Lisa M
@lisa-min.bsky.social
Nutritionist, health promotion programs for kids, runner, mum, equity, environment, avid reader, be kind 💗
Blueprint for all states 👏👏
"It's the standout for affordability."
Houses in Melbourne are now more affordable than in Sydney, Brisbane, Canberra, Perth & Adelaide - so how did Victoria do it?
Hear more on the latest Dollars & Sense with @grogsgamut.bsky.social. #auspol
🎧 theaus.in/48rcY3r
Houses in Melbourne are now more affordable than in Sydney, Brisbane, Canberra, Perth & Adelaide - so how did Victoria do it?
Hear more on the latest Dollars & Sense with @grogsgamut.bsky.social. #auspol
🎧 theaus.in/48rcY3r
December 7, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Blueprint for all states 👏👏
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Australia Institute research shows Australian nurses pay more in tax than the gas industry. How’s that fair?
Sign our petition calling on the government to fix our gas export problem: https://nb.australiainstitute.org.au/fix_gas_export_problem
Sign our petition calling on the government to fix our gas export problem: https://nb.australiainstitute.org.au/fix_gas_export_problem
December 7, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Australia Institute research shows Australian nurses pay more in tax than the gas industry. How’s that fair?
Sign our petition calling on the government to fix our gas export problem: https://nb.australiainstitute.org.au/fix_gas_export_problem
Sign our petition calling on the government to fix our gas export problem: https://nb.australiainstitute.org.au/fix_gas_export_problem
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"Australia’s gas bonanza is for corporate super-profits, not climate superheroes" excellent column by @ketanjoshi.co #ThePoint
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Australia’s gas bonanza is for corporate super-profits, not climate superheroes
The point.com.au
thepoint.com.au
November 25, 2025 at 1:49 AM
"Australia’s gas bonanza is for corporate super-profits, not climate superheroes" excellent column by @ketanjoshi.co #ThePoint
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
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116 legal and policy experts have now opposed Labor’s new powers for police to recommend cutting payments from people without them even having been convicted of a crime.
Cops shouldn’t be anywhere near welfare law and Labor should withdraw this amendment. www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/treat...
Cops shouldn’t be anywhere near welfare law and Labor should withdraw this amendment. www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/treat...
November 24, 2025 at 2:31 AM
116 legal and policy experts have now opposed Labor’s new powers for police to recommend cutting payments from people without them even having been convicted of a crime.
Cops shouldn’t be anywhere near welfare law and Labor should withdraw this amendment. www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/treat...
Cops shouldn’t be anywhere near welfare law and Labor should withdraw this amendment. www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/treat...
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“Instead of pouring more fuel on the fire with billions in fossil fuel subsidies, it’s time the government taxed the fossil fuel industry to create a National Climate Disaster Fund."
- Senior Economist @jack-thrower.bsky.social quoted in @thepointau.bsky.social
#auspol
- Senior Economist @jack-thrower.bsky.social quoted in @thepointau.bsky.social
#auspol
November 6, 2025 at 5:15 AM
“Instead of pouring more fuel on the fire with billions in fossil fuel subsidies, it’s time the government taxed the fossil fuel industry to create a National Climate Disaster Fund."
- Senior Economist @jack-thrower.bsky.social quoted in @thepointau.bsky.social
#auspol
- Senior Economist @jack-thrower.bsky.social quoted in @thepointau.bsky.social
#auspol
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🚨Fossil fuel operatives — like anti-Voice group "Advance" — are duping cash from unsuspecting Australians by lying + falsely claiming to be “grassroots” movements.
Top misinformation expert says vested interests using sham fronts to "dupe" public...
theklaxon.com.au/b8jt
Top misinformation expert says vested interests using sham fronts to "dupe" public...
theklaxon.com.au/b8jt
Advance "duping" public: Top expert - The Klaxon
Lobby groups with deep ties to fossil fuels are “duping” unsuspecting members of the public by falsely claiming to represent “ordinary Australians”, says top expert.
theklaxon.com.au
November 5, 2025 at 8:29 AM
🚨Fossil fuel operatives — like anti-Voice group "Advance" — are duping cash from unsuspecting Australians by lying + falsely claiming to be “grassroots” movements.
Top misinformation expert says vested interests using sham fronts to "dupe" public...
theklaxon.com.au/b8jt
Top misinformation expert says vested interests using sham fronts to "dupe" public...
theklaxon.com.au/b8jt
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Utterly shameful and disgusting watching a Labor Government that claims to stand for values, fairness and the rule of law rip two more men (including a refugee from Sudan) out of our community and deport them for life to Nauru, straight out of Trump’s ICE playbook www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Albanese government deports two more men to Nauru in secret, infuriating human rights advocates
Exclusive: Sources say a Sudanese national and another man were chartered to the former regional processing centre last week, joining one other person
www.theguardian.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Utterly shameful and disgusting watching a Labor Government that claims to stand for values, fairness and the rule of law rip two more men (including a refugee from Sudan) out of our community and deport them for life to Nauru, straight out of Trump’s ICE playbook www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Not just a culture war:
"It’s in the very DNA of right-wing populism as a cry of white male rage and a determination to restore lost privilege — including the perceived right to control women."
