Issy Mack
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Lessgo 2026. If we're not shaking the bastions of power, we're not really shaking anything at all.
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Op Rosny is a Catholic Schools NSW roll call. Jean-Claude Perrottet was its head of communications. John Perrottet (father) is on its board. Jeremy Greenwood is a registered lobbyist for the church and its schools arm. Robert Assaf once worked there. Dallas McInerney, Chief Exec (just stepped down).
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Matt
4 days ago
Anyone saying they want to do a genital check on kids before they can play on a sports team needs to get a throat punch and be curb-stomped until they change their shitty life choices
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James Hughes
4 days ago
A massive Georgia data center drained nearly 30 million gallons of water, sparking outrage among local residents asked to conserve water during a drought. Residents of Fayetteville, Georgia, first noticed something was wrong when their home water pressure mysteriously plummeted.
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4 days ago
Fired government scientists just launched a new site to keep climate data public.
www.climate.us
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They used to be farms, the aura of some agency, fresh air, sky. Now they're factories.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Pro-One Nation Facebook groups appear to be run by foreign ‘meme factories’ that monetise content
Exclusive: Guardian analysis suggests several groups with thousands of members run by what expert calls ‘engagement farm’ operations in south-east Asia
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jun/28/pro-one-nation-facebook-groups-foreign-meme-factories-monetised-content-ntwnfb
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John Birmingham
15 days ago
Be pretty funny if this new bloke became British PM, took one look at AUKUS, and went “Are you fookin kidding me. We’re not doing this shite.”
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Blue Fairylicious Girl🧚
14 days ago
Just a reminder, if you deface the Reflecting Pool you will be arrested…. Oops wrong picture
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1EarthMedia
14 days ago
Peter Thiel group 'Dialog' apparently is different to the 1980s US Defense Department-sponsored DIALOG, then part of Locheed Aviation 200+ databases, 100,000,000+ profiles & reports obtained from publishers, corporations, government agencies I wrote this in 1988 ...
1earthmedia.com/amiga-comput...
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Amiga computers online before the internet - 1EarthMedia
This is what the online world looked like in 1988 before the internet: Viatel, CSIROnet, NTIS, Dialog and Orbit, Ausinet, Telebank, STATEX, USSR TASS and others
https://1earthmedia.com/amiga-computers-online-before-the-internet/
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Must read, Stan Grant today: America’s greatest trick is to suspend disbelief. The nation is founded on a notion of equality it has never fulfilled. Its democracy is often a sham. It is politically polarised and a handful of people hold grotesque wealth.
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/poli...
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A fistfight on the White House lawn
The American Empire is over and it has amounted to nothing. If I am generous, the so-called American century lasted barely 50 years, from 1945 to 1989, and now, as the nation celebrates its 250th anni...
https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/politics/2026/06/20/fistfight-white-house-lawn
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SueinKelowna🦋🇨🇦
16 days ago
When political cartoons hit so accurately you want to make giant billboards of these everywhere.
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I have a feeling she is not going to leave time for questions.
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Now she is onto attack transgender women as if their main aim is get into women's changing rooms, sit in a cubicle next to her. JFC
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i have no problem with Pauline Hanson, i have a lot of problems with what she says.
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Finally, after 17 minutes, Pauline Hanson moves on her anti-immigration, anti-anyone who doesn't look like her tirade to cost of living. She's now onto people eating out of rubbish bins. praise whatever god you pray to.
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Please note Pauline Hanson, the ISIS brides are Australian citizens.
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I wish State of Origin was on now so i could switch from National Press Club.
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Can a journo ask if Pauline Hanson white christian policy includes Jason Virgo's indonesian-born partner leaving the country. Is this because he is foreign-born or muslim? This National Press Club address is Old Pauline, the unpalatable one.
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Is Pauline Hanson including all new zealanders in her antipathy towards foreigners at the national press club. Would be interesting to count how many of the jounos present today had foreign born parents.
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When the ABS predicted Australians population quoted by Pauline Hanson, was this based on today's record low birth rate.
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Valorie Nichols
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf
22 days ago
Insane self-blinding of the US. They are throwing away their investment in the ocean observation system and the benefits it provides. The only explanation I can think of: they don’t want the people to know what their fossil emissions are doing to our oceans.
easternherald.com/2026/06/13/u...
