Lindsay Chaplin
Lindsay Chaplin
@lindsaychaplin.bsky.social
Born a Scot, now Australian. Once a teacher. Life now revolves around family, politics and dogs. Forever mourning Gareth.
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Chart shows mind-boggling $ spent on Defence v other govt depts.

And here @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social unpacks Marles' new plan and shows what's wrong #auspol

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December 6, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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Why? These are citizens. They have a right to a passport unless accused of a specific crime. If there's justice or issues to face, let them face them here.
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Australia refuses to repatriate citizens from Syrian camps despite US warning leaving them there ‘compounds risk to all of us’
US offers to get Australians out of camps if they are issued with travel documents, but Labor has said ‘this is not something the government is considering’
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December 7, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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Labor sat on the “jobs for mates” review for 2 years; they wrecked the NACC; they haven’t introduced whistleblower protection laws despite promises; they’re trying to crater FOI laws; the ANAO missed half its targets bc budget cuts… & they have the nerve to talk about the abuse of transparency laws.
December 6, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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As it should! It has enraged me too. It is a recipe for #corruption and #autocracy just at a time when we all need to be building a shared #vision for the #future of the #nation & then building consensus in #communities about how to act to make it happen in different parts of this large continent.
Today's lead in the Saturday Paper abt govt instructions to use disappearing text, have 'meetings ' without records has really enraged me.
In the absence of anything vaguely resembling an effective opposition, @albomp.bsky.social and @australianlabor.bsky.social should pay heed to wise words of Wayne Swan #auspol
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December 6, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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All those thinking the private sector would find a way to solve climate change, when of course all it was ever going to do was find ways to produce even more emissions and f*ck the environment royally.

Because well... that's all it ever has done.
December 4, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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An Australian “values test” wouldn’t improve migration outcomes. It would add cost, delay and confusion while pandering to the far right, writes Abul Rizvi.
#AusPol #Immigration #MigrationPolicy #SussanLey #FarRight #Australia
Coalition’s Australian values test is the ultimate dog whistle
Sussan Ley’s so-called “values test” exposes the Coalition’s desperation to court the far-Right under the guise of patriotism.
johnmenadue.com
December 2, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Former nursing home executive and convicted fraudster Joseph Schwartz was pardoned by Trump earlier this month.

Schwartz secured the pardon after paying two other convicted fraudsters nearly $1M to lobby Trump on his behalf.

Everything is for sale. youtube.com/watch?v=NflcWXdV-B0&feature=youtu.be
Trump’s Pay-to-Pardon Scheme
Robert Reich
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November 24, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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Neoliberalism's toll: "a weakened public school system, financially stressed universities, and a #CSIRO repeatedly stripped of long-term capability."

We have lost "depth, continuity, and trust, conditions that science requires but markets cannot provide." #auspol
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Innovation talk, austerity walk: Australia’s failing science policy
Despite constant rhetoric about innovation, Australia is steadily dismantling its scientific capacity. Public schools, universities and the CSIRO are all under pressure – the result of decades of mark...
johnmenadue.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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The PM Australia elected “avoids conflict, postpones it indefinitely. As long as he does so, he inevitably helps those who benefit from things hewing close to their current condition.” - Sean Kelly

As @juliannes.bsky.social concludes:
November 22, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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What are they waiting for? | Between the Lines Newsletter - The Australia Institute australiainstitute.org.au/post/what-ar...
What are they waiting for? | Between the Lines Newsletter
The Wrap with Amy Remeikis Fifty-three years ago, Gough Whitlam swept to power with the slogan ‘it’s time’. Looking at this Labor government, you now have
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November 22, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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I seriously cannot get over how stupid it is to be cutting back on research right now #ThePoint
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CSIRO 350 job cuts a damning indictment on Government priorities, misses 'golden opportunity' on research
The announcement this week that CSIRO are to cut 350 research jobs is another damning indictment on Australia’s ongoing failure to prioritise research and development.
thepoint.com.au
November 19, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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The Whitlam experiment ended abruptly, but its vision endures: that a middle power could stand on its own feet, speak with its own voice and act according to its own conscience. #auspol #theDismissal #GoughWhitlam #Kerr
From Whitlam to AUKUS: Sovereignty silenced
When governor-general Sir John Kerr dismissed Gough Whitlam on 11 November 1975, Australia lost more than a government. It lost a measure of its independence a loss that still shadows our politics half a century later.
johnmenadue.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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It’s almost like something dramatically changed after the Industrial Revolution! (figure via Ed Hawkins)
November 18, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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What’s coming out now is essentially the case Smith had compiled and was forced to drop. It was solid enough to indict and they couldn’t/wouldn’t set a court date ahead of the election. When he won it was dropped.
October 30, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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@mattgrudnoff.bsky.social writing about how the "for profit" child care model has totally failed.

But then we know the for profit model of public services *always* fails, and yet....

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New investigation reveals that child abuse happens more frequently at for-profit childcare centres
Parents should expect that when they send their kids to childcare that they are safe and receiving top quality education and care. This is not consistent with the profit motive.
thepoint.com.au
October 27, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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The former ADF Chief has said that inaction has left Australia “dangerously exposed” to climate change.

“Security analysts are blunt, cascading climate impacts will drive instability, insecurity and conflict,” said Admiral Chris Barrie @thepointau.bsky.social

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Australia's expansion of fossil fuels a 'failure of national duty' says former ADF Chief
Admiral Chris Barrie has said that inaction has left Australia 'dangerously exposed' to climate change.
thepoint.com.au
October 27, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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"One of the biggest impediments to increasing the amount of people we have who could work is our incredibly low unemployment benefits

People can't afford to put money on their travel card, they can't go to the dentist & they can't have something to wear to go to the interview"
October 27, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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must read by mighty Amy Remeikis💯
October 22, 2025 at 5:36 AM
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During the Second World War, Jewish doctors—who were themselves going hungry—studied starving people in the Warsaw Ghetto. Their findings inform what doctors expect to see after starvation in Gaza. https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/what-comes-after-starvation-in-gaza
October 20, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Editorial: Imagine that a young woman is raped in your office. You are a minister and she is the most junior member of your staff. In the footage you see later, she is too drunk to put on her shoes... satpa.pe/45JEQVj
Linda Reynolds’ latest move
Imagine that a young woman is raped in your office. You are a minister and she is the most junior member of your staff. In the footage you see later, she is too drunk to put on her shoes. She walks barefoot through the parliament with her colleague, who you also employ.
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October 20, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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According to analysis by experts at UTS, EY's report for the government's Future Gas Strategy perfectly demonstrates how consultants can dazzle policy makers with arcane modelling and data in order to advance the causes of their paymasters. satpa.pe/41VsB1A
How the fossil fuel lobby captured a landmark Labor policy
The federal government’s Future Gas Strategy, which backs extending production through to 2050 and beyond, is based on contested EY research commissioned by Australian Energy Producers.
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October 20, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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The Australian Government makes more money from HECS repayments than it does from the PRRT.

‘Norway taxes its fossil fuel industry and gives their kids free higher education… we subsidise our fossil fuel industry and we charge our kids a fortune to go to uni.’

@richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol
October 17, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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I'm old enough to remember when pretty much all of the mainstream media regularly praised Abbott for being the politician with the deepest connection to Indig Australians because he visited a community every year, patted some kids on the head and hammered a few nails.
poor old Tony Abbott is on the public broadcaster dismissing the oldest and longest continuous oral histories in the history of humanity as “hearsay” how’s your morning going.
October 12, 2025 at 11:20 PM