As if Trump needed any help with embarrassment! 🙄 open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
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As if Trump needed any help with embarrassment! 🙄 open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
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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"After three years in politics, I’ve seen lobbyists from gambling and fossil-fuel industries stroll into ministers’ offices, while community groups struggle to get a meeting," writes David Pocock. "So how do we change this?" satpa.pe/EYTrTJ9
"Israeli PM Netanyahu is failing to maintain his genocidal narrative, and an audience, as he turns his country and himself into a notorious global pariah." My latest article: 'Playing devil's advocate in the living hell of Gaza' #auspol www.boganintel.com/p/playing-de...
Inspirational and heartbreaking. Children discarded as wrapping paper during Israel's constant onslaught and search for their evil and elusive present. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
This is a very good move. On their regular beach cleans, Surfrider Foundation (Aus, report this as one of the most collected pieces of rubbish!
Yesterday, when Richard Boyle received ‘no conviction’, the judiciary gave whistleblowers a little bit of hope. Today the Labor Party and the Coalition hit back to ensure potential whistleblowers understand they won’t be supported if they tell the truth. #shameful #auspol
Done. His honesty and integrity treated so harshly for so many years must have been unbearable for him and his family. Hope he gets his strength back.
There's a fundraiser currently up, run by the inimitable @instanterudite.bsky.social for Richard Boyle & Louise. After many years of persecution by the ATO over his whistleblowing on their debt collection practices, the ordeal is over He's been to hell and back www.gofundme.com/f/whistleblo...
Andrew Scott is a contemporary artist renowned for his bold "frame-breaking" creations, where characters in his paintings seem to penetrate through glass. Through this unique creative approach, Scott explores themes of freedom, solitude, and resilience. Artist: @andrewscott_art #art #visualart
This interview, which is also available to listen to as a podcast, provides a useful overview of some of the dangerous trends we’ve been seeing in recent months regarding federalization and militarization of state and local police functions.
Incredible photos 👇👇👇
Mark Dreyfus has called out Tim Wilson’s nasty & intimidatory electoral campaign in #Goldstein which included incidents of abuse, harassment, even death threats. Dreyfus credits Zoe Daniel & says, unlike Wilson, her campaign was one of integrity. Shame on you Wilson. #auspol
Even worse! "Fox News host Trey Gowdy reacted on Wednesday to the breaking news that two children had been killed in a mass shooting at a Minnesota church by stating that “the only thing that can give us any modicum of peace at all” is that the victims were with Jesus Christ now."
CNN showing a clip of a TEN YEAR OLD being interviewed about the School Shooting. TEN!!! HOW FUCKED UP ARE WE as a country ?
Frey: And don't just say, this is about thoughts and prayers right now. These kids were literally praying. It was the first week of school. They were in a church.
Murray Watt torches an out of control Michaelia Cash for trying to “dial everything up to eleven” “She was saying, that the world would fall apart. Remember the dark ages we were going to get into?” Senate President stands up to lash the LNP - has her hands full today.💥 #QT
Yes probably, but I think more council regulations, hence people vying for tiny houses
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Thomas Deininger uses plastic waste to create sculptures,or should I say,works of Genius!!!!!!
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#Onveiligheidsgevoel @trouw.nl
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“We Only Have This One War Left.” — Europe and Zelenskyy Nod Politely for 45 Minutes
Not entirely, as the kids could now access health services again, which you can't if you are on NDIS. Better in rural areas where you couldn't access services unless paying a lot for travel or through Zoom with exorbitant rates to pay.
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When does this stop! 4th one in a week. Stricter DVO/AVO and review bail conditions needed as services on the ground instead of multiple phone and internet lines. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
Correct The World Map correctthemap.org
Who poo-poo'd
📢 If you haven't yet, take a moment to read the cover story in this edition of About Time, which features our team. Here's the article, and why not settle in for the entire edition while you're here? These are the voices that need to be shared. 💜 www.abouttime.org.au/news-and-inv...
Exclusive: A long-hidden report by Deloitte into Australia’s private job service providers found the government would be “significantly constrained” in trying to defend individual decisions made before a court, tribunal or indeed the Commonwealth Ombudsman. satpa.pe/abc8u3L
#teach #empathy
Sickening. Shameful. And in the end, useless. Those were the words that came to mind when we watched the Alaska Summit unfold.
