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Sarcasm you can Trust … #Yes23 Life is too short to hoard political capital, use it boldly and live courageously.

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Court orders Linda Reynolds and Commonwealth to enter mediation The Federal Court orders mediation between former WA senator Linda Reynolds and the Commonwealth in her legal claim over its conduct during a financial settlement with Brittany Higgins.

Mediation ordered. Linda Reynolds is suing the Commonwealth over failing to act in her best interests when they took control of her defence in the handling of Brittany Higgins's claim that she did not feel adequately supported. #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

10.03.2026 05:39 — 👍 24    🔁 9    💬 13    📌 2
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"When [economists] say the labour market's too tight & we need unemployment to rise, they say it so cavalierly."

"One, because they know they're not going to lose their jobs."

@grogsgamut.bsky.social & @skyelark.bsky.social on the latest episode of Dollars & Sense. #auspol

🎧 theaus.in/4aU32AI

10.03.2026 05:53 — 👍 80    🔁 33    💬 4    📌 3
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Is Australia at war? Legally, the answer is yes It's a reasonable question for Australians to ask given the government is sending a sophisticated reconnaissance plane — crewed by dozens of military personnel — to the Middle East. And legal experts ...

Legally speaking, Australia is at war. Dividing between "attack" & "defence" has little legal force. Now a party to the conflict irrespective of "offensive" & "defensive" conduct. The use of "collective self-defence" term references UN Charter Article 51. #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

10.03.2026 05:53 — 👍 66    🔁 38    💬 12    📌 3
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Breaking: Littleproud sheds tears & announces he’s “buggered”, “had enough” & resigning as leader.
Claims he’s the best Nat leader “since John McEwen” in the 40s & “proud” of his “legacy” of saying No to Voice for First Nations ppl & No to Net Zero
Little to be proud of🙄 #auspol

10.03.2026 06:14 — 👍 134    🔁 32    💬 46    📌 7
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AUKUS is binding Australia to a dangerous, unpredictable leader. We need a Plan B now There are three major, unresolved questions with AUKUS that illustrate why this plan is not right for Australia, given the changing nature of the US.

We need leaders who C the obvious danger, stop bending the knee AND take on the hard work of creating independence. Unfortunately no one in the current lot look capable #Auspol

AUKUS is binding Australia to a dangerous, unpredictable leader. We need a Plan B now
theconversation.com/aukus-is-bin...

09.03.2026 23:19 — 👍 13    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
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Australia to send aircraft and air-to-air missiles to Gulf to ‘protect and defend’ civilians, PM says Anthony Albanese announces surveillance aircraft, air-to-air missiles and supporting personnel will be deployed to the UAE after request from their president

As the intensity and reach of the US and Israel-led forever war increases, PM Albanese - not satisfied with being the first to back it - has now decided to get Australia’s hands bloodied by joining in.

You don’t protect people with missiles, you kill them.

09.03.2026 23:07 — 👍 77    🔁 36    💬 10    📌 6
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How far should Australia go in backing America’s war effort? | Fiona Katauskas We don’t want to be the poster child

Feeling wanted- my #Iran #Auspol cartoon for @australia.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

09.03.2026 23:27 — 👍 50    🔁 18    💬 5    📌 0

Australia is sending military assets to participate in the war, yay

09.03.2026 23:36 — 👍 92    🔁 15    💬 18    📌 3
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Australians are poorer than they were a decade ago. Real wages stuck at 2013 levels. Housing crisis exploding. Labor’s response is more defence spending to satisfy the US. At this point Albo is just Dutton with better PR #auspol

09.03.2026 04:42 — 👍 40    🔁 24    💬 0    📌 0
Four panel editorial cartoon. Panel one, an adult and a child sit quietly under a tree. The adult through a ball foe a dog while the child, reading something says, “Says here that Australia is nearly three times the population of Israel . . . “ Panel two, they quietly stare at each other, the dog is retrieving the ball. Panel three they are still looking quietly at each other, the dog waits with the ball. Panel four, the child skips away playing with a toy plane as he says, “Imagine how many countries WE could attack!”

