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Government spending tax payer dollars to benefit tax payers isn't wasteful spending. It's literally what taxes are for.
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Anthropic & Open AI want Aust govt to weaken copyright law so they can shift model training to Aust. What they dont say is an Aust opt-in/out system would let them copy global material without paying, as long as it’s copied in Aust. My piece here: insidestory.org.au/will-aust…
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@Mark_Butler_MP @AlboMP
Bupa isn't just a health insurer: it owns/operates businesses across insurance, medical care, dental, optical, mental health & aged-care homes, & is expanding into primary care. That concentration of funding & care is a step toward US-style managed care.
The 62 clients registered to Pyne & Partners on the Commonwealth Register of Lobbyists, as at 22 July 2026, are:
1. AERO DEFENCE PTY LTD
2. AeroTech Helicopters Pty Ltd
3. ALFA (NT) LIMITED
4. Anduril Australia and Asia Pacific Pty Ltd
5. Birdon Pty Ltd
6. BlastOne International (Aust) Pty Ltd
7. Brown Hill and Keswick Creeks Stormwater Board
8. Bupa Health Services Pty Ltd
9. Capital Group Investment Management Pte. Ltd.
10. Ciena Australia Pty Ltd
11. Civmec Construction & Engineering Pty Ltd
12. Clarion Events Limited
13. CoNEXA Pty Ltd
14. Consolidated Tenders Pty Ltd
15. Crace Holdings Pty Ltd
16. CyberCX Pty Ltd
17. Cyprium Metals Ltd
18. Diversa Trustees Limited
19. Ecocycle Pty Ltd
20. EPTEC MARINE PTY LTD
21. Exiis Group Pty Ltd
22. Flinders University
23. HAA No. 1 Pty Ltd
24. Hanwha Aerospace & Systems
25. HighCom Limited
26. Holmes Institute Pty Ltd
27. Homeland School Company
28. Kent Relocation Group
29. KnectIQ, Inc
30. L’Oréal Australia Pty Ltd
31. L3Harris Technologies Australia Group Pty Ltd
32. LUYTEN 3D PTY LTD
33. Mind Medicine Australia
34. Molonglo Group
35. Monadelphous Engineering Associates Pty Ltd
36. Narwarddeken Academy Limited
37. Neptune Aviation Services
38. Noumed Pharmaceuticals Pty Ltd
39. Parkes Energy Recovery Pty Ltd
40. Pay.com.au Ltd
41. Pelligra Pty Ltd
42. PMB DEFENCE PTY LTD
43. PPS Group
44. Quandong Holdings Co Pty Ltd
45. Qube Holdings Limited
46. Rafael Australia Pty Ltd
47. Rolls-Royce Australia Services Pty Ltd
48. Service Stream Limited
49. Silentium Defence Pty Ltd
50. SmartSat CRC Ltd
51. South East Coastal Care Initiative
52. SRC AUS PTY LTD
53. STÄRKE-AMG Group Pty Ltd
54. Terramin Australia Ltd
55. The Silanna Group Pty Ltd
56. The Trustee for SOUTH DANDENONG UNIT TRUST
57. Tribe Infrastructure Australia Pty Ltd
58. TRIPLE P INTERNATIONAL PTY LTD
59. VMI Australia
60. Warddeken Land Management Limited
61. Watpac Limited
62. XAANA Pty Ltd
That is quite a concentration in defence, aerospace, cyber/data, infrastructure, engineering and government-facing technology: Anduril, L3Harris, Rafael, Rolls-Royce, Hanwha, PMB Defence, Silentium, HighCom, SmartSat, CyberCX, XAANA, Ciena, VMI, Birdon, Civmec, Eptec and others.
And people are wondering why we are still signed up to AUKUS?
Our government is being lobbied relentlessly by Big War and a host of others, inc;luding disability and aged care providers and others who care more about profit than people.
Please note Bupa in there, busy rolling up all our family and local businesses to increase their shitty megacorporation dream.
All those politicians, lured away from their existing huge wages and perks by even bigger wealth, abandoning all pretence of loyalty to the country they once swore an oath to.
Make it make sense. Time for change.
#auspol
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Spite is a very powerful motivator.
Give people what they want (to some degree) and they're more than willing to play along with whatever rules you set up.
Piss them off enough and your entire empire that you think is too big to fail will come tumbling down.
I love the internet.
A new PS5 jailbreak has just dropped, and apparently the PS5 Pro is vulnerable too.
