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My husband lost his long and brutal fight against prostate cancer. I am broken. Please, please all of you men out there get your prostate checked. For Martin’s sake
November 2, 2025 at 7:57 AM
My husband lost his long and brutal fight against prostate cancer. I am broken. Please, please all of you men out there get your prostate checked. For Martin’s sake
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The usual suspects. How dare they. Late term abortions in Australia are rare and represent no more than 2% of all abortions. It's politicking. These men should sit down and shut up. #auspol
The usual suspects. How dare they. Late term abortions in Australia are rare and represent no more than 2% of all abortions. It's politicking. These men should sit down and shut up. #auspol
'Rosaries off our ovaries': Coalition MPs face growing criticism over abortion claims
Suggestion that ensuring maternity leave for women who experience stillbirths could have "unintended consequences" has raised eyebrows.
www.sbs.com.au
October 30, 2025 at 8:37 PM
www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
The usual suspects. How dare they. Late term abortions in Australia are rare and represent no more than 2% of all abortions. It's politicking. These men should sit down and shut up. #auspol
The usual suspects. How dare they. Late term abortions in Australia are rare and represent no more than 2% of all abortions. It's politicking. These men should sit down and shut up. #auspol
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Get around this beautiful caravan restoration Melbourne friends, I'm sure that if you made it yours you would be very happy ☺️
October 29, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Get around this beautiful caravan restoration Melbourne friends, I'm sure that if you made it yours you would be very happy ☺️
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www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... Banks are outright ignoring or offering “cookie cutter” responses to a rising number of hardship requests from struggling customers, despite repeated regulatory crackdowns.
Australian banks ignore thousands of customers’ hardship requests
Exclusive: Automated systems have generated ‘cookie cutter’ responses that fail to account for individual circumstances, according to financial watchdog
www.theguardian.com
October 18, 2025 at 11:27 PM
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... Banks are outright ignoring or offering “cookie cutter” responses to a rising number of hardship requests from struggling customers, despite repeated regulatory crackdowns.
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My good God, reading about USA politics is both exhausting and scary.
Here in Australia, we should be both alert and alarmed.
Protect our precious and fragile democracy - with its checks and balances- to stop the contagion.
Here in Australia, we should be both alert and alarmed.
Protect our precious and fragile democracy - with its checks and balances- to stop the contagion.
October 17, 2025 at 12:25 AM
My good God, reading about USA politics is both exhausting and scary.
Here in Australia, we should be both alert and alarmed.
Protect our precious and fragile democracy - with its checks and balances- to stop the contagion.
Here in Australia, we should be both alert and alarmed.
Protect our precious and fragile democracy - with its checks and balances- to stop the contagion.
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The death of a koala in our city's Nth is a stark reminder of how fragile the future of the species has become.
Planning must put protection of our environment at the centre & there needs to be more transparency around how these decisions are being made.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
Planning must put protection of our environment at the centre & there needs to be more transparency around how these decisions are being made.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
A koala sighting halted a new suburb. Now, one's been found dead
The construction of new homes in Canberra's north remains on hold after a koala was spotted. Now, a dead koala has been found nearby.
www.abc.net.au
October 16, 2025 at 5:48 AM
The death of a koala in our city's Nth is a stark reminder of how fragile the future of the species has become.
Planning must put protection of our environment at the centre & there needs to be more transparency around how these decisions are being made.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
Planning must put protection of our environment at the centre & there needs to be more transparency around how these decisions are being made.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
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Yep
Thank childless Julia Gillard
Career politician
Thank childless Julia Gillard
Career politician
Fark. Neoliberalism is rotten to the core. Single mothers were amongst those most strongly targeted to lose support by the neoliberal project. 🤬🤬🤬
October 16, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Yep
Thank childless Julia Gillard
Career politician
Thank childless Julia Gillard
Career politician
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I’m sorry what? They’re no longer gonna pay doctors for senior citizens Medicare anyone over 65?
October 16, 2025 at 12:59 AM
I’m sorry what? They’re no longer gonna pay doctors for senior citizens Medicare anyone over 65?
