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Deborah Richards
@debbrich.bsky.social
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Australian journalist. Twitter refugee. Love ideas and civil debate.
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rbreich.bsky.social
Still waiting for it to trickle down...
October 6, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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mikecarlton01.bsky.social
Outsourcing our local
hospital to some dodgy foreign “investors” was a Liberal Party disaster, as we all knew it would be. Labor should just seize the joint, throw them out, and let them sue if they dare.
NSW government declined the chance to take back public services for Northern Beaches Hospital
A scathing audit released on Thursday puts pressure on the Minns government to strike a deal with Healthscope to return the hospital to public hands.
www.smh.com.au
April 17, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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lisazed.bsky.social
This is outfuckingrageous
Big Pharma & #RapistTrump to punish Australia for cheaper medicines! They're coming for our PBS!!!
PBS helps reduce cost of 930 diff medicines!
Pharmaceutical products are the third-biggest category in Australia’s exports to US, after beef & gold.
#EconomicTerrorism
#auspol
March 19, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Countries with shrinking populations not an economic problem - according to Larry Fink of investment Co Blackrock:

www.macrobusiness.com.au/2025/01/low-...
Low immigration countries to boom with AI
Blackrock’s Larry Fink is badly upsetting the Aussie applecart at Davos. Larry Fink, CEO of @BlackRock, says developed nations with “xenophobic” immigration policies are going to have a higher standar...
www.macrobusiness.com.au
January 25, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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nteuvictoria.bsky.social
A job where $1m a year is just not enough?
Government crackdown coming for double-dipping university leaders after NTEU reports highlight pay and conflict of interest issues.
NTEU VIC's Joo-Cheong Tham comments.
afr.com/work-and-car...
#HigherEducation #HigherEd #universities
Crackdown coming for double-dipping uni bosses
Australian vice chancellors are among the highest paid in the world, but a handful also have paid gigs on the side, raising questions about potential conflicts.
afr.com
January 13, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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mrjamesob.bsky.social
Andrew Norfolk is the former Times journalist whose work brought the grooming gang scandal to public attention...
mrjamesob.bsky.social James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · Jan 8
Make no mistake. Every politician, pundit & online grifter amplifying Musk's dangerous lies will be aware of this intervention by now. Make no mistake, they are choosing to mislead the public & politicise the suffering of victims in the shameful pursuit of political advantage, attention & clicks.
January 8, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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mrjamesob.bsky.social
Make no mistake. Every politician, pundit & online grifter amplifying Musk's dangerous lies will be aware of this intervention by now. Make no mistake, they are choosing to mislead the public & politicise the suffering of victims in the shameful pursuit of political advantage, attention & clicks.
January 8, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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kudelka.bsky.social
Shot, chaser. What a bunch of clowns. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01...
Government commissioned report says the government’s proposed stadium is a terrible idea Dimwit premier clearly had no intention of doing anything apart from bulldozing ahead.
January 3, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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jozefimrich.bsky.social
“Today, an emergent wave of right-wing populist leaders uses social media to question and break down reality, triggering rage and paranoia on a bed of exponential lies.
This is how fascism is normalized and where political outrage meets terrorism, the vanguard of mass violence.”
~ Maria Ressa
January 2, 2025 at 9:25 PM
PWC up to its tricks in China.
@barbarapocock.bsky.social
This may be of interest

open.substack.com/pub/asiacrim...
Generally Unacceptable Accounting Principles: Lessons From PwC and AstraZeneca’s Contrasting Fates
The Asian Crime Century briefing 99
open.substack.com
December 7, 2024 at 11:22 AM
This, and they are virus-pits! 😳

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Guardian view on cruise ships: a licence to pollute | Editorial
Editorial: The environmental harm caused by this shapeshifting, underregulated industry must be tackled
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2024 at 9:15 AM
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australiainstitute.org.au
Students, nurses and teachers contribute more tax to Australia than the gas companies. If you think it’s time to address the loopholes in the Petroleum Resources Rent Tax (PRRT) sign the petition below.

✍️: nb.australiainstitute.org.au/increase_the...
December 3, 2024 at 12:34 AM
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timmonsroberts.bsky.social
Anti-wind groups have been saying that offshore wind is "industrializing" the oceans. Here's the top devastating use:

Bottom trawling.

