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Kelanoa 😷 @kelanoa.bsky.social · 10h

You’d have adored my Mum‘s steak and kidney pudding. I really miss it. She didn’t have a written recipe, so I tried to make it once from a recipe book. Didn’t come even close to hers, never had the heart to try again.

Kelanoa 😷 @kelanoa.bsky.social · 10h

Love Elaine’s Pies! I buy 4 or more frozen and uncooked, so I don’t have to travel to Dickson too often. I get a couple of steak & kidney but other flavours too for variety.

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Kelanoa 😷 @kelanoa.bsky.social · 10h

She’s beautiful!

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All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 10h

This may be of interest...

allouryesterdays.info/2024/10/20/a...

Albo or John Howard? Who is the bigger climate criminal? - All Our Yesterdays

The question is this. Who is the bigger climate criminal – John Howard, Prime Minister of Australia 1996-2007, or Anthony Albanese, same gig from 2022 to ??. It’s not as straightforward as you think....

allouryesterdays.info

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Kelanoa 😷 @kelanoa.bsky.social · 10h

Yes, it is thanks.

I’d agree with him, but I’ll say that all the serious ground work was done and in place, including the lobbyists, long before 2022. Would Albo have done it from scratch? I have a feeling he wouldn’t. But that’s a moot point.

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Kelanoa 😷 @kelanoa.bsky.social · 10h

Howard… again. The damage that man did! 🤬
#auspol

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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 15h

Come and have a chat, listen to experts and help us tackle some dangerous misinformation that’s causing real harm x

Refugee Action Campaign CBR @raccanberra.bsky.social · 17h

Join @amyremeikis.bsky.social, Prof Alan Gamlen from ANU Migration, and Prof John Minns as they tackle myths, misinformation, and scare campaigns against migrants, refugees, and multiculturalism.

Wednesday, 15 October, 6:30pm, Copland Theatre, ANU. refugeeaction.org/20250910/deb...

Banner with text says: Debunking racist myths about immigration.

Date: 15 October
Time: 6:30 PM
Location: Copland Lecture Theatre, ANU

With bios of Amy Remeikis, Alan Gamlen, and John Minns, full text available at included link.

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Kelanoa 😷 @kelanoa.bsky.social · 16h

It’s unbelievable that these creatures are among us, in this day and age - not broken men living on the fringes, but men in suits and ties, presumably also with wives & daughters.
Scarier still, it illustrates that we will also have some here in Australia. They must never ever get a toehold.

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Kelanoa 😷 @kelanoa.bsky.social · 17h

Can’t? Or won’t?
They have a super majority. In theory they can do anything.

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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 1d

Public schools will be heavily underfunded in each year until 2034. The cumulative underfunding is estimated at a massive $34.6 billion. #auspol #schoolfunding

New school funding agreements deny full funding for public schools

The claim by the prime minister, premiers and their education ministers that public schools will be fully funded by 2034 is a blatant falsehood.

johnmenadue.com

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Drop Bear @drop-bear.bsky.social · 22h

David Pope
"The Echidna" newsletter
8 October 2025

#AusPol
#Triple0
#Telecommunications

"The Zero G Network"
A mobile 'phone tower, with a sign saying "TEL-CO"
Off to the right, a rickety makeshift pigeon coop with a sign saying "TRIPLE-0".
Two pigeons occupy the coop, while a third comes in to land.

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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 1d

David Pocock asks Don Farrell some serious questions about why the govt has not implemented an important recommendation from the #RobodebtRC.
Farrell caught playing on his phone, not even paying attention.🙄 Pocock hasn’t the patience to try again & moves on. #Estimates

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Kelanoa 😷 @kelanoa.bsky.social · 20h

Why did Albanese keep her on? She an LNP appointee still loyal to them. What havoc is she wreaking behind the scenes?
Dept Secretaries used to be well qualified career public servants, who were apolitical. Why did it change to being political? We need to return to the old system. #auspol

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Jenny Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithWatermelon🍉🍉 @joneshowdareyou.bsky.social · 21h

THIS is what you're defending, justifying and complicit in,
@albomp.bsky.social @senatorwong.bsky.social.

THIS.

How dare you lecture us about Hamas displaying a lack of humanity, in the face of Israel's blatant and constant barbarity and inhumanity. #auspol #GazaGenocide #GazaHolocaust

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Laki @lakitukl.bsky.social · 1d

@davidpocock.bsky.social has been such an asset to Australia. Focused, clear, ethical.

Thank you ACT for gifting him to us.

