AJ Hoadley
@laviolettawines.bsky.social
La Violetta is a garagista wine producer in the Great Southern region of Western Australia.
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Air pollution from cars kills more people each year than the road toll.
Australia needs legislated clean air standards. The govt wouldn’t agree to include them in the environmental laws passed last week. I’ll keep trying - they’ll save lives.
www.abc.net.au/news/science...
Australia needs legislated clean air standards. The govt wouldn’t agree to include them in the environmental laws passed last week. I’ll keep trying - they’ll save lives.
www.abc.net.au/news/science...
Two cars, similar size, but one emits 17 times more of a deadly pollutant
New rules around NOx, the most deadly form of vehicle pollution, come into force today, as testing reveals which popular models are pumping out more than others.
www.abc.net.au
November 30, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Air pollution from cars kills more people each year than the road toll.
Australia needs legislated clean air standards. The govt wouldn’t agree to include them in the environmental laws passed last week. I’ll keep trying - they’ll save lives.
www.abc.net.au/news/science...
Australia needs legislated clean air standards. The govt wouldn’t agree to include them in the environmental laws passed last week. I’ll keep trying - they’ll save lives.
www.abc.net.au/news/science...
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Australia just recorded zero cervical cancer cases in women under 25 for the first time since records began in 1982. The amazing result of HPV vaccination.
November 28, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Australia just recorded zero cervical cancer cases in women under 25 for the first time since records began in 1982. The amazing result of HPV vaccination.
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Australia doesn't have a gas shortage problem.
We have a gas export problem, and Australians are paying the price.
Great to see this issue being discussed in Parliament this week! #auspol
We have a gas export problem, and Australians are paying the price.
Great to see this issue being discussed in Parliament this week! #auspol
November 25, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Australia doesn't have a gas shortage problem.
We have a gas export problem, and Australians are paying the price.
Great to see this issue being discussed in Parliament this week! #auspol
We have a gas export problem, and Australians are paying the price.
Great to see this issue being discussed in Parliament this week! #auspol
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A long-term view on the meteoric rise and unabated dramatic fall of China's wine consumption and production. China's wine consumption peaked in 2017 and fell by 71%. China's wine production peaked in 2012 (!) and fell by 84%
November 18, 2025 at 3:45 AM
A long-term view on the meteoric rise and unabated dramatic fall of China's wine consumption and production. China's wine consumption peaked in 2017 and fell by 71%. China's wine production peaked in 2012 (!) and fell by 84%
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The Wines of Beaujolais - Beaujolais renouvelé tinyurl.com/ts53ysvp via @worldoffinewine &
@natashahughesmw.bsky.social
#vins #beaujolais #france #wineworldnews #winebook
@natashahughesmw.bsky.social
#vins #beaujolais #france #wineworldnews #winebook
October 13, 2025 at 7:04 AM
The Wines of Beaujolais - Beaujolais renouvelé tinyurl.com/ts53ysvp via @worldoffinewine &
@natashahughesmw.bsky.social
#vins #beaujolais #france #wineworldnews #winebook
@natashahughesmw.bsky.social
#vins #beaujolais #france #wineworldnews #winebook
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“Rupert Murdoch built more than a media empire. He built a monster.
But the monster he unleashed no longer answers to him.”
theaimn.net/a-cathedral-...
But the monster he unleashed no longer answers to him.”
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A Cathedral of Grievance: How Murdoch Built The Monster He Can No Longer Control
Rupert Murdoch built more than a media empire. He built a cathedral of grievance where facts die on the altar and paranoia pays the rent. For three decades, this structure stood as the template for [....
theaimn.net
October 6, 2025 at 1:08 AM
“Rupert Murdoch built more than a media empire. He built a monster.
But the monster he unleashed no longer answers to him.”
theaimn.net/a-cathedral-...
But the monster he unleashed no longer answers to him.”
theaimn.net/a-cathedral-...
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Rachel Perkins likens it to a neighbour getting permission to put on a veranda, “and 21 years later they come back and say ‘we consulted you about the veranda but we’re putting a three-storey building there’”.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
‘An act of bastardry’: NT overruled Aboriginal authority to allow hotel on sacred site, advocates say
Film-maker Rachel Perkins says Larrakia people ‘would have never agreed’ to the planned 11-storey building
www.theguardian.com
October 3, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Rachel Perkins likens it to a neighbour getting permission to put on a veranda, “and 21 years later they come back and say ‘we consulted you about the veranda but we’re putting a three-storey building there’”.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Here's @ronnisalt.bsky.social. "You’re being played – your part in the culture wars"
You’re being played – your part in the culture wars - The Shot
When Zack de la Rocha told you to rage against the machine, he didn’t mean take it literally. Agitprop. Fury bait. Yes, you feed it too.
theshot.net.au
September 25, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Here's @ronnisalt.bsky.social. "You’re being played – your part in the culture wars"
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Something to remember for you all as social media is swamped by people angry over a man they've never met - especially in Australia where that American white guy's killing is being fed out and manipulated by Advance and the Atlas group.
