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jrbrisbane.bsky.social
@jrbrisbane.bsky.social
57 followers 36 following 12 posts
Scientist, PhD, Academic (honorary since 07/2021), and train enthusiast.
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ketanjoshi.co
It matters so much and so directly to Bondi that the Christchurch attack, in which an Australian white supremacist massacred 51 people in a mosque, was first botched by Aus media outlets republishing his manifesto and then 100% deleted from public consciousness: memory-holed
What we learned from analyzing thousands of stories on the Christchurch shooting
On March 15, 2019, a gunman opened fire on worshippers at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, killing 50 and wounding dozens of others. In the wake of the worst terrorist attack in the country’s...
www.cjr.org
December 16, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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joneshowdareyou.bsky.social
I must have a very bad memory b/c I cannot for the life me remember any of these self-serving playactors calling for Scott Morrison's resignation after an Australian man groomed by years of blatant Islamophobia from political and media arenas flew to NZ to murder 51 Muslims. 🤷🏻‍♀️ #auspol #BondiBeach
December 16, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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johndebaptiste.bsky.social
December 16, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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goldingcartoons.bsky.social
Pauline Hanson has invited Barnaby Joyce to have a home-cooked meal with her as she uses One Nation’s soaring poll numbers to persuade the Nationals MP to join her ranks
www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...
November 18, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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goldingcartoons.bsky.social
Political celebrity heads. The Age
November 18, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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goldingcartoons.bsky.social
The Killing Season. Today’s Age cartoon
November 19, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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goldingcartoons.bsky.social
Something is wrong when the government doesn’t sufficiently fund the CSIRO, yet continues to increase subsidies for fossil fuel producers.
Annie Wilson, Inverloch
The Age, letters
November 19, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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hudsoncartoons.bsky.social
Standby #auspol #Israel ko-fi.com/hudsoncartoons
Cartoon says at the top ‘Standby for a statement by the Foreign Minister on the abduction and imprisonment of Australians by a rogue nation’. Depicts FM Wong as per an official statement but a large hand painted as the Israeli flag comes from behind her, blood stains on arm, while the other hand is on her shoulder, near her neck, restraining her.
October 5, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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hudsoncartoons.bsky.social
WT . . ? #auspol #PNG ko-fi.com/hudsoncartoons
At the diplomatic table prop, in front of the multiple flag props, PNG PM Murape looks suddenly concerned after signing the Pukpuk defence treaty and done the big pen (mic) drop when Aus PM Albanese leans in and says, “Congratulations on your commitment to capitulate to the whims of the U.S. President”.
October 6, 2025 at 5:17 AM
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drtracywesterman.bsky.social
For the first time in his life, Donald Trump tells the truth during his Tylenol press conference:

"We've got a lot of stupid people in this country running things."
September 23, 2025 at 10:41 AM
jrbrisbane.bsky.social
It's time for the government to tackle the biggest source of carbon emissions in Australia – fossil fuels.

I just signed the @australiainstitute.org.au petition: Phase out fossil fuels. Will you join me? ✍️

nb.australiainstitute.org.au/phase-out-fo...
✍️ ADD YOUR NAME: Phase out fossil fuels
Emissions reduction targets won’t solve the climate crisis if they’re built on fiction. It's time for the government to tackle the biggest source of carbon emissions in Australia – fossil fuels.
nb.australiainstitute.org.au
September 25, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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rbreich.bsky.social
The FCC once enforced the "fairness doctrine," requiring broadcasters to air both sides of an issue. Now, the FCC enforces an unfairness doctrine, threatening broadcasters that air views critical of Trump or his MAGA right.
September 19, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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vanbadham.bsky.social
My latest in the Guardian asks: why is Australia allowing an American-built internet to impose its values over our cultural sovereignty? Especially when those values are hateful, destructive and shit?

