A T Tate
@spudonthetracks.bsky.social
Then: Journo stuff, news-sport 1984-2021 (ABC/BBC/TheAge). Now: Zombie apocalypse prep, Fitzroy by the sea, SWVic🦞🐋
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This is why we need more Independents in the halls of power. No one else will call out the robber barons and speak truth to power. #Auspol
POV: When you learn that Australia taxes beer more than polluting gas exports
And the cherry on top? That gas is driving climate change and worsening extreme weather – no matter where it’s burned.
Thanks for the hot tip @davidpocock.bsky.social
And the cherry on top? That gas is driving climate change and worsening extreme weather – no matter where it’s burned.
Thanks for the hot tip @davidpocock.bsky.social
February 16, 2026 at 9:00 PM
This is why we need more Independents in the halls of power. No one else will call out the robber barons and speak truth to power. #Auspol
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Pretty much the most important thing happening in the world right now.
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...
February 12, 2026 at 8:07 PM
Pretty much the most important thing happening in the world right now.
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...
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the very idea of gavin newsom in 2028 is preposterous. he's a throwback to the time where you could put a haircut in a suit and have him mouth platitudes while the status quo grinds on. we're so far past that. we got pedophile nazis now. lol that you want to reanimate dan quayle
February 13, 2026 at 8:29 PM
the very idea of gavin newsom in 2028 is preposterous. he's a throwback to the time where you could put a haircut in a suit and have him mouth platitudes while the status quo grinds on. we're so far past that. we got pedophile nazis now. lol that you want to reanimate dan quayle
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People need to ask some simple questions: Who now owns much of Australia’s water? Why have investors invested downstream in the same direction as environmental flows? And why do politicians, bureaucrats and their consultants not have to declare whether they own water entitlements?”
February 13, 2026 at 6:25 AM
People need to ask some simple questions: Who now owns much of Australia’s water? Why have investors invested downstream in the same direction as environmental flows? And why do politicians, bureaucrats and their consultants not have to declare whether they own water entitlements?”
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I feel as if the moustaches are code for something. I wonder what 🤔
February 12, 2026 at 12:59 AM
I feel as if the moustaches are code for something. I wonder what 🤔
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Point of no return: a hellish ‘hothouse Earth’ getting closer, scientists say
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Point of no return: a hellish ‘hothouse Earth’ getting closer, scientists say
Continued global heating could set irreversible course by triggering climate tipping points, but most people unaware
www.theguardian.com
February 11, 2026 at 8:49 PM
Point of no return: a hellish ‘hothouse Earth’ getting closer, scientists say
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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The Alby Mangles doco had me reminiscing about my old ABC mate and mentor Bazza, (who helped with the World Safari scripts) … anyway, here’s Bazza’s take on the Rudd Prime Ministership. Holds up! #auspol
February 10, 2026 at 11:19 AM
The Alby Mangles doco had me reminiscing about my old ABC mate and mentor Bazza, (who helped with the World Safari scripts) … anyway, here’s Bazza’s take on the Rudd Prime Ministership. Holds up! #auspol
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Vale, Jon Kudelka.
And as always, Fuck Cancer.
And as always, Fuck Cancer.
February 9, 2026 at 1:55 AM
Vale, Jon Kudelka.
And as always, Fuck Cancer.
And as always, Fuck Cancer.
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La Nina + neg IOD = cold Australia, right?
Not anymore.
Just released: "2025 was Australia's 4th warmest year since national temperature records began in 1910. For Australia as a whole, the national annual average temperature was 1.23 °C above the 1961–1990 average"
www.bom.gov.au/climate/curr...
Not anymore.
Just released: "2025 was Australia's 4th warmest year since national temperature records began in 1910. For Australia as a whole, the national annual average temperature was 1.23 °C above the 1961–1990 average"
www.bom.gov.au/climate/curr...
February 9, 2026 at 1:37 AM
La Nina + neg IOD = cold Australia, right?
Not anymore.
Just released: "2025 was Australia's 4th warmest year since national temperature records began in 1910. For Australia as a whole, the national annual average temperature was 1.23 °C above the 1961–1990 average"
www.bom.gov.au/climate/curr...
Not anymore.
Just released: "2025 was Australia's 4th warmest year since national temperature records began in 1910. For Australia as a whole, the national annual average temperature was 1.23 °C above the 1961–1990 average"
www.bom.gov.au/climate/curr...
