Claire 🇦🇺
@matchingpegs.bsky.social
I believe in evidence based policy. I work on websites for local government. I sew, 🪡 🧵 and despite being a lifelong Melbournian, I don’t wear black. My curiosity is my superpower. 🇦🇺 🦘
Living on the lands of the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung of the Kulin Nation
Living on the lands of the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung of the Kulin Nation
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November 28, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Pyramid pie
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What a great headline
November 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
What a great headline
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AI, ‘Populism’ and the Centibillionaire Shangri-La talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/ai-po...
AI, ‘Populism’ and the Centibillionaire Shangri-La
A few days ago I was looking at one of the many...
talkingpointsmemo.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:55 PM
AI, ‘Populism’ and the Centibillionaire Shangri-La talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/ai-po...
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Kerry O’Brien sounds the alarm for Australian media in thunderous Walkleys address | Weekly Beast
Kerry O’Brien sounds the alarm for Australian media in thunderous Walkleys address | Weekly Beast
Former 7.30 host takes Labor government to task for record on press freedom and pays tribute to Palestinian journalists. Plus: a roo in the news
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The former ABC broadcaster Kerry O’Brien got a standing ovation at the 70th Walkley awards on Thursday night for a rousing speech that reminded media in the ICC Sydney ballroom of the “clear and present danger for a strong, free, effective and independent media everywhere”.
The winner of six Walkley awards, including the Gold, called on the industry to unite to strengthen press freedom. He began by paying tribute to Palestinian journalists who have “confronted the world with powerful evidence that has gradually taken on the look and feel of genocide in real time” and decried the “outrageous casualty list of Palestinian journalists and other media workers in Israel’s war on Gaza since the brutal attack by Hamas on Israeli citizens two years ago”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Kerry O’Brien sounds the alarm for Australian media in thunderous Walkleys address | Weekly Beast
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Congratulations to Lucy Barbour 2025 Walkley Award Winner for her audio short: Winner of the Excellence in Journalism. Reporting of this matter made a very big difference to the people of these regions. Thankyou to you and to the courageous whistleblowers.
Shout-out to ABC national regional affairs reporter Lucy Barbour for revealing how two regional hospitals - Orange and Queanbeyan – have been trying to introduce #abortion bans by stealth.
Both bans have since been reversed.
This is why #journalism matters. www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11...
Both bans have since been reversed.
This is why #journalism matters. www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11...
Queanbeyan Hospital bans surgical abortions, telling local health workers the procedure 'does not currently sit within' its scope
An email obtained by the ABC confirms Queanbeyan Hospital has stopped providing surgical terminations for fetal anomalies and medical reasons, restricting access to a legal and time-critical form of r...
www.abc.net.au
November 27, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Congratulations to Lucy Barbour 2025 Walkley Award Winner for her audio short: Winner of the Excellence in Journalism. Reporting of this matter made a very big difference to the people of these regions. Thankyou to you and to the courageous whistleblowers.
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Ed Husic MP, quoted in Niki Savva’s book, urges Albo/ALP caucus to take on harder issues: perverse gas exports; gambling addiction ads; negative gearing distortions; ALP credibility undermined by MPs owning 5-10 homes; tax breaks for new investment start-ups ✅👍 James Massola SMH/Age 👇
November 27, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Ed Husic MP, quoted in Niki Savva’s book, urges Albo/ALP caucus to take on harder issues: perverse gas exports; gambling addiction ads; negative gearing distortions; ALP credibility undermined by MPs owning 5-10 homes; tax breaks for new investment start-ups ✅👍 James Massola SMH/Age 👇
The women’s safety sector is not asking for sentiment. We are not asking for symbolic gestures. We are asking for governments to fund the solutions they already know will work the solutions they have commissioned, piloted, evaluated, and endorsed.
womensagenda.com.au/latest/austr...
womensagenda.com.au/latest/austr...
Australia knows how to end violence against women. What we lack is the will to pay for it.
Australia knows how to end gender-based violence. What we lack is the political will to make the fiscal decisions that match the crisis.
womensagenda.com.au
November 26, 2025 at 10:23 AM
The women’s safety sector is not asking for sentiment. We are not asking for symbolic gestures. We are asking for governments to fund the solutions they already know will work the solutions they have commissioned, piloted, evaluated, and endorsed.
womensagenda.com.au/latest/austr...
womensagenda.com.au/latest/austr...
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How ludicrous for Labor to cut $5 billion in public services during a cost of living crisis. Every six months the government pays around $5b in Fuel Tax Credits to mining corporations to burn fossil fuels. If Labor is going to cut spending, cut handouts to fossil fuel barons.
November 25, 2025 at 11:45 PM
How ludicrous for Labor to cut $5 billion in public services during a cost of living crisis. Every six months the government pays around $5b in Fuel Tax Credits to mining corporations to burn fossil fuels. If Labor is going to cut spending, cut handouts to fossil fuel barons.
I’m enraged. We are being represented by heartless ghouls.
So Labor and the Liberals teamed up to pass legislation to give police the power to recommend cancellation of Centrelink payments of people who have not been found guilty of a crime by a court of law. It’s discriminatory financial punishment of people in poverty who are already over-policed
November 26, 2025 at 9:57 AM
I’m enraged. We are being represented by heartless ghouls.
Vaccines are so fantastic!
November 26, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Vaccines are so fantastic!
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Did you catch the Barrie, Bowers & Friends Australia Institute event? So so good…here’s a snippet of @amyremeikis.bsky.social. Gotta love a woman who can launch political rockets 🚀 whilst wearing a ball gown 🩵🤣 👊🏻
The political cartoon segment slayed too
Full show link in comments
The political cartoon segment slayed too
Full show link in comments
November 26, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Did you catch the Barrie, Bowers & Friends Australia Institute event? So so good…here’s a snippet of @amyremeikis.bsky.social. Gotta love a woman who can launch political rockets 🚀 whilst wearing a ball gown 🩵🤣 👊🏻
The political cartoon segment slayed too
Full show link in comments
The political cartoon segment slayed too
Full show link in comments
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narrator: 50 years ago...
