Charlie McInnes
@charliemc.bsky.social
Eternal optimist challenged every day by the climate crisis. Heart places the banks of the Bolong River.
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Mic (pen) drop
January 14, 2026 at 3:34 AM
Mic (pen) drop
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Want to make a submission into the inquiry on the "Combatting Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism Bill that was released yesterday?
You got till 4pm Thursday (ie TOMORROW)
That is quite disgraceful
www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentar...
You got till 4pm Thursday (ie TOMORROW)
That is quite disgraceful
www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentar...
Review of the Exposure Draft Legislation: Combatting Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism Bill 2026
The Minister for Home Affairs, Hon Tony Burke MP, wrote to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (the Committee) on 12 January 2026 to refer an Exposure Draft of the Combattin...
www.aph.gov.au
January 13, 2026 at 10:09 PM
Want to make a submission into the inquiry on the "Combatting Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism Bill that was released yesterday?
You got till 4pm Thursday (ie TOMORROW)
That is quite disgraceful
www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentar...
You got till 4pm Thursday (ie TOMORROW)
That is quite disgraceful
www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentar...
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You know, in a normal world, a Jewish programming director inviting a Palestinian author to speak would be celebrated as a positive example of this “social cohesion” thing.
But I guess it’s only “social cohesion” if an Arab woman is being battered and smeared by News Corp.
But I guess it’s only “social cohesion” if an Arab woman is being battered and smeared by News Corp.
January 12, 2026 at 7:25 AM
You know, in a normal world, a Jewish programming director inviting a Palestinian author to speak would be celebrated as a positive example of this “social cohesion” thing.
But I guess it’s only “social cohesion” if an Arab woman is being battered and smeared by News Corp.
But I guess it’s only “social cohesion” if an Arab woman is being battered and smeared by News Corp.
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randaabdelfattah.com
"Where the streets had a name"
Randa Abdel-Fatta
The narrative blends themes of loss, resilience, hope, and the complexities of identity, while portraying the daily realities of life under occupation with humor and warmth.
Too dangerous and offensive for Adelaide writers week.
"Where the streets had a name"
Randa Abdel-Fatta
The narrative blends themes of loss, resilience, hope, and the complexities of identity, while portraying the daily realities of life under occupation with humor and warmth.
Too dangerous and offensive for Adelaide writers week.
January 9, 2026 at 7:36 PM
randaabdelfattah.com
"Where the streets had a name"
Randa Abdel-Fatta
The narrative blends themes of loss, resilience, hope, and the complexities of identity, while portraying the daily realities of life under occupation with humor and warmth.
Too dangerous and offensive for Adelaide writers week.
"Where the streets had a name"
Randa Abdel-Fatta
The narrative blends themes of loss, resilience, hope, and the complexities of identity, while portraying the daily realities of life under occupation with humor and warmth.
Too dangerous and offensive for Adelaide writers week.
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mind bogglingly pathetic for the west to issue statements declaring support for international law while staying silent about the brazenly illegal invasion and kidnapping
January 4, 2026 at 8:22 AM
mind bogglingly pathetic for the west to issue statements declaring support for international law while staying silent about the brazenly illegal invasion and kidnapping
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United States has 'captured' Venezuelan president, Trump says, after wave of airstrikes
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United States has 'captured' Venezuelan president, Trump says, after wave of airstrikes
Multiple explosions rocked Venezuela's capital Caracas early on Saturday and columns of black smoke and aircraft could be seen, according to witnesses and social media posts.
www.sbs.com.au
January 3, 2026 at 9:35 AM
United States has 'captured' Venezuelan president, Trump says, after wave of airstrikes
www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
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"The federal government has another plan sitting on its table, one that the [Jewish Council of Australia] says is a “holistic, evidence-based approach to combating all forms of racism, including antisemitism”: the National Anti-Racism Framework." - @antounissa.bsky.social, @deepcutnews.bsky.social
Jewish Council urges 'pushback' against divisive rhetoric after Bondi attack
Both Jewish and Muslim groups report surge in abuse since massacre
substack.com
December 17, 2025 at 7:36 PM
"The federal government has another plan sitting on its table, one that the [Jewish Council of Australia] says is a “holistic, evidence-based approach to combating all forms of racism, including antisemitism”: the National Anti-Racism Framework." - @antounissa.bsky.social, @deepcutnews.bsky.social
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Tomorrow marks two years since the Israeli military killed beloved Palestinian professor, writer, and activist Refaat Alareer in an airstrike on his sister’s home.
