Interested Bystander
@intbystand.bsky.social
Ready to call bullshit on extremist nutters
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I don’t know about you, but I’m a bit scared of any new ‘environment laws’ that Labor can get Matt Canavan and Andrew Hastie to vote for…I think they will be better described as ‘ how to build more mines faster laws’ www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
Watt nears deal with Coalition to finally overhaul environment laws
Environment Minister Murray Watt will sit down with his Liberal counterpart Angie Bell today, with quiet optimism in both parties that a deal might soon be struck to finally rewrite Australia's "broke...
www.abc.net.au
October 8, 2025 at 10:20 PM
I don’t know about you, but I’m a bit scared of any new ‘environment laws’ that Labor can get Matt Canavan and Andrew Hastie to vote for…I think they will be better described as ‘ how to build more mines faster laws’ www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
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This guy would rather co-govern with the LNP, an otherwise irrelevant soon to be minor party, than negotiate with the Greens.
That says so much.
How's that fire-ant program, big fella?
#auspol
That says so much.
How's that fire-ant program, big fella?
#auspol
Environment Minister Murray Watt will sit down with his Liberal counterpart Angie Bell today, with quiet optimism in both parties that a deal might soon be struck to finally rewrite Australia's "broken" and outdated environment laws.
Watt nears deal with Coalition to finally overhaul environment laws
Environment Minister Murray Watt will sit down with his Liberal counterpart Angie Bell today, with quiet optimism in both parties that a deal might soon be struck to finally rewrite Australia's "broken" and outdated environment laws.
www.abc.net.au
October 8, 2025 at 10:44 PM
This guy would rather co-govern with the LNP, an otherwise irrelevant soon to be minor party, than negotiate with the Greens.
That says so much.
How's that fire-ant program, big fella?
#auspol
That says so much.
How's that fire-ant program, big fella?
#auspol
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Do you remember the deal @albomp.bsky.social and @australianlabor.bsky.social did with the LNP remnants to establish a # NACC
…and how has that turned out?
Not hard to forecast the effect of a duopoly ‘deal’ on environmental protections (a political oxymoron)
#auspol
…and how has that turned out?
Not hard to forecast the effect of a duopoly ‘deal’ on environmental protections (a political oxymoron)
#auspol
I don’t know about you, but I’m a bit scared of any new ‘environment laws’ that Labor can get Matt Canavan and Andrew Hastie to vote for…I think they will be better described as ‘ how to build more mines faster laws’ www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
Watt nears deal with Coalition to finally overhaul environment laws
Environment Minister Murray Watt will sit down with his Liberal counterpart Angie Bell today, with quiet optimism in both parties that a deal might soon be struck to finally rewrite Australia's "broke...
www.abc.net.au
October 8, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Do you remember the deal @albomp.bsky.social and @australianlabor.bsky.social did with the LNP remnants to establish a # NACC
…and how has that turned out?
Not hard to forecast the effect of a duopoly ‘deal’ on environmental protections (a political oxymoron)
#auspol
…and how has that turned out?
Not hard to forecast the effect of a duopoly ‘deal’ on environmental protections (a political oxymoron)
#auspol
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I bet the Zionist genocidal maniacs installed in the upper echelons of Australian civil society are gleefully licking their chops hearing that Australian govt was unhelpful & Australians, out of all the countries represented protesting against the genocide, were THE LAST TO BE RELEASED.
#auspol
#auspol
October 8, 2025 at 7:25 AM
I bet the Zionist genocidal maniacs installed in the upper echelons of Australian civil society are gleefully licking their chops hearing that Australian govt was unhelpful & Australians, out of all the countries represented protesting against the genocide, were THE LAST TO BE RELEASED.
#auspol
#auspol
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Can I just say as an Australian. America is fucked!
September 11, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Can I just say as an Australian. America is fucked!
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The Coalition is choosing to ignore its own history. Labor isn’t brave enough to push back. And now we’re having an immigration discussion that is AT THE BEHEST OF LITERAL NAZIS. FFS
www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...
www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...
