@mariobalan.bsky.social
Love music and sport. Football/Soccer my favourite.
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Predictably, News Corp have ignored teachers’ pleas for them to stop pitting schools against each other by publishing uncontextualised rankings. Since they’ve ignored this, I’m sharing the list of Australia’s most untrusted brands. News Corp number 8 - should be higher! A toxic stain on Australia.
December 5, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Predictably, News Corp have ignored teachers’ pleas for them to stop pitting schools against each other by publishing uncontextualised rankings. Since they’ve ignored this, I’m sharing the list of Australia’s most untrusted brands. News Corp number 8 - should be higher! A toxic stain on Australia.
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September 28, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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Gang-gang cockatoos have the most gorgeous baby faces 😍
August 29, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Gang-gang cockatoos have the most gorgeous baby faces 😍
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Pro-gun groups are mobilising against gun laws, and celebrating the increase in guns in our community.
We've launched a petition to create a National Firearms Register to help close dangerous loopholes and better protect public safety.
Can you sign and share?
▶️ theaus.in/firearm_regi...
We've launched a petition to create a National Firearms Register to help close dangerous loopholes and better protect public safety.
Can you sign and share?
▶️ theaus.in/firearm_regi...
August 26, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Pro-gun groups are mobilising against gun laws, and celebrating the increase in guns in our community.
We've launched a petition to create a National Firearms Register to help close dangerous loopholes and better protect public safety.
Can you sign and share?
▶️ theaus.in/firearm_regi...
We've launched a petition to create a National Firearms Register to help close dangerous loopholes and better protect public safety.
Can you sign and share?
▶️ theaus.in/firearm_regi...
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“Sovereign Citizens” are dangerous to democracy & physically dangerous to citizens in democratic nations
Giving their conspiracies a platform to wrap their delusions in a false equivalence to free speech is disgraceful
The Americanisation of Australia must end before more Aussies needlessly suffer
Giving their conspiracies a platform to wrap their delusions in a false equivalence to free speech is disgraceful
The Americanisation of Australia must end before more Aussies needlessly suffer
August 26, 2025 at 9:37 AM
“Sovereign Citizens” are dangerous to democracy & physically dangerous to citizens in democratic nations
Giving their conspiracies a platform to wrap their delusions in a false equivalence to free speech is disgraceful
The Americanisation of Australia must end before more Aussies needlessly suffer
Giving their conspiracies a platform to wrap their delusions in a false equivalence to free speech is disgraceful
The Americanisation of Australia must end before more Aussies needlessly suffer
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Good questioning involves asking clear, focused, and purposeful questions that encourage deeper thinking and understanding. @theage
June 23, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Good questioning involves asking clear, focused, and purposeful questions that encourage deeper thinking and understanding. @theage
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Who is the enemy? Which country is preparing to invade us? We keep being told the world has become more threatening. There are more wars at present, how do they threaten us? #auspol #defence
Trump wants us to spend a bomb on defence. We should think twice
While I was on holiday, I had a kind of nightmare: suddenly, every rich country in the world — including us — is vowing to spend many billions more on defence each year. This will cost taxpayers an absolute bomb. Why exactly are we doing this?
johnmenadue.com
July 16, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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This week’s column : my last on Australian politics www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...
After 45 years watching politics, I’m signing off with a final wish
Putting aside the Coalition, let's focus on the new government: the one that has won an exceptionally large number of seats and which is probably already doing stuff that's affecting us voters.
www.abc.net.au
May 30, 2025 at 11:18 PM
This week’s column : my last on Australian politics www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...
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Australia’s least trusted brands 👎
May 30, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Australia’s least trusted brands 👎
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‘much reporting since the election has been on the future of the Coalition as if it really, really mattered…instead of dismissing the brawling as the death throes of what are now effectively a group of small fringe parties’ #auspol #LNPSplits #AusVotes25 www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...
