PhilG

PhilG

@ssonick.bsky.social

Retired IT guy. Part time Lighthouse Tour Guide at Cape Schanck, Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, Australia. A learning grandad. Environment, Integrity, Equality.

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The other option would seemingly be that more people reach breaking point and more people ending up getting hurt. Just saying. #Auspol #RaiseTheRate

Lola T. BabaBOOie 🏳️‍⚧️@bababooie42.bsky.social

We do need to lower the temperature. By which I mean we freeze payments to everyone in federal parliament until the Government decides to pass a bill that guarantees no pension remains below the poverty line. #Auspol #RaiseTheRate

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@albomp.bsky.social and our government are #Labor in name only. A #Travesty. In reality, they are completely owned by #self-interest and their #donors. #Auspol

livesarah@livesarah.bsky.social

Remember when everyone thought that the LNP were the bad guys that hack away at our premier scientific research institution and that things would improve* once Labor was in government? 🥲

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Replying to @davidshoebridge.bsky.social

She is not working in Australian interest, she is a foreign influence working for Netanyahu spreading his lies about the genocide in Gaza . Despicable woman .

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Tim Dunlop: …you would have to conclude that major parties seem perversely primed to do just that, and their appeasement is consolidating electoral support into social base. Thus is the Coalition turning into One Nation. And Labor turning into the Coalition.¹ tdunlop.substack.com/p/this-is-no...

tdunlop.substack.com“This is not a blip; this is the direction in which we are currently headed”Book review and a discussion of the rise of the global far right

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The #EpsteinFiles are the key to end this madness. Vote like your life depends on it. Because it probably does! Vote Blue for individuals who will DEMAND the full un-redacted #TrumpFiles. #ReleaseTheTrumpSteinFiles #ReleaseThePeePeeTapes #Felon47IsARussianAsset #TheyRAPEDchildren #RoomTempIQ

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Parties won't change, they have to satisfy the very corporations funding them who are hollowing out this trust. I hope we start listening to the Pococks and Steggals and Wilkies. And we honor Helen Haines by electing more Independents to restore trust in #Auspol thepoint.com.au/new/261021-c...

thepoint.com.auCost-of-living pressures, declining trust driving public angerEarlier this week, researcher Alex Fein talked with Richard Denniss about why cost-of-living pressures, strained public services and declining trust are fuelling Australians’ anger.

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I was supposed to leave Lord Howe Island today but my ✈️ flight has been cancelled due to weather. Not sure when I’ll be able to leave. Oh, well 🤭🏝️

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"These are not serious people". But these are the people that Anthony Albanese and Richard Marles have outsourced Australia's defence strategy to. #EndAUKUS #auspol

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

“How much time do you think this defense secretary spends looking in the mirror in the morning? These are not serious people” — Obama’s audience in Ohio is hanging on every word as he skewers Trump and Hegseth

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Doug Cameron:”In my view it is now clear that AUKUS is about militarising Australia in interests of the US, ensuring the grifters in defence and the arms industry are well fed. It is an act of self-harm and madness on the part of the Australian government.” #auspol

His #Presidency is and always has been all, all about #SelfEnrichment and that of his #Family and #FellowDonatingOligarchs #WakeUpUSA

Steve Rattner@steverattner.bsky.social

Trump has made more stock trades in his second term than all 535 members of Congress combined.