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The US Is Pulling Up a $386 Million Climate Ocean Sensor Network
NSF dismantling Ocean Observatories Initiative as very strong El Niño forms. Edson, Robbins, McLean: an irreparable blind spot in U.S. climate observation.
https://easternherald.com/2026/06/13/us-ocean-observatories-initiative-dismantled-trump-nsf-climate-blind-spot-2026/
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Just the thing on a Sunday morn to make you choke on your weetbix. This man is researching scientific methods to make women want to have babies, wilfully denying policy that could make it more inticing.. like free childcare, affordable housing..
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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How to reverse declining birth rates? The guy from Jim’s Mowing has a theory and it’s … unusual
In a new book, Jim Penman argues our brains have been made insensitive to dopamine by over-exposure to sex, porn, social media, gambling, drugs, alcohol, caffeine and many other things
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/14/how-to-reverse-declining-birth-rates-the-guy-from-jims-mowing-has-a-theory-and-its-unusual
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What is strangest is that forever regional dweller Barnaby Joyce is purporting to represent the needs and challenges of 15million+ big city dwellers. In NSW, regional folk have different planning legislation, CGT rules, are exempt fuel exercise.
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Chris Meder
28 days ago
IKEA didn't build renewable generation to power 1.47 million homes because politicians told them to. They did it because the economics stacked up. With much of the investment already paid off, savings of over half a billion USD per year on electricity costs, the fundamentals become hard to ignore.
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Nails it. Why do boomers think they have the right to control gender identity, a social construct since before Jesus. Get out of our knickers.
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/law-...
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Tickle v Giggle and the next culture war on gender identity
Why is there suddenly a flurry of attention around gender identity? The Sex Discrimination Act amendments have not altered the fact that discrimination on the ground of sex is unlawful, as is the case...
https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/law-crime/2026/06/06/tickle-v-giggle-and-next-culture-war-gender-identity
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Does this guy have a law degree? Was there any legal basis to his argument? Why would michaelia cash as shadow attorney general be employing advisors without any legal qual? If he is a media advisor call him that but
#srsly
what a cf.
www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
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Shadow attorney-general defends decision to allow staffer to write article praising Roberts-Smith
Former West Australian editor Brett McCarthy, now an adviser to shadow attorney-general Michaelia Cash, praised Roberts-Smith despite his arrest on five counts of the war crime of murder.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/shadow-attorney-general-defends-decision-to-allow-staffer-to-write-article-praising-roberts-smith-20260604-p603y2.html
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Turn off the AI or charge the true water cost.
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Fact: Australia's summer gas-fired energy generation was 24% lower year-on-year. Why: Batteries are taking over gas' role to meet peak demand, transforming how electricity prices are formed. Lessgo world & turn off gas.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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The household battery revolution that could change energy bills … and the world
Australia is pioneering a revolution in home renewables and battery use, proving what is possible with the right policies
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2026/may/31/cheaper-energy-bills-battery-revolution-climate-crisis
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Sato Juniper
about 1 month ago
This is a really excellent article by John Menadue, extracted from his submission to the Royal Commission. Submissions are open until 14th June. Get yours in.
#Auspol
pearlsandirritations.com/post/2026/05...
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The weaponisation of antisemitism by the Zionist lobby hides the genocide
In a personal submission to the Antisemitism Royal Commission, P&I founder John Menadue argues that it is impossible to separate increasing rates of antisemitism from the way Israel has conducted ...
https://pearlsandirritations.com/post/2026/05/the-weaponisation-of-antisemitism-by-the-zionist-lobby-hides-the-genocide/
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Simon Rosenberg
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Scored a free copy of the Oz. Never seen Paul Kelly so worried, the existential threat to Liberals from PHON has got them totally panic'd. Serves them right.
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This guy is a grifter. Fullstop. More than 32% of Australians were born overseas. It takes a while to get citizenship, costs a bucket of money, and not a top priority for many.
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The Saturday Paper
about 2 months ago
Sign up for your guide to Budget 2026-27 tomorrow morning:
satpa.pe/d9Pkugd
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Bryan Behar
2 months ago
Never have 4 people more wished they were still in the deepest, darkest recesses of outer space.
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Renew Economy
2 months ago
Home
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installs continue to surge, with only a tiny minority choosing
#solar
only, and most happening in regions and outer suburbs.
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As home battery numbers surge to new peaks, hardly anyone is installing just solar any more
Home battery installs continue to surge, with only a tiny minority choosing solar only, and most happening in regions and outer suburbs.
https://reneweconomy.com.au/as-home-battery-numbers-surge-to-new-peaks-hardly-anyone-is-installing-just-solar-any-more/
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marque lawyers
2 months ago
Albo's increasing use of winking language like "difficult" and "populist" is simply him dog whistling to institutional power that he is in the tent and will be staying there, so the power need not fear his government.
