Ben (up north)
@bjts.bsky.social
Blep. 🌏 🐨 🌿
Digs holes & grows things on Muluridji country
Education is key, knowledge is power.
Housing, Health & Basic Income for All.
Will not follow or promote accounts that restrict replies to followers or following only. No more echo chambers!
Digs holes & grows things on Muluridji country
Education is key, knowledge is power.
Housing, Health & Basic Income for All.
Will not follow or promote accounts that restrict replies to followers or following only. No more echo chambers!
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www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Not sceptics, intentional destroyers of the climate for their own gain, nothing else, never was, never is.
#auspol
Not sceptics, intentional destroyers of the climate for their own gain, nothing else, never was, never is.
#auspol
Climate-sceptic IPA refuses to reveal funders in fiery Senate inquiry
Australia’s richest person, Gina Rinehart has previously donated to Institute of Public Affairs but thinktank won’t say if she remains a donor
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:01 PM
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Not sceptics, intentional destroyers of the climate for their own gain, nothing else, never was, never is.
#auspol
Not sceptics, intentional destroyers of the climate for their own gain, nothing else, never was, never is.
#auspol
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40 billion ++ in Morrison/Frydenberg Jobkeeper payments never recovered from businesses who fraudulently accepted them should not be simply written off.
The @albomp.bsky.social
@australianlabor.bsky.social
@jimchalmers.bsky.social Govt has a duty to recover it for benefit of ALL taxpayers
#auspol
The @albomp.bsky.social
@australianlabor.bsky.social
@jimchalmers.bsky.social Govt has a duty to recover it for benefit of ALL taxpayers
#auspol
November 12, 2025 at 9:38 PM
40 billion ++ in Morrison/Frydenberg Jobkeeper payments never recovered from businesses who fraudulently accepted them should not be simply written off.
The @albomp.bsky.social
@australianlabor.bsky.social
@jimchalmers.bsky.social Govt has a duty to recover it for benefit of ALL taxpayers
#auspol
The @albomp.bsky.social
@australianlabor.bsky.social
@jimchalmers.bsky.social Govt has a duty to recover it for benefit of ALL taxpayers
#auspol
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Torres Strait Islanders appeal federal court decision on landmark climate case www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
'Facing an existential threat': Landmark climate case appeal lodged
Two Torres Strait Islander uncles are appealing a federal court ruling that the Commonwealth does not owe a duty of care to protect their people from the impacts of climate change.
www.abc.net.au
November 12, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Torres Strait Islanders appeal federal court decision on landmark climate case www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
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How in the fuck do we live in a place where John Laws insisted female staff wore skirts & had bare legs yet our own PM @AlboMP this morning still called him a “legend” who was an “authentic voice of Australians” and who “built Australia up just as you guys [Kyle and Jackie] do”???
#NewsCorpse
#NewsCorpse
November 10, 2025 at 5:27 AM
How in the fuck do we live in a place where John Laws insisted female staff wore skirts & had bare legs yet our own PM @AlboMP this morning still called him a “legend” who was an “authentic voice of Australians” and who “built Australia up just as you guys [Kyle and Jackie] do”???
#NewsCorpse
#NewsCorpse
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Failed projects leave our uniformed sons and daughters on the battlefield with old capabilities, and fighting obsolescence and defects instead of the enemy. Changes to Defence procurement are needed before we throw more money at Defence. 2/2 #auspol
Dumb Ways to Buy: Defence "shambles" unveiled - former submariner and senator Rex Patrick - Michael West
"The AUKUS nuclear submarine project will bleed the Australian Defence Force white", on top of the billions in annual Defence spending waste
michaelwest.com.au
November 11, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Failed projects leave our uniformed sons and daughters on the battlefield with old capabilities, and fighting obsolescence and defects instead of the enemy. Changes to Defence procurement are needed before we throw more money at Defence. 2/2 #auspol
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Outgoing RSL President Greg Melick needs to appreciate that it is Defence leadership, as much as Govt, that have WASTED tens of billions on failed projects (e.g. $4B to NOT buy French subs) and who proposed/support opulent risky projects such as #AUKUS subs. 1/2 #auspol
November 11, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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'By grounding political representation in shared priorities rather than party ideology, the community independents movement is showing that politics can once again be cooperative — a space for problem-solving, not point-scoring.' Bravo! #auspol
www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...
www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...