December 5, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Tomorrow marks two years since the Israeli military killed beloved Palestinian professor, writer, and activist Refaat Alareer in an airstrike on his sister’s home.
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The last coal plant delivering electricity to California has closed.
California's energy system is now coal free.
www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/ding-dong-...
California's energy system is now coal free.
www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/ding-dong-...
Ding dong, coal is dead
At least in California.
www.climatecoloredgoggles.com
December 2, 2025 at 5:09 PM
The last coal plant delivering electricity to California has closed.
California's energy system is now coal free.
www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/ding-dong-...
California's energy system is now coal free.
www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/ding-dong-...
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“The only way UCLA really has been exceptional is in its exceptional failure to protect the students in its encampment from violence.”
Read Will Alden's deep dive into political dynamics at California's largest public university:
jewishcurrents.org/portrait-of-...
Read Will Alden's deep dive into political dynamics at California's largest public university:
jewishcurrents.org/portrait-of-...
Portrait of a Campus in Crisis
UCLA capitulated to its own hardline pro-Israel activists long before President Trump came calling. As a result, its students have repeatedly become…
jewishcurrents.org
December 2, 2025 at 6:48 PM
“The only way UCLA really has been exceptional is in its exceptional failure to protect the students in its encampment from violence.”
Read Will Alden's deep dive into political dynamics at California's largest public university:
jewishcurrents.org/portrait-of-...
Read Will Alden's deep dive into political dynamics at California's largest public university:
jewishcurrents.org/portrait-of-...
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UNICEF reported that more than 64,000 children have been killed or injured, and over 58,000 have lost one or both parents during the genocide in Gaza.
October 27, 2025 at 4:18 AM
UNICEF reported that more than 64,000 children have been killed or injured, and over 58,000 have lost one or both parents during the genocide in Gaza.
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Deadly good read
Here's me. '“People aren’t buying their shit anymore”: They think they can make you forget what you’ve seen'
“People aren't buying their shit anymore”: They think they can make you forget what you’ve seen - The Shot
Like colours, neurodivergence and political ideology, being a dickhead operates on a spectrum. From narcissistic middle managers, to people that...
theshot.net.au
October 23, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Deadly good read
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🧠💨 Dementia deaths linked to air pollution hit 626,000 in 2023 — that’s more than one life lost every minute!
In the latest report by @heiresearch.bsky.social: polluted air is now a brain health crisis.
✍️ @cbhattacharji.bsky.social
📖⬇️ & 🙏🔁
In the latest report by @heiresearch.bsky.social: polluted air is now a brain health crisis.
✍️ @cbhattacharji.bsky.social
📖⬇️ & 🙏🔁
Air Pollution-Related Dementia Kills Over 625,000 People A Year - Health Policy Watch
From killing over 600,000 elderly from dementia to an almost equal number of infants under the age of one-year, air pollution’s impact on young and old is
healthpolicy-watch.news
October 23, 2025 at 5:29 AM
🧠💨 Dementia deaths linked to air pollution hit 626,000 in 2023 — that’s more than one life lost every minute!
In the latest report by @heiresearch.bsky.social: polluted air is now a brain health crisis.
✍️ @cbhattacharji.bsky.social
📖⬇️ & 🙏🔁
In the latest report by @heiresearch.bsky.social: polluted air is now a brain health crisis.
✍️ @cbhattacharji.bsky.social
📖⬇️ & 🙏🔁
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canadian media would never have this courage
Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.
October 14, 2025 at 1:17 AM
canadian media would never have this courage
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Well done Shafaq Aftab. When a reviewer stole her work and published it under his own name, she fought for a YEAR to get the journal to retract the paper. Just wondering why it took Wiley a YEAR to do this. 🧪 #academicsky
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Wiley retracts study stolen by reviewer, following Retraction Watch coverage
A Wiley journal has retracted a paper more than a year after a researcher reported the work was hers and had been stolen by a reviewer for another journal. As we reported in July, Shafaq Aftab, now…
retractionwatch.com
October 12, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Well done Shafaq Aftab. When a reviewer stole her work and published it under his own name, she fought for a YEAR to get the journal to retract the paper. Just wondering why it took Wiley a YEAR to do this. 🧪 #academicsky
retractionwatch.com/2025/10/03/w...
retractionwatch.com/2025/10/03/w...
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Ducks, welcome to the war on cars.
Family of ducks crossing Perth freeway cause peak-hour pile up
Six cars are caught in a pile-up as a family of ducks attempts to cross busy Kwinana Freeway during the morning peak hour in Perth.
www.abc.net.au
October 10, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Ducks, welcome to the war on cars.
