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Excellent column by Ross Gittins "If you want to govern Australia effectively – you have to be prepared to stand up to powerful interest groups. It’s now clear Albanese isn’t prepared to stand up, but still wants to enjoy the spoils of office." www.smh.com.au/business/the...

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Sustainable development researcher Dr Neil Peach used the Crisafulli govt's Olympics visuals to map the design. Now a massive land grab for property developers. Jarrod Bleijie is overriding heritage acts & councils. He won't be confined to SEQ. #qldpol 7news.com.au/news/brisban...

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Kathy has terminal cancer and cares for her son with a profound disability. At a crisis point, his NDIS funding ran out As the national disability insurance scheme undergoes changes, advocates say participants have become collateral damage, placing their carers in impossible situations ♿ #NDIS

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FUN FACTS~ The regret rate for gender transition is less than 1% The regret rate for Harry Potter tattoos is over 25%

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The fact that some families are acruing massive debts while awaiting changes in support plans from the NDIS Is testament to a broken system www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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Post implementation study of safe speeds in Auckland published in Austroads. Safe speeds currently being reversed to unsafe speeds by government insistence. Deadly, sure, but also burdening society with extra cost. Safe speed programme returned $9 for $1 dollar in cost, on reduced harms alone.

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No scientific evidence to justify this decision... but that's the Queensland Gvt for you!! www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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Well everyone makes differenting parenting choices but I certainly wouldn't employ a rapist to nanny my children, let alone let him use the job to try and soften his image. #auspol www.skynews.com.au/australia-ne...

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Just leaving this here.

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Thank god… he could have been a real bastard. #bbcpm

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David Pope in Canberra Times

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Is there a better landlord quote?

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We have to discuss sensibly as a state the Story Bridge. Brisbane Council can't continue funding upkeep or restoration work. Someone is going to get hurt here or worse. The state must take back ownership. Standing in the way is Jarrod Bleijie. #qldpol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

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So many field mushrooms out now. Thinking beef Wellington.

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One of the top viewed pages on Facebook this quarter is David 'Avocado' Wolfe, an conspiracy theorist-promoting, anti-vaccine, flat earther.

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Very good standfirst work there

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Council shuts down major active transport route and the courts and police say - if you’re not in a car we don’t care. One thing I don’t buy, 115 bus routes would need to be diverted during the protest.

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Murray Watt is a perfect model of the modern Labor politician. President of Young Labor. Chief of staff for a Premier. Boss of the Qld Left. Now he’s the Environment Minister with responsibility for a critical decision. He chose to destroy the environment. www.crikey.com.au/2025/05/29/m...

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Is there a bigger threat to active transport in Brisbane than the current council? www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/que...

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Today @MurrayWatt has given Woodside a $200bn gift The North West Shelf extension will get $200bn+ of GAS FOR FREE. No royalties! But what about PRRT? Lol No. Treasury in 2023 noted the NWS will never pay it Terrible for the climate, fatal for Murujuga, & braindead economics

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I've updated this graph with what looks like fairly probable numbers going forward. Maybe I'm being too pessimistic, too optimistic, let me know. And maybe the specific numbers are less important than the scientific certainty that our civilisation is slamming into a wall.

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Six MPs reported potential device hacks to parliamentary department in past year www.canberratimes.com.au/story/897706...

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Pretty funny that a month after winning a thumping majority Albanese tells the electorate “sorry, I don’t work for you”

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Anyone who understands climate change: Please don’t press the big red button marked DO NOT PRESS THIS BUTTON UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, Murray. Murray (repeatedly pressing button): Watt?

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Voters getting an early taste of what a newly dominant, centrist, pro-fossil fuel Labor government will deliver www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

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"Of the 121 pedestrians killed in traffic last year, 120 were struck by a car while one person died after being hit by an electric bike, according to city transportation department data."

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How the fuck do we live in a country where women are considered over-emotional for swearing on the Internet but men aren’t considered over-emotional for killing more than 2 women per week in the last year alone? #NewsCorpse

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If you order one more thing from Temu, so help me I’ll destroy a 40,000 year old culturally significant sight. Then you’ll know what your Temu purchase really costs.

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Woodside boss Meg O’Neill got paid $7.45m last year

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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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To work out if this decision was ideological, simply ask yourself: would the Qld government cancel an already-approved coal mine? www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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I find myself completely unable to function today. I’ve seen a child surrounded by the flames of what was her family home. Starving babies. Defeated, broken men. Women cradling their shrouded children. It’s too much. And yet I still have to hear ‘but Hamas..’ FUCK OFF. Israel is committing genocide

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So Watt declined to meet with the council or Greenpeace while in WA on the grounds it would be inappropriate while the reconsideration request was still under review. So who did he meet with. Does anyone know? www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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The absolute gall of the Nationals to be using internet connectivity as a policy condition & talking up the need for it in the bush - when it was their direct actions which caused the issues in the first place & the negligence of the media not to point this out!! #auspol #insiders

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The amount of time spent in this country demonising & kicking the most marginalised. If people spend that energy lifting up the most vulnerable; they’d have nothing to whinge about. I guess that’s the currency.

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Never take seriously those who ridicule low income people for having a smartphone or laptop. “If they’re so poor how did they buy an iPhone???” Because they’re trying to escape poverty, not the 1700s, genius. If you think basic tech access is unnecessary or a luxury, survive a month without it.

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first they came for the white South Africans, and I didn't speak out— because no one is coming for the white South Africans, you deranged paranoid lunatics. what the fuck is wrong with you

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It’s funny how the thing that’s made the Nats freak out is not their leader tearing up the Coalition agreement, but rather losing front bench privileges

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What a pig of a man. David Littleproud got in a car and drove to Albury where Sussan Ley was attending to her dying mother? He did this so he could harass Ley - while👏🏽her👏🏽mother👏🏽was👏🏽dying - purely and solely about the National's business? I can't believe I know this. How vile.

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there's a lot of AI cynicism (to put it mildly). A lot of it is grounded in the way that the technology is being used and abused by powerful people and companies. this and more in a FREE edition of @thesizzle.com.au: thesizzle.com.au/p/a...

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Couching into you microphone during a meeting

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I am pleading with everyone to stop joining virtual meetings early and asking when so-and-so is going to join.

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This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?

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The Daily Mail complaining that immigrants have not the English too well. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

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Zionism is anti-Indigenous. As an Indigenous person I don’t feel safe with this ideology being spread in Canada.

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Disability discrimination

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