You're being played.
All of it is scripted agit-prop trash.
You're being played.
All of it is scripted agit-prop trash.
September 16, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Something to remember for you all as social media is swamped by people angry over a man they've never met - especially in Australia where that American white guy's killing is being fed out and manipulated by Advance and the Atlas group.
You're being played.
All of it is scripted agit-prop trash.
You're being played.
All of it is scripted agit-prop trash.
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If you see the Eureka Stockade flag today, know that Raffaello Carboni, an Italian immigrant who helped create the flag, said:
"I call upon all diggers, irrespective of colour, religion or creed, to salute the Southern Cross as a refuge for all the oppressed from all nations on earth." #auspol
"I call upon all diggers, irrespective of colour, religion or creed, to salute the Southern Cross as a refuge for all the oppressed from all nations on earth." #auspol
August 31, 2025 at 12:24 AM
If you see the Eureka Stockade flag today, know that Raffaello Carboni, an Italian immigrant who helped create the flag, said:
"I call upon all diggers, irrespective of colour, religion or creed, to salute the Southern Cross as a refuge for all the oppressed from all nations on earth." #auspol
"I call upon all diggers, irrespective of colour, religion or creed, to salute the Southern Cross as a refuge for all the oppressed from all nations on earth." #auspol
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Very important stance by the journal. NB this kind of interference and its intensity might seem to be a new thing but it's not uncommon for academic journals to have to resist pressure like this from time to time.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
RFK Jr demanded a vaccine study be retracted — the journal said no
In a rare move for a US public official, health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr called for a Danish paper finding no link between aluminium in vaccines and disease to be retracted.
www.nature.com
August 22, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Very important stance by the journal. NB this kind of interference and its intensity might seem to be a new thing but it's not uncommon for academic journals to have to resist pressure like this from time to time.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Make a band food:
This is Cereal Mum
This is Cereal Mum
August 18, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Make a band food:
This is Cereal Mum
This is Cereal Mum
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Something from Meanjin a few years back: Randa Abdel Fattah on Palestinian erasure…
meanjin.com.au/latest/lobbi...
meanjin.com.au/latest/lobbi...
Lobbied: The Palestinian Erasure
Those who dismiss claims about the influence of pro-Israel lobbyists often demand ‘evidence’ akin to a smoking gun; proof of a chain of causation between ‘lobbying’ and ‘self-censorship’. There are…
meanjin.com.au
August 18, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Something from Meanjin a few years back: Randa Abdel Fattah on Palestinian erasure…
meanjin.com.au/latest/lobbi...
meanjin.com.au/latest/lobbi...
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USAID funded roughly half the world’s supply of ready-to-use therapeutic food. The dismantling of the agency has disrupted the global supply chain that provides the packets, leaving thousands of malnourished children at risk of dying.
A $45 Treatment Can Save a Starving Child. US Aid Cuts Have Frozen the Supply
www.nytimes.com
August 17, 2025 at 9:53 PM
USAID funded roughly half the world’s supply of ready-to-use therapeutic food. The dismantling of the agency has disrupted the global supply chain that provides the packets, leaving thousands of malnourished children at risk of dying.
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A huge gas drilling rig in Victoria has been built just offshore from the 12 Apostles.
We're putting our coastlines at risk to extract gas we don’t even need.
Despite what big gas wants you to think, the data shows Victoria actually exports far more gas than it uses.
@ketanjoshi.co #auspol
We're putting our coastlines at risk to extract gas we don’t even need.
Despite what big gas wants you to think, the data shows Victoria actually exports far more gas than it uses.
@ketanjoshi.co #auspol
August 18, 2025 at 6:30 AM
A huge gas drilling rig in Victoria has been built just offshore from the 12 Apostles.
We're putting our coastlines at risk to extract gas we don’t even need.
Despite what big gas wants you to think, the data shows Victoria actually exports far more gas than it uses.
@ketanjoshi.co #auspol
We're putting our coastlines at risk to extract gas we don’t even need.
Despite what big gas wants you to think, the data shows Victoria actually exports far more gas than it uses.
@ketanjoshi.co #auspol
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It’s been a 60-year quest to take Timor’s oil and gas. An invasion didn’t get it. Spying didn’t get it. So now Australia is waiting them out. #auspol
Waiting them out. Australia’s Greater Sunrise Gas heist - Michael West
It’s been a 60-year quest to take Timor’s oil and gas. An invasion didn’t get it. Spying didn’t get it. So now Australia is waiting them out.
michaelwest.com.au
August 18, 2025 at 10:16 AM
It’s been a 60-year quest to take Timor’s oil and gas. An invasion didn’t get it. Spying didn’t get it. So now Australia is waiting them out. #auspol
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164 years later, South Carolina finally occupies Washington.
WASHINGTON (AP) — South Carolina, Ohio also sending National Guard troops to DC in further escalation of federal intervention in Dem city.
August 17, 2025 at 1:01 AM
164 years later, South Carolina finally occupies Washington.
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Santorini 🇬🇷 is in trouble. 3y of drought has brought yields less than 1000 kg/ha. Vines die of drought and neglect.
