David Muir AM chair Clem Jones Trust
@muirdavid.bsky.social
Advocate for philanthropy including medical research and constitutional law reform in Australia including local government recognition, four year fixed parliamentary terms in Federal parliament and an Australian Republic. Advocate for VAD.
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A great democratic feature of SA law (s 16B of the Parliamentary Committees Act) is that Parliament MUST, on presentation of a petition of 10,000 signatures, conduct an inquiry in relation to the petition’s ask. 👍👍👍 #democracy #auspol #saparli
Thousands of signatures petitioning for Hahndorf truck inquiry call - News | InDaily, Inside South Australia
A petition to see heavy vehicles and trucks removed from Adelaide Hills roads has garnered more than 10,000 signatures.
www.indailysa.com.au
November 13, 2025 at 9:12 PM
A great democratic feature of SA law (s 16B of the Parliamentary Committees Act) is that Parliament MUST, on presentation of a petition of 10,000 signatures, conduct an inquiry in relation to the petition’s ask. 👍👍👍 #democracy #auspol #saparli
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Barton Deakin Kingston went to London in 1899 to gain approval for 6 States to federate & create #Australia. Queen Victoria insisted on having reserve power to sack an Australian PM who was not 'appropriate'. Kerr used that power to dismiss #Whitlam after advising Queen Elizabeth of his intention.
November 10, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Barton Deakin Kingston went to London in 1899 to gain approval for 6 States to federate & create #Australia. Queen Victoria insisted on having reserve power to sack an Australian PM who was not 'appropriate'. Kerr used that power to dismiss #Whitlam after advising Queen Elizabeth of his intention.
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At #Parliament in Canberra. Have two days of intensive meetings on my 127th visit since 1958.
October 27, 2025 at 10:18 AM
At #Parliament in Canberra. Have two days of intensive meetings on my 127th visit since 1958.
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My thanks to all who signed my Petition to #Parliament seeking referendum to add preamble to #constitution saying what it means to be Australian. It now goes to Ministry & so my task is to enlist help of MP's in encouraging @albomp.bsky.social to hold referendum at time of #Election 2028.
October 23, 2025 at 10:06 AM
My thanks to all who signed my Petition to #Parliament seeking referendum to add preamble to #constitution saying what it means to be Australian. It now goes to Ministry & so my task is to enlist help of MP's in encouraging @albomp.bsky.social to hold referendum at time of #Election 2028.
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An extraordinary record of service to the nation @everaldatlarge.bsky.social
At #Parliament in Canberra next week for my 127th visit since meeting Robert Menzies 69 years ago. Have meeting with Government plus all other Parties and Independents re #GreenlinkRailway and my Petition to Parliament re Preamble to #Constitution. Democracy works in Australia.
October 24, 2025 at 9:56 PM
An extraordinary record of service to the nation @everaldatlarge.bsky.social
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Welcome to #SanaeTakaichi as new PM of #Japan. She has tough job ahead in male dominated nation but we should all wish her well as Japan changes its leaders fat too often.
Japan Has a New Leader, and She’s a Heavy Metal Drummer www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/w...
Japan Has a New Leader, and She’s a Heavy Metal Drummer www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/w...
Japan Has a New Leader, and She’s a Heavy Metal Drummer
www.nytimes.com
October 21, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Welcome to #SanaeTakaichi as new PM of #Japan. She has tough job ahead in male dominated nation but we should all wish her well as Japan changes its leaders fat too often.
Japan Has a New Leader, and She’s a Heavy Metal Drummer www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/w...
Japan Has a New Leader, and She’s a Heavy Metal Drummer www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/w...
Today is the last day to participate in this conversation about our Australian Constitution by signing this petition to ensure the preamble goes before a parliamentary committee. #auspol2025 #preamble #petition
I have made a Petition EN8147 to #Parliament seeking referendum to add preamble to #Constitution stating values ethics beliefs of #Australia as a nation. Deadline for signatures of support is midnight tonight. Please click read sign NOW
www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/...
www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/...
October 21, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Today is the last day to participate in this conversation about our Australian Constitution by signing this petition to ensure the preamble goes before a parliamentary committee. #auspol2025 #preamble #petition
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Yesterday, in reply to a question about #FOI, @albomp.bsky.social went out of his way to take a swipe at me. His words were unbecoming of a PM, but I’m glad my #transparency efforts are getting under his skin. It shows our anti-secrecy campaign is having an impact. #auspol
October 9, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Yesterday, in reply to a question about #FOI, @albomp.bsky.social went out of his way to take a swipe at me. His words were unbecoming of a PM, but I’m glad my #transparency efforts are getting under his skin. It shows our anti-secrecy campaign is having an impact. #auspol
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Fundamentalist #Christians believe that #God has preordained all that happens in their lives. Am wondering how it was that God preordained that Hitler would kill 5 million Jews.
