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@artgra.bsky.social

I value intelligent posts and good journalism. History nerd. Artist Podcaster Documentary film maker Educator/coach/trainer eLearning designer I also like sarcasm, silliness and your pet photos.

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"Replace the wreckage with one national rights framework protecting every Australian from every form of racial and religious hatred, equally. No envoys. No favourites. No exceptions." Segal part 2 by Andrew Brown #auspol michaelwest.com.au/the-segal-st...

michaelwest.com.auThe Segal State, Part 2: the mask, the children, the money and the answer - Michael WestAnthony Albanese built an unelected censorship apparatus for antisemitism envoy Jillian Segal without a vote, a bill or a debate

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"a managerial, cautious, poll-driven approach to politics, and timidity. Raising money and the compromises that go with it, including on gambling, have supplanted listening to the party membership ...Labor has disenfranchised its natural constituencies." pearlsandirritations.com/post/2026/07...

pearlsandirritations.comWhat is the point of power without purpose?The ALP Conference this week will be carefully managed, but Labor’s deeper problem is a hollowed-out party increasingly driven by factions, polling and caution.

This will always be my Sam. I’ve already had a couple of cries today. Of all the millennia, I’m glad I got to live on this planet at the same time as him.

In 330BCE Alexander the ‘Great’ razed this city to the ground for shits and giggles. What’s left is still glorious and beautiful. The people are too. 🕊️

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Australia needs a new form of political parties, maybe new form of government. We fail to properly tax our imported & finite resources, but we get almost free & very good health care. At same time we hv a housing & energy cost crisis, crippling debt. We cd & shd be doing better.

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Labor has sanctioned Mehreen Faruqi for holding up a sign in the Senate, but won’t sanction Israel for its genocide in Gaza. It’s like peaceful activism is worse than murdering countless Palestinian babies.

No one on here seems to have considered the next phase in this sordid Epstein saga is that Murdoch switches to Vance and destroys Trump. Republicans can purge themselves of Trump while still gaining all the anti democratic stuff he’s helped them do.

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Replying to @australiainstitute.org.au

“If you win the lottery, Who Wants to be a Millionaire or The Block, you don’t pay tax on your prize money. "Win the Stella Prize for writing by Australian women, and you pay tax. "Win the Archibald prize for painting, pay tax." Read more ⤵ australiainstitute.org.au/post/the-cos...

australiainstitute.org.auThe costly double standard of winning a cash prize in Australia - The Australia InstituteNew analysis from The Australia Institute reveals a costly double standard for those who win cash prizes in Australia.

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Insane scenes in Downtown Los Angeles as the cops open fire indiscriminately on people milling about. The cops shattered a business’s windows while firing on a live-streaming journalist. Keep this in mind when people talk about the protesters causing property destruction. 🎥 : AXN News on YouTube

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ABC talking about LNP losing more to the Teals. Why can’t they see that the real loser tonight is Nazis? No one wants Australia to be a nazi bar. Right leaning people have spoken.

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F**k off. Victorians hate you. We will never forgive you. First I was to scared to go to restaurant’s. Now you’re telling me I’m too scared to go to Bunnings too. You are such an absolute tosser. Never speak for Victorians. Only thing we’re scared of is you as our next PM.

I’m so sick of politicians doing pressers with two or more silent, nodding women standing behind them. Do your presser alone. Let the women get on with the work or hand the microphone to them.

Met a rare US tourist couple yesterday. From Idaho with a holiday house in Florida. It became clear they’ve swallowed the MAGA bullshit. He was very interested in my perception of our compulsory voting system. He got schooled.

Does anyone have a list of which LNP candidates have put out that Christi-fascist statement? So far I’m aware of Hamer, Yung & Dutton. Are there others? #ausvotes

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I'd laugh at the idiot trying to explain why they tariff us but it seems they want Australia to help pay the US debt and the only complaint is again our beef. #auspol

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

WARNER: Can you explain how it helps natl security or our trade balance - I loved your fancy Greek formula which was bad math on steroids - how with a trade surplus Australia got hit with a 10% tariff as well? GREER: Australia has the lowest rate available WARNER: We have a trade surplus!

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"Video casts doubt on Israeli account of Gaza medic killings", says the BBC. Most western legacy media similar. Still can't bring themselves to state the obvious: "Massacre of aid workers - Israeli authorities cover up yet another war crime". www.bbc.com/news/videos/...

bbc.comVideo casts doubt on Israeli account of Gaza medic killingsThe video was published by the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS), which said it was obtained from the phone of a paramedic who was killed.

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Kernot says her experience in 2001 formed her view of Dutton’s style of politics “He’s just a natural head kicker,” she says. “And I think the one thing that frustrates me most about his rise to where he is, is that he’s got there without any massive scrutiny of his policy. #auspol

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This is exactly how Australia’s major parties work #auspol

Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social

This is how our government has been corrupted:  1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office.  2) Elected officials rewrite the rules in the donors' favor.  3) Donors make a huge profit.  4) Repeat. For the sake of democracy, we must get Big Money out of politics.

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I’m calling it for what it is Spud is NOT remotely associated with conservativism on any level. He is rejected by the old guard & moderates as he moves further to the right He is a racist far-right supporter of Trumpism, hate, division & culture wars He does it 4 power, control & bec he LIKES it

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A novel idea.. politicians should not be allowed to lie to the public they serve Our duopoly, & much of the rest, would not survive a truthful ecosystem

Novara Media@novaramedia.com

Politicians who deliberately lie could be forced from office in Wales, under new “globally pioneering” proposals to restore people’s trust in politics.

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ABC RN Breakfast commentary panel now pushing the tabloid media narrative that Labor is wrong to criticise Dutton, claiming no wrongdoing has been proved. Dutton is suspected of insider trading re his purchase of bank shares a day before the Rudd Govt's bank bail-out. #auspol #AusVotes2025