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“One of the biggest expenses ... (at our local branch) was on funeral wreaths". @michaelpascoe01.bsky.social - how Murdoch & Libs are dragging each other down. Top read #auspol michaelwest.com.au/a-dying-demo...

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Murdoch is killing the Liberal Party. Mine for MWM michaelwest.com.au/a-dying-demo...

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RBA's own number shout it should have cut in April as well as yesterday. Now here's what nobody notices: the real real wages are going backwards again Mine for MWM michaelwest.com.au/rba-drops-in...

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We sanction a token handful of West Bank settlers but ignore the perpetrators of catastrophic crime. michaelwest.com.au/labors-got-a...

submitted 20 days ago • 7 comments

"The Palestine elephant remains in the room. It’s putrid, stinking of death, while our government holds its nose and looks away, ignoring the war crimes." Mine for MWM michaelwest.com.au/labors-got-a...

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Husic unshackled looks leadership material. Bluntly honest about Israel starving Palestinians being a war crime. Prepared to face need for tax reform. #Insiders

submitted 28 days ago • 14 comments

Husic, between the lines, suggests not supporting Netanyahu cost him. In headlines though, says Marles is a damaging factional thug #Insiders

submitted 28 days ago • 15 comments

What is overlooked in commentary about cabinet promotions and sackings is the money - politics is a job and pay rises are eagerly sought. #insiders

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“The agreement now is pushing more lawyers to leave, people familiar with the matter said, spurred by anger that the firm capitulated to Trump instead of fighting back against an administration campaign that many in the industry believe to be unconstitutional.”

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The Israeli war cabinet unanimously approved on Sunday the expansion of Israel’s war on Gaza, which reportedly include plans to reoccupy the strip indefinitely. mondoweiss.net/2025/05/isra...

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Note to self: might avoid the Liberal election day bbq stall

submitted 37 days ago • 11 comments

This is misleading and misguided by the Guardian eds. Labor’s emissions reduction legislation is a scam based on junk carbon offsets, and not reducing emissions at all. Labor is still pushing for expansion of gas exports, still subsidising fossil fuels and refusing to tax them properly. Why, eds?

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Pump it up. My @smh @theage cartoon.

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At a Dubai Conference, Trump’s Conflicts Take Center Stage www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/u...

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“In all cases, Israeli demolitions follow one strategic objective; to push Palestinians to silently leave the West Bank. Now it’s happening at an accelerating rate.” Israel is carrying out #EthnicCleansing in West Bank as well as Gaza. Our leaders look the other way. mondoweiss.net/2025/05/isra...

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‘I Wanted to Do Work That Was Helping People.’ Then Trump Fired Him — Twice. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/o...

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The dogs are barking rates will be trimmed on May 20, after the election. The mystery is why the dogs didn’t bark within the RBA much earlier. The trimmed mean is already at the target - as the bank itself forecast back in February. Very odd Mine for MWM michaelwest.com.au/the-curious-...

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"In the final days of the campaign, Dutton’s media strategy says more than any press conference could: Dutton is playing defence, not offence" www.afr.com/politics/fed...

submitted 38 days ago • 11 comments

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submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

Belatedly realised a better line: The LNP - Liberal Numerology Party - wants to govern by 23.9, 3 and Sussan. (Personally, I think policy via chook entrails would be better value) Mine for MWM

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Government by astrology, numerology, chook entrails, whatever... Mine for MWM michaelwest.com.au/chook-entrai...

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Heather Cox Richardson's Letters from an American includes a quote from Silent Spring author Rachel Carson six decades ago: (The chemical giants, the usual suspects, defended DDT et al & viciously attacked Carson. She was, of course, proven correct.)

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"Poor old Donald thinks the US still dominates the global economy, but the ‘stable genius’ has lost touch with reality" @michaelpascoe01.bsky.social on Trump #tariffs trade war #auspol michaelwest.com.au/trade-wars-t...

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Trump has lost. Emperor No Clothes and his xenophobic tariff capo Navarro are a couple of decades behind the game. Mine for MWM michaelwest.com.au/trade-wars-t...

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Australia could be taking advantage of the millions of students now too scared to go to university in America. Instead both Dutton and Albanese are threatening to massively reduce intl student numbers.

submitted 63 days ago • 21 comments

The Darwin stunt: "Slipping in the polls, Dutton needed to beat up a 'national security' issue, one of the conservatives’ traditional polling strengths when failing, with a bit of “Chinah” bashing implied." So Labor backflipped first. Both pissweak & Trumpy. michaelwest.com.au/politics-tru...

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On Insiders, Littleproud attempted new security "briefings" bullshit for the Darwin port stunt. Wong shot that down. But that confirms Labor has been wedged again on supposed "national security" against our national interests. Both sides pathetic. Mine for MWM: michaelwest.com.au/politics-tru...

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Will they be selling it to Larry Fink? @michaelpascoe01.bsky.social on the farcical politics of the Port of Darwin #auspol michaelwest.com.au/politics-tru...

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Hilarious watching the LNP desperately clinging to the dubious modelling of a single economic consultancy on nuclear against everybody else who's examined it.

submitted 63 days ago • 19 comments

Fox News boss Lachlan Murdoch now hiding in Sydney so his family doesn’t have to live with the American destruction of civil liberties, health, research, social security, insurance and the economy. Currently negotiating to sell it to the Saudis. Good luck, America.

submitted 64 days ago • 6 comments

Anyone seen the port of Darwin? Open concrete. Dennis Richardson's original testimony on its non-security status stands. Cheap Trumpy scare mongering against our even more important economic partner by Dutton & Albo weakly caving in. This is how Labor was wedged into AUKUS. Pissweak politics.

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But the tariffs!…. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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how it started… how it’s going… two elections in a row, the liberal candidate has been a last minute no-show for the #kooyong climate forum. too afraid to address the community in the town hall where sir robert menzies once proudly stood.

submitted 67 days ago • 24 comments

Precisely. The RBA's is supposed to be ahead of the game. Consistently behind now. A cut last week was justified without Trump. Now playing catch-up.

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Australians for Natural Gas revealed as a front for Tamboran - a foreign fracking company harming the NT water table & planning emissions equivalent to putting 30 million extra cars on the road. This is astroturfing 101: fake community, real pollution. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...

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Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. Read all the way for a taste of how loony Loomer is. Tariffs aren't the most dangerous thing about Trump's America. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/u...

submitted 65 days ago • 1 comment

Question for Marles missing from tonight's 730: It is now a matter of fact that the US can't be trusted to keep treaties, the country's word is worthless, so why is Australia trusting it on AUKUS?

submitted 66 days ago • 4 comments

Perspective - "... rest of the world will move on, leaving the US to stew in its own corrupt plutocracy". @michaelpascoe01.bsky.social on the Trump tariff hype #auspol michaelwest.com.au/tariff-war-t...

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"If you're not living in Sydney, you're camping out" - Paul Keating. "No one in Sydney ever wastes time debating the meaning of life - it's getting yourself a water frontage" - character in David Williamson's Emerald City So that's why Dutton wants to be PM. Fair enough.

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Started watching Wolf Hall season 2 last night - a show surprisingly appropriate for our Trumpy times. Big difference between the courts of Henry and Trump is that there is nobody in Trump's orbit as smart as Cromwell (the superb Mark Rylance). And, I've since been reminded, Henry actually was king

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Why Maids Keep Dying in Saudi Arabia www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/w...

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