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Sports gambling is a complete economic and social disaster and I don’t think we have seen such a bad move recently
October 14, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Sports gambling is a complete economic and social disaster and I don’t think we have seen such a bad move recently
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I feel sure that every animal species that becomes extinct under our watch also takes a part of our humanity with it.
Heartbreaking.
Vale.
Heartbreaking.
Vale.
Sad news for Australian mammals..Australia's only shrew officially declared #extinct.
theconversation.com/and-then-the...
theconversation.com/and-then-the...
And then there were none: Australia’s only shrew declared extinct
Australia’s only known shrew has been declared extinct. Its loss emphasises the need for national protection of Australia’s rare and unique wildlife.
theconversation.com
October 14, 2025 at 1:26 AM
I feel sure that every animal species that becomes extinct under our watch also takes a part of our humanity with it.
Heartbreaking.
Vale.
Heartbreaking.
Vale.
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Vote now, if you haven't already, for the Guardian's Bird of the Year 2025
It helps to nominate a bird that's endangered, giving it a much higher profile - like Baudin's black cockatoo for example
Please vote - this is a wonderful environmental exercise
🙏🏽 🦜
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
It helps to nominate a bird that's endangered, giving it a much higher profile - like Baudin's black cockatoo for example
Please vote - this is a wonderful environmental exercise
🙏🏽 🦜
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Australian bird of the year 2025: vote for your favourite #birdoftheyear in the Guardian / BirdLife Australia poll
From little penguins to (very big) cassowaries, every bird has its fans. Vote for your favourite in the 2025 Guardian/BirdLife Australia poll
www.theguardian.com
October 14, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Vote now, if you haven't already, for the Guardian's Bird of the Year 2025
It helps to nominate a bird that's endangered, giving it a much higher profile - like Baudin's black cockatoo for example
Please vote - this is a wonderful environmental exercise
🙏🏽 🦜
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
It helps to nominate a bird that's endangered, giving it a much higher profile - like Baudin's black cockatoo for example
Please vote - this is a wonderful environmental exercise
🙏🏽 🦜
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Ffs people! Don’t do this! There is no antidote! If you’re bitten you will die! There is no alternative. Only constant CPR for up to 12 hours is any there any chance at survival!
Second reason is I shit myself every time I see photos like this and I’m running out of undies! 🤬
Second reason is I shit myself every time I see photos like this and I’m running out of undies! 🤬
October 5, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Ffs people! Don’t do this! There is no antidote! If you’re bitten you will die! There is no alternative. Only constant CPR for up to 12 hours is any there any chance at survival!
Second reason is I shit myself every time I see photos like this and I’m running out of undies! 🤬
Second reason is I shit myself every time I see photos like this and I’m running out of undies! 🤬
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Little tip: if you want to know what is wrong with Australia's tax system, just read the wealth advice column in the AFR:
"If you sell a property resulting in surplus cash to invest, there’s no better place than the low/no-tax environment of superannuation."
"If you sell a property resulting in surplus cash to invest, there’s no better place than the low/no-tax environment of superannuation."
September 28, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Little tip: if you want to know what is wrong with Australia's tax system, just read the wealth advice column in the AFR:
"If you sell a property resulting in surplus cash to invest, there’s no better place than the low/no-tax environment of superannuation."
"If you sell a property resulting in surplus cash to invest, there’s no better place than the low/no-tax environment of superannuation."
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Prick. Humans make a choice to enter the ocean with all the risks that entails. Whales don't get to make that choice. The ocean is their home. Human selfishness prevails.
Prick. Humans make a choice to enter the ocean with all the risks that entails. Whales don't get to make that choice. The ocean is their home. Human selfishness prevails.
Crisafulli insists on more shark nets to protect human lives despite trapped mother and baby whale
Queensland premier says he won’t protect whales ‘at the expense of one single human’
www.theguardian.com
September 28, 2025 at 9:18 PM
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Prick. Humans make a choice to enter the ocean with all the risks that entails. Whales don't get to make that choice. The ocean is their home. Human selfishness prevails.
Prick. Humans make a choice to enter the ocean with all the risks that entails. Whales don't get to make that choice. The ocean is their home. Human selfishness prevails.
