Sally Rugg
@sallyrugg.bsky.social
Campaign strategist currently working in human rights. Interested in politics, policy, current affairs and social change. Emerging green thumb. Australia’s 11th favourite lesbian.
It’s actually sick that a tiny group of foul white supremacists have managed to propel Welcome to Country onto the election agenda because so much of the media immediately legitimised their grievance. They’ll be rubbing their hands in absolute GLEE at the way media took the bait.
April 27, 2025 at 10:05 PM
It’s actually sick that a tiny group of foul white supremacists have managed to propel Welcome to Country onto the election agenda because so much of the media immediately legitimised their grievance. They’ll be rubbing their hands in absolute GLEE at the way media took the bait.
Aaaand he’s dropped it with a grovelling apology
Dutton has seriously misread the room with this crackdown on work from home.
People who think public servants are slack
(incorrect!) prob already vote coalition.
The only swing voters whose vote will be influenced by this policy are ppl who work from home, or ppl whose partners/loved ones wfh.
People who think public servants are slack
(incorrect!) prob already vote coalition.
The only swing voters whose vote will be influenced by this policy are ppl who work from home, or ppl whose partners/loved ones wfh.
April 7, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Aaaand he’s dropped it with a grovelling apology
Here’s my bold #auspol election prediction:
Coalition primary vote will surge but the swing will be localised, Labor wins majority gov by one seat but loses the majority during the term, falling to minority gov.
Coalition primary vote will surge but the swing will be localised, Labor wins majority gov by one seat but loses the majority during the term, falling to minority gov.
March 28, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Here’s my bold #auspol election prediction:
Coalition primary vote will surge but the swing will be localised, Labor wins majority gov by one seat but loses the majority during the term, falling to minority gov.
Coalition primary vote will surge but the swing will be localised, Labor wins majority gov by one seat but loses the majority during the term, falling to minority gov.
A police officer getting off lightly for killing someone?
Colour me shocked!
Colour me shocked!
March 28, 2025 at 12:10 AM
A police officer getting off lightly for killing someone?
Colour me shocked!
Colour me shocked!
So… do we think that the Minister for Defence Richard Marles himself knows what this meme on his page is referencing or
March 25, 2025 at 10:49 AM
So… do we think that the Minister for Defence Richard Marles himself knows what this meme on his page is referencing or
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Missing from #budget2025 is much-needed funding for Australia's integrity organisations: auditors, information commissioners, ombudsmen, etc.
Staff numbers at the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner are going *down* next year, while its freedom of information reviews take years.
Staff numbers at the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner are going *down* next year, while its freedom of information reviews take years.
March 25, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Missing from #budget2025 is much-needed funding for Australia's integrity organisations: auditors, information commissioners, ombudsmen, etc.
Staff numbers at the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner are going *down* next year, while its freedom of information reviews take years.
Staff numbers at the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner are going *down* next year, while its freedom of information reviews take years.
Jim Chalmers has clearly been working with a vocal coach for this speech, and it shows (in a good way, aside for the occasional face for optimising vowel sounds for audio).
PM doesn’t appear to have worked with an acting coach:
PM doesn’t appear to have worked with an acting coach:
March 25, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Jim Chalmers has clearly been working with a vocal coach for this speech, and it shows (in a good way, aside for the occasional face for optimising vowel sounds for audio).
PM doesn’t appear to have worked with an acting coach:
PM doesn’t appear to have worked with an acting coach:
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The federal public service is smaller than it was in 2006-07 w/ more responsibilities yet the Coalition wants to slash its workforce by at least 36,000
It’s an outdated idea from a party w/ no real plan that will gut our public services & save little money
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03...
#auspol
It’s an outdated idea from a party w/ no real plan that will gut our public services & save little money
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03...
#auspol
Who came up with the idea to cut thousands of public service jobs?
The leader of the federal Liberal Party is making some big announcements, including plans to sack thousands of public servants. It is 1951.
www.abc.net.au
March 23, 2025 at 4:05 AM
The federal public service is smaller than it was in 2006-07 w/ more responsibilities yet the Coalition wants to slash its workforce by at least 36,000
It’s an outdated idea from a party w/ no real plan that will gut our public services & save little money
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03...
#auspol
It’s an outdated idea from a party w/ no real plan that will gut our public services & save little money
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03...
#auspol
It’s 2025 and we’re still seeing apologist headlines for men who kill women.
This is a man who chose to coercively control.
This is a man who chose to intimidate, threaten and stalk.
This is a man who planned a complex, brutal attack.
This is a man who chose to violently murder a young woman.
This is a man who chose to coercively control.
This is a man who chose to intimidate, threaten and stalk.
This is a man who planned a complex, brutal attack.
This is a man who chose to violently murder a young woman.
March 21, 2025 at 10:45 PM
It’s 2025 and we’re still seeing apologist headlines for men who kill women.
