65Stanford

65Stanford

@65stanford.bsky.social

Retired after 44 years in Australian education. Father of 3 and grandfather of 4. Living in Brisbane, Australia.

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Our PBS may become a battlefront. Be prepared to defend it! #auspol #measles #publichealth

Ros@roshart.bsky.social

It is free and easy to get a measles vaccination in Australia. America’s health policies are obviously designed to kill poor people. Trump is cruel.

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Aside from returning Queensland to the Johmander, Qld Attorney-General Deb Frecklington has been copping it at home in Nanango over her 2017 Cooyar Bridge pledge. Now she's in government & it's a promise that doesn't count, apparently. Next it'll be Labor's fault. #qldpol

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Prepare for the privatisation by the Crisafulli LNP Govt of Queensland's energy generation sector. 🤔 #auspol #qldpol

Shiannon Corcoran@shiannonc.bsky.social

David Janetzki, the QLD LNP’s treasurer - is a real little Hitleresque jackbooter Janetzki & Bleijie are the mining industry donor sycophants calling the shots in QLD LNP govt. Right now they’re drunk on power & their access to the treasury trough Prepare for the privatisation of QLD energy sector

A reminder of the extremely poor quality media we have to endure in Queensland. 🙄😐 Here's Murdoch's pro-LNP "Courier Mail" from late April this year telling Queenslanders that Dutton would easily win the state in the May federal election. He didn't! He lost seats, including his own! #auspol #qldpol

Shiannon Corcoran@shiannonc.bsky.social

A flashback to 2025 election campaign & the QLD Courier Fail’s on-point election analysis 🙄😵‍💫 Honestly, the media shyte we have to put up with here in Queensland is next level. I suggest saving this headline in a screenshot to remind the Fail just how batsh*t their bloviating sycophancy has become.

Queensland, under the LNP Crisafulli Government, is what Australia would have become if the Queensland LNP's Peter Dutton and David Littleproud had won this year's federal election. Fortunately, Australian voters had more sense! #qldpol #auspol

David Marler@qldaah.bsky.social

Queensland Deputy Premier Jarrod Bleijie is more interested in being an Elvis impersonator than taking any meaningful action on climate change. LNP-ruled Queensland is what Australia would have looked like under Peter Dutton & David Littleproud. #qldpol reneweconomy.com.au/parkinson-re...

Queensland's LNP Crisafulli Government has reverted to the anti-renewables mind-set of the Newman Government years. #qldpol #auspol

David Marler@qldaah.bsky.social

Qld regresses to the anti-renewables era of the Newman govt. The state now an anchor on Australia's renewables transition through Jarrod Bleijie's latest Act. The consultative bill itself was ushered into law without consultation on its design. #qldpol reneweconomy.com.au/flashback-to...

"The person who had China's Xi Jinping address Australia's Parliament was Tony Abbott, for the record." (PM Anthony Albanese to Sky News) #auspol

stranger@strangerous.bsky.social

PM Albanese fires back at Peter Stefanovic who says he’s had “more meetings Xi Jinping” than with Trump, reminding him Xi Jinping has been “in office for some time” & that the person who “had Xi Jinping address our national parliament here was Tony Abbott, for the record”🔥🤣

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#auspol As the USA slides into become just another 3rd world dictatorship, In Australia we now have 24weeks paid parental leave & 12% compulsory employer paid superannuation. So glad we were founded by Convicts & not Christian Fundamentalists!!

