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Bill Browne @browne90.bsky.social · 10h

The Australian Public Service Commissioner confirms what many suspected:

Public servants are avoiding putting things in writing to escape public scrutiny.

But what is the Govt doing about it?

Trying to change FOI law to make secrecy even easier.
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Australia Institute Live — Daily Updates

Stay updated with the latest from The Australia Institute.

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John Lewis @johnnol1.bsky.social · 10h

Trump is killing the rule of law in the United States. We need to suspend our extradition agreement www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/09/a...

Trump is killing the rule of law in the United States. We need to suspend our extradition agreement

As Donald Trump's show trials of his critics begin, countries with extradition treaties and law enforcement cooperation with the US face a growing risk of being caught up.

www.crikey.com.au

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Harry @harro93.bsky.social · 5d

Yep, time to ditch the two party system. They are purely businesses now and have massive conflicts of interest. They create laws to enforce their duopoly and make rules that apply to everyone but themselves. There’s no talent required to make it, so we end up with the useless people we deserve

Ronni🧂Salt @ronnisalt.bsky.social · 6d

My latest article in The Shot

"The largest contributors to the breakdown of social cohesion in Australia are the governments of Australia, practising a privileged fuck-you version of democracy that makes its own rules & caters for those within the club"

#pffft
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The myth of 'social cohesion' - do as they say, not as they do - The Shot

There’s an established principle in law: he who comes looking for equity must come with clean hands. The clean hands...

theshot.net.au

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 12h

Michigan Avenue right now.

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Zee207702🇨🇦🍁📎 @zee207702.bsky.social · 12h

Please please please do not bleach your pumpkins!

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Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 12h

Perfect! 😄 🤣 😂

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Andrew @boatie.bsky.social · 15h

In bed with the enemy. The Minerals Council have purchased our major parties, now they’re just putting them to work. #AusPol

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 12h

I just can't. F*cking hell.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 16h

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 12h

Labor of course do not need one single vote of the LNP to pass any laws, so they are choosing to make the laws weaker.

Dr Richard Denniss @richarddenniss.bsky.social · 14h

I don’t know about you, but I’m a bit scared of any new ‘environment laws’ that Labor can get Matt Canavan and Andrew Hastie to vote for…I think they will be better described as ‘ how to build more mines faster laws’ www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

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...

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Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 12h

They said 40 babies were beheaded. It was a lie.

They said babies were put in ovens. It was a lie.

They said babies were torn from their mothers womb. It was a lie.

They said there was mass, systematic rape. It was a lie.

They lied. All to justify a genocide.

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John Lewis @johnnol1.bsky.social · 11h

yeah me too, sorta turtles all the way down or sometimes Danish pastry, layer upon layer, upon layer🤔

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Alice K @coalisdead.bsky.social · 14h

US bankrolled Israel's Gaza Genocide with $33bn in military aid. Fuck america #auspol

www.middleeastmonitor.com/20251008-us-...

US bankrolled Israel’s Gaza genocide with $33 bn in military aid, damning new report reveals

A new report released yesterday by the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and the Costs of War Project at Brown University has found that the US has provided at least $21.7 billion in mili…

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John Lewis @johnnol1.bsky.social · 13h

A short history of the Gaza Strip takes a long view of today’s conflict
theconversation.com/a-short-hist...

A short history of the Gaza Strip takes a long view of today’s conflict

Anne Irfan’s history explains the complex background to Palestinian resistance in Gaza, allowing those who live there to tell their own stories.

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John Lewis @johnnol1.bsky.social · 13h

Renewables have now passed coal globally – and growth is fastest in countries like Bhutan and Nepal
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Renewables have now passed coal globally – and growth is fastest in countries like Bhutan and Nepal

Even as clean energy progress slows in the US and EU, developing nations such as Bhutan, Nepal, Sri Lanka and the Maldives are surging ahead.

theconversation.com

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John Lewis @johnnol1.bsky.social · 14h

Organised crime may be infiltrating Timor-Leste’s government. One minister is sounding the alarm
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Organised crime may be infiltrating Timor-Leste’s government. One minister is sounding the alarm

Timor-Leste’s government has cancelled all online gambling licenses in response to the allegations, but many are calling for an independent investigation.

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John Lewis @johnnol1.bsky.social · 14h

Israel alone is a country on land stolen from others, a political solution created by and for for a single religious group, an isolated event never granted before or after for anyone else, a group singleminded and intolerant of others with a violent, demented view of their own righteousness .

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