Carolyn Gilholme
@carogil.bsky.social
Just arrived here from elon's nightmare X. Hoping to connect with other friends from there in order to feel at home again.Gringai land Hunter Valley, NSW.
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The last time I wrote about this I copped the biggest whinge fest from the then (Labor) minister’s office about how they weren’t cutting the budget lol
That's more than 1,100 jobs lost at the CSIRO over the last two years.
"Combined, the staff association estimates that equates to cutting the agency’s size by a third."
This is more cuts to the CSIRO than was attempted by the Abbott government.
www.smh.com.au/national/csi...
"Combined, the staff association estimates that equates to cutting the agency’s size by a third."
This is more cuts to the CSIRO than was attempted by the Abbott government.
www.smh.com.au/national/csi...
CSIRO to slash hundreds of jobs in cost-saving drive
The staff association at the nation’s leading scientific research organisation says the latest round of cuts marks “a sad day for publicly funded science”.
www.smh.com.au
November 18, 2025 at 3:14 PM
The last time I wrote about this I copped the biggest whinge fest from the then (Labor) minister’s office about how they weren’t cutting the budget lol
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A horrendous report on ABC radio from a Brisbane doctor doing a second tour in Gaza with Medecins sans Frontières. She says the ceasefire is in name only, the genocide continues and the deprivation of basic food, shelter and resources means even the injured haven’t what the need to heal.
November 18, 2025 at 7:31 AM
A horrendous report on ABC radio from a Brisbane doctor doing a second tour in Gaza with Medecins sans Frontières. She says the ceasefire is in name only, the genocide continues and the deprivation of basic food, shelter and resources means even the injured haven’t what the need to heal.
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Is there any oversight ... at all ... where the ubiquitous sushi stalls in every shopping centre, mall, airport, etc. that offer only salmon, source their produce??
It is from diseased Tasmanian salmon farms?
Time to get this industry and its outlets under proper scutiny!
It is from diseased Tasmanian salmon farms?
Time to get this industry and its outlets under proper scutiny!
November 17, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Is there any oversight ... at all ... where the ubiquitous sushi stalls in every shopping centre, mall, airport, etc. that offer only salmon, source their produce??
It is from diseased Tasmanian salmon farms?
Time to get this industry and its outlets under proper scutiny!
It is from diseased Tasmanian salmon farms?
Time to get this industry and its outlets under proper scutiny!
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When the Gina & Rupert wholly owned #COALition party cry wolf re renewables & Australian electricity prices, tell them to shove this where their sun don't shine but their wind blows strong. #auspol # climate change
November 16, 2025 at 11:51 PM
When the Gina & Rupert wholly owned #COALition party cry wolf re renewables & Australian electricity prices, tell them to shove this where their sun don't shine but their wind blows strong. #auspol # climate change
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Chris Minns has different standards for protest – lock ’em up for pro-Palestine and climate action protesters, quiet approval for the far right and pleading ignorance about neo-Nazis rallies. It’s not going to end very well for him, NSW Caucus not so happy. #AUSPOL @dlew919.bsky.social
November 17, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Chris Minns has different standards for protest – lock ’em up for pro-Palestine and climate action protesters, quiet approval for the far right and pleading ignorance about neo-Nazis rallies. It’s not going to end very well for him, NSW Caucus not so happy. #AUSPOL @dlew919.bsky.social
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Shutting down sustainable industry to protect a filthy one
Lobster fishery off Bruny Island in TAS closed on eve of the opening of fishing season due to antibiotic use by the salmon farms.
No indication of how long for. Must be a devastating blow for fishermen approaching Xmas.
No indication of how long for. Must be a devastating blow for fishermen approaching Xmas.
Crayfish Closure Follows Salmon Antibiotic Deployment - Tasmanian Times
The commercial rock lobster fishery south of the D'Entrecasteaux Channel is now closed effective 15 November 2025
tasmaniantimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Shutting down sustainable industry to protect a filthy one
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The accelerating tragedy of the invasion and land and water theft on the West Bank - by the unchecked occupiers - is clearly "too much" for Western media to face. (Never mind Senator Wong.) It breaks ALL international laws.
This article is welcome. Please circulate it. www.smh.com.au/world/middle...
