Spacekat9
@spacekat9.bsky.social
Forever wandering with the 3 Amigos/ cats...living on the unceeded lands of the Darumbal Nation
"If you are accustomed to privilege, ewuality feels like oppression"
"If you are accustomed to privilege, ewuality feels like oppression"
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Spacekat9
@spacekat9.bsky.social
· Aug 1
Climate target malpractice
As the Albanese government prepares to announce Australia’s 2035 climate target, pressure is mounting to show greater ambition. A cut in greenhouse gas emissions of at least 75 per cent below 2005 lev...
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
The Great Labor Emissions Greenwash
Polly Hemming 🙏
Albanese needs to listen to climate experts, not fosdil fuel lobbiests
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/21223/...
Polly Hemming 🙏
Albanese needs to listen to climate experts, not fosdil fuel lobbiests
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/21223/...
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It would be practically and legally impossible to hold a royal commission that goes anywhere near the actions or motivations of the accused killer, before his criminal proceedings are concluded, which could take years. That limitation would render the royal commission itself pointlessly premature.
January 2, 2026 at 5:07 AM
It would be practically and legally impossible to hold a royal commission that goes anywhere near the actions or motivations of the accused killer, before his criminal proceedings are concluded, which could take years. That limitation would render the royal commission itself pointlessly premature.
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How about business leaders first institute all the recommendations from the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry?
January 2, 2026 at 12:55 AM
How about business leaders first institute all the recommendations from the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry?
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Australia Institute research shows that nurses pay more tax than gas and oil companies.
Meanwhile, multinational gas companies get 56% of our gas for free and then export it overseas.
Sign the petition: https://nb.australiainstitute.org.au/fix_gas_export_problem
Meanwhile, multinational gas companies get 56% of our gas for free and then export it overseas.
Sign the petition: https://nb.australiainstitute.org.au/fix_gas_export_problem
January 1, 2026 at 11:30 PM
Australia Institute research shows that nurses pay more tax than gas and oil companies.
Meanwhile, multinational gas companies get 56% of our gas for free and then export it overseas.
Sign the petition: https://nb.australiainstitute.org.au/fix_gas_export_problem
Meanwhile, multinational gas companies get 56% of our gas for free and then export it overseas.
Sign the petition: https://nb.australiainstitute.org.au/fix_gas_export_problem
Morning so far
Auto-immune disease related fatigue mgt
1. Use cognitive "up time"
2. Pacing
I've scheduled my quaterly blood tests & US
Booked a GP appt to set up a GPCCM plan
Read up on being a HCC surveillance patient.
Updated my acronym dictionary 😂
Auto-immune disease related fatigue mgt
1. Use cognitive "up time"
2. Pacing
I've scheduled my quaterly blood tests & US
Booked a GP appt to set up a GPCCM plan
Read up on being a HCC surveillance patient.
Updated my acronym dictionary 😂
January 1, 2026 at 10:53 PM
Morning so far
Auto-immune disease related fatigue mgt
1. Use cognitive "up time"
2. Pacing
I've scheduled my quaterly blood tests & US
Booked a GP appt to set up a GPCCM plan
Read up on being a HCC surveillance patient.
Updated my acronym dictionary 😂
Auto-immune disease related fatigue mgt
1. Use cognitive "up time"
2. Pacing
I've scheduled my quaterly blood tests & US
Booked a GP appt to set up a GPCCM plan
Read up on being a HCC surveillance patient.
Updated my acronym dictionary 😂
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Any call from ‘business leaders’ should be greeted with deep suspicion. The idea that they somehow represent the best of us is one that needs to end.
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
More than 100 business leaders call for Bondi attack royal commission
Former Reserve Bank governors and CEOs are among more than 130 business leaders and prominent Australians now calling for a Commonwealth royal commission in the wake of the Bondi Beach terror attack.
www.abc.net.au
January 1, 2026 at 8:40 PM
Any call from ‘business leaders’ should be greeted with deep suspicion. The idea that they somehow represent the best of us is one that needs to end.
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
"Prominent people"
What's their personal end game?
We do not need a national RC into antisemitism.
Lobbying, asymmetric access to influence politics, on the other hand...
share.google/5XtbPfRE7tCS...