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
America’s language of extremity is shocking to Australians. With local radicals on the march, we have to push back | Van Badham
If you’re wondering why you feel emotionally assaulted every time you click a social media app it’s not just due to the content of US news
www.theguardian.com
September 19, 2025 at 9:22 PM
jrbrisbane.bsky.social
nb.australiainstitute.org.au/phase-out-fo...
✍️ ADD YOUR NAME: Phase out fossil fuels
Emissions reduction targets won’t solve the climate crisis if they’re built on fiction. It's time for the government to tackle the biggest source of carbon emissions in Australia – fossil fuels.
nb.australiainstitute.org.au
September 19, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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ketanjoshi.co
It has been a while since I've seen these Aus right wing bloggers in this frenzied state on climate
michaelmazengarb.bsky.social Michael Mazengarb @michaelmazengarb.bsky.social · Sep 15
News Corp machine in overdrive, trying to diminish the National Climate Risk Assessment
September 15, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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michaelwestbiz.bsky.social
Secret cabinet docs reveal by @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social ping Wollongong & Newcastle for nuclear subs base. AUKUS may deliver US bases but no submarines says @davidshoebridge.bsky.social
#stirling #aukus #auspol
michaelwest.com.au/nuclear-subs...
Nuclear subs base. Will it be Newy or The Gong? - Michael West
A business case for a nuclear sub base at Port Kembla or Newcastle is being prepared, but the public is being kept totally in the dark.
michaelwest.com.au
September 15, 2025 at 7:29 AM
jrbrisbane.bsky.social
Make fossil fuel exporters pay for the damage they are causing, not ordinary Australians nb.australiainstitute.org.au/climatedisas...
Make fossil fuel exporters pay for the damage they are causing, not ordinary Australians
Climate change is making natural disasters like fires, floods, heatwaves and drought worse, costing Australians billions every year. Make fossil fuel producers pay a climate disaster levy to help pay...
nb.australiainstitute.org.au
September 15, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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cathywilcox.bsky.social
Too easy!
My @smh @theage cartoon.
Single frame. Left to right: Skip containing statue, paintings, books visible on left. Man in white coat at top of ladder feeding book into open mouth of a huge robotic dog with studded collar and dog-tag “AI”. Red bucket on floor below dog’s lowered rear. Second white-coated man says to onlooking woman: “It’s marvellous really. You just feed in all the intellectual property you can get your hands on without paying for it, then sell whatever comes out this end…”
August 6, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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rbreich.bsky.social
Trump's DOJ just dropped a major antitrust case against American Express Travel.

This comes after Amex hired lobbying firm Ballard Partners — the former employers of Pam Bondi — to lobby the DOJ on "antitrust issues."

Funny how that works.
July 31, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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cathywilcox.bsky.social
Reconciliation.
My @smh cartoon.
Two frames. Frame 1: mum and child walking on street with Aboriginal flag on wall behind. Child says “what is Reconciliation Week mum?” Mum replies “That’s when we try to reconcile the entrenched systemic disadvantage of First Nation people…Frame 2: view from behind, mum continues “…with the refusal to recognise their Voice in the Constitution ‘because it might give them an unfair advantage…’ “
May 27, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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fionakatauskas.bsky.social
ICYMI- yesterday's cartoon on the proposed super changes for @australia.theguardian.com
Scene is a backyard. A hysterical chicken little is leaping up and down saying "THE SKY IS FALLING! (SQUAWK!) THE SKY IS FALLING!" A magpie and a lorikeet are sitting on the fence cyncially watching the chicken and the magpie is saying "Looks like SOMEONE's got more than $3 million in super"
May 27, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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ketanjoshi.co
I know this looks like climate nerd stuff but the stakes are actually massive for all of us:

accountability on fossil fuel elimination is being wrecked by dodgy math that allows the pretence that trees are re-absorbing the carbon we dig up from underground and move to the atmosphere
Governments shouldn't rely forests to meet their emissions goals
Some countries rely on forests and their carbon storage to deliver on their climate targets, a risky approach that could see fossil fuel emissions rise
www.climatechangenews.com
May 21, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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amsickofpollies.bsky.social

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
May 21, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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amsickofpollies.bsky.social

Very alarming & depressing
May 21, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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anthonyklan.bsky.social
🚨EXCLUSIVE🚨Liberal Party Senator Jacinta Price has today written to tens of thousands of people spruiking MAGA-style disinformation group "Advance". Price backs the "far-right" group & calls for money from public.
Massive questions for Liberals, just one day after split...
theklaxon.com.au/2dxw
The Price is Right? Liberals in early MAGA test - The Klaxon
Liberal Senator Jacinta Price has spruiked far-right disinformation group “Advance”, in a major test for the party just one day after its split with the Nationals.
theklaxon.com.au
May 21, 2025 at 5:40 AM