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Park cricketer, dad, husband, stoic, Moldova fan, wanderer of Arabia...
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Men, we need to man up and protect others from the wolves who walk amongst us. 👇🏼
"There is no reading of these figures in which women are the problem. There is no reading in which men are the misunderstood party. The threat is male, it is domestic & it's growing. Anyone telling young men otherwise is either lying to them or is a wolf." Kos Samaras johnmenadue.com/post/2026/10...
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Australia continues to support this genocide. Israel has killed more than 800 Gaza teachers & injured over 3,300 since 2023, 95% of schools in Gaza destroyed or severely damaged, over 170 teachers detained, over 21,000 children killed. www.palestinechronicle.com/more-than-80...
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Flying High Dubai. MWM responds to ABC Media Watch Michael West reports. Read it here: https://michaelwest.com.au/flying-high-dubai-mwm-responds-to-abc-media-watch/
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"Australia has become fluent in women’s survival strategies, but has very little to say about the men." Andrew Brown on failure of domestic violence responses by authorities/govt #auspol michaelwest.com.au/domestic-vio...
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The only difference I can see between Neoliberal Labor and the Liberal party is that they're kinder to workers. That's it. I had such hope for our country when they were elected. They rule for their donors and favoured lobby groups, not us. #auspol
Long and fascinating article by Jason Koutsoukis in the Saturday Paper. Essential reading for those of us who care about working class Australians and their families. Those who oppose neoliberalism, militarism and sacrificing our sovereignty to the Trump regime.
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Same stage. Same climate-security theme. Albanese spoke of Australia’s climate efforts; Miliband called for climate threats to shape national-security planning. What does that contrast reveal about Australia’s approach, David Spratt asks. #auspol #ClimateSecurity
The ABC really has gone to crap 💩 This is news? #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
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Immigration dominates the headlines, but voters in focus groups keep returning to housing, bills and politicians who won't listen. The economic frustration behind One Nation's support is being overlooked, Kos Samaras writes. #auspol #Immigration
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US submarines at Stirling, B-52s at Tindal and deeper military integration are locking Australia into Washington’s strategic priorities. Taiwan is not an Australian interest worth going to war over, Paul Keating writes. #auspol #AUKUS
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The strangest irony: as a result of supporting this Nauru Airlines, to facilitate Australia’s offshore immigration apparatus, Home Affairs has been abetting illegal immigration. (Read to the end.)
New investigation: How Australia is propping up an entire international commercial airline (and a dangerously mismanaged one) for its offshore detention regime:
The Israeli government is pure unadulterated evil. Its leader - the Pol Pot of the Middle East. 👇 Nothing to see here for Albanese and Wong - who invited the President of this genocidal state to our country - and its war criminal IDF soldiers. Sickening. #auspol www.youtube.com/watch?v=sS1X...
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I was always found it cynical when people would say, 'they're both as bad as each other'. I can come to no other conclusion with this pathetic Labor government, which governs in secret in the interests of lobbyists and donors. Albo = Scomo #auspol
Labor may be governing competently behind the scenes, but too often the public is brought in only after insiders have reached agreement. That failure to explain, debate and engage is helping deepen distrust in government, Jack Waterford writes. #auspol #Albanese #Democracy
Why are our taxes subsidising private health insurance profits - when those subsidies fail to take pressure off the public system (their stated goal)? Government by and for lobby groups. #auspol
Private health insurance is propped up by about $13 billion a year in taxpayer support, yet there is little evidence it takes pressure off public hospitals. Those billions would be better spent strengthening Medicare, John Menadue writes. #auspol #Medicare #Health
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The antisemitism royal commission has failed. My column explains what happened:
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Hey PM @albomp.bsky.social and Minister for Immigration @tonyburkemp.bsky.social how did 40 war criminals get visas to come to Australia, when the UN says their army is committing genocide? How did they pass the character test? #auspol
Who, exactly, invited 40 Israeli war criminals to the Sydney Marathon, and who, exactly, approved their visas? It's time for those in positions of power who support genocide to put their names on record, take responsibility for their actions. #auspol www.sportingnews.com/au/tsn/news/...
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The new rating reflects the Australian Government's feelings today after the Israeli Defence Force said it would not open a criminal investigation into its fatal strike on aid workers, including Australian Zomi Frankcom. Read the full story: theshovel.com.au/2026/08/20/t...
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“'There are people there who are not worthy of life. They shouldn’t live. They’re not even people,' Ben-Gvir added while calling for the targeted killings of Palestinians in Gaza." The face of Israel. Yet still the Australian govt provides arms and diplo cover for the #GazaGenocide. #auspol
what a nazi looks like today. boycott israel, and free palestine
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Love Kos Samaras' insights. Vic Liberal leader today dropped a policy to legislate weekly bin collections - a classic example of what he says they need to do in this article below. 👇 The Victorian election is about to get interesting! #auspol
Sobering insights to counter the PHONy hysteria: "... what our work keeps telling us is that a significant portion of One Nation’s vote is not a vote for One Nation at all. It is ... Frustration, parked somewhere, against the established order." #Auspol redbridgeintel.substack.com/p/frustratio...
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#auspol thepoint.com.au/opinions/260... Until it can answer these two questions “what are you going to do about nuclear weapons on Australian territory” and “what are you going to do about nuclear waste management” it can’t proceed in good faith.
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Governments that struggle to get through the day without claiming to care about the effects of gambling while simultaneously taking money from gambling companies will now have access to a confidential support hotline. theshovel.com.au/2026/08/10/n...
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"Remember the referendum in which Australians voted to create a Voice to Parliament for Israel? You don’t. It never happened. We got one anyway." #auspol michaelwest.com.au/the-segal-st...
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My @deepcutnews.bsky.social column - in the late 1970s neoliberal con artists unleashed their cancer in to society. Fuck them and the horse they rode on. www.deepcutnews.com/p/neoliberal...
Albanese's gambling reforms - Piss Weak. Hard to expect much else from a government run by and for its corporate donors. #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Here's @boganintel.bsky.social. 'The ABC’s intellectual and moral decline comes at the worst possible time'
Looks like the Victorian Labor government is in for a reckoning this November... #auspol
Victorian Labor’s collapse is not just about debt, crime or the Suburban Rail Loop. It is a delayed lockdown reckoning from communities that felt broken, billed and then ignored by a recovery built in concrete, Kos Samaras writes. #auspol #SpringSt #Labor