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Twitter escapee...Scottish šŸ“󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁓ó æ (but Melbournite since 97) #VoteYes Social justice, fairness, integrity, fun!! #Celtic supporter šŸ’ššŸ¤
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Yep. We can no longer trust the United States. It is led - controlled is a better word - by crooks, liars, ignoramuses and bullies.

Good point.

We are strengthening Medicare to help with the cost of living. More doctors and more bulk billing means less pressure on family budgets. #auspol #asuecon #insiders

Mark Butler goes back to when Dutton as Health Minister was condemned by GPs for trumpeting ā€œskewed & misleadingā€ data & when he ā€œtried to abolish bulk billing altogetherā€ Says b/billing went into ā€œfree fallā€ as a ā€œdirect result of a deliberate decision made by Peter Duttonā€ youtu.be/BR7O9pkx2qo?...

Jim Chalmers not convinced of Angusā€™ claim they wonā€™t cut bulk billing reminds when Dutton came after Medicare as Health Min & slams the ā€œshamefulā€ veterans backlog left behind ā€œU canā€™t pay $600bill in nuclear reactors w/out coming after Medicare again like he did last timeā€ youtu.be/QUDmZ2nGKw4?...

Watch as Labor gets more scrutiny over $8.5b for health than Dutton gets over his $600b nuclear fiasco. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...

šŸ—£ļø "I think that every single man who stepped out there can leave with their head held high and that's something that is really important for us." @ahaggerty10.bsky.social was in Munich last night to speak to Alistair Johnston after Celtic's Champions League exit - everything he said ā¬‡ļø

This morning on ABC RN Breakfast, Sally Sara's first qn to Treasurer @jimchalmers.bsky.social was this: "Will this rate cut get Labor over the line at the election?" srsly. Yet Sara failed to even mention THIS šŸ‘‡ fun fact. #auspol #ausecon #AusVotes2025

"Like any Labor leader, Albanese is up against a political class that is relentlessly anti-Labor. The media, meanwhile, cut Dutton the sort of slack no Labor leader would ever be accorded, and he's cruising along on a non-agenda of thought bubbles and bluster." tdunlop.substack.com/p/we-interru...

Dutton: ā€œLabor are the political arm of the huge Union movement.. almost impossible for LNP to combat their financial powerā€ šŸ™„ This is a ā€œlook over thereā€ from Dutton.. & donā€™t look at Duttonā€™s heavy hitting donors - Rinehart Advance IPA Mining Murdoch Stokes Cormack Hadley Palmer Etc..

This is what oligarchy looks like.

This is GREAT news...& why I have been pushing the govt to expand the size of the Housing Australia Future Fund which I supported with changes to add $6.5bn to its value already There IS capacity in the sector to build more social šŸ˜ļø - let's get it done. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...

Peter Dutton has been contradicted by Matt Canavan on nuclear costs, and by David Littleproud on insurance competition policy. He gets challenged more by his Coalition partners than by the Australian media.

Maybe we should send a flurry of emails and make phone calls to senior ABC management to demand that they get rid of Pezzullo. Iā€™m sure theyā€™ll act as swiftly as they did with Lattouf šŸ™„

Peter Dutton sacking 36k public servants? Josh Barnett checks the evidence for govt efficiency, finds consultants are twice the price #auspol #DOGE michaelwest.com.au/peter-dutton...

The Daily Telegraph took part in a stunt in which a provocateur tried and failed to *stir up* antisemitism at an Egyptian restaurant in order to have it caught on camera. How's this for "social cohesion"? I wonder if any politicians will bother to comment www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...

This is literally an attempt to incite hatred by the Telegraph. Everyone involved in this including editors and management should be ashamed of themselves. And fired. www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...

A good listen .. #auspol #Renewables #DuttonTheDud

I feel both depressed for and angry with the human race seeing these evil, smug bastards getting away scot free with their crimes....

Ok Albo and Wong ā€¦ had enough of this shit. Get us the fuck out of #AUKUS today ā€¦ #auspol @albomp.bsky.social @senatorwong.bsky.social

Was an excellent speech šŸ‘šŸ‘šŸ‘šŸ‘

And thankfully, Toast can't speak... as his voice does my head in!

