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David D @bjbagginsinoz.bsky.social · 1h

And if you stopped 'gas robbers' then ... sorry, the stealing of our gas appears to be a policy endorsed by the @australianlabor.bsky.social even as we have to pay the rising costs of climate disasters. #auspol australiainstitute.org.au/post/great-g...

Great gas giveaway: $215 billion in royalty-free gas for Woodside’s North West Shelf project

A 50-year extension to the North West Shelf (NWS) project in Western Australia would see huge amounts of gas given away with no return for Australians.

australiainstitute.org.au

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Prof Matt Haggis 🐀 🍉 @matthaggis666.bsky.social · 7h

Can't get 3m+ Australians out of poverty but can hand $600m to a foreign owned loss making copper plant. #auspol www.afr.com/companies/ma...

$600m Labor smelter bailout could be just the start

Industry Minister Tim Ayres has signalled any future bailouts will likely require 50-50 funding splits between state and federal governments.

www.afr.com

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Nick Higgins @nick-higgins.bsky.social · 6h

The Media - SM and the MSM - are the reason we are only a short way behind this.
@albomp.bsky.social’s centrism will allow the inevitable LNP/ON coalition to take power. Possibly as soon as the next election. Hyperbole you say? Look at the UK. Very similar conditions and Farage will be the next PM.

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Dr Richard Denniss @richarddenniss.bsky.social · 7h

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...

www.abc.net.au

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Nick Higgins @nick-higgins.bsky.social · 6h

We can fully fund submarines that we’ll never see. Stadiums that will sit empty and rot. Pour Billions into tax relief for large corporations.

Schools? Fuck you.

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Peggy Sanders @peggysanders.bsky.social · 9h

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has proved himself to be just another consummate lier.

A version of Scott Morrison and Tony Abbott captured by fossil fuel Lobby, Catholic religious lobby, Israel/US Regimes lobby, US War Dept. military-industrial complex.

The people’s interests? Nah.

#auspol

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Nick Higgins @nick-higgins.bsky.social · 9h

Because the CrossBench will force them to make it work. JUST like they did with Tanya before ALBANESE vetoed it because it was too good.

This way it will be an announcement only. Not of any practical use or benefit.

Traitorous bastards, all of them.

#auspol

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𝒞𝒶𝓇𝓂 𝒶𝒷ℴ𝓊𝓉 𝒷ℯ𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒶𝓃 𝒶𝓁𝓁𝓎 ℴ𝒻 𝒷ℴ𝓉𝒽 𝒯𝓇𝓊𝓉𝒽 & 𝒯𝓇ℯ𝒶𝓉𝓎 - @d11carmen.bsky.social · 18h

meanwhile
this🗑️is happening👇
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10...
Oh if only 16 year olds had the🗳️and a lobbyist advocating for them
🔞 for basic fairness in the way 🏫money is divided up
between the states & in poorer suburbs @jasonclaremp.bsky.social
#auspol
Not much of a plan for a better future #Labor

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 18h

The “at least they are better than the LNP” line from Labor rustedons is wearing increasingly thin. #auspol

Michael Dowling aka MeckeringBoy @meckeringboy.bsky.social · 20h

Words I did not ever expect to hear about any *Labor* government:

“…analysis by Centre for Public Integrity showed secrecy has increased under Labor compared with Morrison gov.”

It’s time for:
Open and honest, transparent government.
FOI
@albomp.bsky.social

@australianlabor.bsky.social
#auspol

Michael Dowling aka MeckeringBoy @meckeringboy.bsky.social · 22h

“For a gov promising more transparency, the withholding of the doc written shortly after May election by the Dept of Climate Change, Energy, Environment & Water is puzzling. But then again, analysis by Centre for Public Integrity showed secrecy has increased under Labor compared with Morrison gov.”