What's their personal end game?
We do not need a national RC into antisemitism.
Lobbying, asymmetric access to influence politics, on the other hand...
share.google/5XtbPfRE7tCS...
‘A national crisis’: Scores of business leaders unite to back Bondi royal commission
More than 100 prominent figures have signed an open letter calling for a national inquiry, heaping more pressures on the prime minister.
share.google
January 1, 2026 at 7:25 PM
"Prominent people"
What's their personal end game?
We do not need a national RC into antisemitism.
Lobbying, asymmetric access to influence politics, on the other hand...
share.google/5XtbPfRE7tCS...
What's their personal end game?
We do not need a national RC into antisemitism.
Lobbying, asymmetric access to influence politics, on the other hand...
share.google/5XtbPfRE7tCS...
"Investors have also taken full advantage of favourable policies, including negative gearing and a capital gains discount...."
Protect the wealth of property speculators?
Or address increasing wealth inequality?
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Protect the wealth of property speculators?
Or address increasing wealth inequality?
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Australian house prices expected to rise at least 5% in 2026 after jump last year
While last year’s 8.6% increase isn’t likely to be repeated, economists expect growth across the country as demand continues to outstrip supply
www.theguardian.com
January 1, 2026 at 6:54 PM
"Investors have also taken full advantage of favourable policies, including negative gearing and a capital gains discount...."
Protect the wealth of property speculators?
Or address increasing wealth inequality?
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Protect the wealth of property speculators?
Or address increasing wealth inequality?
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Benign Israel
Israel escalates West Bank demolitions amid illegal settlement expansion https://aje.io/m4zbmq
January 1, 2026 at 9:00 AM
Benign Israel
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Bob and I were among the hundreds of researchers that were supposed to conduct the 6th U.S. National Climate Assessment. Now it looks like they're gonna produce it with a few people and Grok? Communities need rigorous and accurate information about climate change. This will put communities at risk.
December 22, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Bob and I were among the hundreds of researchers that were supposed to conduct the 6th U.S. National Climate Assessment. Now it looks like they're gonna produce it with a few people and Grok? Communities need rigorous and accurate information about climate change. This will put communities at risk.
Madam FluffyBum has figured out skinks come in the cat door to escape the heat 🙄
January 1, 2026 at 5:31 AM
Madam FluffyBum has figured out skinks come in the cat door to escape the heat 🙄
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Must read:
"As we have watched Israel’s pitiless destruction of Gaza, we have learned that for both a large part of Israeli society and the Jewish diaspora the call to action is the morally and perhaps politically catastrophic: 'Never Again, To Us'.” - Robert Manne.
open.substack.com/pub/robertma...
"As we have watched Israel’s pitiless destruction of Gaza, we have learned that for both a large part of Israeli society and the Jewish diaspora the call to action is the morally and perhaps politically catastrophic: 'Never Again, To Us'.” - Robert Manne.
open.substack.com/pub/robertma...
Don't Mention The War
After Bondi
open.substack.com
January 1, 2026 at 4:26 AM
Must read:
"As we have watched Israel’s pitiless destruction of Gaza, we have learned that for both a large part of Israeli society and the Jewish diaspora the call to action is the morally and perhaps politically catastrophic: 'Never Again, To Us'.” - Robert Manne.
open.substack.com/pub/robertma...
"As we have watched Israel’s pitiless destruction of Gaza, we have learned that for both a large part of Israeli society and the Jewish diaspora the call to action is the morally and perhaps politically catastrophic: 'Never Again, To Us'.” - Robert Manne.
open.substack.com/pub/robertma...
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I call on the Australian government to #RaiseTheRate of all support payments to a living wage.
This would be the single most effective way to lift the productivity, quality of life, and well-being of the whole country.
#CommitToALivingWage
This would be the single most effective way to lift the productivity, quality of life, and well-being of the whole country.
#CommitToALivingWage
January 1, 2026 at 3:29 AM
I call on the Australian government to #RaiseTheRate of all support payments to a living wage.
This would be the single most effective way to lift the productivity, quality of life, and well-being of the whole country.
#CommitToALivingWage
This would be the single most effective way to lift the productivity, quality of life, and well-being of the whole country.