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Australia is the most expensive place to send a kid to high school in the developed world! 🤯
"We've basically privatised our education system."
Chief Economist Greg Jericho unpacks how we got here on the latest Dollars & Sense! 💰
@grogsgamut.bsky.social @elinorjohnstonleek.bsky.social #auspol
"We've basically privatised our education system."
Chief Economist Greg Jericho unpacks how we got here on the latest Dollars & Sense! 💰
@grogsgamut.bsky.social @elinorjohnstonleek.bsky.social #auspol
February 6, 2026 at 5:58 AM
Australia is the most expensive place to send a kid to high school in the developed world! 🤯
"We've basically privatised our education system."
Chief Economist Greg Jericho unpacks how we got here on the latest Dollars & Sense! 💰
@grogsgamut.bsky.social @elinorjohnstonleek.bsky.social #auspol
"We've basically privatised our education system."
Chief Economist Greg Jericho unpacks how we got here on the latest Dollars & Sense! 💰
@grogsgamut.bsky.social @elinorjohnstonleek.bsky.social #auspol
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"How is it that Labor’s backbench, among the most powerful institutions in this country in terms of effecting change, lacks so much bravery in speaking up?"
Labor policy once emerged from robust factional debates.
But such 'creative tension' is discouraged in Albanese's risk-averse world. #auspol
Labor policy once emerged from robust factional debates.
But such 'creative tension' is discouraged in Albanese's risk-averse world. #auspol
February 8, 2026 at 12:10 AM
"How is it that Labor’s backbench, among the most powerful institutions in this country in terms of effecting change, lacks so much bravery in speaking up?"
Labor policy once emerged from robust factional debates.
But such 'creative tension' is discouraged in Albanese's risk-averse world. #auspol
Labor policy once emerged from robust factional debates.
But such 'creative tension' is discouraged in Albanese's risk-averse world. #auspol
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“the overall effect, transparency advocates warn, is to create a parallel system of policy development that is largely invisible to parliament, the public and the media”.
Albo’s latest accountability avoidance trick:
#FOI does not even apply if you can disappear any inconvenient info. #auspol
Albo’s latest accountability avoidance trick:
#FOI does not even apply if you can disappear any inconvenient info. #auspol
December 5, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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Under #ALBO, the ALP has become a centre-right vassal of the fascist AmeriKan regime. Tom Uren, would be appalled. Doug Cameron clearly is.
"I never thought the party of Chifley, Evatt, Whitlam, Keating, Crean, Uren, Cairns, Murphy & Evans would abandon our sovereignty to the United States.”
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"I never thought the party of Chifley, Evatt, Whitlam, Keating, Crean, Uren, Cairns, Murphy & Evans would abandon our sovereignty to the United States.”
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Doug Cameron says Labor’s left ‘defanged’ and co-opted into supporting US aggression
The former NSW Senator has said Australia is an “active, eager participant in the US-led order” and urged the Albanese government to abandon AUKUS.
theconversation.com
February 7, 2026 at 6:32 AM
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OBAMA: “People make excuses for him. They say he’s not serious. Everything a president says is serious!”🔥
February 7, 2026 at 4:23 AM
OBAMA: “People make excuses for him. They say he’s not serious. Everything a president says is serious!”🔥
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Hello Albo … www.instagram.com/reel/DGRos2A...
sorkinisms on Instagram: "“Instead of saying, ‘Well, excuse me, you right-wing, reactionary, xenophobic, homophobic, anti-education, anti-choice, pro-gun, ‘L…"
“Instead of saying, ‘Well, excuse me, you right-wing, reactionary, xenophobic, homophobic, anti-education, anti-choice, pro-gun, ‘Leave it to Beaver’ trip back to the fifties,’ we cowered in the corner and said, ‘Please, don’t hurt me.’”The West Wing S03E06 Gone QuietFollow @Sorkinisms#BrunoGianelli #RonSilver #TobyZiegler #RichardSchiff #SamSeaborn #RobLowe #ConnieBritton #ConnieTate #TheWestWing #TheWestWingWeekly #sorkinese #sorkinisms #Sorkin #AaronSorkin #screenwriting
www.instagram.com
February 5, 2026 at 11:14 AM
Hello Albo … www.instagram.com/reel/DGRos2A...
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Everyone knows they only invited Australia to stop the acronym being USUK
February 5, 2026 at 9:24 AM
Everyone knows they only invited Australia to stop the acronym being USUK