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Kate-Eviva @kate-eviva.bsky.social · 15h

Seriously negligent government practices becoming obvious.

stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 17h

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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Meg Penvose Clark @megpenvose.bsky.social · 8h

Won’t - definitely

Gillard could have fixed it too over 12 years ago but she decided to take it to the election.

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 16h

All these headlines saying “Bondi Goes on the Attack.” Really? She wasn’t in the octagon, she’s a public servant who was at an oversight hearing. Her job was to answer questions. She refused to do her job. Stop glamorizing and whitewashing this moronic, performative bullshit.

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Meg Penvose Clark @megpenvose.bsky.social · 11h

Trumping

Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 14h

When Sir Humphrey Appleby did this, he was much better at it. #auspol #Estimates

stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 14h

Home Affairs Sec Stephanie Foster exposed as overly determined Not to Answer & take things ‘on notice’

Shoebridge “You’re taking on notice your failure to answer on notice, Q’s I asked u on notice, about Q’s that u responded on notice, to answers u haven’t given on notice”🤯ffs #Estimates

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Dr Alan Nixon @alangnixon.bsky.social · 15h

#ClimateCriminals are ripping us off while destroying our future, #auspol.

fathommm.bsky.social @fathommm.bsky.social · 16h

Taxpayer funded.

Glencore 2024 revenue was $230.9 B USD.

ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 17h

The last Australian copper smelter processing third-party product will stay open after its owner accepted a support package.

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Meg Penvose Clark @megpenvose.bsky.social · 11h

Still murdering innocents.

Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 11h

Israeli attack kills Palestinian in Gaza - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-attack-kills-palestinian-gaza

Israeli attack kills Palestinian in Gaza

<article data-history-node-id="429804" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-attack-kills-palestinian-gaza" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-attack-kills-palestinian-gaza" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israeli attack kills Palestinian in Gaza</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>The body of a Palestinian was recovered following an Israeli strike on the al-Nasr neighbourhood, west of Gaza City, Al Jazeera Arabic reported, citing a source at al-Shifa Hospital.</p> <p>Meanwhile, the army detonated car bombs in Sabra and launched raids on the Shuja'iyya neighbourhood in Gaza City.</p> </div> </div> </article>

www.middleeasteye.net

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DebLRae @owrlfs.bsky.social · 17h

It is a fantastic interview thanks @davemilbo.bsky.social

David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 17h

I interviewed Grace Tame about autism, fascism, Israel, Australia and empire. "We're not really a democracy"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTtE...

“We’re not really a democracy” - Grace Tame on autism, fascism, Israel, Trump and empire

YouTube video by The Sunday Shot

www.youtube.com

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💚🌏Myles🌏💚 @mylesjaybee.bsky.social · 15h

Fuck Labor, fuck Albo and fuck the capitalist system!
#auspol #ClimateCrisis

Wayne @coldnovemberwayne.bsky.social · 17h

I can't tell you how much this pisses me off

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Breaking: Mining giant gets $600m worth of taxpayer funds to keep refinery open

The last Australian copper smelter processing third-party product will stay open after its owner accepted a support package.

www.abc.net.au

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Meg Penvose Clark @megpenvose.bsky.social · 14h

Embedded lobbying

Laki @lakitukl.bsky.social · 17h

@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 · 17h

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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Miree @miree.bsky.social · 15h

Our governments have long forgotten who they are supposed to be working for.

#auspol

John Pollock @karlcotton.bsky.social · 15h

Frightening stuff but let’s open more mines and export more gas @albomp.bsky.social

#extinction #netzeronow

New Zealand oceans warming 34% faster than global average, putting homes and industry at risk, report finds

NZ$180bn worth of housing and $26bn of infrastructure at risk of flooding and storm damage, new government report finds

www.theguardian.com

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Meg Penvose Clark @megpenvose.bsky.social · 14h

Ffs.

They cant even fix school funding.

Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 20h

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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Tom Walsh @tewalsh340.bsky.social · 1d

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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 17h

@nytimes.com survey of 50 legal experts: “Every single one of the 50 respondents believe that Trump and his attorney general, Pam Bondi, have used the Justice Department to go after the president’s political and personal enemies and provide favors to his allies.”

