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A Remarkable Story….

Absolutely. johnquigginblog.substack.com/p/childcare-...

The number of Labor women in the HoR is actually monumental. Like, listing the names of women in each party and... just, wow. #AusPol #AusVotes

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05... Perhaps either party can blow their own trumpets with the patriots, while they consider where to put their nuclear waste…🤔😏

'I'm not a stranger - neither are millions of others like me' Chartered Psychologist Dr Bruno de Oliveira reacts to UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer's 'island of strangers' comment. www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

The massive cuts to university research funding in the US are bad for America. But because American universities are so important for research globally, these cuts are bad for the world www.npr.org/2025/04/25/n...

My Top 10 Albums for every year of the 80s! 5️⃣ - 1987 Diesel and Dust - Midnight Oil The album that put Midnight Oil on the map internationally. Prior to that a homegrown secret in Australia. Fab record. #MidnightOil #Top10 #1980s #musicsky #musicchallenge by @lucilovecraft.bsky.social

I love Australia, but I hate Rupert Murdoch‼️He is a disgusting vile human being and I hope he burns in hell‼️ Sooner rather than later. Amen…💯💥 #FoxNewsIsNotRealNews #Hoping&PrayingRupertMurdochGetHitByABus 👆🏼💯💥

Yes, after 80 years of undiluted patriarchy, a huge shift to the far right, a series of men so incompetent that the once-strongest party in the land was reduced to an electoral rump, when finally, out of total desperation, one of few woman to survive was handed the poison chalice. The system works!

Another brilliant article from John Hewson ‘It should finally be recognised that Sky News & certain newspapers are no longer news services & they are in part responsible for the resounding thrashing of Peter Dutton & his team’ www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topi...

On lies. From the @profgalloway.com podcast

#SenatorMurphy gives Homeland Security secretary and dog-exterminator Kristi #Noem an absolute spanking of epic proportions..

Having learned *nothing* from the fall of Morrison, the Liberal party seem determined to learn nothing from the complete slaughter of Dutton. Let me spell it out for them: that thing you are calling “the woke left” is officially THE AUSTRALIAN CENTRE now. Heed it or weep. #auspol

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Good to hear the strong and well-said points by Paul Kelly on ABC Q&A’s post-election (post-mortem) panel tonight. I do miss that analysis that was often presented on Barrie Cassidy’s ABC Insiders. Bridgette McKenzie like others in Coalition - seem incapable of learning from the bum steer policies.

“Gifted” the election result, Bridgette McKenzie? (on ABC Q&A) No, Labor worked for it. Against so many dark forces & special interests out to dupe voters. No, they took nothing and no one for granted. They stuck to the cause and Australia is - and will be - better for it - for all Australians.

Yet another multi-national racket ripping us off…

Have to love it when Alan Kohler comes to the same conclusion as we all did watching #SundayShot Albo's #auspol big challenge is fixing housing, not just a token new home owners thing, really fixing it. youtu.be/IEw37_E2vKI?...

Always worth remembering the Liberal Party is now a minor party of the Coaltion

On fire!! Go PM go!!

Bastards!

Australia has been spared the obscenity of a Trump-like agenda. As a nation we can get on with with challenges co nfronting us - social cohesion, fairness and respect for each other and the planet

Oh and the effort of Jacinta Price was disgracefully delusional on ABC TV. If she is the future of the Liberal Party with her agenda of punching down on the vulnerable god help them, no one else will.

This is truly a slaughter of the Libs. Thought Labor would win, maybe get a majority. But cripes. Then you see James McGrath in the ABC and you understand completely why the LNP are so shite

Australia joins Canada in rejecting Trumpist cruelty, our faux Trump - like Poilievre - lost his seat (to a young woman) - except we did it even more emphatically. Proud of my country.

Farewell Antony Green - you will be missed Take a bow 👏🏽 👏🏽 👏🏽 👏🏽 #endofanera #AusVotes25

Tyrants view educated citizens as their greatest enemy. Slaveholders stopped the enslaved from learning to read. Nazis burned books. Dictators censor media. That’s why Trump is attacking education, science, and the arts – to prevent us from learning. It's Fascism 101. [Cartoon by Adam Zyglis]

The Coalition’s ritual boast that it is ‘better at managing the economy’ is simply wrong. Dismantling the myth that refuses to die is Dr Michael Keating, a former secretary of the Departments of Prime Minister and Cabinet. johnmenadue.com/post/2025/04...