Rita Starpattern
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If Trump does take up Albo's invite to visit Australia it will be sheer comedy and chaos.
I'm not against the idea on entertainment value alone.
#auspol
I'm not against the idea on entertainment value alone.
#auspol
October 20, 2025 at 8:00 PM
If Trump does take up Albo's invite to visit Australia it will be sheer comedy and chaos.
I'm not against the idea on entertainment value alone.
#auspol
I'm not against the idea on entertainment value alone.
#auspol
I understand Albo has to play the game with Trump. Desperately try to get away from White House unscathed. But as long as everyone understands that any deal with US at this point is not worth the paper it's written on.
#auspol
#auspol
October 20, 2025 at 7:56 PM
I understand Albo has to play the game with Trump. Desperately try to get away from White House unscathed. But as long as everyone understands that any deal with US at this point is not worth the paper it's written on.
#auspol
#auspol
New England voters will need someone to read this for them. They are obviously all thick as a plank.
Barnaby Joyce decision to leave Nationals heightens speculation about One Nation move
Barnaby Joyce decision to leave Nationals heightens speculation about One Nation move
MP tells supporters he won’t run for his seat of New England at next election and is ‘free to now consider all options’
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Barnaby Joyce has told supporters he intends to quit the Nationals, won’t run for his seat of New England at the next election, and is “free to now consider all options” – heightening speculation he may switch parties in parliament.
It comes one day after Coalition figures said the former Nationals leader was actively considering defecting to One Nation. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 18, 2025 at 2:19 AM
New England voters will need someone to read this for them. They are obviously all thick as a plank.
Have I got this right. The mine has never paid corporate tax. It's manipulating it's sale price to reduce royalties. It has a made a confidential deal with QLD LNP to delay any royalty payments.
FFS
FFS
Adani denies claims it sold ‘below-market coal’ leading to Queensland missing out on hundreds of millions in royalties
Adani denies claims it sold ‘below-market coal’ leading to Queensland missing out on hundreds of millions in royalties
Adani has strongly rejected the Australia Institute’s findings, including that customers paid an average of $102 a tonne in 2022-23
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Adani has consistently sold coal from its Queensland mine far below market rates, according to claims made in new analysis, potentially reducing the royalties owed to the state government by hundreds of millions of dollars.
Research director at The Australia Institute, Rod Campbell, calculated that Adani sold thermal coal from its Carmichael mine at an average of just over $A100 a tonne during the 2023 to 2025 financial years – its first three full years of operation. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 15, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Have I got this right. The mine has never paid corporate tax. It's manipulating it's sale price to reduce royalties. It has a made a confidential deal with QLD LNP to delay any royalty payments.
FFS
FFS
Church Minister - tick
Former ACT attorney-general Gordon Ramsay has faced the ACT Magistrates Court, charged with grooming a teenage boy.
Breaking: Former ACT politician charged with grooming teen
Former ACT attorney-general Gordon Ramsay has faced the ACT Magistrates Court, charged with grooming a teenage boy.
www.abc.net.au
October 9, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Church Minister - tick
" everything in our power"
The lip service continues.
The lip service continues.
October 6, 2025 at 9:08 PM
" everything in our power"
The lip service continues.
The lip service continues.
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Yes. I think we were manipulated during the Voice referendum. We recognise and have no respect for the media #bias about #Israel. In the midst of such brutal #racism and #xenophobia by #politicians and #media we might have woken up. #auspol
AU. At demonstrations about the genocide in Gaza, it has been encouraging to see that speakers have acknowledged the traditional owners of unceded sovereign lands.
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10...
Like Australia's First People, Palestinians too come with Palestine.
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10...
Like Australia's First People, Palestinians too come with Palestine.
October 5, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Yes. I think we were manipulated during the Voice referendum. We recognise and have no respect for the media #bias about #Israel. In the midst of such brutal #racism and #xenophobia by #politicians and #media we might have woken up. #auspol
Can I now go back to thinking The Jimmy Kimmel show is stale.
Too soon ?
Too soon ?
September 24, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Can I now go back to thinking The Jimmy Kimmel show is stale.
Too soon ?
Too soon ?
