The "freedom" warriors attacking our freedoms
While the rest of us get on with paying our bills, massive money and energy is being put into imposing strict controls on what we can do with our bodies and what we can say.
LUCY HAMILTON
OCT 14, 2025
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Senator wants abortion on the national agenda as debate engulfs states”
Accompanied by a picture of Jacinta Pricd Nampijinpa.
@bylinetimes.bsky.social is highlighting that it exposed Nigel Farage’s anti-abortion grift a year ago. All of us in the West need to be searching out the reporting on how our political/commentariat actors are networking with extremist “Christian” groups from US with 💰💰💰 Motivated by 💴 or ⛪️? #auspol
14.10.2025 00:35 — 👍 25 🔁 15 💬 2 📌 0
Santos should but wont go to the wall, their insurance is up to date..
donations to LibLab 1999-2019: $1,544,465
(doesn't include indirect donations, private individuals, aligned advertising spends, etc)
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13.10.2025 23:57 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Allocating deaths from climate harms to projects makes sense, as does allocating the financial damages. i hope all nations start extracting damages compensation from the climate criminals at Woodside, Santos etc, and jailing the leaders of these criminal conspiracies.
13.10.2025 23:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
As a white American woman, I always enjoy hearing white Republican men accuse men in *other* regions of "not respecting women." I won't apologize on his behalf because he's not sorry and I've done nothing wrong, but fuck this attitude. Western misogyny is just as bad if not worse than "elsewhere".
13.10.2025 21:36 — 👍 21 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
to divert the reformist zeal of Australians into the same old corrupt LibLab game of mates.
13.10.2025 19:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Climate investment is only growth opportunity of 21st century, says leading economist
Lord Stern says fossil-fuelled growth is futile as the damage it causes ends in economic self-destruction
Leading economist: Continuing fossil fuels is "futile" because it leads to mass-death and economic collapse.
The fossil fuel industry's product isn't oil, or gas, or energy — it's murder and theft. Full stop.
13.10.2025 19:44 — 👍 100 🔁 48 💬 2 📌 1
Israel has committed genocide. There is no more serious crime under international law. Culpability does not fade simply because there is now a ceasefire agreement, in the same way that a serial killer wouldn't be pardoned if they simply stop killing. There must be consequences.
13.10.2025 06:12 — 👍 114 🔁 33 💬 2 📌 1
we're so very sorry. its not over. we fight on.
13.10.2025 10:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I have to find a way to insulate myself from the world. 18,000 dead Palestinian children, on official numbers. True number probably an order of magnitude higher. No outpouring of grief, no outrage: the press and politican class has decided our lives don't matter.
13.10.2025 06:48 — 👍 121 🔁 32 💬 7 📌 0
we're so not ready. we can expect little help from govt and none from business and the rich. cherish your fam and your neighbours, cos we're the ones who will save us.
13.10.2025 10:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
also: "throw me in the shallow water before i get too deep.." Edie Brickel, misheard :)
13.10.2025 10:25 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
"she thought of the narrowness of the limits within which a human soul may speak and be understood by its nearest of mental kin, & how soon it reaches that solitary land of the individual experience, in which no fellow footfall is ever heard." Olive Schreiner
13.10.2025 10:24 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
alot of them look like blobs, especially the former ministers.
13.10.2025 10:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A steal...
My cartoon in today's @theageaustralia.bsky.social and @sydmorningherald.bsky.social
13.10.2025 09:41 — 👍 48 🔁 18 💬 1 📌 0
while Palestinians go back to starvation and rubble.
13.10.2025 07:24 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Can you ELI5?
IIUC you're saying ppl with large (> $1 .. 3 .. 10mil?) superann balances moved their $ out of super to avoid being taxed under new legislation, but they will anyway be taxed via ..CGT? income?
13.10.2025 04:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#AlboFolds so often you can't get a bet on it.
13.10.2025 04:07 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
In case you have doubts regarding Israel’s PR concerns being the real motive behind the sale of US TikTok to the largest private donor to the IDF, rather than the “China security threat” narrative we’re being fed by MSM, then check out Netanyahu’s views on the matter.
www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-ea...
13.10.2025 03:44 — 👍 12 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0
I feel like today is a good day to remind everyone that just last year Barnaby Joyce called on a crowd of cookers to say “goodbye” to 3 Labor MPs inc the PM by getting ready to “load that magazine” & think of a “bullet” when casting their vote.
And received no penalty or censure.
12.10.2025 22:50 — 👍 305 🔁 102 💬 20 📌 5
🚨🚨🚨WA Governor Bob Ferguson responds to a letter he received from AG Pam Bondi in which she threatened to place him in jail. 🧯He is on fire! 1/2
12.10.2025 19:57 — 👍 23276 🔁 9378 💬 849 📌 653
that lawyer was me.
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12.10.2025 01:22 — 👍 381 🔁 140 💬 16 📌 8
Anti-Zionism on trial - ABC listen
University of Sydney academics Dr Nick Riemer and Professor John Keane will be facing the Federal Court on Monday 13th October after university colleagues made a complaint of anti-Semitism against the...
'University of Sydney academics Dr Nick Riemer and Professor John Keane will be facing the Federal Court on Monday 13th October after university colleagues made a complaint of anti-Semitism against them under Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act.'
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
12.10.2025 02:23 — 👍 50 🔁 20 💬 3 📌 6
Chris Hedges sets out truths about the 'peace plan' that so many western journalists avoid.
Truths that National Press Club members,
especially the ones who have accepted Israeli junkets and drunk the Zionist Kool-Aid,
preferred not to be confronted with? #GazaGenocide #NPC #auspol
12.10.2025 09:44 — 👍 68 🔁 43 💬 8 📌 0
From today, JobSeeker will be indexed to $56.69 a day. That's 89 cents more - or what Labor calls "cost of living relief" 🫠
Claiming credit for an automatic inflation adjustment that keeps people in poverty tells you everything you need to know about the state of the ALP.
20.09.2025 03:45 — 👍 153 🔁 71 💬 9 📌 5
"The place this is going to go is such a departure from the world I thought I would have as a kid and I would much rather do anything that I can to prevent that world from happening rather than just sit around selfishly and do nothing."
10.10.2025 01:01 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Ducked out a bit after 1 to get Mr9 to library, happened to be at Flinders St when the march came thru. *Many* more than at library, i have to guess they joined along swanston.
12.10.2025 08:14 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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