Fascism rises, and we are caught between craven and unwilling
Here we are. Trapped between those who flirt with far-right ideologies for political gain and those unwilling to make the stand it demands.
www.thenewdaily.com.au
September 7, 2025 at 5:34 AM
The Coalition is choosing to ignore its own history. Labor isn’t brave enough to push back. And now we’re having an immigration discussion that is AT THE BEHEST OF LITERAL NAZIS. FFS
www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...
www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...
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September 7, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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In Australia, our major political parties are so sycophantic to the US administration, that American influence operations are overt. #auspol
Denmark's main national broadcaster reported that at least three people with connections to President Donald Trump have been carrying out covert influence operations in Greenland.
https://cnn.it/47KZFL6
https://cnn.it/47KZFL6
August 27, 2025 at 10:59 AM
In Australia, our major political parties are so sycophantic to the US administration, that American influence operations are overt. #auspol
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When are our media & arts institutions going to grow a back bone and not be spooked by lobbyist letters making vexatious and defamatory claims. Have we learned nothing ? Are these institutions more concerned about cranky letter writers than war crimes they seek to distract from?
August 18, 2025 at 5:46 AM
When are our media & arts institutions going to grow a back bone and not be spooked by lobbyist letters making vexatious and defamatory claims. Have we learned nothing ? Are these institutions more concerned about cranky letter writers than war crimes they seek to distract from?
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THIS disqualifies Amir Maimon from having his credentials as Israel's ambassador accepted by the Australian government.
If our Foreign minister had any balls, she'd withdraw his accreditation and send him packing!
We don't want child killer apologists in Australia!
#auspol #Genocide #Gaza
If our Foreign minister had any balls, she'd withdraw his accreditation and send him packing!
We don't want child killer apologists in Australia!
#auspol #Genocide #Gaza
August 12, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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John Howard oversaw a $500 000 donation from the Liberal Party to the racist, anti-Islamic, anti-immigrant misinformation group Advance Australia. That was money well spent...
#auspol #LiberalParty #AdvanceAustralia #JohnHoward
theklaxon.com.au/howard-overs...
#auspol #LiberalParty #AdvanceAustralia #JohnHoward
theklaxon.com.au/howard-overs...
Howard oversaw $500,000 to "Advance" - The Klaxon
Liberal heavyweights John Howard and Richard Alston oversaw a $500,000 payment to MAGA group “Advance”, specifically to fight the Greens.
theklaxon.com.au
July 16, 2025 at 7:10 AM
John Howard oversaw a $500 000 donation from the Liberal Party to the racist, anti-Islamic, anti-immigrant misinformation group Advance Australia. That was money well spent...
#auspol #LiberalParty #AdvanceAustralia #JohnHoward
theklaxon.com.au/howard-overs...
#auspol #LiberalParty #AdvanceAustralia #JohnHoward
theklaxon.com.au/howard-overs...
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July 1, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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Journalist Rachel Shabi, who is Jewish, weighs in at LBC on the fallout of Bob Vylan’s controversial performance. #GazaGenocide
June 30, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Journalist Rachel Shabi, who is Jewish, weighs in at LBC on the fallout of Bob Vylan’s controversial performance. #GazaGenocide
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July 1, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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Only 2 years too late buddy.
'Ed Husic breaks ranks to criticise Israel and express alarm over ‘fraying of rules-based order’ after US strikes'
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
#PalestinianHolocaust #FreePalestine #auspol
'Ed Husic breaks ranks to criticise Israel and express alarm over ‘fraying of rules-based order’ after US strikes'
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
#PalestinianHolocaust #FreePalestine #auspol
Ed Husic breaks ranks to criticise Israel and express alarm over ‘fraying of rules-based order’ after US strikes
Labor MP says situation in Middle East is not ‘black and white … all I see is grey’ in departure from party’s stance
www.theguardian.com
June 25, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Only 2 years too late buddy.
