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Environment, star gazer, gardener
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Minns may be seen as more proactive, but he is also authoritarian and markedly pro Israel. Not attractive to many
‘The terrorism brought two political leaders into sharp public focus, Albanese and New South Wales premier Chris Minns, and the comparison was unfavourable to Albanese. What has been seen by voters can’t be unseen.’

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Anthony Albanese was cruising to the summer break. Now his leadership faces its most serious test
Despite a landslide election victory little more than six months ago, the prime minister is facing a complex political landscape
www.theguardian.com
December 24, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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Chris Bowen on #ABC Radio blasts Sussan Ley after she accused Penny Wong of “not shedding a tear” over #Bondi, calling her comments “pretty disgusting.” 💥

“Sussan Ley is not the arbiter of grief or mourning, & she does not get to decide how people express that grief.”
December 22, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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Dumbest fucker on earth.
Trump: "We need Greenland for national protection. They have a very small population. They say Denmark, but Denmark has spent no money. They have no military protection. They say Denmark was there 300 years ago or something with a boat. Well, we were there with boats too I'm sure."
December 23, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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The episode has been taken down from YouTube (due to copyright lulz) so get it here
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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December 22, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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NEWS: Congresswoman Joyce Beatty sues Trump to block the renaming of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

Read the complaint: washingtonlitigationgroup.org/news/new-law...
December 23, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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Minns is owned by the Nethanyahu Israel Regime, interfering in Australia’s 3 levels of government. Federal, State and local councils/mayors. #auspol

I didn’t vote for the Nethanyahu Israel Ethnocracy Regime. We are Australian. @australianlabor.bsky.social

michaelwest.com.au/the-hebrew-h...
"The Hebrew Hammer": inside the Gold Coast's antisemitism junket - Michael West
US-based "Combat Antisemitism Movement" and Jillian Segal are running an all-expenses-paid conference for Australian mayors and councillors.
michaelwest.com.au
December 23, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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a critical subtext of Minns whining about actions for Palestine is that the rallies and marches are so massive. He keeps saying it. The actual cause of the massacre, two (2) extremists, has all but disappeared behind white-zionist fear of huge popular support for Palestinian liberation.
December 23, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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Farid Farid is back on duty🤩asking why Minns says “this group” when he means Palestine Action Group and “those territories” when he means Palestinian Territories. Minns says he needs to be specific, while specifying nothing.
December 23, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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Minns is back up demonising protests against genocide. Not the nazis. He complained about a swastika on an zisraeli flag but not swastika-tattooed white males parading around Parliament House with their Abolish the Jewish Lobby banner.
December 23, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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Truly pathetic.

The type of performance that has your colleagues start doing the numbers.

Not just stupid, but stupid politics - gives Albanese an easy chance to show himself as a leader and take the high road.

Most voters don't even know who Ley is. So this will be their first impression
Sussan Ley spent the press conference blaming the PM, then turned on Penny Wong. Totally over the top. Not a good look. Disgraceful. #auspol #bondi
December 22, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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Penny Wong attended a multifaith vigil held in Adelaide's Catholic Cathedral. In the State she represents as a senator. Where she stood with Andrew Steiner and Rabbi Franklyn Salzman.
December 22, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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Sussan Ley is clearly so far out of her depth that she deserves to be sacked by her party, purely for her own good.

This is perhaps the most contemptible thing any political leader has ever said in this country.

The sooner she f*cks off to obscurity the better for Australia.
December 22, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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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
December 22, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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There is no credible evidence that the perpetrators of the Bondi terrorist attack had anything to do with recent protests www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
NSW will move to ban phrase ‘globalise the intifada’ in crackdown on ‘hateful’ rhetoric. Here’s what we know so far
NSW parliament will sit next week to consider legislation to limit protests and ban hate speech in response to the Bondi attack, Chris Minns says
www.theguardian.com
December 20, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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This week, Professor James Hansen and colleagues published projections that the global temperature record could reach +1.7°C by 2027.
And if that number lands in your gut the way it landed in mine, good. It should.
#climatecrisis #auspol www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/two-yea...
Two Years to 1.7°C: the “Prediction Game” We Can’t Afford to Lose
Australia’s sweltering through another early-summer heatwave, and I’m trying to decide whether to write about the weather outside my window - or the bigger climate system we’re reengineering on this p...
www.lyrebirddreaming.com
December 20, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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December 21, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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Born into a Jewish family. GParents survive the Nazi death camps. Went to Jewish School my whole life. Had my Bar Mitzvah at St Kilda Synagogue.

Not a Zionist.

*actually now an atheist Buddhist because all organised religion is a cancer.
As I have watched the Day of Reflection event at Bondi, I have grown increasingly concerned with the tone and tenor of the speeches. I am particularly concerned by the President of the Australian Council of Jewry claiming that all Jews at the event are “proud Zionists”.
#auspol #BondiShooting
December 21, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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After the Bondi attack, grief was swiftly politicised. Demands made in the name of safety risk curbing protest, dissent and social cohesion, writes Raghid Nahhas. #auspol #Bondi #CivilLiberties
What the Bondi Beach tragedy reveals about Australia’s political faultlines
In the aftermath of the Bondi Beach attack, grief was quickly accompanied by political demands that blurred the line between combating antisemitism and suppressing dissent, with troubling consequences for social cohesion and civil liberties.
johnmenadue.com
December 19, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Broken. Not broken. Today’s Sunday Age cartoon
December 20, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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"If I could ask one question of the Prime Minister right now, I would like to understand his definition of “hate preachers that promote violence”, because signing missiles that fall on children and hanging out with a genocidal army would absolutely fit the bill if he was of any other religion. "
December 19, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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Warning system
December 9, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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Meanwhile back at the legacy content farm… NYT: “In combative speech Trump tries to deflect blame for economic worries.”

It’s like they’ve forgotten how to write down what’s happening and put it in an article.
He is literally ranting and raving, and I am really really glad this is being carried by the networks
December 18, 2025 at 4:33 AM