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Jessie L
about 20 hours ago
ABC now running completely untrue propaganda for America and Israel. The bombing hasn’t stopped and it has been widely reported that Netanyahu said to his own people they wouldn’t stop pretty much as soon as trump asked him to.
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Crikey
6 days ago
Opinion | Donald Trump wants to impose an economic development plan on Gaza, led by Tony Blair — a man whose deceptions led to 100,000 deaths in Iraq,
@keanebernard.bsky.social
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Trump's plan to end war crimes in Gaza, naturally, puts war criminal Tony Blair in charge
Perhaps Tony Blair is the ideal man to lead a Trump reconstruction plan in Gaza. His lies about Iraq led to at least 100,000 deaths and helped pave the way for Trump.
https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/30/gaza-donald-trump-plan-tony-blair-war-criminal-iraq/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1759210623-2
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I don't think this journalist understands the role of public servants compared to ministerial office staff.
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Will Clarke
14 days ago
“… It is an “agenda” of the white male id — capricious, short-fused, anxious, paranoid, jealous, demanding of control but resentful of the burden of responsibility control brings — the nihilism of privilege.”
@keanebernard.bsky.social
www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/22/d...
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Free speech? Neoliberal economics? Rule of law? No, now only the white male id guides the right
Gone are the days when the cornerstones of right-wing ideology pointed towards neoliberal economics and personal freedom. All has been replaced with the agenda of the anxious white male.
https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/22/donald-trump-free-speech-united-states-neoliberalism-white-male/
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Netanyahu is a corrupt, genocidal, thin-skinned man-child who propped up Hamas with millions of dollars. Why is even a foreign propaganda outlet like Sky News giving him a platform?
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Netanyahu proves he's a thin-skinned, genocidal man-child — and that News Corp is a foreign propaganda outlet
The Israeli prime minister poses as a tough guy, but criticism reduces him to a quivering jelly of rage. It's no surprise he went to News Corp to vent.
https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/08/22/benjamin-netanyahu-sky-news-sharri-markson-news-corp-israel-palestine/
about 1 month ago
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Bernard Keane
Crikey
about 2 months ago
What a weird coincidence — everyone attending the productivity roundtable thinks something they directly benefit from would be great for the economy,
@keanebernard.bsky.social
writes.
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How the productivity roundtable became a vast gaslighting exercise — and sums up the fatal rot in Australian politics
The run-up to the productivity roundtable has been a giant demonstration of how politics in Australia is merely a quarrel of vested interests and not the national interest.
https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/08/18/productivity-economic-reform-roundtable-vested-interests-jim-chalmers/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1755479351-2
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Jewish Council of Australia
2 months ago
Media Release: Jewish Council backs march across Sydney Harbour Bridge We stand with – and join – those marching across the bridge and call for immediate action to stop the Gaza genocide and for a future where everyone is free, from the river to the sea.
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NY Times Pitchbot
2 months ago
How it started. How it's going..
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News Corp launched a disgusting smear campaign against
@sarahschwartz.bsky.social
last summer. But an independent review just completely cleared her of fake charges of antisemitism -- and pointed out how the media took her out of context
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News Corp smear campaign against Sarah Schwartz demolished by independent review
The Australian launched a smear against Sarah Schwartz alleging antisemitism. An independent review has completely cleared her and pointed the finger at News Corp instead.
https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/07/24/news-corp-smear-campaign-sarah-schwartz-demolished-independent-review/
2 months ago
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Crikey
2 months ago
Never mind dying babies, what about Senate decorum? Crikey reveals how Labor sets its priorities when it comes to genocide in Gaza.
@keanebernard.bsky.social
writes.
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'Background use only': How Labor justifies its silence on Gaza to the media
Labor's response yesterday to mass starvation in Gaza was to condemn a Greens senator for mentioning it. Then it tried to spin itself as the victim.
https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/07/24/labor-justifies-gaza-silence-to-media/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1753327332-2
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madoc cairns
3 months ago
Police in Canterbury today informed a protestor that the phrase "Israel is committing genocide in Gaza" could be considered a declaration of support for Palestine Action and therefore a terrorism offence.
