Stacey
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On Taungurong country. If you say somethings a poem then it is (thanks to David Caesar)
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Deserts in the oceans
Are these Tasmanian barrens now more like NSW barrens than the kelp beds beside them?
New research shows urchin-affected reefs on Tasmania’s east coast now function much like those further north in New South Wales, with similar species and grazing patterns.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
New research shows urchin-affected reefs on Tasmania’s east coast now function much like those further north in New South Wales, with similar species and grazing patterns.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
December 1, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Deserts in the oceans
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Overheard at the servo just now
Young cop hogging the night service window to whine about being assaulted . Without missing a beat the teenager behind the counter said, ' yes well, you are wearing provocative clothing'
It's going to be a good day. Earliest sunrise I've ever seen.
Young cop hogging the night service window to whine about being assaulted . Without missing a beat the teenager behind the counter said, ' yes well, you are wearing provocative clothing'
It's going to be a good day. Earliest sunrise I've ever seen.
November 26, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Overheard at the servo just now
Young cop hogging the night service window to whine about being assaulted . Without missing a beat the teenager behind the counter said, ' yes well, you are wearing provocative clothing'
It's going to be a good day. Earliest sunrise I've ever seen.
Young cop hogging the night service window to whine about being assaulted . Without missing a beat the teenager behind the counter said, ' yes well, you are wearing provocative clothing'
It's going to be a good day. Earliest sunrise I've ever seen.
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idk about you, but i’ve never met a friendly reminder
November 18, 2025 at 6:19 PM
idk about you, but i’ve never met a friendly reminder
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If it’s not safe for lobster in the neighbouring waters, imagine the effect of consuming the salmon that are being directly fed this antibiotic ….
Friends don’t let friends eat Tasmanian salmon.
Friends don’t let friends eat Tasmanian salmon.
November 16, 2025 at 5:58 AM
If it’s not safe for lobster in the neighbouring waters, imagine the effect of consuming the salmon that are being directly fed this antibiotic ….
Friends don’t let friends eat Tasmanian salmon.
Friends don’t let friends eat Tasmanian salmon.
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Independent senator Lidia Thorpe has called on the federal government to impose penalties on Victoria, after Jacinta Allan announced laws that could see children face life sentences for serious offences
"If we continue to see inaction and abuse, I'll be taking this to the UN"
"If we continue to see inaction and abuse, I'll be taking this to the UN"
November 12, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Independent senator Lidia Thorpe has called on the federal government to impose penalties on Victoria, after Jacinta Allan announced laws that could see children face life sentences for serious offences
"If we continue to see inaction and abuse, I'll be taking this to the UN"
"If we continue to see inaction and abuse, I'll be taking this to the UN"
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150 police visits in 20 months: Indigenous mother takes action after her boys subjected to ‘relentless’ checks | New South Wales | The Guardian share.google/9ozCuhDcvKFw.... Racism is alive and well in the Police Force.
150 police visits in 20 months: Indigenous mother takes action after her boys subjected to ‘relentless’ checks
Exclusive: A family has launched a court case against NSW police alleging racial discrimination is behind excessive bail checks
share.google
November 9, 2025 at 10:29 PM
150 police visits in 20 months: Indigenous mother takes action after her boys subjected to ‘relentless’ checks | New South Wales | The Guardian share.google/9ozCuhDcvKFw.... Racism is alive and well in the Police Force.
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This is Murujuga National Park, site of the largest collection of rock art carvings in the world.
The oldest depiction of a human face anywhere in the world is HERE.
The LATEST dated specimens here are hundreds of years older than the Pyramids.
This is Gondwanalands history, encapsulated.🧵
The oldest depiction of a human face anywhere in the world is HERE.
The LATEST dated specimens here are hundreds of years older than the Pyramids.
This is Gondwanalands history, encapsulated.🧵
November 9, 2025 at 11:49 PM
This is Murujuga National Park, site of the largest collection of rock art carvings in the world.
The oldest depiction of a human face anywhere in the world is HERE.
The LATEST dated specimens here are hundreds of years older than the Pyramids.
This is Gondwanalands history, encapsulated.🧵
The oldest depiction of a human face anywhere in the world is HERE.
The LATEST dated specimens here are hundreds of years older than the Pyramids.
This is Gondwanalands history, encapsulated.🧵
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I think this deserves more attn.
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1/ Stephen McInerney -- ex-Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation Guy & current Dean of Studies & Associate Professor of Literature at Catholic tertiary institution Campion College in Sydney -- urges support for Tom Sewell's incipient neo-Nazi political party.
!['I'm not in the NSN but believe, for strategic reasons, people should become 'political supporters' of the White Australia Party. The creation of such parties is the only safeguard against White erasure. Other pro-White parties will follow in time. Sieze [sic] the day.'](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:o2ggsnr4ihu4pjka6zd7rv27/bafkreihocgeelqxtafrohy5geget2tdo4iximk4v6gvh5qx732wylht7dy@jpeg)
November 4, 2025 at 11:28 PM
I think this deserves more attn.
