Rob Walls
@robwalls.bsky.social
Semi-retired professional photographer, grateful to be living on un-ceded muwinina country on the lower slopes of kunanyi in nipaluna/Hobart, lutruwita/Tasmania. Unsolicited DM = BLOCK #freepalestine
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Oh, FFS! Tasmania Police supposedly reporting 15k attended the pro-stadium rally. Load of crap of course. Crowd looked similar to last week's. I'd say around 5k for each rally. Tas Police saying what Felix Ellis tells them. Want to make sure public service cuts don't affect them. #politas
November 30, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Oh, FFS! Tasmania Police supposedly reporting 15k attended the pro-stadium rally. Load of crap of course. Crowd looked similar to last week's. I'd say around 5k for each rally. Tas Police saying what Felix Ellis tells them. Want to make sure public service cuts don't affect them. #politas
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The people interviewed who are in favour of the stadium have a huge amount of self-interest invested. A young footballer, a publican and a coach operator. Ask one of the 3000 public servants whose job is set to be axed to help pay for it. #politas
Yes or no? Hobart sits at the crossroad of two futures
Since its inception, the stadium project has divided the Hobart community in a tug of war between development and preservation of its historic waterfront. In just days, the door will shut forever on o...
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November 29, 2025 at 8:03 PM
The people interviewed who are in favour of the stadium have a huge amount of self-interest invested. A young footballer, a publican and a coach operator. Ask one of the 3000 public servants whose job is set to be axed to help pay for it. #politas
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#Auspol Time to end the greed. Add tax rates to Australias system 50% at $600k 60%at $800k 70% at $1 Mill. 80% at $1.5 Million. Workers entitled to get the same percentage payrises each year as CEOs give themselves at a minimum. Lowest paid should get 1% above each year to close the pay gap
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
November 29, 2025 at 11:25 PM
#Auspol Time to end the greed. Add tax rates to Australias system 50% at $600k 60%at $800k 70% at $1 Mill. 80% at $1.5 Million. Workers entitled to get the same percentage payrises each year as CEOs give themselves at a minimum. Lowest paid should get 1% above each year to close the pay gap
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i think a lot of people say "war crime" when they really want to reach for "crime against humanity".
November 30, 2025 at 12:22 AM
i think a lot of people say "war crime" when they really want to reach for "crime against humanity".
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#auspol
Thank you!!
Thank you!!
Greens leader @larissawaters.bsky.social has the joined the #RisingTide blockade of the world's biggest coal port 💚
"We don't need anymore coal and gas"‼️
"We don't need anymore coal and gas"‼️
November 29, 2025 at 2:17 AM
#auspol
Thank you!!
Thank you!!
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This is civil disobedience‼️ We've asked 'nicely' for decades. Disobeying institutions that abuse power to deliberately harm those less powerful is a vital tenant of a healthy democracy. There is still time to join is at #RisingTide 👇🏽
www.risingtide.org.au/pb2025
www.risingtide.org.au/pb2025
November 29, 2025 at 5:04 AM
This is civil disobedience‼️ We've asked 'nicely' for decades. Disobeying institutions that abuse power to deliberately harm those less powerful is a vital tenant of a healthy democracy. There is still time to join is at #RisingTide 👇🏽
www.risingtide.org.au/pb2025
www.risingtide.org.au/pb2025
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These are freedoms being denied to us, the people who elect the governments, the people who contribute to the wealth, society & culture of the Nation, we have a right to know what decisions are made on our behalf & more importantly, WHY! Open transparent government & open NACC!, stop hiding
Sign now: Stop the FOI attack
“Governments love to treat FOI as an insider issue they can weaken behind closed doors. But this week, you proved they can't. When tens of thousands of people push back this loudly, politicians have no choice but to listen.”
#Freedom
👇
www.getup.org.au/campaigns/de...
“Governments love to treat FOI as an insider issue they can weaken behind closed doors. But this week, you proved they can't. When tens of thousands of people push back this loudly, politicians have no choice but to listen.”
#Freedom
👇
www.getup.org.au/campaigns/de...
Stop the FOI attack
██████████ [redacted] – Stop Labor's attack on our right to know!
www.getup.org.au
November 29, 2025 at 4:39 AM
These are freedoms being denied to us, the people who elect the governments, the people who contribute to the wealth, society & culture of the Nation, we have a right to know what decisions are made on our behalf & more importantly, WHY! Open transparent government & open NACC!, stop hiding
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Tom Nichols is right. It's way past time for the 25th Amendment.
November 28, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Tom Nichols is right. It's way past time for the 25th Amendment.
Busy bee working at the flowering phacelia in Sulyn’s garden on this soft Hobart morning. #gardens #gardening #bees #iphone
November 29, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Busy bee working at the flowering phacelia in Sulyn’s garden on this soft Hobart morning. #gardens #gardening #bees #iphone
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‘You see, it’s not the fact that the boat was broken up in three parts over 100 years ago and lying at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, it’s that the 21st Century Titantic Trans-Atlantic Cruise Company couldn’t make a good sales pitch.’