China up, US down: Why Australian travellers are moving away from old favourites www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee flips his lid on #abc730 saying Donald Trump is not happy he wasn’t given a “heads up” about Australia’s decision to recognise the state of Palestine. Sorry Mr Huckabee but we make our own decisions. You can shut up.
Reporter: What’s going on with those posts on X that are clearly trolling the president? Newsom: I hope it’s a wake up call for the president. I’m just following his example. If you have issues with what I’m putting out, you sure as hell should have concerns with what he’s putting out
Try the Aldi one,,,,mmmmmm
Robodebt Whistleblower Jeannie-Marie Blake says if she & her colleagues had access to Whistleblower Protection “maybe we could have avoided Robodebt altogether” At that time, it was “shut up or leave” “Code of conduct breaches were used to suppress dissent.”💥😔 #SenateEstimates 13-Aug-25
Epstein’s survivors deserve answers, not silence. The DOJ can’t claim to stand for justice while ignoring the very people who risked everything to expose the truth.
"Almost 60 per cent of calls to a Queensland domestic and family violence helpline went unanswered in October, a disturbing new report has revealed." #qldpol #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
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A bit of welcome democracy within the usually expedient ALP 👇Dear Labor AUKUS dissidents please get Defence Minister Richard Marles to release all AUKUS contractual documentation. Australians deserve to see the guarantee that we’ll actually get the N subs we’re already paying for upfront.
. Why isn’t the Democratic Party holding a press conference every day talking about how Trump’s policies are affecting American people? Every day. #Democrats #Congress .
Exactly.
"This is the first time that a modern country has used mass starvation against a civilian population, as a weapon of war. ...demands comparison with the worst of the last hundred years: of Stalin’s Ukraine, of the Warsaw Ghetto, of Mao’s Great Leap Forward." -Bob Carr johnmenadue.com/post/2025/07...
Abier— "The fact that Israeli society celebrates the deliberate starvation of Palestinians, including hundreds of thousands of children, is a grotesque anomaly in modern history. "This is a case study in dehumanization and collective cruelty."
The babies who were conceived during the famine and whose mothers were undernourished while their brains were being built—those brains were smaller. When those people were adults, their brains were wired in a different way.
Trump’s personal criminal defense lawyer Todd Blanche (now Deputy Attorney General) & his meeting with Ghislaine Maxwell was a shakedown to get her to say Trump is innocent in #EpsteinGate Ex-Pam #Bondi staffer says Trump cutting 'hidden #pardon' deal with Ghislaine Maxwell. #Epstein
Holy shit, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell corrected the orange felon’s lies on live television without hesitation. This is how you do it.
For the Epsteinth time, an 'underage woman' is called a CHILD. Thanks for coming to my Pred Talk.
An article still worth reading. Not much has changed for #HistNursing with nurses & midwives still underrepresented despite gloablly being the largest single profession ADB has ~161/13,000 articles ODNB has ~100/63,000. Wikipedia #WomenInRed in a similar position.... history is hard work
Wow. If this Greg Malham guy hadn’t been so stupid to film himself being a misogynist RW twat during the election we’d never have found out the trail of medical destruction the bloke has left in his wake #4corners
"a group of pro-Israel letter-writers" ...well, that's one way to describe people who apparently had such amazingly easy access to, and influence over, the top echelons of ABC Board and management. 🙄
Scottish parliament seeking views for new law that would create register for domestic abusers
President Donald Trump is struggling to grasp why the latest sex scandal has his MAGA base so furious — when they were so quick to shrug off ones he'd been involved with in the past, a columnist wrote Tuesday.
How do you accidentally kill 500 people simply trying to feed themselves? Israel has lost the plot, lost the high moral ground, and lost the respect of the world… sadface 😢 apple.news/AmAmc5AjnQou...
I can’t get enough of Queen Maxima of The Netherlands mocking the orange felon. Hilariously good. 🤣🔥
And she would destroy her kids' toys with a hammer.
