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jc2042.bsky.social
@jc2042.bsky.social
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Retired community sector worker and volunteer, including Indigenous rights, environment, housing, governance, community arts and broadcasting. Donations for Palestine via UNRWA.
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anatolkirichenko.bsky.social
Even the IPA thinks QLD are nazeez #auspol
#GlobaliseTheInfatada
#FromTheRiverToTheSea
#FreePalestine #BobVylan #Kneecap

www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/feb/16/queensland-hate-speech-laws-ipa
Rightwing thinktank joins backlash to Queensland’s ‘vague’ proposed hate speech laws
Institute of Public Affairs latest to raise free speech concerns over bill facing criticism from across the political divide
www.theguardian.com
February 16, 2026 at 5:37 AM
jc2042.bsky.social
Came here to say this too👇
comradezaheer.bsky.social Comrade Zaheer @comradezaheer.bsky.social · 7h
I wish they had the conviction to go on strike for editorial decisions like refusing to work on stories propping up the colonial project of Isn'treal or puff pieces on oligarchs
February 16, 2026 at 8:15 AM
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mon4kooyong.bsky.social
The AUKUS agreement has now been in place for 4 years. During that time both the US & UK have undertaken reviews of its progress. With the Albanese govt now admitting its South Australian submarine base will cost at least $30bn, it's well past time Australia undertook its own AUKUS review.
Albanese dismisses Aukus concerns as submarine shipyard cost revealed to be $30bn
Prime minister commits $3.9bn as ‘down payment’ for Adelaide facility to eventually build nuclear-powered vessels
www.theguardian.com
February 16, 2026 at 3:32 AM
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waybuzz.bsky.social
It's disgusting how the media is giving free kick to #PHON & RW #LNP all media and #abcnews @abcnewsbot.bsky.social also.

Do we really want Trumpism to grow here? I believe most Australians are not racist & welcoming to migrants.

Anus wants to #MAWA

Make
Australia
White male
Again

#auspol
February 16, 2026 at 4:33 AM
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tangonovember.bsky.social
What happens to all of the Australians who have no respect for these values? The billionaires, the far right, One Nation, the NSW police, the anti-semitism envoy, for example? #auspol
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
Migrants who breach values would be kicked out under Ley-era policy draft
A leaked copy of the Liberals's migration policy prepared before Sussan Ley was ousted included plans to "elevate" the current non-binding Australian values statement.
www.abc.net.au
February 16, 2026 at 2:13 AM
jc2042.bsky.social
@albomp.bsky.social where's your enthusiasm for the rule of law now? It's time for you to speak up or get out of the way.
Same goes for your caucus of cowards. @australianlabor.bsky.social
February 16, 2026 at 3:38 AM
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anthonyantifa.bsky.social
On top of going to bed with Palantir there’s more evidence to ditch #Coles Australia! Let Leah Weckert Coles CEO know. #auspol
Why a packet of Arnott's Shapes could help determine the 'case of the century'
The "case of the century" is set to play out in the federal court this month, with the ACCC taking on supermarket giant Coles for what it claims are "illusory" discounts.
www.abc.net.au
February 16, 2026 at 2:51 AM
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lucyham.bsky.social
Key takeaway from Dr Jeremy Walker’s testimony to the senate hearing on orchestrated climate disinformation: make all funding to think tanks transparent. Cancel tax deductible status for any opaque body. #Auspol
February 16, 2026 at 12:46 AM
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noticingclimate.bsky.social
#nuclear #AusPol #liberalparty #OneNation #Teals #energysky

Time to drag out the ol' "There's no link between nuclear energy + nuclear weapons" bullshit c/o @hakonnordhagen.bsky.social who proves that there sure as hell is:
hakonnordhagen.bsky.social Håkon Nordhagen @hakonnordhagen.bsky.social · Sep 23
"There is no link between building nuclear weapons and building nuclear energy", some claim.

Yeah, right. Imagine the financial muscles when the military starts pushing!

