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Irene C
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Proud Victorian. Climate, social justice and democracy. I’m a listener, not a talker. L2P mentor. Yes23
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richarddenniss.bsky.social
Budgets are about priorities. The idea is to tax things you want less of & subsidise things you want more of

In Australia we spend $14 billion per year on fossil fuel subsidies & we are cutting science jobs at CSIRO…

As i said, budgets are about priorities #climate

thepoint.com.au/news/251127-...
If the Government's top priority is productivity, slashing the CSIRO budget does not make sense
Research and development is one of the major drivers of productivity and the CSIRO has a long track record of making productivity enhancing breakthroughs.
thepoint.com.au
November 27, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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chris-mcintosh.bsky.social
We all understand by now that, in a country like Australia, poverty and homelessness are government policy. Our governments CHOOSE suffering for a certain portion of our population.

Time we stopped accepting that.

#auspol
October 30, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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jeffgoodell.bsky.social
The story of the climate crisis told in two numbers: $2.5 billion a day in direct subsidies to fossil fuels companies. 1440 deaths per day from extreme heat.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Rising heat kills one person a minute worldwide, major report reveals
Biggest analysis of its kind finds millions are dying each year because of failure to tackle climate crisis
www.theguardian.com
October 29, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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michaelwolffnyc.bsky.social
Michael Wolff vs. Melania Trump: See you (and your husband) in court.
October 22, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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blakandblack.bsky.social
‘Prince Andrew believed having sex with me was his birthright’: Virginia Giuffre on her abuse at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell and the king’s brother

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‘Prince Andrew believed having sex with me was his birthright’: Virginia Giuffre on her abuse at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell and the king’s brother — Guardian Australia
In an extract from her posthumous memoir, Virginia Roberts Giuffre remembers the day an ‘apex predator’ recruited her from Mar-a-Lago, aged just 16; how she was trafficked to a succession of wealthy a...
apple.news
October 15, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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philgorman.bsky.social
A Tesla executive is leading Australia’s R&D review. That’s not OK. Public roles should serve the people – not billionaires. Add your name to demand Denholm’s resignation and new integrity laws: getup.to/D9NAYIdCx1BFl
Billionaire Hands off Public Policy!
Tesla's chair is in charge of our tech future - but it should be us shaping policy
getup.to
October 15, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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strangerous.bsky.social
ABC’s John Lyons has slammed Israel for wiping out an average of 28 children in Gaza “Every Day. Week in, week out, month in, month out”

Lyons “There are on avg. a classroom of Palestinian children in Gaza today, who this time tomorrow will be killed by an Israeli bomb”😳 #Abc
September 23, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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amyremeikis.bsky.social
Given this is making some waves - here is the piece and you can judge for yourself.

(I'm fine, there are no issues - right wing ecosystem just doing what right wing ecosystem does).

Take care of you - it's rough out there! Ax

amyremeikis.substack.com/p/charlie-ki...
Charlie Kirk died in the America he wanted
I mourn the loss of human life. I feel compassion, empathy and grief at an inexcusable killing. But I find nothing to lionise in his legacy.
amyremeikis.substack.com
September 15, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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milliganreports.bsky.social
A few people have been asking. There is a much shorter version of my The Monthly #Pell piece on ABC online here:

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01...
George Pell raped, groped two boys in Ballarat, compensation scheme decides
Two men were compensated after the National Redress Scheme accepted they were abused as boys by the late Cardinal George Pell in Ballarat in the 1970s.
www.abc.net.au
September 4, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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strangerous.bsky.social
Mark Dreyfus has called out Tim Wilson’s nasty & intimidatory electoral campaign in #Goldstein which included incidents of abuse, harassment, even death threats. Dreyfus credits Zoe Daniel & says, unlike Wilson, her campaign was one of integrity.
Shame on you Wilson. #auspol
August 28, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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ronnisalt.bsky.social
No

I'm not racist. I don't care if Israel is run by Catholics or the Archangel Gabriel

Israel is a terrorist state that starves children, deliberately bombs hospitals and burns people alive in refugee tents

It's a disgusting excuse for a nation and your religion has nothing to do with my disgust
August 27, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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bencollins.bsky.social
I got permission to share this, and I'm extremely grateful for that.

The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one.

