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Mattz
@hereticalempiricsm.bsky.social
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Diverse, Equitable, Inclusive account determined to undermine the lazy, bludging rich owners of way too many things in the name of a humane, progressive future, despite the bad faith discourse of corrupted power drivers with a smile and snapping open hand.
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Mattz @hereticalempiricsm.bsky.social · Feb 5
The damage of the present is reflective of 50 of the last 77 years of Australian governance by a reductive political party (LNP) leaning into corrupt business dealings, culture scares, and waste - stop selling out Australia to fear and repeats of robodebt, consultancy corruption and superstition.
Political satire cartoon by Cathy Wilcox featuring Gina Rinehart being served champagne on a luxury jet with Peter Dutton on her lap looking out the window at a Qantas plane with binoculars stating “ooh look who’s got an upgrade”
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pinconp.bsky.social
www.theage.com.au/national/vic...
I hate reading this. Where are unhoused people supposed to go?
It’s bloody inhumane. #auspol
‘Being homeless is not a crime’: CBD security guard program under scrutiny
Some rough sleepers and social workers have accused the City of Melbourne’s security guard patrols of unfairly targeting homeless people. But others have defended the council’s initiative.
www.theage.com.au
September 20, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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brionykidd.bsky.social
The international community must finally act now. Please don’t ignore this @albomp.bsky.social #auspol
aaliyahxx.bsky.social Aaliyah 🇮🇪🇵🇸 ‼️SAVE GAZA‼️ @aaliyahxx.bsky.social · Sep 18
🚨 Internet and phone services have been completely cut off in the governates of Gaza and Northern Gaza, in the shadow of the escalating IOF aggression on these areas, particularly Gaza City.

800,000 Palestinians in the north are experiencing a total blackout.
September 18, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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twangmaker.bsky.social
K-Mart got done for tracking everyone's movements

Some months ago Bunnings was caught doing the same

What the ABC failed to mention is that these are the same company, Wesfarmers.

Also, Coles is using military data contractor Palantir, again it's Wesfarmers

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09... #auspol
Use of facial recognition technology in Kmart stores broke privacy act
The Privacy Commissioner has found Kmart broke the Privacy Act with its use of facial recognition technology, ordering the retail giant not to repeat the practice.
www.abc.net.au
September 17, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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voicesofwentworth.bsky.social
Support independent media.

Media concentration leads to political censorship and the undermining of democracy

#auspol
bencollins.bsky.social Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Sep 18
Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.
September 18, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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knockaboutwok.bsky.social
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

This is appalling. Actively excluding a migratory bird from its nesting site for a "festival"

#auspol
#wildoz
#birds
Two-day festival to go ahead on protected bird's nesting site
Conservationists say one of the country's largest colonies of a protected native bird is under threat at a two-day festival site.
www.abc.net.au
September 16, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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kentparkskeet.bsky.social
It’s nice that Gina feeds her pets well.

#AusPol
Gina Rinehart helps fund Jacinta Nampijinpa Price's defamation defence
Australia's richest person, Gina Rinehart, has helped fund Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price's crowd-funded defence to a defamation action brought by the head of a Northern Territory land council.
www.abc.net.au
September 15, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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cathywilcox.bsky.social
Priorities.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
Four frames. In each, a man is reclining in an armchair, feet up, while television is on. 1. TV newsreader: “The latest climate risk assessment says without drastic greenhouse emission reduction, we can expect…” (man snoozes) 2. TV shows bushfire “…a large increase in deaths from heat stress, more coastal flooding, storms and extreme weather events…” (man snoozes) 3. TV shows waves crashing on coastal house “…sea level rises will displace coastal dwellers and inhabitants of nearby island states, and…” (man snoozes) 4. TV shows house with arrow pointing down and $BILLIONS) “…our property values could fall by as much as $611 billion…” Man on chair wakes and gasps.
September 17, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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dove333.bsky.social
#Auspol
A reminder for Aussies❗️
Sinclair owns majority of media in 🇺🇸.
Murdoch does the SAME THING HERE❗️
He owns 70%+ of papers, radio & tv in 🇦🇺 , which is why they ALL repeat the same ‘Murdoch news’ (aka propaganda).
Switch off Murdoch‼️
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_...

share.google/Mi1Xlz6xDj2H...
September 21, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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mylesjaybee.bsky.social
The richest 200 people in Australia have almost tripled their wealth over two decades.
#auspol #EndCapitalism
September 20, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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waybuzz.bsky.social
#abcInsiders #insiders #auspol the only people wetting their pants about @albomp.bsky.social meeting Donald Trump is legacy media. No one else cares and see Trump as a clown.
September 20, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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belindajones68.bsky.social
In 54 days it'll be the 50th Anniversary of The Dismissal of Gough Whitlam

