Tony Jones
@tonej666.bsky.social
Progressive, politics, popular culture vulture, movies & live theatre. Lives in Sydney
Thankfully we live in a diverse, multicultural society with all the positives that brings: a broader representation what it is to be an "Aussie".
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At anti-immigration marches, Peter Drew spreads his renowned ‘Aussie’ posters – and waits
The Adelaide artist, who has faced vitriol for his work exploring national identity, covers city walls with his striking designs (and pranks) before protests
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October 20, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Thankfully we live in a diverse, multicultural society with all the positives that brings: a broader representation what it is to be an "Aussie".
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Australians have a right to access government information and to understand how decisions are made on their behalf. I just signed this @australiainstitute.org.au petition calling to end government secrecy: nb.australiainstitute.org.au/end_governme...
✍️ ADD YOUR NAME: End Government Secrecy
Australians have a right to access government information and to understand how decisions are made on their behalf. But the Labor Government’s proposed changes to freedom of information laws threaten ...
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October 17, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Australians have a right to access government information and to understand how decisions are made on their behalf. I just signed this @australiainstitute.org.au petition calling to end government secrecy: nb.australiainstitute.org.au/end_governme...
Support Randa Abdel-Fattah by purchasing her novel here: www.uqp.com.au/books/discip...
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‘I have no interest in the white gaze any more’: Randa Abdel-Fattah on Gaza, boycotts and her new novel
Discipline follows a journalist and an academic navigating censorship in the wake of Israel’s war on Gaza – an issue the author is no stranger to herself
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August 31, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Support Randa Abdel-Fattah by purchasing her novel here: www.uqp.com.au/books/discip...
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Our own sycophant to all things US, deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles "meets" two of the biggest sycophants to Trump for a jolly backslapping moment.
August 28, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Our own sycophant to all things US, deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles "meets" two of the biggest sycophants to Trump for a jolly backslapping moment.
I'm hearing you! Lousy weather day.
It was cold, wet, and windy in Sydney today - and I was feeling "off my feed" besides. So I didn't go outside at all today, even to look for birds.
Instead, here's a photo of another Kookaburra, which I took yesterday:
Instead, here's a photo of another Kookaburra, which I took yesterday:
August 9, 2025 at 7:37 AM
I'm hearing you! Lousy weather day.
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It is massive. Thanks to Peter Deppeler on Twitter for the footage. #GazaGenocide #MarchForHumanity
August 3, 2025 at 4:43 AM
It is massive. Thanks to Peter Deppeler on Twitter for the footage. #GazaGenocide #MarchForHumanity
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Failing to move on climate is, as Ken Henry has said, an act of intergenerational bastardry.
The LNP’s squabbling about net zero reflects their policy poverty and irrelevance.
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The LNP’s squabbling about net zero reflects their policy poverty and irrelevance.
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The attack on Australia’s net zero target is reckless and gutless. Voters expect more than ‘intergenerational bastardry’ | Zoe Daniel
While Barnaby Joyce and Michael McCormack try to ditch the 43% net zero 2030 emissions target, Australia’s net zero target for 2035 has not yet been set
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July 27, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Failing to move on climate is, as Ken Henry has said, an act of intergenerational bastardry.
The LNP’s squabbling about net zero reflects their policy poverty and irrelevance.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The LNP’s squabbling about net zero reflects their policy poverty and irrelevance.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Have the guts to apply international law to Israel: Wilkie live.australiainstitute.org.au/2025/07/aust...
Australia Institute Live: Parliament returns for its second week. As it happens
The 48th parliament has returned for its second week
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July 28, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Have the guts to apply international law to Israel: Wilkie live.australiainstitute.org.au/2025/07/aust...
Nobody likes Richard Marles (so how did he get so powerful?) www.themonthly.com.au/august-2025/...
Nobody likes Richard Marles (so how did he get so powerful?)
Despite his senior position in the government, his factional heft within the Labor Party and the critical importance of his portfolio, the defence minister is unusually lacking in enthusiastic support...
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July 27, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Nobody likes Richard Marles (so how did he get so powerful?) www.themonthly.com.au/august-2025/...
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July 21, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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Richard Marles and @albomp.bsky.social must be so happy. Congratulations on tying us to this lunatic.
So much for that “two-week” window.
Note the “now is the time for peace” phrasing as he pursues an avoidable course of military strikes.
