Andrew W

Andrew W

@draef.bsky.social

Retired progressive Australian. Getting more, not less, radical as I age. Anti-fascist pluralist living in Narrm. Opinionated. Hopeful.

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My article on AUKUS. AUKUS is about madness, militarism and money. Turning Australia into a US military base, sacrificing our sovereignty, and enriching retired politicians, military and public servants while battlers struggle to put food on the table

pearlsandirritations.comAUKUS has escaped proper scrutiny for five years. That is about to changeThe independent public inquiry into AUKUS will report on 4 November after examining the project’s implications for Australia’s security, economy, sovereignty and international standing.

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If you think the political climate is hot at the moment, it's not going to get any cooler any time soon. "Australia faces greater risk of bushfires this year and next because of the El Nino and its lingering effects, but is unprepared." We are led by idiots #auspol www.smh.com.au/environment/...

smh.com.auHow monster El Nino is causing havoc around the worldFrom off-the-scale fires in Indonesia to disruptions to the Panama Canal, predictions that this year’s El Niño would hit hard are panning out.

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More than 10,000 people have signed a @getup.org.au petition calling on Basketball Australia to scrap its deal with Israeli AI firm Pixellot. Basketball Australia will rollout AI-powered cameras nationwide, recording thousands of Australian children. www.deepcutnews.com/p/basketball...

deepcutnews.comBasketball Australia’s deal with Israeli AI under fire as 10,000 sign GetUp petitionCampaigners raise concerns about child safety as well-placed sources question procurement process that saw Pixellot win contract

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Kudos to Zali Steggall for calling out toxic shock jocks for inciting outrage, hate and anger on the airwaves. They are a blight on the Australian media landscape. Shock jocks with skid marks that are impossible to remove Phillip Riley X

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"One Nation is commonly referred to as an anti-establishment populist party, but in reality it looks more like a clutch of mining and corporate lobbies in a trenchcoat." 💥 #auspol

Royce Kurmelovs@roycerk2.bsky.social

One Nation has been spending a lot of money lately. I took a look at what we know, and what we don't, about where it is coming from and who is involved for @deepcutnews.bsky.social.

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One Nation leader Pauline Hanson said she was "horrified and saddened" by the incident, and wished Haines a "full and speedy recovery". Who does that malignant, hateful ratbag think she's kidding? #australia #ausgov #auspolitics #politicalviolence #helenhaines www.sbs.com.au/news/article...

sbs.com.auPM says suspect in custody after MP Helen Haines allegedly 'attacked' outside officePrime Minister Anthony Albanese said it was too early to speculate on a motivation.

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A reminder that this dangerously incompetent, Christian nationalist, Zionist, racist and misogynist frat boy is who the Albanese government has outsourced Australia's defence strategy to. #EndAUKUS #auspol

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Israeli soldier names what Australian PM @albomp.bsky.social, FM @senatorwong.bsky.social & DM Richard Marles refuse to #EndImpunity #EndGenocide #EndOccupation #EndApartheid

Yung En Chee@yungenchee.bsky.social

"Abraham asks one of the soldiers a remarkably blunt question. “Do you think it’s a genocide?” “Yes,” the soldier replies. “Completely.” He points to what he describes as the “intentional” killing of Palestinian civilians, including children. “We have to describe things as they really are.”

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One in six Australian children live in poverty. Major parties who do nothing about this - except make it worse - can not pretend to support 'social cohesion'. #AntiPovertyWeek #EndChildPoverty #RaiseTheRate #inequality #auspol

Andrew Wilkie MP@andrewwilkiemp.bsky.social

The Aus Gov has the means to tackle poverty. They can fix welfare payments, target full employment and better fund social housing. These steps would go a long way to reducing poverty for the 3.7 million living below the poverty line. It’s all about priorities. #antipovertyweek

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"the only politics that can work [is] one that stops promising 1965 and starts arguing about 2035. Who owns the housing. How work is taxed against wealth. Who pays for an older country. What a decent life looks like when growth is slow." #inequality #auspol pearlsandirritations.com/post/2026/10...

pearlsandirritations.comThe thirty years that were never normalThe post-war decades created an extraordinary period of rising wages, affordable homes and economic security. Those conditions are gone. Politics must stop promising their return and start deciding ho...

