Rob Coughlan 🇦🇺🇺🇦🇲🇫🇪🇺🇱🇦🇬🇪
@landofrob.bsky.social
Retired teacher, History, particularly military history. Master of Medieval and Early Modern Studies. Researching. Learning to grow food. Dog lover. Proud Dad and Pop. Anti fascist Anti Rascist. A real human not AI generated.
Small target / small man principles It isn’t just owners Housing security could be a core human right in this county. This man isn’t interested.. The only way to fix housing insecurity is: increase government funded social housing & include renters & homeless in policy #Charlatan #auspol
Trump, the Chamberlain of our times, determined to cede 20% of Ukraine to Putin cf the Munich Agreement's 30% of Czechoslovakia to Hitler. But Australian defence and foreign policy still based on "Yes, Sir, Mr President". www.smh.com.au/world/europe...
‘Planned operation’: The test result that reveals a dangerous Trump betrayal
All the signs suggest Donald Trump or his administration made a technical decision that led to increased civilian casualties in Ukraine.
smh.com.au
Meta claims it was all a big whoopsie that No Kings organizers were locked out of their accounts as the protests began today
As a pensioner couple we have struggled to keep our private insurance. It is our biggest weekly cost, after food. In the last 5 years I have been in hospital 3 times for life threatening incidents. Before that once to get a knee fixed.
Guardian Australia@australia.theguardian.com · 13h agoWhat do we know about Labor’s controversial private health insurance plans?
No one left behind. Except over 3.8 million entrenched in poverty. While elite politicians get their second home in Canberra paid for by taxpayers on salaries most people will only ever dream about, while they protect excessive corporate profits over people barely surviving. #Auspol
As Trump chaos builds ahead of the midterms, Albanese must tread carefully | Tom McIlroy
As Trump chaos builds ahead of the midterms, Albanese must tread carefully | Tom McIlroy
The president could become more erratic if his control over Washington recedes, making Australian engagement riskier * Get our new political email, free app or daily news podcast When Anthony Albanese jets to Florida for the G20 leaders summit later this year, he could come face to face with the architect of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The presence of Vladimir Putin at the meeting of the world’s biggest economies would be a stark reminder of the rapidly shifting political reality facing Australia, as the country’s closest security ally becomes even more unpredictable under Donald Trump. Continue reading...
theguardian.com
Sobering. In this country you have to be blind if you do not notice rough sleepers or people living in cars.
Guardian Australia@australia.theguardian.com · 2d agoWhy are rough sleepers dying a stone’s throw from luxury waterfront houses in Victoria?
Daylight robbery. My cartoon in today's @theageaustralia.bsky.social and @sydmorningherald.bsky.social
BREAKING: Greenpeace activists occupy Woodside’s Scarborough gas project calling on the Australian government to “Stop Woodside’s Dirty Gas” and “Save Scott Reef” theaimn.net/breaking-gre...
BREAKING: Greenpeace activists occupy Woodside’s Scarborough gas project calling on the Australian government to “Stop Woodside’s Dirty Gas” and “Save Scott Reef”
Greenpeace Australia Pacific Media Release PERTH, Saturday 17 October 2026 — Four Greenpeace Australia Pacific activists are scaling and occupying a Floating Production Unit at Woodside’s Scarborough ...
theaimn.net
This is a direct result of Trump's blood pact with tech oligarchs and Russian despots which means it is a direct result of the MAGA voters and uncomitted non-voters of the 2024 election. I say again, let they never be given a second of peace from being reminded of the global bloodshed they wrought
UNITED24 Media@united24media.com · 2d ago⚡️ Russian attacks left 2,433 civilians dead or injured in September, marking an 85% increase compared to last year.
On this day in 1793, Marie-Antoinette, former Queen of France and wife of Louis XVI was executed by guillotine in Paris. She was 37. 1793 had been a tumultuous year. Louis XVI had been guillotined in January 1793, France faced the prospect of imminent invasion by foreign armies, the economy was in
In migration-nations (countries that deliberately import worker that are more educated that locals) first and second generation migrant kids record higher PISA scores that the kids of locals. In Australia the trend is particularly strong. Source: buff.ly/49xhLvS
16 October 1931 | A French Jewish boy, Adolphe Frydman, was born in Paris. In June 1943 he was deported to #Auschwitz from #Drancy and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection --- A short video about gas chambers and crematoria of the Auschwitz camp: https://youtu.be/-A05i25j9Ck
Today is Sextidi the 26th of Vendémiaire in the year 235. Vendémiaire is the month of vintage. Today we celebrate eggplants. #JacobinDay See today's page
American comedian and commentator Jon Stewart recently asked the question on his weekly show, “What do we get in exchange for paying for all of this? https://michaelwest.com.au/ai-threats-the-jobs-that-wont-come-back-and-who-pays/
Peter Jukes nails this assessment of #trump and #musk. 👇👇
Peter Jukes@peterjukes.bsky.social · 2d agoOf all the many evil betrayals I’ve seen in the last 60 years I’ve been alive, I’m struggling to think of any that match what Trump and Musk did to innocent Ukrainian citizens while Putin was sending missiles this way. A trio to live on in infamy well after I am gone
Seems self-evident but very significant distinction of #Putin's and #zelenskyy's vision of peace, the former seeking Ukrainian capitulation and the latter negotiations. Putin can very easily have peace, he just needs to stop bombing #ukraine and withdraw his troops.
Maria Popova@popovaprof.bsky.social · 2d agoTrump's complaints about Zelensky/Ukraine and his insistence that he wants peace make sense with reality ONLY if we accept that he defines "peace" the exact same way Putin does-- as Ukrainian capitulation to Russian control.
Ukraine’s President, Volodymyr Zelensky, was asked on Friday if President Trump was using him as a scapegoat for various domestic and foreign issues Trump faces. He answered with a silent smile. nyti.ms/4zFU4AD
A decade after losing power, Tony Abbott, Peta Credlin and her husband, former Liberal Party federal director Brian Loughnane, are in charge federally and in key state branches, meeting at private clubs, deciding policy and purging moderates. trib.al/naJTTSe
‘It’s crazy stuff’: How Abbott, Credlin and Loughnane won back power
A decade after losing power, the trio are in charge federally and in key state branches, meeting at private clubs, deciding policy and purging moderates.
trib.al
Restored cottage gives insight into life on Snowy Scheme
Restored cottage gives insight into life on Snowy Scheme
Decades before modular homes and FIFO dongas, portable cottages were housing workers on the Snowy Scheme.
abc.net.au
President Macron: Through its actions, Russia is preventing Ukrainian grain from being exported. Ukraine has achieved record harvests, which help feed many developing and impoverished nations.Today, Russia is choosing to starve these nations and impoverish Ukraine. It is criminal in every respect
Pauline Hanson and Angus Taylor want to tell you who built Australia and who doesn't belong. Watershedd looks at the migrants who built the Westgate Bridge, and at what their deaths gave every worker in this country. blakandblack.com/2026/10/15/f...
Fifty-Six Years: The Overlooked Legacy of Immigration
"Sit down boys!" "But Sir, the Westgate Bridge has fallen down!" So said one of my brothers, from his first floor classroom. Another, both arms in plaster and concussed from a fall from a height, wand...
blakandblack.com
What. You are kidding me. My local council ranger would have my guts for garters if I did not pick up after my dogs at the park.
Simon Kuestenmacher@simongerman600.bsky.social · 3d agoMost hilarious space #map I’ve ever seen. Where astronauts left their poop on the moon. Source: buff.ly/2WTYgdF
