LightNews LightNews
nic-ole.bsky.social
@nic-ole.bsky.social
37 followers 39 following 30 posts
Posts Replies Media Videos
Reposted
euanritchie.bsky.social
@ronnisalt.bsky.social is one of Australia's most gifted writers. This is unarguably one of her most powerful and important pieces. Read it, share it, reflect upon it, and act for peace, compassion, empathy, and understanding.

Thank you, @ronnisalt.bsky.social.

theshot.net.au/uncategorize...
Don’t look back in anger - The Shot
I’m angry. We’re all angry. Perhaps that’s part of the problem. At the moment, we’re angry at two twisted individuals...
theshot.net.au
December 18, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Reposted
hereweare.bsky.social
bsky.app/profile/cath...
cathywilcox.bsky.social The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 14d
Two men.
My @smh cartoon.
Single frame. Washed out image from photo of the two gunmen 1 walking up stairs and 2 aiming gun. Words: “Two men. Not university students, lecturers, historians; not protesters, marching for peace and an end to the killing; not artists expressing solidarity over the killing of civilians, doctors, journalists, humanitarians… Two men. Full of hatred; radicalised; blind to humanity; with training, plans and a stash of legally obtained guns.
December 17, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Reposted
simonrosenberg.bsky.social
BREAKING: CBA boss uses parliamentary committee hearing to audition for post-bank role with Chaser, The Shovel or Betoota Advocate:

"I thought I'd demonstrate my satirical skills with an outrageous parody of a greedy banker", Mat Comyn said to a bewildered journalists. #inequality #auspol
australia.theguardian.com Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · Nov 18
CBA boss says repaying ‘excessive fees’ to low-income customers could be seen as taking shareholder money
CBA boss says repaying ‘excessive fees’ to low-income customers could be seen as taking shareholder money
The Commonwealth Bank – which reported a record cash profit of $10.3bn in the most recent financial year – charged $270m in ‘excessive fees’ over five years The head of Australia’s biggest and most profitable bank says reimbursing hundreds of millions of dollars in fees to its lower income customers would be an “appropriation” of shareholder money. The Commonwealth Bank’s chief executive, Mat Comyn, mounted a fierce defence of charging fees according to its terms and conditions during a parliamentary committee hearing in Canberra on Tuesday morning, Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:04 AM
nic-ole.bsky.social
Make America Great Again....
September 29, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Reposted
australia.theguardian.com
Australian health experts warn Trump’s unfounded autism claims about paracetamol may harm pregnant women
Australian health experts warn Trump’s unfounded autism claims about paracetamol may harm pregnant women
TGA confirms drug is safe for use in pregnancy as doctors worry about effect of White House misinformation * Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Australia’s peak body for obstetricians and gynaecologists fears pregnant women will not take paracetamol when they need it and suffer harm from unmanaged fever after the Trump administration made unfounded claims linking it to autism. They encouraged women to talk to their doctor rather than rely on the White House announcement on Tuesday, which they described as “not a no-harm scenario”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
September 23, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Reposted
simonrosenberg.bsky.social
It's not just a genocide.

It's a genocide for profit.
September 18, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Reposted
joneshowdareyou.bsky.social
Dr Assal Rad—

"Name the perpetrator and their crime @nytimes.com"
September 13, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Reposted
clairewillett.bsky.social
reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle
One thing that has become really clear since yesterday is that we live in at least two different realities. Talking to a friend who only knew Charlie as a Christian motivational speaker because that's all that ever came across her feed. Showed me videos I've never seen before of him saying perfectly reasonable and empowering things. I showed her videos she'd never seen before of his racism, misogyny, homophobia, advocating for violence against specific groups of people. She was horrified by his remarks about Pelosi's husband's attacker being bailed out and celebrated for his violent act. She was horrified by a number of things that he said, but she had never seen or heard them before, the same as I had never seen or heard the generalized clips of him sounding like a perfectly nice loving man and father. Neither of us had a whole picture of this man. I mentioned he was a known white supremacist and she thought I was joking. She talked about him giving a speech about finding your purpose and doing good in the world and I thought she was joking. I saw why this friend was mourning the loss of a person she thought was a good person. My friend, bless her, saw why I feel the way I do about him. We understood each other better. In spite of a multi-billion dollar internet machine specifically focused on keeping us apart. Because we talked to each other with the desire to listen and to learn rather than the desire to change someone else's mind or to be "right". None of those motivational things he said change my opinion about him because they don't erase the negativity, the subtle calls for violence, the belittling and denigrating of other races religions genders etc. His negative and blaming comments about homeless people, the poor, and victims of domestic violence. His comments about rounding up people who didn't think like him and putting them in camps where their behavior could be corrected. That time he said empathy was a made-up word he didnt believe in. That other time he said the Civil Rights Act was a mistake. The time he said most people are afraid when they get on a plane and see that there's a black pilot. His anti-vaccination rhetoric and his active campaigning against people being allowed to wear masks for their own health. His open support of fascism and white supremacy. To me, all of those are fully unchristian sentiments. Those are undeniable and just one of them would be a deal-breaker for me. All of them together are a picture of a man who was polarizing, enraged a lot of people and rightly so, but even with all of that I would never wish upon him or especially his children the end that he got. Oh, and my friend had never heard, and God help me I don't know how she escaped the news, but she had never heard of the Minnesota legislators who were shot in June. The husband and wife and dog who were killed, one after throwing themselves over their child to protect the child. The other couple who somehow survived. Politically motivated attacks specifically because they were democrats. She learned about those shootings that happened months ago because I showed her Charlie Kirk's comments about them. The kidnapping plot against a female Midwestern Democratic governor. The assassination attempt against Pennsylvania's democratic governor. All things Charlie had plenty to say about while supporting the Second Amendment and bashing the Democratic party. She didn't know about any of it because we're all living in two different worlds and none of us have the whole story.
September 13, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Reposted
simonrosenberg.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
July 15, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Reposted
australia.theguardian.com
I’m not ignoring your message – I’m overwhelmed by the tyranny of being reachable | Miski Omar
I’m not ignoring your message – I’m overwhelmed by the tyranny of being reachable | Miski Omar
In today’s culture, responsiveness is a proxy for care. But being in constant rotation, always logging into another version of myself? I’m tired A friend messaged me the other day. I saw it. I didn’t reply. A week later, I finally responded with the classic: Sorry for the late reply, just got to this. She called me out. You didn’t just get to this, she said. I saw the double ticks. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
July 1, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Reposted
grogsgamut.bsky.social
Israel is a genocide state
Article in Haaretz: 'It's a Killing Field': IDF Soldiers Ordered to Shoot Deliberately at Unarmed Gazans Waiting for Humanitarian Aid IDF officers and soldiers told Haaretz they were ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near food distribution sites in Gaza, even when no threat was present. Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed, prompting the military prosecution to call for a review into possible war crimes
June 27, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Reposted
dropsitenews.com
🚨BREAKING: The first confirmed casualty of Israel’s strikes on Tehran is a child.

