Sandy Rendel

Sandy Rendel

@sandyrendel.bsky.social

I Came to Australia by boat. Believe in the land of the fair go. Want a Treaty with Australia's First Peoples. Love elections. I’m at Kiama on the land of the Wodi Wodi.

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Michael West
@michaelwestbiz.bsky.social

The public housing answer Australia already knows. Andrew Brown takes the long handle to neoliberal housing fallacies. The facts of the #housingcrisis are clear, as is the solution #auspol michaelwest.com.au/the-public-h...

michaelwest.com.auThe public housing answer Australia already knows - Michael WestWhile the public debate on housing shortages is as ill-informed as ever, one solution is not just obvious, but been well and truly tested.

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Simon Rosenberg
@simonrosenberg.bsky.social

"When voters in these places say the system does not work for them, they are not speaking in metaphors." Kos doesn't go far enough. It's not just "neglect", but 4 decades of neoliberal cuts to public services, and wealth transfers from the poor to the rich. pearlsandirritations.com/post/2026/10...

pearlsandirritations.comThe One Nation vote is a map of government neglectOne Nation’s rise is often treated as cultural anger. New data point to something more concrete: poor health, financial insecurity and communities left without the services that make life work.

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The Saturday Paper
@thesaturdaypaper.com.au

Kate Chaney on how governments at state and federal levels are failing to seize the full economic opportunities of a clean energy future. trib.al/oi0c7ZG

trib.alThe massive gap in Labor’s renewables planThe federal government has spent years declaring its ambitions for Australia to become a renewable energy superpower, exporting what the world needs to decarbonise, such as green iron and critical minerals. Remarkably little of that conversation has been about the state that will be central to achieving this goal.

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The Point
@thepointau.bsky.social

Adelaide-based winger Awer Mabil, one of four Socceroos who came to Australia as refugees before finding their way into the national soccer team, spoke to journalists in the build-up to the clash with co-hosts the USA on Saturday. Read the full piece on The Point: thepoint.com.au/new/260619-w...

Sandy Rendel
@sandyrendel.bsky.social

“I did not make a submission to the royal commission because I feared the consequences of speaking honestly. But silence has consequences too.” - George Newhouse A very good article which sums up a lot of what I think.

theguardian.comI was afraid to make a submission to the antisemitism royal commission. But silence has consequences too | George NewhouseI work in a sector that speaks out on racism and human rights, yet on this issue I have felt the boundaries of acceptable speech narrow around me
Sandy Rendel
@sandyrendel.bsky.social

@abcnewsbot.bsky.social and #auspol please hear, read, mark, learn, inwardly digest and then apply.

Rick Stengel@rickstengel.bsky.social

Can reporters stop using the word deal? It’s an agreement, a settlement, a treaty, an understanding, an MOU etc. Using the word deal is accepting his simple-minded TV game-show framing and contributes to the bogus drama he is trying to create.

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Barbara Pocock
@barbarapocock.bsky.social

Final report from inquiry into job & program cuts at CSIRO shows a deliberate shift away from public good science. CSIRO is suffering chronic underfunding masked as strategic reform, causing workforce destruction, loss of sovereign capability & subversion of climate science.

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Senator David Shoebridge
@davidshoebridge.bsky.social

A national address needs a national leader and a clear set of actions, this one had Albanese and a series of empty phrases workshopped through focus groups. What an empty man he is and what a hollow government.

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Wendy Harmer
@wendyharmer.bsky.social

Between your Grace Tame "difficult" comment and your "contempt" for the mothers in Syria refugee camps...you've had a rough week @albomp.bsky.social Time to get into the Hall of Mirrors and have a long, hard look at yourself. Do you recognise the person you are now ?