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Posts by Barry Smith

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AYCC Next Generation Fund Help build the next generation of climate justice leaders by making a donation today.

It is simply fucking unacceptable that @youth4climate.bsky.social (aka the AYCC) might be forced to close for good after 20 years, and I will not be letting this happen.

If I find out a single one of you hasn't given what you are able, I will lose my fucking mind.

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Stop Trump Tower on the Gold Coast! If you, like me, are concerned about the direction our country will go if a Trump Tower is built in our country, then join me in objecting!

If you, like me, are concerned about the direction our country will go if a Trump Tower is built in our country, then join me in objecting! petitions.getup.org.au/petitions/st... @getup.org.au

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SIGN ✍️ We will not be divided after Bondi Add your name to the Jewish Council petition today

jewishcouncil.good.do/unity/jewish...

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SAVE SOCIOLOGY AT MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY We urge Macquarie University management to reverse this decision and preserve the vital disciplines of Sociology and Politics. Sociology has a key place in the social sciences as the broadest and mos...

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/sa...

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Why not post here as well as the other site? Many people on here would enjoy your perspectives.

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Missing girl

Missing girl

MISSING
Holly, 14, last seen in Warialda, Sunday, 1 June 2025.

Holly may be in a 2015 blue Mitsubishi Lancer, QLD rego 741JD9 or 2008 silver Audi A3, QLD rego 344GJ6.
May be with 2 men, age 22 & 24, may be in Woodridge, QLD.

#NSWpol #auspol
Contact: www.police.nsw.gov.au/news/news_ar...

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Why in God’s name does the ABC invite these 3rd rate hacks ?

1 year ago 493 88 90 12
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Rinehart has far too much power and all her opinions are driven by self interest. We shouldn’t be listening to her.

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Three Aussie ladies, two keffiyehs, and a country gone mad  - The Shot Civil liberties are being curtailed in Australia to silence any criticism of Israel's genocide of Palestine. What the fuck is that about?

Here's @boganintel.bsky.social. 'Three Aussie ladies, two keffiyehs, and a country gone mad'

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Waiting for Liberal Democracy in the American South Our country’s constitutional order is withering before us. In the states of the former Confederacy, democracy never fully flourished.

My view is that the American South never fully took to liberal democracy. And I think we have to reckon with that to face the moment we’re now in. I wrote about it for @thebulwark.bsky.social

www.thebulwark.com/p/liberal-de...

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Trump Has A Week Of Retreats and Losses, And Is Far Weaker Than He Appears - We Need To Keep Working Hard All.... Hopium was launched 2 years ago today - thanks all for being part of this journey together!

This past week Trump has surrendered to Putin, retreated on Musk, & retreated on tariffs. He is tanking the US economy, spooking global markets and losing in the courts. Trump is a weak man, not a strong man, writes political strategist @simonwdc.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/simonwdc...

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Former admiral urges Australia to renege on Aukus deal and buy French subs An article published by an Australian think tank is calling on Canberra to back out of the controversial Aukus submarine deal – which annulled a contract to buy French nuclear submarines in favour of…

"According retired Australian navy admiral Peter Briggs, the Aukus submarine plan is flawed, and the only chance Australia has to sustain its submarine fleet is to buy French vessels after all."

www.rfi.fr/en/internati...

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The ability to control mass party opinion this directly is unlike anything I’ve really seen in my time covering politics.

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lol, from UK satirical magazine Private Eye

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And of course Musk with Starlink

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AUKUS .. Trump extortion and Australian politics.

#auspol #AUKUS

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Teal MPs decry anonymous ‘push poll’ sent to voters in two independent seats Transparency advocates raise concerns over ‘survey’ that asked loaded questions about Climate 200-backed MPs Zoe Daniel and Allegra Spender

Smear campaigns ❌
Attack ads ❌
Floods of misinformation ❌
Theft of signs ❌

and now…

Push polling. ❌

The question

“How low will they go?”

Seems to be a moving target that spirals downward by the day. 🙄

#IntegrityMatters
#auspol
#Election25

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

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The Murdoch plague on world politics - Pearls and Irritations Any company which had a history of illegality, incurred massive costs for those illegal actions, polluted public discourse and, made massive false claims about companies and institutions, the director...

"we can’t omit what News has done to inflict Trump on the world and what they are trying to do to inflict Dutton on Australia."

Meanwhile, we get lectures from ABC journalists about the evils of social media.
While ignoring the Murdoch elephant in their industry.
johnmenadue.com/the-murdoch-...

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Did someone say Hawaii?
#auspol #election2025 #SandbagsB4moneybags #peterdutton

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Recalling when during an emergency event media would first interview a state emergency service expert. Now it’s the premier of the state, so it becomes another ‘political’ story. Why is that?

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This👇🏼The modern Liberal Party. Doing anything to win, except policy. So far it’s been

1️⃣ a politically motivated referral to the NACC
2️⃣ misleading sh*t sheets in letterboxes
3️⃣ bullsh*t billboards
4️⃣ verbal abuse and filming of me and my supporters
5️⃣ disgraceful, unethical push polling in Goldstein

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How Trump’s ‘51st State’ Canada Talk Came to Be Seen as Deadly Serious President Trump, in an early February call, challenged the border treaty between the two countries and told Justin Trudeau he didn’t like their shared water agreements.

Today’s piece of vulgar, bullying idiocy from the narcissistic Mango Mussolini.

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But entirely unsurprising…

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WOW, 7.30 Report! Mused this morning why not be upfront, deliver a budget then go to an election where Dutton has no choice but to add and subtract. The Oz way of leading the world again, let’s do it!

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Stuff we've known for a decade now ... #Globalwarming causes storms to increase in intensity and "stall"...
Earth's circulatory winds slowing so that catastropic systems worsen, move more slowly and last longer.

Thoughts with everyone battening the hatches!

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ABC Mgmt seems hell-bent on making once essential viewing ABC programs utterly unwatchable. Parnell Palme McGuinness AND Joe Hildebrand?! Neither one has any substance, depth, expertise or credibility. This is just insulting to viewers. 😠 #QandA #auspol #AusVotes25

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I'm starting to wonder if the Trump regime might actually be a drag on the LNP vote.

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