October 10, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Fundamentalist #Christians believe that #God has preordained all that happens in their lives. Am wondering how it was that God preordained that Hitler would kill 5 million Jews.
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White House team are incapable of reading rules for #NobelPeacePrize. Nominations close on 1 February every year. On that date this year #Trump had been President for only 2 weeks.
White House slams Trump's Nobel snub www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/world/2...
White House slams Trump's Nobel snub www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/world/2...
White House blasts Trump snub over Nobel peace prize
Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, dedicating it to "the suffering people of Venezuela" and the US president.
www.thenewdaily.com.au
October 10, 2025 at 8:37 PM
White House team are incapable of reading rules for #NobelPeacePrize. Nominations close on 1 February every year. On that date this year #Trump had been President for only 2 weeks.
White House slams Trump's Nobel snub www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/world/2...
White House slams Trump's Nobel snub www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/world/2...
This is the best option of keeping constitutional conversation alive in Australia following the failure of @albomp.bsky.social to take any action for future constitutional change in Australia. We can’t afford to be complacent or apathetic about our nation’s future. #australia #future #vision
SIGN PETITION TODAY FOR REFERENDUM ON PREAMBLE TO OUR CONSTITUTION THAT OUTLINES WHAT IT MEANS TO BE AUSTRALIAN. everaldcompton.com/2025/04/28/a...
SIGN PETITION TODAY FOR REFERENDUM ON PREAMBLE TO OUR CONSTITUTION THAT OUTLINES WHAT IT MEANS TO BE AUSTRALIAN. - Everald Compton
https://www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/petition/EN8147 With significant help from three eminent Australians, Paul de Jersey, David Muir and Anthony Lynham, I have drafted a Preamble I believe our Founding...
everaldcompton.com
September 30, 2025 at 1:32 AM
This is the best option of keeping constitutional conversation alive in Australia following the failure of @albomp.bsky.social to take any action for future constitutional change in Australia. We can’t afford to be complacent or apathetic about our nation’s future. #australia #future #vision
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Spot on David. I have written the Preamble because I have not yet met anyone who can tell me what it means to be an Australian.
This preamble could lead to the first constitutional change since the successful referenda of 1977. It will mean we can answer the question about what it means to be an Australian. #preamble #constitution #Australia
I have made petition to Australian #Parliament seeking #Referendum to add Preamble to #Constitution setting out our national values. Need your support. Please click below, read preamble & sign. www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/.... Need at least 1000 signatures covering all States. Thanks for your help.
September 26, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Spot on David. I have written the Preamble because I have not yet met anyone who can tell me what it means to be an Australian.
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Alfred Deakin tried to have #Preamble put in Australian #Constitution but other Founding Fathers were not interested. They wanted to be known as British Christians. We can now fix it & let world know that Australians are totally different to #Trump. Click on blue link below to read and sign.
I have made petition to Australian #Parliament seeking #Referendum to add Preamble to #Constitution setting out our national values. Need your support. Please click below, read preamble & sign. www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/.... Need at least 1000 signatures covering all States. Thanks for your help.
e-petitions
e-petitions
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September 26, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Alfred Deakin tried to have #Preamble put in Australian #Constitution but other Founding Fathers were not interested. They wanted to be known as British Christians. We can now fix it & let world know that Australians are totally different to #Trump. Click on blue link below to read and sign.
This preamble could lead to the first constitutional change since the successful referenda of 1977. It will mean we can answer the question about what it means to be an Australian. #preamble #constitution #Australia
I have made petition to Australian #Parliament seeking #Referendum to add Preamble to #Constitution setting out our national values. Need your support. Please click below, read preamble & sign. www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/.... Need at least 1000 signatures covering all States. Thanks for your help.
e-petitions
e-petitions
www.aph.gov.au
September 26, 2025 at 5:49 AM
This preamble could lead to the first constitutional change since the successful referenda of 1977. It will mean we can answer the question about what it means to be an Australian. #preamble #constitution #Australia
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Well done to the ABC for publishing this statement on Richard Boyle. 👏👏👏 #auspol www.abc.net.au/about/media-...
ABC statement on Richard Boyle - About the ABC
The ABC welcomes today’s decision not to convict whistleblower Richard Boyle, although his case again highlights the need for whistleblower protections to be strengthened.
www.abc.net.au
August 28, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Well done to the ABC for publishing this statement on Richard Boyle. 👏👏👏 #auspol www.abc.net.au/about/media-...
