gardenmuser
@gardenmuser1.bsky.social
Concerned citizen and planet lover. Formerly health and education. Now painting, planting and pondering: how to bequeath a fairer, kinder world to my grandkids. Transferring from Twitter.
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Denouement: trapped between empires - Part 6
“What you in Australia must understand is that you are more to blame than the CIA. You want this to happen, you want a certain administration in control, and you don’t want another administration in c...
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Since demise of Whitlam, orchestrated remotely from UK & US, our govts have been cowed into subordination to US. We need to become a Republic; to review constitution re role and composition of Senate; to extricate ourselves from foreign policy control by US. #auspol
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"When Wells is supposed to be explaining and defending the social media ban...she has drowned out much of her own message." Coming across as arrogant and entitled doesn't win hearts and minds to your cause. #auspol
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View from The Hill: in awkward timing, government ends energy rebate as it defends Wells’ spendathon
Wells is the latest in a long line of politicians to find themselves falling foul not of the official entitlement rules, but the crucial pub test.
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December 8, 2025 at 8:25 PM
"When Wells is supposed to be explaining and defending the social media ban...she has drowned out much of her own message." Coming across as arrogant and entitled doesn't win hearts and minds to your cause. #auspol
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#AUKUS is a nonsense as is Marles' posturing during Albo's honeymoon. Australia would be a damn sight better off without either. #auspol
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Marles’ Defence overhaul raises an awkward question: why AUKUS at all?
Australia’s new Defence Delivery Agency may finally expose an uncomfortable truth – that Australia already has formidable deterrent capabilities through the Royal Australian Air Force and emerging dro...
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December 7, 2025 at 9:49 PM
#AUKUS is a nonsense as is Marles' posturing during Albo's honeymoon. Australia would be a damn sight better off without either. #auspol
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The good news is that we’re talking about this, posting about this, protesting about this, VOTING about this.
So in the near future this will be rescinded by a sane administration…with a corresponding public celebration.
So in the near future this will be rescinded by a sane administration…with a corresponding public celebration.
December 6, 2025 at 1:43 PM
The good news is that we’re talking about this, posting about this, protesting about this, VOTING about this.
So in the near future this will be rescinded by a sane administration…with a corresponding public celebration.
So in the near future this will be rescinded by a sane administration…with a corresponding public celebration.
"Australians must demand an independent public enquiry to articulate our views on the priorities to better secure this country's security and prosperity." Great article. #auspol
How to restore Australia’s national security www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topi... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au
How to restore Australia’s national security www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topi... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au
How to restore Australia’s national security
A new word has recently been added to Australia’s Macquarie Dictionary, which means it can be used officially in our lexicon – even by the ABC. “Enshittification” is self-explanatory. Coined to descri...
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December 5, 2025 at 8:03 PM
"Australians must demand an independent public enquiry to articulate our views on the priorities to better secure this country's security and prosperity." Great article. #auspol
How to restore Australia’s national security www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topi... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au
How to restore Australia’s national security www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topi... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au
"(No) Australian government has had a coherent defence policy since 2010....The venality of our political leaders, from Gillard to Morrison, dumped Australia into security obeisance to the United States." We have to extricate ourselves from this noose. #AUKUS. #auspol
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A Boyer Lecture that misunderstands Australia’s defence history
The latest Boyer Lecture portrays Australia as trapped by anxiety about the United States. In fact, for decades the country pursued a deliberate, bipartisan strategy of defence self-reliance – abandon...
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December 4, 2025 at 8:03 PM
"(No) Australian government has had a coherent defence policy since 2010....The venality of our political leaders, from Gillard to Morrison, dumped Australia into security obeisance to the United States." We have to extricate ourselves from this noose. #AUKUS. #auspol
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Mainstream media, for the sake of a buck, and our ABC, for fear of criticism, are all failing us. All guilty of giving credibility and relevance to fringe extremist viewpoints, doing our country a great disservice in the process. Support independent media! #auspol
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How media coverage helps normalise the far right
Media coverage does more than report on the far right. Through language choices, sensationalism and false balance, journalism can help shift racist politics into the mainstream.
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December 4, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Mainstream media, for the sake of a buck, and our ABC, for fear of criticism, are all failing us. All guilty of giving credibility and relevance to fringe extremist viewpoints, doing our country a great disservice in the process. Support independent media! #auspol
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"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."
— Plato
— Plato
December 3, 2025 at 1:15 PM
"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."
— Plato
— Plato
From Williamtown to Nevatim, Israel, last week: "The baggage handlers, the airport staff, the flight crew, and the passengers aboard the flight were completely oblivious to the secret military cargo also loaded on board the passenger plane." No to #AUKUS! #auspol
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Selling out our sovereignty
Revelations of secret F-35 fighter jet parts shipments to Israel have exposed a yawning hole in Australia’s sovereign national defence.
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December 3, 2025 at 7:57 PM
From Williamtown to Nevatim, Israel, last week: "The baggage handlers, the airport staff, the flight crew, and the passengers aboard the flight were completely oblivious to the secret military cargo also loaded on board the passenger plane." No to #AUKUS! #auspol
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Yet another failure of this government to live up to its rhetoric. Hard to see how we have any improvement on Morrison. #auspol
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‘Jobs for mates’ review is damning – and the government’s response is a failure of the highest order | Anthony Whealy
Despite its high-flown rhetoric, the Albanese government has been tortoise-like in reforming the appointments process. It’s now clear why
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December 3, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Yet another failure of this government to live up to its rhetoric. Hard to see how we have any improvement on Morrison. #auspol
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The Govt bought the land for between $4M and $10M and then sold it back to the seller for $1.27M. It refuses to tell the public (via #FOI) or the Senate (via questions on notice) the purchase price. Maladministration, or something more sinister? #auspol
Follow the money. A radioactive farce of failed land purchases - Michael West
The Federal Government is refusing to release any details of the land purchase for radioactive waste management.