#politas
#politas
Stadium or no stadium, young Tasmanians will still leave the state. They'll leave to pursue better and more varied higher education, better paid jobs, for adventure and travel, for warmer climates. They always have and they always will. A stadium won't stop that happening. #politas
Former premier says Tasmania's stadium proposal has been 'poorly' sold
Peter Gutwein initiated the push for a stadium in Hobart, but he has had to watch the drama unfold from the sidelines. He says rejecting the proposal would be the biggest "lost opportunity" in the sta...
www.abc.net.au
November 28, 2025 at 10:33 PM
‘You see, it’s not the fact that the boat was broken up in three parts over 100 years ago and lying at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, it’s that the 21st Century Titantic Trans-Atlantic Cruise Company couldn’t make a good sales pitch.’
#politas
#politas
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Mamdani blew the assumption that many Jewish voters prioritized the defense of the Israeli government over other issues out of the water. During the campaign he spoke accurately and openly about the genocide that Israel was committing in Gaza.
Mamdani blew the assumption that many Jewish voters prioritized the defense of the Israeli government over other issues out of the water. During the campaign he spoke accurately and openly about the genocide that Israel was committing in Gaza.
Zohran Mamdani is re-writing the political rules around support for Israel | Kenneth Roth
If support for Israel is no longer de rigueur in New York, it may soon not be obligatory in Washington. That is good news for Palestinians
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:56 AM
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Mamdani blew the assumption that many Jewish voters prioritized the defense of the Israeli government over other issues out of the water. During the campaign he spoke accurately and openly about the genocide that Israel was committing in Gaza.
Mamdani blew the assumption that many Jewish voters prioritized the defense of the Israeli government over other issues out of the water. During the campaign he spoke accurately and openly about the genocide that Israel was committing in Gaza.
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It's not Thanksgiving until your racist Uncle says something racist.
TRUMP: If you look at Somalia, they are taking over Minnesota.
REPORTER: What do the Somalians have to do with this Afghan guy who shot the National Guard members?
TRUMP: Ah, nothing. But Somalians have caused a lot of trouble. They're ripping us off.
REPORTER: What do the Somalians have to do with this Afghan guy who shot the National Guard members?
TRUMP: Ah, nothing. But Somalians have caused a lot of trouble. They're ripping us off.
November 28, 2025 at 2:02 AM
It's not Thanksgiving until your racist Uncle says something racist.
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Yes and ... memories of Barnaby Joyce's dunderheaded scrabble of non-specific fence-straddling nonsense that he jibber-jabbered to undermine the most successful anti-cancer vaccine know to cervixes & penises, the anti-HPV miracle invented in Australia. #FestivalofInadequacy
For me, Barnaby will be forever remembered as the bloke who couldn’t hold his drink, keep his pants on, or accept the science that spelled disaster for the people he swore to serve in the dust-choked margins of rural Australia.
Burqa with the works.
Not to borrow from our accursed American cousins, but I’m going to miss Barnaby Joyce when he’s gone, so I’d like to give thanks, while he’s still with us, for all the years of entertainment he’s prov...
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November 28, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Yes and ... memories of Barnaby Joyce's dunderheaded scrabble of non-specific fence-straddling nonsense that he jibber-jabbered to undermine the most successful anti-cancer vaccine know to cervixes & penises, the anti-HPV miracle invented in Australia. #FestivalofInadequacy
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Dear lord!!! What data - I cannot believe this. And I cannot believe any politician looking at this and thinking this is fine. #auspol
The latest corrective services data is out today, and it points a horrific picture of the systemic racism in our judicial system #PointLive
live.thepoint.com.au
live.thepoint.com.au
November 28, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Dear lord!!! What data - I cannot believe this. And I cannot believe any politician looking at this and thinking this is fine. #auspol
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📚 A new book, Goliath’s Curse, will reset everything you thought you knew about the rise and fall of civilisations – with worrying implications for our world now.
Friday essay: how societies evolved into fear-dominated goliaths – then collapsed
theconversation.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:19 AM
📚 A new book, Goliath’s Curse, will reset everything you thought you knew about the rise and fall of civilisations – with worrying implications for our world now.
Current reading: Fatal Purity-Robespierre and the French Revolution by Judith Scurr. Talk about history repeating itself. So many parallels with the US today. Can't make up my mind whether Bannon or Miller are the American Robespierre, but as you know, the outcome is quite cheering. Patience!
November 28, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Current reading: Fatal Purity-Robespierre and the French Revolution by Judith Scurr. Talk about history repeating itself. So many parallels with the US today. Can't make up my mind whether Bannon or Miller are the American Robespierre, but as you know, the outcome is quite cheering. Patience!
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‘He said the stadium was different to other forms of public infrastructure, such as 🚸schools, hospitals 🩻 and 🌉 bridges.
