Pam Cash
@pamcash.bsky.social
Interested observer of progressive politics, feminist, atheist, reader
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cervical cancer cases diagnosed in Australian women aged under 25 in
2021 - the first time since records began in 1982](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4w5w2dprfoupeib3bmqktfiz/bafkreihtms5huzsjggqv2wn2k4zw5puie677bielmpircz43khfibkpjae@jpeg)
November 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Kerry O’Brien says the fact the Teals are around shows that “more people are thinking about their vote”
“I mean, that didn’t happen by accident. That’s people actually stopping to think” #auspol
“I mean, that didn’t happen by accident. That’s people actually stopping to think” #auspol
November 11, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Kerry O’Brien says the fact the Teals are around shows that “more people are thinking about their vote”
“I mean, that didn’t happen by accident. That’s people actually stopping to think” #auspol
“I mean, that didn’t happen by accident. That’s people actually stopping to think” #auspol
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Jamie Melham deserves to be celebrated without caveats, without innuendo, without being reduced to a sexual object, writes Rita Nasr.
womensagenda.com.au/latest/the-o...
womensagenda.com.au/latest/the-o...
The online misogyny that followed Jamie Melham's historic Melbourne Cup win
Jamie Melham deserves to be celebrated without caveats, without innuendo, without being reduced to a sexual object.
womensagenda.com.au
November 6, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Jamie Melham deserves to be celebrated without caveats, without innuendo, without being reduced to a sexual object, writes Rita Nasr.
womensagenda.com.au/latest/the-o...
womensagenda.com.au/latest/the-o...
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"I had actually been diagnosed with malnutrition and scurvy.
I know the outcome of not buying the things I need for my health, but I also know that sometimes I don't have a choice" - @artistaffame.bsky.social
Watch the full segment here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6Xc...
I know the outcome of not buying the things I need for my health, but I also know that sometimes I don't have a choice" - @artistaffame.bsky.social
Watch the full segment here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6Xc...
October 29, 2025 at 10:03 PM
"I had actually been diagnosed with malnutrition and scurvy.
I know the outcome of not buying the things I need for my health, but I also know that sometimes I don't have a choice" - @artistaffame.bsky.social
Watch the full segment here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6Xc...
I know the outcome of not buying the things I need for my health, but I also know that sometimes I don't have a choice" - @artistaffame.bsky.social
Watch the full segment here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6Xc...
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Release the Epstien Files...
October 25, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Release the Epstien Files...
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Sometimes defective, maybe unlawful: what can be done about Australia’s crisis-ridden welfare system?
Sometimes defective, maybe unlawful: what can be done about Australia’s crisis-ridden welfare system?
Run by multiple departments and hundreds of private companies, advocates warn errors will continue to rock a system ‘in crisis’
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It’s a system designed to help Australians who most need it. Yet its created continuous scandals, with parts of it paused because the government can’t say if it’s operating legally.
Hundreds and thousands of Centrelink clients are affected by its frequent problems, being charged or overpaying debts incorrectly calculated as another class action is launched. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 24, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Sometimes defective, maybe unlawful: what can be done about Australia’s crisis-ridden welfare system?
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We really need a campaign to explain how negative gearing and capital gains work, how much they cost taxpayers and up to date statistics on the amount of properties owned by individuals, trusts etc.
Currently they’re making it easier to blame an immigrant than understand neoliberal taxation policy.
Currently they’re making it easier to blame an immigrant than understand neoliberal taxation policy.
October 25, 2025 at 12:31 AM
We really need a campaign to explain how negative gearing and capital gains work, how much they cost taxpayers and up to date statistics on the amount of properties owned by individuals, trusts etc.
Currently they’re making it easier to blame an immigrant than understand neoliberal taxation policy.
Currently they’re making it easier to blame an immigrant than understand neoliberal taxation policy.
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🚨 Mayor Brandon Johnson of Chicago answers this question brilliantly. 1/2
October 13, 2025 at 3:51 AM
🚨 Mayor Brandon Johnson of Chicago answers this question brilliantly. 1/2
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Imagine kicking the former national rugby captain out of your sports club instead of the gambling lobby.
To paraphrase Groucho Marx, who'd want to belong to a club that would accept Responsible Wagering Australia as one of its sponsors?
To paraphrase Groucho Marx, who'd want to belong to a club that would accept Responsible Wagering Australia as one of its sponsors?
Making his point for him -- just asking about the power of the gambling lobby gets Senator David Pocock booted from sports club the Prime Minister heads. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Former Wallabies star David Pocock booted from parliamentary sports club
Exclusive: Senator accused of bringing social club into disrepute after raising concerns about its association with betting lobby
www.theguardian.com
October 10, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Imagine kicking the former national rugby captain out of your sports club instead of the gambling lobby.
To paraphrase Groucho Marx, who'd want to belong to a club that would accept Responsible Wagering Australia as one of its sponsors?
To paraphrase Groucho Marx, who'd want to belong to a club that would accept Responsible Wagering Australia as one of its sponsors?