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If you're in Melbourne this Thursday, come hear Jeanine Leane and myself have a conversation about Unbroken Resistance. MCed by Jane Harrison. Event is free, bookings essential.
www.blakandbright.com.au/events/blak-...
www.blakandbright.com.au/events/blak-...
Blak Ink: Unbroken Resistance — Blak & Bright
In a world where our voices are constantly silenced, the truth cannot be ignored. At Blak & Bright, we amplify stories that demand to be heard. Blak Ink returns with its fourth and final installm...
www.blakandbright.com.au
November 4, 2025 at 11:53 AM
If you're in Melbourne this Thursday, come hear Jeanine Leane and myself have a conversation about Unbroken Resistance. MCed by Jane Harrison. Event is free, bookings essential.
www.blakandbright.com.au/events/blak-...
www.blakandbright.com.au/events/blak-...
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In winter this year, a young Aboriginal man with a history of self-harm who was remanded in custody in Melbourne was told he would be moving cells. And so he was driven 300km to the police cells in Wodonga.
Welcome to the process known as “decanting”.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Welcome to the process known as “decanting”.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Prisoners spending entire jail term in police cells as Victoria’s justice system buckles
Prisoners in police cells often have less access to healthcare and less chance of being visited by family and lawyers
www.theguardian.com
November 4, 2025 at 11:06 PM
In winter this year, a young Aboriginal man with a history of self-harm who was remanded in custody in Melbourne was told he would be moving cells. And so he was driven 300km to the police cells in Wodonga.
Welcome to the process known as “decanting”.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Welcome to the process known as “decanting”.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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New analysis from @antipovertycentre.org shows that five payment suspensions are being inflicted every minute, by the Mutual Obligations system
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Centrelink threatening payment suspensions at rate of five a minute, new analysis suggests
Exclusive: As jobseekers continue to have payments suspended, advocates call for the regime to be stopped until it’s proven to be lawful
www.theguardian.com
November 2, 2025 at 11:21 PM
New analysis from @antipovertycentre.org shows that five payment suspensions are being inflicted every minute, by the Mutual Obligations system
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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"if you think that cancelling the subsistence people on Centrelink are forced to live on will make a domestic... abuser more likely to hand themselves in, and not subject their loved ones to an even more extreme...form of abuse, you do not understand abusers, or living with one"
"The amendment was not brought up in the inquiry looking at the original legislation. It was not publicly floated by the government. It was only found when anti-poverty advocates looked through the tabled legislation."
Thanks @maximumwelfare.bsky.social!
www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...
Thanks @maximumwelfare.bsky.social!
www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...
Good intentions aren't enough to keep us from this slippery slope
It is a very, very slippery slope to start cherry-picking about the rights provided to people, even when you abhor the decisions they make.
www.thenewdaily.com.au
November 3, 2025 at 12:16 AM
"if you think that cancelling the subsistence people on Centrelink are forced to live on will make a domestic... abuser more likely to hand themselves in, and not subject their loved ones to an even more extreme...form of abuse, you do not understand abusers, or living with one"
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I agree with Mychal.
If you and your children are not ready for a particular book, that is okay. It is not okay to limit the access to books, stories, and experiences for other families. Every book is not for everyone, but every book is for someone.
bookriot.com/the-day-the-books-disappeared-school-visit-cancelation/
bookriot.com/the-day-the-books-disappeared-school-visit-cancelation/
Why Did These Authors Have Their School Visit Canceled? They Were Talking About Their Book About Book Bans.
Country Club Elementary School in California's Bay Area canceled an author visit moments before it began. Why? It covered book bans.
bookriot.com
October 29, 2025 at 7:30 PM
I agree with Mychal.
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*carries lollipop bowl with me everywhere I go
October 29, 2025 at 12:43 AM
*carries lollipop bowl with me everywhere I go
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Disappearing jewels. Today’s Age cartoon
October 25, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Disappearing jewels. Today’s Age cartoon
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Labor's EPBC reforms:
👎removed Minister's powers to revoke prev decisions (EPBC Reconsiderations bill)
👎NO climate trigger
👎NO fully independent EPA decision maker
👎bilateral agreements devolving Fed powers to states (bad idea)
👎allowing pay-to-destroy enviro offsets
Revamp IS worse than status quo
👎removed Minister's powers to revoke prev decisions (EPBC Reconsiderations bill)
👎NO climate trigger
👎NO fully independent EPA decision maker
👎bilateral agreements devolving Fed powers to states (bad idea)
👎allowing pay-to-destroy enviro offsets
Revamp IS worse than status quo
Greens say Labor’s nature laws revamp ‘worse than status quo’ with climate impact of fossil fuel projects overlooked
Greens say Labor’s nature laws revamp ‘worse than status quo’ with climate impact of fossil fuel projects overlooked
Private briefings confirmed how Labor intends to deal with some contentious elements of rewritten Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act
Labor has confirmed the climate impact of fossil fuel projects still won’t be considered before they are approved under a revamp of federal nature laws, with the Greens labelling the government’s plan “worse than the status-quo”.
