Anj of Garigal
@garigalanj.bsky.social
Garigal National Park, Australia.
Twitter escapee.
Software and lab tech.
That is me in the profile pic in the Red Sea but haven’t scuba dived for aeons.
#ausPol #nswPol
#science #microbiology #MicroSky
Twitter escapee.
Software and lab tech.
That is me in the profile pic in the Red Sea but haven’t scuba dived for aeons.
#ausPol #nswPol
#science #microbiology #MicroSky
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Another Friday special
Today, under the cover of the Liberals tearing each other down, Labor has approved another coal mine extension.
Extending Middlemount to 2044 means Labor has now approved 35 fossil fuel projects.
In the middle of the climate crisis, they're approving more coal & gas.
Extending Middlemount to 2044 means Labor has now approved 35 fossil fuel projects.
In the middle of the climate crisis, they're approving more coal & gas.
February 13, 2026 at 10:09 AM
Another Friday special
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‘Likewise, if and when the cops decide there’s nothing wrong with your Nazi cosplaydate, everything will run smoothly.’
Because I grew up in QLD in the ‘80s, I’m more often surprised when police *don’t* attack demonstrators. So I’ve had that familiar feeling this week of watching people come to a difficult truth: when you see a demo turn ugly, it’s almost always because the cops decided that’s how it was gonna go.
The cop riot
So, first things first, a big congrats to Angus Taylor.
open.substack.com
February 13, 2026 at 11:12 AM
‘Likewise, if and when the cops decide there’s nothing wrong with your Nazi cosplaydate, everything will run smoothly.’
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It's time to play the music
It's time to light the lights
It's time to meet theLliberals on the Liberal Show tonight
It's time to light the lights
It's time to meet theLliberals on the Liberal Show tonight
February 13, 2026 at 11:19 AM
It's time to play the music
It's time to light the lights
It's time to meet theLliberals on the Liberal Show tonight
It's time to light the lights
It's time to meet theLliberals on the Liberal Show tonight
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It’s pretty clear that the world’s billionaires would rather be allowed to rape children than help poor people and the fact that they are all helping elect the people they met along the way as well as buying the newspapers and writing appallingly fucked editorials is why we need to revolt right now.
February 13, 2026 at 7:44 AM
It’s pretty clear that the world’s billionaires would rather be allowed to rape children than help poor people and the fact that they are all helping elect the people they met along the way as well as buying the newspapers and writing appallingly fucked editorials is why we need to revolt right now.
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A beautifully crafted summary of the extraordinary discovery in the lab of my @mrclmb.bsky.social colleague @philholliger.bsky.social of a tiny RNA that can replicate RNA.
Researchers have discovered a little RNA molecule - small enough to potentially form spontaneously, yet sophisticated enough to begin to copy itself - that could explain how life on Earth began over four billion years ago, Science Director @rogerhighfield.bsky.social reports: https://bit.ly/3ZvPS6s
February 12, 2026 at 10:52 PM
A beautifully crafted summary of the extraordinary discovery in the lab of my @mrclmb.bsky.social colleague @philholliger.bsky.social of a tiny RNA that can replicate RNA.
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Absolutely we should fear terrorism and seek to prevent it.
But we should also fear those who use either real terrorism or bogus claims about terrorism to boost their own powers, restrict our freedoms and corrode our democracy.
Both present major threats to public life.
But we should also fear those who use either real terrorism or bogus claims about terrorism to boost their own powers, restrict our freedoms and corrode our democracy.
Both present major threats to public life.
February 13, 2026 at 11:05 AM
Absolutely we should fear terrorism and seek to prevent it.
But we should also fear those who use either real terrorism or bogus claims about terrorism to boost their own powers, restrict our freedoms and corrode our democracy.
Both present major threats to public life.
But we should also fear those who use either real terrorism or bogus claims about terrorism to boost their own powers, restrict our freedoms and corrode our democracy.
Both present major threats to public life.
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Some people having a go at Ley for quitting her seat after losing the leadership. I don't agree. Better that ex-leaders not stick around if their heart's not in doing so and they feel their presence would be disruptive. Electorate gets a fresh say + MP who wants to be there.
February 13, 2026 at 10:30 AM
Some people having a go at Ley for quitting her seat after losing the leadership. I don't agree. Better that ex-leaders not stick around if their heart's not in doing so and they feel their presence would be disruptive. Electorate gets a fresh say + MP who wants to be there.
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Policy analysis from actual homelessness case worker.
Proud to have helped with this piece.
thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
Proud to have helped with this piece.
thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
The last stop on the train line of Australia’s social failures: Tales of a homelessness case worker on the NSW South Coast
Life as a homelessness case worker is brutal. You often feel like the last stop on the train line of our country’s social failures. Hardest of all is knowing that people aren’t helped as well as they ...
thepoint.com.au
February 12, 2026 at 3:50 AM
Policy analysis from actual homelessness case worker.