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The PM: "There is no country in the world that has a lower (US) tariff than Australia." Albo keeps reminding us of this - and it's a fact - yet the media unrelentingly push the "when are you meeting Trump to discuss the tariffs". It's tiresome. #auspol #ABC

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‘We don’t give tax breaks on superannuation so that you can fund the inheritance of your children.’ Greg Jericho shows how the super tax ‘debate’ highlights everything wrong with Australia’s media #auspol #ausecon #journalism www.theguardian.com/business/gro...

theguardian.comSuper tax debate highlights everything wrong with Australia’s media and economic system | Greg JerichoThe way superannuation is mostly covered by the media in Australia is about how to avoid paying tax and how to use it to fund inheritance

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More cost of living help is on the way from today. We're delivering meaningful, responsible relief for Australian families - providing real support right now and help for the future as well. #auspol #ausecon

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The Qld LNP can't deliver a state budget without blaming someone. It's all nonsense when they can conjure up billions to bulldoze parks for their Olympics monuments; the Crisafulli Colosseum & the Bleijie Blight Bowl. #qldpol

"We'll invest in whatever capability Australia needs to defend ourselves" - not some arbitrary figure. (PM Anthony Albanese) #auspol

stranger@strangerous.bsky.social

PM “We’ll invest in whatever capability Australia needs to defend ourselves” For probably the thousandth time, PM responds to Q’s on Trump’s demand for a further increase to our Defence spending, saying exactly the same thing. What is it that the media doesn’t understand?🙄 #Abc

Reciprocal tariffs on Australia by the US should be zero. That's what Australia imposes on US imports under the Free Trade Agreement - zero. #auspol

stranger@strangerous.bsky.social

PM Albanese lashes #AfternoonBriefing host Patricia Karvelas after she fails to mention he was asked about “reciprocal tariffs” with the US when he gave an answer of “zero tariffs” today. PK “We have to be realists.” Albanese “Yeah, & we have to give facts.”🔥 #Abc

The LNP Federal Opposition is reportedly shifting away from the Dutton era anti-immigration rhetoric. #auspol

Shiannon Corcoran@shiannonc.bsky.social

‘Coalition signals dramatic shift away from anti-immigration rhetoric of Dutton era’ 🙄 Stoking the fires of hate, culture wars, racism & “go home if u don’t like it here” has been part of their strategy forever. Only difference now is it is covert. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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Jarrod Bleijie has declared construction of Crisafulli Colosseum & other Olympics venues will exclude CFMEU members. Peter Dutton made the Qld LNP based threat earlier this year but experts say it's likely illegal. #qldpol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

theguardian.comPeter Dutton’s pledge to exclude CFMEU from Queensland road projects could be illegal, experts sayLaw professor says prohibiting companies from tendering because of uninon relationships would be ‘tantamount to a secondary boycott’

Queensland LNP State election promises from previous elections "no longer count." #qldpol #auspol

David Marler@qldaah.bsky.social

John Howard had core & non-core promises. Now we have counting & non-counting promises. AG Deb Frecklington is from the LNP very safe seat of Nanango on a margin of 22.9%. #qldpol

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Reflecting on Jarrod Bleijie's attempted slur using Tuvalu. A third of Tuvaluans have applied for Australian residency. The situation isn't a Peter Dutton attempt at humour, either. The country will be uninhabitable within 80yrs. Only 280 visas on offer pa. #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...

abc.net.auIn four days, nearly a third of Tuvalu applied to live in AustraliaThe Pacific Island nation has rushed to apply to live in Australia under a landmark climate change visa.

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NACC Commr Paul Brereton has lashed out after an unnamed Home Affairs employee was found to have engaged in a conflict of interest Brereton “conflicts of interest are an area of widespread concern” Unless you do it yourself? Then it’s Okay? In no place to talk Brereton #Robodebt

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Can't WAIT for GPs to be able to diagnose and prescribe for ADHD! It's happening soon in both NSW and the ACT. Victoria should hurry the hell up and do it too! It'll definitely free up psychiatrists for those who actually need it - and hopefully it'll force them to reduce their fees.