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Today’s outcome is a relief, but there was little justice in the eight year persecution of Richard Boyle, a hero who everyone (including the judge) accepted was motivated by public interest. #auspol
Whistleblower Richard Boyle avoids conviction and jail after revealing tax office’s unethical behaviour
‘Blowing the whistle can be a tough gig,’ Adelaide judge says, while Rex Patrick declares Boyle ‘a hero’ for speaking out in 2018
www.theguardian.com
August 28, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Today’s outcome is a relief, but there was little justice in the eight year persecution of Richard Boyle, a hero who everyone (including the judge) accepted was motivated by public interest. #auspol
Keys to the City of Brisbane and naming of a BCC metro bus marked the 100 year birthday for the remarkable Sister Angela Mary Doyle in Brisbane today.
August 23, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Keys to the City of Brisbane and naming of a BCC metro bus marked the 100 year birthday for the remarkable Sister Angela Mary Doyle in Brisbane today.
This was my last full Foodbank Queensland board meeting this week following my first FBQ board meeting 30 years ago with founding directors Clem Jones and Ian Brusasco. FBQ now provides15 million kilos of food annually to the Qld community. #food #hunger #community #Queensland
August 23, 2025 at 11:30 AM
This was my last full Foodbank Queensland board meeting this week following my first FBQ board meeting 30 years ago with founding directors Clem Jones and Ian Brusasco. FBQ now provides15 million kilos of food annually to the Qld community. #food #hunger #community #Queensland
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Enjoy today's #podcast OLD EVERALD AND YOUNG JAMES TALK POLITICS. I get angry that this week's Roundtable in Canberra totally ignored economic potential of #Old Aussies. We do not want to be a burden on #Young Aussies but are penalised when we try to contribute. We are a wasted asset.
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@everaldatlarge.bsky.social and i on this week's show highlight albo for standing up to netanyahu as well as the takeaways from the productivity summit... listen in and have your say!!
#auspol #auspol25
@everaldatlarge.bsky.social and i on this week's show highlight albo for standing up to netanyahu as well as the takeaways from the productivity summit... listen in and have your say!!
#auspol #auspol25
Netanyahu's War of the Words (S5E30)
Old Everald and Young James talk Politics · Episode
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August 23, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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80 years ago today I was at South Brisbane Railway Station when station master announced #Japan had surrendered & #WorldWarTwo was over. He led us all in singing national anthem. I paused to remember family & friends who had been killed. At age 13 I was sure there would be no more wars. Such is life
August 14, 2025 at 11:55 PM
80 years ago today I was at South Brisbane Railway Station when station master announced #Japan had surrendered & #WorldWarTwo was over. He led us all in singing national anthem. I paused to remember family & friends who had been killed. At age 13 I was sure there would be no more wars. Such is life
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Advance is lobby group for Christian Right in #politics & aims to take over #Liberals & #Nationals to ensure election candidates are 'born again' #Christians in mould of Scott Morrison.
Advance an ‘insidious threat’ to Liberals www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politic... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au
Advance an ‘insidious threat’ to Liberals www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politic... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au
Advance an ‘insidious threat’ to Liberals
As lobby group Advance campaigns against the Coalition on net zero, Liberals accept the debate has become ‘a proxy battle for the future of the Liberal Party and control of the Liberal Party’.
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
August 15, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Advance is lobby group for Christian Right in #politics & aims to take over #Liberals & #Nationals to ensure election candidates are 'born again' #Christians in mould of Scott Morrison.
Advance an ‘insidious threat’ to Liberals www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politic... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au
Advance an ‘insidious threat’ to Liberals www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politic... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au
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Congratulations to #AnthonyAlbanese. Australia has done okay in #Trump war on #tariffs. 10% is as lenient as any nation has achieved. Main victims are Americans themselves who will pay inflationary prices.
Trump reveals Australia's fate on tariffs www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/world/u...
Trump reveals Australia's fate on tariffs www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/world/u...
Australia's tariff fate revealed in Trump announcement
Australia will be spared higher tariffs after the Trump administration announced new levies for dozens of countries.
www.thenewdaily.com.au
August 1, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Congratulations to #AnthonyAlbanese. Australia has done okay in #Trump war on #tariffs. 10% is as lenient as any nation has achieved. Main victims are Americans themselves who will pay inflationary prices.
Trump reveals Australia's fate on tariffs www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/world/u...
Trump reveals Australia's fate on tariffs www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/world/u...
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The Howard Govt spied on Timor in 2004 during purported ‘good faith’ negotiations. This is evidenced in formal Australian and Timorese Govt court docs. Everyone knows! But our Govt refuses to acknowledge this wrongdoing. I’m now challenging this foolish secrecy in the ART. #auspol
August 10, 2025 at 8:15 AM
The Howard Govt spied on Timor in 2004 during purported ‘good faith’ negotiations. This is evidenced in formal Australian and Timorese Govt court docs. Everyone knows! But our Govt refuses to acknowledge this wrongdoing. I’m now challenging this foolish secrecy in the ART. #auspol