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I grew up in Wales, I remember that day, how we all sat glued to the TV, rescuers passing the bodies along, the waiting families, the unrelenting rain - hard to imagine a more desolate scene. And it needn't have happened. The Nation Coal Board had been warned repeatedly of the danger.
October 21, 2025 at 6:25 AM
I grew up in Wales, I remember that day, how we all sat glued to the TV, rescuers passing the bodies along, the waiting families, the unrelenting rain - hard to imagine a more desolate scene. And it needn't have happened. The Nation Coal Board had been warned repeatedly of the danger.
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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
June 22, 2025 at 10:00 PM
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
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Children are bearing the brunt of Israel’s genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. Here are some of the tragic stories of the most recent victims.
May 26, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Children are bearing the brunt of Israel’s genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. Here are some of the tragic stories of the most recent victims.
All those "mum and dad investors" making sure renters pay a premium and still find a way to negatively gear - www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
‘Brutal rental market’ sees spike in number of Victorian tenants evicted because they can’t make payments
Affordability at its lowest point in more than decade, with almost 60% of the state’s households receiving a rent increase over 12 months
www.theguardian.com
April 30, 2025 at 7:36 AM
All those "mum and dad investors" making sure renters pay a premium and still find a way to negatively gear - www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Utterly moronic decision-making by BOTH duopoly parties - sacrificing the hugely important education sector when it should be thriving, all because they’re incapable of tough decisions on real estate investment rorts.
Cutting students is not the solution to housing.
amp.abc.net.au/article/1051...
Cutting students is not the solution to housing.
amp.abc.net.au/article/1051...
Coalition pledges to limit new international student enrolments to 240,000 per year - ABC News
amp.abc.net.au
April 6, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Utterly moronic decision-making by BOTH duopoly parties - sacrificing the hugely important education sector when it should be thriving, all because they’re incapable of tough decisions on real estate investment rorts.
Cutting students is not the solution to housing.
amp.abc.net.au/article/1051...
Cutting students is not the solution to housing.
amp.abc.net.au/article/1051...
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What's going on on Parliament Hill?
Check out @davidshoebridge.bsky.social in full flight
#auspol #Senate #shoebridge
youtu.be/wDqB0tzviqo?...
Check out @davidshoebridge.bsky.social in full flight
#auspol #Senate #shoebridge
youtu.be/wDqB0tzviqo?...
Cock-up or Cover-up? | The West Report
YouTube video by The West Report
youtu.be
March 28, 2025 at 11:34 PM
What's going on on Parliament Hill?
Check out @davidshoebridge.bsky.social in full flight
#auspol #Senate #shoebridge
youtu.be/wDqB0tzviqo?...
Check out @davidshoebridge.bsky.social in full flight
#auspol #Senate #shoebridge
youtu.be/wDqB0tzviqo?...
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The old relationship we had with the United States is over.
Subtext: Because the United States is over.
That’s it. That’s the problem we are electing the next Australian government to deal with.
Subtext: Because the United States is over.
That’s it. That’s the problem we are electing the next Australian government to deal with.
Mushmouthing reality.
It’s always the most important election we’ve ever faced, isn't it?
open.substack.com
March 28, 2025 at 12:57 AM
The old relationship we had with the United States is over.
Subtext: Because the United States is over.
That’s it. That’s the problem we are electing the next Australian government to deal with.
Subtext: Because the United States is over.
That’s it. That’s the problem we are electing the next Australian government to deal with.
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Borrowed slogans, deepfake consultants, and billionaire-backed astroturfing. The 2025 election is shaping up to be a circus of misinformation. Peter Dutton’s new love for whales? Just another plot twist. Follow the money. #AusPol #Election2025
January 18, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Borrowed slogans, deepfake consultants, and billionaire-backed astroturfing. The 2025 election is shaping up to be a circus of misinformation. Peter Dutton’s new love for whales? Just another plot twist. Follow the money. #AusPol #Election2025
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Accused by a whistleblower of covering up an oil spill that killed dolphins and sea snakes, Santos get fined just $10k 🤯
Santos spends up to $US3.3m per year on a private jet for their executives so I don’t think AUD10k is going to hurt them.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01...
Santos spends up to $US3.3m per year on a private jet for their executives so I don’t think AUD10k is going to hurt them.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01...
Gas giant Santos fined $10,000 for 25,000-litre oil spill off Pilbara coast
The energy giant has pleaded guilty to causing an oil spill in 2022, that leaked 25,000 litres of oil off WA's north-west coast. Santos will pay a $10,000 fine and $9,700 in court costs for failing to...
www.abc.net.au
January 7, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Accused by a whistleblower of covering up an oil spill that killed dolphins and sea snakes, Santos get fined just $10k 🤯
Santos spends up to $US3.3m per year on a private jet for their executives so I don’t think AUD10k is going to hurt them.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01...
Santos spends up to $US3.3m per year on a private jet for their executives so I don’t think AUD10k is going to hurt them.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01...
Great initiative by these writers to encourage reading by our representatives to inform and enhance their perspectives. I do wonder if the pandemic of busy-ness we mostly suffer is another reason we lack nuance in our thinking www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Australian authors group give every federal politician five books to encourage nuance in Middle East debate
Exclusive: Group of more than 90 including writers Tim Winton and Charlotte Wood have paid for every federal senator and MP to receive curated package
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2024 at 9:53 PM
Great initiative by these writers to encourage reading by our representatives to inform and enhance their perspectives. I do wonder if the pandemic of busy-ness we mostly suffer is another reason we lack nuance in our thinking www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...