Political bribery (donations) data out so a glimpse of who owns the politicians .. and why they shirked reform. eg: "Sportsbet $88k, Tabcorp $60k, Lottery Corp $44k, 'Responsible Wagering Australia' $66k michaelwest.com.au/mystery-mone...

Staggering...

Dutton says heā€™s not going to announce coalition spending cuts until after the election šŸ¤Ø Heā€™s doing it again. No-detail Dutton -who demands the details from Labor wonā€™t reveal spending cut details MSM let him get away with it Are voters seriously that stupid? www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Perfectly captured.

Big energy for our Big Team Zoe campaign launch today. This level of commitment, in this heat - thank you. Letā€™s do this. šŸ™ Today is the day.

Iā€™m not sure what this means for the United States, but as a scholar and author this is concerning: More than half of all adults in the USA have a literacy below the 6th-grade level. A fifth of all adults in the US are illiterate. www.thenationalliteracyinstitute.com/post/literac...

15th consecutive white straight Christian male leader of The Liberal Party complains about diversity hires

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Perfect. So perfect.

This is good news, though it should not be tied to Naplan scores. Itā€™s not logical to reduce or cap funding to schools serving the children with the highest needs.

If Albanese had said he'd be willing to negotiate with the Greens or the community independent MPs, Coorey would have said "desperate PM willing to negotiate ..." No criticism of Dutton though! šŸ˜ #auspol #AusVotes2025

Albo announces the largest investment in Australian schools in well over a decade, on top of the early childhood education, fee-free TAFE & student debt relief, so naturally the Press Club asks him about almost anything else Regardless, delivering for every child makes me proud to be Labor #auspol

This good news was buried deeply on the ABC News site. Share it around. #AusPol

There is a billionaire backed global fascist movement trying to take over Europe & the English speaking world but mad Hamasniks are too obsessed with The Levant to bother defending democracy at home by actually engaging with working people on their issues Instead calling us ā€œgenocide enablersā€ šŸ¤¦ā€ā™‚ļøFFS

Yep. The creeps you wouldnā€™t want to sit next to are destroying the world and, apart from everything else, its embarrassing. Brilliant column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"All along, itā€™s been about a grab for oil and gas". @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social on Howard & Downer's Timor spying lies and the long battle to find the truth #auspol michaelwest.com.au/howard-downe...

"Mark Dreyfus, the Australian Attorney-General, is travelling to Israel to pay fealty to an indicted war criminal, Benjamin Netanyahu. Dreyfus has not criticised the ongoing genocide." Still waiting for Foreign Minister Penny "deeply concerned" Wong's reaction. johnmenadue.com/dreyfus-trip...

I wasted a few minutes last night trying to find some redeeming quality in Donald Trump, some small spark of character in some way admirable or decent. There is nothing. He is scum.

šŸšØ this week the coal industry launched a dirty campaign against the independents through an ā€˜astroturfā€™ group: ā€˜australians for progressā€™. using classic negative ad styling ā€” complete with misinformation ā€” billboards went up in monique ryanā€™s & allegra spenderā€™s electorates.

The Australian Government gives most of the gas exported from Australia by foreign-owned gas corporations for free. They pay no royalties. The gas industry is ripping Australians off, and our governments are letting them. šŸ–Šļø Tax the gas industry buff.ly/49NP7tJ #auspol

Geoffrey Watson SC has called out Peter Duttonā€™s secret deal to receive free legal advice from Arnold Bloch Leibler saying thereā€™s ā€œno reasonā€ to keep details ā€œsecretā€ from public. Coincidentally Dutton is facing legal action for racist attacks on Muslim Australians www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

Russia has denied involvement in the Azerbaijani Airlines crash, saying the plane fell out of hotel window

In 2021 the Govt of Qatar was forecast to collect $26.6 billion in royalties from its LNG reserves. Our Govt was forecast to receive $800 million for the same volume of gas. Both the old parties have given away our wealth and arenā€™t interested in changing this state of affairs. #auspol