#auspol

Crikey @crikey.com.au · 1d

Independent Senator David Pocock and Labor's Penny Wong clashed in Senate estimates yesterday over whether the Parliamentary Sports Club could be considered a lobby group, as reported in Crikey last week. The club is registered as such, and lists Responsible Wagering Australia as one of its clients.

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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 1d

If Labor wishes to reclaim its moral authority, it must break with the consultant paradigm: rebuild public governance, fund socially vital disciplines and restore universities as places of learning, not revenue streams. #auspol #universitiesAU

How the ALP outsourced the soul of higher education

For most of its history, the Australian Labor Party spoke of education as a public good, the light on the hill, a vision of collective progress through strong institutions, universal access, and the elevation of ordinary citizens.

johnmenadue.com

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Kelanoa 😷 @kelanoa.bsky.social · 23h

He's owned - by either money or blackmail, or both.

Kelanoa 😷 @kelanoa.bsky.social · 23h

... turning into a “clown show”

Turning? I think the public sees the tense slightly differently.
It's already "turned" into a clown show, and she has helped fuel the spectacle. #LNP

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Kelanoa 😷 @kelanoa.bsky.social · 1d

Not what was reported by AAP:

But the emails were sent to a redundant address, meaning the department didn’t learn about the outage until it was called by regulator the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) at 3.30pm on Friday, more than 36 hours after the outage began.

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Kelanoa 😷 @kelanoa.bsky.social · 1d

Their IT dep't has a question to answer:
Why don't redundant email addresses (especially ones that were used for important stuff!) have a bounce placed on them? Then the sender will at least know it wasn't delivered. Instead it appears to have dropped into a black hole.
That is basic admin.
#Optus

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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 1d

The Black Summer bushfires cost Australians over $50 billion.

As we enter another high-risk bushfire season, we shouldn't wait for the next disaster to act.

The Government could put a climate disaster levy on gas & coal exports to help pay for the damage.

Add your name: theaus.in/fossilfuelco...

Make fossil fuel exporters pay for the damage they are causing, not ordinary Australians

Climate change is making natural disasters like fires, floods, heatwaves and drought worse, costing Australians billions every year. Make fossil fuel producers pay a climate disaster levy to help pay...

theaus.in

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Kelanoa 😷 @kelanoa.bsky.social · 1d

Labor are not left wing any more. They have some leftish policies, but on big stuff, they are bipartisan with LNP. Who would ever have thought they'd continue with AUKUS. It was a time bomb set by Morrison. Then not raising the rate and keeping the punitive mutual obligations. Etc etc
#Auspol

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 2d

"For decades, the pro-Israel establishment in the west succeeded in quashing any discussion on support for Israel. That era is over. As is the framing of Israel as a ‘peaceful democracy’ surrounded by Arab ‘terrorists’." @deepcutnews.bsky.social #GazaGenocide
www.deepcutnews.com/p/when-genoc...

When genocide fails – Israel’s strategic folly in Gaza

Genocide is history’s darkest act, meant to erase a people and claim a future. For Israel, this logic has unravelled – not on the battlefield, but in the eyes of an awakened world.

www.deepcutnews.com

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Nigel Bell 🍉 @nigel63.bsky.social · 1d

Step-by-step, the mealy-mouthed whining (that may hide threats) to the cringing kowtowing still to Zionist appeasement, the British gov's shameful capitulation to foreign interference is THE SAME as in Australia.

Equal in their obsequious depravity, these are gov.s of *Labour* - such debased farce.

Graphic:
The design of the iZraeli flag is used to highlight text.
The central Star of David has been replaced by the top half of a Nazi Swastika, text replaces the bottom half.

Text, white within the top blue horizontal line:
The iZrael State corrals Palestinians through carpet bombing,
starving as many as they explode, then, through the promise of food aid, expose the survivors to endless firing squads.

Text, blue and covering the bottom half of the Swastika:
The Nazis captured Jews, shipped them in rail cattle cars, promised them the humanity of cleansing showers, and gased them with Zyklon B, derived from hydrogen cyanide.

Text, white within the bottom blue horizontal line:
The ghost of Adolf Eichmann must be confused.
Was he executed for committing genocide or
committing genocide without orgasmic joy?

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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 1d

Canaries.
My @smh cartoon.

Two scenes. 1: advisor to Albo at his desk: “Sir, I must inform you that our canaries-in-the-coal-mines of climate change, transparency, accountability and social equity are all looking sickly…” PM: “Hmm…”
Scene 2: Albo at a lectern with press around: “…and that’s why my government is proud to announce the development of a new SUPER BREED of canaries…”

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