Proud to have helped with this piece.
thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
Proud to have helped with this piece.
thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
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ABC TV causing a near riot at my house, running a Tony Abbott interview instead of Gardening Australia
February 13, 2026 at 8:46 AM
ABC TV causing a near riot at my house, running a Tony Abbott interview instead of Gardening Australia
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Being a freelancer means this would be all his own gear and he’s now going to have to cover the costs of repair/replacing anything damaged himself. Insecure work costs workers in so many different ways.
February 13, 2026 at 8:16 AM
Being a freelancer means this would be all his own gear and he’s now going to have to cover the costs of repair/replacing anything damaged himself. Insecure work costs workers in so many different ways.
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It's a good step that the LECC will investigate police misconduct and violence at Town Hall during the anti-Herzog protest. Now we need an independent investigation of the political incitement to violence by the NSW Premier and others.
February 13, 2026 at 3:35 AM
It's a good step that the LECC will investigate police misconduct and violence at Town Hall during the anti-Herzog protest. Now we need an independent investigation of the political incitement to violence by the NSW Premier and others.
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I can not get past Isaac Herzog shouting to a zionist audience on unceded Aboriginal lands that Australians against genocide should leave a public space in Naarm and go to the Iranian embassy while Trump and Netanyahu discussed bombing Iran.
gulfnews.com/world/americ...
gulfnews.com/world/americ...
Second US aircraft carrier sent to the Middle East amid rising tensions
The USS Gerald R. Ford, the world's largest aircraft carrier, is heading to the Middle East as tensions with Iran escalate. This strategic move by the US intensifies pressure on Tehran over its nuclea...
gulfnews.com
February 13, 2026 at 7:14 AM
I can not get past Isaac Herzog shouting to a zionist audience on unceded Aboriginal lands that Australians against genocide should leave a public space in Naarm and go to the Iranian embassy while Trump and Netanyahu discussed bombing Iran.
gulfnews.com/world/americ...
gulfnews.com/world/americ...
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Who is Angus Taylor?
1. MP who it seems used to run multiple sock-puppet socials accounts so that he could praise himself online, perhaps when few others would, until he mixed up his logins, and ... oops.
1. MP who it seems used to run multiple sock-puppet socials accounts so that he could praise himself online, perhaps when few others would, until he mixed up his logins, and ... oops.
Angus Taylor is the new leader of the Liberal Party. Who is he?
After months of speculation, Liberals hope Angus Taylor can bring the Liberals back from what many in the party fear is the edge of obscurity.
www.abc.net.au
February 12, 2026 at 11:49 PM
Who is Angus Taylor?
1. MP who it seems used to run multiple sock-puppet socials accounts so that he could praise himself online, perhaps when few others would, until he mixed up his logins, and ... oops.
1. MP who it seems used to run multiple sock-puppet socials accounts so that he could praise himself online, perhaps when few others would, until he mixed up his logins, and ... oops.
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We’re really going to have e stop calling these “once in a hundred year events” when they’re happening weekly now.
February 13, 2026 at 7:22 AM
We’re really going to have e stop calling these “once in a hundred year events” when they’re happening weekly now.
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The build-up of atmospheric moisture over northern and central Australia associated with Tropical Cyclone Mitchell.
February 13, 2026 at 7:27 AM
The build-up of atmospheric moisture over northern and central Australia associated with Tropical Cyclone Mitchell.
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Our colleague in #Chemistry, Prof. John Wade, wrote for Pursuit about how weight-loss drugs like Ozempic are creating an environmental disaster. pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/tak...
How weight-loss drugs are creating an environmental disaster
Ozempic and other peptide-based drugs create 56 million kilograms of hazardous waste each year. Now, a new water-based method, developed with the University of Melbourne, aims to change that
pursuit.unimelb.edu.au
February 13, 2026 at 4:50 AM
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Perfect
February 13, 2026 at 6:51 AM
Perfect
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The Epstein-Barr virus is a good name for this administration
February 13, 2026 at 2:00 AM
The Epstein-Barr virus is a good name for this administration
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There was a study from 2022 about how the Epstein-Barr virus is basically the trigger for multiple sclerosis, which means we have an opportunity to stop multiple sclerosis, and we're shelving that too.
February 13, 2026 at 3:17 AM
There was a study from 2022 about how the Epstein-Barr virus is basically the trigger for multiple sclerosis, which means we have an opportunity to stop multiple sclerosis, and we're shelving that too.
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The utter sham of offsets, yet again...
“Destroying the equivalent of 40 MCGs worth of greater glider habitat and then attempting to relocate all hollows and claim this somehow offsets the harm to greater gliders is genuinely deluded, and contemptuous.” - me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
“Destroying the equivalent of 40 MCGs worth of greater glider habitat and then attempting to relocate all hollows and claim this somehow offsets the harm to greater gliders is genuinely deluded, and contemptuous.” - me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Qld coalmine expansion approved by Albanese government will clear habitat and fuel climate crisis, scientists say
Conservationists estimate coal exported from expanded mine to release CO2 equivalent of about half Australia’s annual carbon footprint
www.theguardian.com
February 13, 2026 at 7:03 AM
The utter sham of offsets, yet again...