This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good.
I work as an elder and hospice caregiver, which I am oddly passionate about. I can love on them shamelessly and no one complains about my codependence. It's a win-win situation. Many of my caregiving colleagues complain about the repetitive questions and, sometimes reactions, of the elderly, especially when those patients happen to read the newspaper, especially with the current downward spiral of our country — as if these people haven't lived through enough horror... I love my dementia peeps, but sometimes wonder if there's a Guinness Book World Record for how many times an hour a dementia patient can repeat the same question — it's got to be in the hundreds. At least with small children, they ask different questions. Dementia patients will get stuck on one short question and ask it until you can interrupt their train(carousel) of thought and successfully redirect their attention. That carousel is pretty manic sometimes. A couple days ago, I picked up my mail from the post office and drove over to the nursing home to take (let's call her "Miss Daisy") Miss Daisy out for a drive. Before we took off on our road trip, to the end of The Road and back, in our landlocked little town (Juneau, Alaska), I set my copy of The Onion down in front of her. Over our two-hour excursion, tiny Miss Daisy read that front page at least a dozen times and each time she would snicker, giggle, and guffaw, then put it down on the dash board and, a minute later, discover it anew. I think it was the best afternoon of my life. We don't often hear them laugh and when they do, it's the sweetest thing you've ever heard. ... Thank you, thank you, thank you, for the really important work all of you do. You make the world a better place.
July 1, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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amyremeikis.bsky.social
None of this is normal

www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...
www.thenewdaily.com.au
June 21, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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strangerous.bsky.social
Raf Epstein rips into “friends & colleagues” in the media for not asking “whether or not what Israel is doing is illegal” in Iran & “not even asking questions about what the intelligence is”
Phil Coorey “I don’t think they care”
Epstein “But that’s the problem!”💥 #ABCInsiders
June 21, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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peterwmurphy1.bsky.social
"Bombing a hospital is a war crime and an act of terrorism."
– Israeli Health Minister Uriel Buso

ISRAEL bombed:
36 hospitals in Gaza
40 hospitals in Lebanon
3 hospitals in Iran
The hypocrisy is obscene. 😠
#IsraeliWarCrimes #GazaGenocide #IStandWithIran
June 19, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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mackayim.bsky.social
Wealthy Australians are worried we might realise how rigged the system is in their favour.

www.theguardian.com/business/gro...
Wealthy Australians are worried we might realise how rigged the system is in their favour | Greg Jericho
The discussions around the absurdly small changes to tax on superannuation should be the start to addressing the growing wealth inequality in this country
www.theguardian.com
June 12, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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davidshoebridge.bsky.social
The US is reviewing whether to scrap AUKUS while Australia has just handed them an $800 million AUKUS tribute payment. What a nation of suckers! We’re locked into a $375b deal that our “partner” might walk away from. It’s time for Parlt to launch a full inquiry into this dud deal
June 11, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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simonrosenberg.bsky.social
“It is understandable that a new US administration would want to review its approach to #AUKUS, just as the UK did last year"

So how TF can Australia continue with such a massive commitment, made by #ScottyFromMarketing, with *no* review?

Albo must answer. #auspol
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...
Pentagon opens review into AUKUS to ensure it fits 'America First' agenda
The Pentagon is reviewing the AUKUS security pact between Australia, the UK and the US to ensure it meets Donald Trump's "America First" agenda, a US defence official tells the ABC.
www.abc.net.au
June 11, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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youranoncentral.bsky.social
Greta Thunberg and other human rights defenders have been kidnapped by Israel on international waters. The aid they were delivering to Gaza that includes baby formula & medical supplies has been stolen. The ship Madleen was attacked with drones & will be forced to port at Ashdod Port. #3E #FreeGaza
June 9, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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bluser12.bsky.social
Credit where it’s due: Scott Galloway cooked here
June 5, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
Please listen to the UN General Secretary.
June 2, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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minakimes.bsky.social
Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
There is one place, however, where Musk, with the help of his minions, achieved his goals. He did indeed shred U.S.A.I.D. Though a rump operation is now operating inside the State Department, the administration says that it has terminated more than 80 percent of U.S.A.I.D. grants. Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year. That is what Musk’s foray into politics accomplished.
May 30, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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australiainstitute.org.au
"Approval of the North West Shelf extension would be easily one of the worst decisions ever made by an Environment Minister in Australia's history," said @grogsgamut.bsky.social.
May 28, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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strangerous.bsky.social
Larissa Waters has called out the hypocrisy of Woodside’s “very well paid, wealthy fossil fuel Executive” Meg O'Neill for being the “head of a massive, dirty gas company” & having the nerve to accuse young ppl’s online purchases of causing the climate crisis🙄 #abc
May 27, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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kangaroocourt.bsky.social
How Rupert Murdoch’s Sky News controls the Liberal Party as told by a Liberal insider www.youtube.com/watch?v=_D07...
How Rupert Murdoch’s Sky News controls the Liberal Party as told by a Liberal insider
YouTube video by Kangaroo Court of Australia
www.youtube.com
May 26, 2025 at 5:24 AM