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“War itself is, of course, a form of madness. It’s hardly a civilized pursuit. It’s amazing how we spend so much time inventing devices to kill each other and so little time working on how to achieve peace.” – Walter Cronkite

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“I want to thank everybody and, in particular, God, I wanna just say, we love you God…” What? Woefully amateurish

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I remember that time.

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Amid the unpredictability of the current economic environment, how can Australia benefit from global change? #AUListen #DemocracySausage 🎙️ Treasurer @jimchalmers.bsky.social joins @markgkenny.bsky.social to talk about how to best position Australia’s economy for the future. 🎧 bit.ly/45pJZMh.

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#AUViews "Americans might have ceded government to corrupt oligarchs with the fluid morals of TV scriptwriters, but Australians still believe in sound government." 📰 bit.ly/4lcK4Yl by @markgkenny.bsky.social via @canberratimes.bsky.social.

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#ICYMI Is the prime minister’s new slogan merely a crafty label to be retrofitted to existing Labor policy? 📰 #AUViews bit.ly/45hZl5k by @markgkenny.bsky.social via @crikey.com.au.

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What will the agenda be for the Albanese-Trump meeting at the G7, especially with the unfolding instability in the US? #AUListen #DemocracySausage 🎙️ @markgkenny.bsky.social and @marijataflaga.bsky.social catch up to discuss the US under Trump and issues closer to home. 🎧https://bit.ly/4e3GsWk.

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#AUViews "It is not just that Trump MKII prefers stagecraft over statecraft, it is that this president sees no distinction between the two." bit.ly/4mUX5ay by @markgkenny.bsky.social via @canberratimes.bsky.social.

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"But has the nation embarked on a new direction of 'progressive patriotism' as the prime minister has branded it, or just stuck to the old one?" #ICYMI 📰 #AUViews bit.ly/4kLzvv1 by @markgkenny.bsky.social via @canberratimes.bsky.social

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Opinion | In Australia, where overt flag-waving rings hollow and is usually considered tasteless, the word “patriot” has always felt imported and foreign. Yet that might be changing, @markgkenny.bsky.social writes.

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Can this be right? If so... whoahhh!!! #Australia

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I’m not sure which is more unsettling: having MAGA Hegseth blunder into the region to sabre-rattle about “imminent” war with China, or having Australia’s crucial foreign policy communications unsubtly banged out by Defence Minister Richard Marles.

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Bombing schools & hospitals, incinerating children, starving them to death. It is clear now that no outrage or atrocity will loosen the grip of Israel’s all-powerful “lobby” on captive govs. What use has the denial of Palestinian statehood served? It is a failed strategy now licensing annihilation.

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Former prime minister of Israel, Ehud Olmert, tells BBC Israeli actions in Gaza ‘close to a war crime’ www.timesofisrael.com/former-pm-ol...

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I’d love to see a lot more cars like this on the street! Back to the era when they were actually beautiful.

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Unreservedly appalled at the hateful gunning down of two young people in Washington DC. Shouting “Free Palestine”while murdering unarmed civilians is utterly disgraceful and can only harm that cause.

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Can you imagine the outrage from #Trump and his coterie if the #US President visited another country and another government sprung a stunt like this on him targeting one of his countless blunders, crimes or globally damaging campaigns?

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Labor feels vindicated in its middle-way path on Gaza -- but has now been caught out by Netanyahu's mass starvation and ethnic cleansing. The government is reduced to muttering banalities in response to genocide

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Oops wrong mark kenny @markgkenny.bsky.social 😇

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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com Three Yale professors who have written extensively on authoritarianism are leaving the U.S. “We’re like people on the Titanic saying our ship can’t sink,” Marci Shore said. “And what you know as a historian is that there is no such thing as a ship that can’t sink.”

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In case of emergency, break glass ceiling

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#SussanLey is the first woman to lead the federal Liberal Party. To pretend that gender stereotyping will play no role in any undermining by internal critics and media would be to ignore history. @markgkenny.bsky.social #auspol theconversation.com/sussan-ley-m...

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theconversation.com/sussan-ley-m...

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From today’s Sun-Herald. Great talking to the fabulous Peter Fitzsimons.

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pca.st/episode/986b... Great listening from @milliganreports.bsky.social @amyremeikis.bsky.social @markgkenny.bsky.social unpacking the election with Tina Quinn on @2ser.bsky.social Fourth Estate. #auspol

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Re-upping after 6 wasted years of defying contemporary Australia. The clue is in the name fellas: house of “representatives”. Voters have concluded you’re not even trying. theconversation.com/liberals-los...

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Boom. The Australian’s Editor at Large, Paul Kelly demolishes “messaging” bromides to lay out what’s really wrong with the Liberal Party. #QandA

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Australian voters saw the best of Peter Dutton only as he left. Why? Politics 101: You cannot divide your way to a broader consensus.

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theconversation.com/dutton-and-t...

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I’m not sure that invoking Scott Morrison’s upset 2019 win is a sound strategy for Peter Dutton on the final day of this error-prone campaign. Scomo led his party to one of its worst ever results in ‘22 after voters had spent the term wallowing in buyer’s remorse. Bad memories of serial deception.

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I’m proud to join the great Cyndi Lauper in the fight for women’s rights & healthcare. Go to www.bonfire.com/girlswantrights2025 to get a shirt and learn more about the #GirlsJustWantToHaveFundamentalRights Fund. @tidescommunity.bsky.social

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