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#auspol get on to this! Election analysis and discussion about the community independent movement
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June 14, 2025 at 8:38 AM
#auspol get on to this! Election analysis and discussion about the community independent movement
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Come On @albomp.bsky.social
We really need sunlight on this communicable disease.
Let the RC do it while you fix the media diversity laws.
www.crikey.com.au/2023/06/15/n...
We really need sunlight on this communicable disease.
Let the RC do it while you fix the media diversity laws.
www.crikey.com.au/2023/06/15/n...
Labor set to oppose Greens' plea to establish a Murdoch royal commission
The Greens are trying to establish a News Corp royal commission. Now they need to find votes.
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May 24, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Come On @albomp.bsky.social
We really need sunlight on this communicable disease.
Let the RC do it while you fix the media diversity laws.
www.crikey.com.au/2023/06/15/n...
We really need sunlight on this communicable disease.
Let the RC do it while you fix the media diversity laws.
www.crikey.com.au/2023/06/15/n...
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Foreign streaming companies keenly take profits from Aussie subscribers, but resist funding Aussie content. They’re secretly lobbying to limit local quotas with Tony Burke rejecting transparency and stifling public debate. Jacqui Lambie and I are now fighting him in the ART. #FOI #auspol
May 23, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Soon, there will be only a few people who can tell what’s real
This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?
May 21, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Soon, there will be only a few people who can tell what’s real
It is an issue from which almost every other issue follows. Top priority and no mucking about please #auspol
You can’t lie when you sell someone a chicken, but it’s entirely legal to lie in political advertising in Australia.
The deliberate spread of misinformation by parties and other groups was a prominent feature of the recent election.
We have to fix this problem in the 48th Parliament.
The deliberate spread of misinformation by parties and other groups was a prominent feature of the recent election.
We have to fix this problem in the 48th Parliament.
May 18, 2025 at 11:16 AM
It is an issue from which almost every other issue follows. Top priority and no mucking about please #auspol
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It’s been argued the election would have had a different outcome with first-past-the-post voting. I cannot overstate how unsound this assumption is, writes Kevin Bonham.
Attacks on Australia’s preferential voting system are ludicrous. We can be proud of it | Kevin Bonham
It’s been argued the election would have had a different outcome with first-past-the-post voting. I cannot overstate how unsound this assumption is
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May 18, 2025 at 10:34 AM
It’s been argued the election would have had a different outcome with first-past-the-post voting. I cannot overstate how unsound this assumption is, writes Kevin Bonham.
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The Productivity Commission’s new pillars; dynamic economy, digital capability, clean energy, care sector efficiency are welcome. But unless they are integrated into a national ambition to break out of our low value-adding trap, they risk fragmentation. #auspol
Productivity with purpose: Roy Green, structural reform and Australia’s place in the world
Roy Green’s recent article on productivity reform offers one of the most cogent and hopeful visions for Australia’s economic future.
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May 12, 2025 at 10:30 PM
The Productivity Commission’s new pillars; dynamic economy, digital capability, clean energy, care sector efficiency are welcome. But unless they are integrated into a national ambition to break out of our low value-adding trap, they risk fragmentation. #auspol
We also were hearing that an informal vote was its own version of a protest vote - that none of the candidates were worth supporting. We disagree with this tactic, but it’s important to find out why it’s happening #auspol
May 12, 2025 at 4:50 AM
We also were hearing that an informal vote was its own version of a protest vote - that none of the candidates were worth supporting. We disagree with this tactic, but it’s important to find out why it’s happening #auspol
This may be a positive step for rural electorates who are being smashed by the effects of climate change? Watt has some experience outside the capital cities #auspol
Anthony Albanese has announced the ministry positions in his new cabinet, with Tanya Plibersek shifted to social services and Murray Watt to the environment portfolio.
Anthony Albanese reveals new cabinet with Tanya Plibersek named as minister for social services
PM has named his new frontbench, including Michelle Rowland as the new attorney-general, after a factional brawl over positions
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May 12, 2025 at 4:44 AM
This may be a positive step for rural electorates who are being smashed by the effects of climate change? Watt has some experience outside the capital cities #auspol
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Can the term ‘cloud fascism’ help us understand – and resist – the hard right?
Ece Temelkuran www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Ece Temelkuran www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Can the term ‘cloud fascism’ help us understand – and resist – the hard right? | Ece Temelkuran
Like clouds, far-right ideology moves here then there with absolute randomness. The danger is that those who can, shrink under their umbrellas, warns political commentator Ece Temelkuran
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May 10, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Can the term ‘cloud fascism’ help us understand – and resist – the hard right?
Ece Temelkuran www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Ece Temelkuran www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Fascinating! We would also like to see this broken down into local media as well, not just the big publications #auspol
Love this data visual.
It will still take a couple more elections until Legacy Media realise how little we're paying attention.
It will still take a couple more elections until Legacy Media realise how little we're paying attention.
This is quite an extraordinary table from Streem showing how many seats each party would have won if their share of seats matched their share of media coverage during the campaign.
You're not imagining it. The Murdoch press et al didn't shut up about Dutton. Lucky no-one was listening. #auspol
You're not imagining it. The Murdoch press et al didn't shut up about Dutton. Lucky no-one was listening. #auspol
May 11, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Fascinating! We would also like to see this broken down into local media as well, not just the big publications #auspol
While we squabble over the Murray Darling basin plan, the rivers will dry up. We must start thinking decades in advance, not next season
One of the worst droughts on record is crippling multiple states.
