Michael Pascoe

Michael Pascoe

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The Summertime of Our Dreams author, Michael West Media contributor , winner 2022 Kennedy Award Outstanding Columnist, speaker, rugby, prefer to be skiing https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/life/2023/02/11/michael-pascoe-50-years-journalism

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Michael Pascoe
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Genuine emotion in federal parliament today for Helen Haines. To be more than mere words though, government & opposition need to lift their integrity bar to that which Dr Haines set. Could start by making the NACC what she wanted it to be. Or they're just gasbags. michaelwest.com.au/nacc-declare...

michaelwest.com.auNACC declares itself useless, the joke worsens - Michael WestHopes that the federal anti-corruption watch puppy might be resucitated by a change of leadership have been dashed, writes Michael Pascoe.

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MediaActive ▪️EQUALITY ▪️JUSTICE ▪️PEACE
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OPINION When will the @australianlabor.bsky.social @albomp.bsky.social govt (Looking at you Dick Marles) unwrap themselves from the delusion, illusion that there is actually a #USA “alliance”? #Trump wouldn’t piss on us if we were on fire. That’s all over. New plan? Urgent. #fascism #Ukraine #AUKUS

Michael Pascoe@michaelpascoe01.bsky.social

One more time for the dummies (e.g. Dick Marles), AUKUS is "barking mad". John Menadue: pearlsandirritations.com/post/2026/10...

pearlsandirritations.comAUKUS: Australians paying to defend the US homelandAUKUS is sold as a sovereign Australian defence capability. But its strategic logic and dependence on US systems raise a harder question: whose homeland is it really designed to defend?
Michael Pascoe
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ICYMI, a very fine KOS. Suspect the Jean-Claude Juncker quote applies: "We all know what to do, we just don't know how to get re-elected after we've done it." 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...
Michael Pascoe
@michaelpascoe01.bsky.social

As for RBA productivity past five years, lol. 8% headcount surge in latest year blamed on the new monetary policy board.

Kaz Cooke@kazcooke.bsky.social

Do you think these people who make big decisions & are so breathtakingly financially comfortable have any real idea how other people are experiencing the world? Do they lack empathy, or are they ignorant of how biting & brutal the 'cost of living' (WHAT a phrase) is for so many people?

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Simon Rosenberg
@simonrosenberg.bsky.social

Hey @albomp.bsky.social - this is getting confusing. Time to tell the Australian people whose side we are supposed to be on: Ukraine's? Or Trump & Putin's? And then explain how having dozens of US bases on Australian soil - or Australian military bases controlled by the US - makes us more secure?

#TuckFrump@realtuckfrumper.bsky.social

Trump rages at 'stupid people' trying to stop his turn toward Russia amid furious backlash #RawStory

twp.aiwww.rawstory.comTrump rages at 'stupid people' trying to stop his turn toward Russia amid furious backlash

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Michael West
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The other point on the timing of the Jordan Steele-John leak - not just Shoebridge ascension - but that corporate profiteers from NDIS are protected while disabled are cut. JSJ opposes this michaelwest.com.au/inside-job-h...

michaelwest.com.auInside Job. How former insiders and corporateers are cashing in on the NDIS - Michael WestGovernment has swung the axe at the NDIS but corporations are cashing in. Claudia Weisenberger investigates the revolving doors
Michael Pascoe
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Trump, the Chamberlain of our times, determined to cede 20% of Ukraine to Putin cf the Munich Agreement's 30% of Czechoslovakia to Hitler. But Australian defence and foreign policy still based on "Yes, Sir, Mr President". www.smh.com.au/world/europe...

smh.com.au‘Planned operation’: The test result that reveals a dangerous Trump betrayalAll the signs suggest Donald Trump or his administration made a technical decision that led to increased civilian casualties in Ukraine.

