Barbara Romeril
@barbararomeril.bsky.social
Feminist, clean air advocate, believer in social justice - still wearing a mask!
🖤💔💛On Wurundjeri land
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Governments have been urged to establish mandatory indoor air quality performance standards and a transparent national system of monitoring and reporting, including universal workplace monitoring and the visible display of real-time indoor air quality data.
Via @croakeynews.bsky.social
Via @croakeynews.bsky.social
How failure to regulate indoor air quality exacerbates health inequities www.croakey.org/how-failure-... #publichealth
How failure to regulate indoor air quality exacerbates health inequities
www.croakey.org
November 14, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Governments have been urged to establish mandatory indoor air quality performance standards and a transparent national system of monitoring and reporting, including universal workplace monitoring and the visible display of real-time indoor air quality data.
Via @croakeynews.bsky.social
Via @croakeynews.bsky.social
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November 14, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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A welcome and long overdue reform that will help better keep children safe. This needs to be implemented with urgency.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Working with children check tracker established amid pressure on child care
Almost a decade after one was recommended by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
www.abc.net.au
November 13, 2025 at 8:41 PM
A welcome and long overdue reform that will help better keep children safe. This needs to be implemented with urgency.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
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Increase in productivity since 1979: 87%
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
November 14, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Increase in productivity since 1979: 87%
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
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When the government decided to let COVID-19 loose, they decided at that exact same time to do two things.
Make life difficult and lonely for elderly and disabled people.
Kill elderly and disabled people by playing dress up and pretend it’s 2019, because we want to be “kind”.
Make life difficult and lonely for elderly and disabled people.
Kill elderly and disabled people by playing dress up and pretend it’s 2019, because we want to be “kind”.
November 13, 2025 at 8:42 PM
When the government decided to let COVID-19 loose, they decided at that exact same time to do two things.
Make life difficult and lonely for elderly and disabled people.
Kill elderly and disabled people by playing dress up and pretend it’s 2019, because we want to be “kind”.
Make life difficult and lonely for elderly and disabled people.
Kill elderly and disabled people by playing dress up and pretend it’s 2019, because we want to be “kind”.
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I'm only up to the third episode (there are eight), and I can't look away either. It is taut and scary, not to mention there's a gorgeous little dog named "Steve" who I'm terrified isn't going to make it to the end! #TheBeastInMe #ClaireDanes #MatthewRhys #Netflix
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
The Beast in Me review – Claire Danes’s astonishing new thriller is instant top–tier TV
This taut psychological two-hander between Danes and Matthew Rhys will surely win awards. You cannot look away
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:21 AM
I'm only up to the third episode (there are eight), and I can't look away either. It is taut and scary, not to mention there's a gorgeous little dog named "Steve" who I'm terrified isn't going to make it to the end! #TheBeastInMe #ClaireDanes #MatthewRhys #Netflix
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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"Scientists Just Developed A Blood Test That Can Diagnose Chronic Fatigue And Long Covid."
🔹Blood test detected CFS with 92% accuracy.
🔹CFS and long COVID overlap means it may lead to a long COVID test.
🔹Unclear exactly when either test might be available.
Source: archive.li/K0txX
🔹Blood test detected CFS with 92% accuracy.
🔹CFS and long COVID overlap means it may lead to a long COVID test.
🔹Unclear exactly when either test might be available.
Source: archive.li/K0txX
November 14, 2025 at 1:32 AM
"Scientists Just Developed A Blood Test That Can Diagnose Chronic Fatigue And Long Covid."
🔹Blood test detected CFS with 92% accuracy.
🔹CFS and long COVID overlap means it may lead to a long COVID test.
🔹Unclear exactly when either test might be available.
Source: archive.li/K0txX
🔹Blood test detected CFS with 92% accuracy.
🔹CFS and long COVID overlap means it may lead to a long COVID test.
🔹Unclear exactly when either test might be available.
Source: archive.li/K0txX
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Tern makes a good point — years of COVID infections have weakened immunity for many, which could explain why recent flu seasons are hitting harder than before.
Tern’s reply: "Perhaps there's so much flu now because Covid infections make people vulnerable to flu."
Source: x.com/1goodtern/st...
Tern’s reply: "Perhaps there's so much flu now because Covid infections make people vulnerable to flu."
Source: x.com/1goodtern/st...
