Happy New Year to all 🦋 friends. 2025 is going to be HUGE in AUS politics. #Election25 I have prepared this incomplete starter pack from people using #auspol on 🦋 Many will follow you back😊 Please share with friends coming from the dead bird place. Suggestions welcome 🙏 go.bsky.app/EgD3MWR - ThreadSky

sdhamiltonvic.bsky.social • 52 days ago

Happy New Year to all 🦋 friends.

2025 is going to be HUGE in AUS politics. #Election25

I have prepared this incomplete starter pack from people using #auspol on 🦋

Many will follow you back😊

Please share with friends coming from the dead bird place.

Suggestions welcome 🙏 https://go.bsky.app/EgD3MWR

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Comments

spbmckenna.bsky.social•51 days ago

Great pack Scott 🦋
Followed all & Reposted!
#auspol

ohlalalala.bsky.social•52 days ago

Looks great

tassielizzie.bsky.social•52 days ago

Thank you Scott. Happy New Year an thanks for the Good Egg starter pack.

sdhamiltonvic.bsky.social•52 days ago

🙏

tonyofficial.bsky.social•52 days ago

Happy new year Scott!

I’m humbled to be included in this list.

sdhamiltonvic.bsky.social•52 days ago

Your welcome, Tony

megpenvose.bsky.social•51 days ago

Hey great list. Love it if you could add me. I will do better re Hashtaging

sdhamiltonvic.bsky.social•51 days ago

Done, Meg 🦋 @megpenvose.bsky.social

megpenvose.bsky.social•50 days ago

Many thanks

cameronphilips.bsky.social•52 days ago

That’s an extensive list!

jenglambie.bsky.social•52 days ago

Extraordinarily useful - like a mass friend reunion but without the coffee/Gin & Tonics, ta 👍😊

sdhamiltonvic.bsky.social•52 days ago

Thank you Jen 🙏 Pleased its useful

rogley8.bsky.social•50 days ago

Wonder if you have considered @tmfscottp.bsky.social He does not always post Auspol context, but when he does it's informative and non-partisan

tmfscottp.bsky.social•50 days ago

Very kind thanks mate.

lakitukl.bsky.social•50 days ago

Yep - his #QuestionsforPoliticians on Twitter were great and gald to see he's carrying them on here.

https://bsky.app/profile/tmfscottp.bsky.social/post/3ldm77e55ak2z

goodgord.bsky.social•52 days ago

Followed all
Thanks

sdhamiltonvic.bsky.social•52 days ago

You are very welcome 🦋

goodgord.bsky.social•52 days ago

I was already following a lot but not all.
I would like to see more Aussie content on here

sdhamiltonvic.bsky.social•52 days ago

Likewise

rgrounds16.bsky.social•52 days ago

🧵 Thanks for the list. I recognise other refugees from X. On my father's side, I am descended from Tasmanian MPs. I've been a candidate at both levels and Chief of Staff to a Labor Premier. My leftish leanings are unchanged but I rate politics as less important in the world than some other matters

rgrounds16.bsky.social•52 days ago

2 of 🧵 For me, politics is ultimately about what impacts, for good or bad, governments can make. Since 1972, I'd list the Whitlam, Hawke and Howard periods as times when the impacts were large and enduring. Over the last 20 years the impacts have been modest, yet political analysis has been hyped 😡

rgrounds16.bsky.social•52 days ago

3 of 🧵 The amount of political coverage across all media, including social, is way out of proportion to its significance. Precious little of it reports and analyses what gov'ts actually do, beyond reworking Ministerial statements, quoting the reactions from various angles and calling it 'politics'

rgrounds16.bsky.social•52 days ago

4 of 🧵 A similar unreality occurs in business/finance/economics journalism. The things that many businesses do, have substantial impacts, again, for good or bad. We often hear about the bad, ie 'scandals', but we don't hear much else beyond board/exec machinations, share prices, mergers, profits ...

rgrounds16.bsky.social•52 days ago

5 of 🧵 I'm exaggerating to make my point and I could say similar things about the work of community-based organisations, universities, etc. There are so many stories that aren't being heard or read, stories about things that matter more than much of what happens in the political sphere. What to do?

rgrounds16.bsky.social•51 days ago

6 of 🧵 One of my intellectual heroes is Raewyn Connell. She might say this is 'Ruling Culture' in action and it behoves us to be subversive. I won't be taking up the invitation to follow those who write about politics in this space. I'm looking for posts about other subjects that matter, eg energy

sdhamiltonvic.bsky.social•52 days ago

I think you might like #ABetterAus 😊 w/ John Brumby & @stuartkells.bsky.social @mupublishing.bsky.social

rgrounds16.bsky.social•52 days ago

I might

sdhamiltonvic.bsky.social•52 days ago

🙏

cinderellaoz.bsky.social•51 days ago

Very useful list for very busy year ahead in #auspol land

parkersmckenzie.bsky.social•51 days ago

Add me to the starter pack Scott 👉🏿👈🏿

sdhamiltonvic.bsky.social•51 days ago

Done, @parkersmckenzie.bsky.social Please share 🦋

wheels002.bsky.social•51 days ago

Thanks Scott.

archeryfan93.bsky.social•52 days ago

Great pack Scott. Following all

sdhamiltonvic.bsky.social•52 days ago

🙏

jackdawg52.bsky.social•49 days ago

looks like it has started. Time to set the VPN to New Zealand and dont watch live TV or listen to the radio.

irena2.bsky.social•50 days ago

Great list! Good to see that so many folks from the other place are here now - thank you!

sdhamiltonvic.bsky.social•50 days ago

🙏 #StrongerTogether 🦋

copycat21c.bsky.social•51 days ago

Bloody magic! Thanks,

workingman1918.bsky.social•51 days ago

May I suggest you follow Michael West?