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We're going backward case number 2.
Gympie Regional Council votes to remove fluoride from town's water supply
Gympie Regional Council votes to remove fluoride from town's water supply
September 25, 2025 at 9:41 PM
We're going backward case number 2.
Gympie Regional Council votes to remove fluoride from town's water supply
Gympie Regional Council votes to remove fluoride from town's water supply
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The Royal Parks has rejected Nigel Farage's claim that migrants are killing and eating swans from their grounds.
The RSPCA has also poured cold water on the claim, saying a video that has been circulating on social media was from 15 years ago
news.sky.com/story/royal-...
The RSPCA has also poured cold water on the claim, saying a video that has been circulating on social media was from 15 years ago
news.sky.com/story/royal-...
Royal Parks responds to Farage's claim that swans are being eaten by eastern Europeans in the UK
The Reform leader had accused migrants living in the UK of taking both carp and swans - a protected species - from ponds in Britain's Royal Parks and killing them.
news.sky.com
September 25, 2025 at 6:09 AM
The Royal Parks has rejected Nigel Farage's claim that migrants are killing and eating swans from their grounds.
The RSPCA has also poured cold water on the claim, saying a video that has been circulating on social media was from 15 years ago
news.sky.com/story/royal-...
The RSPCA has also poured cold water on the claim, saying a video that has been circulating on social media was from 15 years ago
news.sky.com/story/royal-...
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Australians are too dependent on welfare and universal government subsidies.
I suggest she includes Medicare & the PBS in "universal govt subsidies". They tried to gut our health system before, they'll do it again.
DO NOT VOTE for these ratbags, #auspol
I suggest she includes Medicare & the PBS in "universal govt subsidies". They tried to gut our health system before, they'll do it again.
DO NOT VOTE for these ratbags, #auspol
Australians too dependent on government, says Sussan Ley
In her first major economic speech, the opposition leader hits out at universal subsidies and says "dependency" has affected Australia's "national character".
www.abc.net.au
September 16, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Australians are too dependent on welfare and universal government subsidies.
I suggest she includes Medicare & the PBS in "universal govt subsidies". They tried to gut our health system before, they'll do it again.
DO NOT VOTE for these ratbags, #auspol
I suggest she includes Medicare & the PBS in "universal govt subsidies". They tried to gut our health system before, they'll do it again.
DO NOT VOTE for these ratbags, #auspol
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People hate “red tape” until their house floods, their roof flies off in a storm, plumbing bursts in their walls, their baby dies in an unsafe cot, they get food poisoning from a restaurant, their rooftop PV catches on fire, their old gran dies in a heatwave or from the cold.
Red tape saves lives.
Red tape saves lives.
It is great news that the Government is proposing changes to the construction code for climate resilience.
Our research showed the bogeyman of "red tape" has resulted in many Australian dwellings being poorly insulated and too cold in winter and/or too hot in summer. #auspol
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Our research showed the bogeyman of "red tape" has resulted in many Australian dwellings being poorly insulated and too cold in winter and/or too hot in summer. #auspol
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Government calls for ‘climate resilience’ in construction code
The government announced a pause on changes to the National Construction Code, but the new climate report suggests changes will still have to be made.
www.afr.com
September 16, 2025 at 4:19 AM
People hate “red tape” until their house floods, their roof flies off in a storm, plumbing bursts in their walls, their baby dies in an unsafe cot, they get food poisoning from a restaurant, their rooftop PV catches on fire, their old gran dies in a heatwave or from the cold.
Red tape saves lives.
Red tape saves lives.
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Something to remember for you all as social media is swamped by people angry over a man they've never met - especially in Australia where that American white guy's killing is being fed out and manipulated by Advance and the Atlas group.
You're being played.
All of it is scripted agit-prop trash.
You're being played.
All of it is scripted agit-prop trash.
September 16, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Something to remember for you all as social media is swamped by people angry over a man they've never met - especially in Australia where that American white guy's killing is being fed out and manipulated by Advance and the Atlas group.
You're being played.
All of it is scripted agit-prop trash.
You're being played.
All of it is scripted agit-prop trash.