Data from IAEA "Nuclear power reactors in the World 2024" and FAS.
fas.org/initiative/s...
www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/Publica...
February 15, 2026 at 8:10 AM
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mygiddyaunt.bsky.social
It's a military naval port for the US and maybe UK.
AND WE PAY FOR IT.
That won't 'save us' from anything, but US and UK (and Israel?) will help to install an authoritarian regime that is OK with paying for their military infrastructure and housing for their personnel.
#FuckLaborToHell #auspol
February 15, 2026 at 8:21 AM
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michellesuiter.bsky.social
Albo announces a $3.9bn “down payment” total will be $30bn

What guardian fails to state is that the “workforce needed to create, design & build the yard” is bc new subs are too big to fit in current yards

Also gotta dump that nuclear waste from US/UK #auspol

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Australia news live: PM announces $30bn facility for Aukus subs; high-profile Liberal quits party saying there are ‘other ways I can support women’
Follow the latest updates live
www.theguardian.com
February 15, 2026 at 2:17 AM
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louisviljee.bsky.social
I support @apan4palestine.bsky.social and Grace Tame.
Speak out against the bigotry and denial #ComplicitinGenocide
#auspol apan.good.do/JusticeForPa...
Stand with Grace Tame.
Grace Tame, 2021 Australian of the Year, is under attack from the media and Australian political leaders for expressing her solidarity with the Palestine movement. Add your name to our open letter in ...
apan.good.do
February 13, 2026 at 9:40 AM
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melissasweetdr.bsky.social
Calling for urgent action to better address the needs of Stolen Generations survivors – Croakey Health Media www.croakey.org/calling-for-...
By Professor Steve Larkin, a Kungarakan man from Darwin and chair of The Healing Foundation board
#AusPol
Calling for urgent action to better address the needs of Stolen Generations survivors
Stolen Generations survivors from across Australia gathered in Canberra this week, on Ngunnawal and Ngambri lands, attending a series of
www.croakey.org
February 13, 2026 at 10:54 AM
jc2042.bsky.social
This your Angus Taylor LNP?
@liberal.org.au.web.brid.gy
martinelms.bsky.social Corporate Pravda has appropriated your thought and response. @martinelms.bsky.social · 4d
#aupol Whilst people bring up "Watergate" as a fraud perpetrated by Taylor and Joyce - a lady, Kylie Kilroy died as a consequence of Taylor's actions.

Please bring this up whenever Watergate is mentioned.
February 13, 2026 at 4:22 AM
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siriusstar3.bsky.social
SHOCKED BY MONDAY NIGHT'S POLICE BRUTALITY?
THEN YOU HAVEN'T BEEN PAYING ATTENTION TO WHAT
INDIGENOUS PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY HAVE BEEN
SCREAMING ABOUT
#Auspol
Graphic SHOCKED BY MONDAY NIGHT'S POLICE BRUTALITY? THEN YOU HAVEN'T BEEN PAYING ATTENTION TO WHAT INDIGENOUS PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY HAVE BEEN SCREAMING FOR CENTURIES. Graphic LOT OF PEOPLE KEEP ACTING LIKE WHAT HAPPENED WAS UNTHINKABLE. LIKE IT WAS UNPRECEDENTED. BUT THAT KIND OF SHOCK SAYS MORE ABOUT OUR COLLECTIVE AMNESIA. DOl IT EXPOSES HOW LITTLE WE REALLY UNDERSTAND ABOUT THE STRUGGLE OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY. ASCIS A STRUGGLE THAT IS TOO OFTEN REDUCED TO SYMBOLIC GESTURES AND TOKENISTIC WELCOME TO COUNTRY ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. FOR INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES, THE REALITY HAS NEVER BEEN ONE WHERE POLICE VIOLENCE WAS UNIMAGINABLE OR SOME RARE EXCEPTION. IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE NORM. CALLING WHAT THE NEW SOUTH WALES POLICE FORCE DID "SHOCKING" IS PURE NAIVETY. PALESTINE AUSTRALIAN POLICING HAS ALWAYS BEEN ROOTED IN VIOLENCE, RACISM, BRUTALITY AND CORRUPTION. IF WE DON'T KNOW THAT BY NOW, WE'VE BEEN COMPLETELY HEEDLESS ABOUT THE INDIGENOUS STRUGGLE. Graphic HOW DO WE FORGET THE GENOCIDE & ETHNIC CLEANSING OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES IN THIS COUNTRY? AND MORE IMPORTANTLY, HOW DO WE FORGET WHO ENFORCED IT? THE AUSTRALIAN POLICE RECORD: • CLEARING LAND FOR SETTLERS • RAIDING CAMPS • CRUSHING RESISTANCE • ENFORCING FORCED REMOVALS • PROTECTING SETTLERS WHILE CRIMINALISING INDIGENOUS EXISTENCE
February 12, 2026 at 10:57 PM
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slapthecat.bsky.social
#Herzog in Melbourne secretly met with #IDF PARTICIPANTS HIDING IN OUR SUBURBS
@tonyburkemp.bsky.social
will they be found & arrested?
@albomp.bsky.social
@senatorwong.bsky.social

