Keren Lavelle
@kerenlavelle.bsky.social
Older but not necessarily wiser.
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Who're the parties that'll be served by the @albomp.bsky.social govt ramming regressive EPBC laws thru parliament by year's end, & why do they feature in the Business Council of Australia-led 'Alliance of 26 industry groups'❓
Also, why TF is the Group of 8 universities amongst them❓
Also, why TF is the Group of 8 universities amongst them❓
November 24, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Who're the parties that'll be served by the @albomp.bsky.social govt ramming regressive EPBC laws thru parliament by year's end, & why do they feature in the Business Council of Australia-led 'Alliance of 26 industry groups'❓
Also, why TF is the Group of 8 universities amongst them❓
Also, why TF is the Group of 8 universities amongst them❓
Yeah nah I don't want to volunteer to write Christmas cards for your donors.
#DownWithChristmas
#DownWithChristmas
November 24, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Yeah nah I don't want to volunteer to write Christmas cards for your donors.
#DownWithChristmas
#DownWithChristmas
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"In Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney and Perth, those on #Jobseeker are having to spend ALL of their income on rent."
One in six children live in #poverty. It will get worse.
But our allegedly 'centre-left' government doesn't see fixing it as a priority. #auspol
live.thepoint.com.au/2025/11/the-...
One in six children live in #poverty. It will get worse.
But our allegedly 'centre-left' government doesn't see fixing it as a priority. #auspol
live.thepoint.com.au/2025/11/the-...
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November 24, 2025 at 3:27 AM
"In Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney and Perth, those on #Jobseeker are having to spend ALL of their income on rent."
One in six children live in #poverty. It will get worse.
But our allegedly 'centre-left' government doesn't see fixing it as a priority. #auspol
live.thepoint.com.au/2025/11/the-...
One in six children live in #poverty. It will get worse.
But our allegedly 'centre-left' government doesn't see fixing it as a priority. #auspol
live.thepoint.com.au/2025/11/the-...
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@clareoneilmp.bsky.social bring back the Department of Housing and Development, employ tradesmen and build Govies like they did in the 60’s and 70’s, helped My parents back then .. help young people now. (dont palm it out to price gouging contractors.. Australians are so sick of that! ) #QT #auspol
November 24, 2025 at 3:25 AM
@clareoneilmp.bsky.social bring back the Department of Housing and Development, employ tradesmen and build Govies like they did in the 60’s and 70’s, helped My parents back then .. help young people now. (dont palm it out to price gouging contractors.. Australians are so sick of that! ) #QT #auspol
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Child removals, especially Indigenous children have never been greater in Australia. The numbers are phenomenal as housing insecurity bites.
All of those children in unsafe environments are about to lose contact with the world.
I am terrified for them.
Everyone ignores Ashley Dale,it's happening
All of those children in unsafe environments are about to lose contact with the world.
I am terrified for them.
Everyone ignores Ashley Dale,it's happening
November 24, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Child removals, especially Indigenous children have never been greater in Australia. The numbers are phenomenal as housing insecurity bites.
All of those children in unsafe environments are about to lose contact with the world.
I am terrified for them.
Everyone ignores Ashley Dale,it's happening
All of those children in unsafe environments are about to lose contact with the world.
I am terrified for them.
Everyone ignores Ashley Dale,it's happening
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🇦🇺's interpretation of #BelemDeclaration
"JOURNALIST: Do you understand how people would understand that now that you’ve signed up to this declaration that there would be movement on tapering off coal exports or gas exports or gas in general? You’re saying that that’s not the case at all?
🇦🇺PM: No."
"JOURNALIST: Do you understand how people would understand that now that you’ve signed up to this declaration that there would be movement on tapering off coal exports or gas exports or gas in general? You’re saying that that’s not the case at all?
🇦🇺PM: No."
November 24, 2025 at 4:55 AM
🇦🇺's interpretation of #BelemDeclaration
"JOURNALIST: Do you understand how people would understand that now that you’ve signed up to this declaration that there would be movement on tapering off coal exports or gas exports or gas in general? You’re saying that that’s not the case at all?
🇦🇺PM: No."
"JOURNALIST: Do you understand how people would understand that now that you’ve signed up to this declaration that there would be movement on tapering off coal exports or gas exports or gas in general? You’re saying that that’s not the case at all?
🇦🇺PM: No."
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Mid rise apartment pattern release entirely illustrated by renders instead of architectural plans in a press release on an architectural website. And we wonder why architects are typecast as cosmetic curators rather than as fundamental to housing liveability and performance…🤯
November 24, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Mid rise apartment pattern release entirely illustrated by renders instead of architectural plans in a press release on an architectural website. And we wonder why architects are typecast as cosmetic curators rather than as fundamental to housing liveability and performance…🤯
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This week is the final sitting week for 2025.
✔️I’ll be debating & moving an amendment to the Streaming Services Bill, which sets local content requirements for streaming services.
