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neil1808.bsky.social
@neil1808.bsky.social
Apologies for the sarcasm but I can't help myself. It's probably best to assume I'm being sarcastic unless there's a frowny face.

Descriptions of pictures available but as 99.99% of people who look at my profile can see, I'll wait for requests.
There are many isolated peoples left on the planet - A few tribes in the Amazon, the Andaman Islands & perhaps a few others.

This is believed to be the photo of #Australia's last first contact with an isolated tribe.

#Auspol #Indigenous
December 6, 2025 at 10:05 PM
I doubt freedom of speech was the issue in the case.

If he'd walked around Sydney with a sign on his chest that would've been fine but the SOH has the right not to be part of his protest.

There'd also be the issue over whether he acquired a permit for the protest.

#Auspol #Palestine #Israel
December 4, 2025 at 11:22 AM
This guy was an Australian Labor operator about 25 years ago & argued for doing 'Whatever it takes'.

Both sides bend the rules when it's expedient.
#Auspol
November 30, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Fifty years on, ageing baby boomers are still pretending most people at the time didn't hate #Whitlam & weren't happy to see him go.

They ignore Whitlam's failure to negotiate a good deal with Europe on agricultural exports as the UK entered the EU.

#Auspol
November 28, 2025 at 7:29 PM
That's only what the allies did to Tokyo in WWII. If the USA & its allies couldn't accurately target enemies in 1945 then I wouldn't expect much better from #Israel.

#Palestinian
November 24, 2025 at 10:57 PM
No system of government would work if it operated as its opponents say it does while if we allow proponents to describe their favoured option, we'd find they're all perfect.

A balanced approach would satisfy most.

#Auspol #socialism #capitalism
November 18, 2025 at 11:13 PM
As evil as #Trump is, I still believe in the presumption of innocence. Only the president & the victims know what's true & they should all have their day in court.

Two wrongs don't make a right.

#Auspol
November 15, 2025 at 8:45 PM
The LNP thinks we're doing too much to tackle #climate change & wants to slow down the effort.

It's just code for, 'Can't someone else do it?'

#Auspol
November 12, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Politicians must be polite about dead shock jocks.

It's so all those other odious men who're still bloviating on programs around the country don't start to think he'd speak ill of them after they die.

#Auspol #JohnLaws
November 9, 2025 at 11:36 PM
The proportion of young Australians working and paying taxes has been declining and they can no longer afford to pay.

#auspol #ageing
November 9, 2025 at 1:57 AM
The CIA was willing to do whatever it took to achieve their objectives.

Just like the ALP does.
November 9, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Richardson, who's just passed away, once wrote a book called, 'Whatever it Takes'.

His former friends & colleagues still scream blue murder about people who followed his advice to oust ALP icon, Whitlam, decades ago.

#Auspol
November 8, 2025 at 9:56 PM
#Newscorp isn't very happy with the result in the NYC mayoral election.

#USpoli
November 5, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Countries aren't press ganged into joining #NATO.

It's true that NATO could've rejected applications but #Russia has absolutely no power to control who is admitted.

#UK #Germany #France
www.britannica.com/topic/How-do...
November 4, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Those arguing that countries with higher #renewable energy usage pay more for power ignore a basic fact.

It is first world countries like Norway, Denmark, Canada & Australia that have embraced green power - Of course they pay more.

#Auspol #climate
ourworldindata.org/renewable-en...
November 4, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Sussssan Ley may have been a punk but which Dead Kennedys song did she prefer, Kill the Poor or NAZI Punks, F**k Off?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIRM...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tdkd...

#Auspol #Music
October 31, 2025 at 12:38 PM
If Virginia Giuffre were alive, she'd be a witness in a criminal case by now.

All that's left is hearsay which wouldn't make a strong case.

#ICYMI #Epstein #AndrewMountbattenWindsor #PrinceAndrew
October 31, 2025 at 11:08 AM
If you restrict new mines the companies will simply extend old mines!

Couldn't you mine the East coast, from Bowen to the Hunter, by expanding & creating one huge mine?

#Auspol #climate
October 16, 2025 at 1:18 AM
ICYMI Muster #dogs are common in farming areas but Mango the muster cat turns heads of visitors to Evengy Station near Stonehenge, Q.

#farming #Agriculture #Animals
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
October 14, 2025 at 1:09 AM
The death & destruction in #Palestine are horrific but when they kicked a sleeping lion, what was #Hamas thinking?

They've inflicted this pain not Israel.

#Gaza
October 12, 2025 at 11:38 PM
It seems that this has been the sole objective of government for the last few years too.
#Auspol
October 11, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Why is Morgan Freeman eating a cake with 99 on it? He's 'only' 88 & his birthday is on June 1st.

#movies #actors #HappyBirthday

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan_...
October 10, 2025 at 8:51 AM
The actor who played the witness in the old move #JFK also played the same character in the Seinfeld Parody of that movie.

#comedy #Seinfeld #9Go
October 6, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Well after what the Japanese had done, civilians in the allied powers accepted horrific slaughter in Japan.

Unlike Dresden, Tokyo was largely a wooden city when it the allies burnt c.100,000 people alive. Australians could be led to accept it against any new enemy.
#auspol #wwii
October 6, 2025 at 4:59 AM
In the '70-'80s media reports implied there'd be rapid warming & metres of sea level rise by now

#Climate models in the 1970s–90s were less advanced and many worst-case scenarios assumed little to no action.

Even in 1988 the Maldives were expected to have gone by now.
#Auspol
October 2, 2025 at 8:23 AM