Community independents the alternative to far-right rise
Life has become harder for many working families. The answer to that disillusion isn’t more outrage, it’s rebuilding belief.
www.thenewdaily.com.au
November 11, 2025 at 7:48 PM
'By grounding political representation in shared priorities rather than party ideology, the community independents movement is showing that politics can once again be cooperative — a space for problem-solving, not point-scoring.' Bravo! #auspol
www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...
www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...
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All this focus on how crap The Liberals and The Nationals are just takes attention away from how crap Labor is, which is what actually matters
#auspol
#auspol
November 11, 2025 at 8:24 PM
All this focus on how crap The Liberals and The Nationals are just takes attention away from how crap Labor is, which is what actually matters
#auspol
#auspol
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With “Labor” now delivering Howard era Lib policy in almost all areas nobody needs the actual Libs.
All Albo has to do is wear a band t-shirt and he can impoverish renters with pop Ponzi, keep the gas companies pillaging - and the rich get ever richer
#auspol
All Albo has to do is wear a band t-shirt and he can impoverish renters with pop Ponzi, keep the gas companies pillaging - and the rich get ever richer
#auspol
November 11, 2025 at 8:35 PM
With “Labor” now delivering Howard era Lib policy in almost all areas nobody needs the actual Libs.
All Albo has to do is wear a band t-shirt and he can impoverish renters with pop Ponzi, keep the gas companies pillaging - and the rich get ever richer
#auspol
All Albo has to do is wear a band t-shirt and he can impoverish renters with pop Ponzi, keep the gas companies pillaging - and the rich get ever richer
#auspol
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The US should not be allowed to make Australia complicit in nuclear war. 50 years ago Whitlam believed that and he was right.
It’s time to end AUKUS. Close Pine Gap.
It’s time to end AUKUS. Close Pine Gap.
November 11, 2025 at 6:27 AM
The US should not be allowed to make Australia complicit in nuclear war. 50 years ago Whitlam believed that and he was right.
It’s time to end AUKUS. Close Pine Gap.
It’s time to end AUKUS. Close Pine Gap.
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Interesting to note that Australians in rural and remote areas believe that “Government” does not represent them (no “faith” in Govt)
Also interesting to note that out of the last 3 decades 2 1/2 have been a LNP Govt where the majority of rural seats were held by the Nationals
Chicken / egg …?????
Also interesting to note that out of the last 3 decades 2 1/2 have been a LNP Govt where the majority of rural seats were held by the Nationals
Chicken / egg …?????
November 11, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Interesting to note that Australians in rural and remote areas believe that “Government” does not represent them (no “faith” in Govt)
Also interesting to note that out of the last 3 decades 2 1/2 have been a LNP Govt where the majority of rural seats were held by the Nationals
Chicken / egg …?????
Also interesting to note that out of the last 3 decades 2 1/2 have been a LNP Govt where the majority of rural seats were held by the Nationals
Chicken / egg …?????
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NEW via CNN: “The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal”
Exclusive: UK suspends some intelligence sharing with US over boat strike concerns in major break | CNN Politics
The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes ...
www.cnn.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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The cloud of American involvement in the events of November 1975 is unlikely to ever clear. Especially while US presidential libraries continue to block access to critical documents that might shed further light on the shenanigans going on. #auspol #Whitlam #theDismissal
What Washington really thought of Whitlam before the dismissal
The cloud of American involvement in the events of November 1975 is unlikely to ever clear. Especially while US presidential libraries continue to block access to critical documents that might shed light on the shenanigans.
johnmenadue.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:00 PM
The cloud of American involvement in the events of November 1975 is unlikely to ever clear. Especially while US presidential libraries continue to block access to critical documents that might shed further light on the shenanigans going on. #auspol #Whitlam #theDismissal
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Politicians still trying to suck up to the man even after he's dead.