This is a man who chose to coercively control.
This is a man who chose to intimidate, threaten and stalk.
This is a man who planned a complex, brutal attack.
This is a man who chose to violently murder a young woman.
This is a man who chose to coercively control.
This is a man who chose to intimidate, threaten and stalk.
This is a man who planned a complex, brutal attack.
This is a man who chose to violently murder a young woman.
Ppl under 35 have organised their school work, study, social lives and often careers around remote-working tools for a very long time. Dutton’s policy landing with young ppl like a proposal to abolish email in favour of a return to the fax machine. Embarrassing, out of touch, stressful to consider…
March 11, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Ppl under 35 have organised their school work, study, social lives and often careers around remote-working tools for a very long time. Dutton’s policy landing with young ppl like a proposal to abolish email in favour of a return to the fax machine. Embarrassing, out of touch, stressful to consider…
Dutton has seriously misread the room with this crackdown on work from home.
People who think public servants are slack
(incorrect!) prob already vote coalition.
The only swing voters whose vote will be influenced by this policy are ppl who work from home, or ppl whose partners/loved ones wfh.
People who think public servants are slack
(incorrect!) prob already vote coalition.
The only swing voters whose vote will be influenced by this policy are ppl who work from home, or ppl whose partners/loved ones wfh.
March 11, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Dutton has seriously misread the room with this crackdown on work from home.
People who think public servants are slack
(incorrect!) prob already vote coalition.
The only swing voters whose vote will be influenced by this policy are ppl who work from home, or ppl whose partners/loved ones wfh.
People who think public servants are slack
(incorrect!) prob already vote coalition.
The only swing voters whose vote will be influenced by this policy are ppl who work from home, or ppl whose partners/loved ones wfh.
And if we’re to believe what Tony Burke is out saying this morn - that the Gov knew from Day 2 that the caravan was never destined for terrorism and was instead a con job by criminals - it begs the question: why rush through ineffective, overreaching laws Labor’s platform opposes, other than optics?
Labor capitulated to Coalition demands and agreed to mandatory minimum jail sentences in large part because of this “fake terrorism plot”.
Now we have laws that Labor’s own national platform says won’t reduce crime, undermine the judiciary, and lead to discriminatory outcomes
Now we have laws that Labor’s own national platform says won’t reduce crime, undermine the judiciary, and lead to discriminatory outcomes
We have new laws with seriously dangerous consequences in response to what was a fake plot police believe was designed to divert attention and resources to enable other criminal acts. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
March 11, 2025 at 12:04 AM
And if we’re to believe what Tony Burke is out saying this morn - that the Gov knew from Day 2 that the caravan was never destined for terrorism and was instead a con job by criminals - it begs the question: why rush through ineffective, overreaching laws Labor’s platform opposes, other than optics?
Unironically love the way boomers at writers festivals are just completely unafraid to take up space. Push into that queue, babe. Stand in front of a bunch of seated people. Loudly answer your phone in the audience. Rule the world, my friends, bc today it is yours.
March 1, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Unironically love the way boomers at writers festivals are just completely unafraid to take up space. Push into that queue, babe. Stand in front of a bunch of seated people. Loudly answer your phone in the audience. Rule the world, my friends, bc today it is yours.
Good news, friends. I splurged on a new pair of AirPods a couple of weeks ago and then, true to style, immediately put them through the washing machine.
I put them in rice, then air-dried them and left them for ages just in case… just tried them and they STILL WORK. Am honestly so thrilled by this
I put them in rice, then air-dried them and left them for ages just in case… just tried them and they STILL WORK. Am honestly so thrilled by this
February 21, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Good news, friends. I splurged on a new pair of AirPods a couple of weeks ago and then, true to style, immediately put them through the washing machine.
I put them in rice, then air-dried them and left them for ages just in case… just tried them and they STILL WORK. Am honestly so thrilled by this
I put them in rice, then air-dried them and left them for ages just in case… just tried them and they STILL WORK. Am honestly so thrilled by this
My theory on this is that while Labor’s delay supporting a Gaza ceasefire (+ UNRWA funding suspension, munitions opacity etc) won’t swing the vote of enough ppl to impact the election, it HAS completely disillusioned the base of people who would have otherwise popularised these reforms peer-to-peer:
February 18, 2025 at 3:50 AM
My theory on this is that while Labor’s delay supporting a Gaza ceasefire (+ UNRWA funding suspension, munitions opacity etc) won’t swing the vote of enough ppl to impact the election, it HAS completely disillusioned the base of people who would have otherwise popularised these reforms peer-to-peer:
I went to the same high school as Sam Kerr. So did two of the girls who were murdered by the Claremont serial killer.
For decades, a taxi driver was the suspect.
I cannot over emphasise the impact these murders had for girls who went to my school. The fear was drillled into us from 12 years old.
