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Now is the time to be disruptive - to be silent is to be complicit! ✊
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Melbourne/Narrm, Australia
Iran’s water crisis

Low rainfall, depleted aquifers, inefficient agricultural practices, and aging infrastructure threatens rural livelihoods, urban stability and economic resilience.

Water rather than oil may soon emerge as the country’s most critical resource

financialtribune.com/node/119358
Tehran Risks Drying Up Without Swift Action
As Tehran endures its sixth consecutive year of drought, water reserves in the capital have fallen to their lowest levels in six decades, prompting rare warnings from senior officials about possible water rationing — and even a future evacuation of the city.
financialtribune.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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The US should not be allowed to make Australia complicit in nuclear war. 50 years ago Whitlam believed that and he was right.

It’s time to end AUKUS. Close Pine Gap.
November 11, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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Allegro Energy’s patented water-based battery tech could reshape global renewables. Built in the Hunter, scalable anywhere. No vanadium. No lithium. Just Aussie innovation.
Cheaper, Safer
Australia future in renewables and not burning rocks #auspol
www.industryupdate.com.au/article/aust...
www.industryupdate.com.au
November 11, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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What a great long-term recruiting pitch: come do this high-stress job, you may have to work for free at some point — and if you try to feed your family with a side gig, you’ll be punished. 🤡

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 10, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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File under: The Laws of Thermodynamics are a B****
grist.org/oceans/hey-s...
The ocean has been hoarding heat. Now it is building up a massive 'burp.'
Even if humans cut emissions enough to reduce global temperatures, new research shows the Southern Ocean could kick warming back into gear.
grist.org
November 10, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Ridiculous!

We’re getting hail here in November!!

Hard to imagine that in a month or so - or being Melbourne maybe tomorrow! - the weather here will be hot!
November 11, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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Governments failing to shift to a low-carbon economy will be blamed for famine and conflict abroad, and will face stagnation & rising inflation at home, the UN’s climate chief warned on Monday at the start of the Cop30 climate talks”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘It will never be forgiven’: UN climate chief warns world to act or face disaster
Faltering governments will be blamed for famine and conflict abroad, and face stagnation and inflation at home, says climate chief at start of Cop30
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Gough showed that we all can be dreamers and we can all be the architect of our futures

All it needs is a vision, courage and the will to act - and not be captured by those who would rather we don't dream

Gough showed us the threats that exist but he'd be the first to say keep dreaming!
Gough’s dream could have made Australia a totally different nation to what is is now.

Instead @albomp.bsky.social Albanese Labor Government has proved to be Australia’s Brexit moment that has sold out the nation to Israel/Trump Regimes, now occupying their govt.

George Monbiot right on. ➡️
November 10, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Gough dreamed of a country ...

That job MUST voters can do - to dream of the country we can be if we all have a vision and VOTE to build that common vision

If WE don't, you can see others doing it for us - rogue politicians, nazi marches in the streets etc

thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Gough dreamed of a country that never was, and asked why not?
The point.com.au
thepoint.com.au
November 10, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Climate warming

It won't just be politicians who refused to address THE existential crisis we all face - it will be voters too

Sons and daughters, grandchildren and great-grandchildren who know we did nothing of substance to compel change

𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃𝐘 𝐘𝐄𝐓 𝐓𝐎 𝐕𝐎𝐓𝐄 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐂𝐋𝐈𝐌𝐀𝐓𝐄 𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍?
November 10, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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11/11/1975 #TheDismissal

When Australia suffered a coup by the ruling elite.

We never recovered that rich time of social justice.

Whitlam brought humanity back to our war weary country.

Whitlam gave us dignity.
November 9, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Again - IDEOLOGY

So ask yourself .. when did IDEOLOGY ever deliver a SOLUTION to voter issues

If voters want SOLUTIONS a duopoly is never going to offer that

Local community-based representatives offer SOLUTIONS

Not career party politicians working to set up their post politics consultancy gig
No ideology left now
Just pure State Capture
Doing what corporate donors want
LNP are even worse
November 10, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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"Daily life in #Gaza, plunged into darkness by #Israel

GAZA CITY, GAZA – NOVEMBER 9, 2025: Palestinians try to light their surroundings with fire as they endure ongoing electricity outages caused by Israel’s attacks..."

(Photo by Anas Zeyad Fteha/Anadolu)"

www.threads.com/@anas.fteiha...

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November 10, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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You can’t elect cockheads for decades then blame democracy for the poor outcomes.

