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⌛️🧮 Bruce Carnwell (🐣 & 🌴) Australia
@brucec01.bsky.social
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Equity Trader. I still hope we can find a path through the #ClimateCrisis using enlightened capitalism & technology; no atom splitting!, but some days it is quite hard to sustain this belief! #Climate200 🩵 #AusPol
Also, duck feeder 🦆😁
Gold Coast, Australia
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Just to be clear, this is the man that decided the #Liberal #climateCrisis policy. OMFD! 😆
November 13, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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I don't think you are correct. #Mamdani is now on over 1 million votes & more than the total of his two competitors :) 🥂#NewYorkMayor #DUSA
November 5, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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Sophie @sophiescamps.bsky.social said "I cannot support the EPBC Act … in their current form, because there are the most ginormous, gigantic loopholes that you could drive a heavy hauler through, which means there is no guarantee that our #environment will be better protected." #EPBC #AusPol
Independent MPs are pushing for changes to Labor’s proposed new nature laws, with one claiming the bill contains “gigantic loopholes that you could drive a heavy hauler through”. The laws to overhaul the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act are scheduled for debate on Tuesday, with the government planning to rush them through the lower house this week. The independent MP for Curtin, Kate Chaney, is drafting amendments to address two loopholes that she fears could undermine the entire bill. The first is the proposed “restoration fund”, which developers would have the choice of contributing to as one option to offset damage from their projects. Chaney said: That means projects can actually just pay to destroy, they can choose to just put money into a fund, and we may end up with a lot of money but no projects that actually offset the damage that’s being done. And that would not be a good outcome for nature. The independent MP also wants changes to a contentious new exemption that would allow the environment minister to approve projects in breach of nature laws if it was deemed in the “national interest”. The former treasury secretary Ken Henry, the Labor MP Ed Husic and Labor’s grassroots environment action group have all called for guardrails to limit how the power could be wielded. Fellow independent MP Sophie Scamps said she couldn’t support the laws in their current form, criticising the new loopholes and plans to devolve more decision-powers to the states. I cannot support the EPBC Act … in their current form, because there are the most ginormous, gigantic loopholes that you could drive a heavy hauler through, which means there is no guarantee that our environment will be better protected. Labor wants the EPBC reforms to pass the Senate this year but that hinges on a deal with either the Greens or the Coalition, neither of whom support the bill as it stands.
November 3, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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This country must be starting to rival North Korea for the worst dictator in the world trophy! #Gaza
By Urooba Jamal and Federica Marsi Published On 30 Oct 202530 Oct 2025 * Palestinians in Gaza say they are losing hope in the ceasefire after Israel’s deadliest violation yet killed more than 100 people in Gaza, mostly women and children, on Wednesday. * US President Donald Trump says the ceasefire is still strong while mediator Qatar expresses frustration but says the mediators are looking forward to the next phase of the truce. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/10/30/live-palestinians-lose-hope-in-ceasefire-after-israeli-strike-wave-on-gaza?UTM_Source=pnsOS&UTM_Medium=push&UTM_Campaign=standard
October 30, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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I completely support the #LockTheGate reaction. I wonder if this will make front page of the #DailyTelegraph supporting all the agreived farmers against this dreadful overriding of their land rights ??
