"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 —
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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...
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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
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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...
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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.
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Australia is sending military assets to participate in the war, yay
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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
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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 —
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Australian government backing the new world disorder.
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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
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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 —
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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
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@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
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War is a great profit opportunity for gluttonous rapacious creatures! #Trump #Netanyahu #Putin #NRA et al #auspol
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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 —
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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...
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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
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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
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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
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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 —
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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
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It's raining in #OrangeNSW and Diamond looks a bit grumpy. #PeregrineFalcons
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