This article is welcome. Please circulate it. www.smh.com.au/world/middle...
Israel’s annexation of the West Bank has been occurring for decades
Israel’s parliament is debating applying Israeli law over the West Bank. Its control of the region, however, has been growing without such ceremony.
www.smh.com.au
November 17, 2025 at 2:46 AM
The accelerating tragedy of the invasion and land and water theft on the West Bank - by the unchecked occupiers - is clearly "too much" for Western media to face. (Never mind Senator Wong.) It breaks ALL international laws.
This article is welcome. Please circulate it. www.smh.com.au/world/middle...
This article is welcome. Please circulate it. www.smh.com.au/world/middle...
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.....meanwhile in Tasmania.....not far from us along our Huon River plus other parts of our state. Telling people not to catch wild fish within 3 kms and anti biotics that are only approved for use in pigs.....not fish!!!
November 16, 2025 at 8:15 PM
.....meanwhile in Tasmania.....not far from us along our Huon River plus other parts of our state. Telling people not to catch wild fish within 3 kms and anti biotics that are only approved for use in pigs.....not fish!!!
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Neo Nazis were allowed to protest outside of Parliament on the Government’s watch. That the Minns Labor Govt uses their own failure to justify harsher anti-protest laws is an utter disgrace.
November 16, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Neo Nazis were allowed to protest outside of Parliament on the Government’s watch. That the Minns Labor Govt uses their own failure to justify harsher anti-protest laws is an utter disgrace.
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With Lisa Cox's years of detailed investigations & reporting, there's ZERO excuse to NOT KNOW the many & varied failures of NSW's biodiversity offset scheme
Choosing to repeat these mistakes is contempt of public interest biodiversity policy
#EPBC #BiodiversityOffsets #PayToDestroy
Choosing to repeat these mistakes is contempt of public interest biodiversity policy
#EPBC #BiodiversityOffsets #PayToDestroy
The Albanese government’s nature reforms would change biodiversity offsets policy, including by setting up a “restoration contributions” fund. Guardian Australia reporting exposed major failures with a similar scheme in NSW. Experts are warning the federal plan could repeat those mistakes
Biodiversity offsets failed to protect habitat in NSW. Now federal Labor is about to make the same mistakes, critics warn
Offsets were meant to be a last resort for mitigating environmental damage from development projects, but rapidly became the default
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 12:13 AM
With Lisa Cox's years of detailed investigations & reporting, there's ZERO excuse to NOT KNOW the many & varied failures of NSW's biodiversity offset scheme
Choosing to repeat these mistakes is contempt of public interest biodiversity policy
#EPBC #BiodiversityOffsets #PayToDestroy
Choosing to repeat these mistakes is contempt of public interest biodiversity policy
#EPBC #BiodiversityOffsets #PayToDestroy
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While Gina/Advance/IPA/Murdochs/Faragists/preferential Pauline take over the Liberal Party, a big window has opened for more meritorious independents (think ‘teals’) to run in marginal LNP (and some ALP) seats across federal electorates. Libs may have signed their own death warrant. 👇
November 15, 2025 at 2:17 AM
While Gina/Advance/IPA/Murdochs/Faragists/preferential Pauline take over the Liberal Party, a big window has opened for more meritorious independents (think ‘teals’) to run in marginal LNP (and some ALP) seats across federal electorates. Libs may have signed their own death warrant. 👇
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Race car driver Dean Alessi of Alessi Motorsports has been named as a member of the National Socialist Network who attended the neo-Nazi rally at NSW Parliament last weekend. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
November 14, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Race car driver Dean Alessi of Alessi Motorsports has been named as a member of the National Socialist Network who attended the neo-Nazi rally at NSW Parliament last weekend. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
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Never smile with a pedophile
November 13, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Never smile with a pedophile
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In an Australia first, I used FOI to get the AI chat logs of Australia's top national security bureaucrat.
They show how he used Microsoft Copilot to ghostwrite speeches and messages to colleagues.
This comes as the government looks to push AI use in the public service.
www.crikey.com.au/20...
They show how he used Microsoft Copilot to ghostwrite speeches and messages to colleagues.
This comes as the government looks to push AI use in the public service.
www.crikey.com.au/20...
