Tammy Wolffs
@tammy-w.bsky.social
Living on Ngunnawal Country (Canberra), Australia, interested in social policy, health policy, politics and my community. Love music and dancing (mostly blues), movies and hot summer days (and nights).
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Tammy Wolffs
@tammy-w.bsky.social
· May 12
Not sure yet whether this will be a break or departure from @bluesky - feeling very disillusioned right now.
Thought this would be a great platform to express myself on #auspol and social/health policy, and have reconnected with many from X, and found others to follow and who have followed me.
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Thought this would be a great platform to express myself on #auspol and social/health policy, and have reconnected with many from X, and found others to follow and who have followed me.
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Not sure yet whether this will be a break or departure from @bluesky - feeling very disillusioned right now.
Thought this would be a great platform to express myself on #auspol and social/health policy, and have reconnected with many from X, and found others to follow and who have followed me.
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Thought this would be a great platform to express myself on #auspol and social/health policy, and have reconnected with many from X, and found others to follow and who have followed me.
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May 12, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Not sure yet whether this will be a break or departure from @bluesky - feeling very disillusioned right now.
Thought this would be a great platform to express myself on #auspol and social/health policy, and have reconnected with many from X, and found others to follow and who have followed me.
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Thought this would be a great platform to express myself on #auspol and social/health policy, and have reconnected with many from X, and found others to follow and who have followed me.
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#Auspol With the Greens being required to pass Legislation ( unless Labor do deals with the Coalition ). Labor and the Greens should work very hard at passing Legislation with little Drama. Thr Greens have a chance to rebuild confidence in them if they are seen to respect Labors mandate.
May 10, 2025 at 4:46 AM
#Auspol With the Greens being required to pass Legislation ( unless Labor do deals with the Coalition ). Labor and the Greens should work very hard at passing Legislation with little Drama. Thr Greens have a chance to rebuild confidence in them if they are seen to respect Labors mandate.
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Starmer’s ‘nothing’ deal with Trump is a warning sign for Albanese
This is a list of concessions more than a trade deal, and one in which the UK is still subject to billions worth of tariffs that didn’t exist last year.
#auspol
This is a list of concessions more than a trade deal, and one in which the UK is still subject to billions worth of tariffs that didn’t exist last year.
#auspol
Starmer’s ‘nothing’ deal with Trump is a warning sign for Albanese
Both leaders claimed a much-needed political win. Given the Trump administration’s desire to keep most tariffs in place, that might be all that’s up for grabs.
www.smh.com.au
May 9, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Starmer’s ‘nothing’ deal with Trump is a warning sign for Albanese
This is a list of concessions more than a trade deal, and one in which the UK is still subject to billions worth of tariffs that didn’t exist last year.
#auspol
This is a list of concessions more than a trade deal, and one in which the UK is still subject to billions worth of tariffs that didn’t exist last year.
#auspol
Marles is all about building his power base. If positions were decided on talent, rather than numbers, perhaps he’d be for the chopping block, instead of Dreyfus and Husic.
#auspol
#auspol
May 9, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Marles is all about building his power base. If positions were decided on talent, rather than numbers, perhaps he’d be for the chopping block, instead of Dreyfus and Husic.
#auspol
#auspol
Price believes she’s going to save the Liberal Party. Clearly doesn’t get that her divisive, combative and right wing politics were part of the problem.
The Libs ignored the 2022 election postmortem. With Price taking a leadership role, will they do the same in 2025?
#auspol
The Libs ignored the 2022 election postmortem. With Price taking a leadership role, will they do the same in 2025?
#auspol
May 9, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Price believes she’s going to save the Liberal Party. Clearly doesn’t get that her divisive, combative and right wing politics were part of the problem.
The Libs ignored the 2022 election postmortem. With Price taking a leadership role, will they do the same in 2025?
#auspol
The Libs ignored the 2022 election postmortem. With Price taking a leadership role, will they do the same in 2025?
#auspol
The Greens were elected to negotiate better outcomes. Instead, they obstructed until the 11th hour and then let everything through.
Yet, they still want to blame preferences (in a preferential voting system).
#AfternoonBriefing #auspol #AusVotes25
Yet, they still want to blame preferences (in a preferential voting system).
#AfternoonBriefing #auspol #AusVotes25
May 6, 2025 at 6:57 AM
The Greens were elected to negotiate better outcomes. Instead, they obstructed until the 11th hour and then let everything through.
Yet, they still want to blame preferences (in a preferential voting system).
#AfternoonBriefing #auspol #AusVotes25
Yet, they still want to blame preferences (in a preferential voting system).
