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#abc730 on the Vic government deals with China. Your expert John Fitzgerald has contributed research to the Australian Strategic Policy Institute that has USA leanings and partly funded by USA partners. Hmmmm, smells like bias to me. #auspol Who are the ones attacking Australia atm? Not China!
One of our finest, John Lyons - Long may he roar 🦁
trump has a thinner skin than spud!
One Oz national treasure David Pope brings attention to another Oz national treasure in @johnthelyonsden.bsky.social #auspol #HerrTrumpf
“politicised” might be a better adjective in seeking an explanation @greenj.bsky.social #auspol
"These submarines will lock us into the warlike activities of nuclear weapon states. "It is a complete repudiation of decades of Australian anti-nuclear weapons policy." - The Hon. Doug Cameron, former Senator for NSW #auspol @dncameron.bsky.social
Ok. Let’s ban the US from PineGap in retaliation and withdraw from AUKUS. Stuff them. #auspol
Princess Anne: Not another ruddy dinner for one of Andrew’s playmates …
Heheheh, #SpudTheThugWithLipgloss talking about “credibility”, heheheh … #auspol #NOalition #NOidea
We cannot protect ourselves from the consequences of #ClimateChange by acting alone, but we can encourage others by leading the way. #auspol www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
@janeygodley.bsky.social would be so pleased! #HerrTrumpf #auspol
Ms Ley doesn’t have the critical facilities to be ‘sceptical’ about anything, deeply or otherwise @sdhamiltonvic.bsky.social #NOalition #NOidea #auspol
It is now an imperative for the @albomp.bsky.social @australianlabor.bsky.social Government to urgently convene a Royal Commission into media ownership, its effect on public discourse, and its perversion of the democratic process. Murdoch’s mendacious media menagerie must be neutered #auspol
Ezra Klein, surely? ;-)
Priorities. My @smh @theage cartoon.
Too many US journalists are impressed by Charlie Kirk's numbers. But let's not forget who he really was. www.smh.com.au/national/it-...
The contrast between Australia and the #RogueStatesOfAmerica could not be more stark #auspol
#HerrTrumpf continues to demonstrate the truism of “baby hands and baby temperament” #auspol www.theguardian.com/media/2025/s...
… but you are no less accurate!
The UK Royals take “pearls before swine” to another level #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
Not mutually exclusive, Sandy - just trying to use opposites of free & brave 🤭
“… the land of the [chained] and the home of the [cowed]” #RogueStatesOfAmerica #auspol www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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Jim Chalmers has slammed the “weird collection of cookers & crackpots” who run the Liberal Party & are against Net Zero saying these cookers & crackpots “are the real audience of Sussan Ley’s speech today”🔥 #Abc #auspol
President Trump's scorn for highly respected Australian journalist John Lyons was followed up by an official White House X account branding him a "foreign fake news loser". Our research shows Australians want a more independent foreign policy. #auspol australiainstitute.org.au/post/poll-in...
Who would have thought, notorious stand over man #DonnytheSnitch would be uncomfortable talking about money. #auspol
More power to your arm @johnthelyonsden.bsky.social! #auspol
Tasmania should have been allowed to enter the AFL using an existing Stadium and look to build a new Stadium later or upgrade an existing stadium later on on my opinion..
ABCNews has an excellent journalist in John Lyons. He is asking the questions of Trump that so many of the "wimps" calling themselves journalists won't ask. Well done John Lyons. Keep pushing for the truth. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
Thanks Kae - enjoy your day!
Llamagrama 156 - Boxed In 🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢 💡1 🔤 1 www.llamagrama.com 🙄 Another #HerrTrumpf collection 🧐
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Heard today of 3 Australian tourists expelled from the US. Immigration at LAX demanded their phones, didn’t like what they found. Handcuffed them, held them overnight in some stinking room, escorted them onto a plane back to Oz the next day. STAY AWAY FROM THE USA - source Mr Mike Carlton
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"Every country that is a member of the Genocide Convention has a duty to prevent genocide." ... "It remains to be seen whether other states, such as Australia, will act." #AusPol #CrimesAgainstHumanity #genocide #Israel #Palestine
Before the horror of Porepunkah, Australia’s media platformed Dezi Freeman for years www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/01/d...
I have known Chris Sidoti as a person of great integrity and personal courage for nearly four decades - his vilification by the Israeli govt as a “Hamas stooge” and “antisemite” is disgraceful. #AntiGenocideIsNotAntisemitic #theirABC is in disgrace for aiding and abetting Israel’s lies
Sidoti is one of the good guys
Chris Sidoti is one of three UN Commissioners who inquired into the #GazaGenocide and just appeared on #theirABC. He has just been vilified by the Israeli govt as a “Hamas stooge” and “antisemite” in a statement read on air by Joe O’Brien #auspol en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_S...
Peter Lewis: “In return for this ill-defined bounty, Farquhar says Aust govt needs to allow tech industry to do 3 things: build data and text mining exemption to copyright law, scale up data centre infrastructure, allow foreign companies to use centres without regard local laws.”
