#CHOGM
Grace Tame always have the quintessential side-eye on a PM, but here's me chucking one on John Howard, not long after the Tampa lies, and the Republic Referendum hijinks.

Read the story ... I wasn't the only one p!ssed off at him.

#auspol
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How I shot the Queen ° CHOGM 2002 Official Queen’s Portrait
I was volunteering on the picture desk at CHOGM 2002 & given 30 minutes notice that I was to do the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Banquet Official Portrait.
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May 20, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Malta commemorated their hosting of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Valletta in 2015 and 2005 with these souvenir sheets
August 1, 2026 at 1:51 PM
Chogm - not a valid scrabble word
July 28, 2026 at 10:56 AM
ICYMI yesterday's @guardianaustralia.bsky.social cartoon on #climatechange and CHOGM
October 25, 2024 at 2:10 AM
The government tried to keep it off the CHOGM agenda & have said ordone little or nothing about it in any UK setting. Are the Caribbean, African and Asian governments what is meant by "the stakeholder state"? Or is that a reference to the Monarch's wish to acknowledge the issue of colonial history?
January 2, 2026 at 12:08 AM
During rather than before CHOGM, I should have written. The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) will be held from Nov 1-4 in St John’s, Antigua and Barbuda, bringing together leaders from 56 countries.
August 26, 2026 at 2:24 PM
Indian and South African leaders skipping CHOGM to join Putin and the BRICS, US Presidential candidate accusing the government of interference. Plenty of potential foreign policy challenges to mull over.....
October 23, 2024 at 6:46 AM
Luxon was planning to go to APEC regardless until Jim Bolger reminded Luxon what happened that time that Bolger went to CHOGM in 1997...🔪😱🤣
November 13, 2023 at 4:39 AM
@quietriotpod.bsky.social @sturdyalex.bsky.social @pimlicat.bsky.social interesting timing with the issues around reparations surfacing before CHOGM.
October 21, 2024 at 3:17 PM
The sheer hypocrisy of Luxon talking a big game on climate at CHoGM in Samoa, while trying to restart oil and gas exploration in Aotearoa!
October 28, 2024 at 6:15 PM
I believe Trudeau was last in Malta in 2015 for the CHOGM Summit (Commonwealth leaders).
July 23, 2026 at 1:49 PM
You know the *really* embarrassing thing about the Manawanui? CHOGM is happening in Samoa in two weeks. No going under the radar on this one.
October 6, 2024 at 8:15 AM
Three of four stamps issued by Singapore to commemorate their hosting of the first Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in January 1971 had the flags of all of the Commonwealth nations (I have so been waiting for "S" to come... 😊)
August 7, 2026 at 1:43 PM
If Britain agrees to discuss reparations meaningfully at the CHOGM in Nov, it will be because it sees the same need for strategic repositioning that Macron has seen. Europe must establish a new, postcolonial relationship with former colonies before China does.

www.thetimes.com/world/europe...
Macron in Africa, from chiding predatory China to rowing with students
The French president has launched a diplomatic reset in Kenya, branding Europe the only ‘reliable’ partner for the continent
www.thetimes.com
May 12, 2026 at 6:56 AM
Me, too. I guess it's important to remember that they do meet every two years at the CHOGM. But still nothing beats an actual official visit.
March 5, 2026 at 3:59 AM
Whilst contemplating seabed mining and allowing drilling for fossil fuels?

Get fucked

This grinning buffoon is a liability, our reputation is being trashed.
#nzpol
Ocean safeguarding declaration expected on final day of CHOGM
The Prime Minister has committed to supporting the declaration when the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting wraps up on Saturday.
www.rnz.co.nz
October 25, 2024 at 11:07 PM
Hawke wasn’t perfect, but at least he had the guts to stand up to Thatcher and CHOGM

Unlike the woeful Albo govt lapdogs rolling over for the US, Zionist money, weapons and fossil fuel interests

Never has the corporate capture of our government been more obvious

#auspol #aukus #palestine
August 6, 2025 at 7:47 PM
And yet this hypocrite has removed or undermined nearly every climate policy the previous govt initiated. And wants to fast track polluting industries including reinstating fossil fuel extraction.

His hypocrisy is breath taking.

www.rnz.co.nz/news/on-the-...
PM Christopher Luxon emerges from CHOGM meeting talking climate finance
Analysis - Despite strong words, questions remain over emissions mitigation and the environmental threat posed by the Manawanui navy ship.
www.rnz.co.nz
October 27, 2024 at 6:04 PM
Enjoyed being on BBC #PoliticsLive (the brightly coloured outfits edition…) w/ Jo Coburn earlier today, alongside Harriet Cross Munira Wilson & Inaya Folarin - discussing employee rights, criminal justice, the CHOGM & the Budget.

Full prog 👉 www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m00248s6
October 22, 2024 at 6:31 PM
Tampa, Republic Referendum, etc
When John Howard started gaslighting & lying to Australians, treating people like idiots, he began the rot for the Liberals.

Grace Tame always will be the quintessential side-eye on a PM, but here's me chucking one on Johnny

#auspol
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How I shot the Queen ° CHOGM 2002 Official Queen’s Portrait
I was volunteering on the picture desk at CHOGM 2002 & given 30 minutes notice that I was to do the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Banquet Official Portrait.
1earthmedia.com
May 20, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Uganda, Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), Kampala, 2007. USA, Red Cross Centenary, 1963. Ethiopia, 2nd death anniversary of President Franklin D, Roosevelt, 1947. Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso), EuropAfrique 1973 (Mrs. Williams, c.1790, by John Hoppner, RA.)
August 9, 2026 at 1:27 PM
‘Time has come’: Commonwealth heads agree to reparatory justice dialogue despite reluctant UK
‘Time has come’: Commonwealth heads agree to reparatory justice dialogue despite reluctant UK
UK government stresses it does not pay reparations and question was not on agenda before Chogm summit
www.theguardian.com
October 26, 2024 at 8:47 AM