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sallylawry @sallylawry.bsky.social · 5h

In case you missed this on Oz msm ❤️💛🖤

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penelopepiztov @penelopepiztov.bsky.social · 5h

youtu.be/31X8vrfgHqs?...

The Real Reason Trump Wants To Invade Chicago and Portland

YouTube video by Robert Reich

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JeremyAndrews @drewsjan.bsky.social · 1h

I really don’t understand - the deadline for 2025 Nobel Prize Nominations was January 31. What was he doing in 2024?

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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 5h

Jim Chalmers calls out the “hopefully divided” Liberal Party following leaks from their party room including “Fmr shadow ministers writing letters about leaking, & then leaking them”🔥, condemns the LNP’s “unedifying spats…between the far right & the further right”💥 #QT

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marque lawyers @marquelawyers.com.au · 9h

Epic gaslighting by Labor - the Coalition is irrelevant, so choosing to negotiate with it is just political cover for failing to do the right thing

Watt nears deal with Coalition to finally overhaul environment laws

Environment Minister Murray Watt will sit down with his Liberal counterpart Angie Bell today, with quiet optimism in both parties that a deal might soon be struck to finally rewrite Australia's "broke...

www.abc.net.au

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JeremyAndrews @drewsjan.bsky.social · 8h

In the version I read I liked ‘rebuild Gaza for the betterment of Gazans’ - in charge the person who allowed removal of medical research, vaccines & numerous other things people generally believe are “betterment”, which tends to mean (my) betterment. He wanted to make it a resort.

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Rhys Parton @rhysparton.bsky.social · 8h

Israel is never going to stop unless they are made to stop.

Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 9h

BREAKING: Israeli war planes continue to launch raids on Gaza City as Palestinians celebrate the ceasefire announcement, according to an Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent on the ground.

🔴 LIVE update: aje.io/xqppys

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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 9h

More information on this to come today in Senate Estimates, where I am questioning the Department of Defence.

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Jessica D. M. 🇺🇦 🇦🇺 🇨🇦 🇵🇦 🇬🇱 🪃 🟧 @jessicaperthwa.bsky.social · 8h

Politics live: Senate told Australia has 54 defence export permits for Israel; Labor introduces bill for parental leave after stillbirth share.google/P4vn7WhfWUTl.... #News #Auspol

Politics live: Senate told Australia has 54 defence export permits for Israel; Labor introduces bill for parental leave after stillbirth

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 8h

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 9h

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Michael Taylor @ausindimedia.bsky.social · 11h

The explosion of independent media sites isn’t merely an echo of dissenting voices – it’s a response to the MSM’s failure to provide objective, impartial reporting.

theaimn.net/the-people-v...

The People versus Murdoch: the rise of independent media

Over a decade ago, I wrote about a subject that remains as relevant today as ever. For nearly twenty years, I’ve been hammering away at the keyboard – a space where I could speak freely, [...]

theaimn.net

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JeremyAndrews @drewsjan.bsky.social · 11h

How weird that apparently no scientist called out the report for things that non-scientist A.Bolt found fault with.

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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 13h

News Corp's chair yesterday gave me a bit of a puzzled look when I mentioned in a question that News corp routinely uses AI generated images in its papers. Today:

Andrew Bolt's column with an AI generated image of Chris Bowen

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 11h

Trump slams Chicago mayor and Illinois governor resisting his mass deportation campaign as US troops arrive in state.

Trump calls to jail Chicago mayor, Illinois governor in immigration dispute

Trump slams Chicago mayor and Illinois governor resisting his mass deportation campaign as US troops arrive in state.

bit.ly

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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · Aug 15

ever since i was a little kid
when i would walk through libraries
imagining that the air around me was imbued
with the wisdom of all the books and their authors
i always dreamed that
one day
i would grow up
and write something
that people bung into ChatGPT to get a 1 paragraph summary

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David Pocock @davidpocock.bsky.social · 11h

How do senior public servants get terminated from a role and still get a $900k payout on the way out?!

There needs to also be more transparency about the reason for the former Secretary's departure.

www.canberratimes.com.au/story/908376...

Revealed: secretary was terminated and received hefty payout after sudden exit

Department under fire for being 'cagey' about public servant's shock departure.

www.canberratimes.com.au

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JeremyAndrews @drewsjan.bsky.social · 23h

Of course they were. Some people expect the government to operate Twitter style.

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JeremyAndrews @drewsjan.bsky.social · 1d

They’re probably still in a state of stress & I wish the ABC hadn’t also broadcast their opinion that it was deliberately too slow because of the October 7 anniversary.

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Virgil @n3w4v3.bsky.social · 1d

The 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

www.theguardian.com

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The Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com · 1d

Paul Brereton’s ongoing conflict of interest woes threaten public trust in the National Anti-Corruption Commission. He urgently needs to change tack.

Australia’s anti-corruption commissioner has a trust problem. He needs to change course to fix it

theconversation.com

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Another fn Capewell (née - fcapas@magpieranting) @anothercapewell.bsky.social · 1d

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
Imo increasing numbers would be awesome and long overdue

Alp ll do it cos they think it’s a way to win back first preferences… lnp don’t want cos they can’t even field enough decent candidates for the parliament we currently have

Alp have the funds to run candidates

More politicians, longer terms: How parliament could soon change

Australia's parliament is likely to get larger as the government canvasses possibilities for expanding the number of MPs and introducing fixed or four-year terms.

www.abc.net.au

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JeremyAndrews @drewsjan.bsky.social · 1d

I reposted now because there’s another video doing the rounds today of a similar looking pastor being fired on at close range.

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JeremyAndrews @drewsjan.bsky.social · 1d

Did Jacinta Nampijinpa Price need to tell everyone that she’d written to Sussan Ley? It didn’t even need to be “leaked” 😄

JeremyAndrews @drewsjan.bsky.social · 1d

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

Here’s video of the incident

JeremyAndrews @drewsjan.bsky.social · 1d

The Optus issue has become like the caravan explosives campaign from the Liberals. What happened is less important than “when did the government know?” ABC headline said Parliament QT was about “who is to blame”.