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My ABC colleague Richard Willingham reporting Victoria’s Attorney-General has told caucus this morning the State Government will introduce retrospective vicarious liability laws by end of 2025 in a bid to overcome the High Court “Bird” decision that’s crushed many church abuse victims. #law #auspol

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Santos takeover by Abu Dhabi XRG state oil company and US Carlyle private equity has to be approved byTreasurer Jim Chalmers under FIRB/national security rules. Santos board greenlighting sale at $8.89 a share=28% premium. Woodside next? 👇

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The Trump-Netanyahu double act. They want regime change in Iran. But beware the hate-filled monsters you create. Mossad can assassinate the Mullahs but anyone can become a suicide bomber. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...

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No corruption issue in Higgins $2.4m compensation payout NACC declares. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...

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Hey Chris Bowen: to build social licence for our national renewables grid here’s Ted Woodley’s analysis: HVDC (high voltage direct current) underground where possible: Rewire the rollout – go underground to win energy standoff www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/r...

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After Nuremberg .. Australian judge Lex Lasry stands up for the rule of international law. See his op ed in the Sydney Morning Herald.

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement -ICE- Trump’s paramilitary force is intimidating migrant communities on the presumption that most are illegal. This is supremacist politics in an America built on the aspiration of its once welcomed migrants.

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To insanity … and beyond >> x.com/roweafr/stat...

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Too woke eh? Trump you drongo* (*Australian slang for stupid or incompetent person) your ban on international students for Harvard and US Ivy League universities will severely damage your educational economy/reputation and destroy academic/research/support jobs.

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4June 1989, the massacre of the peaceful demonstration for democracy in Tienanmen Square. Not a mention in any online mainstream media on the anniversary of this terrible event from which democracy in China shows no sign of recovering.

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The “service fee” creative accountancy which hides Google’s gross revenue gouged largely from Australia’s lucrative ad market: michaelwest.com.au/revealed-goo...

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Keep up the infrastructure PM @albomp.bsky.social. (Pity about the high cost of Snowy 2.0). We need a transformation of telecomms in regional Oz - more 5G phone towers, full fibre NBN for bush cities/towns and our own low orbit satellites (not Musk’s coercive Starlink).

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According to AP, the typical pay package for S&P 500 CEOs rose to $17M last year — an increase of 9.7%. At half of the companies surveyed, it would take the median worker 192 years to make what the CEO did in one year. This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.

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“Imminent” US war with China over Taiwan front paged by US citizens Rupert/Lachlan’s @australian. Agenda? Pump up Oz taxpayer defence spending. At the very least these blokes have an ethical obligation to declare their vested interest in the arms trade.

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The big swerve: Climate Change Minister @chrisbowenmp.bsky.social says Woodside’s NW gas plant is obliged to reduce ‘on site’ emissions under our safeguards pathway (net zero 2050). Operative word here is ‘on site’. This exonerates Woodside for emissions created by its export clients Japan, SKorea.

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More teething troubles for our anti-corruption tiger. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

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The fix. “Environment” Minister Murray Watt APPROVES Woodside’s NW gas project to 2070. Awaiting detail of any Co2/CH4(methane) offsets. Big win for Mr Faust. >> www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

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Dear Prime Minister @albomp.bsky.social AI - artificial intelligence - is expected to devastate traditional employment (another industrial revolution perhaps). Please commission Office of National Intelligence to make a thorough assessment so Australia can transition to new skilled tech workforce.

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Rupert/Lachlan Murdoch via Oz editorial 26/5/25 instruct Environment Minister Murray Watt to quickly approve Woodside’s NW shelf gas project to 2070. Dismisses risk to rock art; no mention of CO2 emissions impact on earth’s biosphere.

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No mention of global warming as a lethal “algal bloom” devastates South Australia’s marine life. SA correspondent David Penberthy reports a long, warm autumn created perfect conditions for outbreak of toxic “karenia mikimotoi” with water temperatures 2.5C above normal.

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Tracking Trump’s corruption. Neither law enforcement, Congress nor the US media have been able to hold him to account .. yet. 👇https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/trump-promised-to-help-american-families-prosper-then-focused-solely-his-own-20250525-p5m1y4.html

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The vanity of Ben Roberts-Smith (and those who bankroll him): www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/2025/05/24/t...

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The fix is in. Our new Environment Minister Murray Watt will approve Woodside’s NW Shelf gas plant extension by May 31. PM Albo will not rat on WA Premier Cook. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/environ...

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Sussan Ley’s pathway to Liberal Party relevance? Divorce the Littleproud Nationals, dump nuclear, reassert net zero 2050: www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

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The Australian War Memorial should focus on the sacrifice of our soldiers, sailors and air force personnel and in no way glorify war. www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

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Trump is corrupt. The use of high office (access, policy, regulation) for personal gain is by definition: corruption. www.smh.com.au/business/the...

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Coz Putin is a Pussy 🫢

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Money or further destruction of earth’s biosphere? What’s it to be Murray Watt? Our new Environment Minister is being urged by Albo’s mate WA Premier Cook to immediately approve Woodside’s $30B NW shelf gas plant extension. Faustian bargain Minister.

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Hey @albomp.bsky.social your appreciation of Glyn Davis’ contribution in rebuilding trust in our public service is noted. Now will you please make TRANSPARENCY a priority for your next head of PM&C? Stop with the secrecy. Let the sun shine in = Open government.

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Yes .. the universe is amoral, politically indifferent and .. incredibly violent. Our existence on this finite planet is worth celebrating. Therefore all cognitive humans must do everything to conserve what we have. 👇👇

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Dear First Nations’ people: Respectfully suggest redesign Welcome to Country. Art critic John McDonald 👇pinpoints negative reception by some audiences politically exploited by Murdoch/Credlin/Bolt/Dutton/Palmer/Hanson supremacists. E.g. “Always is .. always was .. Aboriginal land”.

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How the LNP/ALP duopoly ratf#*ked (a Nixon era term) the Queensland Greens. Jamie Walker (Oz) reports LNP preferences were directed to Labor. Whatever it takes eh?

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Delicious to see Lord Downer and assorted NewsCorpse halfwits howling that the Liberals must now go hard right and take on the Progressive Woke Left. I couldn’t agree more…

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Watching Australian election from the UK. Albanese’s increased majority was multi-causal: Trump tariff retribution changed the national mood but Albo’s cost of living work over Xmas/New Year, then Cyclone Alfred response, changed perceptions about him +Dutton’s tin ear = worst defeat since Menzies.

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Dear electors of South Australia. On Saturday please vote 1 for Rex Patrick of the Jacqui Lambie Network. This bloke is a warrior for transparency. We need him in the Australian Senate to help expose the bastardry which often afflicts our governance.

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Media Watch’s exposure of ABC chairman Kim Williams’ email interventions in support of Austen Tayshus plug interviews on regional radio delivered “an enormously stern learning experience”. Williams’ contrition by AFR’s Sam Buckingham-Jones. ✅

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Breaking news: more interest rate cuts are on the way from later this month. Australia now inside the RBA’s 2% to 3% target range. Four more rate cuts this year?

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

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Peter Dutton criticised as ‘illiberal’ for calling ABC and the Guardian ‘hate media’

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Former UK PM Gordon Brown makes criminal complaint against Rupert Murdoch’s media empire.

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Poor Kenny. Does he survive? Must watch next/final ep of Vera ABC TV tonight.

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

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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.

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