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A big four consultancy firm has used AI in a report that had several errors, and charged the Australian taxpayer with the bill. I am livid.
October 7, 2025 at 1:59 AM
A big four consultancy firm has used AI in a report that had several errors, and charged the Australian taxpayer with the bill. I am livid.
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This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.
October 3, 2025 at 11:15 AM
This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.
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After watching SBS's "The People vs RoboDebt", you have wonder why Tudge, Roberts, Porter & Morrison aren't in jail. Lives lost, families destroyed, $ billions wasted, whistleblowers demonised ... yet these guys just moved on to their next adventure. More: www.sbs.com.au/.../tv-serie... #auspol
September 25, 2025 at 1:05 AM
After watching SBS's "The People vs RoboDebt", you have wonder why Tudge, Roberts, Porter & Morrison aren't in jail. Lives lost, families destroyed, $ billions wasted, whistleblowers demonised ... yet these guys just moved on to their next adventure. More: www.sbs.com.au/.../tv-serie... #auspol
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Just 2 gun rights advocates sitting behind a wall of bulletproof glass while enjoying a memorial for a gun rights advocate who got murdered by a gun.
September 21, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Just 2 gun rights advocates sitting behind a wall of bulletproof glass while enjoying a memorial for a gun rights advocate who got murdered by a gun.
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Calling Black Children this….
UNACCEPTABLE
UNACCEPTABLE
September 6, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Calling Black Children this….
UNACCEPTABLE
UNACCEPTABLE
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Red line.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
September 3, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Red line.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
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Pritzker: "I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal ... I refuse to fall into the pundit trap that demands we sacrifice vital constitutional rights if it's being done in the fake guise of fighting crime."
September 2, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Pritzker: "I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal ... I refuse to fall into the pundit trap that demands we sacrifice vital constitutional rights if it's being done in the fake guise of fighting crime."
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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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We now have an economy subject to the whims and desires of one person, unaccountable to anyone else.
Call it what it is: a dictatorship.
Call it what it is: a dictatorship.
August 25, 2025 at 11:01 PM
We now have an economy subject to the whims and desires of one person, unaccountable to anyone else.
Call it what it is: a dictatorship.
Call it what it is: a dictatorship.
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Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
August 25, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
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It’s 2yrs since the Robodebt Royal Commission & we are yet to see the Fed Gov legislate to stop it happening again. Well, I’ve now done the work for them & urge the Gov to come to the table on these reforms. We cannot allow a repeat of this shameful part of Aus history #auspol
August 25, 2025 at 4:07 AM
It’s 2yrs since the Robodebt Royal Commission & we are yet to see the Fed Gov legislate to stop it happening again. Well, I’ve now done the work for them & urge the Gov to come to the table on these reforms. We cannot allow a repeat of this shameful part of Aus history #auspol
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ICYMI- yesterday's Netanyahu v Albanese cartoon for @australia.theguardian.com
August 21, 2025 at 11:50 PM
ICYMI- yesterday's Netanyahu v Albanese cartoon for @australia.theguardian.com
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I for one am concerned.
August 21, 2025 at 12:16 AM
I for one am concerned.
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Legends
Former Irish President Mary Robinson and former New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark went to the Rafah border crossing to denounce Israel’s blockade and show solidarity with the Palestinian people. 👏👏👏👏👏💙
August 15, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Legends
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The first policy pronouncement of the Coalition was to ‘un-recognise’ Palestine when in government (at best six years away) and to run around claiming Hamas is celebrating Albanese. And this completely irrelevant intervention has been taken seriously by media
www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...
www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...
Ley’s need to appease the far-right further condemns the Coalition
Sussan Ley’s pronouncement on Palestine and a need to appease the far-right of her party is dragging the Coalition into the political abyss.
www.thenewdaily.com.au
August 13, 2025 at 10:00 PM
The first policy pronouncement of the Coalition was to ‘un-recognise’ Palestine when in government (at best six years away) and to run around claiming Hamas is celebrating Albanese. And this completely irrelevant intervention has been taken seriously by media
www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...
www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...
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Great to see a number of Jewish organizations behind this.
Helps to bust the mythology,
perpetrated by most mainstream media,
that Zionist groups 'represent' the Jewish community in Australia. #GazaGenocide #auspol
Helps to bust the mythology,
perpetrated by most mainstream media,
that Zionist groups 'represent' the Jewish community in Australia. #GazaGenocide #auspol
A full-page letter, signed by multiple Muslim, Jewish & Christian organisations, appeared in major Australian newspapers today. Step up and lead from the front
August 13, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Great to see a number of Jewish organizations behind this.
Helps to bust the mythology,
perpetrated by most mainstream media,
that Zionist groups 'represent' the Jewish community in Australia. #GazaGenocide #auspol
Helps to bust the mythology,
perpetrated by most mainstream media,
that Zionist groups 'represent' the Jewish community in Australia. #GazaGenocide #auspol