Keren Lavelle
@kerenlavelle.bsky.social
Older but not necessarily wiser.
Too stupid for Wordle today.
November 25, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Too stupid for Wordle today.
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As EPBC reforms get framed as political tussles & deal-making, don't forget ongoing colonialism, what's at stake on Indigenous lands, and their warnings that bad amendments & inadequate environmental laws "risk irreversible damage to country, culture and communities"
November 25, 2025 at 7:58 AM
As EPBC reforms get framed as political tussles & deal-making, don't forget ongoing colonialism, what's at stake on Indigenous lands, and their warnings that bad amendments & inadequate environmental laws "risk irreversible damage to country, culture and communities"
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You want to understand Victoria, Australia? That mural of Jacinta Ardern hugging a Muslim woman after the Christchurch massacre (carried out by an Australian) where you can't see the Muslim woman's face - that's Victoria being "left wing"
November 25, 2025 at 7:44 AM
You want to understand Victoria, Australia? That mural of Jacinta Ardern hugging a Muslim woman after the Christchurch massacre (carried out by an Australian) where you can't see the Muslim woman's face - that's Victoria being "left wing"
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Watt's of the Groucho Marx school of policy making — "those are my principles, and if you don't like them...well, I have others!"
Actually most of Labor is, Watt's just more nakedly expedient & less inclined to conceal it
Actually most of Labor is, Watt's just more nakedly expedient & less inclined to conceal it
#EPBC Environment Minister "Watt, is open to a deal with the Coalition [..] including revising a new provision designed to block projects that cause an “unacceptable impact” on the environment"
'Those are my principles, and if you don't like them...well, I have others!' - Groucho Marx #LaborValues
'Those are my principles, and if you don't like them...well, I have others!' - Groucho Marx #LaborValues
Coalition and Labor negotiate nature laws as Greens warn compromise would show it was ‘written for big business’
Murray Watt says other parties must decide ‘whether they want to see us do a deal with the other side of politics’
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Watt's of the Groucho Marx school of policy making — "those are my principles, and if you don't like them...well, I have others!"
Actually most of Labor is, Watt's just more nakedly expedient & less inclined to conceal it
Actually most of Labor is, Watt's just more nakedly expedient & less inclined to conceal it
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Last night @davidpocock.bsky.social and I read onto the Hansard an interview by the President of Nauru that the Albanese Government has been desperately trying to keep secret.
It shows Nauru plans to send refugees to places they fled. No wonder the secrecy.
It shows Nauru plans to send refugees to places they fled. No wonder the secrecy.
November 24, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Last night @davidpocock.bsky.social and I read onto the Hansard an interview by the President of Nauru that the Albanese Government has been desperately trying to keep secret.
It shows Nauru plans to send refugees to places they fled. No wonder the secrecy.
It shows Nauru plans to send refugees to places they fled. No wonder the secrecy.
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Waiting for politicians in this country to show that they understand their core responsibilities… or even some basic decency. If anyone in the Liberal or Labor parties in Tasmania had either they would immediately withdraw support for the stadium and fund affordable housing. #politas #auspol
November 24, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Excellent article by @jacktoohey.bsky.social in @smhaustralia.nzcow.com on our obsession with real estate & its many negative consequences;
“Aust finds itself in a paradox. Passive property ownership appears more financially rewarding than productive work…distorted reward system”
Tax reform now!
“Aust finds itself in a paradox. Passive property ownership appears more financially rewarding than productive work…distorted reward system”
Tax reform now!
November 24, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Excellent article by @jacktoohey.bsky.social in @smhaustralia.nzcow.com on our obsession with real estate & its many negative consequences;
“Aust finds itself in a paradox. Passive property ownership appears more financially rewarding than productive work…distorted reward system”
Tax reform now!
“Aust finds itself in a paradox. Passive property ownership appears more financially rewarding than productive work…distorted reward system”
Tax reform now!
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#DailyGlimmer 👇This more than an excellent article - this is a brilliant and awe-inspiring read !!!
🙏 @jacktoohey.bsky.social
🙏 @jacktoohey.bsky.social
Excellent article by @jacktoohey.bsky.social in @smhaustralia.nzcow.com on our obsession with real estate & its many negative consequences;
“Aust finds itself in a paradox. Passive property ownership appears more financially rewarding than productive work…distorted reward system”
Tax reform now!
“Aust finds itself in a paradox. Passive property ownership appears more financially rewarding than productive work…distorted reward system”
Tax reform now!
November 24, 2025 at 9:11 PM
#DailyGlimmer 👇This more than an excellent article - this is a brilliant and awe-inspiring read !!!
🙏 @jacktoohey.bsky.social
🙏 @jacktoohey.bsky.social
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“…in his haste to turn X into a political weapon for the far right, Musk may have revealed that the platform he’s long called “the number 1 source of news on Earth” is really just a worthless, poisoned hall of mirrors.”
