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Tony Cartledge
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Writer interested in social equality and new forms of leadership, determined by Taoist principles. Social Idealist/Metaphysical Idealist. Decency + Consciousness are primary. Queenslander, on Taribelang Bunda, Gooreng Gooreng, Gurang, and Bailail country
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Tony Cartledge @decentral21.bsky.social · Feb 12
The best captain doesn't rush in front
The fiercest fighter doesn't bluster
The big winner isn't competing
The best boss takes a low footing
This is the power of noncompetition
This is the right use of ability

Tao Te Ching 68
trans. Ursula Le Guin
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instanterudite.bsky.social
This week's #SundayShot features @deepcutnews.bsky.social's @antounissa.bsky.social & former Meanjin Editor @anatolitis.bsky.social plus we look at key findings on the state of our boys from the recent Adolescent Man Box report.

Please join us on Sunday at 9am AEDT 👇

www.youtube.com/@TheSundayShot
November 14, 2025 at 3:59 AM
decentral21.bsky.social
Many years ago the ABC aired this doco delving into the dirty dealings behind the scenes in #auspol. Sadly its no longer available but I highly recommend it. The ABC always shines as investigative bloodhounds. I ordered the DVD and would love to see a follow-up series. iview.abc.net.au/show/big-deal
Big Deal
A look at Australia's billion-dollar political lobbying industry, Christiaan Van Vuuren's unlikely journey shows us why we should care, and how we can safeguard our democracy from being sold to the hi...
iview.abc.net.au
November 14, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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australiainstitute.org.au
"Something is deeply wrong with this system, when people who are wealthy are getting far wealthier...and people who don't have a lot are falling further and further behind."

- Dr Cassandra Goldie AO, CEO, Australian Council of Social Service at our Revenue Summit 2025
#auspol
November 14, 2025 at 5:32 AM
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mariapopova.bsky.social
Moby-Dick was published on this day in 1851. Here is one of my favorite passages from it – a timeless meditation on the mystery of what makes us who we are www.themarginalian.org/2022/04/25/h...
You Are a Wonder, You Are a Nobody, You Are an Ever-Drifting Ship: Melville on the Mystery of What Makes Us Who We Are
“There is no steady unretracing progress in this life; we do not advance through fixed gradations, and at the last one pause… We trace the round again; and are… Ifs eternally.R…
www.themarginalian.org
November 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
decentral21.bsky.social
I suspect (hope) that the LNP splinters into minority parties, leaving Labor as the only electable party. We won't stomach this monopoly for long and elect more Independents. resulting in a fairer system for all. #auspol
politicalobserver.bsky.social Political Observer @politicalobserver.bsky.social · 1h
What are your thoughts on the political consequences of this shift? 👇
November 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
decentral21.bsky.social
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November 14, 2025 at 7:17 PM
decentral21.bsky.social
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November 14, 2025 at 7:15 PM
decentral21.bsky.social
Quintalist #457 2/5
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Quintalist - Daily Ranking Challenge
Correctly answer the Daily Question in 5 tries or fewer. Select 5 choices and click Submit. Play each day!
quintalist.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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jinjirrie.bsky.social
Kudos! 'Actor Claudia Karvan and a group of pro-Palestine advocates have launched a series of racial discrimination complaints against News Corp papers, Sky News and more than a dozen of their highest profile commentators.' archive.md/m8LBH #ZionismIsWhiteSupremacy #auspol #StopIsrael
November 14, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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crikey.com.au
On the podcast: Most political reporting on the Coalition’s net zero bust up has missed the real story buried within the leaks, as @ketanjoshi.co explains.
'They don’t feel it’s worth protecting our citizens': Ketan Joshi cuts through this week’s climate bullshit
www.crikey.com.au
November 14, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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tomredmemes.bsky.social
“Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.”
#auspol
November 13, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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richarddenniss.bsky.social
While everyone’s having fun laughing at the Coalition’s ‘climate policy’ Labor is munching popcorn and enjoying the complete lack of scrutiny of its failed ‘Safeguard Mechanism’.