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Crikey
3 months ago
Dear Sydney: you're not a global city, you're just a toytown run by a grubby entertainment-gambling industrial complex. Love,
@keanebernard.bsky.social
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The terrors of toytown: Sydney quakes in the shadows of entertainment and gambling egos
Sydneysiders should stop pretending they live in a serious city. It's run by the entertainment-gambling industrial complex, and it stinks.
https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/07/03/sydney-gambling-entertainment-peter-vlandys-justin-hemmes/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1751512217-2
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Al Jazeera English
3 months ago
At least 73 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since dawn, including 33 aid seekers, according to medical sources.
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‘Horrific scenes’ in Gaza as Israel kills dozens of aid seekers
At least 73 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since dawn, including 33 aid seekers, according to medical sources.
https://bit.ly/40BrnW9
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Bernard Keane
Crikey
3 months ago
This week the media fell for OpenAI's bullshit about massive productivity gains from adopting AI — just another demand for handouts by big business,
@keanebernard.bsky.social
writes.
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OpenAI's 'productivity' garbage is an age-old scam — and one that's long crippled Australia
Touting the economic benefits of AI is straight from business lobbyists' playbook, one used over and over again.
https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/07/02/openai-productivity-chatgpt-business-council-australia-sam-altman/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1751418488-1
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Bernard Keane
Crikey
3 months ago
In NSW, violent crime is surging. Meanwhile Premier Chris Minns is obsessing over pro-Palestine protesters,
@keanebernard.bsky.social
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Gaza protesters cop a beating while criminals run increasingly rampant: It's Chris Minns' NSW
https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/07/01/chris-minns-nsw-gaza-protesters-violent-crime/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1751337794
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Crikey
3 months ago
How long before the government does something about the department of defence? A new report reveals spectacular failings around our helicopter carriers,
@keanebernard.bsky.social
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Choppers of credibility: How 15 years of Defence debacle gave us dud helicopter carriers
The Department of Defence's management of our two largest naval vessels was characterised by spectacular incompetence, critical failures and possible fraud, a new report shows.
https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/06/30/defence-department-helicopter-carriers-failure/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1751249617-2
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Welcome to the jungle: the "rules based international order" that Australia has lectured other countries about for decades is dead and buried.
www.crikey.com.au/2025/06/24/d...
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Trump's bombing proves 'the global order' was just power politics all along. Now? Welcome to the jungle
Australia has long been an enthusiastic supporter of a 'rules-based international order'. That order is now dead at the hands of the Trump administration. And it turns out China was right — it was a s...
https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/06/24/donald-trump-iran-bombing-international-rules-based-order/
3 months ago
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What was Australia's role in Trump's attack on Iran? You're not allowed to know. While other governments treat their citizens as adults, Labor keeps us in the dark.
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What was Australia's role in Trump's attack on Iran? You're not allowed to know
Other US allies are being transparent with their people about any role their nation played in the attack on Iran. But from Australia's leaders? Crickets.
https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/06/23/iran-attack-trump-israel-australia-role-wong-marles-anthony-albanese/
3 months ago
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The American empire is in accelerating decline, exposing vassal states like Australia to increasing global chaos and violence. How is Australia's political establishment coping? Not too well.
www.crikey.com.au/2025/06/19/d...
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Chaos, violence and war become the norm as the US empire collapses
The US is now the main agent of global chaos. How should Australia's policymakers respond?
https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/06/19/donald-trump-america-iran-israel-war-minnesota-democrat-melissa-hortman/
4 months ago
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Crikey
4 months ago
Anthony Albanese doesn't need to chase Trump, and voters don't want him to. He should ignore News Corp and the Coalition and keep his distance,
@keanebernard.bsky.social
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Albanese should be avoiding Trump like the plague. Why is he (and Australia's toytown media) chasing him?
https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/06/18/anthony-albanese-donald-trump-media-g7/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1750213235-2
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The genocide, ethnic cleansing and aggression demonstrated repeatedly by Benjamin Netanyahu exposes the double standard at the heart of the west's foreign policy. The regime change we really need is the removal of him and his genocidal government from office.
