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Retired on Wadandi Noongar country. Formerly a lawyer, teacher (Law at University), and soldier. Now a writer. Foodie. Like a drop of red. Politically progressive. Don’t like misogynists, racists, hypocrites. Love Aussie Rules football.
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David Shoebridge tears into the Coalition for “deliberately mischaracterising the Magnitsky sanctions regime” in order to “defend these two extremist members of the Netanyahu cabinet”🔥💯 #AfternoonBriefing #Abc

In his Life, what has he done to justify being awarded the highest honor in the Australian awards? NOTHING is the answer

"Australians are known for being wonderful at sport, but there's this inconvenient truth that we're terrible at conservation and protecting culture. It’s shameful," Ritchie said. Yes, I'm grumpy! Great story au.news.yahoo.com/inconvenient... by @michaeldahlstrom.bsky.social.

youtu.be/WeFexO7gtSg?.... Looks like tourists trying to get a look inside to me. ☺️🤣. I'm just using MÀGA logic

🤷‍♀️ “I mean, can you imagine a woman in the WH? They’re all emotional & all of a sudden they’re CANCELLING gov contracts or DEMANDING space rockets be pulled of service. All because of some mean post that someone made about them on SM. It would never work” 📍 theshovel.com.au/2025/06/07/w...

AOC: “The girls are fighting, aren’t they?”

Anti-preferencers still being seen whinging about Labor getting 62.7% of seats off 34.6% of primary votes when under the system they support UK Labour 2024 got 63.2% of seats off 33.7% of votes.

Donald Trump’s cuts in medical and scientific research will destroy progress in these fields and the industries that resulted. His war against Harvard reflects this. The US has 40% of the Nobel Prize winners because they studied and did research here. This is such stupid policy.

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. Mahatma Gandhi

“If the large increases in tariffs that have been announced are sustained, they’re likely to generate a rise in inflation, a slowdown in economic growth, and an increase in unemployment,” the Federal Reserve chair said. This is exactly what Trump doesn’t want the American public to hear.

Reading between the lines. Hopes of the return of the old white Australia policy finally dashed? #auspol

Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, what are you doing for others? Dr Martin Luther King

Think of this: the Liberals have now lost ALL of Sydney’s wealthiest postcodes, including the entire North Shore. All gone to Teal women. What does that tell you?

🗣This is the leadership the world needs right now—two nations standing firm against extremism, division, and disinformation.🙏 🗣Canada🇨🇦 & Australia🇦🇺 are proving that unity, compassion, and shared democratic values still have a place in this world🌍. ✔️Together🫂, we protect democracy. #cndpoli #auspol

Nuclear power has been repudiated. Trumpism has been repudiated. Culture wars have been repudiated. It’s a GREAT DAY FOR AUSTRALIA! 🇦🇺 #auspol

“It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.” Elizabeth Kenny

“I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people’s accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man’s failures.” Earl Warren

“Dutton spent the debate accusing Albanese of dishonesty; a bold strategy for a man whose policies are held together by duct tape and wishful thinking.” theaimn.net/duttons-nucl...

'Dangerous lies': Bandt calls out 'utterly untrue' Dutton line about 'Jew-hating' Greens. Greens Adam Bandt has expanded on his earlier response to LOTO Peter Dutton saying Bandt leads an "antisemitic, Jew-hating party", calling the comments "reprehensible, offensive & utterly untrue". #auspol

www.crikey.com.au/2025/04/28/p... The Liberal/National decision to preference One Nation in both the Senate and the House of Representatives — and the failure of the media to call it out — has suddenly, shockingly, normalised what for almost 30 years has been an unacceptable fringe voice.

Thinking of Trump and Australia’s mini-trump: “Like…cancer, hate corrodes the personality…Hate destroys a man’s (sic) sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.” Martin Luther King jnr

The Thug will gut the ABC if he gets in. He hates being held to account.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... Holding all parties to account is called doing our job.

Dear alternative Prime Minister Peter Dutton: Neither the ABC nor Guardian Australia is “the hate media” as you assert. This is an egregious smear/incitement. A robust liberal democracy needs a free and questioning media. By misrepresenting ABC/Guardian you expose your illiberalism.

Dutton is now telling ppl not to listen to the abc, the Guardian & “other hate media” 🙄 What? ..the hate media that’s been backing him for 3 years & foghorning Dutton’s hate, racism & division? ..or just all the media who question him & call out his questionable policies, costings & past history?

The irony of racists saying they're "sick of asking permission to live in Australia" is that you flogs NEVER fucking asked in the first place.

If he stands behind it, does that mean we won't have to see him? #Auspol

For people deciding which major party to vote for, it’s worth keeping in mind that the fucking planet is on fire. #AusPol

Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it. John Steinbeck

The guy that insisted on more detail on The Voice despite there being plenty, btw