@yvetteskin.bsky.social
Israel plans to demolish 24 buildings in Jenin amid West Bank raids - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-plans-demolish-24-buildings-jenin-amid-west-bank-raids
28.11.2025 08:52 — 👍 8 🔁 9 💬 2 📌 0Congratulations 🥳 Very well deserved
28.11.2025 09:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Photo of the Walkley Awards Instagram page announcing Mean Streak by Rick Morton as the winner of the Walkley Book Award.
I think award season is now over. Mean Streak just won the Walkley Book Award to cap it off and I’m so thankful. Buy or borrow, the story is more fucked up than you think.
28.11.2025 08:51 — 👍 443 🔁 95 💬 40 📌 2
Two pigeons on a London street, pecking at crumbs. Pigeon 1: "I'm sorry you missed out on the Booker prize. I thought your novel was wonderful." Pigeon 2: "It’s a stitch up! They always give it to a human!" Pigeon 1: "It’s nice they considered it." Pigeon 2: "Nobody cares about the longlist, Janet!" Pigeon 2 again: "Zadie Smith had a bestselling novel and an armload of literary prizes before she was 25*." Pigeon 1: "You’ve got to stop comparing yourself to Zadie Smith" Pigeon 2: "Why?" Pigeon 1: "We’ve all got to find our own path through the world. Plus, it’s much harder to type with claws." pigeon 2: "That’s true." They both go back to pecking. Pigeon 2: "I’m glad you liked my book." *Pigeon 2 is 3 years, 11 months and 22 days old, the equivalent of 42 in human years. https://pigeonpedia.com/pigeon-years-to-human-years-calculator/
My latest cartoon for @theguardian.com books pages.
16.11.2025 16:15 — 👍 1168 🔁 301 💬 18 📌 16
Secretive meetings behind closed doors, billions in taxpayer money down the drain, people exiled to Nauru by Australia unable to even access enough food. It’s way past time to end this. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
11.11.2025 23:45 — 👍 27 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0
The Courier Mail ront page headlined, "It's A Lot Of Hot Air". A campaign that led to the axing of a $1bn Queensland wind farm relied heavily on submissions from an activist group citing non-existent authorities. In May 2025 Deputy Premier Jarrod Bleijie exercised his powers as planning minister to refuse planning approval for the Moonlight Range Wind Farm in Central Queensland.
In May 2025 Deputy Premier Jarrod Bleijie used his planning minister powers to refuse the Moonlight Range Wind Farm. It's now been revealed the community concern aspect of his decision was based on fabricated submissions. At best it's ministerial incompetence. At worst it's one for the CCC. #qldpol
11.11.2025 23:54 — 👍 59 🔁 25 💬 6 📌 2The finale of the great TV comedy show Blackadder goes Forth.
Back then I didn't expect one of the funniest programmes ever to end with a scene that makes me cry every time I see it.
Every single time.
Qld LNP Deputy Premier Jarrod Bleijie's May decision on the Moonlight Range wind farm & battery site overridden & the project proceeding with federal approval. Separately, revealed only 25% of community submissions to him came from local residents. #qldpol reneweconomy.com.au/billion-doll...
12.11.2025 01:44 — 👍 35 🔁 17 💬 3 📌 0Amazon's cheap delivery comes at a cost to the drivers, who are hired as contractors with fewer protections.
"When we let the market play out, we know what happens. Customers get worse service, workers are, in a sense, screwed over."
@grogsgamut.bsky.social #auspol
Why is Nauru's president being snuck into Parliament House for secret meetings that we only hear about in a tweet after it has been exposed?
If this deal is so defensible, why won't Labor tell Australians what they're discussing behind closed doors?