✔️I’ll also move an amendment to the Draught Beer Excise Bill to better recognise local producers.
Stay tuned!
✔️I’ll be debating & moving an amendment to the Streaming Services Bill, which sets local content requirements for streaming services.
✔️I’ll also move an amendment to the Draught Beer Excise Bill to better recognise local producers.
Stay tuned!
November 24, 2025 at 2:56 AM
This week is the final sitting week for 2025.
✔️I’ll be debating & moving an amendment to the Streaming Services Bill, which sets local content requirements for streaming services.
✔️I’ll also move an amendment to the Draught Beer Excise Bill to better recognise local producers.
Stay tuned!
✔️I’ll be debating & moving an amendment to the Streaming Services Bill, which sets local content requirements for streaming services.
✔️I’ll also move an amendment to the Draught Beer Excise Bill to better recognise local producers.
Stay tuned!
Public service announcement for anyone who has not discovered Yoga with Adriene on YouTube: with a 30min session entitled "Low back and hamstrings", Adrienne has (temporarily at least) helped me overcome the really sore back I have been waking up with for weeks now.
Simple yet good.
Simple yet good.
November 24, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Public service announcement for anyone who has not discovered Yoga with Adriene on YouTube: with a 30min session entitled "Low back and hamstrings", Adrienne has (temporarily at least) helped me overcome the really sore back I have been waking up with for weeks now.
Simple yet good.
Simple yet good.
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#EPBC
Reminder to @albomp.bsky.social gov tt the vast majority of Australians care very much abt the impact we're having on nature & the climate & want & absolutely deserve meaningful leadership & action from those elected to represent them
Will you rise to the occasion or treat voters w contempt❓
Reminder to @albomp.bsky.social gov tt the vast majority of Australians care very much abt the impact we're having on nature & the climate & want & absolutely deserve meaningful leadership & action from those elected to represent them
Will you rise to the occasion or treat voters w contempt❓
Biodiversity Council's 2024-25 Biodiversity Concerns Survey of >3,500 Australians found that a majority
😟 are very/extremely concerned about biodiversity issues
☹️ think gov performance at Federal & State/Territory level is terrible/poor/average
💪 want action (96%)
💪 support pro-biodiversity policies
😟 are very/extremely concerned about biodiversity issues
☹️ think gov performance at Federal & State/Territory level is terrible/poor/average
💪 want action (96%)
💪 support pro-biodiversity policies
November 24, 2025 at 12:40 AM
#EPBC
Reminder to @albomp.bsky.social gov tt the vast majority of Australians care very much abt the impact we're having on nature & the climate & want & absolutely deserve meaningful leadership & action from those elected to represent them
Will you rise to the occasion or treat voters w contempt❓
Reminder to @albomp.bsky.social gov tt the vast majority of Australians care very much abt the impact we're having on nature & the climate & want & absolutely deserve meaningful leadership & action from those elected to represent them
Will you rise to the occasion or treat voters w contempt❓
I quit postponing and tried to do some work:
November 24, 2025 at 12:42 AM
I quit postponing and tried to do some work:
open.substack.com/pub/deepcutn... we can only conclude that NSW Premier Minns supports genocide.
NSW Premier's Department threatens to fire First Nations musician over 'No Pride in Genocide' slogan
Department targets performer over pro-Palestine messaging on guitar
open.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:08 PM
open.substack.com/pub/deepcutn... we can only conclude that NSW Premier Minns supports genocide.
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Imagine telling an Aboriginal man there are "two sides to genocide" and not immediately punching yourself in the face as soon as you heard the words leave your mouth
NSW Premier's Department threatens to fire First Nations musician over 'No Pride in Genocide' slogan
Department targets performer over pro-Palestine messaging on guitar
open.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Imagine telling an Aboriginal man there are "two sides to genocide" and not immediately punching yourself in the face as soon as you heard the words leave your mouth
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I finished reading this book last week and I still find myself thinking about parts of it every day. It’s quite simply one of the best biographies I’ve ever read, about one of the most fascinating writers of the 20th century.
Hats off to @lancerichardson.bsky.social for this Herculean achievement.
Hats off to @lancerichardson.bsky.social for this Herculean achievement.
November 17, 2025 at 10:03 PM
I finished reading this book last week and I still find myself thinking about parts of it every day. It’s quite simply one of the best biographies I’ve ever read, about one of the most fascinating writers of the 20th century.
Hats off to @lancerichardson.bsky.social for this Herculean achievement.
Hats off to @lancerichardson.bsky.social for this Herculean achievement.
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The Midas Curse: How Mining Interests Own Australia’s Democracy theaimn.net/the-midas-cu...
The Midas Curse: How Mining Interests Own Australia’s Democracy
“You can’t always get what you want,” sang The Rolling Stones. The Australian mining lobby never received the memo. For decades, it has secured its every wish: a royalty regime that ranks among the wo...
