep refinery open

The last Australian copper smelter processing third-party product will stay open after its owner accepted a support package.

www.abc.net.au

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Jenny Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithWatermelon🍉🍉 @joneshowdareyou.bsky.social · 20h

So many wicked lies, @albomp.bsky.social. We know of the decades of atrocities inflicted on Palestinians by Israel. We know Israel has no humanity. We know the IOF murdered 100s of civilians on 7 Oct. We know Israel holds at least 10,000 Palestinians hostage in torturous detention.

We know. #auspol

Anthony Albanese @albomp.bsky.social · 2d

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Jenny Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithWatermelon🍉🍉 @joneshowdareyou.bsky.social · 23h

Australian migrant from the UK says what now?

Tony Abbott: always such a charmer. #auspol #ukpoli #racism

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 19h

The least we can do is to ensure that Jane Goodall's dying wish is fulfilled.

Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 19h

Take a moment to listen to the inimitable Jane Goodall. RIP. ❤️✊🏽

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Charles Tuise @ctuise.bsky.social · 17h

"a lot like a protection racket for the gambling industry" is a very polite way of describing current state of gov't action.
#Auspol

Australia’s gambling harm is likely underreported – and authorities are still failing to act
theconversation.com/australias-g...

Australia’s gambling harm is likely underreported – and authorities are still failing to act

New research shows Australian gambling harms, including suicide, may have been systematically under reported.

theconversation.com

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Charles Tuise @ctuise.bsky.social · 19h

Abbott is the very definition of 'Deplorable'.
He brings shame to the concept of being an Australian
#Auspol

David Marler @qldaah.bsky.social · 19h

"Whether it's holding people in a mothership on the English Channel and then putting them in unsinkable life rafts with just enough fuel to get back to France in the middle of the night, as we did in Java," Tony Abbott declared. #auspol www.9news.com.au/world/tony-a...

'Peaceful invasion': Tony Abbott tells UK to send migrants away on 'unsinkable life rafts'

www.9news.com.au

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David Marler @qldaah.bsky.social · 21h

We've seen these sorts of claims come & go for almost 30yrs. ONP will get numbers then it all falls apart. As former Qld Nats Premier Rob Borbidge warned, "any association with One Nation is absolutely toxic, particularly in south-east Queensland." #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

‘The ground is shifting’: what’s driving One Nation’s surge and could it replace the ‘floundering Liberals’?

As its support doubles, One Nation is targeting conservative voters disillusioned with the Liberals and Nationals on immigration and net zero

www.theguardian.com

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Charles Tuise @ctuise.bsky.social · 20h

Are you sure this isn't a photo from the set of a 'Stripes' remake and these are the John Candy stand-ins?

Ox rules!

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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 20h

David Pocock asks Don Farrell some serious questions about why the govt has not implemented an important recommendation from the #RobodebtRC.
Farrell caught playing on his phone, not even paying attention.🙄 Pocock hasn’t the patience to try again & moves on. #Estimates

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Charles Tuise @ctuise.bsky.social · 20h

Chicken Man is a known villain.
Some might say as notorious as Dick Dastardly, an evil genius on the level of the Doc Doom or Lex Luthor.
Underestimate at your peril

A cosplay villain for the cosplay human otherwise know as Kristi Noem

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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 20h

The Black Summer bushfires cost Australians over $50 billion.

As we enter another high-risk bushfire season, we shouldn't wait for the next disaster to act.

The Government could put a climate disaster levy on gas & coal exports to help pay for the damage.

Add your name: theaus.in/fossilfuelco...

Make fossil fuel exporters pay for the damage they are causing, not ordinary Australians

Climate change is making natural disasters like fires, floods, heatwaves and drought worse, costing Australians billions every year. Make fossil fuel producers pay a climate disaster levy to help pay...

theaus.in

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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 1d

Chantelle Al-Khouri reports on shocking violence/abuse by Israel on illegally detained Australians
“Head slammed into the ground”
“Held in a large cage with 80 other ppl” while Far Right MP Ben-Gvir “yelled at them”
“Forced to dance like a monkey naked”😳
Makes my blood boil🤬 #Abc

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 2d

They are proud of committing genocide.

Aaliyah 🇮🇪🇵🇸 ‼️SAVE GAZA‼️ @aaliyahxx.bsky.social · 2d

Watch | Israeli occupation forces have released new drone footage from Gaza, revealing the mass destruction and the erasure of every means of life in the Strip.

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Jenny Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithWatermelon🍉🍉 @joneshowdareyou.bsky.social · 2d

Israel is a racist, genocidal, apartheid, illegally occupying Western settler-colonial outpost & Israel & the West & Europe who have all been complicit in this genocide have not one right to have any fucking say about the future Palestinians choose for themselves, @albomp.bsky.social. Fuck off.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4d

When you drag a woman by the hair, beat her and force her to kiss your flag, that’s how you tell the world you are the Good Guys

Jordan Uhl @jordanuhl.com · 4d

Absolutely heinous.

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Charles Tuise @ctuise.bsky.social · 4d

Hahahahahaha

Charles Tuise @ctuise.bsky.social · 5d

The level of cowardice these weaklings display, the frequency, never ceases to simultaneous amaze and disgust me