If Hastie becomes leader, misogyny will be Liberal policy. #auspol
www.crikey.com.au/2025/11/04/m...
"It’s in the very DNA of right-wing populism as a cry of white male rage and a determination to restore lost privilege — including the perceived right to control women."
If Hastie becomes leader, misogyny will be Liberal policy. #auspol
www.crikey.com.au/2025/11/04/m...
Male resentment is driving right-wing populism. It will always default to a war on women
The determination of anti-abortion MPs to talk about curtailing access to abortion reflects something fundamental to right-wing populism.
www.crikey.com.au
November 4, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Not just a culture war:
"It’s in the very DNA of right-wing populism as a cry of white male rage and a determination to restore lost privilege — including the perceived right to control women."
If Hastie becomes leader, misogyny will be Liberal policy. #auspol
www.crikey.com.au/2025/11/04/m...
"It’s in the very DNA of right-wing populism as a cry of white male rage and a determination to restore lost privilege — including the perceived right to control women."
If Hastie becomes leader, misogyny will be Liberal policy. #auspol
www.crikey.com.au/2025/11/04/m...
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Australia’s environment is in crisis & its wealth is disappearing into the hands of multinational fossil fuel companies.
But it doesn't have to be this way.
@rodcampbell.bsky.social & @ebonybennett.bsky.social discuss environmental protections & Adani's mates' rates. #auspol
🎧 theaus.in/4oh2g4R
But it doesn't have to be this way.
@rodcampbell.bsky.social & @ebonybennett.bsky.social discuss environmental protections & Adani's mates' rates. #auspol
🎧 theaus.in/4oh2g4R
October 30, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Australia’s environment is in crisis & its wealth is disappearing into the hands of multinational fossil fuel companies.
But it doesn't have to be this way.
@rodcampbell.bsky.social & @ebonybennett.bsky.social discuss environmental protections & Adani's mates' rates. #auspol
🎧 theaus.in/4oh2g4R
But it doesn't have to be this way.
@rodcampbell.bsky.social & @ebonybennett.bsky.social discuss environmental protections & Adani's mates' rates. #auspol
🎧 theaus.in/4oh2g4R
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It is deeply distressing to see that Israel has resumed aerial bombing of Palestinians in Gaza despite a supposed ceasefire. The world must not turn its gaze away.
October 28, 2025 at 7:55 PM
It is deeply distressing to see that Israel has resumed aerial bombing of Palestinians in Gaza despite a supposed ceasefire. The world must not turn its gaze away.
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The electorate voted for a senate that has a majority of ALP and Greens.
Murray Watt and the ALP are choosing instead to write laws that will please the LNP and mining companies.
This is not the outcome a majority of Australians voted for.
Murray Watt and the ALP are choosing instead to write laws that will please the LNP and mining companies.
This is not the outcome a majority of Australians voted for.
I’m getting weary of this. This government is representative of what the people of this place want. The argument is with all of us. Turning it into a constant personalised political snipe belittles the nature of the problem.
Thanks to Murray and his ALP pals, weather reports like this will become increasingly scary and weird
October 22, 2025 at 8:13 PM
The electorate voted for a senate that has a majority of ALP and Greens.
Murray Watt and the ALP are choosing instead to write laws that will please the LNP and mining companies.
This is not the outcome a majority of Australians voted for.
Murray Watt and the ALP are choosing instead to write laws that will please the LNP and mining companies.
This is not the outcome a majority of Australians voted for.
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Data washing – whereby vested interests engage consultants to produce allegedly independent technical analysis – is being used as the basis for some of the government's most contentious environmental policies. satpa.pe/3OBW37W
How the fossil fuel lobby captured a landmark Labor policy
The federal government’s Future Gas Strategy, which backs extending production through to 2050 and beyond, is based on contested EY research commissioned by Australian Energy Producers.
satpa.pe
October 22, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Data washing – whereby vested interests engage consultants to produce allegedly independent technical analysis – is being used as the basis for some of the government's most contentious environmental policies. satpa.pe/3OBW37W
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An anti-renewables group made submissions naming non-existent government authorities and a nonexistent windfarm, and citing scientific articles that the supposed publisher says don’t exist, a Guardian Australia investigation has found.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Queensland anti-renewables group cited nonexistent papers in inquiry submissions using AI, publisher says
Exclusive: Rainforest Reserves Australia has published submissions naming nonexistent government authorities and a nonexistent windfarm
www.theguardian.com
October 17, 2025 at 9:38 PM
An anti-renewables group made submissions naming non-existent government authorities and a nonexistent windfarm, and citing scientific articles that the supposed publisher says don’t exist, a Guardian Australia investigation has found.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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AOC: And they are able to radicalize a generation of young boys in particular, away from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires the domination of others who are poorer, browner, darker, or a different gender than them.
October 16, 2025 at 1:36 AM
AOC: And they are able to radicalize a generation of young boys in particular, away from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires the domination of others who are poorer, browner, darker, or a different gender than them.
