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Absolutely … the tax breaks are too attractive to ignore. Had a bloke brag to me the other day that his 24 yo son had just bought his 4th property - whilst sill living at home. He was so proud. 🤨

22.02.2026 01:25 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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Bangarra Dance Theatre wins international award for creating 'radical change' Indigenous dance company Bangarra Dance Theatre has become the first company and first First Nations performers to receive the Golden Lion at Venice Danza, the international festival of contemporary d...

Bangarra Dance Theatre, Australia's leading Indigenous dance company, has won the prestigious international award, the Golden Lion, at the Venice Biennale. How wonderful! I saw one of their productions years ago and it was fantastic!
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

19.02.2026 22:32 — 👍 33    🔁 10    💬 1    📌 2

If we had a decent media, when Angus Taylor uses the words “our core beliefs”, he should be asked every time -
WHAT ARE “OUR” CORE BELIEFS?
Further, if he tries to answer with what they are not, he should be asked again.

WHAT ARE “OUR” CORE BELIEFS?

He has no idea.

#auspol

20.02.2026 01:30 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 1
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Albo’s Waterloo: The Clayton’s PM and the Farrellisation of Labor “Leadership’s always been about two main things: imagination and courage.”

2/ ...the PM you have when you’re not having ScoMo.
davidjohntyler.substack.com/p/albos-wate...

19.02.2026 22:34 — 👍 11    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

These companies factor in such fines as a minor cost and inconvenience.

This should be billions at the very least; removal of existing rights, permissions, leases, and even ownership of land should also be penalties.

Alcoa should be kicked out of Australia, along with all US military.

#auspol

19.02.2026 00:10 — 👍 5    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

Oi @albomp.bsky.social
So is hanson gonna be prosecuted under new hate speech laws?

#auspol

19.02.2026 00:24 — 👍 12    🔁 7    💬 2    📌 0

4 years for Labor do nothing. Western Sydney University chancellor says Job Ready Graduates is one of the 5 worst policy decisions
#auspol

18.02.2026 21:41 — 👍 22    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 0
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Palantir surveils everybody but its own misleading accounts - Michael West While Palantir is busy poking its nose in everyone’s business, it doesn’t want us looking into its own, not lodging financial statements.

Epstein's pals Palantir legged over Australian regulators claiming to be a "small co - not part of larger group" despite actual size of $450B. Lying while they get untendered govt contracts.

@sstephanietrann.bsky.social #auspol
michaelwest.com.au/palantir-sur...

18.02.2026 07:28 — 👍 222    🔁 135    💬 21    📌 9

1.2m houses built.
95%+ bought by investors with the negative gearing and CGT discount rorts still active.
Housing still in crisis.
Govt: how is there still a crisis? it's a mystery
#auspol

17.02.2026 22:36 — 👍 11    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0

Stupendously Unnecessary Vehicles ( #SUV ‘s) are killing and maiming many more people in accidents than less high-fronted ones. Phase them out, tax the off the roads, stop this lunacy now. They are not needed status symbols causing death and damage. More investment in #public #transport needed!

15.02.2026 08:50 — 👍 57    🔁 21    💬 2    📌 3

I wish the ACCC had much greater powers and that the financial penalties to these big companies was commensurate to their earnings - as in it financially hurts them to the point they change their wicked ways

16.02.2026 00:16 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Cole’s and Palantir are both centred on delivering data harvesting intelligence with no regard to your privacy. Peter Thiel says all I need to know.
#auspol

15.02.2026 08:28 — 👍 11    🔁 6    💬 4    📌 0

Sthalekar calls it - stunning! #AUSvIND

15.02.2026 10:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Pity we needed 14 😐

15.02.2026 10:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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$1.2 billion Hamilton Island sale labelled 'extraordinary' An American equity firm plans to purchase the jewel of the Whitsundays.

We've just let US Company Blackstone - "world's largest alternative asset manager" - buy Hamilton Island - excellent. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

15.02.2026 10:00 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It all stems from Uni politics. It seems that those who start there never let go and remain stunted - focused on winning, and saying whatever it takes to get there. My son attended a school where you were not hired if teaching was all you had ever done. Same rule should apply to politicians.

15.02.2026 07:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The thing about the skeleton and the luge is that you have to learn whether you would be good at the skeleton or the luge, and I don't know how we don't hear about more people dying from finding out if they were good at the skeleton or the luge.

14.02.2026 19:33 — 👍 1225    🔁 86    💬 94    📌 11
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I only heard the last 20 -25 minutes of #insiders when they were discussing the Sydney Herzog Protest, Minns & Albo. I didn't hear one 'journo' mention that these protests occur because millions of us are opposed to the genocide in GAZA, not because we are 'lefties'!
#auspol

14.02.2026 22:58 — 👍 23    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 0
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It’s so funny to think about the fact that there’s people out there deferring every life decision to this

14.02.2026 09:53 — 👍 12769    🔁 2961    💬 315    📌 266
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Angus Taylor wants to focus on immigration? Tell him & Pauline Hanson Australia’s biggest migrant group is STILL the English 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
964,000 born in England, more than India (916k), China (700k) or NZ (618k).

Source:
www.abs.gov.au/statistics/p...

#auspol #angustaylor #tonyabbott
#paulinehanson

13.02.2026 13:37 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Sydney protesters want to sue police over alleged brutality at the anti-Herzog rally, but it will be a struggle An obscure section of a 2009 piece of legislation states ‘compensation is not payable’ when NSW officers are granted additional powers for ‘major events’

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

legislation that quarantines a state authority from any sort of liability associated with criminal wrongdoing is inherently unlawful #auspol

13.02.2026 20:42 — 👍 10    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0

So Sussan Ley was indeed placed on a glass cliff. True to Liberal party form.

Now they're back to a Morrison-era ex minister with a penchant for dodgy dealings and forging documents. Remember #watergate and the Clover Moore scandal?

#news #auspol #libspill

12.02.2026 23:45 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Remember everyone, Change of Liberal Leadership, Change Your Smoke Alarm Batteries. #AusPol #LibSpill

12.02.2026 22:43 — 👍 7    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0
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river Thames

12.02.2026 08:16 — 👍 611    🔁 43    💬 15    📌 3

After nearly 9 decades of tracking presidential approval ratings, Gallup has decided to end their poll measuring following threats from the orange felon after showing his historically low approval ratings.

This is what cowardice and bending the knee to a tyrant looks like.

11.02.2026 21:38 — 👍 3798    🔁 1139    💬 168    📌 66

Barely.

And selectively.

#RaiseTheRate and stop consorting with horrific murderous ghouls.

12.02.2026 09:54 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A bucket is brighter than Angus, and is at least useful.

All that Angus has ever done is to help himself and his family to drain the national coffers.

12.02.2026 05:32 — 👍 13    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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NSW premier won’t apologise to Muslims after police grab men praying at rally against Isaac Herzog Chris Minns doubles down on support for NSW police, stating officers would ‘never have disrupted a prayer service … unless it was in the middle of a riot’

Minns: Police would "never, ever have disrupted a prayer service … unless it was in the middle of a riot" What riot? There was no riot!!! We have seen all the videos. #auspol

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

12.02.2026 04:13 — 👍 35    🔁 14    💬 3    📌 6

I really wish more people would read this.

Australia's unemployment benefits are the lowest in the OECD.

The government claims that this is to encourage people to get a job and lowers unemployment.

Studies have shown that this is bullshit (quelle surprise)

#auspol

www.aph.gov.au/DocumentStor...

12.02.2026 04:25 — 👍 69    🔁 40    💬 3    📌 4

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