An inconvenient truth for the #NOalition #auspol
BREAKING: #theirABC catches up to the rest of us. Read quickly before it disappears in a swirl of revisionist management decision-making! #auspol #GazaGenocide #GazaGhetto www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
Peter Lewis speaks for me on this issue #auspol www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
#herrTrumpf continues to be guided by the German playbook: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Find a screen and pass the popcorn! @pandymonium.bsky.social! #NOalition #NOidea #auspol
If he quits the front bench I give him a week before he's calling for a spill against Sussaann Lleeyy.
Nobel Peace Prize? Tell ‘im he’s dreamin’! #HerrTrumpf #RogueStatesOfAmerica #auspol
Thanks Kae - enjoy your day!
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#theirABC has reported this like it’s a bad thing … #auspol #NOalition #NOidea www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
Whoa.
amyremeikis.substack.com/p/charlie-ki... #auspol "Tolerating the intolerable makes us all crueller, and validates those who have no compassion for anyone they don’t understand." Amy Remeikis 🙌🏻💯🙇🏻 be like Amy 💕💃🏼 🎼🎶 "at night a candle's brighter than the sun" ☀️ 🥂
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Civil Rights Leader, My Ass.
Thanks Kae - hope you enjoyed your day!
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Right on, comrade!
We are destined to be frustrated for a long time to come, it seems …
… and rightly so, Alan 👏
He’s never let the facts get in the way before, Stuart ;-)
The MAGA pox is a pandemic, @politikarma.bsky.social #auspol
It’s staggering that the Oz never gets his name right, as you have done Rod 😉
Compare how ABC/media are responding to the murder of American far right political activist Charlie Kirk to how they responded to the murder of Australian humanitarian aid worker Zomi Frankcom. It’s disgraceful.
Apparently not, Pup 🙄
Umerican right wing straight Christians desperately trying to make out that the shooter wasn’t a Umerican right wing straight Christian when the odds were pretty strong it was a Umerican right wing straight Christian is so on brand for Umerican right wing straight Christians
An incendiary misrepresentation of the event and its significance, 134Ys - an admixture of hagiography and recruitment to continuing hate and #ChristoFacism #auspol
Creighton will be correcting the record in 2, 3, 1 .... Yeah nah
What an incendiary misrepresentation of the event and its meaning. Hagiography and #HerrTrumpf #RogueStatesOfAmerica #auspol www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
Poster boy for the #HerrTrumpf “radical left”? I think not #auspol #RogueStatesOfAmerica www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
#NewsCorpse, where truth, integrity and journalism go to die #auspol
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09... "Cautious mutual respect." Are you fecking kidding me? Trump doesn't deserve any respect, cautious or otherwise. He's a rapist, a criminal, an authoritarian. Having to deal with him is bad enough, having to respect him isn't necessary. #auspol
Having seen what it did to #SpudTheThug, #theirABC is trying the same thing on @albomp.bsky.social now #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
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The MAGA pox is now officially a pandemic #auspol #RogueStatesOfAmerica
Charlie Kirk was a #Fascist, #auspol. Anyone in #Australia who is at a vigil should be on a watch list. They accept #Racism, #Sexism, #Homophobia, #Transphobia, #ChristianFascism, #PoliticalPersecution and #EthnicCleansing. They are a danger to many people in our society.
It’s a pity that we didn’t see the same kind of outpouring for Charlie Kirk back in June 2025 #RogueStatesOfAmerica #auspol abcnews.go.com/US/2-minneso...
Agree 100% Marie - the OSECI report stands in stark contrast to the seagull droppings - a considered, well-structured and articulate appreciation and response in every way, focussed on Australia as a whole, rather than one group in particular.
Usman Khawaja’s nickname is Usie or Uzzy. It could just as easily be Ussie, as he certainly puts the “ussie” in #Aussie. Read the forward to the Report of the Special Envoy to Combat Islamophobia and see why #auspol #OnYaUzzy! www.oseci.gov.au/news/article...
OK #auspol folks, follow this link and read the report of the Office of the Special Envoy to Combat Islamophobia - a data-driven, evidence-based understanding of, and prescription for dealing with, Islamophobia in Australia. www.oseci.gov.au/news/article...
Fantastic Leadership here by all involved. Well done VIC!! #Voice #Truth #Treaty #auspol #springst podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/7...
#NeinNews and the #NOalition - partners in grime @kateraindrops.bsky.social #auspol
#theirABC What @shartymcscrote.bsky.social said:
Yesterday, @amyremeikis.bsky.social asked for contributions on “how do you think John Howard fundamentally changed Australia?”. For those who might be interested, this was my all too brief tuppence worth #auspol #LuckyCountry (as per Donald Horne)
Hi Amy, All the “effects” you list are symptoms of the ultimate outcome of the “Howard Project”. In the guise of aspiration and incentivisation, he turned Australians, from the 1950s migrants to the latter-day groups, into self-absorbed, non-caring individuals, firmly against the “other”.
Unbelievable that #ABC is having rolling coverage of this assassination of a RW commentator in America interviewing random people, with very little home grown news being reported 🤦♀️ #ABC is broken
Charlie Kirk a “conservative influencer” #theirABC? “right wing firebrand” more like! Not a plea for denigration or hagiography, just accuracy in reporting #auspol