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And this is not scholarly but it draws on the history of the term "carbon footprint" while focusing on the class dynamics and communications challenges that intersect the concept of "individual action."
www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-t...
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We Need To Talk About The Carbon Footprints Of The Rich | NOEMA
Dramatically unequal consumption lies at the heart of the climate crisis.
www.noemamag.com
October 9, 2025 at 6:42 PM
And this is not scholarly but it draws on the history of the term "carbon footprint" while focusing on the class dynamics and communications challenges that intersect the concept of "individual action."
www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-t...
www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-t...
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This was twenty-three months ago. Israeli forces have killed more than 16,365 kids since.
November 7, 2023 — Kids in Gaza host a press conference, in English, to beg the world for life.
“We come now to shout and invite you to protect us; we want to live, we want peace…we want to live as the other children live.”
At the time, Israel forces had killed over 4,200 kids like these.
“We come now to shout and invite you to protect us; we want to live, we want peace…we want to live as the other children live.”
At the time, Israel forces had killed over 4,200 kids like these.
October 7, 2025 at 4:57 PM
This was twenty-three months ago. Israeli forces have killed more than 16,365 kids since.
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Let’s check in on the warzone in Portland.
October 8, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Let’s check in on the warzone in Portland.
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Inspired by this: please find my official apology regarding the cause of the 2025 LA wildfires.
I will try to do better in the future
#learning
I will try to do better in the future
#learning
October 8, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Inspired by this: please find my official apology regarding the cause of the 2025 LA wildfires.
I will try to do better in the future
#learning
I will try to do better in the future
#learning
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'Australian doctor Nada Abu Alrub reports from Al Aqsa Hospital in Gaza: “I had to leave my colleagues knowing that they’ll either be kidnapped or killed”.' (1/2)
October 8, 2025 at 8:24 PM
'Australian doctor Nada Abu Alrub reports from Al Aqsa Hospital in Gaza: “I had to leave my colleagues knowing that they’ll either be kidnapped or killed”.' (1/2)
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I’m lucky that, in my family, though we’ve had disputes in the past, we now find ourselves inches apart, rather than chasms.
But I grieve deeply friendships lost. And a whole world lost. And the countless lives lost to a political ideology that claimed the mantle of religion and social identity.
But I grieve deeply friendships lost. And a whole world lost. And the countless lives lost to a political ideology that claimed the mantle of religion and social identity.
Oh Sarah 😢
What a beautiful encapsulation of so much I feel.
“The danger was never difference; the danger was the oppression that demanded silence, that forbade questions, until even love could no longer be spoken.”
What a beautiful encapsulation of so much I feel.
“The danger was never difference; the danger was the oppression that demanded silence, that forbade questions, until even love could no longer be spoken.”
When you first heard me speak against this genocide, you heard my words as betrayal. But they were meant as love | Sarah Schwartz
Not speaking would go against everything I was taught to honour: the righteous among the nations – those who refused to be bystanders to injustice
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October 8, 2025 at 10:04 PM
I’m lucky that, in my family, though we’ve had disputes in the past, we now find ourselves inches apart, rather than chasms.
But I grieve deeply friendships lost. And a whole world lost. And the countless lives lost to a political ideology that claimed the mantle of religion and social identity.
But I grieve deeply friendships lost. And a whole world lost. And the countless lives lost to a political ideology that claimed the mantle of religion and social identity.
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More detail here on the NPC cancellation of a journalist who was booked to speak about Gaza.
Incredible how badly our cultural institutions have failed us.
Incredible how badly our cultural institutions have failed us.
Exclusive: National Press Club cancelled Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for being “in favour” of Palestine
Correspondence obtained by Lamestream shows the NPC confirmed Chris Hedges as a speaker, before cancelling him due to "balance".
www.lamestream.com.au
October 7, 2025 at 9:42 AM
More detail here on the NPC cancellation of a journalist who was booked to speak about Gaza.
Incredible how badly our cultural institutions have failed us.
Incredible how badly our cultural institutions have failed us.
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“I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses ... but that is not the story. What happened here was Israel … continuing to worsen and escalate their genocide and mass destruction with genocidal intent, attempting to erase an entire population in front of our very eyes.”
October 6, 2025 at 7:55 PM
“I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses ... but that is not the story. What happened here was Israel … continuing to worsen and escalate their genocide and mass destruction with genocidal intent, attempting to erase an entire population in front of our very eyes.”