If @australianlabor.bsky.social wants to address the rise of of the #PHONY alternative then don’t ask for $ - stand up for the values of the organisation and 🇦🇺. If you’ve forgotten start with inclusivity, a living wage, access to safe housing, education, a caring 🇦🇺. Stop leaving a vacuum. #auspol

🇦🇺 needs sovereignty over its coms (and its health and its security etc) - working with international govt partners is one thing, relying on privateers is a much riskier proposition. Our satellites, our certainty!#auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...

Another banger from @adriandaub.bsky.social and @moiradonegan.bsky.social - love the focus on academic centralism re plagiarism - yes we’re all terrified of falling over that. Thanks for continuing to name the meat nit jyst tge BBQ sizzle! podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/i...

Thanks @sauleslake.bsky.social for the reality check. Those looking to buy for the old fashioned reason of a roof over their head will be disappointed but not particularly impacted. Stop talking about housing as a wealth creation mechanism #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...

Providing an incentive to replace food production capacity with energy crop production is problematic. The perverse drivers of capitalism threaten food security. Let’s do some big picture planning before we jump on this one to minimise the obvious risks #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...

The irony of the Shadow Treasurer at the #PressClub today outlining a #Voice to Parliament for small business that WILL seek to influence every legislation proposed is jaw dropping! #TinEars #auspol

One Nation voters are not voting to address their own inequality, they are voting to reinstate their inequality. If you don’t understand the fundamental difference between these things, you have no place reporting or commentating on Australian politics.

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05... Looking forward to the #Libs and #Nats should be able to get behind this winding back of govt spending. #auspol

If the electors of Farrer want to send a message to the cynical major parties and to the Trumpist copycat Pauline Hanson’s ‘One Nation’ there’s only one sensible choice: community independent Michelle Milthorpe. Back yourselves folks.

Love Sat morning with @janfran.bsky.social and @antoinettelattouf.bsky.social cutting through the haze of lazy journalism. Check it out for yourself #Usedtobejournos #OnlyFran #auspol

So Jane Hume pumps an email out to #Farrer voters today slamming the #PHONy candidate - questioning his bonafides, highlighting his ambiguous commitment to party and values. All of this punching down while out the other side the #LNP mouth the same candidate is being preferenced.🤦 #WTF #auspol

And without a shred of urony detecred #WellDoneAngus opens up on fuel policy. Looking firwars to his next foray into water policty. #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

If only they’d jump on the loss of social license for #AUKUS! How might that help programs that actually make a positive difference in people’s lives! #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04... Seems unnecessarily complicated. Remove CGT discount from existing properties. Make it a policy with purpose. #auspol

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04... Imagine if we hadn’t killed all the momentum of renewable fuel R,D&E in a decade-long ideological frenzy about the reality of climate change and its human origins. Another fabulous contribution from the adults on the #Right! Cheers! #auspol

www.instagram.com/p/DXGK_90kyh... @zalisteggall.bsky.social commentary deserves reproduction here. #Valuesoutfront! Bravo. #auspol

Here’s an interesting headline. Another WTF moment from the media. This shouldn’t have been a surprise! Let’s have that discussion. #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

Conditions are ripe for an alternative, true. But #PHON has nothing to offer. Short-termism, racism, blaming migrants and a longing for yesteryear that never existed. It’s the pundits giving credibility hee where none should be given. Think about that. #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

Appalling coverage - why in the name of all things does the media - looking at you #ABC - continue to promote these groups who have nothing to contribute to a progressive, inclusive, egalitarian, caring society? NOTHING! #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

And now for the #Libs to make their harvest attempt. I just got emailed at work. Well done #Angus, but no thanks. #Farrrer deserves better than these rusty gates. Get behind @michellemilthorpe.bsky.social and give the whole electorate a voice I say. #auspol

And the #Nats have started their harvest in Farrer. My money’s on the #OrangeEmu and @michellemilthorpe.bsky.social . Get on it #auspol

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02... The problem here is that in a #Monarchy the prols don’t get to choose. Perhaps the step to take is to say we’ve had enough - a #Republic for us. #auspol

