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Latest from our AAP #news feed #auspol
Smelter’s wage lifeline fails to allay viability fears.
A support package has given three weeks of pay certainty for 200 workers at Australia's only manganese alloy smelter, which is on the hunt for a new...
michaelwest.com.au/smelters-wag...

Opinion | Measles Took My Daughter. This Is What I Want Everyone to Know.

The country that once had the world renowned Centre for Disease Control now has a tragic measels epidemic!

#auspol #health #vaccinations #science

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...

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😃 Put a smile on my face.

Oh yay! That's terrific, good for the soul, news.

"Three ants in a trenchcoat" , I think you once said. 💛
(And it's a good photo to boot. 😃)

Go Cathy!
#auspol

Are insider traders making millions from the Iran war? The BBC has found significant spikes in activity shortly before the US president made some announcements.

trump's corrupt administration!
It's more than scuttlebutt on the Socials, now the BBC has investigated and is reporting it.
#auspol #uspol #corruption

www.bbc.com/news/videos/...

The FBI guy is on a paranoid bender and won’t leave his room.

The War guy quotes bible passages from Pulp Fiction.

The Health guy collects raccoon dicks.

It’s an Idiocracy on steroids.

Yep.

New detection tech could make AUKUS submarines obsolete Chinese researchers have developed a new gravity-based detector that could be used to find submarines and render the proposed AUKUS submarine redundant.

A new Chinese gravity-based detector could make stealth submarines obsolete.
That raises serious questions about the long-term viability of AUKUS, John Queripel writes.
#auspol #AUKUS #Defence #China #Geopolitics

Marsh marigold 🌼😍
#spring

Receiving a flu shot doesn’t just protect you, it protects all the people you would have passed your flu on to. Among those people may be some who are frail or old.

It takes five minutes, it may save a life and will certainly save some suffering.

Get a flu shot.

Victorian opposition leader, previous two time opposition leader Matthew Guy in the hazy background

The Victorian opposition has pledged to toughen bail and sentencing policies if it wins government at the state election later this year.

Meanwhile the snake in the grass, fox in the hen house, snot in the cappuccino, is waiting to have a third bash at leadership.

#Auspol
#SpringSt

Authorised by J. Mckenzie-Edwards, National Party of Australia - Victoria, Level 13, 30 Collins St, Melbourne 3000. ©2026 The Nationals for Regional Victoria | All Rights Reserved

You'd think The Nationals for Regional Victoria would have their head office in a regional town/city, not slap bang in Collins St.

Out of touch - much

#auspol
#springst

Middle East crisis live: ceasefire under pressure and talks in doubt as Iran threatens to ‘retaliate’ to US seizure of ship Donald Trump said on Sunday that US marines had taken custody of a vessel that tried to get past the American blockade on Iranian ports

Scroll down until you see this headline. The article describes a disgusting, barbaric practice .
..."IDF demolishing homes in Lebanon, paying bulldozers based on how many building are destroyed."...
#auspol #uspol #Lebanon

www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Finally a political ad that provides facts not spin & that Australians can actually get behind. Thank you @davidpocock.bsky.social
#auspol #GasTax

#auspol #BRS
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The FBI Director Is MIA Kash Patel has alarmed colleagues with episodes of excessive drinking and unexplained absences.

Here's the Atlantic article that's shining a light on #Patel and the #FBI .
Systemic collapse?
#auspol #uspol

www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

FBI’s Kash Patel denies excess drinking amid officials’ US security concerns Agency director threatens to sue Atlantic for report citing allegations from two dozen current and former colleagues

For those who want to know a bit more about this photo-opping, jet setting, attention seeking bozo, I'll put The Atlantic article up shortly.
#auspol #uspol #FBI

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

‘Incomprehensible’: birds flee and hundreds of turtles left to die after government cuts water to NSW wetlands Frogs and sheep in the Gwydir wetlands near Moree have also been bogged after WaterNSW stopped environmental flows, researchers say

“These deaths are incomprehensible, given there is environmental water sitting in the dam. This could save the turtles, but WaterNSW is just not allowing its release,"

- Prof Deb Bower

www.theguardian.com/environment/... Story by @lisacox.bsky.social

What on earth is the rationale?

One Nation refutes allegations Victorian candidate was told to use personal bank account for campaign finances Pauline Hanson says reports contain ‘false allegations’ during a shambolic press conference in Victoria

The money dramas continue, and the lack of policy details on full display.
"...former candidates told Guardian Australia they were yet to see their share of the more than $6m the party banked after the 2025 federal election..."
#auspol #ON #PHONy

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Hey #auspol, important thread, have a look, reminiscent of Putin's playbook in Donetsk, Moldova etc.
(Except less sophisticated, more keystone cops)
And #uspol, no small wonder you're hated around the world!

Wow, thanks, normally dip into Reuters from time to time. Missed this completely.

Screen shot from The New Republic. Photograph of Netanyahu and the headline "Israel Strikes Lebanon after Trump Says Bombing is 'Prohibited'."

Well...
...So much for that!
#auspol #Lebanon

Better off out of there Bridie, methinks. All the best with the move and all.

The Terrifying Ridiculous Spectacle | Common Dreams Whew. It's been a time: "Open the Fuckin' Strait," "A whole civilization will die," puerile threats, boundless botches and cover-ups, deranged lurches into ballrooms, auto-pens, Davy Crockett, and a m...

Pretty well sums it all up.
(And the enabling head nodders who know better but do nothing are just as bad.)
#auspol #uspol #trump

www.commondreams.org/further/the-...