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Quentin Dempster @quentindempster.bsky.social · 4d

The horror .. the horror. Tony Abbott sweeps it all under the carpet in “ Australia:A History”. Yes he acknowledges colonial death squads also known as “native police” but now wants to accentuate the civilising positives. His most recent triumph? Defeat of The Voice referendum.

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Quentin Dempster @quentindempster.bsky.social · 5d

Rats in the ranks: Andrew Hastie, a military strategist, resigns from the federal Liberal front bench, unable to accept Cabinet solidarity in the Westminster tradition. So he’s obviously planning to displace Sussan Ley as leader but does not yet have the numbers. 👇

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Quentin Dempster @quentindempster.bsky.social · 7d

Phone hacker/disgrace to journalism, Rupert Murdoch, compellingly exposed in “Hack” now streaming on Stan. Son Lachlan now trying to run Australia’s foreign and domestic policies through all his ranter outlets. These discredited blokes have no place in Western journalism.

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Quentin Dempster @quentindempster.bsky.social · 8d

Hamas must release all remaining Israeli hostages and lay down its arms within 72 hours .. or Netanyahu has carte blanche Trump support to kill them all (impliedly including Palestinians in the way). NYT analysis 👇concludes Netanyahu got almost all he wanted at White House meeting.

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Quentin Dempster @quentindempster.bsky.social · 10d

Albanese to increase the size of the House of Representatives and, consequently, the Senate? Thanks for this intel George (Brandis) SMH/Age.

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Quentin Dempster @quentindempster.bsky.social · 11d

Trump’s UN speech denounces “mass migration” by people who “don’t share our (Western) values. This is code for prohibiting Muslim migrants as a national security measure … but he won’t come out and say it directly = religious intolerance = white supremacy.

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Quentin Dempster @quentindempster.bsky.social · 12d

US citizens R&LMurdoch’s The Australian give PM Albanese his riding instructions for Oct 20 meeting with Trump. As US applies a vicious 100% pharmaceutical tariff, these sellouts say nothing about Trump’s direct threat to Australia’s PBS or his contempt for our free trade agreement.

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Quentin Dempster @quentindempster.bsky.social · 15d

Status of Australia-US alliance? PM Albanese to meet Trump on October 20th. It seems our American friends have pulled back on aggravated alienation of a once loyal ally. We part company on Palestinian recognition and climate mitigation. Anything else?

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Anthony Albanese @albomp.bsky.social · 16d

At today’s Two-State Solution Conference, we reaffirmed our commitment to a future where Israelis and Palestinians can live side by side in peace and security.

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Chris Bowen @chrisbowenmp.bsky.social · 24d

Australia's first National Climate Risk Assessment.

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Quentin Dempster @quentindempster.bsky.social · 24d

R/LMurdoch’s Australian supports the bombing of Hamas negotiators in Qatar. They bag US’s UN Security Council vote with Russia/China condemning IDF’s action. We won’t achieve long term peace/security for Israelis/Palestinians unless and until there’s a Two State solution.

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Quentin Dempster @quentindempster.bsky.social · Sep 8

Succession: its all Lachlan’s now. The Murdochs settle out of court. >> www.afr.com/companies/me...

Murdoch family settles succession dispute in $5b deal

The media mogul wanted to change the terms of the family trust to secure his eldest son Lachlan’s leadership of Fox and News Corp.

www.afr.com

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Quentin Dempster @quentindempster.bsky.social · Sep 6

Democracies v authoritarians. Forget the rhetoric. Examine the deliverables. Here Laura Tingle examines China’s new world order where Trump and our American friends are demonstrably unreliable. 👇https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-06/china-aukus-united-states-xi-jinping/105720442

As a new world order dawns, Australia plods along, much to scholars' dismay

China's display of an array of naval weaponry and assets, as opposed to land-based ones, could hardly have been less subtle.

www.abc.net.au

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Quentin Dempster @quentindempster.bsky.social · Sep 1

Thanks Bob Carr for setting out your reasons for your trip to China to commemorate the end of WWII. The Chinese and Russian peoples were Australian, UK and US allies during that conflict. We must work harder now to remove the threat of another world war. 👇

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Lenore Taylor @lenoret.bsky.social · Sep 1

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Brothers, cousins, sons: the human stories behind four of the war’s fallen journalists

Six Palestinian media workers, four of them Al Jazeera journalists, were killed in a targeted Israeli airstrike on their tent by Gaza City’s al-Shifa hospital on 10 August. Here, their families pay tr...

www.theguardian.com

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Lenore Taylor @lenoret.bsky.social · Sep 1

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

The deadly toll on journalists in the Gaza war

With foreign media barred, Palestinians have reported alone, facing the ‘most deliberate effort to kill and silence’ them ever

www.theguardian.com

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Quentin Dempster @quentindempster.bsky.social · Sep 1

Nobel laureate Maria Ressa advocates the “matrix protocol” (encrypted platforms with data privacy) for the future of truthful information. It counters the “inshitification” of the internet which is destroying democracies worldwide.

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Quentin Dempster @quentindempster.bsky.social · Aug 31

Trump sabotages US relationship with Modi/India by ego driven, disrespectful insensitivity. US is now a menace to the free world.👇https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/us/politics/trump-modi-india.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

The Nobel Prize and a Testy Phone Call: How the Trump-Modi Relationship Unraveled

www.nytimes.com

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James Hughes @dystopian-fashion.bsky.social · Aug 30

Television legend Stephen Colbert has just signed a $13.5 million deal with Netflix for a 7-episode series.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Aug 29

The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns.

The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate.

Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care.

The list goes on and on.

Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.

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Quentin Dempster @quentindempster.bsky.social · Aug 29

While Trump ignores Putin’s latest deadly attacks on Ukraine civilians, it looks like he’s out to sabotage peace pathway for Israel-Palestine. @Reuters reports US has refused to issue a visa, stopping Abood attending UN peace summit in New York.

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Quentin Dempster @quentindempster.bsky.social · Aug 29

William Robinson, the great Australian artist, has died. >> www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

Archibald Prize-winning artist William Robinson has died, aged 89

The renowned painter won the Archibald Prize twice and was known for his portraits and representations of the Australian landscape.

www.abc.net.au

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Quentin Dempster @quentindempster.bsky.social · Aug 28

“Tragic mishap”? IDF claimed camera atop Nasser Hospital was Hamas surveillance. It was a Reuters “live feed” TV camera. Five more journalists killed in Gaza. 👇

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Quentin Dempster @quentindempster.bsky.social · Aug 25

“Everything is fine” - Sussan Ley. Rowe in the Fin. The blokes seem determined to destroy Ley’s leadership. Respectfully suggest Ley takes them on: desist or Libs will withdraw from the Coalition and stand in all Nat seats. Now is the time: crash through .. or crash = Leadership!

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Quentin Dempster @quentindempster.bsky.social · Aug 25

There it is folks: the betrayal (resources sell out) of the Australian people. Lucianne Tonti’s Norway comparisons are instructive. 👇👇

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