Michael Smith
@michaelps.bsky.social
Neutral good; Cammeraygal Country
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note to Chris Minns - the AFP arrested a nazi on suspicion of misogynistic threats of violence. They already had this power. So do NSW Police. Along with mile wide discretion to decide when it is politically expedient to exercise said powers. But sure, give em more.
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November 20, 2025 at 8:43 AM
note to Chris Minns - the AFP arrested a nazi on suspicion of misogynistic threats of violence. They already had this power. So do NSW Police. Along with mile wide discretion to decide when it is politically expedient to exercise said powers. But sure, give em more.
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the proposition Minns has landed on - and I first saw it expressed by high profile zionist Alex Ryvchin - is that NSW Police choosing not to challenge, stop or criminalise nazis being nazis at NSW Parliament can be singularly reversed by giving police more powers.
November 19, 2025 at 7:35 AM
the proposition Minns has landed on - and I first saw it expressed by high profile zionist Alex Ryvchin - is that NSW Police choosing not to challenge, stop or criminalise nazis being nazis at NSW Parliament can be singularly reversed by giving police more powers.
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not to put too fine a point on it - after all it was NSW Police who investigated and rejected ALP politician-zionist claims about Opera House chants and a Dural caravan and Mossad says and what-not - but there is an obvious flaw with tasking NSW Police with solving white supremacy racists.
November 19, 2025 at 7:31 AM
not to put too fine a point on it - after all it was NSW Police who investigated and rejected ALP politician-zionist claims about Opera House chants and a Dural caravan and Mossad says and what-not - but there is an obvious flaw with tasking NSW Police with solving white supremacy racists.
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Minns prattles away as tho he has learnt from passing three (3) racial and religious criminal laws earlier this year in response to a hoax. Parts of the “Place of Worship” amendment to the Crimes Act were struck down as unconstitutional. All these laws task <NSW Police> with stopping racism.
November 19, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Minns prattles away as tho he has learnt from passing three (3) racial and religious criminal laws earlier this year in response to a hoax. Parts of the “Place of Worship” amendment to the Crimes Act were struck down as unconstitutional. All these laws task <NSW Police> with stopping racism.
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NSW Premier says he does not apologise for [yet more] hate speech laws - the first three versions did not, on any measure, reduce racism in NSW - after NSW Police chose not to criminalise any of the nazis chanting nazi slogans at NSW Parliament on 8 Nov 2025.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
New laws to combat neo-Nazis in NSW after parliament rally
Police and courts will be given greater powers to combat public displays of Nazi ideology in NSW following a rally outside state parliament earlier this month.
www.abc.net.au
November 19, 2025 at 7:23 AM
NSW Premier says he does not apologise for [yet more] hate speech laws - the first three versions did not, on any measure, reduce racism in NSW - after NSW Police chose not to criminalise any of the nazis chanting nazi slogans at NSW Parliament on 8 Nov 2025.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
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Gaza hospitals say Israel killed 34 Palestinians in overnight bombing - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/gaza-hospitals-say-israel-killed-34-palestinians-overnight-bombing
Gaza hospitals say Israel killed 34 Palestinians in overnight bombing
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<p>The report said that since Thursday morning, Israeli aircraft targeted Rafah and Khan Younis, beyond the yellow line, with intense bombardment using heavy artillery. </p>
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November 20, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Gaza hospitals say Israel killed 34 Palestinians in overnight bombing - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/gaza-hospitals-say-israel-killed-34-palestinians-overnight-bombing
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I’ll be honest, I’m not finding this constant stream of “we have unfortunately misled you” by the NACC very reassuring
Defence inspector inadvertently omitted 10 consultations with NACC chief
A previous disclosure that the head of the federal corruption watchdog had been consulted 11 times has been corrected to 21.
www.abc.net.au
November 20, 2025 at 7:17 AM
I’ll be honest, I’m not finding this constant stream of “we have unfortunately misled you” by the NACC very reassuring
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How about this headline, eh? More of this, please.
November 19, 2025 at 8:26 PM
How about this headline, eh? More of this, please.
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What a brain-dead dumb, completely shite appointment. @tonyburkemp.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 3:32 AM
What a brain-dead dumb, completely shite appointment. @tonyburkemp.bsky.social
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Bit of a pattern with the @albomp.bsky.social gov's emerging legacy
Pump up expectations then fail dismally, delay, distract, renege or run in the opposite direction: Indigenous Voice Referendum, NACC, redressing Robodebt harms, gambling advertising reform, climate action, reforming EPBC nature laws
Pump up expectations then fail dismally, delay, distract, renege or run in the opposite direction: Indigenous Voice Referendum, NACC, redressing Robodebt harms, gambling advertising reform, climate action, reforming EPBC nature laws
Saved the embarrassment of being shown for the charlatans that they are on a global stage www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Live: Australia drops push to host COP31, Chris Bowen to lead summit
Australia has ceded the COP31 climate summit to Türkiye but Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen will be the president of the summit pending Ankara's approval. Follow live.