November 12, 2025 at 2:01 AM
In an Australia first, I used FOI to get the AI chat logs of Australia's top national security bureaucrat.
They show how he used Microsoft Copilot to ghostwrite speeches and messages to colleagues.
This comes as the government looks to push AI use in the public service.
www.crikey.com.au/20...
They show how he used Microsoft Copilot to ghostwrite speeches and messages to colleagues.
This comes as the government looks to push AI use in the public service.
www.crikey.com.au/20...
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Unless I missed it, we seem to be still waiting on the Special Zionist Envoy for Genocide, Apartheid and White Supremacy Jillian Segal to call out the neo-Nazi "rally" held in Sydney the other day for its blatant anti-Semitism.
Or is she holidaying in Israel again, @albomp.bsky.social? #auspol
Or is she holidaying in Israel again, @albomp.bsky.social? #auspol
November 11, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Unless I missed it, we seem to be still waiting on the Special Zionist Envoy for Genocide, Apartheid and White Supremacy Jillian Segal to call out the neo-Nazi "rally" held in Sydney the other day for its blatant anti-Semitism.
Or is she holidaying in Israel again, @albomp.bsky.social? #auspol
Or is she holidaying in Israel again, @albomp.bsky.social? #auspol
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Watching SBS news and their extensive coverage of the scary destructive force of the Philippines typhoon. This is the new normal, so it’s with anger I think of National party fat cats like Barnaby Joyce waving away climate change like it’s a joke or someone else’s problem. 😡
November 10, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Watching SBS news and their extensive coverage of the scary destructive force of the Philippines typhoon. This is the new normal, so it’s with anger I think of National party fat cats like Barnaby Joyce waving away climate change like it’s a joke or someone else’s problem. 😡
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Like ‘housing affordability’ ‘net zero’ has become one of those meaningless political sayings
Labors support for net zero hasn’t stopped them supporting new coal or gas or from spending billions on fossil fuel subsidies
My latest column on @thepointau.bsky.social
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Labors support for net zero hasn’t stopped them supporting new coal or gas or from spending billions on fossil fuel subsidies
My latest column on @thepointau.bsky.social
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Net Zero hides a truth the mining giants understand perfectly: nothing has to change
The point.com.au
thepoint.com.au
November 10, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Like ‘housing affordability’ ‘net zero’ has become one of those meaningless political sayings
Labors support for net zero hasn’t stopped them supporting new coal or gas or from spending billions on fossil fuel subsidies
My latest column on @thepointau.bsky.social
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Labors support for net zero hasn’t stopped them supporting new coal or gas or from spending billions on fossil fuel subsidies
My latest column on @thepointau.bsky.social
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
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50 years on from the dismissal. The US government actively destabilising the Australian democracy. Pine Gap should be suspended and a full report made to the Australian & American people on all activities conducted there. #auspol
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
The Dismissal, the role of the CIA, MI6 and Austral Americans
I was familiar with many of the events leading to the Dismissal on 11 November 1975. That knowledge was greatly increased by Professor Jenny Hocking with her long and successful campaign to have the P...
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November 9, 2025 at 3:25 AM
50 years on from the dismissal. The US government actively destabilising the Australian democracy. Pine Gap should be suspended and a full report made to the Australian & American people on all activities conducted there. #auspol
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
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Let's call "settler violence" what it really is:
state-sanctioned terrorism.
And meanwhile, western nations continue to ignore Israel's routine atrocities and de facto annexation of the #WestBank.
state-sanctioned terrorism.
And meanwhile, western nations continue to ignore Israel's routine atrocities and de facto annexation of the #WestBank.
📌 UN: West Bank Sees Record Settler Violence, Dozens of Children Killed in 2025
October marked the highest monthly number of Israeli settler attacks since UN monitoring began in 2006, with over 260 incidents, an average of eight per day.
▪️ 150 settler attacks during the olive harvest injured...
October marked the highest monthly number of Israeli settler attacks since UN monitoring began in 2006, with over 260 incidents, an average of eight per day.
▪️ 150 settler attacks during the olive harvest injured...
November 8, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Let's call "settler violence" what it really is:
state-sanctioned terrorism.
And meanwhile, western nations continue to ignore Israel's routine atrocities and de facto annexation of the #WestBank.
state-sanctioned terrorism.