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Simon Rosenberg
@simonrosenberg.bsky.social

This demonstrates much that's wrong with Labor politics [and media reporting it]: Unquestioning loyalty is framed as "discipline". Alternative views are "complaints". This has delivered us: - the stupidity of #AUKUS - complicity in a genocide, and - 'reform' that's put donors before people. #auspol

ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au

Patience of Labor MPs is beginning to wear thin as mid-term blues bite

abc.net.auANALYSIS: Patience of Labor MPs is beginning to wear thin as mid-term blues biteAlbanese's MPs have largely kept their complaints private and trusted the PM’s judgement. But political loyalty is easier to maintain when a government is winning.

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Anthony B,
@swearyanthony.bsky.social

this is a change from OAI and A\ only providing incentives for malware, ripping off crypto wallets directly is more traditional. arstechnica.com/security/202... File criminal charges. They're not going to stop doing this, it would be very good to stop them before they do serious harm

arstechnica.comOpenAI models hacked a crypto wallet and breached more websitesThe actions could have resulted in criminal charges had humans been behind the keyboard.

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Simon Rosenberg
@simonrosenberg.bsky.social

If only Anthony Albanese showed half the spine of Carney, stood up to Trump, and set out a plan for Australia's independence. As well as being the right thing to do, he might even improve his electoral standing. #EndAUKUS #auspol

paulpro@mariopro.bsky.social

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Simon Rosenberg
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The Australian Defence Force is increasingly integrating Starlink into its systems. Perhaps it's time that the government came clean on the sovereignty risks of relying on the world's richest neo-Nazi, and the fickle fascist in the White House. #EndAUKUS #auspol

Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social

Was it Musk or Trump? Who intervened to hinder Ukraine's satellite internet access, protecting Russian targets from Ukrainian launches? Can stop debating, it looks like the answer is both. Both are Putin sympathizers who have acted to help Russia before, and it'd probably take both to work.

telegraph.co.ukExclusive: Musk approached Trump to slow down Starlink in UkraineSpaceX founder had publicly blamed president for chaos over restrictions, but sources say he initiated them
Michael Pascoe
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To murdering survivors clinging to wreckage at sea, piracy, starting wars, summary executions, attacking the ICC, etc etc as things that are not red lines for Australian foreign policy acquiescence, add preferring Russia to Ukraine as a partner. Have we no pride left at all?

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Simon Rosenberg
@simonrosenberg.bsky.social

"Tell Albo to make deep fakes in political advertising illegal - before we're all drowning in bullshit".💥🎯💯👏👏👏 #auspol

Dan Ilic@danilic.bsky.social

Over at @getup.org.au ‘s Instagram to see the full AI Deep Fake — here’s the side by side:

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Greg Jericho
@grogsgamut.bsky.social

So today Madeleine King announced changes to the gas reservation policy to “remove loopholes” Gee that must be bad for Santos… oh wait I am being handed a note…

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Michael West
@michaelwestbiz.bsky.social

Murdoch: "Sydney's Day of Shame" "Subhuman ghouls" Israel lobbyist Rivchin: "Hateful" Andrew Brown: "They prayed for Jewish and Palestinian dead" Brown was there at the vigil. He tells the real story, debunks the extreme Israel lobby myths #auspol #antisemitism michaelwest.com.au/a-vigil-for-...

michaelwest.com.auA vigil for the dead for some. 'Subhuman ghouls' to Murdoch's goons - Michael WestBacked by their cheerleader-in-chief, Chris Minns, when you thought Murdoch's writers couldn't stoop any lower, they did.
Michael Pascoe
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"I don’t belong to parties that I’m beholden to internal structures" says One Hanson's NSW leader Newman. He's just utterly beholden to Hanson & Ashby. Meanwhile, FILTH (Failed in Liberals, Trying Hanson) www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw...

smh.com.auThe long list of former Coalition MPs seeking new home on One Nation’s crowded NSW ticketFamiliar faces linked to a potential upper house ticket spot include Katherine Deves, the anti-trans campaigner Scott Morrison picked for the Liberals’ disastrous 2022 tilt for Warringah.
Michael Pascoe
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Bloomberg: "It’s now more expensive to hire a tanker from the US to China than to launch a rocket into space. That ocean journey runs about $80 million compared with $74 million for a standard commercial launch. The eye-watering prices are the result of a global tanker shortage that's getting worse"