www.abc.net.au
November 20, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Bit of a pattern with the @albomp.bsky.social gov's emerging legacy
Pump up expectations then fail dismally, delay, distract, renege or run in the opposite direction: Indigenous Voice Referendum, NACC, redressing Robodebt harms, gambling advertising reform, climate action, reforming EPBC nature laws
Pump up expectations then fail dismally, delay, distract, renege or run in the opposite direction: Indigenous Voice Referendum, NACC, redressing Robodebt harms, gambling advertising reform, climate action, reforming EPBC nature laws
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Senior Liberal MPs are optimistic a deal can be reached with Labor on a watered-down version of its new nature laws. The Greens said any deal with the Coalition would show the laws have been “written for big business”. Yep.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Coalition and Labor negotiate nature laws as Greens warn compromise would show it was ‘written for big business’
Environment minister Murray Watt says other parties must decide ‘whether they want to see us do a deal with the other side of politics’
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Senior Liberal MPs are optimistic a deal can be reached with Labor on a watered-down version of its new nature laws. The Greens said any deal with the Coalition would show the laws have been “written for big business”. Yep.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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62% of Israelis, and 73%(!) of Jewish Israelis, said they'd oppose Palestinian statehood, even if it's coupled with normalization with Saudi Arabia.
The Israeli public (not just government) and the rest of the world seem to be moving in 2 very opposite directions. www.jpost.com/israel-news/...
The Israeli public (not just government) and the rest of the world seem to be moving in 2 very opposite directions. www.jpost.com/israel-news/...
Israeli poll shows strong opposition to Palestinian state | The Jerusalem Post
Among Jewish Israelis, opposition is even higher at 79%, up from 76% in the previous JCFA poll. This marks the highest level of Jewish-Israeli opposition in its tracking since the war began.
www.jpost.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:19 PM
62% of Israelis, and 73%(!) of Jewish Israelis, said they'd oppose Palestinian statehood, even if it's coupled with normalization with Saudi Arabia.
The Israeli public (not just government) and the rest of the world seem to be moving in 2 very opposite directions. www.jpost.com/israel-news/...
The Israeli public (not just government) and the rest of the world seem to be moving in 2 very opposite directions. www.jpost.com/israel-news/...
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The thing about the government bailing out genAI when the bubble pops, is it can't.
It's almost half the US stock market. It is bigger than consumer spending.
The government would have to spend like half its entire budget, on something that loses billions of dollars a month, forever.
It's almost half the US stock market. It is bigger than consumer spending.
The government would have to spend like half its entire budget, on something that loses billions of dollars a month, forever.
November 19, 2025 at 7:23 AM
The thing about the government bailing out genAI when the bubble pops, is it can't.
It's almost half the US stock market. It is bigger than consumer spending.
The government would have to spend like half its entire budget, on something that loses billions of dollars a month, forever.
It's almost half the US stock market. It is bigger than consumer spending.
The government would have to spend like half its entire budget, on something that loses billions of dollars a month, forever.
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Better approve some more gas fields and coal mines.
Scientists say they are "speechless" after witnessing significant coral death at the World Heritage-listed Ningaloo Reef.
Survey finds 60 per cent of Ningaloo coral has turned to stone
Scientists say they are "speechless" after witnessing significant coral death at the World Heritage-listed Ningaloo Reef.
www.abc.net.au
November 19, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Better approve some more gas fields and coal mines.
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"For fossil fuel polluters, gas seems to have become the lifeline that vaping was for the tobacco lobby."
- The Hon. Mike Rann AC CNZM delivering the 2025 Dr Hugh Saddler Memorial Lecture
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- The Hon. Mike Rann AC CNZM delivering the 2025 Dr Hugh Saddler Memorial Lecture
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November 19, 2025 at 5:25 AM
"For fossil fuel polluters, gas seems to have become the lifeline that vaping was for the tobacco lobby."
- The Hon. Mike Rann AC CNZM delivering the 2025 Dr Hugh Saddler Memorial Lecture
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- The Hon. Mike Rann AC CNZM delivering the 2025 Dr Hugh Saddler Memorial Lecture
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So now Australia will be making F35 fighter jet parts for Saudi Arabia. A country that Amnesty says ignores people’s basic human rights, restricts their freedoms and inflicts severe punishment. The regime also kills dissenters. No one even asked us.
November 18, 2025 at 9:22 PM
So now Australia will be making F35 fighter jet parts for Saudi Arabia. A country that Amnesty says ignores people’s basic human rights, restricts their freedoms and inflicts severe punishment. The regime also kills dissenters. No one even asked us.