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The regime change the West needs is the end of Netanyahu
Benjamin Netanyahu's unprovoked attack on Iran is another in the long list of examples of how the right is now the biggest threat to global stability and security.
https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/06/16/israel-attack-iran-us-west-hypocrisy/
4 months ago
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Anthony Albanese has integrated Australia's defence capability into what is looking more and more like Donald Trump's private militia. How long can the fiction of business as usual with the US be sustained?
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As Trump and his militia torch America, Albanese recklessly insists on business as usual
Anthony Albanese avoided talking about Australia's changing strategic circumstances during the election. But as Trump embraces fascism, he may not be able to much longer.
https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/06/10/donald-trump-los-angeles-anthony-albanese-us-australia-relationship/
4 months ago
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Crikey
4 months ago
The Auditor-General has revealed another example of unethical conduct by bureaucrats, this time around a plan to re-engineer Meals on Wheels across Australia.
@keanebernard.bsky.social
reports.
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Lobbyists and consultants dictated a government health scheme. It ended in disaster
The auditor-general has revealed how an attempt by lobbyists, consultants and bureaucrats to reform Meals on Wheels ended in disaster.
https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/05/28/miles-morgan-australia-meals-on-wheels-public-service-unethical-conduct/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1748395895-2
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Bernard Keane
Crikey
4 months ago
Opinion | Why are Australians indifferent to the genocide in Gaza? Because to do so might be to remember that Australia, too, is founded on dispossession, writes
@keanebernard.bsky.social
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Labor read the room on Gaza. What does that say about our indifference to Palestinians?
Labor's silence on the genocide in Gaza has been simultaneous with its near-total silence on Indigenous affairs since the referendum.
https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/05/26/labor-gaza-position-albanese-israel-bombing-west-bank-palestine-palestinians/
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Tom Quinn
5 months ago
A blistering piece by
@keanebernard.bsky.social
on Australia's inaction on Gaza "If a country is engaged in genocide or ethnic cleansing, is not a matter of international politicking, but of basic morality. The continued presence of companies engaged in supporting those actions would be intolerable
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Labor's middle-way timidity on Gaza genocide sums up Australia's indifference
Labor has tried to walk a fine line on Israel's actions in Gaza. The ramping up of genocide and ethnic cleansing has made that strategy unviable.
https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/05/20/gaza-israel-palestine-labor-indifference/
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Labor's "middle way" timidity on the Palestinian genocide might have worked at the ballot box, but it can't hold in the face of blatant ethnic cleansing, mass starvation and Australia's allies denouncing Israel
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Labor's middle-way timidity on Gaza genocide sums up Australia's indifference
Labor has tried to walk a fine line on Israel's actions in Gaza. The ramping up of genocide and ethnic cleansing has made that strategy unviable.
https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/05/20/gaza-israel-palestine-labor-indifference/
5 months ago
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Crikey
5 months ago
Opinion | While France, the UK and Canada condemn Israel and threaten it for mass starvation and ethnic cleansing, Australia sits limply by, saying little.
@keanebernard.bsky.social
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Labor's middle-way timidity on Gaza genocide sums up Australia's indifference
Labor has tried to walk a fine line on Israel's actions in Gaza. The ramping up of genocide and ethnic cleansing has made that strategy unviable.
https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/05/20/gaza-israel-palestine-labor-indifference/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1747712215-2
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Labor feels vindicated in its middle-way path on Gaza -- but has now been caught out by Netanyahu's mass starvation and ethnic cleansing. The government is reduced to muttering banalities in response to genocide
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Labor's middle-way timidity on Gaza genocide sums up Australia's indifference
Labor has tried to walk a fine line on Israel's actions in Gaza. The ramping up of genocide and ethnic cleansing has made that strategy unviable.
https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/05/20/gaza-israel-palestine-labor-indifference/
5 months ago
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Crikey
5 months ago
Exclusive | American lawmakers of all sides have joined together to ask Australia to ban greyhound racing, as the US have.
