Yes, however they have enough in common to really frighten me & I am deeply despairing about the incapacity of potential ‘progressive’ forces to work together in the face of that.
#Labor - I’m looking at you.

apart from that, the right are rapidly coalescing.

If Paul Keating was the Opposition Leader right now what would he be asking Australian Treasurer Jim Chalmers?

Forget polls & Lib leadership stuff. That's the intellectual deliberation we need to have right now. #auspol

DP rocks

David Pocock is right: more tax is raised from beer than from petroleum resource rent tax (PRRT) Senator David Pocock has produced viral social media content claiming that Australia’s beer tax raises more revenue than the gas industry pays in Petroleum Resource Rent Tax (PRRT). Can more public mo...

I’m doing my part. Why can’t the gas industry

Europeans are dangerously reliant on US tech. Now is a good time to build our own | Johnny Ryan By trusting the US, we handed Trump a kill switch. Yet Europe’s digital sovereignty is an achievable goal, says civil liberties campaigner, Johnny Ryan

It is ironic, but the horrors of the Trump era could ultimately strengthen Europe and its allies. We can and must wean ourselves off US tech.

While the Trumpian rhetoric claims that he's making America "great" again, the reality is he is destroying it.

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& born w a silver foot in his mouth acc to JC😂

For those unaware, a quick primer on perhaps the most dangerous of the oligarchs.

Peter Thiel.

We need an independent inquiry into police conduct.

New video shows violent arrest of Australian filmmaker James Ricketson at Sydney's anti-Herzog protest abc.net.au/news/2026-02-1… via @ABCaustralia #nswpol #auspol

‘It makes us wonder ….’ It does indeed.

‘Born w a silver foot in his mouth’ JC

🙉🙊🙈

To @albomp.bsky.social & @chrisminnsmp.bsky.social

We’ve seen dozens of instances from Monday’s Sydney protest of police, running at & attacking ppl kettling, pushing ppl walking away from behind & beating

Not One of protester violence and…
You’ve the police investigating themselves? FFS! #Auspol

Yes Julia it was!! & thank you - I’ve been trying to get that right all week!

Seems to me Jim is hog tied.

🙏🏼love Jim - Labor’s saving grace

Someone’s line - ‘born w a silver foot in his mouth’ 😂

We knew from the moment we heard it that “social cohesion” would be one of those Orwellian terms which would be used to cover all manner of state sanctioned abuse and deprivation of civic freedoms.
It fuels the very unrest it pretends to seek to quell.

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Business as usual between Bib & Bob

The cop riot So, first things first, a big congrats to Angus Taylor.

‘Perhaps because I grew up in Queensland in the ‘80s, [‘70s] I’m more often surprised when police don’t attack demonstrators.’ #Birmingham speaks for me open.substack.com/pub/aliensid...

Western quoll joey born in the wild after conservation program success Once thought to be extinct in NSW, the small, spotted, and highly photogenic western quoll is making a hard-fought comeback to the wild.

How gorgeous 😄❤️

Neoliberalism writ large.
Not a scintilla of progressive democratic socialist principles in this arrogant, wayward government.
#auspol

Conflict at the Sydney anti-Herzog rally was near-inevitable once we gave the state the power to suppress protests | Stephen Lawrence The reality is the legal framework placed police and protesters in this situation – and what I saw as I protested looked like instances of excessive police force

Shy hope for #NSW legislators #Herzog debacle
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Here's your social cohesion @albomp.bsky.social 🤬
The NSW police are under strict orders, if the pepper spray doesn't work just start punching them in the guts.
Will they shoot us dead next..,.
#auspol
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One of the best signs @ #Sydney Town Hall this evening #ArrestHerzog

They’re not keen on having us march #OURSTREETS!!!

#NSWPolice constraining entry to #Sydney Town Hall Square @6.50PM #FreefreePalestine !!