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A government that can’t bring itself to tax fossil fuel, big tech or any wealth properly but defunds its critical institutions is not a good government, sorry
November 18, 2025 at 8:17 PM
A government that can’t bring itself to tax fossil fuel, big tech or any wealth properly but defunds its critical institutions is not a good government, sorry
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“If we don’t have enough money to fund our hospital systems, I don’t want to hear another word about #AUKUS, fossil fuel subsidies, or what great financial managers your government is”
via cmsibley @albomp.bsky.social #auspol
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
via cmsibley @albomp.bsky.social #auspol
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
'Beyond belief': PM tells states to spend less on hospitals
Health ministers are furious with a letter from the prime minister demanding they rein in spending if they want a public hospital funding deal honoured.
www.abc.net.au
November 19, 2025 at 2:25 AM
“If we don’t have enough money to fund our hospital systems, I don’t want to hear another word about #AUKUS, fossil fuel subsidies, or what great financial managers your government is”
via cmsibley @albomp.bsky.social #auspol
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
via cmsibley @albomp.bsky.social #auspol
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New: the airlines (Delta, United, American, etc) will shut down a program in which it sold hundreds of millions of your flight records to government agencies, including ICE, FBI, ATF, more. Comes after intense lawmaker-pressure and 404 Media's months-long reporting
www.404media.co/airlines-wil...
www.404media.co/airlines-wil...
Airlines Will Shut Down Program That Sold Your Flights Records to Government
The move comes after intense pressure from lawmakers and 404 Media’s months-long reporting about the airline industry's data selling practices.
www.404media.co
November 18, 2025 at 6:44 PM
New: the airlines (Delta, United, American, etc) will shut down a program in which it sold hundreds of millions of your flight records to government agencies, including ICE, FBI, ATF, more. Comes after intense lawmaker-pressure and 404 Media's months-long reporting
www.404media.co/airlines-wil...
www.404media.co/airlines-wil...
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Ed Husic grills ANZ CEO Nuno Matos & asks how it’s fair that ANZ ripped off 65K customers & the worst punishment received by Senior Execs was not getting a bonus, while at same time the bank is sacking 3500 workers who didn’t do a thing wrong.
Matos says he’s not proud about it. #Estimates
Matos says he’s not proud about it. #Estimates
November 19, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Ed Husic grills ANZ CEO Nuno Matos & asks how it’s fair that ANZ ripped off 65K customers & the worst punishment received by Senior Execs was not getting a bonus, while at same time the bank is sacking 3500 workers who didn’t do a thing wrong.
Matos says he’s not proud about it. #Estimates
Matos says he’s not proud about it. #Estimates
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"What is happening here is not a matter of a few ‘extremist’ individuals acting on their own, but a broader colonialist settler mobilisation project that is funded and supported by members of the Zionist movement both locally and internationally." #WestBank
The Hilltop Youth, an extremist settler organisation listed as a terror group in multiple countries, is driving Palestinians in the West Bank off their land.
Now the family farm of Palestinian-Australian Sari Kassis is in their sights.
www.deepcutnews.com/p/an-austral...
Now the family farm of Palestinian-Australian Sari Kassis is in their sights.
www.deepcutnews.com/p/an-austral...
An Australian moved to the West Bank to work on his family farm. Now settlers are trying to destroy it
Palestinian-Australian farmer Sari Kassis is defending his farm from the Hilltop Youth
www.deepcutnews.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:58 AM
"What is happening here is not a matter of a few ‘extremist’ individuals acting on their own, but a broader colonialist settler mobilisation project that is funded and supported by members of the Zionist movement both locally and internationally." #WestBank
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Calling Labor's current approach "incrementalism" or "small target" or whatever makes it sound like they are are an overly cautious progressive govt. Matters like this show that they are actively pursuing policies that make them indistinguishable from the centre right: not incrementalists at all.
Disgraceful & tragic what governments have done to this once science powerhouse! www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
"Federal Science Minister...Tim Ayres said the cuts were aimed at refocusing the efforts of the CSIRO towards research priorities, such as critical minerals, iron & steel...in Australia."
"Federal Science Minister...Tim Ayres said the cuts were aimed at refocusing the efforts of the CSIRO towards research priorities, such as critical minerals, iron & steel...in Australia."
CSIRO to cut up to 350 research jobs in major overhaul
After 440 positions were slashed last year, the CSIRO has announced more staff cuts across the country in a bid to remain financially viable.
www.abc.net.au
November 19, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Calling Labor's current approach "incrementalism" or "small target" or whatever makes it sound like they are are an overly cautious progressive govt. Matters like this show that they are actively pursuing policies that make them indistinguishable from the centre right: not incrementalists at all.
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Think I'll just park this here.
November 19, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Think I'll just park this here.
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Minister intervenes in $2.5B wage theft scandal as Court secrecy orders keep wraps on BHP's labour hire coal workers cover-up
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BHP wage theft cover-up in the shadows of Christmas - Michael West
Despite the outcry from Big Coal, the government's Same Job Same Pay laws are derailing the 'labour hire scam' to cheat workers. But, as Michael West reports, BHP's wage theft cover-up continues.
michaelwest.com.au
January 3, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Minister intervenes in $2.5B wage theft scandal as Court secrecy orders keep wraps on BHP's labour hire coal workers cover-up
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The federal Minister for Science is Tim Ayres www.directory.gov.au/commonwealth...
November 18, 2025 at 11:19 PM
The federal Minister for Science is Tim Ayres www.directory.gov.au/commonwealth...