Ric Cairns
@riccairns.bsky.social
Progressive political dreamer working in brand and marketing in Walyalup/Fremantle, Western Australia. Imaginative enough to think we can make politics better. See voicesforfremantle.org
If this policy platform doesn’t banish these irresponsible twats from government for a generation Australia really is doomed. #auspol #climatecrisis
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Coalition plans to strip climate from energy operator's objectives
The Coalition would reduce emissions "year on year" considering the "real performance" of other developed countries and strip climate from the objectives of the nation's energy operator under a plan n...
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November 16, 2025 at 6:11 AM
If this policy platform doesn’t banish these irresponsible twats from government for a generation Australia really is doomed. #auspol #climatecrisis
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Emails sparked the beginning of our national nightmare.
Perhaps emails will end it.
Perhaps emails will end it.
November 14, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Emails sparked the beginning of our national nightmare.
Perhaps emails will end it.
Perhaps emails will end it.
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"Something is deeply wrong with this system, when people who are wealthy are getting far wealthier...and people who don't have a lot are falling further and further behind."
- Dr Cassandra Goldie AO, CEO, Australian Council of Social Service at our Revenue Summit 2025
#auspol
- Dr Cassandra Goldie AO, CEO, Australian Council of Social Service at our Revenue Summit 2025
#auspol
November 14, 2025 at 5:32 AM
"Something is deeply wrong with this system, when people who are wealthy are getting far wealthier...and people who don't have a lot are falling further and further behind."
- Dr Cassandra Goldie AO, CEO, Australian Council of Social Service at our Revenue Summit 2025
#auspol
- Dr Cassandra Goldie AO, CEO, Australian Council of Social Service at our Revenue Summit 2025
#auspol
“This is what happens when you outsource your policy development to Sky News and the rightwing media echo chamber.” Oh, Malcolm, we hardly knew ye. #auspol #libs
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Malcolm Turnbull accuses Liberals of ‘Trumpian campaign against renewables’ after party dumps net zero
Climate groups call backflip a ‘disaster’ while moderate Liberals worry about impact on winning back urban electorates
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November 13, 2025 at 1:07 PM
“This is what happens when you outsource your policy development to Sky News and the rightwing media echo chamber.” Oh, Malcolm, we hardly knew ye. #auspol #libs
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We 1) GIVE multi-national companies our finite gas resources FOR FREE to facilitate their profits, and emissions, and 2) CHARGE young Australians for an education that will facilitate an advanced future economy.
We took a wrong turn somewhere. #auspol
We took a wrong turn somewhere. #auspol
'That's a house deposit': The cost dilemma facing university students
As hundreds of thousands of high school seniors consider university, they are being warned that enrolling in humanities degrees will leave them with a debt close to $55,000.
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November 12, 2025 at 12:43 AM
We 1) GIVE multi-national companies our finite gas resources FOR FREE to facilitate their profits, and emissions, and 2) CHARGE young Australians for an education that will facilitate an advanced future economy.
We took a wrong turn somewhere. #auspol
We took a wrong turn somewhere. #auspol
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🧑🎓 Australian students pay more in HECS than the gas industry pays in PRRT!
💸 But Big Gas are in Brisbane today trying to get our politicians to cut their taxes even MORE!
#auspol
💸 But Big Gas are in Brisbane today trying to get our politicians to cut their taxes even MORE!
#auspol
November 12, 2025 at 4:03 AM
🧑🎓 Australian students pay more in HECS than the gas industry pays in PRRT!
💸 But Big Gas are in Brisbane today trying to get our politicians to cut their taxes even MORE!
#auspol
💸 But Big Gas are in Brisbane today trying to get our politicians to cut their taxes even MORE!
