Parker
@parkerishere.bsky.social
Parker's just this guy, you know
Small business owner, woodworker, occasional 2SER volunteer and fact checked science/news enthusiast on the left.
Based on unceded Gadigal land, currently living and working for the Ngaanyatjarra people in Warburton, WA.
Small business owner, woodworker, occasional 2SER volunteer and fact checked science/news enthusiast on the left.
Based on unceded Gadigal land, currently living and working for the Ngaanyatjarra people in Warburton, WA.
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From an Australian POV this tweet could be referring to every single American corporation
Please add "puppy killers" to your proposed travel ban.
WE DON'T WANT THEM. NOT ONE.
WE DON'T WANT THEM. NOT ONE.
December 3, 2025 at 12:46 AM
From an Australian POV this tweet could be referring to every single American corporation
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The Northern Territory has made widespread cuts to free legal representation. On Tuesday, Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro Finocchiaro explained the problem on ABC Radio: Legal Aid is representing too many Aboriginal defendants. satpa.pe/Loc2qD1
NT cuts legal aid for anyone out of custody
The Northern Territory has made widespread cuts to free legal representation, leaving children as young as 10 to represent themselves in court.
satpa.pe
November 25, 2025 at 2:50 AM
The Northern Territory has made widespread cuts to free legal representation. On Tuesday, Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro Finocchiaro explained the problem on ABC Radio: Legal Aid is representing too many Aboriginal defendants. satpa.pe/Loc2qD1
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The news has been coming so fast, I did another later which might not otherwise see the light.
November 20, 2025 at 10:01 PM
The news has been coming so fast, I did another later which might not otherwise see the light.
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"Australia’s bottom-tier ranking reflects decades of bipartisan policy failure: reliance on extraction rather than production; property speculation, not innovation; privatisation over public investment; and political capture by fossil capital." #renewables #auspol
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
'A national humiliation': Australia at bottom of new renewables ranking
As the Coalition abandons net zero, Andrew Forrest has quietly moved on not just to net zero, but to real zero.
johnmenadue.com
November 16, 2025 at 7:52 PM
"Australia’s bottom-tier ranking reflects decades of bipartisan policy failure: reliance on extraction rather than production; property speculation, not innovation; privatisation over public investment; and political capture by fossil capital." #renewables #auspol
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
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Therapeutic Approach
Victoria, Australia
The State will now treat, trial and punish 14-year-olds as adults. This may include life sentences. Expert advice and research is clear: punitive 'consequences' don't work, but preventative, therapeutic and culturally appropriate measures - will.
#longterm
Victoria, Australia
The State will now treat, trial and punish 14-year-olds as adults. This may include life sentences. Expert advice and research is clear: punitive 'consequences' don't work, but preventative, therapeutic and culturally appropriate measures - will.
#longterm
a statue of lady justice holding scales of justice
ALT: a statue of lady justice holding scales of justice
media.tenor.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Therapeutic Approach
Victoria, Australia
The State will now treat, trial and punish 14-year-olds as adults. This may include life sentences. Expert advice and research is clear: punitive 'consequences' don't work, but preventative, therapeutic and culturally appropriate measures - will.
#longterm
Victoria, Australia
The State will now treat, trial and punish 14-year-olds as adults. This may include life sentences. Expert advice and research is clear: punitive 'consequences' don't work, but preventative, therapeutic and culturally appropriate measures - will.
#longterm
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This is disgusting. Why can't Australia's government add batteries and panels and provide power to these relatively few homes in remote areas like this? We're a rich nation.
"Powerless: The hidden crisis of prepaid energy and First Nations communities"
www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
"Powerless: The hidden crisis of prepaid energy and First Nations communities"
www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
Powerless: The hidden crisis of prepaid energy and First Nations communities
In Western Australia's remote north, tens of thousands of people are living in fear of sudden disconnection and being forced to ration power.
www.sbs.com.au
November 3, 2025 at 9:08 AM
This is disgusting. Why can't Australia's government add batteries and panels and provide power to these relatively few homes in remote areas like this? We're a rich nation.