Oh the new NSW Police Commissioner. That bloke who passed out pissed at the Goulburn Workers Club. Later abusing paramedics.
Nice symmetry with QLD Premier who wants to re-crimilise public drunkenness. Something that is fully known to mostly target Indigenous people.
#auspol
Nice symmetry with QLD Premier who wants to re-crimilise public drunkenness. Something that is fully known to mostly target Indigenous people.
#auspol
September 23, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Oh the new NSW Police Commissioner. That bloke who passed out pissed at the Goulburn Workers Club. Later abusing paramedics.
Nice symmetry with QLD Premier who wants to re-crimilise public drunkenness. Something that is fully known to mostly target Indigenous people.
#auspol
Nice symmetry with QLD Premier who wants to re-crimilise public drunkenness. Something that is fully known to mostly target Indigenous people.
#auspol
I felt a bit left out because Tylenol isn't a thing in Australia. But happy to say it's basically just Panadol. Which Australian's absolutely guzzle by the truckload.
September 23, 2025 at 11:25 AM
I felt a bit left out because Tylenol isn't a thing in Australia. But happy to say it's basically just Panadol. Which Australian's absolutely guzzle by the truckload.
He certainly has a type. Age negotiable.
NEW: Trump appoints Lindsay Halligan, a lawyer with no prosecutorial experience, as temporary U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia after Erik Seibert was forced out of the post last week amid pressure to indict New York Attorney General Letitia James.
With Appointment of Loyalist as Top Virginia Prosecutor, Trump’s Dangerous Revenge Campaign Hits ‘New Low’
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
September 23, 2025 at 8:17 AM
He certainly has a type. Age negotiable.
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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.
Geez this is just for minor freak Charlie Kirk. Imagine when Dear Leader kicks the bucket.
September 22, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Geez this is just for minor freak Charlie Kirk. Imagine when Dear Leader kicks the bucket.
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Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:
September 18, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:
Kimmel is worth 50 million. He can take the hit. Gets to keep his integrity and be on the right side of history. So to speak.
September 17, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Kimmel is worth 50 million. He can take the hit. Gets to keep his integrity and be on the right side of history. So to speak.
Jesus christ. Epsteins 50th Birthday book.
September 16, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Jesus christ. Epsteins 50th Birthday book.
Cheer up. As the last few days have shown us. Life is not all doom and gloom.
September 12, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Cheer up. As the last few days have shown us. Life is not all doom and gloom.
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Wtf
When news broke that a suspect had been identified in the Charlie Kirk case, an X user asked Grok to supply an image of the suspect.
Grok replied with an AI-generated photo of a young Black man.
(Kirk’s alleged killer, Tyler Robinson, is a white man.)
When news broke that a suspect had been identified in the Charlie Kirk case, an X user asked Grok to supply an image of the suspect.
Grok replied with an AI-generated photo of a young Black man.
(Kirk’s alleged killer, Tyler Robinson, is a white man.)
September 12, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Wtf
When news broke that a suspect had been identified in the Charlie Kirk case, an X user asked Grok to supply an image of the suspect.
Grok replied with an AI-generated photo of a young Black man.
(Kirk’s alleged killer, Tyler Robinson, is a white man.)
When news broke that a suspect had been identified in the Charlie Kirk case, an X user asked Grok to supply an image of the suspect.
Grok replied with an AI-generated photo of a young Black man.
(Kirk’s alleged killer, Tyler Robinson, is a white man.)
The FBI Charlie Kirk investigation has reached level two stage
- Grassy knoll, engraved bullets.
- Grassy knoll, engraved bullets.
September 12, 2025 at 12:19 AM
The FBI Charlie Kirk investigation has reached level two stage
- Grassy knoll, engraved bullets.
- Grassy knoll, engraved bullets.
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Imagine scolding people laughing at the 'it's good to die from gun violence because it gives us unfettered access to guns' guy getting got by a gun under a sign that says prove me wrong like I'm sorry grow up
September 10, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Imagine scolding people laughing at the 'it's good to die from gun violence because it gives us unfettered access to guns' guy getting got by a gun under a sign that says prove me wrong like I'm sorry grow up