Dr Blair Williams@blairwilliams26.bsky.social

Just received an email this morning letting me know my psychiatrist fees have further increased. Initial consult fees are now $1,080 before the rebate and $817 out of pocket. 🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠 This is beyond broken. How can anyone afford this?? #AusPol

Chinese EV company, BYD, even has its own branded ships for transporting its car exports to the rest of the world. #auspol #uspol #cdnpoli

Ewart, Dave@davidewart.bsky.social

9000 cars per trip, these guys are not stopping in blanketing the world with BYD cars

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President Biden and Vice President Harris hold hands next to Governor Walz and his wife at the funeral service of Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark Hortman. It hurts to see what could have been.🥹 May we all soon see the day our nation is led with decency and kindness once again. #Respect

"I was more than a conveyancing clerk." Says Cameron Dick, former Palaszczuk-Miles Govt Treasurer, and a former Queensland Attorney-General, about Jarrod Bleijie, current Queensland LNP Deputy Premier. #qldpol #auspol

David Marler@qldaah.bsky.social

"Says the former AG from Tuvalu! You got your law degree from Tuvalu!" Jarrod Bleijie yells at Cameron Dick. "I was more than a conveyancing clerk," comes the reply. Both were Qld AGs with the latter also Tuvalu AG 1995-1996; law educated at Uni of Qld & masters at Cambridge. #qldpol

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QLD LNP continue to provide comic relief -but not financial relief for QLDers LNP’s change of coat of arms colour from maroon to blue on govt docs & signage looks like a political flex- but has provided some entertainment. QLD Blues versus NSW Blues is nonsensical Yes, the LNP are THAT ridiculous

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The hated games. "There’ll be bulldozers." With his Olympics compliance laws enacted, Lord Pocketsquare Jarrod Bleijie threatens Indigenous over the Barrambin Victoria Park development. Non-union labour to construct Crisafulli's Coliseum & other Qld venues in Joh-sized property grab. #qldpol

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Olympics costs will rise by billions because of the LNP's changes. The election pledge was no new stadium but Jarrod Belijie will bulldoze Barrambin Victoria Park for Crisafulli's Coliseum. They deny requesting more from the feds beyond the $7.1bn cap. #qldpol

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"There will be excavators, there’ll be tractors, there’ll be bulldozers, there’ll be yellow vests." Lord Pocketsquare demands full compliance from Queenslanders over Olympics construction. Resistance to Crisafulli's Coliseum at Barrambin Victoria Park won't be tolerated. #qldpol

THE Queensland LNP Crisafulli Govt tries to get credit for the established & ongoing upgrades to the 1673 km-long Bruce Highway. #qldpol #auspol

David Marler@qldaah.bsky.social

LNP attempts to own the Bruce Hwy upgrades but it's a well established & ongoing program. It's $12.4m allocated this budget not the entire $9b. Frequently set back by cyclones & floods; it's 2 steps forward & 1 back. It's 1,673km of road & was thrown down in places we wouldn't build on now. #qldpol

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Tanya Plibersek calls out the hypocrisy of the LNP to be “happy to have quotas” for no. of “National Party MPs that have to be on the front bench” but not happy with quotas for women. “They’ve got a 50% target, they introduced it in 2016, they’ve done nothing to deliver it”🔥

Mark Kenny:"No one mentions that Israel is already a nuclear power." (ABC "Insiders") #auspol

stranger@strangerous.bsky.social

Mark Kenny nails it “No one mentions the fact that Israel is also a nuclear power, that it’s not even a signatory to the Non-proliferation Treaty. It doesn’t observe the safeguards of the IAEA.” “I mean, that just doesn’t get mentioned.”💥 #ABCInsiders

Another Angus Taylor trainwreck interview - this time on increased defence spending, and on Sky News too, the LNP's propaganda channel of choice. #auspol

stranger@strangerous.bsky.social

💥Angus Taylor smashed in a trainwreck on Sky while refusing to say where money will come from to pay for an increase in Defence spending. Suggests it will be from their Trump-style Public Service cuts but says they won’t confirm it until the “election in close to 3yrs time”🤦‍♂️

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The consolidation of Queensland power obscured by the Olympics dream. Lord Pocketsquare now has ultimate approval over all developments concerning Crisafulli's Coliseum & other Olympics sites across the state. A Joh-sized property grab is underway. #qldpol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...

abc.net.auQueensland passes legislation to exempt Olympic venues from planning lawsThe move will exempt Games infrastructure from major planning laws, in a bid to ensure projects are not held up by potential legal challenges.