Which "removes 6% to 41% of faunal biomass per pass"

an "area half the size of the world’s continental shelf is trawled every year"

ecori.org/commercial-f...
Commercial Fishing Industrialized Oceans Long Before Offshore Wind - ecoRI News
The continued burning of fossil fuels is a far greater threat to the commercial fishing industry than wind turbines.
ecori.org
December 1, 2024 at 7:38 PM
Did we know this?

www.thenewdaily.com.au/finance/2024...
The prosperity and welfare of Australian people have been dumped
Under law reforms passed last week, the RBA has just two objectives, and the prosperity and welfare of Australians is not one of them.
www.thenewdaily.com.au
December 2, 2024 at 6:50 AM
No wonder people are disengaging
“https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/finance/2024/12/02/alan-kohler-rba?ahe=5f89953809300ffe9174cf9cd2c160c7dfd983427866fcea8838678098ea0b1f&acid=397679&utm_campaign=Morning%20News%20-%2020241202&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Adestra&lr_hash=b3a0841ef9c4b07d537e9e5b490009e9
December 2, 2024 at 3:10 AM
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mrrexpatrick.bsky.social
Anthony Albanese and Mark Dreyfus have failed whistleblowers and Australians. It’s been left to the crossbench (Pocock, Lambie, Haines & Wilkie) to introduce a Bill to strengthen Australia's whistleblower protection laws and establish a Whistleblower Protection Authority. 🤷‍♂️ #auspol
November 26, 2024 at 1:29 AM
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lindamatija25.bsky.social
Ok peeps let's be the difference.

This Christmas buy local (less fossil fuels used in making and transporting the product).

By buying local you promote local.

No wrapping paper, go for reusable boxes or tea towels
..

And as little plastic as possible.
November 22, 2024 at 10:21 AM
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deniseshrivell.bsky.social
OMG!!!

Yes!!!

This is exactly the approach to take #auspol
November 22, 2024 at 4:36 AM
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kerryhunter.bsky.social
Indeedily doodily - delivering the Northern Beaches Hospital disaster from day 1. The Public/Private partnership that sucks out services for profits that became the ‘never do it this way again ever’ model.

www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
Abandon public-private model at Northern Beaches Hospital, doctors urge state government
In a clear rebuke of the government’s PPP aspirations, the doctors' union has accused Healthscope of acting as if it were running a purely private hospital.
www.smh.com.au
November 22, 2024 at 8:50 AM
Interesting from Crikey.. but their ‘share’ button still
Only offers X - no bluesky share option!
@crikeynews.bsky.social

www.crikey.com.au/2024/11/21/a...
Which Australian media outlets are leaving X for Bluesky?
Australian media outlets have lagged behind the rest of the world in moving to Bluesky, as news organisations deal with an increasingly hostile environment on the platform formerly known as Twitter.
www.crikey.com.au
November 22, 2024 at 8:18 AM
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squigglyrick.bsky.social
"Mr Glenn did not take any of the possible steps to have the question of legality resolved. But that should not have prevented him from including the draft legality text in the 2017 Investigation Report." None of this happened.
November 22, 2024 at 6:28 AM
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grogsgamut.bsky.social
Nah.

Tax is good.

Australia is a low-taxing nation.

We should raise more tax and provide better funded services and assistance
redrabbleroz.bsky.social Osmond Chiu (赵明佑) @redrabbleroz.bsky.social · Nov 22
It’s worth noting her Tax Green Paper states it will focus on “budget neutral” changes, least over the short term, so she isn’t that interested in addressing the revenue problem. She also clearly states she opposes increases to tax as a % of GDP and “ideally should seek to lower this”
November 22, 2024 at 2:37 AM
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philipthalis.bsky.social
Bravo 🎉🎊🎈
The right to protest is a fundamental right in a functioning democracy.
Disgraceful that Minns & other State Premiers attempting to shut this down
knitnannassyd.bsky.social Sydney Knitting Nannas and Friends @knitnannassyd.bsky.social · Nov 21
We won! Protest exclusion zone imposed by the NSW Government in an attempt to stop us protesting at the biggest coal port in the world found to be invalid! Nannas put down your knitting and paddles up!
November 21, 2024 at 7:53 AM
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tmfscottp.bsky.social
And don't just let the government or opposition throw more money at first home buyers.

We've had enough pretend band-aids.

We need to fix the base issues.

Source: www.smh.com.au/property/new...
‘Basically impossible’: Housing affordability is the worst on record
High interest rates and rising prices have pushed key measures of housing affordability to their worst levels on record, and experts say rate cuts won’t help.
www.smh.com.au
November 19, 2024 at 8:45 PM