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
November 25, 2025 at 2:11 AM
narrator: 50 years ago...
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
I concur!
I’ll never understand the obsession with politicians.
November 20, 2025 at 7:59 AM
I concur!
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This is obscene.
The challenges facing the nation means we should be scaling up CSIRO, not cutting it to shreds.
While we are sending billions to the US for nuclear shipyards, our science and industrial base at home is falling apart for lack of funds and direction.
The challenges facing the nation means we should be scaling up CSIRO, not cutting it to shreds.
While we are sending billions to the US for nuclear shipyards, our science and industrial base at home is falling apart for lack of funds and direction.
‘Sad day for publicly funded science’: up to 350 more jobs to go at CSIRO
Australia’s national scientific agency announces more research job losses as it looks for budgetary savings
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:00 AM
This is obscene.
The challenges facing the nation means we should be scaling up CSIRO, not cutting it to shreds.
While we are sending billions to the US for nuclear shipyards, our science and industrial base at home is falling apart for lack of funds and direction.
The challenges facing the nation means we should be scaling up CSIRO, not cutting it to shreds.
While we are sending billions to the US for nuclear shipyards, our science and industrial base at home is falling apart for lack of funds and direction.
This looks very exciting!
British and Australian chemists have discovered a powerful new antibiotic called pre-methylenomycin C lactone, hiding in a well-known soil bacterium. This molecule kills drug-resistant bacteria without triggering resistance. buff.ly/YlXaONo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
Scientists find hidden antibiotic 100x stronger against deadly superbugs
A team of scientists discovered a hidden antibiotic 100 times stronger than existing drugs against deadly superbugs like MRSA. The molecule had been overlooked for decades in a familiar bacterium. It…
buff.ly
November 17, 2025 at 10:32 AM
This looks very exciting!
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Outstanding rebuke of PM Albanese by cartoonist David Pope. #auspol #Whitlam #Albanese #Mamdani #CostOfLivingCrisis
November 16, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Outstanding rebuke of PM Albanese by cartoonist David Pope. #auspol #Whitlam #Albanese #Mamdani #CostOfLivingCrisis
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I think this so often these days...
November 16, 2025 at 8:37 AM
I think this so often these days...
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“You can’t define a woman?” Party becomes “What is a child?” Party
November 15, 2025 at 2:46 PM
“You can’t define a woman?” Party becomes “What is a child?” Party
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People would go wild if MS or lupus were airborne, but Covid is airborne, and it can reactivate EBV, which is linked to both. It’s biologically plausible that we’re seeing more MS- and lupus-related illness after widespread airborne viruses. So mask up 😷
November 15, 2025 at 8:35 PM
People would go wild if MS or lupus were airborne, but Covid is airborne, and it can reactivate EBV, which is linked to both. It’s biologically plausible that we’re seeing more MS- and lupus-related illness after widespread airborne viruses. So mask up 😷
“What is the lawful purpose of a stinger grenade, given force should only be used by police to affect something?” he said.
“What are they actually seeking to do here? Because it can’t be to just stop people protesting.”
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
“What are they actually seeking to do here? Because it can’t be to just stop people protesting.”
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Police detonated a ‘stinger’ grenade at a Melbourne protest. Now two activists may sue over their injuries
Grenades filled with rubber pellets and other so-called ‘less lethal’ munitions have been increasingly deployed, despite being linked to serious injuries and even deaths
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 11:12 PM
“What is the lawful purpose of a stinger grenade, given force should only be used by police to affect something?” he said.
“What are they actually seeking to do here? Because it can’t be to just stop people protesting.”
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
“What are they actually seeking to do here? Because it can’t be to just stop people protesting.”
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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AI BOOM SHOWING FAMILIAR BUBBLE SIGNS, BCA SAYS BCA Research says today’s AI surge is mirroring past booms that later collapsed. Their review of railways, electrification, the dot-com era, and oil cycles highlights the same patterns: tech adoption is slower than expected,
November 14, 2025 at 1:04 PM
AI BOOM SHOWING FAMILIAR BUBBLE SIGNS, BCA SAYS BCA Research says today’s AI surge is mirroring past booms that later collapsed. Their review of railways, electrification, the dot-com era, and oil cycles highlights the same patterns: tech adoption is slower than expected,
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FACT CHECK: TRUE
November 15, 2025 at 8:08 AM
FACT CHECK: TRUE
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Australian COVID-19 weekly stats update:
The risk estimate has been steady around 0.1% “Currently Infectious”, or 1-in-948.
That implies a 3% chance that someone is infectious in a group of 30.
#COVID19 #SARSCoV2 #Australia
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The risk estimate has been steady around 0.1% “Currently Infectious”, or 1-in-948.
That implies a 3% chance that someone is infectious in a group of 30.
#COVID19 #SARSCoV2 #Australia
🧵
November 15, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Australian COVID-19 weekly stats update:
The risk estimate has been steady around 0.1% “Currently Infectious”, or 1-in-948.
That implies a 3% chance that someone is infectious in a group of 30.
#COVID19 #SARSCoV2 #Australia
🧵
The risk estimate has been steady around 0.1% “Currently Infectious”, or 1-in-948.
That implies a 3% chance that someone is infectious in a group of 30.
#COVID19 #SARSCoV2 #Australia
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Gosh, why and how could that be? Such an enigma!
November 14, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Gosh, why and how could that be? Such an enigma!