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2026-03-30 07:44:53 GMT

What price AUKUS?
#AUSPOL
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2026-03-08 05:48:21 GMT

https://open.substack.com/pub/sauleslake/p/why-tasmanias-education-system-produces?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=qvnn
For those who still think moving to Tassie is a good idea
#auspol
#tasmania

2026-01-27 04:35:31 GMT

Hey America! This is what the world sees. Are you embarrassed enough yet?
#uspol
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2026-01-26 07:48:28 GMT

#pluribus
#ethics
https://youtu.be/od9HIsKHiLk?si=MORJnbAQ-FbF0Zh8
It now all makes sense.

2026-01-09 06:35:04 GMT

British bus stop sign
#uspol
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2026-01-07 16:09:48 GMT

Just had an image of #PrimeMinisterAlbanese dressed like Chamberlain, waving the AUKUS Agreement and claiming it will buy us "peace in our times"
#auspol

2025-10-12 18:14:43 GMT

If you see this in a news summary, you actually have to think: "real or satire"?
what would you guess?
#auspol
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2025-08-30 23:18:00 GMT

Not sure if this is frowned upon, but we are renting out our home in Yass as we are moving overseas. The house has three bedrooms upstairs, and a work area with two offices, meeting room and full bathroom downstairs.
14KWhr solar cells, tesla battery, EV charger 28K litres of rainwater storage along with mains water (all filtered), so you can flip a switch to choose. Central gas heating, central evap cooling, and reverse cycle air cond. Large heat pump hot water and induction cook top.
Two entertainment areas and pizza oven. One is under a spreading tree, perfect for outdoor summer dinners. Also a steel fire pit for winter gatherings.
2ac of gardens and a 5ac horse paddock. Solar automatic farm gate.
Fast NBN, no-through road, and stars to the horizon.
Six blocks to the hospital, and 1.3Km to the best french bakery in regional NSW (SERIOUSLY). Same distance to bus to Canberra, or 45mins drive to Canberra
We are (obviously) looking for long-term tenants. $900 pwk.
DM if you are interested or want more information.
#rental
#treechange
#nsw
[edit: added hashtags]
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2025-07-05 22:11:11 GMT

It needs to be said
#auspol #tourism #uspol
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2025-05-16 23:18:56 GMT

From the pantheon of unusual measures of volume, I give you the "half tea chest"
#measurement
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2025-04-13 19:36:31 GMT

What's a person to do in the electorate of #riverina when faced with *thirteen* candidates?
This is what I am going to do:
1 - Jenny Rolfe [Community Independent]
2 - Barbara Baikie [somewhat vague, but feminist]
3 - Valxori Pheonix [The Greens (holding my nose because talking to the candidate was like talking to a 14-year old)]
4 - Mark Jefferson [ Labor (uninspiring and no campaign in my part of the electorate)]
5 - Jake Davis [Independent ???]
6 - Grant Hardwick [Independent (tradie with apparently limited understanding of how government works)]
7 - Richard Foley [Citizens Party (the first of the right-wing crazies on the ballot paper]
8 - Desiree Gregory [Shooters, Fishers and Wankers Party]
9 - Mark Craig [ One Notion]
10 - Mark Burge [Family First ]
11 - Christine Onley [ Libertarian]
12 - James Gooden [Independent (but member of the Liberals that can't run under their banner because of the "three cornered contest thing)
13 - Michael McCormack [Nationals (not only is he a Nat, but he is also *boring*, his nickname in Parlt House being "The Human Wallpaper"]
bloody hell! between this and the Senate paper it will take forever to cast a vote...
#auspol

2025-04-05 07:29:11 GMT

Working in Yass to make an effective change for the electorate of #Riverina
visit jennyrolfe.com.au
#auspol
#VoteforCommunityIndependents
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2025-04-03 00:01:06 GMT

Trump hit Norfolk Island with a 29% Tariff. This raises at least two questions.
1. Why is that tariff different from Australia? After all, it is part of the country, and
2. What the hell does Norfolk Island export to the USA?
3. On the same vein, why did Heard and MacDonald Islands, which are uninhabited, get singled out for tariffs?
bizarre times indeed. At least it provides some comic relief before Trump tries to distract his opponents with a foreign war. No, not against Greenland or Canada, but against Iran. The planes, ships and missiles are all in place and ready to fly.
#uspol
#auspol

2025-03-25 19:00:04 GMT

let's do our bit!
#uspol
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2025-02-16 02:56:31 GMT

Interesting. I was shopping for veggies today and saw a sign explaining that the navel oranges were from the US because of a difficulty sourcing Australian ones. I chose to not buy them. Thinking about it, I'm not buying anything from the US any more, if I can help it!
#auspol
#uspol

2025-02-12 04:25:52 GMT

Back in the dim, dark past GPs would do house calls after their regular appointments. Now, that is when they do their telehealth calls. Telehealth costs the same as regular appointments - did we have to pay more for housecalls back in the day?

2024-12-10 21:54:06 GMT

This is Allie. She is 17 years old, and tomorrow, the vet is visiting our home to take her on her final journey.
She is, and always has been, a very good girl.
#dogsofmastodon
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2024-12-08 02:33:10 GMT

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our take is that the mum will be asked to come pick her up within the first 20 minutes ...😞

2024-12-07 20:45:06 GMT

Granddaughter, aged 6, who has a pathological fear of all animals (even small fluffy dogs) is being sent to a horse riding camp. What could possibly go wrong? :frontfelloff:

2024-12-05 05:25:33 GMT

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I am trying hard to find some sympathy for the victim and their family, but so far ... I am coming up empty

2024-11-29 18:54:36 GMT

https://regionriverina.com.au/ever-considered-a-run-at-federal-politics-together-for-riverina-is-looking-for-a-candidate/77439/
Looking for someone to nominate to be an independent community candidate for the next federal election!
#auspol
#riverina

2024-11-28 18:27:35 GMT

www.togetherforriverina.org
Together for Riverina is looking for a candidate to stand at the next Federal election.
Are you interested in standing as a community-backed independent candidate?
Lots of excitement building in this electorate which underwent recent major changes to boundaries and identity
#riverina
#yassvalley
#snowyvalleys
#boorowa
#auspol
#voicesforAustralia
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2024-11-25 02:29:43 GMT

https://michaelwest.com.au/peter-dutton-to-face-legal-action-for-racial-discrimination/
good to see!
#auspol

2024-11-18 21:59:17 GMT

Had a very much fun edition of the "Music you can only play after 8pm Show" on YassFM last night. Wayde and I played some truly amazing stuff. Much of it was due to explicit language, some was so funny it had us laughing way too loud, but other were because societal attitudes no longer tolerate such behaviours. Good discussion about changing attitudes!
Hit of the night was an obscure early-1960s soul number called "The customer is always f*cking wrong"

2024-11-11 04:22:02 GMT

from Senate Estimates
"everyone will have to go through age verification process ", "Yes" said Labor Jenny McAllister
Albanese's Social media ban requires everyone's Age verification by Labor before you can access social media.
You will need Labors permission to access your accounts
WTAF????
#auspol

2024-11-04 21:41:38 GMT

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thanks. That woman is very accident prone. I reckon half her joints have metal or plastic bits in them because of careless accidents!

2024-11-04 21:27:19 GMT

So, MIL took a fall yesterday afternoon and was taken to our local hospital by ambulance. X-rays showed that she had broken off the head of her femur, so another ambulance ride, this time to Canberra. Of course, there were no beds available, so she was kept in ER overnight and was scheduled for surgery early this morning so that they can put a metal pin into the bone.

2024-10-30 21:03:47 GMT

This bastard thing wouldn't get off the driveway last night, even when I got out of the car and walked up to it and yelled at it.
More front than Peter Dutton telling bald lies about nuclear power.....
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2024-10-29 05:28:09 GMT

Unintended irony?
#uspol
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2024-10-25 06:08:59 GMT

#auspol
Bring on the day we cut ties with the British monarchy!
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2024-10-23 03:52:30 GMT

Anybody else thinks this is sheer madness? [and very poor strategic thinking!]
#auspol
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2024-10-03 21:44:48 GMT

What she said
#israel
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2024-09-25 20:47:14 GMT

Every day I am more appalled by the Albanese government's cowardice.
Housing, Aukus, the environment, the list of issues goes on and on

2024-09-22 22:59:28 GMT

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the leaves would be good for anybody raising silkworms [the alpacas definitely like them]

2024-09-22 21:44:37 GMT

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we have a white mulberry tree in our back paddock lots of fruit but really tasteless

2024-09-18 19:26:27 GMT

Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?
Epicurus
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2024-09-13 19:51:05 GMT

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09-14/aged-care-reforms-rba-deja-vu/104349594
The aged care reforms aimed at people staying in their own homes sound great BUT:
- Where do the growing numbers of elderly (particularly single women) who don't own a house go? Most aged care facilities [don't call it a home, because they are more like factory farms] have very limited numbers of "concessional places" that will take 85% of the resident's age pension to pay for their room and board [but no luxury items, such as access to wifi, or wine with dinner, or even newspapers!]
- Anywhere outside the most metropolitan areas, home services providers are scarce as hens' teeth [what the government coyly describes as "a thin market". Just 60Km from the Federal Parliament, my in-laws cannot find anybody to do their lawns, or clean the house or do personal services. And when they approach a larger company, they are not interested because going through the age care system means it takes forever for them to get paid. So what do my in-laws do?
I will argue forever that the whole commercial age care system is rotten to the core and needs to be taken over totally by the government

2024-09-03 03:53:53 GMT

Boosting this as a result of the #NaNoWriMo #AI fiasco: @npub1h4s…36mx developed an alternate called
https://writingmonth.org/
Check it out. Maybe write a few stories about #EndingAI.
writingmonth.org
Writing Month is coming soon
#AITheft

2024-09-01 06:53:39 GMT

My father, George, died almost twenty years ago. He wasn’t a man to make much of an impression, so it if feels odd that it has taken me this long to finally understand the shape of him. The reason for this is that it is only recently that my daughter and I worked out that he suffered from autism. Of course, that was not something that was understood when George was growing up.
George was born in Latin America. It was a large, wealthy and mostly happy family. Intelligent, but not academically inclined, he only got seven years of education. He was happiest working in the family’s cattle stations.
By his mid-thirties, he was back in the city. He worked in an office for half the day and flew his beloved aeroplane for the other half. We’ve never been able to identify even one friend. He was a loner and happy with his life. Alas, society’s expectation meant that he had to marry. Enter my mother (stage left).
Elena was born into a poor, dysfunctional family. Alcohol and poverty meant that she spent much of her childhood living with cousins, as her parents’ lives fell apart. She met my father in the office.
Elena saw that George had what she most wanted, a wealthy happy family. So, she set her sights on entrapping him. They were married the following year. Her first command was that it was “the aeroplane or her”, so George sold his beloved Aeronca. That set the dynamic for their marriage.
I never understood how other boys related to their fathers. Mine was just a figure in the background. He read and he fixed things, but did not interact much with my brothers or me.
It was in the late seventies that I had the one and only conversation with my father that I remember. We were in the backyard of their home having a barbeque. He and I were sitting in the sun after lunch, talking about the future. He then told me that he only wanted to live long enough for my youngest brother to turn sixteen and be able to look after himself. After that, he was happy to die. I have often thought about his words, and the decades of misery that those words carried as baggage. Divorce was not an option, and so he wished for death as a way to escape my mother and his Sisyphean life.
In a way, he got his wish. Soon after my youngest brother left home, George started showing signs of dementia. He lived until the age of 82, but by the end he did not recognise me. He found escape from his pain, and from my mother in the foggy recesses of his own mind.
I don’t know how things would have been different if his neurodivergence was understood when he was growing up, but I think his life would have been different and much happier.
It’s difficult to mourn a man one did not know, but at least I now understand him a bit better.
Fathers’ Day 2024.

2024-08-31 09:28:19 GMT

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visit Braddon. You won't believe how much it has changed.

2024-08-26 22:35:16 GMT

It seems that every decision that the Albanese Government makes is more cowardly than the previous one.
What a waste of time...

2024-08-25 22:04:18 GMT

We have a mystery in our little town's local government elections!
A shadowy group calling itself "makeitbetter.makeithome" has started advertising in both facebook and instagram for the election in the Yass Valley LGA. The ads have neither contact information nor the required electoral disclosure statements.
Anybody heard of these people before?
#NSW #Elections_NSW
#YassValleyCouncil

2024-08-18 09:47:51 GMT

#auspol
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2024-08-07 05:55:01 GMT

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possibly because that is when the Democratic Convention takes place and Harris-Walz officially become candidates?

2024-08-07 03:57:16 GMT

US-folk, I want to buy some "HARRIS-WALZ" campaign buttons but the official store will not sell to anybody outside the US.
Any ideas about how to get hold of some?
#uspol

2024-08-03 21:01:29 GMT

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No, he was just a weird arsehole .... and had been for a long time.

2024-08-03 19:19:25 GMT

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Yes, we tried hard to get him to change his mind, but to no avail. Maybe getting together for a pint to talk about her would have been great, but most of us now live too far to do that.

2024-08-03 09:28:01 GMT

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a friend to many died last year. Her partner decided there would be no funeral or memorial. It left us all without an avenue for our grief. It still hurts.

2024-08-02 23:20:48 GMT

During the week I attended the funeral of the mother of a close friend of mine. Drove 250km to be there for him at a deeply important time. The drive there and back, through windy and not-well kept country roads gave me time to think about death and funerals (I know, quite morbid).
I have now attended funerals in three continents, and across some cultural divides and, frankly, I don’t think the modern funeral serves us well as either individuals or as a people.
Admittedly, as a non-believer, I miss out on whatever religious people get out of funerals, but even they seem to nowadays go about it in standardised platitudes. It seems that powerpoints of their photos of their life are now a standard, along with a short eulogy that barely rises above a litany of significant dates. All of it accompanied by music that might have been important for the deceased, but never contextualised for those attending the event. In all of this, I am as guilty as anyone else, for that was the structure of the funeral for each of my parents. Now, I don’t think it is anywhere enough.
A human being has died. Their contribution to this world has ended and they merit a proper acknowledgement and reckoning of both their virtues and their shortcomings. There is no judge in some imagined afterlife, so there is only us, present on that solemn day, to remember them and see them for one last time as complete people. Not just as others saw them, but as they saw themselves.
An American writer, Andrew Scott Card, once came up with the concept of the Speaker for the Dead. The role would take sufficient time to learn all there was to learn about a dead person, and then tell their story with both good and bad sides – not hagiography but history. Maybe speak it from the voice of they who have died, maybe not. But regardless, complete, fair and humane.
The death industry has become a money-hungry machine that processes bodies while giving those left behind very little real opportunity to grieve, to mourn, and to reflect. It is all just not good enough.

2024-07-08 23:17:06 GMT

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Sorry, this is one of my pet hate topics!
The councilors are poorly educated and the senior management leads them by the nose. Their financial performance is beyond woeful!

2024-07-08 19:08:06 GMT

https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/why-this-council-is-opposing-a-170m-solar-farm-that-would-power-48-000-homes-20240701-p5jq2d.html
Another example of the #YassValleyCouncil having their collective heads up their arse.
#auspol