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David Lamond
@davidlamond.bsky.social
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Australian Twitter survivor committed to civil society & justice for all. Left of centre. Enjoy debate. Love books. PhD and 71 years of lived experience 🧐 - learned a little.
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Yeah, but as Noel Pearson famously asked, “What else did this ‘Roman’ do?” #auspol #Gough #ItsTime
A list of 42 initiatives instituted by the Whitlam government 1972-1975
November 11, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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Woohoo!
#SundayShot with @grogsgamut.bsky.social and @ronnisalt.bsky.social!
#auspol
October 11, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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#NewsCorpse, where truth, integrity, and journalism go to die #auspol
#NOalition #NOidea
Pictures of Susssan Ley and Tony Abbott with Herald Sun Opinion piece by Steve Price, headed: Ley can’t lead the way, bring back Tony Abbott
October 11, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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#ItsOn #HandyAndy
#auspol
#NOalition #NOidea
ABC headlines: No challenge to Sussan, Hastie Resignation won’t hurt Liberal party, says Hastie Hastie says he hasn’t been asked to run for Liberal leader No disparity in messages with Sussan Ley, Hastie says
October 4, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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What’s happening in the #RogueStatesOfAmerica under #HerrTrumpf and in Australia with the #NOalition & the #PHONies #auspol
Conspiracy Theory Defined: 1. A belief that a consensus of the world’s scientific experts missed something they’ve spent their lives researching - that you were able to uncover in seventeen minutes due to superior Googling skills. 2. A belief that decades of medical research, carried out by people committed to caring for humanity are secretly and irredeemably evil and have been exposed by random people you’ve never heard of, making claims with no evidence, on sites with dubious credibility.
September 23, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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Nearly 9 decades later, the Goebbels playbook continues to inform #HerrTrumpf and the #RogueStatesOfAmerica
#auspol
Page 1 of The New York Times February 4th 1939. Headline: Goebbels Ends Careers of Five ‘Aryan’ Actors Who Made Witticisms About the Nazi Regime. At bottom: Mike Johnson wants people to stop calling Trump a Nazi so we’re just going to post this article and let you draw your own conclusions.
September 20, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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One Oz national treasure David Pope brings attention to another Oz national treasure in @johnthelyonsden.bsky.social #auspol #HerrTrumpf
September 18, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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Princess Anne: Not another ruddy dinner for one of Andrew’s playmates …
Princess Anne in state dinner dress accompanied by a coterie of royal-adjacents, looking unamused and careworn
September 18, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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Nobel Peace Prize?
Tell ‘im he’s dreamin’!
#HerrTrumpf
#RogueStatesOfAmerica
#auspol
News Report: Trump Blames Zelensky and Putin for His Humiliating Failure. President Trump says the warring leaders “hate each other so much, they can’t breathe.”
September 16, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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Just to be clear, Snark:
September 11, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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Verrrry slow Australian news day over at @australia.theguardian.com today, apparently #auspol
September 10, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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@llamagrama.bsky.social
September 5, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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As Ms Ley & #NOalition continue to demonstrate their foreign affairs #NOidea incompetence #auspol, Haaretz (20.8.2025) reports ECAJ had this to say about Netanyahu:
The Executive Council of Australian Jewry, representing the country’s Jewish community, blamed Netanyahu for engaging in a “clumsy intervention into Australia’s domestic politics”. Netanyahu’s attack, the letter said, “demonstrated a woeful lack of understanding of social and political conditions in Australia” and “played straight into the hands of opponents of Israel and antisemites, to the detriment of the Australian Jewish Community.”
August 20, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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Dancing to the #Naziyahu and #VladTheImpaler tunes … and for this #HerrTrumpf demands a Nobel Peace Prize??? #RogueStatesOfAmerica
#auspol
Cartoon with Trump as a puppet and Netanyahu & Putin pulling the strings under a “World Affairs Theater” sign. Putin to Netanyahu: OK, it’s MY turn now! Netanyahu to Putin: You had your turn - I’m not done yet.
August 19, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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For our friends in the #RogueStatesOfAmerica
#uspol #auspol
Caricature of George Orwell, with the quote: “A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thrives and traitors are not victims … but accomplices.”
August 19, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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#HerrTrumpf channeling his inner lineage #uspol #auspol
Danziger cartoon of Donald Trump with Adolf Hitler (1932) speaking the following words out of his mouth: “The streets of our country are in turmoil. The Universities are filled with students rebelling and rioting. Communists are seeking to destroy our country … Without law and order, our nation can not survive”
August 17, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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I fixed the #HerrTrumpf #VladTheImpaler background to more properly reflect the purpose of their meeting today - you're welcome #auspol #uspol
Photo of Putin and Trumpf at rostrums in front of background signage saying "Pursuing Peace". Signage crossed out and replaced with "Pursuing Herr Trumpf's Nobel Peace Prize".
August 16, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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#HerrTrumpf, of course, encourages such attribution.
#RogueStatesOfAmerica
#auspol
“It strikes me as unfair, and even in bad taste, to select a few individuals for boundless admiration, attributing superhuman powers of mind and character to them. This has been my fate”
Albert Einstein
Informal B&W photo of Albert Einstein dressed in cold weather gear, with umbrella in a park.
August 16, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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In the interests of everyone’s mental health, I encourage all reporters to open their thesauruses to find another word to use in the mix - please! #auspol #UnprecedentedCrisis ;-)
From Oxford Languages, synonyms for “unprecedented” - unparalleled, unequalled, unmatched, unrivalled, extraordinary, uncommon, out of the ordinary, unusual, outstanding, striking, exceptional
August 12, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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Gave me a wry smile on a wet Sydney Saturday #auspol
Calvin and Hobbes Cartoon: Calvin & Hobbes standing in front of a felled tree surrounded by trash/rubbish. Calvin says “Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us”
August 2, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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For an informed, respectful discussion on what matters to #auspol, watch #SundayShot, with
@instanterudite.bsky.social
Lizzie O’Shea
@davemilbo.bsky.social
@cameronwilson.bsky.social
@deniseshrivell.bsky.social
3rd August 2025
August 2, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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Sadly, @janeygodley.bsky.social won’t be there with her sign, @madz123.bsky.social, so here it is again in solidarity
Photo of Janey Godley holding a sign saying “Trump Is A Cunt”
July 27, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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Hi Jane,

I’ve sent a complaint via the reporting mechanism on the app (go to the page and press on the 3 dots … the following menu comes up
July 20, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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@janecaro.bsky.social
Hi Jane, just in case you haven’t already seen this:
July 20, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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@llamagrama.bsky.social
Hi,
This happened again, for hours:
July 15, 2025 at 8:13 PM