David Lamond

David Lamond

@davidlamond.bsky.social

Australian. Twitter survivor. Committed to civil society & justice for all. Left of centre. Enjoy debate. Love books. PhD and 72 years of lived experience 🧐 - learned a little.

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It’s disappointing that Senator Shoebridge and Angus Taylor appear to have gone to the same school on what constitutes β€œrobust and rigorous debate”, evidenced in Shoebridge’s Trotskyist melange of sledging, dissembling, and disingenuous language at #npc #auspol

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Dear Australian mainstream news media Repeating is NOT reporting. "Pauline Hanson said ..." is NOT journalism. Allowing One Nation to make verifiably false or misleading assertions is irresponsible. Don't blindly repeat lies. Call them out: "Today, ON falsely claimed ..." #auspol #JournalismMatters

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Quite right @zalisteggall.bsky.social @mon4kooyong.bsky.social! Taylor's "robust and rigorous debate" claim does not include the current sledging, lies, dissembling, disinformation, & disingenuous language that constitutes so much political rhetoric today #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

theguardian.comAustralia politics live: Steggall and Ryan accuse Taylor of not β€˜reading the room’ with ’tone deaf’ Haines tribute speechFollow live updates

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"Ability to immediately deliver a trusted working relationship with the special envoy" is double speak for already hand in glove. People: this stuff stinks. Australian Public Sector standards are not being followed and no-one is looking. #WhatisthepointofLabor #Auspol

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Folks will recall Sen David Pocock asking how Yaron Finkelstein's firm - Society Advisory - was awarded a contract by Jillian Segal's office. This was answer.

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fascinating. In lower courts, the wheels of β€œjustice” criminalise people born in poverty at around two minutes per matter, with collateral consequences for a lifetime, screened out of tenancy applications, jobs, the legal economy. But this guy. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...

abc.net.auBruce Lehrmann's rape trial postponed to allow time to find barristerThe looming rape trial of former Liberal Party staffer Bruce Lehrmann has been postponed amid a bitter courtroom clash between lawyers.

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If we want to 'take the temperature down' in Australia, a really good start would be blocking X entirely, and making the algorithm opt-in on all Meta platforms. As a side benefit we'd also be slightly reducing the income of the fascist billionaires Musk and Zuckerberg

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While watching the #auspol MSM commentary on the horrific events surrounding @helenhainesindi.bsky.social, I’ve been impressed by the frank assessment by commentators of their own role in promoting the argy-bargy and proffering their apologies … and then I woke up πŸ˜’πŸ™„