#auspol
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Qld Senator Matt Canavan has tweeted 30+ posts attacking #ClimateAction, #renewables or #NetZero in the last 5 days. He never mentions that business & farmers support climate action. Would it be unfair to ask if he's receiving donations from the fossil fuels industry? 🤔 #auspol
November 11, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Qld Senator Matt Canavan has tweeted 30+ posts attacking #ClimateAction, #renewables or #NetZero in the last 5 days. He never mentions that business & farmers support climate action. Would it be unfair to ask if he's receiving donations from the fossil fuels industry? 🤔 #auspol
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If BBC News's rivals who are today damning it for bias were held to similar standards, most of them would be shut down on the spot.
November 10, 2025 at 8:12 AM
If BBC News's rivals who are today damning it for bias were held to similar standards, most of them would be shut down on the spot.
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Translation: he has no idea how insurance works
November 10, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Translation: he has no idea how insurance works
Only Jon could capture the level of betrayal felt by Democratic supporters today. This monologue tells you much more about ‘the ending of the shutdown’ than your nightly news will. youtu.be/eFI6MwlLJ08?...
Jon Stewart "Can't F**king Believe" Democrats Caved on the Shutdown | The Daily Show
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November 11, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Only Jon could capture the level of betrayal felt by Democratic supporters today. This monologue tells you much more about ‘the ending of the shutdown’ than your nightly news will. youtu.be/eFI6MwlLJ08?...
As we mark 50 years since the Whitlam government was torn down, it's worth revisiting Noel Pearson's wonderful tribute to that 'old man'. #whitlam #thedismissal #auspol
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In Full: Noel Pearson remembers Gough Whitlam
YouTube video by ABC News (Australia)
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November 11, 2025 at 3:33 AM
As we mark 50 years since the Whitlam government was torn down, it's worth revisiting Noel Pearson's wonderful tribute to that 'old man'. #whitlam #thedismissal #auspol
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James O'Brien here on this BBC 'bias' story, looking at what's happened to truth in the UK on the issue of the insurrection against the US government that was incited by Trump. @mrjamesob.bsky.social
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BBC boss Tim Davie resigns over Trump documentary edit
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November 11, 2025 at 2:46 AM
James O'Brien here on this BBC 'bias' story, looking at what's happened to truth in the UK on the issue of the insurrection against the US government that was incited by Trump. @mrjamesob.bsky.social
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‘Essentially we are adding more carbon debt to our planetary credit card, leaving future generations with an unpayable liability.’ #climateaction #climatecrisis #auspol
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Net zero is an insidious loophole that distracts from the scientific imperative to eliminate fossil fuels | Joëlle Gergis
History tells us that polite incrementalism and political kowtowing will prevail at Cop30 – even as catastrophe unfolds around us
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November 10, 2025 at 3:14 PM
‘Essentially we are adding more carbon debt to our planetary credit card, leaving future generations with an unpayable liability.’ #climateaction #climatecrisis #auspol
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Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker, Zero Dark Thirty) has made another gripping thriller, but it's much more than that. This is a visceral reminder of what it would really mean to use these weapons that *cannot be used*. We have to get back to eradicating this insanity. Streaming on @netflixanz
November 9, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker, Zero Dark Thirty) has made another gripping thriller, but it's much more than that. This is a visceral reminder of what it would really mean to use these weapons that *cannot be used*. We have to get back to eradicating this insanity. Streaming on @netflixanz
The always impressive Prof Scott Galloway on the plight of young men at this moment. He’s on a comedy show but this is some very moving stuff. @profgalloway.com youtu.be/fcjmd_ClJJo?...
Scott Galloway - Empathy for Men Is Not a Zero-Sum Game in "Notes on Being a Man" | The Daily Show
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November 6, 2025 at 3:24 PM
The always impressive Prof Scott Galloway on the plight of young men at this moment. He’s on a comedy show but this is some very moving stuff. @profgalloway.com youtu.be/fcjmd_ClJJo?...
Somebody’s feeling a bit panicky.