@keanebernard.bsky.social
reports.
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US politicians call for Australia to end greyhound racing — and reap the benefits
American lawmakers have taken the unusual step of appealing to their Australian counterparts to consider following the US example and banning greyhound racing.
https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/05/19/greyhound-racing-us-politics-urge-australia-end/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1747625900
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Bernard Keane
Mr Denmore
5 months ago
Backers of RW populists love the idea of ‘smashing the system’ ‘til they see their savings eroded, their jobs threatened & basic services cut.
@keanebernard.bsky.social
observes how a lack of interest in actually governing is undoing Trump and his tribute acts.
www.crikey.com.au/2025/05/14/m...
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Reversal of fortune: How the populist right flamed out in a matter of months
How did the MAGA Right go from triumph to defeat so rapidly? While they can make excuses, their basic problem is they have no interest in governing well, only governing for themselves.
https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/05/14/maga-donald-trump-populist-right/
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Bernard Keane
Crikey
5 months ago
How did the Trumpist right go from triumph to despair so quickly in Australia? Because voters worked out they're not interested in governing well,
@keanebernard.bsky.social
writes.
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Reversal of fortune: How the populist right flamed out in a matter of months
How did the MAGA Right go from triumph to defeat so rapidly? While they can make excuses, their basic problem is they have no interest in governing well, only governing for themselves.
https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/05/14/maga-donald-trump-populist-right/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1747187373-2
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There will never be a better time for the Coalition to stop being worried about unity and instead have the fight over climate and energy it has been dodging for decades
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The first order of business for the Coalition: Fight a major battle over energy
For nearly two decades, the Liberals have adopted fake climate policies to maintain Coalition unity. In the depths of their post-election despair, there would never be a better time to have a public f...
https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/05/12/coalition-peter-dutton-nuclear-power-renewable-energy/
5 months ago
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Led By Donkeys
5 months ago
TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
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Gef the Toking Mongoose
about 1 year ago
cyberpunk has had its run now it's time for cyberska give me robot rudeboys and augmentations that turn your hands into trombones
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Bernard Keane
PA to a Kelpie
5 months ago
Excellent article from
@keanebernard.bsky.social
at
@crikey.com.au
. Looking back at the election, I’d say the Teals were more focused on climate action than the Greens were. I wish them well because we need them but they’ve got to return to their core business.
www.crikey.com.au/2025/05/08/a...
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Bandt was presented with a historic opportunity. Instead, he wrecked his party
2025 should have been a triumph for the Greens, as 2010 proved to be. Instead, Adam Bandt led his party to disaster.
https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/05/08/adam-bandt-greens-environment-2025-federal-election/
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Bernard Keane
Dr. Stephanie Seul
5 months ago
This is really good news 🎊 "Bluesky has overtaken its flailing rival X in hosting posts related to new academic research, indicating the platform is fast becoming the go-to place for scholars to share their work."
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
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Research Announcements Shifting to Bluesky
Bluesky has overtaken its flailing rival X in hosting posts related to new academic research, indicating the platform is fast becoming the go-to place for scholars to share their work. Analysis by exp...
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/5/3/2320261/-Research-Announcements-Shifting-to-Bluesky
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Patton Oswalt
5 months ago
Too bad you forced her to resign for censoring one of her political cartoons.
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Crikey
5 months ago
News Corp owns a large part of the Liberals' defeat — for decades it has engulfed the Liberals in a bubble of right-wing insularity from the real world.
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News Corp owns much of the Liberals' spectacular defeat. If they want more of them, keep going
News Corp contributed deeply the Liberals' election disaster. Its agenda, designed to serve its business interests and not the national interest, is deeply damaging to the Liberals.
https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/05/05/news-corp-liberal-party-defeat-sky-news-coalition/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1746413324-2
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News Corp relies on division and resentment. By tying their fortunes to that company, the Liberals enfeebled themselves and made themselves irrelevant to real Australians.
www.crikey.com.au/2025/05/05/n...