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Ketan Joshi
2 months ago
If Canada's biggest data centre gets built, the emissions from the fossil gas power plant it comes with would fully reverse the emissions reduced Alberta's coal phase-out from 2005 to 2023. Still waiting for AI to solve climate change, folks
www.theenergymix.com/encore-exclu...
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Andrea Junker
2 months ago
Number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills or illness-related work loss: 🇦🇺 0 🇨🇦 0 🇩🇰 0 🇫🇮 0 🇫🇷 0 🇩🇪 0 🇮🇸 0 🇮🇪 0 🇮🇹 0 🇯🇵 0 🇳🇱 0 🇳🇴 0 🇵🇹 0 🇪🇸 0 🇸🇪 0 🇬🇧 0 🇺🇸 530,000 There’s a lesson there.
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2 months ago
It was set up to fail, and it did.
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2 months ago
Israel has killed at least 263 journalists since Oct 7 2023, while not targeting journalists at all. Quite the achievement.
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Greg Jericho
2 months ago
David Pocock asking Chevron how much they pay for the gas they use to convert gas to LNG. The answer is $0, but they want to say they pay for it by the investment they make. But IT IS NOT THEIR GAS IT IS AUSTRALIANS AND THEY GET IT FOR FREE!
live.thepoint.com.au
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The Point Live: Woodside, Chevron, Santos and INPEX to appear before Senate inquiry into taxing gas, sitting in Perth today
The third and final day of the Senate Select Committee Inquiry into the Taxation of Gas Resources is underway in Perth, where witnesses include gas giants Woodside, Santos, Chevron and INPEX. The ABC ...
https://live.thepoint.com.au/
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Greg Jericho
2 months ago
SARAH HANSON-YOUNG: Are there more or less coal mines today than there were in 2022 HEWSON: I don’t have the precise number in front of me. SHY: Luckily, I do. Luckily I do. So let me, let me. Let me tell you, in 2022 there were 53 there’s now 58 it’s gone up.
live.thepoint.com.au
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The Point Live: Business and gas companies have their say on gas tax proposals.
Representatives from the Business Council, Shell and ConocoPhillips are among those fronting the gas tax senate inquiry today, while the health minister lays out proposed changes to the NDIS.
https://live.thepoint.com.au/
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Doing politics locally
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This govt gas inquiry that the Greens initiated is Exactly the thing the Greens should be doing.. bringing evidence together in a robust and transparent public inquiry.
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Jacqui Lambie
2 months ago
I'm with Ken Henry - “Just do it and stop the crap”
#GasTax
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stranger
2 months ago
Dr Richard Denniss dismantles the gas industry’s favorite threat. If taxes kill investment, why is the gas industry rushing to Norway to pay 78%? 🙄 “They are playing us for fools.” 🔥 Nationals’ Susan McDonald has no rebuttal & scrambles to change the subject.
#auspol
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Michael West
2 months ago
So cowed by the foreign gas lobby .. the failure of successive govts is so epic that the Japanese tax *our* Australian gas more than we tax the foreign multinationals which export the stuff
#auspol
#TAI
@kimwingerei.bsky.social
michaelwest.com.au/the-gas-tax-...
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The gas ripoff. Japan collects more on our gas than we do - Michael West
The Japanese Government makes more revenue taxing its imports of Australian gas than the Australian Government does from exporters.
https://michaelwest.com.au/the-gas-tax-ripoff-japan-collects-more-on-our-gas-than-australia-does/
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Greg Jericho
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opens by pointing out that the Japanese govt actually raises more revenue from Australian gas than does the Australian govt!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilVp...
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Senate Select Committee on the Taxation of Gas Resources | 21/04/2026
YouTube video by Australian Parliament House Streaming Portal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilVpZ4jEXZo
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Hi Bill, any movement on this? I'm wondering how the successful community independents/teals have tackled it? Do they put budget to get a postal out early?
australiainstitute.org.au/post/postal-...
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Postal vote applications - the number 1 source of complaints during election campaigns
Have you received a postal vote application form in the mail? Did you wonder why it was bundled with material promoting a political party? Or why the return address was a political party HQ, not t...
https://australiainstitute.org.au/post/postal-vote-applications-the-number-1-source-of-complaints-during-election-campaigns/
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marque lawyers
3 months ago
We’re minutes away from the first op-ed in the Oz to call the pope an antisemite
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