#AusPol
Confidence in democracy lower outside major cities, study finds
Experts warn Australia's democratic institutions need more protection as confidence falls.
www.abc.net.au
November 9, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Amerika like Australia, has a duopoly

All duopolies are dangerous and IDEOLOGICAL - the lesson from Amerika is an imploding collapse

Amerika also offers a clue - the recent elections show voters abandoning IDEOLOGY for LOCAL SOLUTIONS anchored by community representation

We must learn the lesson!
November 10, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Duopolies are a convergence of IDEOLOGIES - a rigidity of "group-think" capturing a democracy no matter how citizens vote

They destroy the vision of a democracy imposing policies rather than encourage a plurality of views and SOLUTIONS to issues

Voters lead this decline - its vital we all wake up!
Australians have already asked this question and answered it

We're expecting nothing now and just waiting for the next election

Duopolies are extremely dangerous - Labor is half of our duopoly, governing on IDEOLOGY, solving nothing

Voters wake up!

michaelwest.com.au/can-anthony-...
November 9, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Australians have already asked this question and answered it

We're expecting nothing now and just waiting for the next election

Duopolies are extremely dangerous - Labor is half of our duopoly, governing on IDEOLOGY, solving nothing

Voters wake up!

michaelwest.com.au/can-anthony-...
Can Anthony Albanese credibly claim to be a successor of Whitlam? - Michael West
From AUKUS to government secrecy, politics to policy, PM Anthony Albanese is closer to Liberal Scott Morrison than Gough Whitlam
michaelwest.com.au
November 9, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Apparently Labor's doctrine of following 𝐉𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐬' 𝐯𝐚𝐥𝐮𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐬 allows us to get into bed with Russia and break sanctions - we're no better than Orbán

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
‘Loophole’ in sanctions allowing Russian oil to be imported to Australia through port part-owned by Macquarie Bank
Australia stopped buying fuel directly from Russia after its invasion of Ukraine but has imported more than 3m tonnes of its oil products since 2023
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Climate warming

A deep resonating consequence of climate inaction is - the desire NOT to have children because the future is so bleak

Think about that .. rather than talk about solutions, people are giving up. There is NO political leadership

𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃𝐘 𝐘𝐄𝐓 𝐓𝐎 𝐕𝐎𝐓𝐄 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐂𝐋𝐈𝐌𝐀𝐓𝐄 𝐒𝐎𝐋𝐔𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒?
November 9, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Duopoly politicians delivering government services to Australians that are either outright criminal on an industrial scale as in Centrelink's Robodebt, or punitive in their delivery and lack a duty of care

Outsourcing any government function is a betrayal of citizens and a function of ideology
November 9, 2025 at 10:40 PM
War brings horror, death, technological advances ... and new drug resistant infections

Any of these could tip the scales of war but drug resistant microbes and infectious diseases could threaten us all

Combined with a weakened health system and shortages, attrition continues to threaten Ukraine
November 9, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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Not to be missed. A scandal and corruption exposed by 60mins on the Albanese Government’s offshore detention centre operations on Nauru. 820pm tonight!
November 9, 2025 at 6:16 AM
𝐀𝐔𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐀 - 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐢𝐭'𝐬 𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐟𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠 "𝐉𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐬' 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐯𝐚𝐥𝐮𝐞𝐬" continues to resolutely ignore GENOCIDE and war crimes

Australia continues to demonstrate its complicity

-> we still send military equipment to Israel
-> we're still part of the problem, NOT the solution
November 8, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Richard Marles praised the ‘𝘣𝘦𝘢𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘶𝘭, 𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘦𝘹𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘤𝘰𝘰𝘭’ military tech at Weapons Expo in Sydney

Now watch Netflix's "A House of Dynamite"

"𝐉𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐫𝐮𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧’𝐭 𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭. 𝐈𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 .. 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐨 𝐦𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲 𝐨𝐮𝐭."
November 8, 2025 at 11:06 PM
"𝐀𝐬 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐧 𝐰𝐚𝐫, 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐨-𝐏𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐒𝐲𝐝𝐧𝐞𝐲, 𝐑𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐞𝐬, 𝐃𝐞𝐩𝐮𝐭𝐲 𝐏𝐌 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐃𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐌𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐩𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 ‘𝐛𝐞𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐮𝐥, 𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐞𝐱𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐜𝐨𝐨𝐥’ 𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲 𝐨𝐧 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐰"

Wow!

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
At Sydney’s mighty arms convention, weapons are sold as ‘solutions’. No one mentions the people they will target
As protesters outside condemn war, inside the Indo-Pacific International Maritime Exposition the defence minister praises the ‘beautiful, menacing and extremely cool’ technology on show
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:59 PM