The predicted long-term change in rainfall is the result of climate change having flow-on effects on the way warm and cool air circulates around the globe.
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The predicted long-term change in rainfall is the result of climate change having flow-on effects on the way warm and cool air circulates around the globe.
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Rainfall maps offer ominous insight where Australia's climate is headed
As South Australia and Victoria continue to face drought and unseasonable heat, there has been a notable absence of major rain systems. So, what's going on?
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May 11, 2025 at 5:19 AM
While we squabble over the Murray Darling basin plan, the rivers will dry up. We must start thinking decades in advance, not next season
A frightening but essential read
May 7, 2025 at 8:42 PM
A frightening but essential read
Seems like a sadistic move, to be honest. Punishing people instead of making a system better🤷♀️
May 6, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Seems like a sadistic move, to be honest. Punishing people instead of making a system better🤷♀️
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It is ... peculiar ... that the Liberal party are in a Coalition with a country party, yet also unable to win any city seats. www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...
How city voters all but wiped the Liberal Party off the map
In a wipeout that began with the former Morrison government, Scott Morrison’s former seat of Cook could be the only inner metropolitan seat the party has left.
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May 5, 2025 at 9:18 PM
It is ... peculiar ... that the Liberal party are in a Coalition with a country party, yet also unable to win any city seats. www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...
Wish we could debate this without it becoming nasty. Many rural people abhor the idea of nuclear, many don’t. It’s very difficult to talk sensibly though when pollies like McKenzie get hold of it
Nationals Party not dead but trying to be, says McKenzie
May 6, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Wish we could debate this without it becoming nasty. Many rural people abhor the idea of nuclear, many don’t. It’s very difficult to talk sensibly though when pollies like McKenzie get hold of it
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Many independents are ahead by only a few votes, with possibly weeks to finalise a result
🟢Zoe Daniel only holding Goldstein by 95 votes
🟤Kate Hulett ahead in Fremantle by 196
🟠Jessie Price ahead in Bean by 206
🟣Nicolette Boele ahead n Bradfield by 416
🔵Monique Ryan ahead in Kooyong by 1406
#auspol
🟢Zoe Daniel only holding Goldstein by 95 votes
🟤Kate Hulett ahead in Fremantle by 196
🟠Jessie Price ahead in Bean by 206
🟣Nicolette Boele ahead n Bradfield by 416
🔵Monique Ryan ahead in Kooyong by 1406
#auspol
May 5, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Many independents are ahead by only a few votes, with possibly weeks to finalise a result
🟢Zoe Daniel only holding Goldstein by 95 votes
🟤Kate Hulett ahead in Fremantle by 196
🟠Jessie Price ahead in Bean by 206
🟣Nicolette Boele ahead n Bradfield by 416
🔵Monique Ryan ahead in Kooyong by 1406
#auspol
🟢Zoe Daniel only holding Goldstein by 95 votes
🟤Kate Hulett ahead in Fremantle by 196
🟠Jessie Price ahead in Bean by 206
🟣Nicolette Boele ahead n Bradfield by 416
🔵Monique Ryan ahead in Kooyong by 1406
#auspol
“Optically bad” - it’s optically bad to call preferencing ON “optically bad” we would think…
Andrew Bragg on ABC RN just said preferencing One Nation second was ‘optically bad’ and hurt LNP. Core to the whole issue for LNP is, was it optically bad or was it WRONG? If they continue down the path of trying to win at all costs they are destined to fail. I’m ok with that. #auspol
May 5, 2025 at 6:36 AM
“Optically bad” - it’s optically bad to call preferencing ON “optically bad” we would think…
Must be one of the first issues addressed in the new parliament #auspol
Australia faces an integrity crisis.
Without immediate reform, public trust in government will continue to erode.
Integrity experts incl former judges, ombudsmen, and leading academics have signed an open letter calling on the new Parliament to address weaknesses in political integrity. #auspol
Without immediate reform, public trust in government will continue to erode.
Integrity experts incl former judges, ombudsmen, and leading academics have signed an open letter calling on the new Parliament to address weaknesses in political integrity. #auspol
May 5, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Must be one of the first issues addressed in the new parliament #auspol
#auspol please let it be a determination to be respectful and decent in election campaigns…???
May 4, 2025 at 12:34 AM
#auspol please let it be a determination to be respectful and decent in election campaigns…???
This was infuriating last night! 🙄
May 4, 2025 at 12:32 AM
This was infuriating last night! 🙄
#auspol So the election has been decided - congratulations to all successful candidates. Now we roll up our sleeves and work for Nicholls for the next election cycle. Join us. voicesfornicholls.com
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Voices for Nicholls is a grassroots movement of the Goulburn and Murray Valley heartlands, from the top of Melbourne’s growth corridor to the River Murray.
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May 3, 2025 at 11:35 AM
#auspol So the election has been decided - congratulations to all successful candidates. Now we roll up our sleeves and work for Nicholls for the next election cycle. Join us. voicesfornicholls.com
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Valerie is saved! The recalcitrant houndlet gave up her freedom for a rotisserie chicken and so would I
Valerie is saved! The recalcitrant houndlet gave up her freedom for a rotisserie chicken and so would I
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April 30, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Valerie is saved! The recalcitrant houndlet gave up her freedom for a rotisserie chicken and so would I