@ona.bsky.social
AKA Regen Ag on the other sites
Family Friends Regen Ag important things in life. Interest- Auspols, Social Justice. Voted Yes. RP not necessarily = endorsement.
Family Friends Regen Ag important things in life. Interest- Auspols, Social Justice. Voted Yes. RP not necessarily = endorsement.
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Buy my Greek cookbook for Christmas presents and I’ll donate 100% of my profits from your purchase to PARA to help Palestinian refugee families from Gaza in Australia.
It’s available everywhere. 300+ page hardcover. All vegetarian/vegan recipes + how to make gluten free.
It’s available everywhere. 300+ page hardcover. All vegetarian/vegan recipes + how to make gluten free.
December 3, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Buy my Greek cookbook for Christmas presents and I’ll donate 100% of my profits from your purchase to PARA to help Palestinian refugee families from Gaza in Australia.
It’s available everywhere. 300+ page hardcover. All vegetarian/vegan recipes + how to make gluten free.
It’s available everywhere. 300+ page hardcover. All vegetarian/vegan recipes + how to make gluten free.
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THE PRAT WHO CAME BACK FOR HIS HAT
By Dr Sues
By Dr Sues
December 3, 2025 at 10:58 AM
THE PRAT WHO CAME BACK FOR HIS HAT
By Dr Sues
By Dr Sues
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Several Australian retailers have kept facial recognition technology (FRT) on despite the Australian Privacy Commissioner ruling Kmart and Bunnings’s use of the technology illegal, sparking concerns from computer scientists, unions and privacy advocates ia.acs.org.au/article/2025...
Retailers still using facial recognition tech
Sparks workplace and consumer rights concerns.
ia.acs.org.au
December 3, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Several Australian retailers have kept facial recognition technology (FRT) on despite the Australian Privacy Commissioner ruling Kmart and Bunnings’s use of the technology illegal, sparking concerns from computer scientists, unions and privacy advocates ia.acs.org.au/article/2025...
Meet the AI workers who tell their friends and family to stay away from AI
November 22, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Meet the AI workers who tell their friends and family to stay away from AI
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Said it before, but there’s a start-up business waiting to happen in human fact checking that’s the result of the rise of use of LLMs: “Judges have become ‘human filters’ as AI in Australian courts reaches ‘unsustainable phase’, chief justice says” www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
Judges have become ‘human filters’ as AI in Australian courts reaches ‘unsustainable phase’, chief justice says
Stephen Gageler warns the speed of AI’s development could be outstripping people’s ability to ‘comprehend its potential risks and rewards’
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Said it before, but there’s a start-up business waiting to happen in human fact checking that’s the result of the rise of use of LLMs: “Judges have become ‘human filters’ as AI in Australian courts reaches ‘unsustainable phase’, chief justice says” www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
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Lobster fishery off Bruny Island in TAS closed on eve of the opening of fishing season due to antibiotic use by the salmon farms.
No indication of how long for. Must be a devastating blow for fishermen approaching Xmas.
No indication of how long for. Must be a devastating blow for fishermen approaching Xmas.
Crayfish Closure Follows Salmon Antibiotic Deployment - Tasmanian Times
The commercial rock lobster fishery south of the D'Entrecasteaux Channel is now closed effective 15 November 2025
tasmaniantimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Lobster fishery off Bruny Island in TAS closed on eve of the opening of fishing season due to antibiotic use by the salmon farms.
No indication of how long for. Must be a devastating blow for fishermen approaching Xmas.
No indication of how long for. Must be a devastating blow for fishermen approaching Xmas.
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Queensland appointed two Catholic strategists to Ed board, replacing union. Classic 2020s US Right politics, working through the back door to crush public education’s independence & strength. One of them: also culture warrior Advance & Classical Christian Ed. #auspol
johnmenadue.com/post/2024/06...
johnmenadue.com/post/2024/06...
