Paul Fawcett
@paulyfawcett.bsky.social
Naarm based creative / political tragic / DJ / poet. Kiwi raised but Aussie based, following both countries politics.
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Motion to make December 10 National Dirty Leftie Day in Australia
where we get the day off but anyone in the Liberal Party doesn’t
where we get the day off but anyone in the Liberal Party doesn’t
November 30, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Motion to make December 10 National Dirty Leftie Day in Australia
where we get the day off but anyone in the Liberal Party doesn’t
where we get the day off but anyone in the Liberal Party doesn’t
300 million divided by 3028
Equals 99,075
Equals 99,075
This has to be quantifiable??
World wide homeless divided by billionaires??
World wide homeless divided by billionaires??
November 30, 2025 at 6:02 AM
300 million divided by 3028
Equals 99,075
Equals 99,075
This has to be quantifiable??
World wide homeless divided by billionaires??
World wide homeless divided by billionaires??
November 30, 2025 at 5:54 AM
This has to be quantifiable??
World wide homeless divided by billionaires??
World wide homeless divided by billionaires??
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November 30, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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12/ 'A small group of counter-protesters interrupted Hanson’s speech with a loudspeaker, but they were roughly forced away by other protesters and police.'
www.theage.com.au/national/vic...
www.theage.com.au/national/vic...
Pauline Hanson speaks at anti-immigration rally in Melbourne’s CBD
A fight has broken out in a crowd attending a speech by the One Nation leader during the Put Australia First rally in Flagstaff Gardens.
www.theage.com.au
November 30, 2025 at 3:14 AM
12/ 'A small group of counter-protesters interrupted Hanson’s speech with a loudspeaker, but they were roughly forced away by other protesters and police.'
www.theage.com.au/national/vic...
www.theage.com.au/national/vic...
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Amazing The Age can publish this line about a right wing demo in Melbourne and it's ........ ok fine good stuff?
November 30, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Amazing The Age can publish this line about a right wing demo in Melbourne and it's ........ ok fine good stuff?
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China and Windmills enter the chat and Avi gets to use "Global Warming" again.
These people need some new material, it's all getting a bit boring.
Avi thought he spotted trouble, there's one guy on a bike that they think is a leftie, but he's not.
#AusPol
These people need some new material, it's all getting a bit boring.
Avi thought he spotted trouble, there's one guy on a bike that they think is a leftie, but he's not.
#AusPol
November 30, 2025 at 2:00 AM
China and Windmills enter the chat and Avi gets to use "Global Warming" again.
These people need some new material, it's all getting a bit boring.
Avi thought he spotted trouble, there's one guy on a bike that they think is a leftie, but he's not.
#AusPol
These people need some new material, it's all getting a bit boring.
Avi thought he spotted trouble, there's one guy on a bike that they think is a leftie, but he's not.
#AusPol
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🚨 Annabel Crabb's report on the PM's wedding to Jodie Haydon today (published as "analysis") is excruciatingly crass, tabloid trash garbage. It's like a New Idea piece by a reporter who knows next to nothing about the wedding details, so they resort to idiotic speculation and snark. #auspol
November 29, 2025 at 7:50 AM
🚨 Annabel Crabb's report on the PM's wedding to Jodie Haydon today (published as "analysis") is excruciatingly crass, tabloid trash garbage. It's like a New Idea piece by a reporter who knows next to nothing about the wedding details, so they resort to idiotic speculation and snark. #auspol
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A coalition of non-religious, ex-religious and pro-secular groups is seeking answers from the Albanese government on how it will address ongoing discrimination against non-religious Australians in government institutions and programs. Read more: rationalist.com.au/coalition-of...
#auspol
#auspol
Coalition of groups questions Attorney-General over Australia’s treatment of non-religious people | Rationalist Society of Australia
A coalition of non-religious, ex-religious and pro-secular groups is seeking answers from the Albanese government on how it will address ongoing discrimination against non-religious Australians in gov...
rationalist.com.au
November 29, 2025 at 5:54 AM
A coalition of non-religious, ex-religious and pro-secular groups is seeking answers from the Albanese government on how it will address ongoing discrimination against non-religious Australians in government institutions and programs. Read more: rationalist.com.au/coalition-of...
#auspol
#auspol
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Some of the BRILLIANT political cartoons of 2025.
November 29, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Some of the BRILLIANT political cartoons of 2025.