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News Corp owns much of the Liberals' spectacular defeat. If they want more of them, keep going
News Corp contributed deeply the Liberals' election disaster. Its agenda, designed to serve its business interests and not the national interest, is deeply damaging to the Liberals.
https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/05/05/news-corp-liberal-party-defeat-sky-news-coalition/
5 months ago
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Theory: Angus Taylor was purposefully so awful in this campaign with the goal of destroying Dutton and clearing his own path to the leadership. That it's the leadership of a rump of a party doesn't matter, I guess.
5 months ago
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Sophie Black
5 months ago
Happy democracy day to all who observe. For those of you who haven’t already voted, this morning we have a few extra reading treats up our sleeve for you to read in the queue 🧵First,
@keanebernard.bsky.social
on why it’s vital we don’t blow our shot for minority gov
www.crikey.com.au/2025/05/03/m...
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People like the idea of disrupting political norms — until it happens. But this election offers a better way
Now that voters have seen what it's like when a real disruptor is given power, where do the resentful and the alienated turn? Minority government provides an answer.
https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/05/03/minority-government-2025-election/?utm_campaign=daily&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter
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Dave Sag
5 months ago
I probably hold at least seven unlawful beliefs before breakfast. I expect to hold even more later today.
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Crikey
5 months ago
One Nation is polling at levels that suggest the next parliament could be a very bad one for social cohesion — and thus for national security, writes Bernard Keane.
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Will Pauline Hanson be a king maker?
The growing support for One Nation likely means a less cohesive and secure Australia. But the media is focused on the lower house, where the flow of preferences is suddenly crucial.
https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/05/01/one-nation-vote-pauline-hanson-election-labor-coalition-preferences-dutton-albanese/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1746066832-1
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Who better than Peter Dutton to teach us how to "disagree better". Here are Dutton's tips on better civic discourse!
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Peter Dutton's Guide to Disagreeing Nicely
The opposition leader rightly says we need to learn how to disagree better. Luckily his political history features plenty of guidance on how.
https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/04/30/peter-dutton-respectful-debate-federal-election-asylum-seekers-stolen-generations/
5 months ago
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Dutton surges from behind!
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5 months ago
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Bernard Keane
NY Times Pitchbot
5 months ago
My taxi driver from SFO was a Waymo. I said, "I know you're AI and cannot vote, but if you could, I'd like to think you'd vote for a center-left techno futurist who believes in human rights but who also goes easy on the billionaire class. Turn left if this is true." It turned left. I am in love.
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Investors are rushing for the exits in the US as Trump's chaos turns sentiment even further against the US economy
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America's new golden age turns to tinfoil as investors run to the exit amid Trump chaos
Big global investors are moving money offshore and selling down their US share investments — and Donald Trump has only himself to blame.
https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/04/17/donald-trump-tariff-chaos-investors-fleeing-us/
6 months ago
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Crikey
6 months ago
At the heart of the storm over Russia's airbase request to Indonesia is a racist assumption about our place in the region,
@keanebernard.bsky.social
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Russia-Indonesia debacle reveals Australia is racist and incompetent in the face of a new global order
The reaction to the Russian airbase-that-never-was in Indonesia shows how unprepared Australia is to deal with our changed security circumstances.
https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/04/17/russia-indonesia-australia-military-base-anthony-albanese-peter-dutton/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1744858018-1
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I've already endured the shitbags of the US Customs Service. Hopefully never again. Unless Albanese and Marles make us the 51st state.
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6 months ago
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Bernard Keane
NY Times Pitchbot
6 months ago
It says so much that the media is bent out of shape about the torture of deportees in El Salvador, which I do not support, but not about the torture of authentic progressive journalists by globalist shitlibs in the M$DNC green room. by Glenn Greenwald
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