Note the “now is the time for peace” phrasing as he pursues an avoidable course of military strikes.
June 22, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Richard Marles and @albomp.bsky.social must be so happy. Congratulations on tying us to this lunatic.
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Very odd to me the ABC has an entire podcast devoted to foreign affairs, hosted by two of its most prominent staff, that has not done a single episode on Gaza this year. Only reference was on the most recent episode, in the context of Trump visiting Saudi Arabia. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Global Roaming with Geraldine Doogue and Hamish Macdonald - ABC listen
Two award-winning journalists with decades of experience reporting on major world events, Geraldine Doogue and Hamish Macdonald join forces for a fresh conversation about global news and how to make s...
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May 23, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Very odd to me the ABC has an entire podcast devoted to foreign affairs, hosted by two of its most prominent staff, that has not done a single episode on Gaza this year. Only reference was on the most recent episode, in the context of Trump visiting Saudi Arabia. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
I'm feeling good this morning after watching last night's entertainment of the Liberal Party collapse. And Dutton losing his seat was the icing on the cake!
May 4, 2025 at 1:27 AM
I'm feeling good this morning after watching last night's entertainment of the Liberal Party collapse. And Dutton losing his seat was the icing on the cake!
Jane Hume shows how natural dog whistling and redbaiting have become in Australian elections live.australiainstitute.org.au/2025/05/aust...
Australia Institute Live: Day 34 of the 2025 election campaign
It's the start of a 48 hour blitz where the leaders will criss cross the country trying to shore up final votes. All the day's events, with fact checks, as it happens.
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May 1, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Jane Hume shows how natural dog whistling and redbaiting have become in Australian elections live.australiainstitute.org.au/2025/05/aust...
Great analysis on Australia’s political system and vulnerabilities in the face of Trump’s radical changes in the US.
Constitutional fortitude www.themonthly.com.au/may-2025/ess...
Constitutional fortitude www.themonthly.com.au/may-2025/ess...
Constitutional fortitude
As the US institutions of government – if not its very democracy – come under threat from within, Australia’s Constitution offers no protection from similar threats
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May 1, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Great analysis on Australia’s political system and vulnerabilities in the face of Trump’s radical changes in the US.
Constitutional fortitude www.themonthly.com.au/may-2025/ess...
Constitutional fortitude www.themonthly.com.au/may-2025/ess...
Can we just cancel the next couple of weeks and get to Saturday, May 3 for the election? I've had enough of the bullshit already
April 14, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Can we just cancel the next couple of weeks and get to Saturday, May 3 for the election? I've had enough of the bullshit already
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March 22, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Here is a sobering assessment of Australia's place in the world: "For all our protestations to the contrary, we are widely seen in Asia and the Pacific as deeply racist, and we are. Again, just contemplate the voice referendum."
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Australia is a 21st-century power. Why hide behind the sham comfort of ‘punching above our weight’? | Allan Behm
In this adapted extract from What’s the Big Idea?, international security analyst Allan Behm explains how ‘middle power’ Australia can realise its agency in the era of Trump
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March 17, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Here is a sobering assessment of Australia's place in the world: "For all our protestations to the contrary, we are widely seen in Asia and the Pacific as deeply racist, and we are. Again, just contemplate the voice referendum."
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Truly amazing poster art.
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Give it a Polish! Classic film posters with a twist – in pictures
A new exhibition shows how artists from the Polish school of posters reimagined films such as Vertigo and Alien while navigating communist censors
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March 6, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Truly amazing poster art.
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www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
Take that Elon!
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Australian Tesla sales plummet as owners rush to distance themselves from Elon Musk
Frustrated Tesla drivers are selling cars or displaying anti-Musk bumper stickers as sales of the EV car brand slumped 72% in February compared with last year
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March 6, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Take that Elon!
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One of the first novels I read as a young teenager and this was a few years after the film release. Not having seen the film then, I remember people quoting the line "Warriors come out and play."
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‘Gangs charged us $200 a night to shoot on their turf’: Walter Hill on making cult film The Warriors
‘It was on its way to becoming a smash hit. Then gangs in various parts of the country clashed outside cinemas – and they began pulling the film’
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March 3, 2025 at 8:38 PM
One of the first novels I read as a young teenager and this was a few years after the film release. Not having seen the film then, I remember people quoting the line "Warriors come out and play."
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...