Sam Jane
samsaveourearth.bsky.social
Sam Jane
@samsaveourearth.bsky.social
Leftie tree hugger interested in politics, the planet, humanitarianism and education
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Oi @albomp.bsky.social

Hearing Jim Chalmers going on about savings while dropping assistance for people in need.

So cancel #Aukus and stop paying ex politicians a full salary & obscene benefits especially as our veterans struggle.

Problem solved.

#auspol
December 13, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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Chalmers has had to cut government services to claw back $20B and keep the government's 'promises'.
At the same time, that same government is squandering $400B on 5 secondhand, beyond serviceable life, ready for scrapping, Virginia subs.
#FFS!
#AUKUS will #FAUKUS
#auspol
December 13, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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#TheSundayShot has just started

Thanks to Jo & Dave for creating & bringing us this brilliant authentic political program

Thank you to all their guests who have made it such a quality program for the politically engaged, much love to you all❤️
🐝
#auspol
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The Year That Was - December 14 - Doug Cameron, Zoe Daniel, and many more!
YouTube video by The Sunday Shot
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December 13, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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It’s a bit like the Americanisation of democracy… intimidation, making people feel uncomfortable with voting, targeting candidates with a barrage of lies… & it needs to be repelled”

Doug Cameron

#SundayShot #TheShot #auspol
December 13, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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#auspol
I am disappointed with Australia at the moment.
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We have seemingly unlimited money for weapons, we don't charge a fair tarrif for our gas and other resources, we don't tax the rich.
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Yet there is no money for DV, health, education, etc. Housing is broken.
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Our priorities are wrong.
December 13, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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“I think we need a federal housing commission… that’s the sort of policy a progressive Labor govt should deliver”

Doug Cameron

#SundayShot #TheShot #auspol
December 13, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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“The world’s at a very febrile point at the moment… the head of NATO has basically told Europe to prepare for war”

Get rid of AUKUS now.

Zoe Daniel

#SundayShot #TheShot #auspol
December 13, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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#deathsincustody
We must resistent normalisation of cruelty. As Albo reflects on achievemts with pride he must reflect on this failure

Resist the escallation of billionaire-driven priorities & values. Fight fiercly for social justice

Blinkers are off-ignoring what's right is personal now
#auspol
I believed Australia could not look away from Aboriginal deaths in custody. I was wrong | Lorena Allam
Decades on from the royal commission, I can only conclude there are no words that will make governments face their responsibilities
www.theguardian.com
December 13, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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“The biggest group of emerging online gamblers is young men aged 18-24 ie the first cohort to grow up with constant gambling ads”

Zoe Daniel

BAN GAMBLING ADS

#SundayShot #TheShot #auspol
December 13, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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""It's outrageous to change the rules so that the taxpayer can pay for campaigning and political party events," independent Senator David Pocock said."

Many tradies work away from home in many instances but the taxpayer doesn't finance family holidays and reunions. #auspol #scam
'It's outrageous': Pressure grows for Albanese to act on expense claims
Fresh questions are being asked about the expenses federal politicians are allowed to claim and what review...
www.9news.com.au
December 13, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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“Barnaby Joyce is a media whore, as is Pauline Hanson.

…. I remember that quote that not everything in the public interest is of interest to the public”

Ronni Salt

#SundayShot #TheShot #auspol
December 13, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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#Austerity for the people is a choice. We could cut back so many corporate subsidies and #TaxTheRich. Instead #NeoLiberalism chooses to slog 'we the people' of #auspol. Time for change #Australia.

@jimchalmers.bsky.social
Chalmers has had to cut government services to claw back $20B and keep the government's 'promises'.
At the same time, that same government is squandering $400B on 5 secondhand, beyond serviceable life, ready for scrapping, Virginia subs.
#FFS!
#AUKUS will #FAUKUS
#auspol
December 13, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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2025 highlight: “It’s been a year for resistance… & the emergence of independent media.”

Joel Jenkins

#SundayShot #TheShot #auspol
December 13, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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Fine. How about banning new fossil fuel mine expansions and gambling ads. For starters.

@albomp.bsky.social #auspol
December 13, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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“This year had been a series of slow but jarring disappointments from the [Australian] govt.