Footage shows the aftermath of the attack
June 13, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Reposted
joneshowdareyou.bsky.social
Dead. 231. Murdered by Israel.

Our prime minister @albomp.bsky.social described as "horrific" an Australian journalist suffering a bruise to her leg after being shot with a rubber bullet in the US but has nothing to say about the slaughter of 231 journalists by Israel. #FuckIsrael #AndAustralia
June 10, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Reposted
simonrosenberg.bsky.social
"if #Robodebt can be rewarded, then nothing is off limits. If we don’t speak up, we are agreeing — in silence — to live in a nation where cruelty is policy and honour means survival at the top." 💥🎯 #ScottyFromRobodebt #auspol
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/06...
Award for Morrison an insult to the truth
Scott Morrison’s award is not just a political misjudgment – it is an affront to decency.
johnmenadue.com
June 10, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Reposted
aljazeera.com
Israel guilty of ‘extermination’ in school, mosque attacks, amid campaign to wipe out Palestinian life, says the UN aje.io/i1opth
Israel guilty of ‘extermination’ in attacks on schools, mosques: UN
Evidence is mounting of ‘a concerted campaign to obliterate Palestinian life in Gaza’, commission chair says.
aje.io
June 10, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Reposted
daamonparker.bsky.social
Stop Scott Morrison's Order of Australia - Sign the Petition and retweet.

chng.it/jY8yVBqFPG

@ChangeAUS
Sign the Petition
Stop Scott Morrison's Order of Australia
chng.it
June 7, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Reposted
joneshowdareyou.bsky.social
Fadi Quran—

"Her daughter, 5 years old, was starving.

"She walked to the US/Israel so called distribution point.

"Israeli soldiers shot her dead in front of her 12 year son and daughter."
June 7, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Reposted
aaliyahxx.bsky.social
"Why do they tell us to go get aid? Why? When people go there, they [Israelis] start shooting at them. They're lying to us."
June 1, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Reposted
davidshoebridge.bsky.social
Labor and the Coalition are on a unity ticket to screw the planet and the Australian public all at once - North West Shelf gas extension will deliver ‘almost nothing’ to Australia’s public purse www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
North West Shelf gas extension will deliver ‘almost nothing’ to Australia’s public purse
Experts say hugely profitable east coast LNG producers pay little in resources rent tax and Woodside project won’t help country’s energy shift
www.theguardian.com
June 1, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Reposted
nickfeik.bsky.social
*Killed amid gunfire*
Not by it.
Not by anyone in particular.
June 1, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Reposted
melissasweetdr.bsky.social
theconversation.com/unesco-expre...
UNESCO expresses ‘utmost concern’ at the state of the Great Barrier Reef
UNESCO’s comments confirm what experts already know: despite substantial money and effort, threats to the Great Barrier Reef aren’t going away.
theconversation.com
May 29, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Reposted
madmickyf.bsky.social
We have less than 10 days to stop this. I've just signed the petition calling on the new Environment Minister to reject Australia's biggest fossil fuel project. SIGN NOW! nb.australiainstitute.org.au/reject_north...
#rejectnorthwestshelf #nonewcoalandgas
SIGN NOW: REJECT AUSTRALIA’S BIGGEST FOSSIL FUEL PROJECT!
Sign the petition: REJECT AUSTRALIA’S BIGGEST FOSSIL FUEL PROJECT!
nb.australiainstitute.org.au
May 22, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Reposted
jeffreyc.bsky.social
Current @liberalaus.bsky.social leadership frontrunners

@AngusTaylorMP
#Watergate
#Grassgate
#DocumentFraud
#WellDoneAngus

@SussanLey
#TravelRorts
#Branchstacking

@DanTehanWannon
#Robodebt

@AndrewHastieMP
Significant questions on ethics & judgement

#Auspol
Australia deserves better than this.
May 4, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Reposted
australia.theguardian.com
Gaza paramedics shot in upper body ‘with intent to kill’, Red Crescent says
Gaza paramedics shot in upper body ‘with intent to kill’, Red Crescent says
PRCS calls for international investigation after postmortem results add to evidence contradicting Israel’s account Autopsies conducted on 15 Palestinian paramedics and civil emergency responders who were killed by Israeli forces in Gaza show they were shot in the upper body with “intent to kill”, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent, which is demanding an international investigation into the attack. The killings took place in the southern Gaza Strip on 23 March, days into a renewed Israeli offensive in the Hamas-ruled territory, and sparked international condemnation. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
April 7, 2025 at 9:17 PM