More accurate headline: 'Labor prioritizes lobby groups over gambling harm.' And I wish journos would stop using "crackdown" to describe Labor's pissweak package. #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...

Gambling ad reforms at risk as Labor draws line on major changes

Labor is unlikely to entertain major changes to its gambling ad crackdown despite the bill being 'friendless' in parliament.

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Struggling families are definitely losing! Tax gas, stop AUKUS, stop funding private schools & reel in gambling companies as a start! @jimchalmers.bsky.social @australianlabor.bsky.social #GutlessLabor #auspol

@rowecartoon.bsky.social · 17h ago

chances are

Considering a new career as a gold & sapphire prospector. Will give me a good excuse to go camping in the bush, desert, whatever. Sometimes I get out there with nothing to do, so I come home early. Fact is I'm bored to death sitting at home plotting a major Lotto victory, instead of small wins.

www.theguardian.com/business/ng-... They make obscene profits as they kill the planet. Hey Albo. Stop screwing us and TAX THEM

Revealed: major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war and climate crisis

Iran conflict windfall over three months reignites calls for companies ‘cashing in on human misery’ to pay for environmental damage

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One of Musk's rockets is set to crash onto the Moon's surface. What's next? Megatonnes of unwanted & problematic rubbish dumped on the Moon's surface?

ABC News (Australia) has adopted "gonna" in place of "going to". Heard it used several times this morning during just 2 minutes of couch blather & weather. ABC was once the epitome of spoken English, but it's slid into the murk along with everything else today.

We're up to our complicit little necks with the warmongers & genocidists.

Geelan Mitchell Media@victoriannews.com.au · yesterday

Lovitt Technologies arson attack being investigated as an act of terrorism #ausnews #afp #vicpol #police #lovitts #israel #bombs #war #jctt #investigation #terrorism #arson #investigation

⚡️ UPDATE — Total humiliation for Jeanine Pirro (And Trump)

These signs should be on every hiking trail in Oregon and across the US .

Nitty-gritty on some cast & some execs in Blade Runner, from Icons Unearthed: Harrison Ford last night. Lots of "Wow!". English director Ridley Scott considered, as Americans say, "a piece of work". Harrison & co-star Sean Young (Rachael) not impressed with each other. Lots more. Worth a look.

Another tiny win in Saturday Lotto. That's 10 of past 19 games. I play 6 x System 7s. I need a 4 number win to show a profit. Did some calculations, based on average payout: If I played 6 System 8s & scored 3 & 3+ winners I'd lose bigly, with scarcely a better chance of success, or profit.

#Auspol #TaxEvasion #Rorts

Lilly@lillyull.bsky.social · 5d ago

World War II (WWII) has broken out again! Yet another bloody tv docco re-telling us everything we know about WWII. Narrated by Tom Hanks, who became addicted to WWII after Saving Private Ryan. Waiting for docco Peace Has Broken Out Everywhere! To be immediately shut down by warmongers.

I have made a video with footage no one has seen yet demonstrating how the ABC deliberately erased Gaza from its reporting of the Pine Gap protest last week. www.instagram.com/reel/Dbb5iQt...

David Milner on Instagram: "There is an added layer of icky with this one. Not only is the ABC continuing its years-long pattern of manufacturing consent for Israel, it is also grossly distorting th...

226 likes, 16 comments - davemilbo on July 30, 2026: "There is an added layer of icky with this one. Not only is the ABC continuing its years-long pattern of manufacturing consent for Israel, it is ...

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I'm becoming addicted to US tv show Mountain Men. Tough guys who've largely shunned modern technology & do what they have to do to survive in harsh conditions. One lives in a teepee, in snow country. "Built it myself and better than one I could buy."

Came across a very small bat when looking for some wood in garage roof space. It wasn't hanging upside down like you might expect; sheltering under some wood. Flew around in circles eventually. Surprised by size of its wings. Unknown species.

Australian federal govt is negotiating with State govts on a national dental health scheme. Too late for many who have been bankrupted by the fees dentists charge.