The new 13.60 Relapse jailbreak works on PS5 firmware from 7.00 all the way up to 13.60. The exploit was found a few weeks ago, but this new version gets around some of the restrictions from the original.
The people behind it claim that pretty much every PS5 can now be jailbroken, except consoles that were updated within the last week or so.
Sony is probably not going to be very happy about this one.
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we had personnel onboard an american submarine that torpedoed an unarmed iranian frigate returning from an international naval shindig in india, in international waters no less. that alone makes us party to every other horrendous thing that has happened since
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Greetings geeks!
We’re scouring the land for a new hire, and we want to hear from all you talented people! Come and take a peek at the fresh listing now live on our careers site.
🎮 Engineer💡
Check it out at: leagueofgeeks.com/careers#en…
Reposts appreciated. Share with your pals!
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Husband bought a leg of lamb, boned it, marinated it, put in the fridge overnight, then cooked on the Webber with rosemary and parsley from our garden. Gave a third to our son, fed us for three nights in a row and he's minced the leftovers for shepherd's pie for another 2 nights!
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Congratulations News Corp -- ten great years of appearing in the ATO's company tax data without paying a cent in tax on tens of billions of revenue!
But keep on lecturing us about how the country should be run!
crikey.com.au/2026/10/01/new…
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America the only country that tries to kill people then takes them to hospital for life saving treatment.
youtu.be/D-H9LlFWJoc?si=c60D… via @YouTube
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to literally anyone in an EU Country for the love of god watch this and vote against the EU kids act
youtube.com/watch?v=mQRcK9nY…
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Yet this will never feature in world wide media as much, not even an iota, of the "but the hostages..." screeching 🙄
🚨🇶🇦 Qatar's prime minister said Hamas agreed on the first day of the war on Gaza to “release all civilian hostages,” asking only for a ceasefire window to get them out, and Israel refused to even "entertain the idea."
"We got an agreement" to release "all the civilian hostages," Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani told Piers Morgan. Israeli officials replied that if Hamas wanted to free them, it should do so without a pause in fighting, he said.
His on-record account follows a Haaretz report this month that he relayed the offer to then-Mossad chief David Barnea on the evening of Oct. 7.
🎥 Piers Morgan Uncensored (YouTube)
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Read about the Australian citizen who in 3 weeks will have spent 4 years in NSW prisons without breaking any Australian law or any Australian charges.
Please sign the petition & donate to help Dan Duggan, his wife & his six children fight for his freedom.
citizensparty.org.au/media-r…
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Just fantastic to see a FREE games showcase at MIGW. Props to @FrostyGamesFest and @ACMI - that's the real indie spirit! 🙌
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🐦1k+ wishlists! 🐦
Thank you everyone for your support of our little birdwatching puzzle game 💞 It means a lot to our team, and we're excited to continue sharing more about our game!
#birdwatching #indiegame #cozygame
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Check this out!
youtube.com/watch?v=aslqSDmf…
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3 hours later and still nothing on news dot com about green leadership, yet if Barnaby Joyce farted it would be breaking news.
This is all that is wrong with Australian media 🤬
#BREAKING 🚨 NSW senator David Shoebridge has been elected the new leader of the Greens, following the resignation of Larissa Waters
Shoebridge ran on a joint ticket with Victorian senator Steph Hodgins-May as his deputy
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#BREAKING 🚨 NSW senator David Shoebridge has been elected the new leader of the Greens, following the resignation of Larissa Waters
Shoebridge ran on a joint ticket with Victorian senator Steph Hodgins-May as his deputy
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the RBA board are unanimously psychopaths with no regard for the pain they cause
ALT The RBA’s rate-setting board has warned its fears about inflation were coming to fruition and it is ready to lift interest rates again. The 9-member unanimously voted to lift rates to 4.6% today. It singled out a broadening Middle East conflict and strong AI-related demand for pushing up prices globally. Locally, inflation was higher than the RBA expected and businesses were lifting their prices or looking to do so. The board said higher fuel prices were being passed on to prices of other goods and services and it was possible the US war on Iran could push inflation higher and drag global economic activity even lower. The RBA already lifted interest rates 3 times this year. The board said those hikes appeared to be slowing the economy but another was needed to bring inflation back down. It warned it was not necessarily done, saying: "The Board will continue to do what it considers necessary to bring inflation sustainably back to target, including increasing the cash rate further."