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Lyndall Ryan's wonderful last great project, a monument to historical truth. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

submitted 12 hours ago • 2 comments

‘It’s a Sunday, so excuse the sermon, but we can do much better. It’s time to grow up, face our demons and create an inclusive, robust future.’ Well said @juliannes.bsky.social! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... #auspol

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

👍If the dispute is to be settled before the trust dissolves in 2030, the most likely scenario is for a sale of parts of the business valued at a combined $43bn. Such disposals could end decades of Murdoch family influence in the US and British political systems. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/f...

submitted 18 hours ago • 2 comments

Is this editorial or advertorial content? MSM almost as addicted to gambling as government

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I don’t know why ppl in Australia are worried about Trump destroying American democracy when the duopoly is undermining our democracy here youtu.be/1kYIojG707w?...

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@peterfox59.bsky.social FFS

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@robertarnol.bsky.social you have to watch Quiet Place: Day One, it stars a cat on a harness www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjx-...

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David Brooks spot on about Trumps new world order and domestic failings www.youtube.com/watch?v=WE8J...

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Creative Australia now faces the prospect of an artist boycott of the 2026 Biennale. If not hopefully the Biennale steps up and withdraws Australia’s invitation www.sbs.com.au/news/article...

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Shocked a conservative QLD government are supporting this. “This remarkable and deeply affecting installation confronts the ongoing legacies of Australia's colonial history, with a focus on the over-incarceration of First Nations peoples and the severing of familial ties” nit.com.au/21-02-2025/1...

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“The Australian political debate seems particularly slow and parochial by comparison with what is happening overseas.“ Laura Tingle www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...

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As Ningaloo reef bleaches and an election looms, we must hold to account those who stand in the way of our safety – the small cohort profiting from fossil fuels, and the politicians who protect them www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Trumpism, whether full-strength or in the watered-down form seen in Australia, is not an answer to the failure of neoliberalism. But until centre-left parties can escape the mental prison built by decades of soft neoliberalism, it is what we are likely to get www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Looks like US is blackmailing Ukraine: all about critical minerals www.straitstimes.com/world/europe...

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For it is with Trump in power for a second time that they can move closer to their ultimate goal: a capitalist system unchecked by the power of democratic institutions and government regulation, with an American people too confused and worn out to stop them www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

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Nauru is Australia’s Guantánamo Bay, a hole to send illegals. Something to be proud of Labor, you thought of it before Trump www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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#wapol

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Oz Museum talk 13/2/25 Pilburra Rock Art 50,000 years old threatened by fossil fuel extraction. Burr up Hub WA home to worlds oldest human art, 10x the age of pyramids. Woodside would rather they had money & we had the pollution & no one had the art. ‘Australian Apocalypse’

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

📢 Anthony Albanese’s handpicked candidate nominated a charity to receive $50,000. Members of the charity did 32 hours of phone banking for her campaign before the 2023 election. 👉 Latest news bot: Hawke's Bay News

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Bit of Plain Speakin happening in the west. “Kate Hulett took a potshot at Seven West Media’s shareholder links to the gas industry on the second page of the company’s own paper, The West Australian, on Friday.” www.watoday.com.au/national/wes...

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Even though this false claim of Peter Dutton was factchecked in July 2024, he's just repeated it from Adelaide on ABC News this afternoon. The lie is broadcast yet again over fact. People heard him say it on the ABC so he must be correct? #auspol www.aap.com.au/factcheck/du...

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

No 💩. @albomp.bsky.social could have saved his government and seriously addressed cost of living crisis but appeased the duopoly ”tougher regulations may be needed to deal with complaints raised by shoppers and suppliers” www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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