Four panel editorial cartoon. Panel one, an adult and a child sit quietly under a tree. The adult through a ball foe a dog while the child, reading something says, “Says here that Australia is nearly three times the population of Israel . . . “ Panel two, they quietly stare at each other, the dog is retrieving the ball. Panel three they are still looking quietly at each other, the dog waits with the ball. Panel four, the child skips away playing with a toy plane as he says, “Imagine how many countries WE could attack!”

Middle power #auspol #Israel

08.03.2026 08:05 — 👍 27    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0
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Australian government backing the new world disorder.

08.03.2026 07:50 — 👍 180    🔁 82    💬 9    📌 5
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When asked if the govt’s new Apprenticeship program was “worthwhile”, Jacinta Price said
“Throwing more taxpayer money to boost trades isn’t the answer”

Doesn’t want taxpayers funding trades, but happy to slug them for hubby to attend CPAC events? Really disgraceful. #auspol

06.03.2026 07:38 — 👍 230    🔁 83    💬 21    📌 6
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Let me briefly distract you from rising fuel prices.

Electricity prices will rise too with the gas cartel now super-profiting from selling OUR gas in a disrupted Intl market. @albomp.bsky.social’s dud gas policy changes announced in December mean the cartel laughs as we suffer. #auspol

08.03.2026 01:38 — 👍 105    🔁 51    💬 5    📌 3
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I hear @abcnews platformed "ol' acid drop" Peter Hartcher on #insiders again today.

Keating has always had Hartcher's measure: "How maladroit do you have to be before the management decides your copy has no value—before management is obliged to drop you?" #auspol

08.03.2026 01:46 — 👍 45    🔁 17    💬 3    📌 0

@australianlabor.bsky.social
94 seats the worst opposition in my lifetime & you won’t make the decisions needed for OUR country! #auspol @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social @punterspolitics.bsky.social @greens.org.au @davidpocock.bsky.social @mon4kooyong.bsky.social
#MurdochGutterMedia

08.03.2026 01:50 — 👍 9    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

War is a great profit opportunity for gluttonous rapacious creatures! #Trump #Netanyahu #Putin #NRA et al #auspol

08.03.2026 01:56 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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Pauline Hanson's Gold Coast apartment sale leaves 'disappointed' buyer with surprise legal bill Wendy Carrafa has been left with a bad taste in the her mouth and a outstanding $550 legal bill following her purchase of the Gold Coast apartment owned by One Nation leader Pauline Hanson and her son...

One of Pauline Hanson's questionable Gold Coast property deals from 2017. #auspol
www.domain.com.au/news/pauline...

08.03.2026 01:54 — 👍 17    🔁 8    💬 6    📌 0
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PM’s pragmatism on Trump’s Iran fury risks Australia following US into Operation Epic Fail | Zoe Daniels Anthony Albanese’s support for actions that do not adhere to international law stands in stark contrast to the principles demonstrated by Labor two decades ago

"I don’t need international law," the apex opportunist Donald Trump declared but the words of Simon Crean from 20 years ago still echo across Australia. #auspol www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

08.03.2026 02:12 — 👍 38    🔁 20    💬 4    📌 0
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The Light and the Hill - Michael West The Australian Labor Party has drifted from its historic purpose. What does Labor's retreat from reform mean for Australia?

"Power unused in the face of injustice is not restraint. It is a choice"

The Labor Party has drifted from its historic purpose, retreated from reform. Andrew Brown with the 1st in a series - what it means for Australia.
#auspol
michaelwest.com.au/the-light-an...

08.03.2026 02:39 — 👍 148    🔁 62    💬 5    📌 5
Local doctor tells female patient that it’s not International Women’s Day, suggests Panadol

Local doctor tells female patient that it’s not International Women’s Day, suggests Panadol

"I get what you're saying but there doesn't seem to be anything unusual about today" he said chaser.com.au/general-news...