If only tackling #climate change just required being better than the Coalition…

thepoint.com.au/news/2150
OECD report shows LNP climate irrelevance, while Safeguard Mechanism among least effective emissions reduction schemes in world
The report demonstrates that Australia’s safeguard mechanism remains one of the least effective programs for reducing emissions, and relies the most on carbon credits.
thepoint.com.au
November 14, 2025 at 12:38 AM
decentral21.bsky.social
Net zero LNP hatchet-Senator Sarah Henderson is getting pilloried by clean energy NGOs for her characterisation of clean energy projects as 'not giving a rats about local impacts'. It led to some fiery exchanges between committee sitters. Sen Hanson-Young also getting out her knives. Spicy! #Auspol
November 14, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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grogsgamut.bsky.social
So the Libs dump net zero, and same day the OECD brings out a report showing an increase in the number of countries putting a price on carbon.

Stellar work by Sussan!

My column #ThePoint
thepoint.com.au/news/2150
OECD report shows LNP climate irrelevance, while Safeguard Mechanism among least effective emissions reduction schemes in world
The report demonstrates that Australia’s safeguard mechanism remains one of the least effective programs for reducing emissions, and relies the most on carbon credits.
thepoint.com.au
November 14, 2025 at 12:23 AM
decentral21.bsky.social
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November 14, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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grogsgamut.bsky.social
"Losing faith: new research shows young Australians have no confidence in either side of politics to tackle climate change"
#ThePoint

thepoint.com.au/news/251114-...
Losing faith: new research shows young Australians have no confidence in either side of politics to tackle climate change
Fewer than a quarter of young Australians trust the nation's political leaders on climate
thepoint.com.au
November 13, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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bubba687.bsky.social
November 8, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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fionakatauskas.bsky.social
Good on the Guardian for this. I'm astonished at how many journalists at other organisations don't seem to know this or think that it's important to mention. Coalition politicians keep claiming it's net zero causing rising costs without any pushback
November 13, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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lelievre.bsky.social
Dead, buried, cremated
November 13, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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decentral21.bsky.social
Sussan Ley is both uninformed and deliberately lying. It's what polbots do. They repeat the programming coded into them by their fossil fool masters. Meep morp, Sussan. #auspol #LNP
November 13, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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simonahac.bsky.social
like romeo, the liberal party has taken its own political life after believing a fatal lie — that net zero policies have driven up power prices.

a once-serious party undone by reckless ignorance.
November 13, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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chowleen.bsky.social
The room is
almost all
elephant.
Almost none
of it isn’t.
Pretty much
solid elephant.
So there’s no
room to talk
about it.

-Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room”
#everynightapoem
THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM Kay Ryan The room is almost all elephant. Almost none of it isn't. Pretty much solid elephant. So there's no room to talk about it.
November 13, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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barbarapocock.bsky.social
A housing crisis that is on fire. Build public housing. Fix the taxes driving the explosive spike in wealthy property investor activity. Cap investor borrowing. End unlimited rent increases. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Fixing Australia's housing crisis — is increasing supply really a silver bullet? - ABC listen
Build more houses. That'll fix Australia's housing crisis won't it?  If you listen to governments, you'd sure think so. Under the National Housing Accord, all governments have agreed to support a targ...
www.abc.net.au
November 13, 2025 at 10:08 PM
decentral21.bsky.social
Sussan Ley is both uninformed and deliberately lying. It's what polbots do. They repeat the programming coded into them by their fossil fool masters. Meep morp, Sussan. #auspol #LNP
November 13, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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scottsantens.com
Here's an article I wrote years ago about UBI and sex work.
True Freedom Comes With Universal Basic Income
> “I can’t not do this, because I need the money…” — The thought underlying all exploitation which can be eliminated with one BIG idea I attended a national economic conference [https://medium.com/bas...
www.scottsantens.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:27 PM