November 13, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Queensland appointed two Catholic strategists to Ed board, replacing union. Classic 2020s US Right politics, working through the back door to crush public education’s independence & strength. One of them: also culture warrior Advance & Classical Christian Ed. #auspol
johnmenadue.com/post/2024/06...
johnmenadue.com/post/2024/06...
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It's extraordinary that political elites here can look at average one child an hour murdered by the Israeli military for TWO YEARS, and go 'ho-hum, all good'.
What's more, if even mention this, you are an evil person, need to be sacked, cancelled, charged with wildly redefined 'antisemitism'.
What's more, if even mention this, you are an evil person, need to be sacked, cancelled, charged with wildly redefined 'antisemitism'.
UNICEF spokesperson James Elder on apartheid Israel's genocidal crimes against Palestinian children in Gaza. "Now we havr 20,000 children reportedly killed. It’s a girl or a boy every hour for two years. Every hour.
It’s 1000 babies killed before their first birthday."
#GazaGenocide
It’s 1000 babies killed before their first birthday."
#GazaGenocide
November 13, 2025 at 8:50 AM
It's extraordinary that political elites here can look at average one child an hour murdered by the Israeli military for TWO YEARS, and go 'ho-hum, all good'.
What's more, if even mention this, you are an evil person, need to be sacked, cancelled, charged with wildly redefined 'antisemitism'.
What's more, if even mention this, you are an evil person, need to be sacked, cancelled, charged with wildly redefined 'antisemitism'.
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So if I understand this correctly, for a while under Trump 1.0, US foreign policy was being directed by the world's most notorious serial child rapist and blackmailer.
Who was also acting as a Russian agent.
Who was also acting as a Russian agent.
Boy do I wish I could have a chat with all the naysayers when I posited that Epstein was a dirt factory for Putin. How many times have we asked "what does Putin have on Trump?" www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Jeffrey Epstein claims he gave Russians insight into Trump
Newly released emails show the late convicted sex offender’s extensive network of foreign contacts, whom he corresponded with about Trump’s policy decisions.
www.politico.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:16 AM
So if I understand this correctly, for a while under Trump 1.0, US foreign policy was being directed by the world's most notorious serial child rapist and blackmailer.
Who was also acting as a Russian agent.
Who was also acting as a Russian agent.
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A former chair of the Law Institute of Victoria’s criminal law section, Mel Walker, described the proposal as “extraordinary, bad policy and counterintuitive”.
Children could face life sentences for serious offences under Victorian government ‘adult time’ plan
Children could face life sentences for serious offences under Victorian government ‘adult time’ plan
Youth offenders, aged as young as 14, could face 20 year jail terms for violent crimes under proposal
Children as young as 14 who commit “serious crimes” will be sentenced as adults under a Victorian government plan to combat youth crime.
The state government said on Wednesday that it will adopt an “adult time for violent crime” laws similar to those in Queensland, which implemented the tough approach in 2024. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:51 PM
A former chair of the Law Institute of Victoria’s criminal law section, Mel Walker, described the proposal as “extraordinary, bad policy and counterintuitive”.
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This ceasefire seems to lack the ceasing of the firing
Since the ceasefire took effect one month ago, Israeli attacks have killed at least 242 Palestinians and injured 622.
How many times has Israel violated the Gaza ceasefire? Here are the numbers
Since the ceasefire took effect one month ago, Israeli attacks have killed at least 242 Palestinians and injured 622.
bit.ly
November 11, 2025 at 9:41 AM
This ceasefire seems to lack the ceasing of the firing
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External IT experts were called in to do data searches at Parliament House because of concerns that evidence was being “intentionally” withheld by internal staff www.themandarin.com.au/302751-hitch...
Hitchcliffe concerned DPS staff ‘intentionally’ withheld evidence
External IT firm TransPerfect stepped in after DPS internal searches raised questions about filtered evidence.
www.themandarin.com.au
November 11, 2025 at 10:57 AM
External IT experts were called in to do data searches at Parliament House because of concerns that evidence was being “intentionally” withheld by internal staff www.themandarin.com.au/302751-hitch...