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Physical defence is about feeling safe, not tough.
I had a chat about that, big heavy rocks, tactics, and a Red Flag article on black bloc I took issue with. All in @independentaus.bsky.social - support them pls.
Link: independentaustralia.net/politics/pol...
I had a chat about that, big heavy rocks, tactics, and a Red Flag article on black bloc I took issue with. All in @independentaus.bsky.social - support them pls.
Link: independentaustralia.net/politics/pol...
Physical resistance, rocks and how to build a mass movement
Antifascist combat training is about feeling safe, not tough.
independentaustralia.net
November 29, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Physical defence is about feeling safe, not tough.
I had a chat about that, big heavy rocks, tactics, and a Red Flag article on black bloc I took issue with. All in @independentaus.bsky.social - support them pls.
Link: independentaustralia.net/politics/pol...
I had a chat about that, big heavy rocks, tactics, and a Red Flag article on black bloc I took issue with. All in @independentaus.bsky.social - support them pls.
Link: independentaustralia.net/politics/pol...
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'Brilliance of the souls', 2014, from Yayoi Kusama's Infinity Mirror Rooms series #WomensArt
November 28, 2025 at 11:43 AM
'Brilliance of the souls', 2014, from Yayoi Kusama's Infinity Mirror Rooms series #WomensArt
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One of the reasons i love tolkien is the theme that despair is an enemy
and it makes clear you don’t need to have constant hope, you can get by with grim determination or spite but never despair
and it makes clear you don’t need to have constant hope, you can get by with grim determination or spite but never despair
You can be as terrified or nonplussed or unperturbed as you like; the sun will still rise tomorrow & the rent will still be due on the 31st. The world has no romantic narratives for its fate except those we invent, because the world does not die. That is our privilege.
I said it elsewhere, but it’s weirdly exhilarating and addictive to be terrified all the time, and the people addicted to it, when they say this, may as well be saying “I can stop at any time, it’s just the world doing this *to* me.”
December 31, 2023 at 3:23 AM
One of the reasons i love tolkien is the theme that despair is an enemy
and it makes clear you don’t need to have constant hope, you can get by with grim determination or spite but never despair
and it makes clear you don’t need to have constant hope, you can get by with grim determination or spite but never despair
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Lot of people in the music and screen communities hurting now at the news that Ant Nevison has died. Ant was a member of the Headless Chickens, co-founder of Incubator recording studio and a respected film soundie, and one of the most decent, good-natured and friendly people you could hope to meet.
November 28, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Lot of people in the music and screen communities hurting now at the news that Ant Nevison has died. Ant was a member of the Headless Chickens, co-founder of Incubator recording studio and a respected film soundie, and one of the most decent, good-natured and friendly people you could hope to meet.
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@kalilawelch.bsky.social from @cheekmediaco.bsky.social explaining the #ManBoxPillars and how it shows which men are more likely to enact violence against women.
#AUSPOL #DV #Men #Women #Violence #ViolenceAgainstWomen #Christians #Religious
#AUSPOL #DV #Men #Women #Violence #ViolenceAgainstWomen #Christians #Religious
November 28, 2025 at 12:25 AM
@kalilawelch.bsky.social from @cheekmediaco.bsky.social explaining the #ManBoxPillars and how it shows which men are more likely to enact violence against women.
#AUSPOL #DV #Men #Women #Violence #ViolenceAgainstWomen #Christians #Religious
#AUSPOL #DV #Men #Women #Violence #ViolenceAgainstWomen #Christians #Religious
Respect Victoria is doing some great campaigns and studies. It’s an honour to support their Walk Against Family Violence today. I even got this great hat.
November 27, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Respect Victoria is doing some great campaigns and studies. It’s an honour to support their Walk Against Family Violence today. I even got this great hat.
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In 2024,Victoria Police were 15 times more likely to search Aboriginal people than white people on 'resonable grounds'.
VicPol are 10 times more likely to use force on Aboriginal people than white people.
Racial profiling is alive and well despite what VicPol claim.
VicPol are 10 times more likely to use force on Aboriginal people than white people.
Racial profiling is alive and well despite what VicPol claim.
November 27, 2025 at 8:25 PM
In 2024,Victoria Police were 15 times more likely to search Aboriginal people than white people on 'resonable grounds'.
VicPol are 10 times more likely to use force on Aboriginal people than white people.
