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Ell Rodeo
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Earthling, queer, tired and frequently parched.
Living on Gadigal Country
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Very good @abigailboydmlc.bsky.social summary of the really, really significant data centre growth in New South Wales, Australia - something we can see directly contributing to sustaining the burning of coal in the state

www.instagram.com/reel/DQbKiv9...
November 1, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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Hackers have allegedly breached a Sydney real estate agency, posting a sample of stolen tenant and agent data online – while threatening to release more over coming days www.realestatebusiness.com.au/tech/30638-h...
Hackers claim breach of Sydney agency, threaten to leak tenant and agent data
Hackers have allegedly breached a Sydney real estate agency, posting a sample of stolen tenant and agent data online – while threatening to release more over coming days.
www.realestatebusiness.com.au
September 18, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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"It tells you a lot about who wields power in Australia that Woodside is being allowed to haggle in secret over the conditions of the North West Shelf expansion," writes @stephenlongaus.bsky.social.

Read: australiainstitute.org.au/post/yes-min... #auspol
September 12, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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You can’t make this shit up. Deport men of colour, refugees to Nauru on the claim they are not of good character while giving tens of millions to a notorious outlaw motorcycle gang to provide the security there, in a secret deal. The corruption stinks.

www.theage.com.au/national/lea...
Leader of Australian bikie gang strikes deal to provide security on Nauru
Companies controlled by Finks bikie leader Ali Bilal have been engaged since at least February to a Nauru government agency that provides escort security services to the detention centre, community sa...
www.theage.com.au
September 4, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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Somewhere in this Australian university, some well-paid HR people (and consultants, there's always consultants) thought that it was good idea to tell staff worried they might be made redundant that they should hand-wash their good undies to cope with the stress. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
Uni staff told to 'wash delicates' for stress management as 146 courses suspended
The University of Technology Sydney is suspending more than 100 courses as it prepares for a controversial redundancy program to save $100 million.
www.abc.net.au
August 15, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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NSW Supreme Court has rejected Police push to prohibit tomorrow's march for Palestine on the Harbour Bridge.

Basically due to a lack of evidence anyone would be deterred. Big win for freedom of assembly.
August 2, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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Antisemitism strategy could stoke social divisions, with biased arguments, weak evidence and overreach in its recommendations.

👉 theconversation.com/antisem...
July 14, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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Australia has an opportunity to get out of the AUKUS security pact. We should take it.

AUKUS ties Australia ever closer to an increasingly volatile and aggressive America.

Sign our open letter, published today in the Canberra Times:
✍️ theaus.in/AUKUS_inquiry
July 2, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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Damming report by RCGP on air pollution and risks to health occurs alongside a worrying escalation in asthma presentations to family doctors in England in the first 6 months with 45,458 versus 31,376 cases the same time last yr.
Calls to clean up England’s ‘toxic air’ as GP visits for asthma attacks rise 45%
Exclusive: Doctors say clean air zones need expanding, after 45,458 visits in first half of this year – up from 31,376 last year
www.theguardian.com
June 29, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Australia’s protester crackdown didn’t start with Hannah Thomas — and it won’t end with her #auspol www.crikey.com.au/2025/06/30/h...
Australia's protester crackdown didn't start with Hannah Thomas — and it won't end with her
The injuries sustained by the former Greens candidate are just the latest event in Australia's crackdown on the right to protest.
www.crikey.com.au
June 30, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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"You're not alone in thinking Australia is getting taken for a ride."

Other countries are making a fortune from our gas exports, while Australians pay a premium price for our own gas.

@richarddenniss.bsky.social with @punterspolitics.bsky.social

🧡 Our EOFY appeal: theaus.in/support_EOFY25
June 13, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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Australia won't ever tackle its transport emissions until it puts road tanks in a vice - instead the gov't actively incentivises oversized vehicles.

theconversation.com/drivers-of-s...
Drivers of SUVs and pick-ups should pay more to be on our roads. Here’s how to make the system fairer
Bigger cars mean bigger costs for everyone else. It’s only fair those costs are reflected in how car rego is priced.
theconversation.com
May 26, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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"If this was somewhere else in the world, there would be a national outcry.

"The pollutants that are coming out of those Woodside stacks are actively degrading the rock art surfaces.

"It's incontestable."

🎙️Professor of Archaeology Benjamin Smith
#savemurujuga #auspol
May 20, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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www.eurekastreet.com.au/australias-s...

This is an article that should be widely read. The Gov needs a rocket under it. The social fabric of Australia is disintegrating by design. #auspol
The quiet collapse of Australia's social safety net: In conversation with David Gilchrist
What happens when governments underfund the services that hold our social fabric together? Economist David Gilchrist exposes a system in quiet crisis where rising need meets shrinking support, and non...
www.eurekastreet.com.au
May 15, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Nurses, midwives and educators criticise Coalition decision to scrap prac payments for students. #auspol
May 2, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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Australia’s universities spend hundreds of millions of dollars on travel, marketing and consultants, while cutting costs, staff and courses, according to new research by The Australia Institute's @joshuablackjb.bsky.social.

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Australian universities slash costs, staff and courses, while lavishing hundreds of millions on themselves - The Australia Institute
Australia's universities spend hundreds of millions of dollars on travel, marketing and consultants, while cutting costs, staff and courses, according to new research by The Australia Institute.
australiainstitute.org.au
April 29, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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Govt misses deadline on local content quotas, disembles - good for Fox & Netflix, not for Aus creatives, #auspol drama

@ajgardineresq.bsky.social investigates the dithering

michaelwest.com.au/dithering-ov...
Dithering over local TV content plays into hands of global streamers - Michael West
A shroud of secrecy surrounds negotiations between the Labor Government and media companies about locally produced drama.
michaelwest.com.au
April 28, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Evidence has been found that a Melbourne Storm co-owner heavily influenced the cancellation of an Acknowledgment of Country ceremony on ANZAC Day and has ties to a lobby group opposed to Indigenous recognition.
Melbourne Storm link to lobby group opposed to Indigenous recognition
Evidence has been found that a Melbourne Storm co-owner heavily influenced the cancellation of an Acknowledgment of Country ceremony on ANZAC Day and has ties to a lobby group opposed to Indigenous recognition.
nit.com.au
April 28, 2025 at 4:00 AM