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Debbie Northway 🇦🇺🦘🐨<p>Gina wants Trump. The Murdochs want Trump. Clive wants Trump. The billionaires want Trump. Australia doesn’t want or need Trump <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23auspol" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#auspol</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23Australia" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Australia</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23politics" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#politics</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23AusVotes25" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AusVotes25</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23TemuTrump" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TemuTrump</a></p>
ApaulD<p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/auspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>auspol</span></a> a vote for the liberal party. Australia is a vote for Trump type policies in Australia. Couldn’t be clearer. <br><a href="https://aus.social/tags/australia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>australia</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/election" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>election</span></a> <br>PS Jacinta Price is the Liberal Party indigenous senator who worked against her own people‘s interest by campaigning against them having a constitutional presence in Australia.</p>
Maude Nificent<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://aus.social/@dropbear" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>dropbear</span></a></span> <br><a href="https://aus.social/tags/auspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>auspol</span></a> <br>more normalising of the law’n’order narrative: the police are a righteous hammer and citizens are all nails</p><p>&lt;&lt;"In Queensland, we have had a number of highly publicised and horrific incidents of youth crime over the last few years and it's led to a perception that youth crime is out of control," she said.&gt;&gt;</p>
Myspace Tom<p>I'll say it again... ONE of the greatest strengths of the <a class="mention" href="https://bsky.app/profile/communityindeps.bsky.social" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@communityindeps.bsky.social</a> movement is it sidesteps traditional Corporate Media and directly connects Politicians with People. We need a similar movement for <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23Journalism" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Journalism</a> <a class="mention" href="https://bsky.app/profile/climate200.bsky.social" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@climate200.bsky.social</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23Auspol" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Auspol</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23AusVotes25" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AusVotes25</a></p>
Debbie Northway 🇦🇺🦘🐨<p>Let’s Tax the Rich and stop this nonsense Next Prime Minister! We need truth in political advertising laws <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23auspol" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#auspol</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23Australia" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Australia</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23Politics" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Politics</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23TaxTheRich" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TaxTheRich</a></p>
Debbie Northway 🇦🇺🦘🐨<p>Liberals only said they were better money managers, they never proved it. <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23auspol" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#auspol</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23Australia" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Australia</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23Politics" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Politics</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23AusVotes25" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AusVotes25</a></p>
Alpha1Nine :funkwhale: :sofia:<p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/AustraliaInstitute" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AustraliaInstitute</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/auspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>auspol</span></a> Election entrée: Surprising preference flows Read more…<a href="https://australiainstitute.org.au/post/election-entree-surprising-preference-flows/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=election-entree-surprising-preference-flows" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">australiainstitute.org.au/post</span><span class="invisible">/election-entree-surprising-preference-flows/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=election-entree-surprising-preference-flows</span></a></p>
Tim Richards<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/teresarothaar.bsky.social" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>teresarothaar.bsky.social</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/brenttoderian.bsky.social" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>brenttoderian.bsky.social</span></a></span> Not being like the USA is a live issue in the current Australian election too. <a href="https://aus.social/tags/auspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>auspol</span></a></p>
Keira (She/Her)<p>That DFAT hasn't changed the risk level for travel to the US says a *lot* about our government's obsession with the US. </p><p>It's obviously not currently safe to travel, for anyone trans, anyone with tattoos, anyone not anglo, anyone who doesn't approve of Trump etc.</p><p><a href="https://www.smartraveller.gov.au/destinations/americas/united-states-america" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">smartraveller.gov.au/destinati</span><span class="invisible">ons/americas/united-states-america</span></a></p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/auspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>auspol</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uspol</span></a></p>
Frank<p>How election candidates are boosting The Noticer, a news site promoting neo-Nazi ideologies</p><p><a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-14/how-federal-election-candidates-boost-noticer-neo-nazis/105159556" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">abc.net.au/news/2025-04-14/how</span><span class="invisible">-federal-election-candidates-boost-noticer-neo-nazis/105159556</span></a></p><p>This sounds like a site just dying for Anonymous to take down.</p><p><a href="https://masto.nu/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a> <a href="https://masto.nu/tags/Nazis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nazis</span></a> <a href="https://masto.nu/tags/TheNoticer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheNoticer</span></a> <a href="https://masto.nu/tags/Facists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Facists</span></a> <a href="https://masto.nu/tags/Facism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Facism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.nu/tags/Australia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Australia</span></a> <a href="https://masto.nu/tags/Auspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Auspol</span></a> <a href="https://masto.nu/tags/DOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOS</span></a></p>
