AusPoast
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News, politics, scandals, banter and general nonsense. Open to bribery/corruption etc.
She / her / Madam Tractor
- Is it not weird for a TV ad about hearing aids to include the line “You heard right!”…?
- SA Police really burying the lede on this Gus Lamont disappearance update
- “We have identified a number of inconsistencies and discrepancies … as it relates to timelines and the version of events provided to us by the family members.
- “As a result of these inconsistencies, and investigations into them, a person who resides at Oak Park station has withdrawn their support for the police and is no longer cooperating with us.
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View full threadThis info came after 30 mins of background information
- AFP Commissioner: “I would now like to directly address First Nations people and others who were present during the incident on January 26 and more broadly First Australians across the country.“ (Cont…)
- “Firstly - you have the right to peacefully protest in this country without facing threats of violence. This is a key principle of democracy in Australia.” Is this actually correct though given NSW and Vic protest bans?
- Laughable how long it took police to decide that throwing a home-made "fragment bomb" (filled with ball bearings and screws) into a crowd might constitute terrorism
- Oh cool
- Senator Mehreen Faruqi said Labor’s adoption of the envoy’s plan was the latest in a “long line of draconian, anti-protest crackdowns, and is designed to have a chilling effect on academic freedom and student activism”.
- “To be clear, these proposals would make Trump blush,” she said. “They won’t make anyone safer and only serve to tarnish our once great education sector.” - Faruqi
- Segal appointed constitutional lawyer Greg Craven, a former vice-chancellor of the Australian Catholic University and regular columnist with The Australian, to lead the report card initiative. Go8 universities will be the first to be assessed by Craven, who has strongly critiqued them in the past.’
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View full threadThe president of the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU), Dr Alison Barnes, said she had “grave concerns” about Craven’s capacity to conduct a balanced and independent inquiry.’
- "I suggest it would be preferable for you to declare all relevant affiliations and interactions to the CEO," she wrote. Suggest? Preferable? 🫠
- Watching MAFS as is my duty as a cultural anthropologist and one of the big thinkers of my generation
- @r3nnala.bsky.social this guy’s a fair fckwit huh?
- Deleted a post which demonstrated that I don’t know the difference between Christopher Pyne and Alexander Downer. Awks.
- Are they actually different people?
- Richard Marles is announcing the divestiture of 64 ADF properties
- Sell-off includes Victoria Barracks in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. (The number of properties mentioned has ranged from 64 to 68.)