He was vile, racist, misogynist and divisive - hardly the sort of person who should be eulogised by the State.
And our PM's Tweet about the man... Fuck me...
#auspol
He was vile, racist, misogynist and divisive - hardly the sort of person who should be eulogised by the State.
And our PM's Tweet about the man... Fuck me...
#auspol
John Laws to be farewelled at state funeral
www.9news.com.au
November 11, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Politicians still trying to suck up to the man even after he's dead.
He was vile, racist, misogynist and divisive - hardly the sort of person who should be eulogised by the State.
And our PM's Tweet about the man... Fuck me...
#auspol
He was vile, racist, misogynist and divisive - hardly the sort of person who should be eulogised by the State.
And our PM's Tweet about the man... Fuck me...
#auspol
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The flawed concept of #NetZero would appear to me that "Net" is, in accounting terms, identical to "profit"
Given the well known, never punished corruption in corporate tax accounting, I have no faith in "Net" Zero
Let's just get to #ZeroEmissions really really quickly
#ElectrifyEverything
#auspol
Given the well known, never punished corruption in corporate tax accounting, I have no faith in "Net" Zero
Let's just get to #ZeroEmissions really really quickly
#ElectrifyEverything
#auspol
November 11, 2025 at 9:07 PM
The flawed concept of #NetZero would appear to me that "Net" is, in accounting terms, identical to "profit"
Given the well known, never punished corruption in corporate tax accounting, I have no faith in "Net" Zero
Let's just get to #ZeroEmissions really really quickly
#ElectrifyEverything
#auspol
Given the well known, never punished corruption in corporate tax accounting, I have no faith in "Net" Zero
Let's just get to #ZeroEmissions really really quickly
#ElectrifyEverything
#auspol
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The only swindle would be you accepting a salary from the public purse while in the employ of Gina and the other fossil fuel billionaires, Barnacle. #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Live: Joyce labels renewable energy a 'total swindle'
Nationals MP Barnaby Joyce has labelled renewable energy a "total swindle" and has refused to say whether he would support an extension of energy rebates. Follow live.
www.abc.net.au
November 9, 2025 at 10:28 PM
The only swindle would be you accepting a salary from the public purse while in the employ of Gina and the other fossil fuel billionaires, Barnacle. #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
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Albo probably has more of a claim to being Morrison's successor.
#auspol
michaelwest.com.au/can-anthony-...
#auspol
michaelwest.com.au/can-anthony-...
Can Anthony Albanese credibly claim to be a successor of Whitlam? - Michael West
From AUKUS to government secrecy, politics to policy, PM Anthony Albanese is closer to Liberal Scott Morrison than Gough Whitlam
michaelwest.com.au
November 9, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Albo probably has more of a claim to being Morrison's successor.
#auspol
michaelwest.com.au/can-anthony-...
#auspol
michaelwest.com.au/can-anthony-...
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Bonus video today.
Write and phone our senators and ask them to keep blocking Environment Minister Murray Watt's weak EPBC laws until they are nature positive, include climate triggers and lose the resources loopholes.
#auspol
#EPBC
#climatetrigger
#naturepositive
Write and phone our senators and ask them to keep blocking Environment Minister Murray Watt's weak EPBC laws until they are nature positive, include climate triggers and lose the resources loopholes.
#auspol
#EPBC
#climatetrigger
#naturepositive
November 9, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Bonus video today.
Write and phone our senators and ask them to keep blocking Environment Minister Murray Watt's weak EPBC laws until they are nature positive, include climate triggers and lose the resources loopholes.
#auspol
#EPBC
#climatetrigger
#naturepositive
Write and phone our senators and ask them to keep blocking Environment Minister Murray Watt's weak EPBC laws until they are nature positive, include climate triggers and lose the resources loopholes.
#auspol
#EPBC
#climatetrigger
#naturepositive
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There's over-abundance of wind and solar.
But, "market operator may also direct renewable plants to reduce their output at times to ensure coal plants can maintain minimum operating levels."