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02... Heads up #Farrer Get behind #michellemilthorpe and the orange emu and let’s put another #Independent MP in Canberra. #auspol #voicesoffarrer

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02... Let’s see the CCTV. It’s Town Hall for heaven’s sake - forget the phones and cut video. Let’s have a transparent discussion about the context. #auspol

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02... Excellent to see the laser like focus on the issues of everyday Australians facing cost of living …blah,blah,blah. Self centred, myopic, divisive yes - viable alternative government no. Yet another who cares moment from Flick and the outgoing member for Farrer #auspol

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02... I have no words - apart from #notmyvalues and I don’t think it reflects 🇦🇺 values. It really is time for 🇦🇺 govt to fish or cut bait and make a statement about what is important in our relationship with our global partners. Staying silent is a loud message. #auspol

What he said #auspol

Cmon @moiradonegan.bsky.social and @adriandaub.bsky.social - ‘Romantasy’ is just ‘Pride and Prejudice’ with dragons, vampires and fairies.

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01... The🇦🇺 govt needs to stand up, be clear about what they are trying to achieve, talk to the electorate not the press corps. Leadership is required. If they don’t stand for something then the country falls for everything- these muppets are not the answer. #auspol

Nice one @moiradonegan.bsky.social and @adriandaub.bsky.social on the ICE shooting. Challenging but important stuff. Be safe. #Invedwiththeright

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www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01... Tin tacks time - Terms of Reference? #auspol

Great @janfran.bsky.social and @antoinettelattouf.bsky.social so measured - you only have a finite amount of energy so spend it where it adds value (to paraphrase!). Much better than my “ no mor f$&@s left in my bucket”. Guess that’s the value of having been journos. Go 2026. #auspol

Surely - too bad so sad - get on with it, your chance has passed.

Indeed!

Another crushing podcast from @janfran.bsky.social and @antoinettelattouf.bsky.social on #weusedtobejournos - this time Bondi. Clear, compassionate, insightful, honest. #thanks #auspol

Stark question - insightful answer. Nobody listening.

Insightful, accountable, entertaining! Bravo! More please @moiradonegan.bsky.social @adriandaub.bsky.social

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11... There’s the rub - release all unclassified files. It’s a transparency act - have any file recently been designated Classified? If so, on what basis? Surely in the interests of transparency, truth and healing ALL the files should be released. Period. #Epstein

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11... Always, always, always back the horse of self interest. #auspol

Reposting after listening to @janfran.bsky.social and @antoinettelattouf.bsky.social on #oncewerejournos - 5⭐️ by the way 🔥 - the issue being that the #BBC opened the door by bad practice. The pile on was always conning - eternal vigilance is necessary. We rely on it! #auspol

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11... Why can’t the media just do its job? Report the news, stop trying to be the news. Every time respected media screws up it emboldens the disinformation we face everyday on every single issue. Yes it’s your byline - it’s not about you #doyourjob. #auspol

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11... This is the pointy end of #capitalism. It’s obscene in its excess.

Wow @moiradonegan.bsky.social and @adriandaub.bsky.social this Project 1933 stuff is incredible. 🔥🔥🔥 #2025

Outstanding leadership from @davidpocock.bsky.social in the 🇦🇺 #Senate again. Holding up a mirror to the #ALP - how they have shifted in 20 years. Sad . Now is the time for courage, leadership, decency. #auspol

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10... The interesting bit of this fluff piece is the reference to receiving updated flu and COVID 19 vaccinations. Presumably he has been vaccinated previously (makes sense he’s an old man). However it is at odds with his current #RFKJr positioning. #weird

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09... If that is the vision for Australia as presented in the Insta photo - let’s just not! Shorts and socks Noooooooooo! #auspol

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09... I’m curious as to what else the “pick me” Party would trade off/ compromise to be liked. Umm let’s see- the PBS, our health system, our sovereignty? The OL needs to explain coherently as to whether they will act in the interests of all 🇦🇺. #auspol

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09... Increasingly looks like a good time to focus on our own footsteps. #auspol

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09... The Opposition also needs to be held to account. I expect the media to press the OL on which programs don’t deliver value (however that is measured) and what the govt should do. The time for these discussions is now, not 72 hrs before the next election. #auspol