Self-induced idiocy has exposed the Coalition for the fractured beast it is
But the last election campaign exposed the true decline in the quality and capacity of the parliamentary Coalition — as well as its underlying party machines — to do politics and to do policy in a way...
www.abc.net.au
May 25, 2025 at 12:35 AM
‘much reporting since the election has been on the future of the Coalition as if it really, really mattered…instead of dismissing the brawling as the death throes of what are now effectively a group of small fringe parties’ #auspol #LNPSplits #AusVotes25 www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...
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This right here👇🏼🔥👇🏼
May 21, 2025 at 3:14 AM
This right here👇🏼🔥👇🏼
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Excellent piece by Margaret Simons on the changed media landscape. #auspol
As Australia’s election result reminds us, News Corp no longer has the power to sway voters | Margaret Simons
The declining power of the Murdoch press is part of the wider story of the waning influence of mainstream media
www.theguardian.com
May 5, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Excellent piece by Margaret Simons on the changed media landscape. #auspol
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Gina was ignored.
Rupert and Lachlan were ignored.
Preferencing One Nation backfired.
The religious right were sat back down in their pews.
Negativity was rejected.
Australians don’t like being treated like mugs.
Rupert and Lachlan were ignored.
Preferencing One Nation backfired.
The religious right were sat back down in their pews.
Negativity was rejected.
Australians don’t like being treated like mugs.
May 4, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Gina was ignored.
Rupert and Lachlan were ignored.
Preferencing One Nation backfired.
The religious right were sat back down in their pews.
Negativity was rejected.
Australians don’t like being treated like mugs.
Rupert and Lachlan were ignored.
Preferencing One Nation backfired.
The religious right were sat back down in their pews.
Negativity was rejected.
Australians don’t like being treated like mugs.
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Congratulations to the PM and the ALP on an historic election win over the weekend. A big moment for the country. Here’s to progress, fairness, and a bit more support for the folks who tell our stories through the arts.
@albomp.bsky.social
@albomp.bsky.social
May 4, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Congratulations to the PM and the ALP on an historic election win over the weekend. A big moment for the country. Here’s to progress, fairness, and a bit more support for the folks who tell our stories through the arts.
@albomp.bsky.social
@albomp.bsky.social
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April 29, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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I’M NOT watching Insiders.
But from what I’m reading here, how the fuck can Dutton and the LNP cry and whinge about “ABC bias”??
Yes there is ABC bias.
Against Labor…..not the LNP!!!!!
But from what I’m reading here, how the fuck can Dutton and the LNP cry and whinge about “ABC bias”??
Yes there is ABC bias.
Against Labor…..not the LNP!!!!!
April 26, 2025 at 11:41 PM
I’M NOT watching Insiders.
But from what I’m reading here, how the fuck can Dutton and the LNP cry and whinge about “ABC bias”??
Yes there is ABC bias.
Against Labor…..not the LNP!!!!!
But from what I’m reading here, how the fuck can Dutton and the LNP cry and whinge about “ABC bias”??
Yes there is ABC bias.
Against Labor…..not the LNP!!!!!
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It’s not just Dutton who is not ready to govern - it’s his whole miserable team
April 26, 2025 at 11:49 PM
It’s not just Dutton who is not ready to govern - it’s his whole miserable team
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ICYMI- yesterday's #Papalfuneral cartoon for @australia.theguardian.com
April 27, 2025 at 12:02 AM
ICYMI- yesterday's #Papalfuneral cartoon for @australia.theguardian.com
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The Extreme Weather Report, April 24, 2025:
This is your weather at 1.5°C/2.7°F of global warming from burning oil, gas, and coal. #extremeweather #weathersky #wx #news
This is your weather at 1.5°C/2.7°F of global warming from burning oil, gas, and coal. #extremeweather #weathersky #wx #news
April 24, 2025 at 6:51 PM
The Extreme Weather Report, April 24, 2025:
This is your weather at 1.5°C/2.7°F of global warming from burning oil, gas, and coal. #extremeweather #weathersky #wx #news
This is your weather at 1.5°C/2.7°F of global warming from burning oil, gas, and coal. #extremeweather #weathersky #wx #news