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December 1, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Mainstream media - agents from Block 4 of the Propaganda Unit, decided to censor one of Australia's most respected journalists
Crikey - one of Australia's independent media organisations, decided to be transparent - because we all need transparency to be informed
www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/01/k...
Crikey - one of Australia's independent media organisations, decided to be transparent - because we all need transparency to be informed
www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/01/k...
December 1, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Mainstream media - agents from Block 4 of the Propaganda Unit, decided to censor one of Australia's most respected journalists
Crikey - one of Australia's independent media organisations, decided to be transparent - because we all need transparency to be informed
www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/01/k...
Crikey - one of Australia's independent media organisations, decided to be transparent - because we all need transparency to be informed
www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/01/k...
Thank God for @zoedaniel.bsky.social. But neither party will touch this issue if it affects their party's coffers. And they wonder why we lose respect for them. #auspol
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When it comes to alcohol, gambling and domestic violence in Australia, it’s essential we connect the dots | Zoe Daniel
What is happening behind closed doors in your street while the game is on, the grog is flowing and the bets are failing?
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December 1, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Thank God for @zoedaniel.bsky.social. But neither party will touch this issue if it affects their party's coffers. And they wonder why we lose respect for them. #auspol
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“everything is on the table” says Richard Marles.
Everything except what really matters;
the outrageous spending on the dangerous and deluded #AUKUS deal. #auspol
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Everything except what really matters;
the outrageous spending on the dangerous and deluded #AUKUS deal. #auspol
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Australia news live: Labor to announce major defence shake-up in bid to stop cost blowouts; ‘unusually prolonged flu season’ in NSW
Follow live
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:54 AM
“everything is on the table” says Richard Marles.
Everything except what really matters;
the outrageous spending on the dangerous and deluded #AUKUS deal. #auspol
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Everything except what really matters;
the outrageous spending on the dangerous and deluded #AUKUS deal. #auspol
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
How we miss Kerry O'Brien on our ABC! #auspol
ABC legend Kerry O’Brien’s speech was cut down by newspapers. Here it is in full www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/01/k...
ABC legend Kerry O’Brien’s speech was cut down by newspapers. Here it is in full www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/01/k...
ABC legend Kerry O'Brien's speech was cut down by newspapers. Here it is in full
This is the full unedited speech that Kerry O'Brien delivered at last Thursday's Walkley Awards.
www.crikey.com.au
December 1, 2025 at 2:51 AM
How we miss Kerry O'Brien on our ABC! #auspol
ABC legend Kerry O’Brien’s speech was cut down by newspapers. Here it is in full www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/01/k...
ABC legend Kerry O’Brien’s speech was cut down by newspapers. Here it is in full www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/01/k...
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The great failure of the property industry
The great failure of the property industry
In every era, certain industries become so large, so politically embedded, and so culturally unexamined that their performance ceases to matter.
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November 30, 2025 at 11:16 PM
The great failure of the property industry
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Good summation of what happened by @richarddenniss.bsky.social #ThePoint
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'The good has become the enemy of better’: why the Senate refused to accept Labor’s first EPBC draft
'Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good’ has become the catch-cry of proud 'centrists' in Australia. But it’s time we admitted that the good has become the enemy of better.
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November 30, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Good summation of what happened by @richarddenniss.bsky.social #ThePoint
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#RisingTide Sunday action in blocking 3 coal ships from $Newcastle Port leads the BBC World News bulletin, is on the French language #France24 news in France.
But does it make the ABC News bulletins? 🤔
#Auspol
But does it make the ABC News bulletins? 🤔
#Auspol
November 30, 2025 at 1:31 PM
#RisingTide Sunday action in blocking 3 coal ships from $Newcastle Port leads the BBC World News bulletin, is on the French language #France24 news in France.
But does it make the ABC News bulletins? 🤔
#Auspol
But does it make the ABC News bulletins? 🤔
#Auspol
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So glad to be with a bunch of protesters in Newcastle who did more for the climate in one weekend than the Australian Labor Party has done in 3 years
November 30, 2025 at 8:13 AM
So glad to be with a bunch of protesters in Newcastle who did more for the climate in one weekend than the Australian Labor Party has done in 3 years
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F*cking pathetic ABC - ‘both sidesing” this by calling a White Supremacist ‘hate rally’ a ‘protest’ and then the actual protest against this unacceptable behaviour a rally. Their reporting is getting more and more indistinguishable from Newscorp every day.
#auspol #ThisIsNotJournalism
#auspol #ThisIsNotJournalism
November 30, 2025 at 11:24 AM
F*cking pathetic ABC - ‘both sidesing” this by calling a White Supremacist ‘hate rally’ a ‘protest’ and then the actual protest against this unacceptable behaviour a rally. Their reporting is getting more and more indistinguishable from Newscorp every day.
#auspol #ThisIsNotJournalism
#auspol #ThisIsNotJournalism
"Public land is privatised, heritage is compromised, neighbourhood character is sacrificed, streets are deserted and unsafe. Cities cease to be places of meaning and become engines of yield. Residents become metrics. Community becomes an afterthought." #auspol
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/12...
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/12...
The great failure of the property industry
In every era, certain industries become so large, so politically embedded, and so culturally unexamined that their performance ceases to matter.
johnmenadue.com
November 30, 2025 at 7:59 PM
"Public land is privatised, heritage is compromised, neighbourhood character is sacrificed, streets are deserted and unsafe. Cities cease to be places of meaning and become engines of yield. Residents become metrics. Community becomes an afterthought." #auspol
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