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As if to prove James Elder's point about "the callous indifference to children suffering in the besieged [Gaza] strip":
- almost no media reported his #NPC speech
- AAP piece does not even mention Israel until para 7; then only re Oct 2023 Hamas attack. #UNICEF
aapnews.aap.com.au/search/news/...
- almost no media reported his #NPC speech
- AAP piece does not even mention Israel until para 7; then only re Oct 2023 Hamas attack. #UNICEF
aapnews.aap.com.au/search/news/...
'Callous indifference' to Gaza suffering worsens horror
Australia and the international community have been tasked with stepping up to confront the horrendous humanitarian situation in Gaza after two years of war.
aapnews.aap.com.au
November 11, 2025 at 11:26 AM
As if to prove James Elder's point about "the callous indifference to children suffering in the besieged [Gaza] strip":
- almost no media reported his #NPC speech
- AAP piece does not even mention Israel until para 7; then only re Oct 2023 Hamas attack. #UNICEF
aapnews.aap.com.au/search/news/...
- almost no media reported his #NPC speech
- AAP piece does not even mention Israel until para 7; then only re Oct 2023 Hamas attack. #UNICEF
aapnews.aap.com.au/search/news/...
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"This culture war has largely been ignited by two key individuals who see Donald Trump’s mix of far-right populist politics as a template for Australia"
Not just SA.
Last week Andrew Hastie et al said women may seek late-term abortions to access paid parental leave.
The #WarOnWomen is coordinated.
Not just SA.
Last week Andrew Hastie et al said women may seek late-term abortions to access paid parental leave.
The #WarOnWomen is coordinated.
An anti-abortion bill — the second in 12 months — is being voted on in South Australia's Legislative Council in two days. It's part of a forced-birth movement taking place in the state.
South Australia is now the battleground for the forced-birth movement
www.crikey.com.au
November 10, 2025 at 3:48 AM
"This culture war has largely been ignited by two key individuals who see Donald Trump’s mix of far-right populist politics as a template for Australia"
Not just SA.
Last week Andrew Hastie et al said women may seek late-term abortions to access paid parental leave.
The #WarOnWomen is coordinated.
Not just SA.
Last week Andrew Hastie et al said women may seek late-term abortions to access paid parental leave.
The #WarOnWomen is coordinated.
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The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
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Corruption watchdog being watched by its watchdog again.
Would be good if they investigated corruption as much as they investigate their own conduct imo
Would be good if they investigated corruption as much as they investigate their own conduct imo
Anti-corruption commission watchdog inquiring into NACC chief Brereton
The inspector of the National Anti-Corruption Commission is inquiring into the agency's head, Paul Brereton, in relation to several complaints including from a former employee.
www.abc.net.au
November 8, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Corruption watchdog being watched by its watchdog again.
Would be good if they investigated corruption as much as they investigate their own conduct imo
Would be good if they investigated corruption as much as they investigate their own conduct imo
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Google plans to build a large artificial intelligence data centre on Australia’s remote Indian Ocean outpost of Christmas Island after signing a cloud deal with the Department of Defence this year, according to documents reviewed by Reuters and interviews with officials www.afr.com/technology/g...
Google to build data centre on Christmas Island
The search engine giant signed a cloud deal with the Department of Defence this year to build the facility, whose details remain secret, on Christmas Island.
www.afr.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Google plans to build a large artificial intelligence data centre on Australia’s remote Indian Ocean outpost of Christmas Island after signing a cloud deal with the Department of Defence this year, according to documents reviewed by Reuters and interviews with officials www.afr.com/technology/g...
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How much longer is this farce of a sideshow going to continue?
NACC Commissioner, Paul Brereton, is once again embroiled in controversy.
The NACC Inspector, Gail Furness is currently investigating several complaints against Mr Brereton.
His position is untenable.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
NACC Commissioner, Paul Brereton, is once again embroiled in controversy.
The NACC Inspector, Gail Furness is currently investigating several complaints against Mr Brereton.