"Powerless: The hidden crisis of prepaid energy and First Nations communities"
www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
"Powerless: The hidden crisis of prepaid energy and First Nations communities"
www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
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There used to be a program - Bushlight - that set up renewable energy systems in remote communities (and trained the locals in how to maintain and manage them). Presumably cancelled by the Abbott government on the basis of being successful
www.cfat.org.au/bushlight-ar...
www.cfat.org.au/bushlight-ar...
Renewable Energy Program at CfAT
Bushlight was CfAT's renewable energy program running between 2002 and 2013, which installed over 130 renewable energy systems across remote Northern Territory, Western Australia and Queensland.
www.cfat.org.au
November 4, 2025 at 12:50 AM
There used to be a program - Bushlight - that set up renewable energy systems in remote communities (and trained the locals in how to maintain and manage them). Presumably cancelled by the Abbott government on the basis of being successful
www.cfat.org.au/bushlight-ar...
www.cfat.org.au/bushlight-ar...
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Important piece by @theklaxon.bsky.social @anthonyklan.bsky.social. Advance ran the “No” campaign against the Voice, aggressively spreading disinformation. Why? One of biggest impediments to fossil fuels is Indigenous rights. #auspol #IndigenousRights #FossilFuels theklaxon.com.au/advance-spre...
"Advance" major spreader of fossil fuels lies before federal election: ARC study - The Klaxon
The group that ran the “No” campaign against the Indigenous Voice was one of the biggest spreaders of fossil fuels propaganda ahead of the federal election, a major study has found.
theklaxon.com.au
October 24, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Important piece by @theklaxon.bsky.social @anthonyklan.bsky.social. Advance ran the “No” campaign against the Voice, aggressively spreading disinformation. Why? One of biggest impediments to fossil fuels is Indigenous rights. #auspol #IndigenousRights #FossilFuels theklaxon.com.au/advance-spre...
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Prepare for 13 months of Aboriginal people being used as a political football.
Again.
Thanks, Brad!
Again.
Thanks, Brad!
Victorian Coalition vows to scrap Australia’s first statewide treaty with First Peoples if it wins government
Opposition’s plan announced as state parliament’s lower house begins debate on landmark treaty bill
www.theguardian.com
October 14, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Prepare for 13 months of Aboriginal people being used as a political football.
Again.
Thanks, Brad!
Again.
Thanks, Brad!
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Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
October 5, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
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"Australia has used the money of all taxpayers to further advantage some of their children, and further disadvantage others...to create the very thing public education was originally designed to break down: a class system." @janecaro.bsky.social #auspol
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topi...
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topi...
The segregation crisis in schools funding
In the Albanese government’s first term, Education Minister Jason Clare observed that Australia has one of the most segregated education systems in the OECD. What is deeply shocking – though not surpr...
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
September 26, 2025 at 8:39 PM
"Australia has used the money of all taxpayers to further advantage some of their children, and further disadvantage others...to create the very thing public education was originally designed to break down: a class system." @janecaro.bsky.social #auspol
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topi...
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topi...
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Update from @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social on the ad - finally - in NewsCorp papers today:
September 18, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Update from @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social on the ad - finally - in NewsCorp papers today:
Good to see it being called what it is, state sanctioned child abuse is still child abuse.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
Albanese has allowed the NT, and all states to abuse children as young as 10 years old. The NT is basically an apartheid state and PM has never answered a question on it without palming off responsibility to the states.
Now he MUST ACT!!
Albanese has allowed the NT, and all states to abuse children as young as 10 years old. The NT is basically an apartheid state and PM has never answered a question on it without palming off responsibility to the states.
Now he MUST ACT!!
Experts say jails cause kids 'irreversible trauma'. They want Albanese to act
Forty years ago, the federal government used the constitution to halt construction of the Franklin Dam. Now lawyers want the Albanese government to do the same to keep kids out of jails.
www.abc.net.au
September 17, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Good to see it being called what it is, state sanctioned child abuse is still child abuse.
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Given this is making some waves - here is the piece and you can judge for yourself.
(I'm fine, there are no issues - right wing ecosystem just doing what right wing ecosystem does).
Take care of you - it's rough out there! Ax
amyremeikis.substack.com/p/charlie-ki...
(I'm fine, there are no issues - right wing ecosystem just doing what right wing ecosystem does).