… every time they let me down, it hurts. Every time.”

Konrad Benjamin

#SundayShot #TheShot #auspol
December 13, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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“I don’t think I have any highlights, it’s been such a dismal year… with this govt’s lack of courage…

The spending of billions & giving away of sovereignty with the AUKUS deal”

Cheryl Kernot

#SundayShot #TheShot #auspol
December 13, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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Ace guests incl Ronni, Tamepunk, Ketan, Emma Shortis..

Highlights, lowlights and batshit crazy moments a delight.

"Pauline sticking her fork into Barnaby's meat" is a mental scar that won't heal for a while @ronnisalt.bsky.social

#auspol

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December 13, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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Everyday people deserve and require respect and care from harm. #RaiseTheRate While there’s a #HousingCrisis let’s have a #MoratoriumOnEvictions and bring all empty properties back onto the market: for sale or rent. Housing prices are harming Australians. #auspol #RentersRights #ruleoflaw #SOS
December 13, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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The ALP need to realise they will be criticised whatever they do, so how about do things that are good? And do things to please those who voted for you not those who never will.
The AFR run a 2 year campaign to get the ALP to weaken the changes to super tax concessions to make it easier to avoid paying the tax.

The ALP does it.

The AFR criticises the ALP for weakening the policy because people can avoid paying the tax.

My column #ThePoint

thepoint.com.au/news/251213
The rich get tax advice; the poor get lectures: super tax saga lays bare a skewed system
A new report on the amount of revenue expected to be raised by the changes to superannuation tax on balances over $3m highlights yet again how the tax system is weighted in favour of the rich and that...
thepoint.com.au
December 12, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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🔥Things heat up as David Shoebridge skewers NACC Commr Brereton for not even meeting the “minimum expectation” on conflict of interest after his secret IGADF role was exposed, as Brereton says he didn’t have to tell colleagues why he recused himself, but they “knew” anyway.🤦‍♂️💥
December 11, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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Trump's representative at the UN gets completely burned by the representative of Cuba for his lies and coarse lack of diplomacy. "Mr Walsh, this is the United Nations General Assembly, not a signal chat." 👏😂🤣😂
www.youtube.com/shorts/05pUe...
Trump official PUBLICLY HUMILIATED at United Nations
YouTube video by Brian Tyler Cohen
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December 13, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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There's decades-worth of voter feedback on travel expenditure across multiple prime ministerships but no one is going to rally outside parliament on it. The will to rein it in has to come from the majority of federal members across both houses. #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Albanese take heed: voters don’t want to pay for the family holidays of politicians | Tom McIlroy
The prime minister showed a flash of hubris in one of the worst weeks of the year for Labor
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December 13, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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“UN inspectors raised alarm about Australia's treatment of children, First Nations people, people with disability, migrants in detention.
UN Working Group visited detention facilities but denied access to all Northern Territory institutions in an international first. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
United Nations inspectors warn Australia is breaching human rights
A delegation of United Nations inspectors have raised the alarm about Australia's detention facilities and a breach of human rights.
www.abc.net.au
December 13, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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Not surprising that the Tory who designed #UK austerity thinks we shouldn't #TaxTheRich or go to a real Left position.

More shocking that #Labour actually defends that stance. This isn't a real Left wing party. They've drunk the cool-aid being handed out by the #Oligarchy and #NeoLiberalism.
No. This is a bullshit question created by #NeoLiberalism in think tanks. The #Oligarchy can't stand people finally calling for what we've needed around the world for a long time. Stop parroting Lobby talking points. Stop standing in the way of progress, #Media!

#TaxTheRich
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Will Polanski's wealth tax tank the economy? Reeves budget debate
YouTube video by Channel 4 News
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December 13, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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In an interview with Rick Morton, the Commonwealth ombudsman has slammed the government's 'robodebt'-style approach to welfare compliance. satpa.pe/nyukBoV
‘Particularly strange’: Ombudsman damns welfare compliance
In an interview with The Saturday Paper, the Commonwealth ombudsman says government departments still need to ‘unlearn’ the culture that produced robodebt.
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December 13, 2025 at 9:32 AM