Debbie Northway 🇦🇺🦘🐨<p>Peter Dutton is desperately trying to hide his plan to spend $600b on nuclear scheme. Why won’t they talk about it? <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23auspol" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#auspol</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23Australia" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Australia</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23Politics" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Politics</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23Nuclear" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Nuclear</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23Gina" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Gina</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23ClassWar" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClassWar</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23Dutton" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Dutton</a></p>
Stacey Campbell<p>This is your occasional reminder that the father of the husband of my mum's Aunty Ruby introduced the private member's bill that ultimately resulted in Australia having compulsory voting.</p><p><a href="https://www.foundingdocs.gov.au/item-sdid-89.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">foundingdocs.gov.au/item-sdid-</span><span class="invisible">89.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/auspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>auspol</span></a></p>
ApaulD<p>Thank you Richard Barnes for this, great work</p><p><a href="https://johnmenadue.com/post/2025/04/the-rba-should-not-be-giving-support-to-the-centre-for-independent-studies/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">johnmenadue.com/post/2025/04/t</span><span class="invisible">he-rba-should-not-be-giving-support-to-the-centre-for-independent-studies/</span></a></p><p>“the CIS does not meet the criterion of independence from, and non-alignment with, political parties or other institutions, which is expected of policy institutes of which the Reserve Bank Australia has corporate membership.</p><p>It might be thought that a $20,000 per annum association is trivial. But, as in many areas of politics and public policy, such arrangements often act as tacit signals of shared interests and reciprocal influence. The RBA’s association with the CIS is effectively an endorsement of it.“</p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/auspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>auspol</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/AtlasNetwork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AtlasNetwork</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Advance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Advance</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/CIS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CIS</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/money" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>money</span></a></p>
Dgar<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://aus.social/@Wyvernsridge" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Wyvernsridge</span></a></span> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/auspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>auspol</span></a></p><p>This message is not a paid advertisement, not printed physical media, and not on behalf of a disclosed entity, so according to the AEC, it does not require any authorisation. </p><p><a href="https://www.aec.gov.au/About_AEC/Publications/backgrounders/authorisation.htm" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">aec.gov.au/About_AEC/Publicati</span><span class="invisible">ons/backgrounders/authorisation.htm</span></a></p>
John :au: :hb:<p><a href="https://fairdinkum.one/tags/Australian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Australian</span></a> <a href="https://fairdinkum.one/tags/academics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academics</span></a> are not only <a href="https://fairdinkum.one/tags/cancelling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cancelling</span></a> <a href="https://fairdinkum.one/tags/trips" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trips</span></a> to the <a href="https://fairdinkum.one/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> for key conferences. Scholarships are being rescinded and grant funding pulled as the fallout from the <a href="https://fairdinkum.one/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> administration’s interference continues.</p><p>It follows media reports of travellers having their devices searched at the US border and being denied entry, including a French scientist who had messages on his phone critical of Trump. <a href="https://fairdinkum.one/tags/auspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>auspol</span></a> <a href="https://fairdinkum.one/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://fairdinkum.one/tags/RESIST" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RESIST</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/14/australian-academics-refuse-to-attend-us-conferences-for-fear-of-being-detained" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/australia-news</span><span class="invisible">/2025/apr/14/australian-academics-refuse-to-attend-us-conferences-for-fear-of-being-detained</span></a></p>
Debbie Northway 🇦🇺🦘🐨<p><a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23auspol" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#auspol</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23Australia" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Australia</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23politics" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#politics</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23AusVotes25" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AusVotes25</a> Never Dutton, never Gina.</p>
Debbie Northway 🇦🇺🦘🐨<p><a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23auspol" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#auspol</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23Australia" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Australia</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23politics" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#politics</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23AusVotes25" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AusVotes25</a> Never Dutton, never Gina.</p>
Debbie Northway 🇦🇺🦘🐨<p><a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23auspol" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#auspol</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23Australia" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Australia</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23politics" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#politics</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23AusVotes25" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AusVotes25</a> Never Dutton, never Gina.</p>
Debbie Northway 🇦🇺🦘🐨<p><a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23auspol" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#auspol</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23Australia" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Australia</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23politics" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#politics</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23AusVotes25" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AusVotes25</a> Never Dutton, never Gina.</p>
Heather Evans<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://aus.social/@InsurgoFormica" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>InsurgoFormica</span></a></span> <br>It certainly doesn’t mean “get the economy back on track” for the good of the country! <br>It means to get it back onto the LNP track, where cuts are made to services, where wages go backwards &amp; pension rises are halted &amp; where big business &amp; their mates reap the benefits. <a href="https://aus.social/tags/ABC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ABC</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/AusPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AusPol</span></a></p>