Geweld tegen kinderen in gewapende conflicten neemt alsmaar toe: "Hun kreten zouden ons 's nachts wakker moeten houden" vrtnws.be/p.jGOlpvELw?t=175... @vrtnws.be
Well said!
#AfternoonBriefing reports on 5 Israeli civilians injured from latest Iranian strike. Just yesterday 59+ Palestinian civilians who were scrambling for humanitarian aid in Gaza were blown to pieces by IDF tanks & nothing was mentioned on this program. #Abc is Islamophobic.
As the US empire collapses, are we up to the task of operating in a world more chaotic and violent than before? Or do we just want to stay a US vassal?
Trump: "We have planes that are undetectable flying around. Nobody's able to see them. Stealth."
"Israel’s war on Iran is the final move in a decades-old strategy. We are witnessing the culmination of decades of extremist Zionist manipulation of US foreign policy." #StopIsrael #StopNetanyahu johnmenadue.com/post/2025/06...
"Keating warned that Labor's 'grassroots will not support Australia being dragged into a war with the US over Taiwan'. Many continue to call for a proper debate over the terms and circumstances of America's involvement on our continent." The US 'alliance' is now a huge security threat. #auspol
Violence against women is an Australian epidemic Enough! 🤬
Canada PM Carney stops Trump from going into one of his signature fascist rants against "blue" cities: "Let me exercise my role as G7 chair" #G7
The eye roll speaks volumes 👀
Posting this Obama clip because it makes me happy. O, how times have changed! www.youtube.com/watch?v=aP9A...
Abc will probably fire the reporter since the network is ran by cowards.
that’s a residential apartment building, Bevan.
Because, Capitalism
A heartwarming video of a baby elephant and an elder companion splashing around in a tub is going viral - and it's easy to see why. The playful bath session is winning hearts across the internet, reminding us of the gentle side of these majestic giants.
Yup. This bromance couldn't last, just as I predicted back in February. Hilarious: each just as bad as the other... but so tragic too, because they have both left devastation in their wake, and it isn't over yet.https://www.rawstory.com/musk-trump-2672317914/
Jesus wept!!!!! Scott Morrison!
African Elephants are my favorite land animal species, by far. During yesterday’s earthquake, my babies at the San Diego Zoo reacted to the quake, immediately protective of their most-vulnerable Community members. Humans could learn SO much from these beauties, if we’d just humble ourselves. 🐘🐘
So true. As a social worker in Government and NGOs for 40 years you can draw exact parallel cultures within this article. I will miss her. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...
Love this. The brilliant Laura Tingle. #journalism
Trump’s USA is now just a sleazy, tawdry, toxic Freak show. Surely, no country that values the law, democracy or any sense of basic decency can ever take this shit show of a country seriously again
How the fuck do we live in a country where Malcolm Turnbull’s Liberal-NATIONAL Party completely fucked up the NBN yet now that very same National Party are whining about a lack of internet connectivity in the bush? #NewsCorpse
"Two doctors go to work to assist others. Nine of their kids are killed by an Israeli missile targeting their home. Only surviving child in critical condition. Targeting families in the still-standing buildings: distinguishable sadistic pattern of the new phase of the genocide." -Francesca Albanese
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Hey #AlboPM now's your chance for meaningful tax reform. Gina's LNP is dead in the water. Withdraw Negative Gearing and kick start first home ownership. Tax the billionaires and put dental into Medicare. Pull your finger out and get on with it. Australia and Australians will thank you for it.
Wow. 🥺❤️🩹
Just doesn't seem to be any spine within the Govt to do anything aside from wheel out some mealy mouthed concern-o-meter words every six months or so.
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Lovely design. It would make a nice office coffee mug. Now tilt the image 90⁰ to the right. 😁
Yes. This.
These fines need to hurt something because they seem to communicate “this worker’s life is only worth $50k.”
Here's the list of CEO's that joined Tr*mp to meet MBS and the government in Saudi Arabia: BlackRock, IBM, Amazon, Boeing, Google, Palantir, Halliburton and much more. Tr*mp had to freeze the enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, that says it all.
“Poor man wanna be rich. Rich man wanna be king. The king ain’t satisfied ‘til he rules everything.”—Springsteen, Badlands
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