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This, right here…👇 Pass. It. On. 🌈✨

submitted 3 hours ago • 19 comments

AUKUS is that 3am Wondermop you bought in 9 easy payments. You wake up from your drunken stupor & instead of using the cancel anytime option to invest in strengthening your regional relationships, you still buy the mop because you’re afraid your husband Rupert will call you weak on national security

submitted 3 days ago • 13 comments

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

The Australian election is there to be won for the first political leader who comes out and says it plainly: The USA has become a fascist state, run by a gangster and a bunch of unaccountable plutocrats. They can take their submarine contract and shove it.

submitted 4 days ago • 12 comments

I see plenty of people whinging about Australia’s alliance with the US. Here’s one thing you can do about it. Share far & wide. Time on the petition is running out.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

theklaxon.com.au/liberal-part... The Liberal Party and “Advance” have for years denied they are connected, yet two weeks ago it emerged the Liberal Party is Advance’s biggest funder — and by a factor of ten. #auspol #qldpol

submitted 6 days ago • 9 comments

#auspol shame @australianlabor.bsky.social @albomp.bsky.social #liberals .! Ps.Not green voter It’s like thugs ganging up for their oligarchs mates.!

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Sorry it’s got lots of words.

submitted 10 days ago • 28 comments

We’re giving $380 billion to a nation that can’t be trusted. #AUKUS

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

#Breaking: The duopoly have joined forces in the Senate to pass electoral laws designed to reduce the prospects of small party and independent candidates being elected. They also gave themselves a $25M election funding pay rise (in the middle of a cost of living crisis). #auspol

submitted 12 days ago • 13 comments

@albomp.bsky.social has gifted $4.6B to Rolls-Royce, but the company's plan to supply nuclear reactors for #AUKUS subs is ‘unachievable’. The UK's diminished industrial base has always been the weakest link in AUKUS. Don't count on nuclear subs being built at Osborne SA. #SNAFU #auspol

submitted 11 days ago • 5 comments

Cashed-up retirees getting a refund for tax they never paid? We've hit peak rort - The Australia Institute australiainstitute.org.au/post/cashed-...

submitted 49 days ago • 1 comment

Drop AUKUS now! #auspol

submitted 13 days ago • 19 comments

In his recent Quarterly Essay, George Megalogenis pointed to two factors that have insulated Australia from the Trumpian politics taking over the globe: 1. Significant multicultural communities, and; 2. The “teal” independent movement. Each provides a buffer that prevents far-right popularism.

submitted 26 days ago • 8 comments

True is so many jurisdictions

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Every morning we wake up to more horror – but worse than that, more people who are seemingly indifferent to it. Compassion burnout is real, but it is also what power wants. Empathy keeps us human and yes, it is heavy, but it's a burden worth holding ♥️

submitted 26 days ago • 51 comments

What a total failure of diplomacy if that ever happens

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Labor people can keep ignoring legit criticism such as this all they like, but it won’t help them. The only thing that will save them is changing, rapidly and substantially.

submitted 28 days ago • 12 comments

So Albo has rehearsed some new attack lines against Peter Dutton. Good for him. Now if only he could come up with some bold new policy commitments that might convince voters his government is not just Liberal-lite. #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

submitted 31 days ago • 21 comments

Hello, I'm a Christian who only reads the Old Testament, you know, that bit of the Bible where Christ isn't!

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

To the crowds cheering Trump's withdrawal from the Paris Agreement: Do you think you live on a different planet, which climate breakdown does not affect? Do you imagine only greens and progressives will be harmed by Earth systems collapse? Do you believe you can win an argument with physics?

submitted 34 days ago • 280 comments

Greed is a sickness that is killing us all. Progressive taxation is the cure, when you are paying 99% tax, you will think what is the point of trying to get more. But instead you pay 37% tax and billionaires pay 0%, encouraging their sickness.

submitted 37 days ago • 7 comments

Great question

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

Completely agree with Mr Dowling. That's why I watch SBS news.

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

Yes, Albanese is devoid of charisma, but Dutton is devoid of a soul. Surely, Australians are not stupid enough to make that mistake?

submitted 43 days ago • 12 comments

Obviously because there is such a dearth of potential investigations to chose from 🤔

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

Just released to me under #FOI is a never-before-seen chapter of the Official History of Australian Operations in Timor that was secretly expunged from the history. It tells uncomfortable truths and confirms Howard Govt lies and public deceit. Full story on Michael West Media soon. #auspol

submitted 43 days ago • 14 comments

We need more male energy

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

When we believe animals don’t feel pain the same as us or have sentience, we emotionally neutralize the cruelty necessary to monetize their flesh. Change is a moral necessity.

submitted 43 days ago • 1 comment

What Zoe says!

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

Yes, oh please, yes!

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

For time immemorial the ruling class has asked others to sacrifice themselves so that their privilege remain and be extended for vanity and ego It was once through battle, now it is through every part of their existence As it has always been, their supremacy is a myth that can and must be expelled

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

Nah, easy, with Aussie ingenuity we'll get ours done on budget and to timeframe! Just ask Dutto.

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

The fastest way to save society is to immediately pivot away from major parties that are compromised. Sorry America, you’ll have to fight your way out.

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

My heart goes out to all those who have lost homes in the LA fires. Here’s hoping that the celebs that have lost homes use their platforms to advocate for renewable energy and clean transport pronto

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

This is coal, don’t afraid, don’t be scared…

submitted 45 days ago • 12 comments

Maybe just call it the Fossil Fuel party?

submitted 45 days ago • 4 comments

It would be a mistake to think that everyone experiencing the worsening impacts of climate change will suddenly accept what needs to happen to arrest it. Misinformation and conspiracy theories will be deployed to muddy the waters as much as possible - looking at the comments in the US, it's working

submitted 45 days ago • 54 comments

Numbskulls Tony Abbott, Jacinta Price & John Anderson out stumping for male RWNJ candidate in socially progressive electorate of Bradfield - which voted YES for The Voice, doubt they’ll touch Warren Mundine w/ a barge pole #CommunityIndependent #NicoletteBoele will be a tough opponent #auspol

submitted 45 days ago • 10 comments

👏 A New York appeals court ruled Thursday that Fox Corporation must face Smartmatic’s mammoth defamation lawsuit over the airing of 2020 election lies on Fox News, dealing a blow to the Rupert Murdoch-controlled media giant. www.aol.com/rupert-murdo...

submitted 45 days ago • 22 comments

James Woods is still alive. Paris Hilton is still alive. Billy Crystal is still alive. Cary Elwes is still alive. And then there's an estimated 300,000+ Palestinians and many other civilians in Lebanon, Syria and Yemen who since October 2023 ARE NOT STILL ALIVE thanks to Israel. #FTR

submitted 45 days ago • 13 comments

This 🧵: "it’s super clear: pro-climate independents are a clear threat to the coal lobby’s stranglehold on Australian politics." Also clear that without progressive independents & Greens pushing real reform to political advertising, the fossil fuel lobby will continue such disinformation campaigns.

submitted 46 days ago • 3 comments

First news outlet that links catastrophic fires in California in the middle of Winter with #ClimateChange wins a prize🏆 Being… they’re labelled as a decent, ethical, deserves to be respected, watched & read and media organisation. The bar is low, come on FFS. #Auspol #USPol

submitted 46 days ago • 4 comments

Water above or water below, I wonder (not) which will pose the greatest threat in years to come

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments