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#KualaLumpur Timor-Leste Prime Minister Kay Rala Xanana Gusmão sheds tears of joy after signing the Declaration on Timor-Leste’s Admission into ASEAN during the opening of the 47th ASEAN Summit and Related Summits at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre (KLCC) today. 📸 Hazim

#KualaLumpur Timor-Leste Prime Minister Kay Rala Xanana Gusmão sheds tears of joy after signing the Declaration on Timor-Leste’s Admission into ASEAN during the opening of the 47th ASEAN Summit and Related Summits at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre (KLCC) today.

📸 Hazim
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Except like most of the speech its assumed world is one that consists of only two countries - Australia and the USA. Kiwis anyone? Much of Europe (even though their elections are mostly run by govt departments & local govt, they're still mostly good)?

Hugh Riminton (@hughriminton) 's Twitter Profile Photo

A reminder that a tariff-protected Aussie made Phillips colour TV in 1975 cost $1100 at a time when average FT earnings were <$8000. Funny thing, nostalgia..

A reminder that a tariff-protected Aussie made Phillips colour TV in 1975 cost $1100 at a time when average FT earnings were &lt;$8000. Funny thing, nostalgia..
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That lecture really laid it on with a trowel, and most of it was Australia v USA as if no other countries exist. Journos, famously hard bitten and cynical, are still lapping it up - what’s the deal with that? 🤔

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#BREAKING 🚨 Pauline Hanson's One Nation has posted online that it will change its name – dropping Hanson's name from the title, making the party simply "One Nation" It was previously known as just "One Nation" when Hanson was out of the party between 2002 and 2013

#BREAKING 🚨 Pauline Hanson's One Nation has posted online that it will change its name – dropping Hanson's name from the title, making the party simply "One Nation"

It was previously known as just "One Nation" when Hanson was out of the party between 2002 and 2013
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Good. Now, if ACCC could look at the outrageous dodgy Adobe, who recently 1. More than doubled monthly fee for Creative Cloud 2. Hit me with a ~$650 fee when I hit "cancel" (3. I ended up avoiding that fee by subscribing to Acrobat Pro only.) 😡 abc.net.au/news/2025-10-2…

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Brits are even worse than us in overinterpreting by- elections. People don’t even bother looking back to see whether those byelection results did actually portend anything.

Brits are even worse than us in overinterpreting by- elections. 
People don’t even bother looking back to see whether those byelection results did actually portend anything.
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I have no idea about extent of gerrymandering in Massachusetts or any other state, & Arnie’s numbers are a bit wonky, but non- proportional outcomes in one-sided vote in a single member district system is normal. Eg 1984 prez election when Mondale got 41% vote & just one state.

Lorraine Finlay (@lorrainejfinlay) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The first deportation to Nauru has taken place - yet basic details remain undisclosed. Transparency shouldn't be optional. Australians deserve to know how decisions are made, how rights are protected, and how billions are being spent. We must do better. Read the Australian Human Rights Commission

The first deportation to Nauru has taken place - yet basic details remain undisclosed.
Transparency shouldn't be optional. Australians deserve to know how decisions are made, how rights are protected, and how billions are being spent. 
We must do better. 
Read the <a href="/AusHumanRights/">Australian Human Rights Commission</a>
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BBC journalist barred from leaving Vietnam and repeatedly interrogated | Vietnam | The Guardian theguardian.com/world/2025/oct…

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To be a fly on the OL’s office wall when they decided on the Joy Division thing. Very News Corp, particularly Sky after Dark. As that’s where RW Liberal leadership challenges gather momentum, placating them must be the logic. But very poor logic.☹️

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Peter Brent Looking at the Wikipedia county map of Mass in 2024 pres election, all the counties are blue. Hard to draw a Repug seat from that. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Unit…

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Silly straw man to claim inheritance duties are no go because they would impact teh boomers. They’re no go because the the politics are deadly! It’s like GST increase. Shorto (2019) can attest to this - and it wasn’t even part of his platform! afr.com/policy/tax-and…

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WHAT ARE WE WAITING FOR? ILLEGAL TOBACCO EDITION Coles announced today their tobacco sales are down 57% in the past year alone (h/t shane wright) That drop has occurred even though tobacco prices are up by a tax-powered 12.9% across that same period, meaning the fall in the

WHAT ARE WE WAITING FOR? ILLEGAL TOBACCO EDITION

Coles announced today their tobacco sales are down 57% in the past year alone (h/t <a href="/shanewright/">shane wright</a>)

That drop has occurred even though tobacco prices are up by a tax-powered 12.9% across that same period, meaning the fall in the