#AfternoonBriefing #auspol #AusVotes25
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Can’t believe I’m saying this, but the Greens should take a leaf out of Peter Dutton’s book and show some dignity in defeat. Whining about preferential voting - a cornerstone of fair representation in Australia - because it's not going their way, is a very bad look. #auspol
'Tough results' for Greens, as leader Adam Bandt fights close contest for his seat
The Greens camp watches the vote count with bittersweet feelings, after two losses in Queensland but the chance of gains elsewhere. Meanwhile, their party leader remains in a close fight, his vote goi...
www.abc.net.au
May 5, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Can’t believe I’m saying this, but the Greens should take a leaf out of Peter Dutton’s book and show some dignity in defeat. Whining about preferential voting - a cornerstone of fair representation in Australia - because it's not going their way, is a very bad look. #auspol
Holly Hughes won't be voting for Taylor in the leadership ballot.
Not only stabbed her in the back, but developed no economic policy in 3 years, can't sell a message, was no challenge to Chalmers, divisive ...
#RNBreakfast #auspol #AusVotes25 #postmortem
Not only stabbed her in the back, but developed no economic policy in 3 years, can't sell a message, was no challenge to Chalmers, divisive ...
#RNBreakfast #auspol #AusVotes25 #postmortem
May 4, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Holly Hughes won't be voting for Taylor in the leadership ballot.
Not only stabbed her in the back, but developed no economic policy in 3 years, can't sell a message, was no challenge to Chalmers, divisive ...
#RNBreakfast #auspol #AusVotes25 #postmortem
Not only stabbed her in the back, but developed no economic policy in 3 years, can't sell a message, was no challenge to Chalmers, divisive ...
#RNBreakfast #auspol #AusVotes25 #postmortem
Holly Hughes submitted 7 fully costed mental health and suicide prevention policies that went down a black hole. She says colleagues had similar experiences.
#RNBreakfast #auspol #AusVotes25 #postmortem
#RNBreakfast #auspol #AusVotes25 #postmortem
May 4, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Holly Hughes submitted 7 fully costed mental health and suicide prevention policies that went down a black hole. She says colleagues had similar experiences.
#RNBreakfast #auspol #AusVotes25 #postmortem
#RNBreakfast #auspol #AusVotes25 #postmortem
May 4, 2025 at 3:37 AM
May 4, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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Seismic.
Not a single mainstream media outlet predicted or supported this result. From the Guardian & ABC to Sky News.
Roy Morgan polling closest to nailing it, months ago, and they were dismissed as "outliers"....
#auspol
Not a single mainstream media outlet predicted or supported this result. From the Guardian & ABC to Sky News.
Roy Morgan polling closest to nailing it, months ago, and they were dismissed as "outliers"....
#auspol
May 3, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Seismic.
Not a single mainstream media outlet predicted or supported this result. From the Guardian & ABC to Sky News.
Roy Morgan polling closest to nailing it, months ago, and they were dismissed as "outliers"....
#auspol
Not a single mainstream media outlet predicted or supported this result. From the Guardian & ABC to Sky News.
Roy Morgan polling closest to nailing it, months ago, and they were dismissed as "outliers"....
#auspol
Or, as articulated by Laura Tingle, "... the Greens adopted grievance politics. And they have also been comprehensively rejected."
#auspol #Ausvotes25 #RealityCheck
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...
#auspol #Ausvotes25 #RealityCheck
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...
May 3, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Or, as articulated by Laura Tingle, "... the Greens adopted grievance politics. And they have also been comprehensively rejected."
#auspol #Ausvotes25 #RealityCheck
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...
#auspol #Ausvotes25 #RealityCheck
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...
You'd've thought the message voters sent to the Coalition in 2022 was clear enough.
Reckon they heard it this time?
#AusVotes25 #auspol
Reckon they heard it this time?
#AusVotes25 #auspol
May 3, 2025 at 7:24 PM
You'd've thought the message voters sent to the Coalition in 2022 was clear enough.
Reckon they heard it this time?
#AusVotes25 #auspol
Reckon they heard it this time?
#AusVotes25 #auspol
I seriously don't understand what's happened to the welcoming multicultural Melbourne I grew up in😢
#auspol #AusVotes25
www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
#auspol #AusVotes25
www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
Police investigating 'disgusting' display of 'no black', 'no Muslim' votes banners
Police say they are investigating reports of "offensive slogans" displayed above a freeway in Melbourne.
www.sbs.com.au
May 3, 2025 at 7:16 PM
I seriously don't understand what's happened to the welcoming multicultural Melbourne I grew up in😢
#auspol #AusVotes25
www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
#auspol #AusVotes25
www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
Pretty clear now that the community made a decisive and deliberate choice.
There was not a movement to replace Govt members with Greens and independents like in 2022.
#auspol #AusVotes25
There was not a movement to replace Govt members with Greens and independents like in 2022.