The Greens, opposition and select environment and business groups have been briefed on parts of the long-awaited re-write of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (Epbc) Act ahead of its introduction to parliament in the upcoming sitting fortnight. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 22, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Labor's EPBC reforms:
👎removed Minister's powers to revoke prev decisions (EPBC Reconsiderations bill)
👎NO climate trigger
👎NO fully independent EPA decision maker
👎bilateral agreements devolving Fed powers to states (bad idea)
👎allowing pay-to-destroy enviro offsets
Revamp IS worse than status quo
👎removed Minister's powers to revoke prev decisions (EPBC Reconsiderations bill)
👎NO climate trigger
👎NO fully independent EPA decision maker
👎bilateral agreements devolving Fed powers to states (bad idea)
👎allowing pay-to-destroy enviro offsets
Revamp IS worse than status quo
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Update: I've added an important correction/amendment to this piece on my substack.
Unfortunately it makes the NACC look even worse:
Unfortunately it makes the NACC look even worse:
October 20, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Update: I've added an important correction/amendment to this piece on my substack.
Unfortunately it makes the NACC look even worse:
Unfortunately it makes the NACC look even worse:
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It’s making the Deloitte’s “we will refund the Commonwealth government one milestone payment for that AI report” look pretty weak @maximumwelfare.bsky.social
Deloitte to pay $34mn over audit work on US nuclear fiasco on.ft.com/48AwHOD
Deloitte to pay $34mn over audit work on US nuclear fiasco
Former shareholders in utility said Big Four firm failed to spot red flags and allowed management to hide mounting issues
on.ft.com
October 17, 2025 at 8:39 PM
It’s making the Deloitte’s “we will refund the Commonwealth government one milestone payment for that AI report” look pretty weak @maximumwelfare.bsky.social
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Results or resignations required stat
New:
The NACC has over two hundred employees and an annual budget of over $60m, but has yet to land a single major finding from over 5,000 referrals.
The pressure is rising.
The NACC has over two hundred employees and an annual budget of over $60m, but has yet to land a single major finding from over 5,000 referrals.
The pressure is rising.
Does the NACC have any hope of regaining public trust?
The NACC has over two hundred employees and an annual budget of over $60m, but has yet to land a single major finding from over 5,000 referrals.
www.crikey.com.au
October 16, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Results or resignations required stat
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Ok, here's what we got. The Department is cancelling welfare payments unlawfully, so paid Deloitte $440k to do an assurance review, even though the Secretary used to work there, & when Deloitte concluded they couldn't assure the unlawful system, DEWR tried to bury the report, but
October 14, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Ok, here's what we got. The Department is cancelling welfare payments unlawfully, so paid Deloitte $440k to do an assurance review, even though the Secretary used to work there, & when Deloitte concluded they couldn't assure the unlawful system, DEWR tried to bury the report, but
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The Aust Parliament Sports Club (the one that ditched David Pocock) is now formally registered as a lobby group👇🏽
Anthony Albanese is the President of the Aust Parliament Sports Club.
That means the Prime Minister of Australia is currently the president of a lobby group.
Just utterly unbelievable.
Anthony Albanese is the President of the Aust Parliament Sports Club.
That means the Prime Minister of Australia is currently the president of a lobby group.
Just utterly unbelievable.
October 10, 2025 at 9:41 AM
The Aust Parliament Sports Club (the one that ditched David Pocock) is now formally registered as a lobby group👇🏽
Anthony Albanese is the President of the Aust Parliament Sports Club.
That means the Prime Minister of Australia is currently the president of a lobby group.
Just utterly unbelievable.
Anthony Albanese is the President of the Aust Parliament Sports Club.
That means the Prime Minister of Australia is currently the president of a lobby group.
Just utterly unbelievable.
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New:
Censorship by any other name.
The National Press Club cancelled a speaker, Chris Hedges, who planned to address the mass killing of journalists in Gaza. The mainstream press didn’t report it.
nickfeik.substack.com/p/censorship...
Censorship by any other name.
The National Press Club cancelled a speaker, Chris Hedges, who planned to address the mass killing of journalists in Gaza. The mainstream press didn’t report it.
nickfeik.substack.com/p/censorship...
October 9, 2025 at 11:59 PM
New:
Censorship by any other name.
The National Press Club cancelled a speaker, Chris Hedges, who planned to address the mass killing of journalists in Gaza. The mainstream press didn’t report it.
nickfeik.substack.com/p/censorship...
Censorship by any other name.
The National Press Club cancelled a speaker, Chris Hedges, who planned to address the mass killing of journalists in Gaza. The mainstream press didn’t report it.
nickfeik.substack.com/p/censorship...
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