What I don't see in today's politicians, that Whitlam had, is a vision 4 our future, prepared to really create social change

Gough was intelligent, audacious

I miss politicians like that
🐝
#auspol
a man in a suit and tie is talking into a microphone while a crowd watches .
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is talking into a microphone while a crowd watches .
media.tenor.com
September 18, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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redrabbleroz.bsky.social
A good little chart from the Parliamentary Library showing how almost all social spending by the Commonwealth is already means-tested #auspol
September 17, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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666monalisa666.bsky.social
shared from FB prime chinister:

#welfare of the rich cuntz who don’t need it

not to mention all the Fkn religions grifting off govt welfare

#auspol
September 18, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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chrishehim.bsky.social
They have become too extreme and fascist even for the conservative party. It's a terrorist organisation.

Liberal MPs speak up about ‘disturbing’ Advance campaign against ‘mass immigration’
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... #auspol #insiders #abc730
Liberal MPs speak up about ‘disturbing’ Advance campaign against ‘mass immigration’
Several MPs say the activist group’s advertising push is becoming a problem for the party because ‘you cannot win from the margins’
www.theguardian.com
September 19, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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geeforce77.bsky.social
As Laura Tingle mentioned- the clip of Trump saying that he thinks it is illegal to criticise him.
#insiders #auspol
September 20, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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deuademon.bsky.social
Absolutely 💯 from #AusPol
September 18, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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davidlamond.bsky.social
More power to your arm @johnthelyonsden.bsky.social! #auspol
strangerous.bsky.social stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · Sep 16
ABC’s John Lyons has fired back at Donald Trump’s “absurd notion” that asking legitimate questions could damage relations b/w the US & Australia
“If our job as journalists is to hold truth to power, then surely asking legitimate questions politely…should be acceptable”🔥💯 #Abc
September 17, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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nat-ha-lie.bsky.social
ABC finance journalist Alan Kohler went to town on Trump in tonight’s news. Fucking brilliant lol.

#auspol #uspol
September 17, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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instanterudite.bsky.social
This week's #SundayShot is up for your viewing pleasure with guest co-host @boganintel.bsky.social, @australiainstitute.org.au's Mark Ogge and @declassifiedaus.bsky.social's Kellie Tranter.

Catch it before Trump cracks down on YouTube criticism too....

www.youtube.com/watch?v=m994...
Our Cursed Times - September 21 - Kellie Tranter and Mark Ogge
YouTube video by The Sunday Shot
www.youtube.com
September 21, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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kimmaree.bsky.social
OMG, watch to the end of #SundayShot apparently Coles Supermarkets have pared up with Peter Thiel's dark overlord Palantir Technologies to build customer and staff surveillance in Australia - time for Aussies to #resist and chose Woolies over Coles (or local alternatives if you can) #auspol
September 21, 2025 at 5:32 AM
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margaretmorgan.bsky.social
Meanwhile, political censorship in Australia.

#Auspol

open.substack.com/pub/nickfeik...
Who killed Meanjin?
New revelations cast doubt on the official explanations for its closure
open.substack.com
September 18, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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politikarma.bsky.social
Reminder that divisive chronically out of touch Tony Abbott is a board member of far right propaganda outfit, Advance.
And a board member of anarchist propaganda vessel News Corp.
This grub is intent on tearing down anything progressive in this nation & wants to drag us back to early 1900’s
#auspol
September 20, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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natecochrane.bsky.social
Woman whose only significant job before becoming a politician 25yr ago was as an ATO public servant, and whose dad was a cop, says Australians too dependent on govt.

#auspol

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
Australians too dependent on government, says Sussan Ley
In her first major economic speech, the opposition leader hits out at universal subsidies and says "dependency" has affected Australia's "national character".
www.abc.net.au
September 18, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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chattycathyau.bsky.social
Got to love the people that complain about spending money on climate mitigation, "it's all a cash grab", fail to realise that they are being manipulated by Oil & Gas companies because they don't want to give up their cash grab.

#AusPol
September 19, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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gwynnefitz.bsky.social
Just now, 11 state and city lawmakers were arrested by DHS police on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza after a hour of demanding access to the ICE lock up on the same floor. @thecity.nyc
September 18, 2025 at 8:06 PM