#auspol #Israel #Genocide #WarCrimes #Apartheid

✋❌ARREST🇮🇱THEM❌✋
GENOCIDE PARTICIPANTS LIVING IN MELBOURNE ARE BEING SHELTERED & HIDDEN ILLEGALLY BY COMPLICIT HOUSEHOLDS - FIND THEM AND ARREST THEM & THEIR ACCOMPLICES
February 12, 2026 at 7:47 PM
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d11carmen.bsky.social
In #√ictoria#FirstPeoples are the most targeted grp
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/...
The upcoming Royal Commission investigating racist attacks needs to accept submissions from any group that experience #racialisedviolence @ this⏱️
Otherwise it'll fail so so many in this multinational nation
#Auspol
February 12, 2026 at 9:26 AM
jc2042.bsky.social
@senatorwong.bsky.social
It's over to your now
February 12, 2026 at 9:23 AM
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bradbrookjenny.bsky.social
Plenty of ammunition for Labor, if they want to. Personally, I think the best thing is to ignore him, & get on with solving some of the intractable problems like housing & rental costs. Taylor is thick as a brick. He should be keeping a low profile with all his baggage of scams.
February 11, 2026 at 11:32 PM
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rogueunit.bsky.social
#StateOfTheNation

#MossadMinns going weak at the knees right now…

#GoonsDeployNewWeaponsAgainstInnocentProtestors

#AusPol
February 11, 2026 at 5:20 AM
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michellesuiter.bsky.social
Almost 3yrs, every wk, public out on the streets asking the gov to do something
Anything to help Palestinians

Sanction Israel
Total Arms embargo
Suspend all Trade agreements
Break the Siege
Investigate and Prosecute all Individuals & Organisations that committed crimes

They’ve done nothing #auspol
February 11, 2026 at 12:49 AM
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wheels002.bsky.social
I hope you’re happy Chris Minns (Via FB) #HerzogNotWelcome #NSWpol #auspol
February 10, 2026 at 11:44 PM
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robertarnol.bsky.social
I am a former cop, and until recently I’d support police when they did the right things. No more. If you wear that uniform and give an oath to a foreign king/queen you are no different from the forces that committed genocide in Tasmania. That makes you my enemy and you will be treated as such.
February 10, 2026 at 2:16 AM
jc2042.bsky.social
@albomp.bsky.social & @senatorwong.bsky.social
Can you ask Herzog to explain this in the context of Australia's commitment to a Palestinian state? Yes you can, but
Will you ask? No you won't.
Hypocrites & genocide supporters.
See you at The Hague.
rimaanabtawi.bsky.social Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 7d
Annexation.

Israeli security cabinet expands powers in occupied West Bank in move that finance minister says will “fundamentally change the legal and civil reality” there. He said the govt was “burying the idea of ​​a Palestinian state”

www.ft.com/content/ee9c...
Israeli security cabinet expands powers in occupied West Bank
Ultranationalist finance minister says measures intended to bury ‘idea of a Palestinian state’
www.ft.com
February 10, 2026 at 3:26 AM
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joneshowdareyou.bsky.social
It's all so very Joh Bjelke-Petersen, isn't it.

Violent Police brutality under the auspices of a draconian, authoritarian regime.

You should resign in disgrace, @chrisminnsmp.bsky.social. Today. #auspol #nswpol #PoliceViolence #HerzogNotWelcomeHere
joneshowdareyou.bsky.social Jenny Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithPalestine🍉🍉 @joneshowdareyou.bsky.social · 6d
Assistant police commissioner Peter McKenna: "It was really quite precarious at times for our officers who were significantly outnumbered by the protesters and the people who wanted to act in a violent and offensive manner."

#auspol #nswpol #PoliceViolence #HerzogNotWelcome
February 9, 2026 at 9:20 PM