Take care of you - it's rough out there! Ax
amyremeikis.substack.com/p/charlie-ki...
Charlie Kirk died in the America he wanted
I mourn the loss of human life. I feel compassion, empathy and grief at an inexcusable killing. But I find nothing to lionise in his legacy.
amyremeikis.substack.com
September 15, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Given this is making some waves - here is the piece and you can judge for yourself.
(I'm fine, there are no issues - right wing ecosystem just doing what right wing ecosystem does).
Take care of you - it's rough out there! Ax
amyremeikis.substack.com/p/charlie-ki...
(I'm fine, there are no issues - right wing ecosystem just doing what right wing ecosystem does).
Take care of you - it's rough out there! Ax
amyremeikis.substack.com/p/charlie-ki...
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Imagine if there were some kind of sanction for our parliamentarians for racism. They could make a claim that one particular ethnic group were all rapists and criminals and should be kicked out, and we’d spend weeks listening to apologists saying that’s not *really* racist. #insiders
September 13, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Imagine if there were some kind of sanction for our parliamentarians for racism. They could make a claim that one particular ethnic group were all rapists and criminals and should be kicked out, and we’d spend weeks listening to apologists saying that’s not *really* racist. #insiders
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"I can't stand the word empathy, actually. I think it's a made up New Age term that does a lot of damage."
– Charlie Kirk
#empathy #compassion #CharlieKirk
– Charlie Kirk
#empathy #compassion #CharlieKirk
September 10, 2025 at 8:38 PM
"I can't stand the word empathy, actually. I think it's a made up New Age term that does a lot of damage."
– Charlie Kirk
#empathy #compassion #CharlieKirk
– Charlie Kirk
#empathy #compassion #CharlieKirk
Charlie Kirk can't be dead because guns don't kill people right?
September 10, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Charlie Kirk can't be dead because guns don't kill people right?
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The Government has revealed conditions for Woodside's North West Shelf gas project approval: strict limits on nitrous oxide pollution.
Woodside says the conditions are "not technically feasible."
If the project isn't feasible without damaging Murujuga, it shouldn't be allowed to go ahead. #auspol
Woodside says the conditions are "not technically feasible."
If the project isn't feasible without damaging Murujuga, it shouldn't be allowed to go ahead. #auspol
Protect Murujuga Rock Art: Sign the Petition
One of Australia and the world’s most important artworks is being destroyed by acid gas pollution.
The Murujuga rock art on the Burrup Peninsula in Western Australia is a cultural treasure – and more...
theaus.in
September 10, 2025 at 1:30 AM
The Government has revealed conditions for Woodside's North West Shelf gas project approval: strict limits on nitrous oxide pollution.
Woodside says the conditions are "not technically feasible."
If the project isn't feasible without damaging Murujuga, it shouldn't be allowed to go ahead. #auspol
Woodside says the conditions are "not technically feasible."
If the project isn't feasible without damaging Murujuga, it shouldn't be allowed to go ahead. #auspol
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WA government often fails its indigenous citizens
Sick of waiting decades for repairs and new homes, an Indigenous community in WA pools funds to buy two houses, made in China from shipping containers, to house its most vulnerable residents.
After waiting 50 years, remote community resorts to Chinese prefab homes
Sick of waiting decades for repairs and new homes, an Indigenous community in WA pools funds to buy two houses, made in China from shipping containers, to house its most vulnerable residents.
www.abc.net.au
September 7, 2025 at 12:03 AM
WA government often fails its indigenous citizens
"Honestly, Albo, I didn't see a lot of discourse about legitimate concerns or policy options. What I saw was a lot of emboldened bigots and ignorant fucking racists, veins throbbing, eyes wild, thrilled to be part of a crowd that hated all the same people they did."
September 5, 2025 at 5:50 AM
"Honestly, Albo, I didn't see a lot of discourse about legitimate concerns or policy options. What I saw was a lot of emboldened bigots and ignorant fucking racists, veins throbbing, eyes wild, thrilled to be part of a crowd that hated all the same people they did."
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Housing crisis. We could fix it easily we just don’t want to! It would make us very unpopular with people like us | First Dog on the Moon
Housing crisis. We could fix it easily we just don’t want to! It would make us very unpopular with people like us | First Dog on the Moon
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