@frumpdi.bsky.social
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I just don’t think we should listen to Israelis on responding to a terror attack.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
NGOs fear life-saving aid program blockage in Gaza under new Israeli rules
The Israeli government has introduced new rules for aid organisations, including that they must not engage in any activities or criticism which "delegitimise" the state of Israel.
www.abc.net.au
December 28, 2025 at 11:40 PM
I just don’t think we should listen to Israelis on responding to a terror attack.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
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Sydney media types gleefully calling Dan Andrews an authoritarian tyrant, and then calmly acquiescing to *whatever this is*
We should be deeply alarmed that the Premier is talking about permanently arming the “Community Security Group”, a Mossad-linked Zionist organisation that runs paramilitary training camps in Israel. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
December 28, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Sydney media types gleefully calling Dan Andrews an authoritarian tyrant, and then calmly acquiescing to *whatever this is*
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Ten years since the conservative campaign to kill section 18C. Remember?
December 22, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Ten years since the conservative campaign to kill section 18C. Remember?
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As we watch the capitulation of the Australian media, it’s worth remembering that Israel has murdered almost 300 journalists
December 22, 2025 at 9:28 AM
As we watch the capitulation of the Australian media, it’s worth remembering that Israel has murdered almost 300 journalists
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Journalists' lazy repetition of state propaganda words matters.
December 22, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Journalists' lazy repetition of state propaganda words matters.
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So as everyone kind of knew, when Chris Minns talked about cracking down on protests and gatherings, he really meant specifically pro-Palestine and anti-mass-murder protests: racist, white nationalist protests (probably attended by neo-nazi anti-semites) are completely fucking fine
December 21, 2025 at 8:12 AM
So as everyone kind of knew, when Chris Minns talked about cracking down on protests and gatherings, he really meant specifically pro-Palestine and anti-mass-murder protests: racist, white nationalist protests (probably attended by neo-nazi anti-semites) are completely fucking fine
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PLEASE! Don't buy Ratsak or any other rat poison, at Bunnings or anywhere else: it's killing our wildlife when they eat the rat!
THANK YOU.
Please share.
#auspol
THANK YOU.
Please share.
#auspol
Common household rat poisons found to pose unacceptable risk to wildlife as animal advocates push for ban
Environmentalists say proposed temporary suspension of second-generation anticoagulant rodenticides ‘doesn’t go far enough’
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Environmentalists say proposed temporary suspension of second-generation anticoagulant rodenticides ‘doesn’t go far enough’
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Common household rat poisons found to pose unacceptable risk to wildlife as animal advocates push for ban
Environmentalists say proposed temporary suspension of second-generation anticoagulant rodenticides ‘doesn’t go far enough’
www.theguardian.com
December 20, 2025 at 8:08 AM
PLEASE! Don't buy Ratsak or any other rat poison, at Bunnings or anywhere else: it's killing our wildlife when they eat the rat!
THANK YOU.
Please share.
#auspol
THANK YOU.
Please share.
#auspol
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If we are going to stamp down on hate speech (and we really should), we should start with our newspapers.
If you are an enemy of diversity and multiculturalism, you are an enemy of my family, my friends and I (and of much of the Australian populace).
White supremacy is a malignant melanoma.
If you are an enemy of diversity and multiculturalism, you are an enemy of my family, my friends and I (and of much of the Australian populace).
White supremacy is a malignant melanoma.
Just when you thought the bottom of the barrel was well and truly scraped …
December 20, 2025 at 1:27 PM
If we are going to stamp down on hate speech (and we really should), we should start with our newspapers.
If you are an enemy of diversity and multiculturalism, you are an enemy of my family, my friends and I (and of much of the Australian populace).
White supremacy is a malignant melanoma.
If you are an enemy of diversity and multiculturalism, you are an enemy of my family, my friends and I (and of much of the Australian populace).
White supremacy is a malignant melanoma.
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There is no gun "debate".
There are not two equal sides. It is almost everyone vs almost no one.