#auspol #AusVotes25
May 3, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Pretty clear now that the community made a decisive and deliberate choice.
There was not a movement to replace Govt members with Greens and independents like in 2022.
#auspol #AusVotes25
There was not a movement to replace Govt members with Greens and independents like in 2022.
#auspol #AusVotes25
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Can we just spare a thought, too, for the official end of News Corp as a political force. No one outside an aging political class pays any attention to them.
May 3, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Can we just spare a thought, too, for the official end of News Corp as a political force. No one outside an aging political class pays any attention to them.
#TheAge reporting Greens running an open ticket in Deakin in retaliation for Macnamara.
A seat that could make or break Lib’s Sukkar.
For a party that claims it wants to keep the Coalition out, it seems to be cutting its nose off despite its face.
#auspol #AusVotes25
A seat that could make or break Lib’s Sukkar.
For a party that claims it wants to keep the Coalition out, it seems to be cutting its nose off despite its face.
#auspol #AusVotes25
May 3, 2025 at 6:03 AM
#TheAge reporting Greens running an open ticket in Deakin in retaliation for Macnamara.
A seat that could make or break Lib’s Sukkar.
For a party that claims it wants to keep the Coalition out, it seems to be cutting its nose off despite its face.
#auspol #AusVotes25
A seat that could make or break Lib’s Sukkar.
For a party that claims it wants to keep the Coalition out, it seems to be cutting its nose off despite its face.
#auspol #AusVotes25
Seems Taylor was suggesting the way natural attrition in the #PublicService will work to not replace people, while only cutting Canberra jobs, will be to move a Canberra person to another location whenever someone leaves a regional job.
#ChessPieces
#auspol #AusVotes25 #RNBreakfast
#ChessPieces
#auspol #AusVotes25 #RNBreakfast
May 1, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Seems Taylor was suggesting the way natural attrition in the #PublicService will work to not replace people, while only cutting Canberra jobs, will be to move a Canberra person to another location whenever someone leaves a regional job.
#ChessPieces
#auspol #AusVotes25 #RNBreakfast
#ChessPieces
#auspol #AusVotes25 #RNBreakfast
Despite Taylor’s claims of a long announced policy, the only reference to #vaping in the Liberal Party’s Election Policies’ website is a revenue line in the Budget Plan.
#HealthPolicy #auspol #AusVotes25 #RNBreakfast
#HealthPolicy #auspol #AusVotes25 #RNBreakfast
May 1, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Despite Taylor’s claims of a long announced policy, the only reference to #vaping in the Liberal Party’s Election Policies’ website is a revenue line in the Budget Plan.
#HealthPolicy #auspol #AusVotes25 #RNBreakfast
#HealthPolicy #auspol #AusVotes25 #RNBreakfast
“Health is firmly at the centre of the agenda at the upcoming federal election– if political parties are serious about committing to protect the health of everyone in Australia, action on climate change is non-negotiable”–RACGP Pres Dr Michael Wright www.croakey.org/the-...
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The next Federal Government has some big health matters to address
After the election was called for 3 May, health and medical organisations were quick out of the starting gates with
www.croakey.org
May 1, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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Dutton is literally walking back on a number of his ‘policies’ with his ‘changes to curriculum to stop indoctrination’ being the latest. So what is it that they actually stand for - nuclear power is all I can fathom. As they say, if you don’t know, vote no #auspol #putLNPlast
April 30, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Dutton is literally walking back on a number of his ‘policies’ with his ‘changes to curriculum to stop indoctrination’ being the latest. So what is it that they actually stand for - nuclear power is all I can fathom. As they say, if you don’t know, vote no #auspol #putLNPlast
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This is probably as close to an endorsement from Trump we get in the final days so I’ll take it! Should help hammer the final nail in the Dutton coffin #auspol
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Trump campaign chief claims he visited Australia to advise Liberals at start of election campaign
Exclusive: Chris LaCivita, Trump’s presidential campaign co-manager, tells undercover reporters he advised on ‘structural issues’ related to Peter Dutton; the Coalition denies LaCivita was involved in...
www.theguardian.com
April 30, 2025 at 11:55 PM
This is probably as close to an endorsement from Trump we get in the final days so I’ll take it! Should help hammer the final nail in the Dutton coffin #auspol
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Peter Dutton packing food for charity, when what people really need is the dignity of increases to income support payments and minimum wages.
#auspol #AusVotes25 #RaiseTheRate
#auspol #AusVotes25 #RaiseTheRate
April 30, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Peter Dutton packing food for charity, when what people really need is the dignity of increases to income support payments and minimum wages.
#auspol #AusVotes25 #RaiseTheRate
#auspol #AusVotes25 #RaiseTheRate