He’s an independent journalist

sdhamiltonvic.bsky.social•51 days ago

Michael’s there

wetlettuceleaf.bsky.social•52 days ago

Great list. Thanks for putting it together.

sdhamiltonvic.bsky.social•52 days ago

🙏

lynettekennedy56.bsky.social•52 days ago

Wonderful. Thank you Scott

tactwo.bsky.social•52 days ago

Kinda biased but I suggest adding the best auspol feed https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:r53tbek5nj3q6gt6besgvxft/feed/aaandu3ephtp6

ianblain.bsky.social•51 days ago

Thank you 🙏

huckyfinn.bsky.social•50 days ago

How can you add a CCP propaganda mouthpiece like Menadue to your starter pack?? 🙄

melaleuca1000.bsky.social•51 days ago

Done

greychin.bsky.social•51 days ago

Thanks Scott
Good to see the shift to Bluesky has resulted in so many of accounts I found valuable elsewhere have graduated to the new home
May they cause as much pain as they did elsewhere

janebirdwatcher.bsky.social•51 days ago

Followed,but I suspect I will have a busy time reblocking some.

amante2ameliabee7.bsky.social•50 days ago

Thanks Scott 🙏Humbled to be included amongst such awesome people 💖

davidlamond.bsky.social•52 days ago

Hi Scott,

Great list (not just coz I’m on it ;-)) - thanks for putting it together!

2025 _IS_ going to be huge in #auspol. To that end, would be great to get consensus round, eg, say, #AusVotes25 #auspol25 and any others that draw attention to the Australian election in 2025.

What do you think?

kerryjaggers.bsky.social•51 days ago

Good idea to get this sorted soon. I'm leaning towards #AusVotes25. Says it all.

heatherforward.bsky.social•52 days ago

Good thinking David

davidlamond.bsky.social•52 days ago

Thanks, Heather!

jenniferweaver.bsky.social•51 days ago

Great list! Thanks.😎

sdhamiltonvic.bsky.social•52 days ago

Hmmm. I was going with #Election25 , also like #AusVotes25 it generally just takes off. Suggest use multiple #’s

davidlamond.bsky.social•52 days ago

Agree on multiple #s - wondering if #Election25 assumes too much? Too generic?

margaretmorgan.bsky.social•52 days ago

Love it if you could add me!

annemarinelli.bsky.social•52 days ago

I was thinking about you recently Margaret as I always enjoyed your posts on X. Hope the move has gone well. Happy to find you here.

wicak13.bsky.social•51 days ago

Thank you. Appreciate the effort to get more Aus content on here

sdhamiltonvic.bsky.social•51 days ago

Thx Mark. #StrongerTogether 🦋🦋🦋

kevansangster.bsky.social•52 days ago

Thanks for including me on the list Scott, i was wondering why my follower numbers just exploded! 🙏

sdhamiltonvic.bsky.social•51 days ago

That’s excellent feedback 😊

kevansangster.bsky.social•51 days ago

You’re welcome Scott! My follower count has doubled since NYD - mainly from Australians - which has inspired me to post more AU related content going forward!

All the best for 2025 btw, as you rightly said, it promises to be a big year!

nkatifo.bsky.social•52 days ago

OMG you’ve just saved me a tonne of time. 🙏 legend

sdhamiltonvic.bsky.social•52 days ago

😎

surfer55.bsky.social•50 days ago

Van Badham

sdhamiltonvic.bsky.social•50 days ago

✅ @vanbadham.bsky.social add 😊🦋

pepperpots4477.bsky.social•50 days ago

Thanks for that - I found a few ex-you-know-where folk I had lost. 👍

sdhamiltonvic.bsky.social•50 days ago

Excellent. 👍

leakylifeboat.bsky.social•50 days ago

Hey @sdhamiltonvic.bsky.social would you mind adding us?

We are a grassroots group of disabled people amplifying the impacts of NDIS and wider policy in our personal capacities.

We're all very active in the #Auspol space and committed to fact-checking, but post anonymously for our protection.

sdhamiltonvic.bsky.social•50 days ago

✅ I think you might find interesting: Chapter 3 #NDIS of 📕 #ABetterAus : Politics, public policy & how to achieve lasting reform. w/ John Brumby & @stuartkells.bsky.social @mupublishing.bsky.social #books #booksky

leakylifeboat.bsky.social•50 days ago

Hadn't seen this in the chaos of Oct changes, thank you!