70% of Australians wanted tougher gun laws *before* Bondi.
More below, full results here: australiainstitute.org.au/report/polli...
There are not two equal sides. It is almost everyone vs almost no one.
70% of Australians wanted tougher gun laws *before* Bondi.
More below, full results here: australiainstitute.org.au/report/polli...
December 19, 2025 at 11:44 AM
There is no gun "debate".
There are not two equal sides. It is almost everyone vs almost no one.
70% of Australians wanted tougher gun laws *before* Bondi.
More below, full results here: australiainstitute.org.au/report/polli...
There are not two equal sides. It is almost everyone vs almost no one.
70% of Australians wanted tougher gun laws *before* Bondi.
More below, full results here: australiainstitute.org.au/report/polli...
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The idea that massive crackdown on anti-genocide protests in universities, and refusing to support Palestinian statehood would have somehow prevented last Sunday's terror attack in Bondi has already infected Aus media so deep that they're taking it as a truism
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
December 16, 2025 at 9:42 AM
The idea that massive crackdown on anti-genocide protests in universities, and refusing to support Palestinian statehood would have somehow prevented last Sunday's terror attack in Bondi has already infected Aus media so deep that they're taking it as a truism
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
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The ancient Palestinian town of Sebastia in the northern West Bank is a testament to 5,000 years of Palestinian history. Israel announced that it plans to seize the village and its archaeological sites. mondoweiss.net/2025/12/an-a...
An ancient Palestinian town in the West Bank may soon no longer exist - because Israel plans on stealing it
The ancient Palestinian town of Sebastia in the northern West Bank is a testament to 5,000 years of Palestinian history. Israel announced that it plans to seize the village and its archaeological…
mondoweiss.net
December 13, 2025 at 12:00 AM
The ancient Palestinian town of Sebastia in the northern West Bank is a testament to 5,000 years of Palestinian history. Israel announced that it plans to seize the village and its archaeological sites. mondoweiss.net/2025/12/an-a...
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“Greg Pugh from the Department of Health, Disability and Ageing said that they were aware of people using software to scrape data and are investigating”.
WHY is this data scrapeable?!
WHY is this data scrapeable?!
December 3, 2025 at 8:14 AM
“Greg Pugh from the Department of Health, Disability and Ageing said that they were aware of people using software to scrape data and are investigating”.
WHY is this data scrapeable?!
WHY is this data scrapeable?!
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As if carbon offsets weren’t a big enough fraud…welcome to the world of ‘biodiversity offsets’…sure the idea failed dismally in NSW but Murray Watt is keen to have a crack…
what could go wrong?
Just even more extinctions i suppose…#climate #nature
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
what could go wrong?
Just even more extinctions i suppose…#climate #nature
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
How many extra possums does it take to compensate for a dead platypus?
That’s the kind of calculation a bureaucrat would literally have to make under Environment Minister Murray Watt’s new ‘environmental laws’.
thepoint.com.au
November 17, 2025 at 11:24 PM
As if carbon offsets weren’t a big enough fraud…welcome to the world of ‘biodiversity offsets’…sure the idea failed dismally in NSW but Murray Watt is keen to have a crack…
what could go wrong?
Just even more extinctions i suppose…#climate #nature
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
what could go wrong?
Just even more extinctions i suppose…#climate #nature
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
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David Walker has been collecting paper clips from around the world for much of his life.
www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/d...
www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/d...
David Walker's Paper Clip Collection.
David Walker has been collecting paper clips from around the world for much of his life. He recently moved into a new home & his daughter has been sorting through his belongings. His clip collecti...
www.presentandcorrect.com
October 8, 2025 at 1:06 PM
David Walker has been collecting paper clips from around the world for much of his life.
www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/d...
www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/d...
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The BBC will fuck things up from time to time. Lots of major news organisations do; just look at The Times having to memoryhole several fake news stories in a matter of weeks.
