John Lakey
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John Lakey
@lakey10.bsky.social
Wine farmer, bewildered by acronyms, soon to be cheese maker, used to be Ray-Monde deux on the X, farmer at Ingliston, Victoria, Australia
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Pretty remarkable how high Australia sits on the scale for lifestyle carbon emissions globally - and how little this gets mentioned in domestic climate discourse.

hotorcool.org/publications...
November 18, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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$350 billion for Aukus submarines but we can’t afford 350 research jobs
A government that can’t bring itself to tax fossil fuel, big tech or any wealth properly but defunds its critical institutions is not a good government, sorry
November 19, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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He’s not wrong, the former Science Minister*

*In the same Party as the current one!

(From Guardian Australia “live”)
November 19, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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The Govt has declared domestic violence a national emergency - now we need an emergency response.

One woman is killed every four days by a current or former partner. That is unacceptable

Read the full article at: www.mamamia.com.au/zali-stegall...
November 18, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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The last time I wrote about this I copped the biggest whinge fest from the then (Labor) minister’s office about how they weren’t cutting the budget lol
That's more than 1,100 jobs lost at the CSIRO over the last two years.

"Combined, the staff association estimates that equates to cutting the agency’s size by a third."

This is more cuts to the CSIRO than was attempted by the Abbott government.

www.smh.com.au/national/csi...
CSIRO to slash hundreds of jobs in cost-saving drive
The staff association at the nation’s leading scientific research organisation says the latest round of cuts marks “a sad day for publicly funded science”.
www.smh.com.au
November 18, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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This is obscene.

The challenges facing the nation means we should be scaling up CSIRO, not cutting it to shreds.

While we are sending billions to the US for nuclear shipyards, our science and industrial base at home is falling apart for lack of funds and direction.
‘Sad day for publicly funded science’: up to 350 more jobs to go at CSIRO
Australia’s national scientific agency announces more research job losses as it looks for budgetary savings
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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True.
November 17, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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Any #pollinator visiting this Triggerplant will have far more to worry about than just being unexpectedly daubed with the plant’s pollen 🕷️

This Milky Flower Spider (Zygometis xanthogaster) is hoping for a tasty morsel

#ausinverts #ozflora #wildoz #spider #arachnid #inaturalist #nature
November 10, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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Schrödinger's mouse?? 🐭🌿🌱

Currently there are four Australian species, plants & animals, listed as nationally extinct despite them all being recently rediscovered… which means these species get no protection under our environmental laws
#auswildlife #wildoz #nature

www.abc.net.au/news/science...
This tiny native mouse is legally considered both dead and alive
Animals and plants aren't automatically taken off most national and state extinct species list in Australia if they are rediscovered, leaving them without protection as threatened species.
www.abc.net.au
November 8, 2025 at 11:35 PM
The 'ol casa' is starting to look like a proper house
November 7, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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I don't trust anyone who doesn't consult their pets when making important life decisions.
November 5, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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One thing the soviet system got right was its emphasis on the virtue of education as an end in itself. In my view education should be a right freely available up to degree level purely because of the net social benefit of an educated citizenry. Populism is driven above all by the poorly educated.
November 5, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Terrible twin pet sneaking a feed from Dot. Typically, this theft would be treated with savage contempt but Dot is so tolerant.
November 5, 2025 at 10:00 AM
I'm feeling like a Scottish crofter, I've no idea who won the cup, but I've fed the chooks, milked and fed the goats, fed the sheep and cows, cut firewood in this weird spring/summer and now in drinking reef wine listening to Irish trad music.... viva Australia
November 4, 2025 at 4:11 AM
25mm in the gauge and more on the way.
November 3, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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South Korea President Lee made sure there was symbolism for gifting a Silla dynasty crown. 👑

A dementia 🍊 fool on the world stage will be treated as such.
November 2, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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“Given that the low rate of income support payments keeps many families in poverty, reducing child poverty is not inherently complicated."

A polite way of saying: the Albanese govt is choosing to keep a million kids in #poverty.

That's a lot "left behind". #auspol
thepoint.com.au/news/251031-...
Poverty is a policy choice. Time for a new policy to bring a million Australian kids out of poverty
The point.com.au
thepoint.com.au
October 31, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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#Scape
River Murray, South Australia
October 31, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Melb cup day looks like it could be interesting...
October 28, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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How many times do I have to say it, and how plainly? The US is no longer an ally, and is fast becoming a rogue state we will need to divorce ourselves entirely from.
October 27, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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"Australia is also the first nation to surpass 1 GWh of utility battery capacity per million people, launching it into a league of its own, far ahead of China and the United States, each with less than 400 MWh per 1 million people."
Australia becomes world’s third-largest utility battery market
Australia has overtaken the United Kingdom to rank behind China and the United States in utility-scale battery capacity, with 14 GW/37 GWh of projects at or nearing financial close.
www.pv-magazine.com
October 26, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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RBA said market-sector jobs (those driven more by demand) had been the bulk of job growth in 2025... but the data says... errr wut?

thepoint.com.au/news/251024-...
October 24, 2025 at 1:56 AM
I'm feeling a bit odd; I'm listening to cricket and the stove is burning to warm the house
October 23, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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PUT THE GOVERNMENT DOWN
Barnaby Joyce in the news again🤮

Let’s remember, Oz is a country where BJ can “spend” $675,000 in expenses - no receipts - but less than three weeks on the ground while ‘drought envoy’

& he texted through his report!

No debate, no transparency, no resolution

We’re led by the corrupt & the greedy
October 22, 2025 at 10:42 AM