'Ed Husic breaks ranks to criticise Israel and express alarm over ‘fraying of rules-based order’ after US strikes'
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
#PalestinianHolocaust #FreePalestine #auspol
'Ed Husic breaks ranks to criticise Israel and express alarm over ‘fraying of rules-based order’ after US strikes'
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
#PalestinianHolocaust #FreePalestine #auspol
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BREAKING: Larissa Waters, Australian leader, calls Trump’s bombing of Iran “a blatant breach of international law” and “a fundamental threat to world peace.”
This isn’t diplomacy—it’s Iraq déjà vu with nuclear stakes
Allies are already using war crimes language
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
This isn’t diplomacy—it’s Iraq déjà vu with nuclear stakes
Allies are already using war crimes language
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
June 22, 2025 at 4:17 AM
BREAKING: Larissa Waters, Australian leader, calls Trump’s bombing of Iran “a blatant breach of international law” and “a fundamental threat to world peace.”
This isn’t diplomacy—it’s Iraq déjà vu with nuclear stakes
Allies are already using war crimes language
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
This isn’t diplomacy—it’s Iraq déjà vu with nuclear stakes
Allies are already using war crimes language
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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June 22, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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A Bibi crumb maiden.
June 21, 2025 at 5:23 AM
A Bibi crumb maiden.
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Every hospital was bombed in Gaza but suddenly that's now a red line. #FreePalestine 🍉 #auspol
June 21, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Every hospital was bombed in Gaza but suddenly that's now a red line. #FreePalestine 🍉 #auspol
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I'm just sitting here wondering how many artists have had prizes or endowments recinded and how many ABC employees have been sacked for supporting mass murder and genocide on social media.
You'll have to help me here because I can't find reports of any at all.
#gaza
#fuckwar
#auspol
You'll have to help me here because I can't find reports of any at all.
#gaza
#fuckwar
#auspol
May 22, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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Business leaders lobbied against changes to IR in the first term and the govt chose to ignore them because their arguments were self-interested horseshit.
They should treat the miners’ spin the same.
They should treat the miners’ spin the same.
“Watt will travel to WA to meet face to face with the premier, Roger Cook, & mining industry leaders whose lobbying helped sink the proposed EPA.”
Actually it was the PM who chose not to do the EPA. Blaming lobbying gives those in charge an easy excuse
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Actually it was the PM who chose not to do the EPA. Blaming lobbying gives those in charge an easy excuse
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Federal EPA a ‘very high and immediate’ priority of Albanese government, environment minister says
Murray Watt is also considering ditching the ‘nature positive’ title for Labor’s overhaul of the Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act
www.theguardian.com
May 16, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Business leaders lobbied against changes to IR in the first term and the govt chose to ignore them because their arguments were self-interested horseshit.
They should treat the miners’ spin the same.
They should treat the miners’ spin the same.
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The most spectacular backfire in Australian politics so far this century! 👇
"... Not one of the “No”-voting ALP seats from the referendum voted for the Coalition in 2025..."
#auspol
"... Not one of the “No”-voting ALP seats from the referendum voted for the Coalition in 2025..."
#auspol
My last election
For every complex problem there is an answer which is clear, simple and wrong. – H. L. Mencken I will turn 93 in October. On the balance of probabilities, the federal election of May 3, 2025, will be ...
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
May 17, 2025 at 1:02 AM
The most spectacular backfire in Australian politics so far this century! 👇
"... Not one of the “No”-voting ALP seats from the referendum voted for the Coalition in 2025..."
#auspol
"... Not one of the “No”-voting ALP seats from the referendum voted for the Coalition in 2025..."
#auspol
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Why is the AFP not investigating these fraudsters? #auspol #LNPCorruptionParty
Angus Taylor and Jacinta Price both have numerous fraud allegations against them, yet it is no barrier for them to run for Leader and Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party. In fact, you could be mistaken for thinking it was a prerequisite.
Liberal Party fraudsters Angus Taylor and Jacinta Price run for leadership kangaroocourtofaustralia.com/2025/05/11/l...
May 11, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Why is the AFP not investigating these fraudsters? #auspol #LNPCorruptionParty