“Destroying the equivalent of 40 MCGs worth of greater glider habitat and then attempting to relocate all hollows and claim this somehow offsets the harm to greater gliders is genuinely deluded, and contemptuous.” - me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
“Destroying the equivalent of 40 MCGs worth of greater glider habitat and then attempting to relocate all hollows and claim this somehow offsets the harm to greater gliders is genuinely deluded, and contemptuous.” - me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Hard to think of a better appointment to the RBA board than my old mate, Bruce Preston. By any measure he's Australia's leading monetary economist. Good news for the Bank, for Australia, and for economics.
(Many moons ago we were baby economists together at the RBA.)
(Many moons ago we were baby economists together at the RBA.)
Economist Bruce Preston appointed to RBA Board
The economics professor is the second academic economist added to the board since a review recommended boosting its expertise.
www.abc.net.au
February 13, 2026 at 6:44 AM
Hard to think of a better appointment to the RBA board than my old mate, Bruce Preston. By any measure he's Australia's leading monetary economist. Good news for the Bank, for Australia, and for economics.
(Many moons ago we were baby economists together at the RBA.)
(Many moons ago we were baby economists together at the RBA.)
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Straight outta Forrest Gump.
"Forecasting is really difficult business; our forecasts are often wrong. It is what it is." – #RBA Chief Economist, Sarah Hunter.
She basically said, "💩 happens". 🤣
Definitely got our $750m pa worth – a near-doubling in 5 years.
#auspol #YouHadOneJob #ShitHappens
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
She basically said, "💩 happens". 🤣
Definitely got our $750m pa worth – a near-doubling in 5 years.
#auspol #YouHadOneJob #ShitHappens
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
RBA concedes 'our forecasts are often wrong'
Asked by a journalist, "Was it perhaps overenthusiastic to cut interest rates three times?"
The RBA's chief economist responded, "Forecasting is really difficult business, our forecasts are often wro...
www.abc.net.au
February 13, 2026 at 6:46 AM
Straight outta Forrest Gump.
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Great to see Voices of Farrer's chosen person available to recontest #auspol - hope she gets the gold not the silver this time.
Her website in the comments if you want to learn about her, donate & volunteer..!
Hope she or her Voices team gets a Bluesky account too..
Her website in the comments if you want to learn about her, donate & volunteer..!
Hope she or her Voices team gets a Bluesky account too..
#BREAKING 🚨 Independent candidate Michelle Milthorpe has confirmed she will recontest Farrer at the upcoming by-election, setting up a possible five-cornered contest following the resignation of Sussan Ley
Milthorpe received 43.7% of the two-candidate-preferred vote in 2025
Milthorpe received 43.7% of the two-candidate-preferred vote in 2025
February 13, 2026 at 6:52 AM
Great to see Voices of Farrer's chosen person available to recontest #auspol - hope she gets the gold not the silver this time.
Her website in the comments if you want to learn about her, donate & volunteer..!
Hope she or her Voices team gets a Bluesky account too..
Her website in the comments if you want to learn about her, donate & volunteer..!
Hope she or her Voices team gets a Bluesky account too..
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From the archive...
EXCLUSIVE: Angus Taylor has released a new letter from the AFP clearing him of corruption over a Cayman Islands company.
chaser.com.au/national/ang...
EXCLUSIVE: Angus Taylor has released a new letter from the AFP clearing him of corruption over a Cayman Islands company.
chaser.com.au/national/ang...
February 13, 2026 at 6:24 AM
From the archive...
EXCLUSIVE: Angus Taylor has released a new letter from the AFP clearing him of corruption over a Cayman Islands company.
chaser.com.au/national/ang...
EXCLUSIVE: Angus Taylor has released a new letter from the AFP clearing him of corruption over a Cayman Islands company.
chaser.com.au/national/ang...
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AEC disclosures show more than $138 million in political funding in 2024–25 had no declared source under the current rules.
When dark money & big donors shape our politics, public trust suffers. Australians deserve govts that are not fundraising from industries that profit when policy is weakened.
When dark money & big donors shape our politics, public trust suffers. Australians deserve govts that are not fundraising from industries that profit when policy is weakened.
February 13, 2026 at 5:09 AM
AEC disclosures show more than $138 million in political funding in 2024–25 had no declared source under the current rules.
When dark money & big donors shape our politics, public trust suffers. Australians deserve govts that are not fundraising from industries that profit when policy is weakened.
When dark money & big donors shape our politics, public trust suffers. Australians deserve govts that are not fundraising from industries that profit when policy is weakened.