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
Elon Musk’s Worthless, Poisoned Hall of Mirrors
How X blew up its own platform with a new location feature
www.theatlantic.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:05 PM
“…in his haste to turn X into a political weapon for the far right, Musk may have revealed that the platform he’s long called “the number 1 source of news on Earth” is really just a worthless, poisoned hall of mirrors.”
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
Rilly?
November 24, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Rilly?
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Who're the parties that'll be served by the @albomp.bsky.social govt ramming regressive EPBC laws thru parliament by year's end, & why do they feature in the Business Council of Australia-led 'Alliance of 26 industry groups'❓
Also, why TF is the Group of 8 universities amongst them❓
Also, why TF is the Group of 8 universities amongst them❓
November 24, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Who're the parties that'll be served by the @albomp.bsky.social govt ramming regressive EPBC laws thru parliament by year's end, & why do they feature in the Business Council of Australia-led 'Alliance of 26 industry groups'❓
Also, why TF is the Group of 8 universities amongst them❓
Also, why TF is the Group of 8 universities amongst them❓
Yeah nah I don't want to volunteer to write Christmas cards for your donors.
#DownWithChristmas
#DownWithChristmas
November 24, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Yeah nah I don't want to volunteer to write Christmas cards for your donors.
#DownWithChristmas
#DownWithChristmas
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"In Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney and Perth, those on #Jobseeker are having to spend ALL of their income on rent."
One in six children live in #poverty. It will get worse.
But our allegedly 'centre-left' government doesn't see fixing it as a priority. #auspol
live.thepoint.com.au/2025/11/the-...
One in six children live in #poverty. It will get worse.
But our allegedly 'centre-left' government doesn't see fixing it as a priority. #auspol
live.thepoint.com.au/2025/11/the-...
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November 24, 2025 at 3:27 AM
"In Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney and Perth, those on #Jobseeker are having to spend ALL of their income on rent."
One in six children live in #poverty. It will get worse.
But our allegedly 'centre-left' government doesn't see fixing it as a priority. #auspol
live.thepoint.com.au/2025/11/the-...
One in six children live in #poverty. It will get worse.
But our allegedly 'centre-left' government doesn't see fixing it as a priority. #auspol
live.thepoint.com.au/2025/11/the-...
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@clareoneilmp.bsky.social bring back the Department of Housing and Development, employ tradesmen and build Govies like they did in the 60’s and 70’s, helped My parents back then .. help young people now. (dont palm it out to price gouging contractors.. Australians are so sick of that! ) #QT #auspol
November 24, 2025 at 3:25 AM
@clareoneilmp.bsky.social bring back the Department of Housing and Development, employ tradesmen and build Govies like they did in the 60’s and 70’s, helped My parents back then .. help young people now. (dont palm it out to price gouging contractors.. Australians are so sick of that! ) #QT #auspol
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Child removals, especially Indigenous children have never been greater in Australia. The numbers are phenomenal as housing insecurity bites.
All of those children in unsafe environments are about to lose contact with the world.
I am terrified for them.
Everyone ignores Ashley Dale,it's happening
All of those children in unsafe environments are about to lose contact with the world.
I am terrified for them.
Everyone ignores Ashley Dale,it's happening
November 24, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Child removals, especially Indigenous children have never been greater in Australia. The numbers are phenomenal as housing insecurity bites.
All of those children in unsafe environments are about to lose contact with the world.
I am terrified for them.
Everyone ignores Ashley Dale,it's happening
All of those children in unsafe environments are about to lose contact with the world.
I am terrified for them.
Everyone ignores Ashley Dale,it's happening
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🇦🇺's interpretation of #BelemDeclaration
"JOURNALIST: Do you understand how people would understand that now that you’ve signed up to this declaration that there would be movement on tapering off coal exports or gas exports or gas in general? You’re saying that that’s not the case at all?
🇦🇺PM: No."
"JOURNALIST: Do you understand how people would understand that now that you’ve signed up to this declaration that there would be movement on tapering off coal exports or gas exports or gas in general? You’re saying that that’s not the case at all?
🇦🇺PM: No."
November 24, 2025 at 4:55 AM
🇦🇺's interpretation of #BelemDeclaration
"JOURNALIST: Do you understand how people would understand that now that you’ve signed up to this declaration that there would be movement on tapering off coal exports or gas exports or gas in general? You’re saying that that’s not the case at all?
🇦🇺PM: No."
"JOURNALIST: Do you understand how people would understand that now that you’ve signed up to this declaration that there would be movement on tapering off coal exports or gas exports or gas in general? You’re saying that that’s not the case at all?
🇦🇺PM: No."
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Mid rise apartment pattern release entirely illustrated by renders instead of architectural plans in a press release on an architectural website. And we wonder why architects are typecast as cosmetic curators rather than as fundamental to housing liveability and performance…🤯
November 24, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Mid rise apartment pattern release entirely illustrated by renders instead of architectural plans in a press release on an architectural website. And we wonder why architects are typecast as cosmetic curators rather than as fundamental to housing liveability and performance…🤯
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This week is the final sitting week for 2025.