1st 📷 is the entire crop a grower brought to Gaia, maybe 100 kg where they used to contribute 1 ton.
Will Santorini wine disappear altogether in 10 years?
1st 📷 is the entire crop a grower brought to Gaia, maybe 100 kg where they used to contribute 1 ton.
Will Santorini wine disappear altogether in 10 years?
August 17, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Santorini 🇬🇷 is in trouble. 3y of drought has brought yields less than 1000 kg/ha. Vines die of drought and neglect.
1st 📷 is the entire crop a grower brought to Gaia, maybe 100 kg where they used to contribute 1 ton.
Will Santorini wine disappear altogether in 10 years?
1st 📷 is the entire crop a grower brought to Gaia, maybe 100 kg where they used to contribute 1 ton.
Will Santorini wine disappear altogether in 10 years?
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Heartbreaking. Anas Al-Sharif posted this 1 hour before being assasinated tonight.
“If this madness does not end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased. Please share this message & tag everyone who…has the power to end this massacre. Silence is complicity.”
“If this madness does not end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased. Please share this message & tag everyone who…has the power to end this massacre. Silence is complicity.”
August 10, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Heartbreaking. Anas Al-Sharif posted this 1 hour before being assasinated tonight.
“If this madness does not end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased. Please share this message & tag everyone who…has the power to end this massacre. Silence is complicity.”
“If this madness does not end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased. Please share this message & tag everyone who…has the power to end this massacre. Silence is complicity.”
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Anas al-Sharif, prominent Al Jazeera correspondent, among five journalists killed in Israeli airstrike on Gaza
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Anas al-Sharif, prominent Al Jazeera correspondent, among five journalists killed in Israeli airstrike on Gaza
Israel admits deliberate attack on the journalist, known for frontline coverage, in a strike on a tent outside al-Shifa hospital
www.theguardian.com
August 11, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Anas al-Sharif, prominent Al Jazeera correspondent, among five journalists killed in Israeli airstrike on Gaza
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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Along with nuclear submarines, Australia has signed up for tonnes of highly enriched nuclear waste that we have no current plans or way to safely store www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
The lethal legacy of Aukus nuclear submarines will remain for millennia – and there’s no plan to deal with it
Australia’s future nuclear submarines will produce highly radioactive waste, and allies in the UK and the US still don’t have a safe place to store their own
www.theguardian.com
August 10, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Along with nuclear submarines, Australia has signed up for tonnes of highly enriched nuclear waste that we have no current plans or way to safely store www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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The Australian Chamber Orchestra's Richard Tognetti has warned that the ANU's plan to axe its School of Music would result in an "act of cultural vandalism", with another Canberra ensemble saying its offer to help has been rejected.
Australian Chamber Orchestra slams ANU plan as 'cultural vandalism'
The Australian Chamber Orchestra's Richard Tognetti has warned that the ANU's plan to axe its School of Music would result in an "act of cultural vandalism", with another Canberra ensemble saying its offer to help has been rejected.
www.abc.net.au
August 10, 2025 at 6:38 AM
The Australian Chamber Orchestra's Richard Tognetti has warned that the ANU's plan to axe its School of Music would result in an "act of cultural vandalism", with another Canberra ensemble saying its offer to help has been rejected.
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Australia’s supply to Israel of F35 weapons parts is the “direct facilitation of war crimes” says Josh Paul, former Director of Congressional and Public Affairs, Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, in the US State Dept.
So why won’t Labor stop doing it? www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
So why won’t Labor stop doing it? www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Australia's part in Israel's weapons supply chain - ABC listen
Where do the arms involved in conflicts worldwide come from and who bears responsibility for how they are used in war?
The US is by far the world's largest weapons manufacturer and exporter, accounti...
www.abc.net.au
August 9, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Australia’s supply to Israel of F35 weapons parts is the “direct facilitation of war crimes” says Josh Paul, former Director of Congressional and Public Affairs, Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, in the US State Dept.
So why won’t Labor stop doing it? www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
So why won’t Labor stop doing it? www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
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ICYM - ‘Total infiltration’: How plastics industry swamped vital global treaty talks
- Petrostates and well-funded lobbyists at UN-hosted talks are derailing a deal to cut plastic production and protect people and the planet
#plastic
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Petrostates and well-funded lobbyists at UN-hosted talks are derailing a deal to cut plastic production and protect people and the planet
#plastic
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Total infiltration’: How plastics industry swamped vital global treaty talks
Petrostates and well-funded lobbyists at UN-hosted talks are derailing a deal to cut plastic production and protect people and the planet
www.theguardian.com
July 29, 2025 at 8:03 AM
ICYM - ‘Total infiltration’: How plastics industry swamped vital global treaty talks
- Petrostates and well-funded lobbyists at UN-hosted talks are derailing a deal to cut plastic production and protect people and the planet
#plastic
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Petrostates and well-funded lobbyists at UN-hosted talks are derailing a deal to cut plastic production and protect people and the planet
#plastic
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...