November 14, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Tern makes a good point — years of COVID infections have weakened immunity for many, which could explain why recent flu seasons are hitting harder than before.
Tern’s reply: "Perhaps there's so much flu now because Covid infections make people vulnerable to flu."
Source: x.com/1goodtern/st...
Tern’s reply: "Perhaps there's so much flu now because Covid infections make people vulnerable to flu."
Source: x.com/1goodtern/st...
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November 13, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Liberal Transitioning
November 12, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Liberal Transitioning
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This is the best takedown of Musk I’ve ever read. From a beloved author around my age no less, Joyce Carol Oates.
November 12, 2025 at 6:35 PM
This is the best takedown of Musk I’ve ever read. From a beloved author around my age no less, Joyce Carol Oates.
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Libs have dumped Net Zero.
The climate change denial from News Ltd and the usual suspects is about to ramp up to MAGA levels of bullshit and hysteria.
The climate change denial from News Ltd and the usual suspects is about to ramp up to MAGA levels of bullshit and hysteria.
November 13, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Libs have dumped Net Zero.
The climate change denial from News Ltd and the usual suspects is about to ramp up to MAGA levels of bullshit and hysteria.
The climate change denial from News Ltd and the usual suspects is about to ramp up to MAGA levels of bullshit and hysteria.
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Well said Prof. I wonder who will sensible Liberal voters turn to now?
For the first time in Australia’s history, more than 50% of our power comes from renewables. Just as we achieve this tremendous milestone, the LNP demonstrates their commitment to not only supporting fossils but to becoming fossils
November 13, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Well said Prof. I wonder who will sensible Liberal voters turn to now?
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November 12, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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As a committed unionist throughout my working life I am overjoyed to hear the ACTU speaking out against Nazism. I come from a long line of unionists on both sides of my ancestry & I follow Robert Reich not least because he champions unionism in the US - something you don't hear very often.
November 12, 2025 at 3:18 AM
As a committed unionist throughout my working life I am overjoyed to hear the ACTU speaking out against Nazism. I come from a long line of unionists on both sides of my ancestry & I follow Robert Reich not least because he champions unionism in the US - something you don't hear very often.
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50 years since the Dismissal.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
November 10, 2025 at 9:49 PM
50 years since the Dismissal.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
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The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon
November 11, 2025 at 1:42 AM
The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon
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David Pope in Canbera Times
November 6, 2025 at 9:44 AM
David Pope in Canbera Times
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Who wants to be a trillionaire?
My cartoon in today's @theageaustralia.bsky.social and @sydmorningherald.bsky.social
My cartoon in today's @theageaustralia.bsky.social and @sydmorningherald.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Who wants to be a trillionaire?
My cartoon in today's @theageaustralia.bsky.social and @sydmorningherald.bsky.social
My cartoon in today's @theageaustralia.bsky.social and @sydmorningherald.bsky.social
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November 10, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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Someone said it’s unethical to restrict the movements of elderly people when there is a covid outbreak in a nursing home.
Doesn’t feel too ethical to me to have low vaccination rates, no air quality improvement, and just spread diseases either though.
Seems kinda evil.
Doesn’t feel too ethical to me to have low vaccination rates, no air quality improvement, and just spread diseases either though.
Seems kinda evil.
November 11, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Someone said it’s unethical to restrict the movements of elderly people when there is a covid outbreak in a nursing home.
Doesn’t feel too ethical to me to have low vaccination rates, no air quality improvement, and just spread diseases either though.
Seems kinda evil.
Doesn’t feel too ethical to me to have low vaccination rates, no air quality improvement, and just spread diseases either though.
Seems kinda evil.
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On a personal note, I’ve been masking since the start of the pandemic and I’ll continue to for as long as it takes.
I have two family members with serious health issues, and I want to protect their health as well as my own.
For me, everywhere carries risk, so I mask everywhere I go.
I have two family members with serious health issues, and I want to protect their health as well as my own.
For me, everywhere carries risk, so I mask everywhere I go.
November 11, 2025 at 5:18 AM
On a personal note, I’ve been masking since the start of the pandemic and I’ll continue to for as long as it takes.
I have two family members with serious health issues, and I want to protect their health as well as my own.
For me, everywhere carries risk, so I mask everywhere I go.
I have two family members with serious health issues, and I want to protect their health as well as my own.
For me, everywhere carries risk, so I mask everywhere I go.