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Glenn Connley @glennconnley.bsky.social · 1d

Apart from that, it's all going swimmingly for the federal Liberals ...

Glenn Connley @glennconnley.bsky.social · 1d

In the past hour:

Michaelia Cash: “Labor’s soft on borders”.

Ted O’Brien: “Labor spends, we’ll cut”.

Has someone turned the clock back a year or ten?

Do these clowns realise they were slaughtered using these same tired, false lines only 5 months ago?

They are irrelevant.

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Glenn Connley @glennconnley.bsky.social · 1d

AUKUS signed and waved through in 24 hours.

The coalition's defence-spending-to-2.5%-of-GDP policy announced less than a day after the shadow minister heard about it.

Yet it takes years to get not-even-half-decent environmental laws passed in Australia.

Our nation's priorities are screwed.

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Glenn Connley @glennconnley.bsky.social · 6d

Do you earn the minimum wage?

Perhaps you pick up a casual shift to pay your energy bills.

Either way, you pay more tax than Santos.

Crikey, I contributed more in five minutes than Santos contributes in a decade when I paid gst on my coffee this morning.

Our tax system is cooked.

Rod Campbell @rodcampbell.bsky.social · 6d

Big congrats to Santos Ltd!!

10 years. $46.7 billion in sales.

ZERO TAX

New ATO data out today.
@markogge.bsky.social @australiainstitute.org.au
data.gov.au/data/dataset...

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Glenn Connley @glennconnley.bsky.social · 7d

The ANU's audited accounts show it made a $90m surplus last year. It says you can't count nearly $250m of its income, so it actually made a huge loss. While it spends lavishly on its executives, it sacks teachers and cuts courses.

This is so dodgy.

australiainstitute.org.au/post/the-anu...

The ANU’s hidden $90m budget surplus

New analysis by The Australia Institute reveals there is no financial crisis at the Australian National University.

australiainstitute.org.au

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invictus0729.bsky.social @invictus0729.bsky.social · 15d

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Glenn Connley @glennconnley.bsky.social · 15d

If paracetamol causes autism, I wonder what causes you to become an orange far quit? Bleach martinis?

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Glenn Connley @glennconnley.bsky.social · 16d

Albanese carefully avoids being locked in a room with the orange mad man - again. He does a lot wrong, but the PM has played this beautifully so far.

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Glenn Connley @glennconnley.bsky.social · 19d

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Glenn Connley @glennconnley.bsky.social · 20d

Maintaining that proud, century-old Queensland Nats tradition of burying their heads in the sand.

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Glenn Connley @glennconnley.bsky.social · 20d

Imagine a world where a tiny portion of our taxes went towards music, art, festivals, fun, culture and joy ... and a tiny bit less of our taxes went to rich multi-nationals pillaging our natural resources and pumping pollution into our skies ....

australiainstitute.org.au/post/investi...

Investing in joy. How to save our declining arts sector - submission

Australian artists, writers, musicians and other creative industries helped the nation survive the COVID pandemic, yet they've been left to decline, according to a submission by The Australia Institut...

australiainstitute.org.au

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Glenn Connley @glennconnley.bsky.social · 20d

The orange idiot's apparent whims and fancies are not random

theconversation.com/jimmy-kimmel...

Jimmy Kimmel’s cancellation is the latest sign we’re witnessing the end of US democracy

Under the Trump administration, the widespread, coordinated suppression of dissent is are ripping apart the fabric of American political life.

theconversation.com

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Dr Sophie Scamps MP @sophiescamps.bsky.social · 20d

This range of 62-70 percent is a way to appease the fossil fuel vested interests - it’s now up to the crossbench to ensure ambition lands at the top end of that band, where the science says it needs to be to keep the places we live safe 👇 www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

www.abc.net.au

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Glenn Connley @glennconnley.bsky.social · 21d

After his little hissy fit with John Lyons this morning, the tangerine trumpet claimed Australians "want to get along with me".

australiainstitute.org.au/post/poll-tr...

Poll: Trump a greater threat to world peace than Putin or Xi

More Australians consider US President Donald Trump a greater threat to world peace than Vladimir Putin or Xi Jinping.

australiainstitute.org.au

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Glenn Connley @glennconnley.bsky.social · 22d

The AFL may be able to bully weak politicians, but it can't fool the experts or the people.
Tasmania should have had a team years ago.
It should still get one.
It already has two AFL venues.

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Glenn Connley @glennconnley.bsky.social · 22d

Funny how anyone left of Genghis Khan is a pinko lefty snowflake when they write about things like trans rights, but dare to provide some much-needed respectful context on the passing of Charlie Kirk is sacrilege. So much cowardly faux outrage from scared little men hiding behind fake profiles.

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Glenn Connley @glennconnley.bsky.social · 23d

Don’t let the door hit you on the way out

www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...

Hastie threatens to quit frontbench, issues net zero ultimatum to Ley

Andrew Hastie’s opposition to net zero emissions is well known, but his provocative comments about quitting the frontbench are a fresh test of Opposition Leader Sussan Ley’s authority.

www.theage.com.au

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Glenn Connley @glennconnley.bsky.social · 23d

The root cause of so many of the world’s problems.

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24d

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion, after getting $1.2 trillion richer over the past year alone.

Meanwhile, the rest of the country is getting squeezed by tariffs and high prices for groceries, utilities, and health care.

The system is broken.

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Glenn Connley @glennconnley.bsky.social · 23d

Imagine being such a sap that you put the Murdoch agenda before your children and grandchildren. What a legacy. Must be so proud.

Glenn Connley @glennconnley.bsky.social · 23d

Thank God we've got Sussssan and Teddy to check up on all those pesky scientists.

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Glenn Connley @glennconnley.bsky.social · 23d

Climate Risk Assessment released 3 days after govt approves a massive, 45-year carbon bomb - 4 days after the PM embraces Pacific leaders promising action on climate change. By the time the North West Shelf project ends, parts of our "Pacific family" will be underwater, thanks to our actions.

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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 26d

The final approval of the 45-year expansion of Woodside’s North West Shelf gas export terminal is equivalent to building 12 new coal power stations.

It will undermine the nation's energy security, drive up energy prices & is the greatest giveaway of Australian natural resources ever.

Media release

North West Shelf final approval a climate, economic and energy security disaster

Australia Institute analysis shows today's final approval of the 45-year expansion of Woodside’s North West Shelf gas export terminal is equivalent to building 12 new coal power stations.

australiainstitute.org.au

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Glenn Connley @glennconnley.bsky.social · 26d

Woodside plays the federal government like a guitar again. Dropped out at 3pm on a Friday, of course. Expect the same with the Climate Risk Assessment next week.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Australia's largest gas project given final approval to operate until 2070

Australia's biggest gas project, Woodside's North West Shelf, has received final approval to extend operations through until 2070.

www.abc.net.au

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Glenn Connley @glennconnley.bsky.social · 27d

Which is worse? A neighbor who hates you and tests weapons over your backyard to threaten you.

Or a neighbor that hugs you, calls you family, promises meaningful action on climate change during a visit, then flies home and approves a pollution mega bomb.

God, Australia is a shit neighbor.

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Glenn Connley @glennconnley.bsky.social · Sep 3

I'm convinced Dan Andrews only went to China to wind up Murdoch's lackies at the Hun.

It's working 🤣

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