Racial profiling is alive and well despite what VicPol claim.
VicPol are 10 times more likely to use force on Aboriginal people than white people.
Racial profiling is alive and well despite what VicPol claim.
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Every time someone sez (& I hear it a lot) fighting for strong regulations is a waste of time (and enforcing them)… point to this.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Live: Massive high-rise apartment blaze in Hong Kong kills at least 44
At least 44 people are dead and others remain trapped after a massive fire that engulfed multiple high-rise towers at a residential complex in Hong Kong, with police arresting three people on suspicio...
www.abc.net.au
November 27, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Every time someone sez (& I hear it a lot) fighting for strong regulations is a waste of time (and enforcing them)… point to this.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
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In amongst all the steps backwards that governments seem to be making, there are also the occasional forward steps.
Tuesday December 9th.
#vicpol #springst
Tuesday December 9th.
#vicpol #springst
Historic Apology To First Nations People
Victoria will take an important step towards addressing past injustices towards Aboriginal people and building a stronger, united future, with an apology to First Peoples to be made in the Victorian P...
www.premier.vic.gov.au
November 27, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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Srsly, if THIS 👇 tweet by Tony Windsor doesn't win Peter FitzSimons' Political Tweet of the Year 2025, I will be very disappointed. This is the best tweet I've read in ages. 😂 #auspol #BarnabyJoyce #Nationals
November 27, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Srsly, if THIS 👇 tweet by Tony Windsor doesn't win Peter FitzSimons' Political Tweet of the Year 2025, I will be very disappointed. This is the best tweet I've read in ages. 😂 #auspol #BarnabyJoyce #Nationals
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No idea why an Afghan refugee shot National Guard soldiers within walking distance of the White House, but this new USCIS directive was revealed on Monday. Worth noting.
The folks at @afghanevac.bsky.social have in hand a new USCIS directive which largely targets Afghan refugees who fled the Taliban in the wake of the U.S. withdrawal in 2021.
In case you needed a reminder that the most loathsome people in the world work for DHS.
In case you needed a reminder that the most loathsome people in the world work for DHS.
November 27, 2025 at 5:19 AM
No idea why an Afghan refugee shot National Guard soldiers within walking distance of the White House, but this new USCIS directive was revealed on Monday. Worth noting.
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🚨Antisemitism Envoy Jillian Segal is steadfastly refusing to condemn the NSW Parliament neo-Nazi rally. Paid over $1,000 a day by taxpayers but MIA since far-right Advance scandal over four months ago... theklaxon.com.au/wheres-jilli...
Where's Jillian Segal? Over $1,000-a-day but MIA - The Klaxon
Antisemitism Envoy Jillian Segal — whose family bankrolls far-right group “Advance” — is refusing to denounce the neo-Nazi rally held outside NSW Parliament House.
theklaxon.com.au
November 27, 2025 at 2:42 AM
🚨Antisemitism Envoy Jillian Segal is steadfastly refusing to condemn the NSW Parliament neo-Nazi rally. Paid over $1,000 a day by taxpayers but MIA since far-right Advance scandal over four months ago... theklaxon.com.au/wheres-jilli...
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NEW: With less than two weeks to go, we still don't know if all of the tech platforms listed as being in the ban are going to comply.
Twitch and Kick have both confirmed to Crikey that they will. But there's still two who won't say:
www.crikey.com.au/20...
Twitch and Kick have both confirmed to Crikey that they will. But there's still two who won't say:
www.crikey.com.au/20...
November 27, 2025 at 1:40 AM
NEW: With less than two weeks to go, we still don't know if all of the tech platforms listed as being in the ban are going to comply.
Twitch and Kick have both confirmed to Crikey that they will. But there's still two who won't say:
www.crikey.com.au/20...
Twitch and Kick have both confirmed to Crikey that they will. But there's still two who won't say:
www.crikey.com.au/20...
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Days after new data found Aboriginal people 15x more likely to be searched by VicPol than white people, Vic police were granted powers to search people without a warrant. This is why we must be critical of hysterical reporting about "machete epidemics" — who gains from these exaggerated crime waves?
November 26, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Days after new data found Aboriginal people 15x more likely to be searched by VicPol than white people, Vic police were granted powers to search people without a warrant. This is why we must be critical of hysterical reporting about "machete epidemics" — who gains from these exaggerated crime waves?