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Geriatric male in Cairns, known as Mark Davis.
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“The government really does have a very clear pathway if they want to do genuine reform that helps people & that can tackle the problems that the community & the planet are facing, They really do have an open invitation from the Greens to get stuff done.” #Auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Straya! Where they starve social services and refuse to tax fossil fuel.

According to figures provided by the World’s Most Moral Army, of the 2,780 Palestinians killed since March 18, only about 500 were identified as militants. The remaining 2,280 were civilians not suspected of any militant activity. These figures, which are almost certainly vastly undercounted

Jonathan Joss was Comanche and Apache and an openly gay actor. He was murdered while looking at the remains of his dogs at his own house that was burnt down. The killer yelled homophobic slurs before shooting him. This is the real world consequences of the hatred that the right commodifies

Hi World, this is the utter contempt @albomp.bsky.social shows for ancient culture and our international obligations. Why? Because Woodside...because Labor.

NT Police working hard to whitewash their murder of a young disabled Aboriginal man. The last paragraph tells you all you need to know about how this is going to go. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...

Patricia Karvelas, on the Our ABC News site, is today reporting the problems with the Liberal Party that should have been reported over the last three years, and certainly should have been reported before the election. #AusPol

It’s abundantly clear that these US-Israeli aid centres are intended to be massacre traps for Palestinian women and children. www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Russia on high alert.

A northern summer expected to record unprecedented temperatures Countries are taking relatively minor steps to mitigate the effects of heat But none appear willing to link accelerated warming to climate change and take the urgent, transformative steps to address the problem That's the problem!

"Cesspool! Cesspool! Cesspool!" www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

The AIMN perfectly captures the laughable sleaziness of the recipe/TV cooking media business (hint - they’re all aholes) theaimn.net/thieves-in-t...

I suspect that you are not going to be able to do anything to protect Palestinians whilst Israel still exists

According to an analysis by CNN's Stephen Collinson, bullying may work on Republican party lawmakers who fear he'll ruin their careers, but it is quite another thing to make demands of foreign diplomats in countries where Trump is considered either an irritant or a joke.

Albanese finds a new way to sell Australia’s sovereignty and national security to the US. Groveller m. declassifiedaus.org/2025/05/31/u...

What are these tools gunna do when the coral suffers heat death?

Spend 3.5% of GDP on defence? Bugger off. Australia already spends a huge amount on defence - The Australia Institute australiainstitute.org.au/post/austral...

The North West Shelf extension is a disaster. It will release more pollution each year than all of Australia’s coal stations combined, threaten ancient Murujuga rock art, and deliver $0 to the public purse. Yet Labor approved it anyway.

You'd have to have lived under a rock for a decade to think that tourism in Queensland in 20 years won't be profoundly changed by climate change. Already, mass bleaching occurred in 6 of the past 10 summers. By 2045, the Great Barrier Reef will be unrecognizable. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...

The Best Aircraft Carriers of the World:

These US-Israeli aid distribution centres are clearly intended to be traps in which to massacre Palestinians, especially women and children. www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

Hardly surprising. Telling Trump would be telling Putin.

Day 603 of the war on Gaza and journalists still seem to be having trouble with the basic five W’s of reporting. Who? What? When? Why? How? For a reason I cant quite put my finger on, they keep burying the lead: Who is doing this? How did the guns fire? And why were they waiting for food?

Every Australian with half a brain knew all this at least a year before the election, and voted accordingly. That Karvelas waited till now to write this speaks volumes about her abject failure as an independent, honest journalist. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...

Israelis are no better than the beasts of the field.

*Killed amid gunfire* Not by it. Not by anyone in particular.

Troops gun down starving crowds, capping deadly first week of operations for controversial Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.

Leftover ecstasy, ketamine and magic mushrooms plus dementia-

Writers & storytellers: please beware of doing any business with the State Library of Queensland. They're not to be trusted, they're unethical & they do not care about us. You may easily find yourself unpaid AND out-of-pocket, which quickly causes financial hardship for writers. 1/4

If we had an independent foreign policy and a courageous PM, Australia would not be "under pressure to join international push for Palestinian statehood". We'd be leading it. #FreePalestine #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

I've obtained a copy of Laura Tingle's new Job Description. 😜 #abcnews #AusPol #parody

“… consciousness of guilt …” is a phrase for the times.

#BREAKING : PM Albanese tells the United States who's boss. #AusPol #parody #defence

None of these wealthy, private, exclusionary schools should receive a single cent of public funding. #auspol #publiceducation

PM seriously arguing a massive WA gas export expansion to 2070 is about renewables on the east coast in the next five years. Just ridiculous. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

The fastest growing “belief system” in most western/educated countries is now “no belief”. Education and science, the ability to reason and think critically kill religious belief. Women often lead the charge, despite risks.

Taxing mining companies more WON’T kill the industry. It will drive innovation, efficiency, and competition in the industry. For every company that leaves the market thinking it not profitable enough there will be many more queuing up with a better plan to take their place. #AusPol

You can’t stand at the podium claiming climate leadership and then greenlight a project that dumps over a decade’s worth of emissions into the atmosphere. The Woodside extension is a test of Labor’s climate integrity, and right now, it’s failing.