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Phillip Herbert @phillipisfabulous.bsky.social · 8d

Hmmm 🤔

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Submarine agency's consultancy bill five times larger than planned

The agency responsible for delivering AUKUS has spent five times what it first planned for consultants to review its operations.

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6 News Australia @6newsau.bsky.social · 9d

#BREAKING 🚨 Donald Trump has announced he will impose a "100% tariff on any and all movies that are made outside of the US"

"Our movie-making business has been stolen by other countries, just like stealing "candy from a baby"...thank you for your attention to this matter"

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goldmartin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 9d

Italy, Spain and Turkey.

Shame on the UK government

#gaza #sumudflotilla #freepalestine #genocide

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The Ukrainian Review @theukrainianreview.bsky.social · 9d

🇺🇸🚀 Pentagon wants missile makers to double or quadruple production of 12 critical weapons (Patriot interceptors, SM-6, LRASM, JASSM, PrSM) amid fears of low stockpiles if a war with China erupts, - WSJ

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OSINTRadar @osintr.bsky.social · 9d

🇪🇸🇺🇸Spain bans US military shipments bound for Israel from passing through its Rota and Morón bases, citing opposition to Israel’s actions in Gaza.

This applies to all US aircraft/ships carrying weapons or equipment for Israel, even via indirect routes.

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Geelan Mitchell Media @victoriannews.com.au · 9d

'We will honour you': police tribute to slain officers
#ausnews #vicnews #police #vkc #memorial

‘We will honour you’: police tribute to slain officers

MELBOURNE, VIC. — The families of two officers allegedly gunned down by Australia's most wanted man in the line of duty have laid flowers at a police memorial where their names are etched in history.

www.victoriannews.com.au

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Rob Benson 🦋 @robnellie.bsky.social · 9d

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OSINTRadar @osintr.bsky.social · 9d

🇺🇸 More then 8 US aerial tankers departed the US towards Europe, with most already arriving in the UK.

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TinAstina 🇺🇦☮️ @tinastina.bsky.social · 12d

🇬🇷 Greece has joined Spain and Italy in protecting Sumud Flotilla.

#SumudFlotilla
#freePalestine

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Phillip Herbert @phillipisfabulous.bsky.social · 9d

An informative article...

@gfelljones.bsky.social @20244202.bsky.social · 9d

Tax Free. . . .For Cults independentaustralia.net/politics/pol...

Brethren and Pentecostal cults and the 'quid pro quo' for Australia's democracy

As the links between extreme religious cults and Liberal Party politicians pile up, managing editor Michelle Pini considers the 'quid pro quo'.

independentaustralia.net

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Phillip Herbert @phillipisfabulous.bsky.social · 9d

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Man charged with giving Nazi salute at the AFL facing two new counts

Tylere Baker-Pearce, 39, was arrested by counterterrorism police outside a Brisbane court on Monday.

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Rob Arnol @robertarnol.bsky.social · 9d

🤔😳😂😂

Steph Halmhofer, Big Archaeology @cultarchaeo.bsky.social · 10d

These are the histories that archaeologists are hiding.

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 9d

"Andrew Hastie appears to be trying to take the leadership of the Liberal party (and thus Australia’s rightwing government option) for the Christian Nationalist and ethnostate faction."

Must read on this #FarRight contender, who mainstream media are busy humanizing as a "conviction politician".

Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 9d

Andrew Hastie is on the Board of the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship 🤡 with Tony Abbott & John Howard. You can’t afford to miss the dangerous implications of that international networking for climate, freedom & rights, militarism, Islamophobia. #auspol

lucyham29.substack.com/p/andrew-has...

Andrew Hastie: soldier for an extreme version of governing by Christ
Andrew Hastie is a more extreme Fundamentalist Christian than Scott
Morrison. Australians cannot let his attempts to lead the nation go unchallenged. His place on the ARC Board is a warning.

Image: Hastie & Abbott

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Phillip Herbert @phillipisfabulous.bsky.social · 9d

Not impressed...

Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 9d

Incredible hashtag journo poasting about how tough the conditions are for a reporter ....... when riding on the PMs RAAF plane.

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Kikki Planet @kikkiplanet.bsky.social · 9d

There have been 6 mass shootings in the USA over the past 24 hours. The casualty count stands at 41.

Here’s the President of the United States of America.

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Phillip Herbert @phillipisfabulous.bsky.social · 9d

Thiel is the one that confuses me. He describes himself as having same sex attraction and has a male partner. To my knowledge Epstein didn't traffic underage boys. 🤔

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𝙹*𝚊𝚍𝚘𝚛𝚎 𝙼𝚊𝚐𝚛𝚒𝚝𝚝𝚎 🍏 @artmyoldfriend.bsky.social · 10d

“The Invisibility of Poverty” by Kevin Lee

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Stilgherrian @stilgherrian.com · 9d

GANG-GANG ALERT! We were just visited by a pair of gang-gang cockatoos (Callocephalon fimbriatum), a vulnerable species. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gang-ga...

They were several metres apart munching on seed pods. They were kinda OK with me approaching quietly, until some twigs crunched loudly and zoom!

This is the male. He's perched on a slender tree branch is a chunky mostly-grey parrot, around 35 cm long, with a bright red head and wispy crest. The edges of feathers on the upperparts are slightly paler grey than the rest of the feather, which makes the bird look somewhat barred. He's holding a seed pod in his left foot, and chomping on it. The feathers in his underparts would be edged in yellow or pink, but we can't see which from this angle.

This is the female. Broadly the same image, except she’s facing to the left rather than the right, and she's a darker grey all over. The feathers on her underparts are edged in yellow.

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Alissa Azar @alissaazar.bsky.social · 9d

Protesters chant “shame” as feds retreat

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Phillip Herbert @phillipisfabulous.bsky.social · 9d

I don't like Kim; my older brother, father and respective grandfathers served. What he has done to the Memorial is obscene, and I won't be visiting anytime soon. That stated; what have you been up to Kim???

Dave Graney @davegraney.bsky.social · 9d

declassifiedaus.org/2022/12/11/b...

BOMBER’S REVOLVING DOORWAY - Declassified Australia

There is a never-ending conga line of politicians, intelligence, military and defence officials quick-stepping through revolving doorways onto the boards of lucrative military weapons companies.

declassifiedaus.org

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John Kennedy @john-in-geraldton.bsky.social · 9d

100% correct

open.substack.com/pub/newpolit...

The signs of a US empire in decay

For middle powers such as Australia, a shift away from a decaying US will require more maturity and going through its own process of “decolonising the mind”.

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SlavaUkraini033 @slavaukraini033.bsky.social · 9d

Breaking: Residents in Eastern Poland are reporting the sound of fighter jets overhead near the border with Ukraine. I can only assume drones are entering Polish airspace again.

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Hong Kong Free Press HKFP @hongkongfp.com · 9d

Hong Kong’s largest LGBTQ event, Pink Dot, will hold an online concert in November, its organiser has said, after failing to book the event’s usual venue at the West Kowloon Cultural District. In full: buff.ly/tSqEsi0

LGBTQ event Pink Dot to go online after losing usual West Kowloon venue

Hong Kong’s largest LGBTQ event, Pink Dot, will hold an online concert in November, its organiser has said, after failing to book the event’s usual venue at the West Kowloon Cultural District.

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