#CommitToALivingWage
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“The response to the Bondi massacre has been seriously strange.”
Essential writing from one of Australia’s great thinkers:
Essential writing from one of Australia’s great thinkers:
Don't Mention The War
After Bondi
robertmanne.substack.com
January 1, 2026 at 3:23 AM
“The response to the Bondi massacre has been seriously strange.”
Essential writing from one of Australia’s great thinkers:
Essential writing from one of Australia’s great thinkers:
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High on my list of shit that needs to change in 2026 would be wealth inequality.
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/de...
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/de...
Billionaires added record $2.2tn in wealth in 2025
Just eight billionaires accounted for a quarter of the gains, led by Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Larry Ellison and Larry Page
www.theguardian.com
January 1, 2026 at 1:41 AM
High on my list of shit that needs to change in 2026 would be wealth inequality.
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/de...
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/de...
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What an utter outrage…how does a country dumb down itself so comprehensively…
December 31, 2025 at 11:45 PM
What an utter outrage…how does a country dumb down itself so comprehensively…
Leonard feeling pleased he fooled me.
I thought he needed to toilet.
He wanted sun-time
I thought he needed to toilet.
He wanted sun-time
December 31, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Leonard feeling pleased he fooled me.
I thought he needed to toilet.
He wanted sun-time
I thought he needed to toilet.
He wanted sun-time
This opinion piece by the PM is behind a paywall.
Does anyone know if its open source anywhere, or is the PM now pay-per-view only?
www.smh.com.au/national/on-...
Does anyone know if its open source anywhere, or is the PM now pay-per-view only?
www.smh.com.au/national/on-...
On our 125th birthday, let’s rise to the test of our national character
Modern Australia has been built by countless individual acts of service, bravery, ambition and kindness – resources that we must call upon following the Bondi atrocity.
www.smh.com.au
December 31, 2025 at 9:12 PM
This opinion piece by the PM is behind a paywall.
Does anyone know if its open source anywhere, or is the PM now pay-per-view only?
www.smh.com.au/national/on-...
Does anyone know if its open source anywhere, or is the PM now pay-per-view only?
www.smh.com.au/national/on-...
A very clingy, soon to be 16 Mr Fox
December 31, 2025 at 8:59 PM
A very clingy, soon to be 16 Mr Fox
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Finland seizes ship sailing from Russia after suspected cable sabotage https://aje.io/1r0yji
December 31, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Finland seizes ship sailing from Russia after suspected cable sabotage https://aje.io/1r0yji
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The same Israeli govt ministry that came up with its hit list, also decided these hashtags are antisemitic
#gazaholocaust #genocide #gazagenocide #genocideinpalestine #palestinianholocaust #Israelinazis #gaza, #freepalestine, and #ceasefirenow
#gazaholocaust #genocide #gazagenocide #genocideinpalestine #palestinianholocaust #Israelinazis #gaza, #freepalestine, and #ceasefirenow
December 31, 2025 at 9:36 AM
The same Israeli govt ministry that came up with its hit list, also decided these hashtags are antisemitic
#gazaholocaust #genocide #gazagenocide #genocideinpalestine #palestinianholocaust #Israelinazis #gaza, #freepalestine, and #ceasefirenow
#gazaholocaust #genocide #gazagenocide #genocideinpalestine #palestinianholocaust #Israelinazis #gaza, #freepalestine, and #ceasefirenow
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Dozens of humanitarian organisations, including Doctors Without Borders, are banned by Israel.
‘Ruthless': Israeli ban on aid groups to have ‘horrific' outcomes in Gaza
Dozens of humanitarian organisations, including Doctors Without Borders, are banned by Israel.
www.aljazeera.com
December 31, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Dozens of humanitarian organisations, including Doctors Without Borders, are banned by Israel.
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Not surprising that Israel’s list of most “antisemitic” Australians is only a list of people against genocide and contains not one far-right/Nazi.
🫡 to those on the list
🫡 to those on the list
December 31, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Not surprising that Israel’s list of most “antisemitic” Australians is only a list of people against genocide and contains not one far-right/Nazi.
🫡 to those on the list
🫡 to those on the list