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I used to think so positively about @albomp.bsky.social , but that was before he became PM. Mea Culpa, how wrong I was! Is he doing ANYTHING for the benefit of Oz?

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Truly insane to put basic public health policy in the hands of local councillors. Abdication of responsibility by the State Parliament. (Qld has about 75 LGAs and a whole lot of them have only a few thousand even a few hundred people living there.)

Lack of 6 P's at work 🤣

So to summarise: the Tas government bought two ships, that are years late, to run between Devonport and Geelong, but there is no wharf at all for them at Devonport because people forgot to build one and they can't safely use the wharf at Geelong.

Scott Morrison declares role with Saudi oil company When he was prime minister, Morrison appointed a Saudi fossil fuel firm's board member to two different taskforce roles in 2019 and 2022.

Scott Morrison has registered himself as having a relationship with a $2.5 trillion Saudi fossil fuel company whose board member was once appointed by Morrison to a COVID recovery taskforce. www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/15/s...

The purchase and infrastructure for these ships has been a fiasco from start to finish. And we're probably not finished yet!

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Another Chinese car brand just weeks away from Australia | Drive GAC is set to become the 16th Chinese brand currently on sale in Australia, launching with three models initially.

I think we've all lost track of how many Chinese EV brands there are in Australia. The trouble is that the market isn't big enough to support so many. Some folk will find themselves with a new'ish vehicle that's no longer supported!

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I have owned and always loved dogs. However, they DO NOT belong in restaurants or aircraft cabins.

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Why Santos is behind your soaring electricity and mortgage costs It was a primary force behind Australia’s inflationary surge, it’s forced businesses either to the wall or to shift offshore, undermined national industry policy and resulted in the loss of countless ...

We don’t have a gas shortage, we have a gas export problem. Santos are gaming the system and pushing up the price of gas paid by 🇦🇺 households & industry.

We don’t need new projects, we need to reserve uncontracted export gas for 🇦🇺 now!
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Forrest-backed study links Woodside mega-project to hundreds of deaths The research, conducted by academics at ANU, suggests the massive offshore gas project off the coast of Western Australia will cause warming of 0.00039 degrees.

A new study published in Nature Climate Action finds Woodside’s Scarborough gas project could cause 100s of heat-related deaths & exposed 500k people to unprecedented heat.

Govt can’t claim climate leadership while approving projects like this.
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The Manufacture of Arms and the Market Place By Andrew Klein The most dangerous path for any economy is to go down the path of the military industrial complex. It produces nothing of benefit for the society concerned but creates wealth for a [.....

I've been saying this for so long. We are concerned about gas and oil industry lobbyists. But, we never, ever hear of the lobbying from the armaments industry that simply must take place!
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She's already got that position.
She's started bankruptcy proceedings against Sharaz and Higgins. But, it's Linda who is totally morally bankrupt 😡🤬

Australia Peace and Neutrality: A Path to Regional Stability By Denis Hay    Description Australia peace and neutrality can strengthen diplomacy, use dollar sovereignty wisely, and build stability across the Indo-Pacific region. 🎧 Prefer to listen to this artic...

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Perfectly legal Linda starting bankruptcy proceedings against Brittany.
However, it is Linda who is totally morally bankrupt 😡🤬 Does she have any friends left?

Linda Reynolds launches bankruptcy proceedings against Brittany Higgins Former senator Linda Reynolds launches bankruptcy proceedings in the Federal Court against her ex-staffer Brittany Higgins as she tries to recover damages awarded to her for defamation.

And still people wonder why more women don't report sexual assault www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

The mood is ominous at CSIRO as jobs disappear ‘by stealth’ – and staff are wondering who’s next National scientific agency has been ‘reshaping its research portfolio’ to deal with an imminent funding cliff in 2024

This makes me very sad… especially as CSIRO’s Data61 has done some great work for the ACS. The move away from public good science is a sad one for Australia, right at the time we have never needed public good science more.
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Linda appears to be determined to ensure she's disliked by ABSO-BLOODY-LUTELY EVERYONE!

From our archives: May His Like Never Be Seen Again His type should never be seen again. Born from the dark well of swill and advertising, former Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison was always the apotheosis of politics’ worst tendencies: shallow ...

Morrison "would go so far as to sell off Australian sovereignty for a song via the AUKUS security agreement promising nuclear powered submarines, leaving the Australian taxpayer in bondage to Washington for the next half-century."
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Getting Away with Murder | David Cole During his first presidential campaign Donald Trump famously claimed that he could “stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody” and not lose

"Even if the boats’ occupants were..carrying illegal drugs, that offense would at most have authorized their arrest, trial, &, if convicted, incarceration for a period of years. It would not authorize the death penalty, much less their summary execution without trial"
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IMHO, we DO NOT have a close relationship with USA, and certainly do not want one. What planet is @albomp.bsky.social living on?

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As the Privacy Commissioner says - yes this social media age ban is likely to create a honeypot of data and the safest data is the data you don't collect. It's as simple as that.

He was a vaguely passable Opposition leader He was a spectacularly terrible Prime Minister. A rolled-gold cluster-fuck. He was so bad he got stabbed in the back (and the front) by his own colleagues, less than 2 years into the gig. And now he’s offering leadership advice? Stroll on loser.

Two groups launch Federal Court appeals against Woodside gas extension Two separate appeals are launched in the Federal Court in a bid to overturn Environment Minister Murray Watt's approval of Woodside's gas hub extension on the North West Shelf.

Great news - the extension of North West Shelf Project is obscene:

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Leo Puglisi from @6newsau.bsky.social gave evidence to the parliamentary inquiry on the social media age ban - I asked him about the real impacts on young people. This isn't about protection, it's about control. You can't lock kids out of news and social connection and call it safety.

The social media age ban may actually mean more people have more data collected about them - it means the risk from hacks and leaks may increase and goes against 'data minimisation' principles according to @drwaus.bsky.social

As of now there is nothing Albanese's govt has done that has changed the country in any structural way.

No change at all to how the fundamental debates of the nation are addressed.

Youth-focused anti-bullying organisation Project Rockit are saying the impact of the social media age ban on young people will be harsh - focus should be on the corporations pushing algorithms, not on young people