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Data Dot @petermclarty.bsky.social · 2h

Wow you wonder what else they were up to. I mean the idea that they had framed to extract all the subbranch funds to a central repository that they no doubt controlled, seems like a check's notes, massive scam waiting to eventuate

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David Lamond @davidlamond.bsky.social · 2h

Good!
#theirABC useful for something at least.
Further evidence of Shakespeare’s prescience regarding lawyers … #auspol

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

RSL NSW bosses resign following ABC investigation

The president of RSL NSW Mick Bainbridge has resigned from the board along with three other directors in a shock move just minutes before a scheduled vote on his removal.

www.abc.net.au

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David Lamond @davidlamond.bsky.social · 10h

#NOalition #NOidea
#HandyAndy #auspol

The Saturday Paper @thesaturdaypaper.com.au · 16h

“I fear, given Hastie’s religious and military backgrounds, that he seems to be flirting dangerously with the hard-right strongman image that the Americans have embraced. And no good can come of it,” writes John Hewson. satpa.pe/l9LgRZ5

Andrew Hastie’s play for the leadership

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David Lamond @davidlamond.bsky.social · 10h

All Australians have a responsibility to pay their fair share - that includes companies #auspol @grogsgamut.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

If we want a better, more equal society, we need more tax. But more tax only works if big business pays their fair share | Grogonomics

Trust in both the tax and political system will falter if people feel they are being punished for not paying tax while large companies legally get away with paying nothing

www.theguardian.com

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David Lamond @davidlamond.bsky.social · 10h

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David Lamond @davidlamond.bsky.social · 10h

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David Lamond @davidlamond.bsky.social · 23h

Typical #NeinNews bollocks - "Occupied Palestinian Territories” is an entirely accurate reporting of the news #auspol

The Age (unofficial) @theage.nzcow.com · 1d

📢 SBS staff remain unable to use the word Palestine in news reporting despite federal recognition of the state last month as tensions over reporting on the conflict in Gaza remain high.

SBS staff sworn off naming Palestine despite federal recognition

www.theage.com.au

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David Lamond @davidlamond.bsky.social · 23h

More messes #NOalition govts have got us in ...
@tasmaniangirl.bsky.social #auspol

Tasmaniangirl @tasmaniangirl.bsky.social · 1d

AFL stadium cost blow outs in Hobart some of the worst in the country says Saul Eslake… but will the Tas Govt care @slowguns.bsky.social

Ship lift project dubbed 'one of the biggest blowouts' in Australia

It’s taken 10 years, blown out by hundreds of millions of dollars, and is still nowhere near becoming operational. Now there are calls for the Darwin ship lift project to be scrapped.

www.abc.net.au

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David Lamond @davidlamond.bsky.social · 1d

How #RogueStatesOfAmerica media are normalising fascist, war-mongering idiocy #auspol
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/o...

Opinion | That Hegseth Speech Was Actually Pretty Good

www.nytimes.com

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Rosie de Kat 🌱🍉🍉 @rosiedekat.bsky.social · 2d

Hastie has been making public claims about the impact of migration levels driving up housing prices, & calls for Australia to reinvest in manufacturing.

The irony is it was the LNP who drove manufacturing out of the country and failed to invest in public housing and introduced -ve gearing #auspol

Australia politics live: Bragg agrees Coalition ‘running out of people to offend’; 7 October anniversary ‘not a day for demonstrations’, Marles says

Follow live

www.theguardian.com

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David Lamond @davidlamond.bsky.social · 2d

#theirABC #auspol
@felft.bsky.social

Felft @felft.bsky.social · 2d

I don't condone Hamas. Release the hostages. But to pretend that's all the story is, ignoring 67,000 minimum people killed by Isreal, missing that this situation is more than 50 years old, or that Netanyahu is an extremist right wing fascist is to not tell the whole story. Shame on you #abc #auspol

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Peter Relph ᴀᴜ @peterrelph.bsky.social · 2d

I think we should cut down on harrassing bank robbers too, & those nice white collar criminal bankers & politicians while we're there, they are a definite minority

Seriously ABC?

#auspol

ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 2d

A radicalisation expert warns a crackdown on gun-owning "sovereign citizens" in West Australia risks further entrenching extremist views in an already disenfranchised group.

Fears gun raids on sovereign citizens could raise threat level

A radicalisation expert warns a crackdown on gun-owning "sovereign citizens" in West Australia risks further entrenching extremist views in an already disenfranchised group.

www.abc.net.au

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David Lamond @davidlamond.bsky.social · 2d

#GazaGenocide is real
#auspol
@drrebeccao.bsky.social

drrebeccao.bsky.social @drrebeccao.bsky.social · 2d

“No one has the privilege to say that we are not aware of what is happening. “
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel
#auspol
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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 2d

Powerful words from Greta Thunberg, on her arrival in Greece, condemning the world's inaction to prevent or to take action to stop Israel's genocide in Gaza. Video: Independent #Israel #Gaza #GretaThunberg #GazaGenocide

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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 2d

Just as Kirk’s Christian Nationalism was hotly contested by many Christians, so too should Hastie’s reading of the "Christian West" be contested for explicitly Christian reasons. #auspol #AndrewHastie #CharlieKirk

Charlie Kirk, Andrew Hastie and the 'Christian' West: Some Christian pushback

The horrific assassination of Charlie Kirk is being invested with all sorts of meaning, well beyond the personal tragedy it is for his family.

johnmenadue.com

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David Lamond @davidlamond.bsky.social · 2d

#NOalition #NOidea #auspol
@deanfromaustralia.bsky.social

Dean from Australia @deanfromaustralia.bsky.social · 2d

If these people can't govern themselves, how on earth can anyone expect them to govern a nation?

#auspol

www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

The meeting where Dutton and Hastie’s relationship fell apart

In an exclusive extract, Niki Savva reveals details of the shadow cabinet meeting that irreparably damaged Peter Dutton and Andrew Hastie’s relationship, and how Dutton panned his frontbenchers’ polic...

www.smh.com.au

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JRBsays @jrbsays.bsky.social · 2d

I wonder how Menzies would feel knowing that Labor represent his vision more than the Liberal Party.

#AusPol

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Rod Moffatt @politikarma.bsky.social · 2d

Having been engaged by a government agency in the past, that, in my opinion, was ‘milked’ by them, found it futile to speak out because senior staff lacked wherewithal & commercial expertise to understand that ‘solutions’ being recommended & provided, at great cost, were largely unnecessary
#auspol