And meanwhile, western nations continue to ignore Israel's routine atrocities and de facto annexation of the #WestBank.
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Silence in the face of what is heinous = cowardice.
Speak up and be on the rights side of history, Labor MPs, or become independent, or choose a party that doesn’t punish free speech and dissent!
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Speak up and be on the rights side of history, Labor MPs, or become independent, or choose a party that doesn’t punish free speech and dissent!
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Fear rules on gambling in Albanese government
Andrew Wilkie has asked the PM to allow a free vote on banning gambling advertising and it appears many Labor MPs would support it.
www.abc.net.au
November 8, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Silence in the face of what is heinous = cowardice.
Speak up and be on the rights side of history, Labor MPs, or become independent, or choose a party that doesn’t punish free speech and dissent!
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Speak up and be on the rights side of history, Labor MPs, or become independent, or choose a party that doesn’t punish free speech and dissent!
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
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Imagine IF we had a progressive govt handed a massive mandate by voters to deliver big bold policies.
Policies like…40 years after the introduction of Medicare…including universal non-cosmetic dental care in it.
@albomp.bsky.social is scared of his own shadow
#auspol
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Policies like…40 years after the introduction of Medicare…including universal non-cosmetic dental care in it.
@albomp.bsky.social is scared of his own shadow
#auspol
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
A trip to the dentist made me question my private health insurance
Do I walk away from private insurance and trust that health challenges will have me seen promptly enough in the public system?
www.abc.net.au
November 8, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Imagine IF we had a progressive govt handed a massive mandate by voters to deliver big bold policies.
Policies like…40 years after the introduction of Medicare…including universal non-cosmetic dental care in it.
@albomp.bsky.social is scared of his own shadow
#auspol
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Policies like…40 years after the introduction of Medicare…including universal non-cosmetic dental care in it.
@albomp.bsky.social is scared of his own shadow
#auspol
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
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bit rusty on the "principles & values Jesus lived by" but astounded tt they now include:
☠️ militarily & politically supporting genocide, scholasticide & ecocide
☠️ cruel, pointless, indefinite detention of asylum seekers
☠️ punitive immiseration & perpetuation of Robodebt on people on income support
☠️ militarily & politically supporting genocide, scholasticide & ecocide
☠️ cruel, pointless, indefinite detention of asylum seekers
☠️ punitive immiseration & perpetuation of Robodebt on people on income support
At the Christian prayer breakfast this week, Attorney-General Michelle Rowland said that the “principles and values that Jesus lived by underpin the role of Australia’s first law officer” and claimed that “our values and faith” guide lawmakers. Read more: rationalist.com.au/australias-a...
#auspol
#auspol
November 6, 2025 at 6:24 AM
bit rusty on the "principles & values Jesus lived by" but astounded tt they now include:
☠️ militarily & politically supporting genocide, scholasticide & ecocide
☠️ cruel, pointless, indefinite detention of asylum seekers
☠️ punitive immiseration & perpetuation of Robodebt on people on income support
☠️ militarily & politically supporting genocide, scholasticide & ecocide
☠️ cruel, pointless, indefinite detention of asylum seekers
☠️ punitive immiseration & perpetuation of Robodebt on people on income support
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I do hope we’re not paying this grifting thing’s travel expenses! #Hanson www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Pauline Hanson skips parliament to speak at conservative conference at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago
One Nation leader also seen with Gina Rinehart – and many of her talking points align with mining magnate
www.theguardian.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:58 AM
I do hope we’re not paying this grifting thing’s travel expenses! #Hanson www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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love the harbour? Have pride in this city? Enjoy cultural events? Our political leaders support this 3-day mass murder marketplace opening tomorrow (4-6 Nov) at ICC Darling Harbour.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Israeli weapons companies should be removed from Sydney defence expo, MPs and human rights experts say
Exclusive: Australian member of UN commission criticises Elbit and Rafael for being ‘key enablers’ of Israel’s war on Gaza
www.theguardian.com
November 2, 2025 at 10:08 PM
love the harbour? Have pride in this city? Enjoy cultural events? Our political leaders support this 3-day mass murder marketplace opening tomorrow (4-6 Nov) at ICC Darling Harbour.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...