Poppy

Proud dad and Poppy. Love my family, sport, music and friends. The older I get, the further I lean left. Forever thankful to be born Australian.

[Antony (Tony) Walker @tonywalker1]

So, Canada is purchasing 12 Mercedes submarines at one-fifth of the projected cost (no way costs will be contained) of fewer AUKUS subs. Something like a choice between a Merc with a 50-year warranty, and a British clunker on the never, never @BBC https://t.co/Know4HeVUb

[InfoGram @_InfoGram_]

Obama has just dropped the biggest bombshell on Trump 🔥

🇺🇸Trump at 3:00 PM: “I'm bringing the United States back. Obama deal was BS."

🇺🇸Obama at 4:00 PM— "We had a deal to stop Iran’s nukes. Trump tore it up.
Iran sped up. He started a war. Wasted billions. Broke the military. People died. Inflation spiked.

And now we’re worse off than before. Wow what a back. Only a fool cheers this." 🔥

Absolute brutal by Obama 💪🔥

[🕯💧ShazH @shazh.bsky.social @ShazHaitch]

@MikeCarlton01 We MUST stop and ask:

Exactly what does this foreign agent for Israel have access to that makes Anthony Albanese's government capitulate to every Zionist state demand?

DIG DEEPER, PEOPLE!!!

#JillianSegal #ForeignAgent #auspol

[Mike Carlton @MikeCarlton01]

Segal’s arrogance and impertinence is truly remarkable. Now she apparently demands editorial control over the ABC and SBS. https://t.co/8fUYNxMaco

[Poppy @peedidie]

@Seraphinaf5 71

[Dr Tracy Westerman AM @TracyWesterman]

Can someone “please explain” to One Nation, the difference between a slogan and a fully costed and economically modelled policy. They seem to not understand the difference.

While you’re at it; perhaps also explain that an entire platform built around nothing but random, indiscriminate cuts to government spending without any meaningful evidence of inefficiency beyond “I don’t like it” and without any associated plan to replace essential services is not going to “make Australia great” (again)…

[Tyler Wilson @Mr_Wilson900]

Trump, you pathetic clown! We could've lost to Belgium with at least some damn dignity, but you begged FIFA for special favors, ran your mouth about it being "rigged" like 2020

Now we've lost the game AND all our honor!
You embarrassed America again!

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Last year, Microsoft made $101 billion in profits, got a $12.5 billion tax break from Trump & paid its CEO $96 million.

This year, it’s raising the price of an Xbox by $150 & eliminating 3,200 jobs.

Please don’t tell me corporate tax breaks create jobs. It never trickles down.

[Poppy @peedidie]

Simply laughable
https://t.co/2wPSO6X5PY

[Bosnian Football @BosniaNTBall]

Just end the torunament now. This is disgraceful! #FIFAWorldCup

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🚨URGENT: Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya’s life is in immediate danger, Physicians for Human Rights Israel and his lawyer warned Saturday, after a prison visit revealed the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital bearing fresh, severe injuries to his head, eyes, ears, and neck, so disfigured his own attorney initially struggled to recognize him.

🔹Attorney Nasser Odeh, who saw Abu Safiya Thursday at the underground Rakefet interrogation facility in Nitzan Prison, said he arrived shackled hand and foot, escorted by masked guards, struggling to breathe and speak, unable to sit upright, and repeatedly on the verge of losing consciousness.

🔹Abu Safiya told him that after his Supreme Court appeal was heard June 10, four or five guards entered his solitary cell at Ganot Prison and beat him with a hammer and batons, and that since his June 24 transfer to Rakefet he has been beaten daily, losing consciousness several times without receiving medical treatment.

🔹“This is the last time you will see me,” he told his lawyer. “They brought me here to kill me. I don’t see myself surviving. This is the end.”

🔹PHRI notes the escalation in torture began directly after Abu Safiya challenged his detention in court. He has been held without charge since December 27, 2024, under Israel’s Unlawful Combatants Law.

🔹The group has appealed to Israel’s attorney general and prison service demanding his immediate transfer, an independent medical examination, and an urgent judicial visit “before it is too late.”

Photo: Amnesty International

[Poppy @peedidie]

Amen to that.

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

Nobody wants data centers everywhere. Nobody wants flying cars. Nobody wants a city on Mars. Nobody wants AI in every app. Nobody wants a robot butler. All we want is clean water, we want bees to survive, and we want a habitable planet.

[Andrew Wilkie MP @WilkieMP]

It’s hard to imagine how anyone could see the dreadful harms caused by gambling in this country and not try to do something about it. But the PM and this Fed Labor Govt still won’t act in the public interest. Tell them to act now: https://t.co/HhxEDgoZ9P #auspol #politas

[stranger @strangerous10]

Tanya Plibersek calls out Tim Wilson for disappearing every time she brings up Paid Parental Leave.
“He’s gone again!”💥🙄
Says the LNP-ON alliance would be a disaster for PPL - reminding of Hanson’s claim, that “women get themselves pregnant for the money.”🔥 #auspol

[David Pocock @DavidPocock]

Fossil fuel companies are spending tens of millions on over 260 programs aimed at children.

They're trying to purchase social licence and influence young Australians.

With 87% of parents and grandparents saying these programs should be publicly funded, our schools and sporting clubs shouldn't be relying on fossil fuel money.
https://t.co/tga8lK58Hb

[David Pocock @DavidPocock]

Hugely disappointing to hear Communications Minister Annika Wells saying on radio that there will be no major changes to draft gambling legislation.

This package won't keep children safe and could lead to an increase in the number of gambling ads they are exposed to during live sport.

Australians deserve better from the government which is totally captured by the gambling lobby.

[Poppy @peedidie]

😂😂😂
https://t.co/2IhG0IpJtY

[Quentin Dempster @QuentinDempster]

Yes folks, cost of living, wars (Iran, Gaza, Lebanon, Ukraine) are distressing enough but another bigger challenge confronts us: climate change. All of Europe now in heat extremis. All populations should be demanding urgent global mitigation: decarbonisation of earth’s thin biosphere.

[Quentin Dempster @QuentinDempster]

Bob Menzies would be so proud of the Australian Labor Party 2026 for continuing his post WWII vision of private home ownership for young Australians, building family stability and intergenerational equity. Please note a returned LNP-PHON govt would repeal @AlboMP’s reforms.

[stranger @strangerous10]

💥Zali Steggall hits back at One Nation’s “dangerous” anti immigrant rhetoric & reminds that 30% of our care workforce are migrants
“R u also going to tell ppl that it means shutting down aged care centres? Cutting back on services?”
Why won’t media ask Hanson these questions?🙄