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November 23, 2025 at 9:21 PM
The Midas Curse: How Mining Interests Own Australia’s Democracy theaimn.net/the-midas-cu...
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Just Saying
33Million #FCKN litres of water a #DAY !!!
is what BHP take from only 2 wells supplied by “The Great Artesian Basin”
we are mining our way to extinction FFS
how can industry not #GAF that this is a Finite Resource a
it’s like all those #FCKRS who thieve from the Murray.
#Auspol
33Million #FCKN litres of water a #DAY !!!
is what BHP take from only 2 wells supplied by “The Great Artesian Basin”
we are mining our way to extinction FFS
how can industry not #GAF that this is a Finite Resource a
it’s like all those #FCKRS who thieve from the Murray.
#Auspol
Water is under pressure in the Great Artesian Basin
The Great Artesian Basin covers a fifth of Australia and contains water that has been there for millions of years. Now, decades of extraction are taking their toll and traditional owners are fighting ...
www.abc.net.au
November 23, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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The mining companies just take and take and take and take and take... They don't care what they destroy.
#AusPol
#AusPol
This is the nightmare rushing up on the world’s driest continent, with governments and regulators avoiding any responsibility for action.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Water is under pressure in the Great Artesian Basin
The Great Artesian Basin covers a fifth of Australia and contains water that has been there for millions of years. Now, decades of extraction are taking their toll and traditional owners are fighting ...
www.abc.net.au
November 23, 2025 at 2:18 AM
The mining companies just take and take and take and take and take... They don't care what they destroy.
#AusPol
#AusPol
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So say goodbye a little longer like I ate a piece of Big Red
Grew a mustache the size of Mike Ditka's forehead
Hair combed to the side looking like a piece of foam
Buick speakers, red cooler, '85 Bears Zubaz
Polish sausage, bratwurst, walking like my cock hurts
Grew a mustache the size of Mike Ditka's forehead
Hair combed to the side looking like a piece of foam
Buick speakers, red cooler, '85 Bears Zubaz
Polish sausage, bratwurst, walking like my cock hurts
November 23, 2025 at 3:02 AM
So say goodbye a little longer like I ate a piece of Big Red
Grew a mustache the size of Mike Ditka's forehead
Hair combed to the side looking like a piece of foam
Buick speakers, red cooler, '85 Bears Zubaz
Polish sausage, bratwurst, walking like my cock hurts
Grew a mustache the size of Mike Ditka's forehead
Hair combed to the side looking like a piece of foam
Buick speakers, red cooler, '85 Bears Zubaz
Polish sausage, bratwurst, walking like my cock hurts
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Australians are being asked to believe we can protect nature by exploiting it faster and with less scrutiny
-Virginia Young
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
-Virginia Young
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Australians are being asked to believe we can protect nature by exploiting it faster and with less scrutiny
The point.com.au
thepoint.com.au
November 22, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Australians are being asked to believe we can protect nature by exploiting it faster and with less scrutiny
-Virginia Young
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
-Virginia Young
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
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Crass, short sighted stupidity
“Sweeping job cuts across the nation’s science agency this week have been foreshadowed for months, but the sheer scale of them has left many researchers within laboratories and offices across the country shocked”
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
“Sweeping job cuts across the nation’s science agency this week have been foreshadowed for months, but the sheer scale of them has left many researchers within laboratories and offices across the country shocked”
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Climate of fear: are CSIRO’s sweeping job cuts a sign Australia doesn’t care about the extinction crisis?
Ever decreasing funding for the globally respected government agency mirrors an industry-wide trend that could hinder scientific breakthroughs
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Crass, short sighted stupidity
“Sweeping job cuts across the nation’s science agency this week have been foreshadowed for months, but the sheer scale of them has left many researchers within laboratories and offices across the country shocked”
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
“Sweeping job cuts across the nation’s science agency this week have been foreshadowed for months, but the sheer scale of them has left many researchers within laboratories and offices across the country shocked”
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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A scroll through PM Albo's tweets:
• USA: shared values
• South Africa: cooperation
• EU: shared values
• India: friend and partner
• Ireland: shared values
Is the "shared value" skin colour? 🤔 #auspol
• USA: shared values
• South Africa: cooperation
• EU: shared values
• India: friend and partner
• Ireland: shared values
Is the "shared value" skin colour? 🤔 #auspol
November 21, 2025 at 8:58 PM
A scroll through PM Albo's tweets:
• USA: shared values
• South Africa: cooperation
• EU: shared values
• India: friend and partner
• Ireland: shared values
Is the "shared value" skin colour? 🤔 #auspol
• USA: shared values
• South Africa: cooperation
• EU: shared values
• India: friend and partner
• Ireland: shared values
Is the "shared value" skin colour? 🤔 #auspol
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Some recent breastfeeding thoughts open.substack.com/pub/bhakthip...
In flight
Or why breastfeeding is like travelling for work.
open.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Some recent breastfeeding thoughts open.substack.com/pub/bhakthip...