For decades, a taxi driver was the suspect.
I cannot over emphasise the impact these murders had for girls who went to my school. The fear was drillled into us from 12 years old.
February 5, 2025 at 9:13 PM
I went to the same high school as Sam Kerr. So did two of the girls who were murdered by the Claremont serial killer.
For decades, a taxi driver was the suspect.
I cannot over emphasise the impact these murders had for girls who went to my school. The fear was drillled into us from 12 years old.
For decades, a taxi driver was the suspect.
I cannot over emphasise the impact these murders had for girls who went to my school. The fear was drillled into us from 12 years old.
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What he's announcing is a concentration camp. A deeply illegal, unconstitutional, anti-human rights atrocity. Anyone who supports this is complicit. Anyone in any federal service, military or otherwise, is morally obligated to refuse to carry out any orders related to this deeply criminal act.
Trump announces an executive order authorizing a 30,000 capacity migrant detention center in Guantanamo.
"Some of them are so bad we don't even trust the countries to hold them because we don't want them coming back, so we're going to send them out to Guatanamo Bay."
"Some of them are so bad we don't even trust the countries to hold them because we don't want them coming back, so we're going to send them out to Guatanamo Bay."
January 29, 2025 at 8:06 PM
What he's announcing is a concentration camp. A deeply illegal, unconstitutional, anti-human rights atrocity. Anyone who supports this is complicit. Anyone in any federal service, military or otherwise, is morally obligated to refuse to carry out any orders related to this deeply criminal act.
This approach comes directly from the Silicon Valley tech sector, originally known as the ‘Netflix Bonus’ because, lore has it, Netflix used to offer all staff members a payout to leave the company at the end of each month.
Theory was: if you’ll take cash to leave, you’re not committed to the job.
Theory was: if you’ll take cash to leave, you’re not committed to the job.
January 29, 2025 at 9:58 PM
This approach comes directly from the Silicon Valley tech sector, originally known as the ‘Netflix Bonus’ because, lore has it, Netflix used to offer all staff members a payout to leave the company at the end of each month.
Theory was: if you’ll take cash to leave, you’re not committed to the job.
Theory was: if you’ll take cash to leave, you’re not committed to the job.
Truly terrified of the hyper-conservative, tradwife cultural vibe shift being turbocharged by these giga misogynist, birthrates conspiracist neocon tech oligarchs. Nightmare timeline.
This morning’s Fin…
This morning’s Fin…
January 12, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Truly terrified of the hyper-conservative, tradwife cultural vibe shift being turbocharged by these giga misogynist, birthrates conspiracist neocon tech oligarchs. Nightmare timeline.
This morning’s Fin…
This morning’s Fin…
Judge found that Pesutto did defame Moira Deeming and has ordered $300k in compensation for reputation and emotional damage.
Not a surprising outcome for those of us who followed the trial, tbh.
Not a surprising outcome for those of us who followed the trial, tbh.
Judgement handed down in 5 mins, for those following along at home… 👀 www.youtube.com/live/Qo3VrP7...
December 11, 2024 at 11:24 PM
Judge found that Pesutto did defame Moira Deeming and has ordered $300k in compensation for reputation and emotional damage.
Not a surprising outcome for those of us who followed the trial, tbh.
Not a surprising outcome for those of us who followed the trial, tbh.
Judgement handed down in 5 mins, for those following along at home… 👀 www.youtube.com/live/Qo3VrP7...
December 11, 2024 at 11:12 PM
Judgement handed down in 5 mins, for those following along at home… 👀 www.youtube.com/live/Qo3VrP7...
The Senate’s going to be fire today, for those that way inclined: www.youtube.com/live/7vOT6Ql...
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November 27, 2024 at 10:10 PM
The Senate’s going to be fire today, for those that way inclined: www.youtube.com/live/7vOT6Ql...
Heatwave pals! Remember to put some water out for wildlife + walking dogs today ❤️
(Footpath for dogs, and if you have a yard/courtyard spots that attract birds are a good bet)
(Footpath for dogs, and if you have a yard/courtyard spots that attract birds are a good bet)
November 22, 2024 at 12:55 AM
Heatwave pals! Remember to put some water out for wildlife + walking dogs today ❤️
(Footpath for dogs, and if you have a yard/courtyard spots that attract birds are a good bet)
(Footpath for dogs, and if you have a yard/courtyard spots that attract birds are a good bet)
The way labor MPs keep getting up in parliament this week and delivering these passionate, stump-like speeches about their record, straight down the barrel of the parliview camera (to be clipped for social media) is the strongest indication yet that there could be an early election lol #auspol
November 21, 2024 at 3:11 AM
The way labor MPs keep getting up in parliament this week and delivering these passionate, stump-like speeches about their record, straight down the barrel of the parliview camera (to be clipped for social media) is the strongest indication yet that there could be an early election lol #auspol