No one is calling for the abolition of The Times, however.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
No one is calling for the abolition of The Times, however.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
UK newspaper editor calls Bill de Blasio fake interview blunder ‘humiliating’
A Times associate editor reportedly addressed situation in an email to staff, saying: ‘We should have been on our guard’
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:53 AM
The BBC will fuck things up from time to time. Lots of major news organisations do; just look at The Times having to memoryhole several fake news stories in a matter of weeks.
No one is calling for the abolition of The Times, however.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
No one is calling for the abolition of The Times, however.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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The reason our environmental laws are bad is because they fail to protect the environment from the endless capitulation of cowards.
November 7, 2025 at 5:43 AM
The reason our environmental laws are bad is because they fail to protect the environment from the endless capitulation of cowards.
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Ban the stuff.
Rat bait poison has been found in threatened northern quoll populations as an overdue report into their use by the federal pesticides regulator is again delayed.
Threatened native animals at risk as rat bait review delayed again
Rat bait poison has been found in threatened northern quoll populations as an overdue report into their use by the federal pesticides regulator is again delayed.
www.abc.net.au
October 23, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Ban the stuff.
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heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god
October 17, 2025 at 5:43 PM
heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god
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Sidenote: Did you know that the NACC employs over 200 people, spends over $50m per year, has 5 offices, and in over two years of operations hasn't landed a single major corruption finding?
September 26, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Sidenote: Did you know that the NACC employs over 200 people, spends over $50m per year, has 5 offices, and in over two years of operations hasn't landed a single major corruption finding?
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Imagine if anyone in power in Australia was ever held responsible for any wrongdoing ever. Imagine if we had a national anti-corruption commission or something like that.
September 26, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Imagine if anyone in power in Australia was ever held responsible for any wrongdoing ever. Imagine if we had a national anti-corruption commission or something like that.
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Fighting the good fight
Simon Holmes à Court pays $15,000 to put climate scientist on ‘mystery flight’ with Sussan Ley
Simon Holmes à Court pays $15,000 to put climate scientist on ‘mystery flight’ with Sussan Ley
Climate 200 founder beats out at least six other bidders for meeting with opposition leader in charity auction for Parliament’s Midwinter Ball
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Climate 200 founder Simon Holmes à Court has paid $15,000 to secure a mystery flight with Sussan Ley – and put a climate scientist and a young climate organiser on the plane – winning a charity auction at Parliament’s Midwinter Ball.
The flight, and lunch with the opposition leader at a country pub, was offered in the auction organised by the Canberra press gallery for the annual event. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
August 27, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Fighting the good fight
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'Is it too much or not enough?'
This facile, disgusting question, from 774 ABC Melbourne, about the protests supporting Palestine.
Shame.
This facile, disgusting question, from 774 ABC Melbourne, about the protests supporting Palestine.
Shame.
August 24, 2025 at 10:46 PM
'Is it too much or not enough?'
This facile, disgusting question, from 774 ABC Melbourne, about the protests supporting Palestine.
Shame.
This facile, disgusting question, from 774 ABC Melbourne, about the protests supporting Palestine.
Shame.
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Tax breaks for huge, American-style utes cost the Australian government $250 million in 2023.
But it gets worse.
Emissions from passenger cars have fallen since 2005, but that drop was wiped out by the increased use of big utes. #auspol
But it gets worse.
Emissions from passenger cars have fallen since 2005, but that drop was wiped out by the increased use of big utes. #auspol
August 25, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Tax breaks for huge, American-style utes cost the Australian government $250 million in 2023.
But it gets worse.
Emissions from passenger cars have fallen since 2005, but that drop was wiped out by the increased use of big utes. #auspol
But it gets worse.
Emissions from passenger cars have fallen since 2005, but that drop was wiped out by the increased use of big utes. #auspol
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A good day to pre-order Randa Abdel-Fattah’s book.
Discipline
Silence is complicity, but how do we confront the cost of speaking up?
www.uqp.com.au
August 18, 2025 at 1:02 AM
A good day to pre-order Randa Abdel-Fattah’s book.