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Peter Dixon

@Wombat389
 Tennant Creek, NT, 0860
Joined August 2010
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Riding a 1953 Vintage Double Decker Bus Around Sydney! | Heritage Transp... youtu.be/3De2toelPeY?si=jM3G… via @YouTube
Riding a 1953 Vintage Double Decker Bus Around Sydney! | Heritage...

Riding a 1953 Vintage Double Decker Bus Around Sydney! | Heritage...

Join Jamie and I for a nostalgic journey through the streets of Syd...

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Clare O’Neil on housing: ‘We are the change agents’ thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news…
Clare O’Neil on housing: ‘We are the change agents’

Clare O’Neil on housing: ‘We are the change agents’

The minister rejects claims that Labor’s tax reforms are damaging the economy, citing the ‘bleedingly obvious’ impact of interest rate hikes and pledging to make housing central to the next election.

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The rise and rise of Andrew Charlton: ‘Future PM at birth’ thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news…
The rise and rise of Andrew Charlton: ‘Future PM at birth’

The rise and rise of Andrew Charlton: ‘Future PM at birth’

In Anthony Albanese’s elevation of assistant minister Andrew Charlton, insiders see a Murdoch conspiracy and a rebuke to Jim Chalmers.

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How a flawed resilience program spread in schools thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news…
How a flawed resilience program spread in schools

How a flawed resilience program spread in schools

As for-profit wellness programs such as The Resilience Project expand their reach in schools, state education departments do not require any evidence of their impact on vulnerable children.

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US senator Jon Ossoff emerges as presidential frontrunner after midterms abc.net.au/news/2026-11-07/u… via @ABCaustralia
US senator with Australian ties now a presidential frontrunner

US senator with Australian ties now a presidential frontrunner

The polling booths have barely been packed down after the US midterms, but Washington is already looking ahead to the presidential election.

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Environment minister lauds home battery subsidy scheme despite search for savings abc.net.au/news/2026-11-07/e… via @ABCaustralia
Home battery subsidy scheme lauded despite government's search for cuts

Home battery subsidy scheme lauded despite government's search for cuts

Environment Minister Murray Watt praises the home battery subsidy scheme as “phenomenally successful” despite the prime minister declining to rule out means-testing the $7.2b program. 

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The real-life impact of foreign student visa changes thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news…
The real-life impact of foreign student visa changes

The real-life impact of foreign student visa changes

Labor’s migration changes will deter foreign students who can no longer apply for family visas, and make it harder to fill more than 150,000 vacancies looming in the care sectors.

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How import duties threaten Labor’s housing supply plan thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news…
How import duties threaten Labor’s housing supply plan

How import duties threaten Labor’s housing supply plan

Will a special duty on Chinese windows and doors push up construction costs and slow the building of new homes?

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Labor’s quiet erosion of Medicare for all thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comm…
Labor’s quiet erosion of Medicare for all

Labor’s quiet erosion of Medicare for all

Somewhere in the Albanese government, someone made a conscious decision to remove Medicare from families in our community. But you can’t fix a broken system by punishing the people in it. There are...

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Finding Justice thesaturdaypaper.com.au/cult…
Finding Justice

Finding Justice

The Saturday Paper is a quality weekly newspaper, dedicated to narrative long-form journalism.

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Resist more US bases before it is too late pearlsandirritations.com/pos…
Resist more US bases before it is too late

Resist more US bases before it is too late

Successive governments have quietly deepened the US military footprint across Australia. Communities near proposed submarine and marine bases face risks they have never hears about. The window to...

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Politics with Michelle Grattan: Business chief urges government to use more means testing theconversation.com/politics… via @ConversationEDU
Politics with Michelle Grattan: Business chief urges government to use more means testing

Politics with Michelle Grattan: Business chief urges government to use more means testing

CEO of the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Andrew McKellar, joined us on the podcast to discuss ACCI’s prescriptions for the country’s economic ills.

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Netanyahu losing ground on all sides pearlsandirritations.com/pos…
Netanyahu losing ground on all sides

Netanyahu losing ground on all sides

The Republican collapse in the US midterms has weakened Benjamin Netanyahu's central pitch to Israeli voters. This exposes him as a liability in Washington at the same time as rivals are firming...

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More than 3,000 objects on show as Powerhouse Parramatta opens to the public abc.net.au/news/2026-11-07/w… via @ABCaustralia
Western Sydney's place of 'innovation', 'learning' officially opens to public

Western Sydney's place of 'innovation', 'learning' officially opens to public

The biggest cultural infrastructure build since the Sydney Opera House officially opens today on a site that was once an old car park. 

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Elders say WA government going 'around in circles' on Indigenous child protection abc.net.au/news/2026-11-07/d… via @ABCaustralia
Aboriginal Affairs Minister Don Punch accused of not listening to concerns

Aboriginal Affairs Minister Don Punch accused of not listening to concerns

Indigenous elders accuse WA Aboriginal Affairs Minister Don Punch of "passing the buck" on child protection in the state's north, and say they want leaders who will listen and offer a clear plan...

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Tributes flow for 11yo Yorta Yorta boy after Shepparton death abc.net.au/news/2026-11-07/t… via @ABCaustralia
'Strong, cheeky' Shepparton boy remembered after tragic river death

'Strong, cheeky' Shepparton boy remembered after tragic river death

An 11-year-old Shepparton boy who died this week has been remembered as a talented athlete who had a strong connection to his community

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NT government's claim crime is down not backed by data, report says abc.net.au/news/2026-11-07/n… via @ABCaustralia
NT government accused of cherrypicking data to support crime claims

NT government accused of cherrypicking data to support crime claims

A report finds the Northern Territory government is cherrypicking data to back its narrative that crime is down, with legal experts saying "we now must be sceptical". 

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NT Country Hour abc.net.au/listen/programs/n… via @ABCaustralia
NT Country Hour - ABC listen

NT Country Hour - ABC listen

Mark Harvey-Sutton reflects on eight years as the chief executive of the Australian Live Exporters Council. Workers at the Darwin Port are planning to strike tonight.

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Indigenous people 'very rarely' sit on a jury in SA, report finds abc.net.au/news/2026-11-07/i… via @ABCaustralia
Indigenous people 'very rarely' sit on a jury in SA, report finds

Indigenous people 'very rarely' sit on a jury in SA, report finds

Despite being over-represented in the criminal justice system, a report has found Indigenous people are not given equal opportunity to serve on juries.

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Slate pillars remember 'Tin Town' settlement in western NSW abc.net.au/news/2026-11-07/w… via @ABCaustralia
Artwork memorialises long-gone 'Tin Town' settlement in western NSW

Artwork memorialises long-gone 'Tin Town' settlement in western NSW

Standing tall on two large monolithic slates in Western NSW are the names of 31 families who once lived in a long-gone town camp outside Coonamble.

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