A Scot in Oz

A Scot in Oz

@garybryson.bsky.social

Lefty troublemaker and recovering Glaswegian. I live on unceded Gundungurra and Dharug land in the glorious Blue Mountains west of Sydney. No DMs, please.

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Trumpy Jr. went hunting with the russian dude who paid for his wedding who he claimed he didn't know and he shot and killed a rare, endangered Altai argali mountain sheep because nothing is more Trumpian than killing an endangered animal for fun. What an asshole.

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The Greens are today announcing our plan to cut tax on work and put more money in people's pockets. Every Australian will have an extra $1000, paid for by the 1%. The cost-of-living crisis isn’t inevitable. We can change who pays tax and who gets relief.

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Monique is spot on here. Bravo

stranger@strangerous.bsky.social

“How do you tastefully satirise someone’s vaginal prolapse? You don’t”💥 Monique Ryan rips shreds off Pauline Hanson for attacking her rivals with violent & misogynistic cartoons. Says it’s time media stop ‘giving a public voice’ to someone who spreads so much negative trash.💯

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David Shoebridge unleashes on Home Affairs after they admit they send undisclosed amount of taxpayer funds to PNG with zero checks & balances—while it’s ‘up to the PNG govt’ to do whatever they like with our money, Shoebridge “That’s not an answer to Australian taxpayers?”🔥

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Kerry O’Brien:What’s left of the democracy we thought we had? In the eyes of many Australians, government is a hollowed-out husk of what it once was, with limited will and capacity to plan for, let alone exercise, a measure of sovereign control over technology.. www.themonthly.com.au/october-2026...

themonthly.com.auTech, truth and the decline in democracyIn his Thea Astley Address at the Byron Writers Festival, the celebrated journalist used the occasion to reflect on the perfect storm that is destroying our politics

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David Shoebridge is on fire at the NPC, rejects claim The Greens are not near the “sensible centre” just coz they don’t bash migrants & oppose Israel’s genocide, “I reject any correlation b/w that & what we’ve been doing…to call out a genocide & say kids should not be killed”💥

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Shoebridge rips into Jillian Segal over her false claims at the antisemitism RC on the Gaza death toll & asks what she has to say now that the UN has called her out Segal says her role is to give views of the Jewish community Shoebridge “Your role is to give truthful evidence”💥

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Rally: Hands off the #WestBank Fri 30th October 2026 5.30pm Sydney Town Hall, Sydney CBD. Organised by Palestine Action Group. Please attend, if you're able to do so. #EndTheOccupation #FreePalestine

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Hey @albomp.bsky.social - you may have misinterpreted the demand to #RaiseTheRate. #inequality #auspol

Barbara Pocock@barbarapocock.bsky.social

$2.2 million is an outrageous sum of money for one public servant to earn. What's more, 17 people in the Future Fund are now on more than a million - only one woman among them. Australians who can barely afford groceries right now, will share my outrage. tinyurl.com/mak89juh

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The lessons from Brazil and Serbia? Don't concede one inch of ground to the far right. Don't appease. Don't triangulate. Don't grovel. Don't say they have "legitimate concerns". Mobilise your base, and fight them with all the democratic means at your disposal.

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Rafa Sales Ross@rafiews.com

In his acceptance speech, Lula says he will work to regulate digital platforms in Brazil. “Digital crimes must be dealt with like real-life crimes.” This comes after Meta directly interfered with the Brazilian elections, favouring Flávio Bolsonaro.

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Bolsonaro's loss is not just a loss for Bolsonaro. It's a loss for Trump. For Musk. For Milei. For Netanyahu. For Farage. For Meta and Zuckerberg. For the meat barons, the fossil fuel corporations, and the rest of the neocolonial looters. And it is a massive win for humanity and the living planet.

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The PM has been telling everyone to turn the temperature down. He might want to have a word to Lachlan Murdoch about turning the temperature up with climate-denying conspiracy theories about BOM manipulating temperature data. #auspol

Graham Readfearn@readfearn.bsky.social

The Australian newspaper has been claiming a "forensic audit report" shows BoM's temperature data has "widespread error". For 15 years climate sceptics have been claiming a conspiracy around the data. Is anything different this time?

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This is a great episode from @janfran.bsky.social , pulling apart the PM’s “turning the temperature down” bullshit while we are gaslit about who is actually turning the temperature up. Including himself, grinning in selfies with the world’s inflamer-in-chief.

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Corruption blossoms under a Labor government, especially with a fake shopfront, opaque and conflicted Corruption body, specially designed for announcables with no action. #auspol

Nick Feik@nickfeik.bsky.social

Home Affairs gave a $4.3 BILLION air services contract to a company with no Australian air operators certificate or employees – or the required aircraft – and which was registered to a front company: a real estate agent.

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⚡️ Scotland is energy rich, yet has some of the highest energy bills in Europe. It's time for a fresh start with lower energy bills. Support our campaign by pledging your support and encourage your followers to do the same.

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Ted O'Brien 🤦

stranger@strangerous.bsky.social

Ted O’Brien gets shredded on Today, after being repeatedly pressed, he still can’t explain how the Duty of Care bill is a form of censorship Jeffreys “I’m still not sure how it’s censorship judging by that answer”💥 Shoebridge “It plainly isn’t…”💥 Embarrassing stuff.

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This is where the “capture and storage” plant that we were promised that has NEVER worked

Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈@ssteingraber1.bsky.social

Climate disaster keeps disastering: Satellite monitoring has detected massive plumes of methane pouring from Chevron's Gorgon LNG plant in Western Australia. (This is the one connected to the world’s biggest carbon capture and storage project WHIICH IS ALSO FAILING) www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...

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We don't base our laws on Egyptian, Greek, Roman or Norse mythology. When will we stop defending Israel's atrocities based on Jewish mythology or writing laws re women's healthcare rights based on Christian mythology? #religion #politics #USA

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JD Vance needs to do his homework Ukraine agreed to relinquish the nuclear weapons inherited from the Soviet Union. In connection with that decision, the US, Britain, & Russia gave security assurances, including commitments to respect Ukraine’s independence, sovereignty, & existing borders.

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If pollution laws meant anything (ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha) then both Canberra and the WA government would immediately move to shut down Chevron’s Gorgon plant

Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈@ssteingraber1.bsky.social

Climate disaster keeps disastering: Satellite monitoring has detected massive plumes of methane pouring from Chevron's Gorgon LNG plant in Western Australia. (This is the one connected to the world’s biggest carbon capture and storage project WHIICH IS ALSO FAILING) www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...

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For Africa, climate change is not about the future. It's about now. Our crops failing, our lakes shrinking, our people displaced — while boardrooms thousands of miles away count record profits. We don't have a climate problem. We have a justice problem. #ClimateJustice