And #Minns even uses the anti #renewable quote ... where the fuck is this man's head ? 2/2
Anne Davies Continued from previous post: The threat of compulsory acquisition drew an immediate rebuke from Lock the Gate Alliance. Its national coordinator, Carmel Flint, said: It’s very disappointing to see Premier Chris Minns take the side of gas giant Santos against local farmers and Gomeroi Traditional owners who merely seek to protect land, water, and culture from dangerous gasfields and associated pipelines. Santos is the primary cause of Australia’s gas price hike because it has been siphoning our domestic gas and sending it to overseas markets for the past ten years. Rewarding this company with more gasfields is contrary to the national interest and will do nothing to reduce energy prices. Minns linked the need for more power and compulsory acquisition to saving the Tomago aluminium smelter, which this week spoke to its workforce saying that its future was uncertain beyond 2028 when its current electricity contracts are due to expire. He said NSW remained committed to renewables: Now I want to make it clear, of course, we support renewable energy, but the truth of the matter is, gas is part of the future as well. And when the wind isn’t blowing and the sun isn’t shining, we need to be able to turn on other sources of energy to keep industry going. The truth is, there is no future for domestic manufacturing without the continued presence of gas, particularly on the east coast. There is no renewable energy transition if we don’t have the gas there to back it up. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2025/oct/29/federal-politics-parliament-victoria-queensland-bom-labor-coalition-anthony-albanese-sussan-ley-abs-inflation-apec-summit-afp-press-club-ntwnfb?filterKeyEvents=false&page=with%3Ablock-690199af8f0862851a58e7b4#block-690199af8f0862851a58e7b4
October 29, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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The #NSW #Labor govt seems intent on becoming the defacto #LNP ! No mention of *compulsory acquisition* to build electricity transmission lines ... but no problem to do this for a #Santos #gas-pipeline ?? Complete madness with #Minns 🙄
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NSW premier floats compulsory land acquisitions and says he will do ‘whatever it takes’ to make controversial Santos gas pipeline happen Farmers whose land will be traversed by a proposed pipeline carrying gas from Santos’s controversial Narrabri gas field face compulsory acquisition of the corridor by the NSW government. More than 100 impacted properties owners in the Hunter Valley alone are opposed to its construction. About 66% of landholders along the entire HGP route have so far not agreed to host the pipeline on their land. But the NSW premier, Chris Minns, said he would do whatever it takes to make the project happen and that he considered more gas essential for NSW industry. He told the Australian Workers Union Conference on Wednesday: Since coming into office, we’ve made every approval that’s been in front of us in relation to the Narrabri project. I can tell you today that we want landholders to work with Santos and the owners of the fields to come to an agreement that works for both parties. But if that doesn’t happen, we will be considering compulsory acquisition of the pipeline easement around the field to ensure that the project gets going and that we can get energy into the manufacturing base of the Hunter for New South Wales. The premier urged Santos to give final investment signoff to the controversial Narrabri project while also urging the commonwealth to establish an east coast gas reserve: What we need now is for Santos to, quite simply, commit to Narrabri and make an investment decision. And we need the commonwealth government to finally pull the eastern states together to establish the east coast gas reserve so Australian gas is used to support Australian industry, first at Australian prices. The gas reserve is well overdue. It’s a no brainer. It needs to happen.
October 29, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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Ryan told RN Breakfast this morning her bill will introduce a code of conduct for lobbyists, will strengthen the lobbying code, publish ministerial diaries so the public can see who ministers are meeting with, and stop ministers and public servants going to work for lobbyists.
October 27, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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This is an excellent initiative by @davidpocock.bsky.social to create a #lobbying register, since the 2 old parties are sitting on their hands. There are hundreds of lobbyists wandering in parliament house! #Influence
www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2025/oct/27/epbc-environment-laws-ai-copyright-lobbying-transparency-federal-parliament-anthony-albanese-asean-sussan-ley-murray-watt-ntwnfb
October 27, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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Oh dear Suss-an, I really think you should stop trying to appeal to the #RWNJ in your party & the fruitloop Notionals & focus on the centre, if you can still find it 😀🥂
