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The Coalition Split and the Re-emergence of One Nation Despite denials, I find it hard to believe that this week’s split in the Coalition doesn’t stem from the reported surge in support for One Nation. Perhaps this week is not all about One…

OK kids Antony is now on to it...
antonygreen.com.au/the-coalitio...

Observation: Newcastle, a city which has reinvented itself from the ashes of industry, really feel the working class underpinnings of a city of Labor roots and a fresh sophistication - Shell Harbour, a purpose built Club Med for bogans…

Starting January by making a potato salad - our hosts have a ham, there’s lots of seafood and we just ushered in the morning by dancing around the kitchen to Patti Smith singing, Feels like Teen Spirit.

Waiting to drive onto the ferry back to Brisbane - what a difference listening to ABC radio cricket commentary as compared to the channel seven clown show #ashes

I was not expecting a guilty verdict. I hope Judge Dugan is successful on appeal. I’m concerned about this emboldening this lawless administration.

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Jack Smith Had “Proof Beyond a Reasonable Doubt” Trump Conspired to Overturn 2020 Election Former Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith told lawmakers in a closed-door session Wednesday that his team of investigators had “developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt” that President Tru...

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Multiple meat workers in hospital after carbon monoxide leak in Melbourne More than a dozen workers have fallen ill after a carbon monoxide leak at a pork processing plant in Derrimut.

Multiple meat workers in hospital after carbon monoxide leak in Melbourne: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-01/carbon-monoxide-leak-meat-processing-plant-hospital/106087106

This guy and his supporters call the NY millionaire i mean mayor who just went on a very public love in with Trump at the white house “hope”.

I mean come on.

Suburban Rail Loop pause announced as first policy by new opposition leader Victoria's new opposition leader, Jess Wilson, made the policy announcement yesterday as her first major position since taking on the role.

Lololololol

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Find something you hate more than The Age hates passenger rail. You can't, it's simply impossible.

Piastri left speechless after 'horrible' pit stop mistake cost him win Max Verstappen wins the Formula 1 Qatar Grand Prix after a McLaren pit stop error costs Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris.

Another race another strategy hone awry.. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

if you ever needed a refresher on US Foreign Policy here's the list of OPEC nations in case you were wondering...

National Guard shooting suspect worked with CIA in Afghanistan before coming to US The suspect had been recruited to Unit 03 of the Kandahar Strike Force, a former military commander told the BBC, coming to the US after the withdrawal.

Kristi Noem waxes lyrical about how the shooting suspect was radicalised since arriving in the US in 2021 and criticises Biden's lack of vetting. Meanwhile his asylum claim was approved by the Trump administration in 2025.
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YouTube video by ClarkeAndDawe Clarke and Dawe - The Front Fell Off

the front fell off...god I miss these guys...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5q...

YouTube video by ABC News (Australia) Clarke and Dawe on asylum seekers

went down that rabbit hole didn't I?
on Immigration Policy.
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road trip! including TV on the Radio tomorrow night at the Enmore...few days being groovers in Sydney...then Bathurst for the yearly get together organised by my sistes from another mother Colette, back here for a shower and shave and then head beyond the Tweed until just before New Year's...ooft!

was this post re this ? ://bsky.app/profile/strangerous.bsky.social/post/3m6v2w4jvxk2m

Our air-b-n-b is a two minute walk to the Enmore Theatre ….

So lucky to have found her…

Single frame. Cruise liner coming towards us named NEOLIBERAL CRUISES. Person overboard waving on left shouts “HELP!” Others in background going under. On ship, one fellow in suit says “Sorry, you’ll need to upgrade your software.” Another such says “Or, we can sell you a new phone.” Third person at bow enjoying the view.

Good luck!
My @smh @theage cartoon.

Australia doesn't have a gas shortage problem.

We have a gas export problem, and Australians are paying the price.

Great to see this issue being discussed in Parliament this week! #auspol

I'm just leaving this here #auspol

Shit ton of an increase in gas exports

Absolute FA PRRT

Gas prices are driving electricity costs higher. Good thing we're getting all that PRRT money right? Right??
www.theguardian.com/business/gro...

It would help if the Albanese govt stopped approving massive new polluting gas and coal projects

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1

Trickle-down economics was always a sham.

Nothing has ever trickled down.

The defining question when future historians debate this era will be whether Trump was the cause of America's decline, or the inevitable result of it.

The Age and SMH removed Gaza references from Kerry O'Brien's Walkleys speech

The Age and Sydney Morning Herald have scrubbed references to Gaza and Palestine from their version of a Walkleys speech given by Kerry O’Brien last week.

Pluribus is great. I won't be making any further comment at this time.