Coal plants, unreliable & inflexible.
#Renewables
#auspol
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
But, "market operator may also direct renewable plants to reduce their output at times to ensure coal plants can maintain minimum operating levels."
Coal plants, unreliable & inflexible.
#Renewables
#auspol
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
The wind blows, yet turbines lie still. It's a symptom of Australia's renewables glut
Mountains of clean power are regularly "wasted" as Australia's energy system evolves. But a large amount of battery storage is waiting in the wings, ready to soak it up.
www.abc.net.au
November 9, 2025 at 10:41 PM
There's over-abundance of wind and solar.
But, "market operator may also direct renewable plants to reduce their output at times to ensure coal plants can maintain minimum operating levels."
Coal plants, unreliable & inflexible.
#Renewables
#auspol
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
But, "market operator may also direct renewable plants to reduce their output at times to ensure coal plants can maintain minimum operating levels."
Coal plants, unreliable & inflexible.
#Renewables
#auspol
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
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“The Australian Taxation Office has outsourced thousands of call centre roles to private operators that pay workers significantly less than public servants and use call targets that can leave vulnerable taxpayers exposed, Guardian Australia can reveal”
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
‘Set up to fail’: ATO outsourcing to private call centres focused on boosting profit not helping Australians
Consumer advocates raise significant concerns as union says contractors use lower-paid staff to boost profit
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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Happening under the nose of @albomp.bsky.social and his cherished
@australianlabor.bsky.social - the party founded on the backs, toil & sweat of workers.
Neoliberalism destroyed unions, now it’s destroying govt service delivery and workers’ pay & conditions.
What a disgrace the ALP is today
#auspol
@australianlabor.bsky.social - the party founded on the backs, toil & sweat of workers.
Neoliberalism destroyed unions, now it’s destroying govt service delivery and workers’ pay & conditions.
What a disgrace the ALP is today
#auspol
November 9, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Happening under the nose of @albomp.bsky.social and his cherished
@australianlabor.bsky.social - the party founded on the backs, toil & sweat of workers.
Neoliberalism destroyed unions, now it’s destroying govt service delivery and workers’ pay & conditions.
What a disgrace the ALP is today
#auspol
@australianlabor.bsky.social - the party founded on the backs, toil & sweat of workers.
Neoliberalism destroyed unions, now it’s destroying govt service delivery and workers’ pay & conditions.
What a disgrace the ALP is today
#auspol
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“The Australian Taxation Office has outsourced thousands of call centre roles to private operators that pay workers significantly less than public servants and use call targets that can leave vulnerable taxpayers exposed, Guardian Australia can reveal”
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
‘Set up to fail’: ATO outsourcing to private call centres focused on boosting profit not helping Australians
Consumer advocates raise significant concerns as union says contractors use lower-paid staff to boost profit
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:35 PM
“The Australian Taxation Office has outsourced thousands of call centre roles to private operators that pay workers significantly less than public servants and use call targets that can leave vulnerable taxpayers exposed, Guardian Australia can reveal”
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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The #LNP lies about the cost of #NetZero.
#ClimateChange #misinformation #auspol
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
#ClimateChange #misinformation #auspol
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Academics say their net zero costing is being ‘misrepresented’ after Nationals repeat $9tn claim
Researchers behind report cited by some in the Coalition say their work is based on various assumptions – largely involving cost to overseas customers, not Australians
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:20 PM
The #LNP lies about the cost of #NetZero.
#ClimateChange #misinformation #auspol
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
#ClimateChange #misinformation #auspol
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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"It wasn’t the laws that were too weak to stop those projects, it was the ministers" @richarddenniss.bsky.social #ThePoint
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
It wasn’t the laws that were too weak to stop those projects, it was the ministers
The Prime Minister is betting that by 2028 people will forget the North West Shelf and EPBC backflips, but it would be a brave backbencher willing to make that same bet.
thepoint.com.au
November 3, 2025 at 9:37 PM
"It wasn’t the laws that were too weak to stop those projects, it was the ministers" @richarddenniss.bsky.social #ThePoint
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...