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 1d

I’m a career prosecutor who took a $25,000 check from an affiliated entity of Donald Trump’s while investigating Trump University and later left my lobbying firm to become Donald Trump’s personal impeachment lawyer, White House aide, and Attorney General. So don’t you DARE question my integrity.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bondi to Blumenthal: "You lied. How dare you? I'm a career prosecutor. Don't you ever challenge my integrity. Do not question my ability to be fair and impartial."

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Meg Penvose Clark @megpenvose.bsky.social · 17h

Hard agree but ex rusted ons find it hard to shift from Labor to Greens. Hard wired to hate them

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Meg Penvose Clark @megpenvose.bsky.social · 21h

Says it all

Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 21h

It is telling that #Hamas has said it would welcome an international inquiry while the powerful white Western countries and #Israel would see hell freeze over before they allow their leaders to face independent judicial scrutiny.@BobbobNZ #auspol #Oct7

7 October 2023: Return of the Hannibal Directive and the genocide starts now - Part 2

By noon on 7 October 2023, news of Palestinians taking hostages grip the attention of Israel’s top military and political leadership who are gathered in the “Pit”, the Kirya bunker in Tel Aviv.

johnmenadue.com

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Meg Penvose Clark @megpenvose.bsky.social · 21h

Here in Australia too. But some differences.

labor left are not

Greens - anything they support must be opposed

Duopoly - support at any cost by shifting to the right

George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 1d

We need constantly to remind ourselves that there's nothing normal or inevitable about it. It would be a catastrophe from which we would not recover for many years, in which terrible things are done, to minorities, to vulnerable people, to the rest of the living planet. We cannot let it happen.

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 1d

icymi - “Deloitte Australia will issue a partial refund to the federal government after admitting that artificial intelligence had been used in the creation of a $440,000 report littered with errors including… a made-up quote from a Federal Court judgement.” www.afr.com/companies/pr...

Deloitte to refund government, admits using AI in $440k report

Deloitte will issue a partial refund to the government after admitting that artificial intelligence had been used in the creation of a report littered with errors.

www.afr.com

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Rex Patrick @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social · 23h

Having charged Richard Boyle for 66 offenses, tied up the courts for 6 years, spent $339,703 on external legal fees, chilled whistleblowing - with the Court refusing to convict - it’s mind-blowing the CDPP still thinks his prosecution was in the public interest. 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️ #auspol

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Adrian Tomlinson @adriantomlinson.bsky.social · 21h

Central Queensland Uni adjunct professor of environmental geography Steve Turton said the region was nearing its "thermal limits" for cropping and cattle, effectively ending the food bowl dream.

Yet the NT is pushing ahead with public spending for ‘Ord Stage 3’

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Northern Australia's food bowl vision all but abandoned

Farmers are close to abandoning the dream of a food bowl in northern Australia, as one expert warns the region is nearing its "thermal limits" for cropping and cattle.

www.abc.net.au

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nicfri.bsky.social @nicfri.bsky.social · 21h

Unedited footage from Greece.
Greta speaks at 5mins.
Juxtapose attacks within USA against minorities, to attacks in Palestine.
youtu.be/vYodfAe60VU?...

Greta Thunberg Blasts Israel, 'Complicit' World Leaders After Release From Israeli Jail | AC1G

YouTube video by DRM News

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Alice K @coalisdead.bsky.social · 1d

"We must stop expecting carbon offsetting to work at scale" Stephen Lezak, Oxford "We have assessed 25 years of evidence and almost everything up until this point has failed"
@albomp.bsky.social + @australianlabor.bsky.social = #Fail
#auspol

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says

Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions

www.theguardian.com

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Viktor Winetrout @viktorwinetrout.bsky.social · 3d

People need to stop saying, "That's un-American" when the government does something horrible. We have a long and well-documented history of doing horrible stuff

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Suzie Gold @suziegold1.bsky.social · 1d

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Trump’s Gaza Plan Has A Chilling Historical Parallel

YouTube video by Novara Media

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6 News Australia @6newsau.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 NEW: 58% of Australians agree that a genocide is happening in Gaza, according to a YouGov poll commissioned by the Australia Palestine Advocacy Network

88% of Greens voters and 72% of Labor voters were among those who agreed with the UN report on Gaza

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