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The NACC has defied the odds by going back-to-back 🏆🏆
After another year of doing absolutely nothing, congratulations on retaining Stranger’s Useless Govt Agency Award.
Consistency is key 👍
After another year of doing absolutely nothing, congratulations on retaining Stranger’s Useless Govt Agency Award.
Consistency is key 👍
And the Australian 2024 Useless Government Agency Of The Year award goes to . . . . .
*drum roll*
the National Anti-Corruption Commission.
Yaaay!! Well done @strangerous.bsky.social for judging the #NACC the supreme winner out of a crowded field of incompetent, taxpayer-funded duds.
#pfffft
*drum roll*
the National Anti-Corruption Commission.
Yaaay!! Well done @strangerous.bsky.social for judging the #NACC the supreme winner out of a crowded field of incompetent, taxpayer-funded duds.
#pfffft
December 26, 2025 at 11:06 PM
The NACC has defied the odds by going back-to-back 🏆🏆
After another year of doing absolutely nothing, congratulations on retaining Stranger’s Useless Govt Agency Award.
Consistency is key 👍
After another year of doing absolutely nothing, congratulations on retaining Stranger’s Useless Govt Agency Award.
Consistency is key 👍
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Loving this time of year, when every request to my husband to help me with something ends with ....'when there's a break in play?'
Aussies with partners will know exactly what I mean :) #Ashes
Aussies with partners will know exactly what I mean :) #Ashes
December 27, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Loving this time of year, when every request to my husband to help me with something ends with ....'when there's a break in play?'
Aussies with partners will know exactly what I mean :) #Ashes
Aussies with partners will know exactly what I mean :) #Ashes
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What a great selection of images…
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
The Sydney Morning Herald’s year in pictures 2025
The year in photos selected by our award-winning staff photographers and regular contributing photographers at The Sydney Morning Herald.
www.smh.com.au
December 27, 2025 at 1:46 AM
What a great selection of images…
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
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Mubinul Hoque, a Muslim fish & chip shop owner in Liverpool UK, stayed open #ChristmasDay 11am-5pm, to provide free hearty meals to NHS staff, carers, emergency workers and the homeless. #HappyChristmas #charity www-liverpoolecho-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.live...
December 26, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Mubinul Hoque, a Muslim fish & chip shop owner in Liverpool UK, stayed open #ChristmasDay 11am-5pm, to provide free hearty meals to NHS staff, carers, emergency workers and the homeless. #HappyChristmas #charity www-liverpoolecho-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.live...
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"From today, if yr not logged in you will be assumed to be a minor"
Online Safety Code cuts in today on back of Under 16s socmedia ban
#auspol
michaelwest.com.au/age-verified...
Online Safety Code cuts in today on back of Under 16s socmedia ban
#auspol
michaelwest.com.au/age-verified...
Age verified search. Another misguided restriction or useful protection? - Michael West
Hot on the heels of the youth social media ban, the Online Safety Code comes into effect next week, compelling search engines to age-verify
michaelwest.com.au
December 26, 2025 at 7:54 PM
"From today, if yr not logged in you will be assumed to be a minor"
Online Safety Code cuts in today on back of Under 16s socmedia ban
#auspol
michaelwest.com.au/age-verified...
Online Safety Code cuts in today on back of Under 16s socmedia ban
#auspol
michaelwest.com.au/age-verified...
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Merry Christmas everyone! 🎄❄️🎅
Cartoon from the Toronto Star newspaper 2022.
Cartoon from the Toronto Star newspaper 2022.
December 24, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Merry Christmas everyone! 🎄❄️🎅
Cartoon from the Toronto Star newspaper 2022.
Cartoon from the Toronto Star newspaper 2022.
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Happy Christmas.
December 25, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Happy Christmas.
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Merry Christmas one and all. Thanks for reading my stuff and that of the rest of @australiainstitute.org.au. Hope you are able to have a bit of a break and spend time with family and friends.
As ever, hug your loved ones.
As ever, hug your loved ones.
December 24, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Merry Christmas one and all. Thanks for reading my stuff and that of the rest of @australiainstitute.org.au. Hope you are able to have a bit of a break and spend time with family and friends.
As ever, hug your loved ones.
As ever, hug your loved ones.
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A quick Christmas Eve note to wish everyone all the best.
Boy - we’ve seen some things together haven’t we?
Let’s keep speaking up for truth, humanity & integrity - & of course support independent media!
All the best to you & your families 🙌🙌🙌 #auspol
Boy - we’ve seen some things together haven’t we?
Let’s keep speaking up for truth, humanity & integrity - & of course support independent media!
All the best to you & your families 🙌🙌🙌 #auspol
December 24, 2025 at 8:09 AM
A quick Christmas Eve note to wish everyone all the best.
Boy - we’ve seen some things together haven’t we?
Let’s keep speaking up for truth, humanity & integrity - & of course support independent media!
All the best to you & your families 🙌🙌🙌 #auspol
Boy - we’ve seen some things together haven’t we?
Let’s keep speaking up for truth, humanity & integrity - & of course support independent media!
