Janet Boocock
@janetboo.bsky.social
Grandmother, retired teacher and keen traveller. Born in NZ but at home on the Northern Beaches of Sydney. Would love to live in a more equitable world where kindness and integrity matters.
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Australia’s main grid boasted a record share of #renewables over summer, and experienced record demand highs and record demand lows – and no supply shortfalls
A summer of record renewables, record demand highs and record demand lows, and no blackouts
Australia’s main grid boasted a record share of renewables over summer, and experienced record demand highs and record demand lows – and no supply shortfalls.
reneweconomy.com.au
March 4, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Australia’s main grid boasted a record share of #renewables over summer, and experienced record demand highs and record demand lows – and no supply shortfalls
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An AFL giant, motor neurone disease (MND) sufferer and activist for others with the condition, Neale Daniher has been crowned Australian of the Year for his work to end the illness he describes as a beast.
#Australia
#Australia
AFL great fighting motor neurone disease is 2025 Australian of the Year
The Australian of the Year for 2025 is Neale Daniher, while the co-founders of social enterprise Cafe Stepping Stone are jointly named Local Heroes, a chemistry researcher is named Young Australian of...
www.abc.net.au
January 25, 2025 at 10:02 PM
An AFL giant, motor neurone disease (MND) sufferer and activist for others with the condition, Neale Daniher has been crowned Australian of the Year for his work to end the illness he describes as a beast.
#Australia
#Australia
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Inflation is down, wages are up and new jobs numbers show this Albanese Labor Government has delivered the lowest average unemployment of any Australian government in the last 50 years. #auspol #ausecon @australianlabor.bsky.social
January 17, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Inflation is down, wages are up and new jobs numbers show this Albanese Labor Government has delivered the lowest average unemployment of any Australian government in the last 50 years. #auspol #ausecon @australianlabor.bsky.social
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We need to turbo charge the fight against climate change after a decade of conservative govts petulantly denying physics and chemistry. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Albanese vows to continue climate action despite Trump’s plans to pull out of Paris agreement
Prime minister acknowledges US president’s move would ‘impact the globe’ but says Australia remains a sovereign nation
www.theguardian.com
January 21, 2025 at 10:13 PM
We need to turbo charge the fight against climate change after a decade of conservative govts petulantly denying physics and chemistry. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Very exciting to see better funding for public schools poised to become an election issue. At bloody last! www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Bandt says Labor-Greens power share would bring ‘golden era’ and confirms goal is to stop Dutton
Exclusive: Greens leader also says two parties have a chance to stop a US-style shift to the political right in Australia
www.theguardian.com
January 15, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Very exciting to see better funding for public schools poised to become an election issue. At bloody last! www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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🚨 this week the coal industry launched a dirty campaign against the independents through an ‘astroturf’ group: ‘australians for progress’.
using classic negative ad styling — complete with misinformation — billboards went up in monique ryan’s & allegra spender’s electorates.
using classic negative ad styling — complete with misinformation — billboards went up in monique ryan’s & allegra spender’s electorates.
January 8, 2025 at 10:07 PM
🚨 this week the coal industry launched a dirty campaign against the independents through an ‘astroturf’ group: ‘australians for progress’.
using classic negative ad styling — complete with misinformation — billboards went up in monique ryan’s & allegra spender’s electorates.
using classic negative ad styling — complete with misinformation — billboards went up in monique ryan’s & allegra spender’s electorates.
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Someone shared this with me, and I think it's beautiful. That's what I wish for everyone I love and appreciate in this New Year 2025, that your life is filled with an abundance of real luxuries. ❤️
January 1, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Someone shared this with me, and I think it's beautiful. That's what I wish for everyone I love and appreciate in this New Year 2025, that your life is filled with an abundance of real luxuries. ❤️
Wishing you all a Merry Christmas. Hope your day is filled with family, friends and fabulous food.
Fill your boots!
Fill your boots!
December 24, 2024 at 4:15 AM
Wishing you all a Merry Christmas. Hope your day is filled with family, friends and fabulous food.
Fill your boots!
Fill your boots!
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Love Marina Hyde, even when she’s not being funny. And she is seriously spot on here. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Hit TV show, tick. Millions for lawyers, tick. Now could we manage some actual justice for the subpostmasters? | Marina Hyde
The ‘big people’ implicated in this disgraceful run of events need to pay their dues. Britain needs it – and demands it, says Marina Hyde
www.theguardian.com
December 20, 2024 at 8:12 PM
Love Marina Hyde, even when she’s not being funny. And she is seriously spot on here. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Teachers continue to perform miracles, especially in chronically underfunded public schools. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Australian primary students score best ever result in global maths and science test, despite pandemic disruption
Timss report finds year 4 students ranked equal fifth internationally out of 58 countries, up from ninth in 2019
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2024 at 8:34 PM
Teachers continue to perform miracles, especially in chronically underfunded public schools. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Solidarity to all my colleagues and comrades at the @theguardian.com UK.
Today Guardian and Observer journalists are on strike over plans to sell the Observer to a loss-making digital start up and put its journalism behind a paywall. 🧵
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December 4, 2024 at 11:53 AM
Solidarity to all my colleagues and comrades at the @theguardian.com UK.
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Precisely. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Who is responsible for the breathtakingly immoral volumes of taxpayer cash being foie-grased to private schools? | First Dog on the Moon
Why it’s people who went to private schools of course!
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2024 at 7:03 PM
Precisely. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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As you read this appalling data, please remember that every public school in Australia, bar a handful in ACT, is underfunded. Also remember that public schools educate the vast majority of our poorest & neediest kids, who are the most expensive to teach. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Twenty private schools with wealthiest parents received $130m total in Australian public funds in 2023
Data comes as education minister remains stalled in negotiations with states and territories over contributions to Schooling Resource Standard
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2024 at 8:06 PM
As you read this appalling data, please remember that every public school in Australia, bar a handful in ACT, is underfunded. Also remember that public schools educate the vast majority of our poorest & neediest kids, who are the most expensive to teach. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Words to live by.
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📷 From Banksy FB
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📷 From Banksy FB
November 28, 2024 at 2:05 AM
Words to live by.
🙏🏼💝🕊️
📷 From Banksy FB
🙏🏼💝🕊️
📷 From Banksy FB
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Poor fellow, my country, my planet. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Labor’s sad capitulation on the environment has shaken even true believers like me | Felicity Wade
As Australia’s natural environment declines, Labor appears to cave to vested interests, writes Felicity Wade
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2024 at 7:54 PM
Poor fellow, my country, my planet. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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