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Love to see the Minister caught in either incompetence or a lie by work I put out last month. No, Minister King: Your government hasn't even come close to implementing the Pepper Inquiry's recommendations on Beetaloo. You don't get to claim completion when you're less than 5% of the way there.

theguardian.comResources minister faces calls to correct her claim all Beetaloo emissions will be offsetMadeleine King told press club emissions from NT fossil fuel basin ‘are accounted for and offset’ but research found 95% of emissions this decade would not have to be offset

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I will not repost such horrific videos. But it really is past time that Australia's prime minister should show some moral leadership and stand up to Trump, and call out his dangerously psychopathic behavior for what it is. #auspol

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⁨GET THE FACTS: The Coalition doubled Australia's gross debt even before COVID, and racked up almost two thirds of total gross debt. Between 2013-2022 the Coalition racked up more than $600bn of gross debt, and debt went from $257bn in 2013/14 to $542bn in 2018/19.⁩

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“Australia opposes the death penalty in all circumstances for all people.”* *Except, apparently, when Pete Hegseth wants to put it on the telly.

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No surprise; Australia's political & media establishment won't even acknowledge the Red Lines Package: - Labor knows its pretence of upholding international law and human rights would look even more hypocritical, and - politicians & media would need to confront the "G" word. #GazaGenocide #auspol

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Seven of nine planetary boundaries have now been crossed, yet Australia still expands coal and gas while talking up its climate credentials. Humanity’s safe operating space is shrinking fast, Peter Sainsbury writes. #Climate #Environment #auspol

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michaelwest.com.au/groomed-capt... He didn’t arrive by accident. He was built for it. 2003, before he held any significant office, Minns selected for AIJAC Rambam Israel Fellowship – all-expenses-paid with one purpose: take promising Aust political figures to Israel, immerse them, & bind them

michaelwest.com.auGroomed, captured, deployed. How the Israel lobby runs Chris Minns - Michael WestPolice brutality, intimidation, harassment, free speech attacked. NSW Premier Chris Minns was groomed for Israel, writes Andrew Brown.

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@albomp.bsky.social @australianlabor.bsky.social AND YOU SUPPLIED THE F-35 RELEASE MECHANISM FOR THE BOMBS YOU DISGUST AUSTRALIA! CALL AN ELECTION VOTE GREENS FOR HUMANITYS SAKE PEACE NOT WAR

Paul Eric@pauleric70.bsky.social

Mohamad Safa UN This is not Hiroshima, this's Gaza. Gaza is nearly 3 times smaller than Hiroshima, and Israel dropped 223,000+ tonnes of explosives, equivalent of ~15 "Little Boy" ATOMIC BOMBS, on Gaza. The world hasn’t seen anything like the destruction in Gaza since Second World War. 💔😢💔😢🤬🇮🇱♾️

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By blindly forging ahead with the costly, dangerous and strategically stupid #AUKUS project, Albanese and Marles are a clear and present danger to Australian security and sovereignty. #EndAUKUS #auspol

Doug Cameron@dncameron.bsky.social

Don’t listen to religious extremist and warmonger Hegseth and his sycophantic mate Marles who claims “shared values” with this obnoxious and dangerous fool. Military experts, politicians, diplomats peace activists, unions, faith groups all oppose the madness that is AUKUS.

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#FascistFluffers in #Media, #Australia. #auspol

Twang 🍉@twangmaker.bsky.social

David Shoebridge has been party leader for 3 days. But the media is grilling him on everything from the housing crisis, Jewish relations, party democracy and the war in Ukraine. Pauline Hanson has been leader of her party for 30 years, and she gets grilled on, well, practically nothing. #auspol

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This has been an open secret in Australia for some time, with the federal government going to great lengths to *appear* as if they have effective climate policy, while rubber stamping mine after mine. It's disgraceful, and they are not held to account for it.

Prof Ian Hall@ianhall.bsky.social

The planning contradiction is impressively neat: it accepts that 809Mt of GHG emissions will worsen global warming. It says leaving the coal in the ground would make a difference …then approves the mine anyway. Climate science only matters up until the decision. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Case study in why I’m glad I’m no longer working in Australian media. They really do expect you to just unthinkingly republish their press releases.

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On so many issues (climate, human rights, Palestine) Labor is now right wing. The irrelevant Liberals & Nationals are reps for the fossil fuels & mining industries. Pauline Hanson's One Nation serves Gina Rinehart. The Greens (and some Independents) represent the interests of Australia. #auspol

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There's just way too much to be very cross about, today. The Australian government investing OUR MONEY in EllenMusk's stupid space project and weapons companies is next level crap. I've disagreed with governments before but I've never been this disappointed in one.

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Latest energy figures are out for 2024-25 - once again 83% of Australia's gas is exported or used to convert gas to PNG exports. There is no gas shortage. We do not need more gas. We need to #TAXtheGAS

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The ICE agent who shot Araujo in a Houston is named GREGORY FEATHERS. Make sure everyone knows.

Texas Tribune@texastribune.org

Breaking: The Texas Tribune has identified the ICE agent who witnesses say fired through an open van window and killed 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston nearly three months ago.