Just completed the 2026 Census online. Expect to be bewildered a few times. Australian Bureau of Statistics is preoccupied with your gender & how you see yourself. Largely useless gathering of data for Australia's future.

All while he himself is making the entire world unsafe

ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · last wk.

Benjamin Netanyahu accuses New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani of making Jews feel 'unsafe' after arrest threat

Fed govt & WA govt might invest in a new oil refinery in WA. It will cost many million$ & take a decade or so to build. That says something about the future of diesel & petrol vehicles in Australia. On other hand, refineries can produce more than fuel products.

Heard on ABC news re Vic Premier changeover: "... it would inevitably lead to ... perhaps". 'Inevitably' and 'perhaps' do not belong in the same sentence. Same category of error as 'fairly unique' and 'one of the only'.

Trump’s social-media posts no longer command the same attention or respect as they used to, @cwarzel.bsky.social argues: “It’s possible that we’re finally glimpsing the limitations of his ability to control the narrative.”

Even Trump Can’t Spin This One

You can’t post your way out of a war.

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John Menadue: ALP no longer represents the people who vote for it. It is controlled by an unrepresentative coterie of factional heavies and officials..Factions control Labor pre-selections. Internal politics is conducted almost entirely within an elite class. pearlsandirritations.com/post/2026/07...

What is the point of power without purpose?

The ALP Conference this week will be carefully managed, but Labor’s deeper problem is a hollowed-out party increasingly driven by factions, polling and caution.

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The big banks are plugging themselves on Facebook. Haven't noticed this before. They are offering special rates for your savings account. Your checking account (pocket book) earns peanuts, unless you've got a few hundred thousand in it. Mine earned 20c last quarter!

Another big Saturday Lotto prize ($20 million), another "weird" result. Winning numbers covered by only 4 last digits (I reduce every number to its last digit). Three numbers ended in 2. Since June 26, 2004, there hv bn 59 4-digit results. 5 or 6 digits far more common (278 & 502 respectively).

Palestinian author takes legal action over Bendigo Writers Festival collapse Randa Abdel-Fattah is seeking compensation & a public apology from City of Greater Bendigo & La Trobe University, alleging she was discriminated against due to her political beliefs #auspol 1earthmedia.com/randa-abdel-...

Randa Abdel-Fattah Launches Bendigo Festival Legal Action

Randa Abdel-Fattah alleges political discrimination over the Bendigo Writers Festival and seeks compensation and an apology from council and La Trobe university

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The Royal Commission designed to worsen social cohesion in Australia! michaelwest.com.au/a-message-to...

Is Bondi Royal Commission evidence making social cohesion worse? - Michael West

Much of the evidence at the Bondi Commission is one-sided, uncontested and delusional. So much for 'social cohesion'.

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We must be rolling in money, to be able to keep pouring billions into AUKUS. Not enough to fund public education properly or add dental/mental to Medibank, of course. Adelaide's Osborn Shipyard given an extra $4.6 billion. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...

Billions in new funding for AUKUS shipyards in Adelaide

The billions of dollars in additional funding is another step towards making Australia's nuclear submarine program "a reality".

abc.net.au

Can we also ask Labor to please stop claiming AUKUS is a “jobs bonanza” for Adelaide. It is the opposite of the truth. 1100 jobs were lost in Adelaide when the French contract was cancelled. 5 years later no sub building jobs, but 700 jobs for officials at ASA. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...

Billions in new funding for AUKUS shipyards in Adelaide

The billions of dollars in additional funding is another step towards making Australia's nuclear submarine program "a reality".

abc.net.au

Time for Australia to dump some of the many things in the AUSFTA that benefit the US, like the extension of copyright from 50yrs to 70yrs.

Doug Cameron@dncameron.bsky.social · 2w ago

The US trashes the so called “free trade” agreement with Australia. Increases tariffs on our goods based on lies, threatens our jobs and US sycophant in chief Marles supports subsidising US shipbuilding jobs🤬 So much for the “rules based order” that Marles uses to justify AUKUS