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Trump goes on posting frenzy a day after Democrats win key elections
President shares more than 30 Truth Social posts in less than three hours, including series of bizarre AI-generated videos
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November 6, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Somebody’s feeling a bit panicky.
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It's brilliant and exciting to see Zohran Mamdani elected.
More leaders like him please, and fewer like Cuomo, Schumer and the rest of the oligarch-pleasing, hope-destroying, election-losing, right-centrist political class.
More leaders like him please, and fewer like Cuomo, Schumer and the rest of the oligarch-pleasing, hope-destroying, election-losing, right-centrist political class.
November 5, 2025 at 6:49 AM
It's brilliant and exciting to see Zohran Mamdani elected.
More leaders like him please, and fewer like Cuomo, Schumer and the rest of the oligarch-pleasing, hope-destroying, election-losing, right-centrist political class.
More leaders like him please, and fewer like Cuomo, Schumer and the rest of the oligarch-pleasing, hope-destroying, election-losing, right-centrist political class.
A new mayor of New York proposes policies that are stock standard across most of Europe (and Australia) and he gets called a communist. Here's Steve Brodner responding to the propaganda at The Greater Quiet on Substack. @sbrodner #mamdani #zohranmamdani #zohran
November 5, 2025 at 6:51 AM
A new mayor of New York proposes policies that are stock standard across most of Europe (and Australia) and he gets called a communist. Here's Steve Brodner responding to the propaganda at The Greater Quiet on Substack. @sbrodner #mamdani #zohranmamdani #zohran
The sort of positive energy that New York and America sorely needs right now. Godspeed, Zohran.
Today is only the beginning.
Our time has come, New York. Our time is now.
Our time has come, New York. Our time is now.
Today is only the beginning.
YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC
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November 4, 2025 at 3:50 PM
The sort of positive energy that New York and America sorely needs right now. Godspeed, Zohran.
It hurts to admit it but we West Aussies are ripping off the country.
WA is getting a bigger share of GST revenue than it should, despite being Australia's richest state.
"How anyone can defend that as a sensible use of federal taxpayers money is kind of beyond me."
- Independent Economist Saul Eslake speaking at our #RevenueSummit25
@sauleslake.bsky.social #auspol
"How anyone can defend that as a sensible use of federal taxpayers money is kind of beyond me."
- Independent Economist Saul Eslake speaking at our #RevenueSummit25
@sauleslake.bsky.social #auspol
October 29, 2025 at 4:23 AM
It hurts to admit it but we West Aussies are ripping off the country.
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Person, woman, man, Epstein, files, now.
October 29, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Person, woman, man, Epstein, files, now.
Making sure you only hear information that fits your ideology. These guys are lost. #auspol
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‘Heat deaths aren’t a thing’: Coalition MPs weighing net zero given sceptical briefing on climate science
Exclusive: Briefing by conservative thinktank Centre for Independent Studies was arranged by a Coalition backbench committee
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October 29, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Making sure you only hear information that fits your ideology. These guys are lost. #auspol
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Our military is being paid by an anonymous donor.
Our WH East Wing was demolished for a ballroom - paid for by donors.
These aren’t acts of benevolence or patriotism.
This is the oligarchy assuming control, insidiously becoming part of how we function.
Every American should reject it.
Our WH East Wing was demolished for a ballroom - paid for by donors.
These aren’t acts of benevolence or patriotism.
This is the oligarchy assuming control, insidiously becoming part of how we function.
Every American should reject it.
October 25, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Our military is being paid by an anonymous donor.
Our WH East Wing was demolished for a ballroom - paid for by donors.
These aren’t acts of benevolence or patriotism.
This is the oligarchy assuming control, insidiously becoming part of how we function.
Every American should reject it.
Our WH East Wing was demolished for a ballroom - paid for by donors.
These aren’t acts of benevolence or patriotism.
This is the oligarchy assuming control, insidiously becoming part of how we function.
Every American should reject it.