His position is untenable.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Anti-corruption commission watchdog inquiring into NACC chief Brereton
The inspector of the National Anti-Corruption Commission is inquiring into the agency's head, Paul Brereton, in relation to several complaints including from a former employee.
www.abc.net.au
November 7, 2025 at 4:45 AM
How much longer is this farce of a sideshow going to continue?
NACC Commissioner, Paul Brereton, is once again embroiled in controversy.
The NACC Inspector, Gail Furness is currently investigating several complaints against Mr Brereton.
His position is untenable.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
NACC Commissioner, Paul Brereton, is once again embroiled in controversy.
The NACC Inspector, Gail Furness is currently investigating several complaints against Mr Brereton.
His position is untenable.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
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According to new Australia Institute analysis Australian households are paying higher prices for electricity than Japanese consumers, despite our enormous energy reserves.
From Principal Advisor Mark Ogge in The Point
@markogge.bsky.social #auspol
From Principal Advisor Mark Ogge in The Point
@markogge.bsky.social #auspol
November 4, 2025 at 3:20 AM
According to new Australia Institute analysis Australian households are paying higher prices for electricity than Japanese consumers, despite our enormous energy reserves.
From Principal Advisor Mark Ogge in The Point
@markogge.bsky.social #auspol
From Principal Advisor Mark Ogge in The Point
@markogge.bsky.social #auspol
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police do not need more ways to create poverty. That power tool kit is full.
www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...
www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...
Good intentions aren't enough to keep us from this slippery slope
It is a very, very slippery slope to start cherry-picking about the rights provided to people, even when you abhor the decisions they make.
www.thenewdaily.com.au
November 2, 2025 at 1:50 AM
police do not need more ways to create poverty. That power tool kit is full.
www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...
www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...
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police understand this well. Look at the new police powers to harm people living in poverty. Facing “serious” charges opens up whole new categories of state harm. That’s why police pile up charges on some and protect others from additional and collateral consequences.
bsky.app/profile/penn...
bsky.app/profile/penn...
Labor are sneaking through extraordinary powers to let police and ASIO cut peoples welfare if they’ve been charged with a crime.
This is an unacceptable power grab, and will harm families and partners of people reliant on payments to survive.
www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
This is an unacceptable power grab, and will harm families and partners of people reliant on payments to survive.
www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
'Power grab': Labor under fire over new move to cut off Centrelink payments
The last-minute additions have been called into question, with advocates arguing they set a "dangerous precedent".
www.sbs.com.au
November 1, 2025 at 2:23 AM
police understand this well. Look at the new police powers to harm people living in poverty. Facing “serious” charges opens up whole new categories of state harm. That’s why police pile up charges on some and protect others from additional and collateral consequences.
bsky.app/profile/penn...
bsky.app/profile/penn...
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Important issue that got very little coverage
November 1, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Important issue that got very little coverage
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Yes, I'm angry, and deeply saddened. I'm so tired of the enablers that are actively contributing to our dying planet. Pieces like @zoedaniel.bsky.social's do tremendous harm to genuine environmental law reform and are deeply upsetting to the many scientists and experts on the front lines.
Zoe Daniel joins the chorus of deeply unhelpful hot takes from non-experts about the EPBC reforms.
This opinion piece is so poorly constructed and full of deeply ignorant and superficial commentary. It reads like it’s written by a Labor staffer.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This opinion piece is so poorly constructed and full of deeply ignorant and superficial commentary. It reads like it’s written by a Labor staffer.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Australia must put politics aside and pass nature laws that benefit the economy and the environment. We owe it to our kids | Zoe Daniel
There’s no such thing as a perfect legislative solution. It’s about finding one that’s workable – for the community, for the economy and for nature
www.theguardian.com
November 1, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Yes, I'm angry, and deeply saddened. I'm so tired of the enablers that are actively contributing to our dying planet. Pieces like @zoedaniel.bsky.social's do tremendous harm to genuine environmental law reform and are deeply upsetting to the many scientists and experts on the front lines.