What problem is restricting working holiday visas trying to solve? Are we selling too much coffee and farm produce? Is the tourism income too high? 🤷♂️ #AusPol
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Interesting… One Nation support is strongest among electors born in South Africa and Italy and weakest among electors born in Asia. #AusPol www.roymorgan.com/findings/103...
One Nation support is strongest among electors born in South Africa and Italy and weakest among electors born in Asia - Roy Morgan Research
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Are tech bros offering us a deal, or a steal? Fiona Katauskas thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
Are tech bros offering us a deal, or a steal?
The Point, helping readers make sense of the issues shaping their lives today.
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With all the talk about Australia’s migration “issue”, there is one question that has remained noticeably absent. What problem are we solving? No one can answer it. Not really. #AusPol thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
Recycled fuss about migrants is just a painful hot-button topic looking for an issue
With all the talk about Australia’s migration “issue”, there is one question that has remained noticeably absent. What problem are we solving? No one can answer it. Not really. There are plenty of dec...
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Looks like 🤡N has been busted pulling the ‘AI’ wool over its supporter’s eyes. Apparently some guy in BRAZIL is doing anti-Labor commentary that’s posted on YouTube. This guy who goes by the mantle ‘Oceania Unfiltered’ uses AI to give him an Aussie accent! Of course 🤡N denies any involvement!
#F1 - Which race has the least overtaking? Monaco Great, let’s add a sprint race there then. 🤔
Ed Sheeran could turn this around by making his support a spots an open mic session for young talent attending the concert.
Your regular reminder that the St George of their flag was Turkish.
Pacific family❓️ The 94-seat super-majority @albomp.bsky.social Labor govt just approved their 37th Coal/Gas new/extension project ~80% of Australia's contribution to global emissions comes from fossil fuel exports
Adapting to climate change without ending the fossil fuel industry.
It’s as if Council, State Government & Stockland had no idea that if you build thousands of houses, you get several thousand more cars on the roads. It’s always short-term profit over long-term vision 🙆♂️🤬🤷♂️ #QldPol #SunshineCoast www.sunshinecoastnews.com.au/2026/09/17/t...
Traffic almost doubles as road duplication advances
Major Aura Boulevard duplication works are advancing as planning continues on the East-West Link and pressure grows across the Caloundra road network.
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Hopefully, the ticket prices won’t get even more expensive.
Australian F1 Grand Prix loses season-opening honour but gains sprint race
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Labor seats get more than 90% of funding distributed under controversial multi-million dollar grants program
Guardian Australia analysis adds to concerns over the federal scheme, which is to be the subject of a Senate inquiry
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How is this OK? Tech Bro’s taking our content to sell us back in a plagiarised version. We don’t have governments anymore, we have business brokers 🙆♂️🤷♂️🤬 www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Everything Australians put online could be scraped for AI under proposed new rules. How will you be affected?
The Albanese government is considering reforms that give US big tech unrestricted access to Australian content
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Scrutiny is a good thing. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Pauline Hanson’s daughter Lee working for a NSW One Nation senator remotely from Tasmania without ministerial approval
Exclusive: Lee Hanson also appears to be regularly campaigning for party during work hours, social media shows
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"If I've offended people by using that, yes, I will apologise for that," For a moment reading that, I feared ScoMo was back 😳 #AusPol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
Hanson apologises if she caused offence by Indigenous Australian remarks
Addressing widespread condemnation, the One Nation leader clarified what she meant by referring to Indigenous Australians as "primitive".
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How ‘housing first’ is helping people leave rough sleeping behind A housing model that gives people a permanent home before asking them to tackle the other problems in their lives has achieved striking results. #GoodNews www.positive.news/society/how-...
How ‘housing first’ is helping people leave rough sleeping behind
A housing model that gives people a permanent home before asking them to tackle the other problems in their lives has achieved striking results. Now its principles are being built into England’s new a...
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Surprise, surprise, surprise. #AusPol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
One Nation under fire for abandoning gas reservation plan in favour of policy benefiting Gina Rinehart
Pauline Hanson’s gas policy and the party’s relationship with Rinehart is examined in a new Guardian podcast series, The Populist
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Clearly, she’s read absolutely nothing. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
Hanson swiftly condemned for labelling Indigenous Australians 'primitive race'
Politicians from across the divide have condemned Pauline Hanson's remarks about Indigenous Australians, labelling them "vile", "divisive" and "derogatory".
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I’m not sure how I feel about Australians calling Americans Septic Tanks, but Donald Trump is absolutely full of shit.
“Pauline says what I think.” Can you tell me the difference between having thoughts and thinking? #AusPol
Oh I don’t know, one way of ‘dealing with Pauline’ might be for the major parties to start actually putting people first, companies second, and themselves last 🤔 #AusPol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
The political pile-on that could be Pauline Hanson's best weapon
In both Liberal and Labor research on how to meet the growing electoral threat from One Nation, one piece of advice does not change.
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#TooManyMen and boys www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
The students returning to school after sexual assault: ‘You go back the next day, and you just deal with it’
Peer-on-peer violence is on the rise. But when schools must balance a duty of care to both victims and perpetrators, where does this leave girls who have to pursue their education in the shadow of sex...
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Of course Hanson shouldn’t use Albanese’s mother to score political points. Of course Albanese shouldn’t use Albanese’s mother to score political points. Unless he’s willing to invest in public housing and lift disability pensions to a dignified level, he can keep quiet about his noble mother.
PM defends late mother against Hanson public housing 'attack'
Anthony Albanese has fiercely defended his late mother against criticism by Pauline Hanson, who has been called on to apologise for her remarks.
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