"... the Finks bikie gang had won a key taxpayer-funded contract to provide security on Nauru to former immigration detainees slated to be deported from Australia." #Auspol
10.11.2025 21:26 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0The #Albanese Government must end the offshore detention regime and stop outsourcing its legal responsibilities to other nations. People deserve better than a government that hides behind closed-door deals to fund cruelty. #60mins #auspol #60minutes #albanese #nauru
09.11.2025 10:29 — 👍 27 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0
Jillian Segal isn’t so much concerned about antisemitism, as she is about pro-Palestinianism.
09.11.2025 10:07 — 👍 24 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 1The Albanese Government must release all contracts, correspondence, and agreements relating to offshore processing and offshore warehousing in Nauru and Papua New Guinea. #60mins #auspol #nauru #albanese #60minutes
09.11.2025 10:31 — 👍 61 🔁 21 💬 3 📌 0
Attention STUPID FUCKING REPUBLICANS:
09.11.2025 01:47 — 👍 107 🔁 35 💬 7 📌 1
50 years on from the dismissal. The US government actively destabilising the Australian democracy. Pine Gap should be suspended and a full report made to the Australian & American people on all activities conducted there. #auspol
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
1/ wtf is going on at Home Affairs? I’ve lost count of the number of offshore detention-related scandals
2/ check out how hard the whistleblower tried to alert authorities, only to be ignored
3/ both Labor and Lib govts have actively turned a blind eye to this corruption. Prob the NACC too.
Who would be THIS dumb? 🙋 🤦Two words we need to learn how to say to corporate tax bludgers. What do you reckon they are?
11.08.2025 06:43 — 👍 194 🔁 93 💬 7 📌 10welcome to the 51st state of USA. aUStralia. When the government doesnt stand up to USA corporate lobbyists and support Aussie musos or movie productions, all we do is import culture from the USA... Is this what we want?
31.10.2025 06:51 — 👍 71 🔁 25 💬 8 📌 3Trump has refused to attend COP30.
Looks like @albomp.bsky.social is doing the same thing. He’s soooo passionate about having COP31 in Australia 2026. #auspol
Dear PM @albomp.bsky.social
cc FM @senatorwong.bsky.social
The UN reports a sharp rise in illegal Israeli settler violence against Palestinians in the occupied #WestBank. In Oct2025 OCHA recorded 264 settler attacks causing casualties & property damage. Thoughts? Comments? #SanctionIsrael #auspol
A man collapsed in the Oval Office yesterday. The internet got the story wrong.
My experience struggling to correct the record — including on Bluesky! — and the warning signs as AI, aggregation, and social media increasingly drive our news consumption.
I don't think people realize how much a trillion dollars is.
Let's say you get paid a million dollars per day. That's a lot, right?
If you spend none of it and pay no taxes, you'll have a trillion dollars in approximately two thousand seven hundred (2700) YEARS.
No one should have that much.
Labor and the Coalition are setting up a closed-door joint parliamentary Defence oversight committee that can receive secret testimony. Greens and independent MPs/senators will be excluded - no critical eyes welcome. Happy days for Defence and their $B in waste! #AUKUS #auspol
06.11.2025 19:32 — 👍 72 🔁 49 💬 5 📌 5Can't say too often or too loud.
I do not give a crap about what you think Jesus did or did not say or do. Keep your religious view to yourself and more importantly, do your job without further reference to your imaginary sky fairy friend.
Absolutely should not be the AG
#Auspol
Mamdani probably would have been expelled from the ALP
05.11.2025 03:45 — 👍 466 🔁 70 💬 33 📌 4
Editorial: Monique Ryan’s bill would stop ministers and senior staff from working as lobbyists for three years after they leave politics. It would reveal who lobbyists meet and force ministers to publish their diaries. The reforms are simple and effective and will not pass. satpa.pe/HL0EtFi
04.11.2025 02:42 — 👍 67 🔁 28 💬 3 📌 1She is in their now saying under 18 year Olds need to shut their ducking mouths and let their employers STEAL THEIR SUPER. A DISGRACE! SHAME LABOR!!! #LABOR #AUSPOL #LNP #SHAME
04.11.2025 01:22 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