2h ago12.36 AEDT Malcolm Turnbull writes Albanese and Rudd should be ‘very pleased’ after Trump meeting The former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull said Albanese and the US ambassador, Kevin Rudd, should be “very pleased” after their meeting with Donald Trump, calling the event in Washington DC “definitely a 10/10 in diplomatic and political terms”. Turnbull wrote in The Sydney Morning Herald that the agreement on rare-earth minerals was a “very good step forward”, but said there was still “much work to do” to advance the deal. He also praised Rudd’s handling in the lead-up to the meeting, saying while some may be disappointed about tariffs, “so far, so good”. He wrote: Albanese has been right in keeping Rudd in Washington, and right in bringing him to the meeting. That showed strength of character – and strength and power are the only things Trump respects. Trump may not like Rudd, but today’s outcomes, especially on rare earths and critical minerals, are testimony to Rudd’s effectiveness. Bullshit and backslapping are fine, but delivering the goods is what matters. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2025/oct/21/australia-news-live-michaelia-cash-china-jet-raaf-prime-minister-anthony-albanese-donald-trump-white-house-critical-minerals-deal-ntwnfb
October 21, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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Just a thought, but maybe the #Coalition should contemplate that the "deal" signed with the #DUSA was for #BatteryMetals & not #Coal or #Uranium ... I imagine that many #LNP would find that difficult to understand 😀🍾🥂
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2025/oct/21/australia-news-live-michaelia-cash-china-jet-raaf-prime-minister-anthony-albanese-donald-trump-white-house-critical-minerals-deal-ntwnfb
October 21, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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#Israel is complaining about not having the return of dead hostages and then they do this. They really are a pariah State. 🔥
October 16, 2025 at 12:27 PM
brucec01.bsky.social
Our Australian govt is failing expectations again & @greens.org.au are holding them to account, again! @nickmckim.bsky.social is doing a great job of showing up the deplorable behaviour of Israeli officials. #Gaza #Palestine 🥂
www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2025/oct/10/australia-politics-live-senate-estimates-anthony-albanese-sussan-ley-andrew-hastie-migration-aukus-trump-gaza-ntwnfb?filterKeyEvents=false&page=with%3Ablock-68e793758f0871610d00715b#block-68e793758f0871610d00715b
October 10, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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What an absolute piece of crap; the sooner this dickhead comes before the war crimes tribunal in Hague the better! The last thing this criminal wants is an end to the genocide in Gaza, because he would then have to face a trial for the corruption that he committed.
September 30, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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@grogsgamut.bsky.social
As you were :) 🥂
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Jericho
September 30, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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What is actually embarrassing is that dicks like #AndrewBragg actually still believe that they have the right to comment on Australia's relationship with the #DUSA & #DonnieDuck, because they have an incoherent foreign policy & are rabble with no moral compass! #AusPol #Insiders
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2025/sep/23/australia-news-live-albanese-new-york-palestine-united-nations-donald-trump-mark-butler-paracetamol-pregnancy-ntwnfb
September 23, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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The #LyingNastyParty #LNP are again at their very worst in #qld, now completely blocking parliamentary debate on the insane #PillTesting ban. Just stupid scum who know better than the medical experts. Remind you of someone, aka #DonnieDuck ?? #QldPol
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2025/sep/19/australia-news-live-cheaper-energy-chris-bowen-climate-bush-search-crashed-plane-pilot-julie-bishop-ntwnfb?page=with%3Ablock-68ccc2268f08895801e0817b&filterKeyEvents=false#liveblog-navigation
September 19, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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Honestly, this complete prick will be the downfall of Western capitalism, at the very least! What are total nong! 🔥
September 15, 2025 at 12:26 PM
brucec01.bsky.social
I’m sorry darling, but this is the only Kirk that I care to remember 🥂
James T Kirk - Captain USS Enterprise
September 13, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Hilarious…. 😳 😭
September 10, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Is Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price's natural home in PHON (One Notion) or with the Mad Katter's Party? She is definitely a very confused individual & has cobbled her "beliefs" together from very fringe positions. #Insiders #AusPol
Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has promised to campaign against net zero emissions, Indigenous activists for truth-telling and what she describes as school students’ indoctrination in the wake of her resignation from shadow cabinet . In her statement announcing her resignation, the Liberal senator said would continue to “speak up on issues which are in the national interest and that are important to millions of Australians”. Price cited Indiigous issues, specifically the “romanticisation of traditonal cutlure” and “infefectiveness of blaote dbureaucrcies” and resistance to what she described as: activists who, ignoring the referendum outcome and the will of the Australian people, march on with the goals of segregation and reparations under the guise of that Orwellian phrase “truth-telling”.” She also pointed to broader issues, including so-called “mass” migration, rising Chinese military aggression, and more: The economically immiserating and freedom eroding policy of Net Zero. The indoctrination of children in our classrooms that engenders national guilt and inhibits national pride. The Albanese Government’s determination to move Australia away from a free-market economy and towards a state-directed and controlled economy. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2025/sep/10/australia-news-live-nampijinpa-price-littleproud-pacific-albanese-indian-immigration-sussan-ley-coalition-liberal-labor-koala-park-nsw-ntwnfb#top-of-blog
