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We keep telling the government - we don't want automated robo-debt, or data centres everywhere, or aged-care assessment by algorithm, or non-professional NDIS decisions. Employ real people. Pay real wages. Fix hospitals & schools. Tax the squillionaires & giant companies. Can't be any clearer.

Alfonso Yuste Navarro is a street artist active in Spain. He makes little, very detailed homes for stray cats in the streets of Valencia [📹 Jeanne Paquette / jea.nnee] Original post

No one should have to choose between the life they’ve built here in Australia and the parents they left behind. The Greens are fighting for a system that lets families have both. Because of a go-slow on processing by Govt a parent visa today means waiting 18 to up to 42 years.

ABC to demand One Nation stop using Bluey in ‘shocking and disrespectful’ cartoon from 2024 that depicts Bluey ramming politicians with an SUV

The silence, downplaying and non-reporting of this is just insane. How does one man have such a record of sexual assault, end up President & it’s not properly investigated or reported? 🤷‍♀️

Totally agree with @andrewwilkiemp.bsky.social. Aged care is a system to care for people not a service centre for computers. So don’t have it run by computers let PEOPLE run it. As Andrew says so eloquently: “put some humanity back into the system, let people decide what’s right for people” #auspol

We condemn the political threats made by Opposition Leader Jess Wilson on Sunday and reject her misleading connection between protest of Israel’s genocide and the horrific Bondi attack. Protesting a livestreamed genocide is not antisemitic. Our release: www.jewishcouncil.com.au/2026/10/jewi...

Why is Pauline Hanson not facing charges already? www.news24.com.au/politics/aus...

As @thejuicemedia.com illustrates coherently, the protests around the world are echoing each other because multinational plutocrats have screwed us over in almost the same ways, and tried to crush our ability to protest it. Watch & share. #Auspol Me glaring at the “neoliberal thought collective”

Writers Guild speaks out about tech platforms squashing the @alexgibneyfilm doc about Elon Musk: “A small handful of billionaires now own virtually every major media company, news outlet, social media platform and are demonstrating how this unchecked concentration threatens democratic discourse.”

Trump is CRASHING OUT over Obama on the campaign trail

I don’t know Emily personally, but understand how just one thing can push you over the edge. SO, signal boosting for anyone who can help. They have unique hand-crafted jewellery or you can ‘buy a coffee’ if you prefer to give even tiny $$s instead We def need more helping, less shouting ❤️🙏 #auspol

This brutal Obama-Trump supercut side by side from @meidastouch.com helps explain why Trump is losing it tonight 👇🏽

Nothing to see #auspol

It’s unacceptable that anyone should live in poverty in this country. And even worse, it’s not a bug, it’s a design feature. Politicians are more interested in the process of governing than the effect their policy has on real people. Capitalism & political apathy are destroying our democracy #auspol

Plymouth Brethren are a #religion but are definitively not #Christian. They are blatant liars who must lose their tax free status immediately. How the #PlymoutBrethren influence #politics thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/religio...

"These are not serious people". But these are the people that Anthony Albanese and Richard Marles have outsourced Australia's defence strategy to. #EndAUKUS #auspol

"Hopes that the NACC might be resucitated by a change of leadership have been dashed", writes @michaelpascoe01.bsky.social #auspol #NACC michaelwest.com.au/nacc-declare...

AFP Commissioner Krissy Barrett calls out violent political rhetoric such as Pauline Hanson’s car ramming video—for having a "direct correlation" to real attacks on politicians. Speers: “Like a cartoon that suggests someone should be hit by a car…?” Barrett: Yep.💥 #auspol

If the US situation ever happened here (and I don’t fool myself for one minute that it couldn’t ) we can only hope we have people like @marcelias.bsky.social & his team willing to stand up & meet the ensuing binfire with rational argument. Kudos all round #auspol

🚨BREAKING: The Trump administration’s campaign to obtain states’ unredacted voter rolls suffered its 27th consecutive district court loss Friday, this time at the hands of a judge appointed by President Donald Trump. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

THIS is what character and patriotism look like. Trump and his cronies wouldn’t recognise it if it bit them on their giant twisted [noses].

remember kids we drove that shit Starbucks coffee place out of the country because we're not fucking idiots and we have taste...

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.

Labor won a huge majority to turn Country into a modern decolonised secular multicultural nation with an exciting Asian future but instead of upholding AU voters decisive desire that US-Israeli ideology & genocidal Gaza war should never be brought here, Albanese folded like cheap suit. 2/

Excellent argument for use against dangerous Reform UK Islamophobic illogic via Simon Mathews

Elizabeth Warren Is 💯% Correct...

This 👇

Zali Steggall unloads on Pauline Hanson’s disgraceful finger-pointing and politicisation following the attack on Helen Haines. says she has a long history of spreading hate in the country “sells & pushes hate & division non stop” “Helen is the complete opposite”💯 Yup.

TRUTH 👇.......

A mirror of the MAGA rise. Always talking about ‘the establishment’ and ‘draining the swamp’ when THEY ARE the swamp. Every statement is either a confession or a promise of what’s to come - remember it. #auspol

Navigating changes to Medicaid and SNAP shouldn't mean navigating a maze to get help. Today, we're launching HART, a new outreach team helping New Yorkers keep their health coverage, food benefits and get support on everything from housing assistance to eviction prevention.

Google co-founder Sergey Brin, who's spent $100M+ against California's Prop 40, spent the weekend dining with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago. These billionaires keep accidentally proving why we need a billionaire wealth tax.

Hard to deny the truth in this. I wish these very dumb conservative commentators would get their heads out of their a**s & realise once & for all that WE ARE NOT STUPID. No one believes your rhetoric-all you do is stir up division & hate. YOU are responsible. Not a mythical extremist. YOU. #auspol

It's hard to fathom why any American wouldn't instantly recognise this as solid evidence that their president is an asset of a hostile foreign power, or indeed why our own government continues to pretend otherwise.

Poverty is a policy decision. Concentrated wealth is a policy decision. Inequality is a policy decision. Economic inequality is not some naturally occurring phenomenon. It is the consequence of choices. One question I always urge my students to ask: who is the market organized for — and why?

If Albo is serious about turning down the temperature he will finally take himself and his government off X. If he doesn't, he's not serious.

#BREAKING 🚨 The ABC reports Indi MP Helen Haines has lost a leg after being pinned between two cars when she was struck yesterday As of this morning, Haines remains in critical condition at Melbourne's Alfred Hospital and underwent surgery last night

Helen Haines is the most generous and kind person - a woman of warmth and great personal integrity.

less than 24 after the horrendous Helen Haines attack, almost all politicians and commentators across Australia have highlighted the violence in the rhetoric around public life and the dangers it represents - supporters and those leading right wing organisations should hang their heads in shame.

Just perfect from @fionakatauskas.bsky.social #auspol

Has the Australian mainstream media reflected at all on their own role in this? Someone should write a piece on the numerous times radio shock jocks and breakfast tv and late night tv commentators have promoted violence against politicians or public figures. #auspol #media #VAW #racism #HelenHaines

This. Also, it’s unthinkable that ANYONE would target someone like Helen Haines for any reason. She’s one of the kindest, most generous people in general, not just in politics. Why anyone would want to harm someone so giving is beyond comprehension. #auspol

WTF?? Who out there is still using meta accounts?? Bail out now. You know he’s coming here next #auspol

Absolutely disgraceful. There are NO, ZERO explanations for this that would stand up. Anywhere. #auspol