08.03.2026 03:25 — 👍 111    🔁 22    💬 1    📌 1

Penny Wong says the reason the war on Iran is worth supporting is it will
“keep Australians safe”

Supporting an illegal war for regime change with no evidence of a threat will not keep us safe. It will create a new wave of terrorist groups & who hate us like after Iraq. #auspol

08.03.2026 00:48 — 👍 418    🔁 133    💬 62    📌 11

ATTENTION: @senatorwong.bsky.social

The major driver of acts of terrorism committed across the world is western violence towards Muslim countries and Muslim people.

Participating in genocides and illegal wars against majority Muslim populations will not "keep Australians safe." #auspol

08.03.2026 03:55 — 👍 66    🔁 17    💬 4    📌 1

Countless thousands of women (and kids) in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen and Iran are not happy, @albomp.bsky.social.

They're dead, murdered by Israel and the USA—or missing arms/legs—and you helped make sure they ended up dead or maimed. So—up yours. 🖕🏻 #auspol #MVAW #MVAC #IWD2026

08.03.2026 03:23 — 👍 61    🔁 22    💬 4    📌 1
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Three Australian sailors dragged into "apparent war crime". ⤵️
tinyurl.com/5yfdfjzf

That's what happens when you don't disassociate with #Trump, a 34 x convicted felon ...

07.03.2026 05:39 — 👍 34    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 1

Mehdi Hasan quotes a skit from Mitchell and Webb when discussing the USA's war with Iran.

A feather in @RealDMitchell's cap, surely. 🙇🏻‍♀️ #AreWeTheBaddies

07.03.2026 06:04 — 👍 38    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 0
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It's raining in #OrangeNSW and Diamond looks a bit grumpy. #PeregrineFalcons

07.03.2026 01:25 — 👍 26    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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Supermarkets hit by falling demand for nitrite-cured bacon due to cancer fears Sales of products made the traditional way dropped 7% in three months to 25 January while nitrite-free sales rose 20% UK supermarkets have been hit by a “bacon backlash” as consumers fear that chemicals used to preserve it increase the risk of cancer. Campaigners against the use of nitrites in meat production claimed the fall in sales showed that a “consumer revolt” against the traditional, nitrite-cured form of bacon was gathering pace. Continue reading...

Supermarkets hit by falling demand for nitrite-cured bacon due to cancer fears

06.03.2026 17:45 — 👍 54    🔁 16    💬 8    📌 2
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Trump's Blunder. Air wars don't work. Iran ignores the lessons of history - Michael West Donald Trump's air war on Iran ignores the lessons of history, writes Michael Pascoe. Look at Germany, Yogoslavia, Korea, Vietnam.

Trump's Blunder. Air wars don't work. US Israel war on Iran ignores the lessons of history, writes @michaelpascoe01.bsky.social
#auspol #iran
michaelwest.com.au/trumps-blund...

06.03.2026 22:43 — 👍 56    🔁 21    💬 3    📌 1
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Trump's Blunder. Air wars don't work. Iran ignores the lessons of history - Michael West Donald Trump's air war on Iran ignores the lessons of history, writes Michael Pascoe. Look at Germany, Yogoslavia, Korea, Vietnam.

You’d be a simple, reckless and dangerous soul to go to war on an imagined possibility but that's what Trump has done.
And Australia is supporting him.
Mine for MWM michaelwest.com.au/trumps-blund...

06.03.2026 23:32 — 👍 36    🔁 12    💬 2    📌 1
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Paul Keating savages Nine on anniversary of ‘irresponsible prediction’ Australia faced looming China war The ‘Red Alert’ series warned in 2023 that Australia needed to be ‘ready to fight in just three years’ – and Keating has again taken his fight to the newspaper group

"The former prime minister took the opportunity of the third anniversary of Nine newspapers’ Red Alert series to repeat his disdain for the reporting and its primary author, international editor Peter Hartcher." #auspol
www.theguardian.com/media/2026/m...

06.03.2026 20:08 — 👍 72    🔁 21    💬 3    📌 2