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Why is the gas industry notorious for paying so little tax, despite making billions in revenue?
Santos has made it 10 years in a row paying no tax!
@grogsgamut.bsky.social @elinorjohnstonleek.bsky.social
#auspol
Santos has made it 10 years in a row paying no tax!
@grogsgamut.bsky.social @elinorjohnstonleek.bsky.social
#auspol
October 13, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Why is the gas industry notorious for paying so little tax, despite making billions in revenue?
Santos has made it 10 years in a row paying no tax!
@grogsgamut.bsky.social @elinorjohnstonleek.bsky.social
#auspol
Santos has made it 10 years in a row paying no tax!
@grogsgamut.bsky.social @elinorjohnstonleek.bsky.social
#auspol
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The Aust Parliament Sports Club (the one that ditched David Pocock) is now formally registered as a lobby group👇🏽
Anthony Albanese is the President of the Aust Parliament Sports Club.
That means the Prime Minister of Australia is currently the president of a lobby group.
Just utterly unbelievable.
Anthony Albanese is the President of the Aust Parliament Sports Club.
That means the Prime Minister of Australia is currently the president of a lobby group.
Just utterly unbelievable.
October 10, 2025 at 9:41 AM
The Aust Parliament Sports Club (the one that ditched David Pocock) is now formally registered as a lobby group👇🏽
Anthony Albanese is the President of the Aust Parliament Sports Club.
That means the Prime Minister of Australia is currently the president of a lobby group.
Just utterly unbelievable.
Anthony Albanese is the President of the Aust Parliament Sports Club.
That means the Prime Minister of Australia is currently the president of a lobby group.
Just utterly unbelievable.
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Epic gaslighting by Labor - the Coalition is irrelevant, so choosing to negotiate with it is just political cover for failing to do the right thing
Watt nears deal with Coalition to finally overhaul environment laws
Environment Minister Murray Watt will sit down with his Liberal counterpart Angie Bell today, with quiet optimism in both parties that a deal might soon be struck to finally rewrite Australia's "broke...
www.abc.net.au
October 8, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Epic gaslighting by Labor - the Coalition is irrelevant, so choosing to negotiate with it is just political cover for failing to do the right thing
Criminal 👇👇
🔴 Santos Limited has racked up a 10th straight year of zero corporate tax payments from $48 billion in sales.
🔴 Ichthys LNG Pty Ltd paid zero corporate tax for the 6th year running, from $43 billion in sales.
Add your name to make the gas industry pay their fair share > theaus.in/fix_gas_expo...
🔴 Ichthys LNG Pty Ltd paid zero corporate tax for the 6th year running, from $43 billion in sales.
Add your name to make the gas industry pay their fair share > theaus.in/fix_gas_expo...
October 3, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Criminal 👇👇
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Abir Alsahlani
Member of The European Parliament
Iraqi origin, Swedish by choice, European by heart ❤️
Member of The European Parliament
Iraqi origin, Swedish by choice, European by heart ❤️
October 1, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Abir Alsahlani
Member of The European Parliament
Iraqi origin, Swedish by choice, European by heart ❤️
Member of The European Parliament
Iraqi origin, Swedish by choice, European by heart ❤️
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🚨 The Sumud flotilla is under attack in international waters.
The violent Israeli response, of drone and the violent naval attack, on an aid flotilla in international waters confirms the brutal illegality of Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
The violent Israeli response, of drone and the violent naval attack, on an aid flotilla in international waters confirms the brutal illegality of Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
October 1, 2025 at 10:02 PM
🚨 The Sumud flotilla is under attack in international waters.
The violent Israeli response, of drone and the violent naval attack, on an aid flotilla in international waters confirms the brutal illegality of Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
The violent Israeli response, of drone and the violent naval attack, on an aid flotilla in international waters confirms the brutal illegality of Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
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Always remember - gas companies hate selling gas to Australians and none of the proposals for new gas fields (which are not needed) will be for domestic use.
So do not buy any of the spin.
So do not buy any of the spin.
Here's the ACCC today saying that gas exporters are ripping us off. Again.
"gas being offered & supplied by the exporters to the domestic market has declined over time, while LNG export volumes have increased."
@australiainstitute.org.au @markogge.bsky.social
www.accc.gov.au/system/files...
"gas being offered & supplied by the exporters to the domestic market has declined over time, while LNG export volumes have increased."
@australiainstitute.org.au @markogge.bsky.social
www.accc.gov.au/system/files...
October 1, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Always remember - gas companies hate selling gas to Australians and none of the proposals for new gas fields (which are not needed) will be for domestic use.
So do not buy any of the spin.
So do not buy any of the spin.
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www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
$350m to $750m 👀
$350m to $750m 👀
US private prisons operator to be paid $790m to hold 100 people on Nauru in quiet expansion of contract
A sixteenfold increase in the original contract without public notification raises allegations of ‘gross mismanagement’ and a process ‘run out of control’
www.theguardian.com
September 28, 2025 at 9:04 PM
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
$350m to $750m 👀
$350m to $750m 👀