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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 17h

Videos of healthcare workers sharing stories from hospitals in #Gaza (eg. a mother carrying her daughter's head in a plastic bag into the hospital, asking for help). I assume my AUS PM Albanese & Foreign Minister Wong have seen these videos and images. And they refuse to act. 😔 #auspol #GazaGenocide

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jjj c @jjjohncau.bsky.social · 17h

That's nothing, the Australian government offers a lubed handjob to fossil fuel companies
#auspol

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Paul Boland @paulobear.bsky.social · 21h

If they have a RC into NewsCorp the judge will be corrupt & outcome will be buried.
Nuking them is never going to happen unless Labor replace Alboextremelymediocre with a young person or maybe Ed Husic.
So we need to call in Luca Brasi.🙂

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Jane Doe, Pretty Hate Machine @noticingclimate.bsky.social · 20h

Cunts have warmth and depth. This is Cuntology 101. ⬇️
That mendacious fuckwit who is our Prime Minister Anthony Albanese does not have warmth and depth like cunts do.
Therefore, he is on the highway to fuckwit city.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q954...
Reposts appreciated to educate ❤️. #AusPol

Lambrini Girls - Cuntology 101 (Official Video)

YouTube video by Lambrini Girls

www.youtube.com

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Nick Higgins @nick-higgins.bsky.social · 19h

Great read. Prescient.

tasmaniantimes.com/2025/10/igno...

Ignoring Experts - Stadium Ignorance, A Trump-esque Folly - Tasmanian Times

Ignorance is Bliss The macro and the micro. Watching Trump addressing world leaders last week at the United Nations, attacking and dismissing climate science as coming from ‘stupid people’ and decryin...

tasmaniantimes.com

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Peter George @indy4franklin.bsky.social · 1d

Tasmanian ship’s captain Madeleine Habib has been detained after the boat The Conscience was intercepted in international waters off the coast of Gaza in recent hours.

The ship was carrying 92 passengers, all journalists and medical staff, with the mission to open sea access for Gazans 1/3

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1ishy.bsky.social @1ishy.bsky.social · 1d

#Auspol #Taspol

Peter George @indy4franklin.bsky.social · 1d

Tasmanian ship’s captain Madeleine Habib has been detained after the boat The Conscience was intercepted in international waters off the coast of Gaza in recent hours.

The ship was carrying 92 passengers, all journalists and medical staff, with the mission to open sea access for Gazans 1/3

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Kate-Eviva @kate-eviva.bsky.social · 2d

Excellent article!! 🙏👏👏 @theshot.net.au
theshot.net.au/uncategorize...

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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Denise Shrivell @deniseshrivell.bsky.social · 1d

What??? #auspol > overland.org.au/2025/10/aust...

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Nick Higgins @nick-higgins.bsky.social · 1d

She’ll take that on notice…

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Jenny Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithWatermelon🍉🍉 @joneshowdareyou.bsky.social · 1d

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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Ötzi (=>÷) @abhoth.bsky.social · 1d

Smarmy Hanson is very successful at promoting hate for the oppressed, and love for the oppressors.

Deport all the immigrants but you won't solve any of the problems because they were created by capitalism.

Immigrants are not the problem.

Untaxed wealth is the problem.

#eattherich
#AusPol

Pauline Hanson looking very smarmy draped with the Australian flag.

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Independent Media Australia. @indymediaaus.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

PM Albanese fails to acknowledge genocide https://www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1440/analysis/pm-albanese-fails-acknowledge-genocide #auspol

PM Albanese again fails to acknowledge genocide

Anthony Albanese’s October 7 statement is further evidence of his government’s complicity, including lies by omission, argues Alex Bainbridge.

www.greenleft.org.au

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Jacqui Lambie @jacquilambie.bsky.social · 1d

They promised transparency.
They delivered secrecy.
Now they’re coming for your right to know.
Fight for our Freedom to Know.
Because it’s our money and our right to see where it goes. Find out more - lambienetwork.com.au/pages/foi
#FreedomToKnow #Transparency #AusPol #JacquiLambie #FOI

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Nick Higgins @nick-higgins.bsky.social · 1d

Lying in parliament. By the PM. With NO consequences.
Just goes to show there is NO Rule Of Law for the privileged, just for we at the bottom of the pile.

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