✔️I’ll be debating & moving an amendment to the Streaming Services Bill, which sets local content requirements for streaming services.
✔️I’ll also move an amendment to the Draught Beer Excise Bill to better recognise local producers.
Stay tuned!
✔️I’ll be debating & moving an amendment to the Streaming Services Bill, which sets local content requirements for streaming services.
✔️I’ll also move an amendment to the Draught Beer Excise Bill to better recognise local producers.
Stay tuned!
November 24, 2025 at 2:56 AM
This week is the final sitting week for 2025.
✔️I’ll be debating & moving an amendment to the Streaming Services Bill, which sets local content requirements for streaming services.
✔️I’ll also move an amendment to the Draught Beer Excise Bill to better recognise local producers.
Stay tuned!
✔️I’ll be debating & moving an amendment to the Streaming Services Bill, which sets local content requirements for streaming services.
✔️I’ll also move an amendment to the Draught Beer Excise Bill to better recognise local producers.
Stay tuned!
Public service announcement for anyone who has not discovered Yoga with Adriene on YouTube: with a 30min session entitled "Low back and hamstrings", Adrienne has (temporarily at least) helped me overcome the really sore back I have been waking up with for weeks now.
Simple yet good.
Simple yet good.
November 24, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Public service announcement for anyone who has not discovered Yoga with Adriene on YouTube: with a 30min session entitled "Low back and hamstrings", Adrienne has (temporarily at least) helped me overcome the really sore back I have been waking up with for weeks now.
Simple yet good.
Simple yet good.
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#EPBC
Reminder to @albomp.bsky.social gov tt the vast majority of Australians care very much abt the impact we're having on nature & the climate & want & absolutely deserve meaningful leadership & action from those elected to represent them
Will you rise to the occasion or treat voters w contempt❓
Reminder to @albomp.bsky.social gov tt the vast majority of Australians care very much abt the impact we're having on nature & the climate & want & absolutely deserve meaningful leadership & action from those elected to represent them
Will you rise to the occasion or treat voters w contempt❓
Biodiversity Council's 2024-25 Biodiversity Concerns Survey of >3,500 Australians found that a majority
😟 are very/extremely concerned about biodiversity issues
☹️ think gov performance at Federal & State/Territory level is terrible/poor/average
💪 want action (96%)
💪 support pro-biodiversity policies
😟 are very/extremely concerned about biodiversity issues
☹️ think gov performance at Federal & State/Territory level is terrible/poor/average
💪 want action (96%)
💪 support pro-biodiversity policies
November 24, 2025 at 12:40 AM
#EPBC
Reminder to @albomp.bsky.social gov tt the vast majority of Australians care very much abt the impact we're having on nature & the climate & want & absolutely deserve meaningful leadership & action from those elected to represent them
Will you rise to the occasion or treat voters w contempt❓
Reminder to @albomp.bsky.social gov tt the vast majority of Australians care very much abt the impact we're having on nature & the climate & want & absolutely deserve meaningful leadership & action from those elected to represent them
Will you rise to the occasion or treat voters w contempt❓
I quit postponing and tried to do some work:
November 24, 2025 at 12:42 AM
I quit postponing and tried to do some work:
open.substack.com/pub/deepcutn... we can only conclude that NSW Premier Minns supports genocide.
NSW Premier's Department threatens to fire First Nations musician over 'No Pride in Genocide' slogan
Department targets performer over pro-Palestine messaging on guitar
open.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:08 PM
open.substack.com/pub/deepcutn... we can only conclude that NSW Premier Minns supports genocide.
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Imagine telling an Aboriginal man there are "two sides to genocide" and not immediately punching yourself in the face as soon as you heard the words leave your mouth
NSW Premier's Department threatens to fire First Nations musician over 'No Pride in Genocide' slogan
Department targets performer over pro-Palestine messaging on guitar
open.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Imagine telling an Aboriginal man there are "two sides to genocide" and not immediately punching yourself in the face as soon as you heard the words leave your mouth
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I finished reading this book last week and I still find myself thinking about parts of it every day. It’s quite simply one of the best biographies I’ve ever read, about one of the most fascinating writers of the 20th century.
Hats off to @lancerichardson.bsky.social for this Herculean achievement.
Hats off to @lancerichardson.bsky.social for this Herculean achievement.
November 17, 2025 at 10:03 PM
I finished reading this book last week and I still find myself thinking about parts of it every day. It’s quite simply one of the best biographies I’ve ever read, about one of the most fascinating writers of the 20th century.
Hats off to @lancerichardson.bsky.social for this Herculean achievement.
Hats off to @lancerichardson.bsky.social for this Herculean achievement.