Hope there will be an addendum to Chapter 3 in future editions @stuartkells.bsky.social, so many promises have been broken already.

The co-design we need is people with disability writing the rules. We're still shut out where it matters.

sdhamiltonvic.bsky.social•50 days ago

Will look forward to your feedback. Cheers, Scott

kedawson.bsky.social•52 days ago

I see I'm following many already but quite a number are either taking a break or I need to jig my feed to see their posts.

timdunlop.bsky.social•51 days ago

Follow nearly all of these but found a few to add! Thanks!

mettabhavana.bsky.social•51 days ago

Well, I didn't make the cut. I'll keep striving anyway. 😉

sdhamiltonvic.bsky.social•51 days ago

Fixed @mettabhavana.bsky.social 😊

elledeeesse.bsky.social•51 days ago

You’re in mine 😊

sdhamiltonvic.bsky.social•51 days ago

Mine too… now😊

sewerratt64.bsky.social•51 days ago

A lot of them follow me already :)

manikato.bsky.social•50 days ago

Thanks for putting this together. Extremely useful.

sdhamiltonvic.bsky.social•50 days ago

👍 #StrongerTogether 🦋

kathybowlen.bsky.social•50 days ago

Thanks Scott! Very helpful

marcuskelson.bsky.social•51 days ago

found a bunch of the old gang :)

ajaanmark.bsky.social•51 days ago

Can you please add me?

kathryns.bsky.social•51 days ago

Following most of these already - great list thank you

babelfish9.bsky.social•52 days ago

📌

notsohappyjan.bsky.social•51 days ago

Mike Carlton and Simon Holmes a Court would be good adds. And me, of course!

rosiedekat.bsky.social•52 days ago

🙏

colorfulforesight.bsky.social•52 days ago

Funny sign..just as you and I were talking about influencial country..this popped up on my newsfeed @thefrankaccount.bsky.social

sdhamiltonvic.bsky.social•52 days ago

Hi @colorfulforesight.bsky.social . You & #BlueCrew might also find this interesting 😊 https://bsky.app/profile/sdhamiltonvic.bsky.social/post/3larwrwsuws2u

thefrankaccount.bsky.social•52 days ago

I just saw this in my feed. Wow. Everything we've been discussing is popping up, right?

thefrankaccount.bsky.social•52 days ago

I don't recognise a lot of them but the ones i do are good.

Isn't it funny, given our conversation?

colorfulforesight.bsky.social•52 days ago

I KNOW! lol

thefrankaccount.bsky.social•52 days ago

Scott followed me!

sdhamiltonvic.bsky.social•52 days ago

Indeed👍

thefrankaccount.bsky.social•52 days ago

Thank you! I just did the 'follow all' button, too. Thanks for the starter pack!

others-tide.bsky.social•51 days ago

It's going to be interesting time. I'll be doing my little bit.

julieanonymous.bsky.social•52 days ago

Thanks Scott for the add. Wondered where those new followers came from & great to see some old friends who've escaped the cess pit over there.

Let's ramp it up & help shove those #LNP pathetic's out the door.

Already breaking AEC rules here in WA with multiple corflutes & oversized billboards.

farmerrenee.bsky.social•52 days ago

Happy New Year Scott, I've followed most now, I've been pretty quiet on the politics front after a shite 18 months working in agripolitics I had to step away from the nonsense.

sdhamiltonvic.bsky.social•52 days ago

Fair enough. I’m finding it much better here on 🦋

farmerrenee.bsky.social•52 days ago

Yes I deleted my X account, it's pretty awful over there now.

brontesceptic.bsky.social•51 days ago

Tks Scott ... good to rediscover many I'd previously been following on Twitter

sdhamiltonvic.bsky.social•51 days ago

🙏

archedeyebrow.bsky.social•52 days ago

Very useful, thanks. (I wondered where my former Xssociates were. Harder to find them here under this new identity.)

sdhamiltonvic.bsky.social•52 days ago

Yes. I’ve found the same. Cheers, Scott.

viakuttabul.bsky.social•51 days ago

Thanks, Scott.

hippiepappa.bsky.social•52 days ago

Did I miss @friendlyjordies.bsky.social

It is a long list, my eyes are dim, like my wit so I might have missed it.

alanpagett77.bsky.social•52 days ago

💙
#bluecrew
#dropbearmafia

drsally.bsky.social•52 days ago

Hmmm

ozwiltshire.bsky.social•52 days ago

🤔

sdhamiltonvic.bsky.social•52 days ago

Fixed 😊

lizturnerarts.bsky.social•52 days ago

Thank you! 🙌

sdhamiltonvic.bsky.social•52 days ago

Hi all 🦋 friends,

Suggestions:
> If you want people to follow you back then make sure you have a profile pic & some text
>If you are a MSM journo then please follow others & engage - otherwise suggest use other platforms
>Engage in constructive debate, but don’t be offensive. You will be blocked. 🦋

goodgord.bsky.social•52 days ago

Good call Scott
Cheers