All the best to you & your families 🙌🙌🙌 #auspol
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London, 1948
Two Bobbies examine the Trafalgar Square Christmas Tree through the smog of a grey December day
#Christmas 🎄
Two Bobbies examine the Trafalgar Square Christmas Tree through the smog of a grey December day
#Christmas 🎄
December 24, 2025 at 5:30 PM
London, 1948
Two Bobbies examine the Trafalgar Square Christmas Tree through the smog of a grey December day
#Christmas 🎄
Two Bobbies examine the Trafalgar Square Christmas Tree through the smog of a grey December day
#Christmas 🎄
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December 24, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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Merry Christmas from Unit and Kitty🎅🎄Ian
December 24, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Merry Christmas from Unit and Kitty🎅🎄Ian
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Riley has made me watch Home Alone at least four times this week (Home Alone 2 once). And the Grinch a bunch. The Illumination version two times and 10 minutes of the Jim Carrey version ("This is too weird, dad"). Wouldn't change a minute of it. Top tier Xmas movies.
December 24, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Riley has made me watch Home Alone at least four times this week (Home Alone 2 once). And the Grinch a bunch. The Illumination version two times and 10 minutes of the Jim Carrey version ("This is too weird, dad"). Wouldn't change a minute of it. Top tier Xmas movies.
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That's just the narrative justification imo. It's really about supremacy and greed.
December 24, 2025 at 2:51 AM
That's just the narrative justification imo. It's really about supremacy and greed.
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As Paul Robinson says, exploitation and injustice isn't merely a byproduct of capitalism, it's a feature.
December 24, 2025 at 12:18 AM
As Paul Robinson says, exploitation and injustice isn't merely a byproduct of capitalism, it's a feature.
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You don't even need conspiracy theories of blackmail and spies to understand why the West keeps supporting Israel.
It's just capitalism, doing capitalist things.
Extracting land, gas, testing tech/weapons on humans, justified with racism. Depravity is extremely profitable.
It's just capitalism, doing capitalist things.
Extracting land, gas, testing tech/weapons on humans, justified with racism. Depravity is extremely profitable.
December 24, 2025 at 12:12 AM
You don't even need conspiracy theories of blackmail and spies to understand why the West keeps supporting Israel.
It's just capitalism, doing capitalist things.
Extracting land, gas, testing tech/weapons on humans, justified with racism. Depravity is extremely profitable.
It's just capitalism, doing capitalist things.
Extracting land, gas, testing tech/weapons on humans, justified with racism. Depravity is extremely profitable.
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I find it sooooooooooo weird people are upset "Albo" was booed, and not that his government is eroding our democratic rights to appease the extremist genocidaires that booed him.
Big picture. Focus on our democracy and rights, not the pride/image of an individual politician.
Big picture. Focus on our democracy and rights, not the pride/image of an individual politician.
December 22, 2025 at 9:41 PM
I find it sooooooooooo weird people are upset "Albo" was booed, and not that his government is eroding our democratic rights to appease the extremist genocidaires that booed him.
Big picture. Focus on our democracy and rights, not the pride/image of an individual politician.
Big picture. Focus on our democracy and rights, not the pride/image of an individual politician.
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Good morning.
One from a few days ago.
One from a few days ago.
December 22, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Good morning.
One from a few days ago.
One from a few days ago.
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Another bird in a santa hat 😆
This time, a Boolcoomatta emu.
This time, a Boolcoomatta emu.
December 23, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Another bird in a santa hat 😆
This time, a Boolcoomatta emu.
This time, a Boolcoomatta emu.
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The suggestion that Australia's recognition of Palestinian statehood is the cause of the Bondi horror is a most egregious and grotesque example of the PsyOp bullshit that fills our twisted political hellscape.
December 22, 2025 at 4:12 AM
The suggestion that Australia's recognition of Palestinian statehood is the cause of the Bondi horror is a most egregious and grotesque example of the PsyOp bullshit that fills our twisted political hellscape.
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Bridget McKenzie: "To hate Israel is to hate Jews. It is that simple."
tbf to McKenzie, she is an expert on being a simpleton.
tbf to McKenzie, she is an expert on being a simpleton.
December 22, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Bridget McKenzie: "To hate Israel is to hate Jews. It is that simple."
tbf to McKenzie, she is an expert on being a simpleton.
tbf to McKenzie, she is an expert on being a simpleton.
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December 21, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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"Israelis complain that its neighbours deny their state’s right to exist, as though they want Israelis killed or obliterated. No, they just think they shouldn’t be there, in Palestine."
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/12...
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/12...
This one’s on Netanyahu, not Albanese
The Bondi massacre sits within a wider international context that has reshaped public attitudes to Israel, antisemitism and protest, complicating how grief, fear and responsibility are understood in A...
johnmenadue.com
December 21, 2025 at 5:23 PM
"Israelis complain that its neighbours deny their state’s right to exist, as though they want Israelis killed or obliterated. No, they just think they shouldn’t be there, in Palestine."
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/12...
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/12...
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Julian Leeser "We demand the Prime Minister bring the Parliament back today to do what Chris Minns is doing, to listen to Sussan Ley, to extend the hand of bipartisanship and for once in his life"
Bipartisanship, FMD, these hypocrites need another election drubbing
Bipartisanship, FMD, these hypocrites need another election drubbing
December 22, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Julian Leeser "We demand the Prime Minister bring the Parliament back today to do what Chris Minns is doing, to listen to Sussan Ley, to extend the hand of bipartisanship and for once in his life"
Bipartisanship, FMD, these hypocrites need another election drubbing
Bipartisanship, FMD, these hypocrites need another election drubbing