September 10, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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September 3, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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Gee, if #DonnieDuck had been there also, they could’ve had the clean sweep of dictators and autocrats! 😁

Fuck, it’s our USA sycophant, #AndrewHastie ! No wonder we had such a fantastic relationship with our major trading partner, when the #Liberals were in government 🤯
Fuck, it’s our USA sycophant, Andrew Hastie ! No wonder we had such a fantastic relationship with our major trading partner, were in government 🤯 The shadow home affairs spokesperson, Andrew Hastie, called it a “parade for dictators”, and criticised Carr’s and Andrews’ presence in China. “It’s a celebration of the Chinese Communist party,” he said. Daniel Andrews has been criticised by the opposition for posing alongside North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un and the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, at a military parade in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square. The former Victorian Labor premier stood several rows behind the North Korean semi-recluse (who is facing complaints of alleged crimes against humanity) during the photo opportunity for leaders from the so-called “axis of upheaval”. In the photo, distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, Putin stands to Chinese president Xi Jinping’s right, with Kim to Xi’s left, and Xi’s wife, Peng Liyuan, in between. The leaders of Iran, Indonesia and a number of other countries are also in the group photo.
September 3, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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This is a pathetically shitty response to a excellent question by #DaiLei. It appears that the only way to get to the new #WesternSydneyAirport will be by BUS !! What an infrastructure failure !!
Back to the crossbench, Dai Lei asks the prime minister whether there will be a metro line that connects western Sydney with the Western Sydney airport. Le says: Western Sydney airport was promised [as] a gateway for our community. Delivering jobs and opportunities. Instead it looks more like a freight hub dressed up as an airport. Without a Metro rail link [we will] face more trucks on the roads, gridlocked motorways or freeways and a missed chance to build more affordable housing near where people live and work. I’m sure the government is happy to get a question that’s not for aged care minister Sam Rae. Albanese spends most of his answer talking about the job opportunities and local contractors who have been building the infrastructure. He doesn’t mention the word “metro” once, he just says there will be “public transport links” in his last 10 seconds. This is about, for the first time, instead of Sydney always turning towards the harbour, always turning towards the CBD, this is about Sydney looking towards where most people live in western Sydney. And [it] will provide significant benefit in addition to that; the public transport links to Western Sydney airport as well as the road upgrades are creating jobs in the short term but creating economic activity and efficiency in the medium term as well.
September 1, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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Clearly Senator #JamesPatterson should consider which country he wishes to live in and who is his Prime Minister. He seems to be struggling with his Australian identity. 😎
August 21, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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This LPG liquefaction process to enable sale of #fossilGas overseas is just an insane usage of Australian resources, especially when the companies like #Chevron pay NO TAX to the government! 🔥
42m ago10.58 AEST Petra Stock Petra Stock Analysis reveals Australia’s largest gas guzzlers Australia’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) export industry uses 13 times more gas than local manufacturing, according to new analysis by climate activist group Market Forces. The vast majority of gas used in Australia is directed towards LNG exports, followed by gas power plants and manufacturing, according to the report. Only 10 facilities – mainly those producing alumina and ammonia – made up more than half of manufacturing gas use. According to Market Forces estimates, the five largest manufacturing gas users could require carbon offsets up to $1.3bn over the decade if they failed to reduce their reliance on gas. Kyle Robertson, Market Forces’ head of research, said Australia’s biggest manufacturers, particularly alumina and ammonia producers, need to immediately step up and invest much more in the transition to renewable energy. Manufacturers guzzle a lot of our gas but 13 times more is gobbled up, turned into liquified natural gas and sent overseas.
August 19, 2025 at 1:43 AM