"This isn't social infrastructure…
"The stadium benefits a subsection of the community, but the whole community pays for it.”’
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
"This isn't social infrastructure…
"The stadium benefits a subsection of the community, but the whole community pays for it.”’
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Economic case for Hobart stadium just doesn't add up, experts say
An expert planning panel has defended their scathing assessment of Hobart's proposed Macquarie Point stadium while speaking to the politicians who will ultimately decide the project's fate.
www.abc.net.au
November 27, 2025 at 10:41 PM
‘He said the stadium was different to other forms of public infrastructure, such as 🚸schools, hospitals 🩻 and 🌉 bridges.
"This isn't social infrastructure…
"The stadium benefits a subsection of the community, but the whole community pays for it.”’
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
"This isn't social infrastructure…
"The stadium benefits a subsection of the community, but the whole community pays for it.”’
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
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“A proposed Aboriginal truth & reconciliation park has reduced in size multiple times — most recently to accommodate for practice cricket nets — & will also act as an emergency assembly point. Ms Mason said it was a poor outcome. ‘Tokenistic is too light a word’.”
What a farce. #politas #auspol
What a farce. #politas #auspol
It's an absolute dud. "The stadium benefits a subsection of the community, but the whole community pays for it." Both Thomas and Harriss need to say no for it to fall through. I am not feeling confident. #politas
Economic case for Hobart stadium just doesn't add up, experts say
An expert planning panel has defended their scathing assessment of Hobart's proposed Macquarie Point stadium while speaking to the politicians who will ultimately decide the project's fate.
www.abc.net.au
November 27, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Budgets are about priorities. The idea is to tax things you want less of & subsidise things you want more of
In Australia we spend $14 billion per year on fossil fuel subsidies & we are cutting science jobs at CSIRO…
As i said, budgets are about priorities #climate
thepoint.com.au/news/251127-...
In Australia we spend $14 billion per year on fossil fuel subsidies & we are cutting science jobs at CSIRO…
As i said, budgets are about priorities #climate
thepoint.com.au/news/251127-...
If the Government's top priority is productivity, slashing the CSIRO budget does not make sense
Research and development is one of the major drivers of productivity and the CSIRO has a long track record of making productivity enhancing breakthroughs.
thepoint.com.au
November 27, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Budgets are about priorities. The idea is to tax things you want less of & subsidise things you want more of
In Australia we spend $14 billion per year on fossil fuel subsidies & we are cutting science jobs at CSIRO…
As i said, budgets are about priorities #climate
thepoint.com.au/news/251127-...
In Australia we spend $14 billion per year on fossil fuel subsidies & we are cutting science jobs at CSIRO…
As i said, budgets are about priorities #climate
thepoint.com.au/news/251127-...
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Move over Accenture there's a new f***ed consulting group in Canberra.
November 27, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Move over Accenture there's a new f***ed consulting group in Canberra.
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Australia’s algal bloom catastrophe has left more than 87,000 animals dead. What will happen this summer?
Six researchers in this space, including myself, have lost their positions at Flinders University in a restructure. theconversation.com/australias-a...
Six researchers in this space, including myself, have lost their positions at Flinders University in a restructure. theconversation.com/australias-a...
Australia’s algal bloom catastrophe has left more than 87,000 animals dead. What will happen this summer?
It’s one of Australia’s worst underwater environmental catastrophes. What’s going to happen to South Australia’s vast algal bloom as summer heat warms the ocean?
theconversation.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Australia’s algal bloom catastrophe has left more than 87,000 animals dead. What will happen this summer?
Six researchers in this space, including myself, have lost their positions at Flinders University in a restructure. theconversation.com/australias-a...
Six researchers in this space, including myself, have lost their positions at Flinders University in a restructure. theconversation.com/australias-a...
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“You’re a stupid person” — Trump lashes out at a reporter who presses him on the fact that the suspected DC shooter was actually thoroughly vetted before he was let in the US from Afghanistan
November 28, 2025 at 12:24 AM
“You’re a stupid person” — Trump lashes out at a reporter who presses him on the fact that the suspected DC shooter was actually thoroughly vetted before he was let in the US from Afghanistan
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Trump claims National Guard members were shot in DC because they’ve been so effective at stopping crime
November 28, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Trump claims National Guard members were shot in DC because they’ve been so effective at stopping crime
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Asked what Somalis have to do with the shooting in DC, Trump admits “nothing, but then claims they “cause a lot of trouble”
November 28, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Asked what Somalis have to do with the shooting in DC, Trump admits “nothing, but then claims they “cause a lot of trouble”
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"We are in danger of being swamped by Black Friday sales"
Pauline Hanson Condemns Use of Term ‘Black Friday’, Saying ‘All Fridays Matter’ — The Shovel
"We're in danger of being swamped by Black Friday sales"
theshovel.com.au
November 27, 2025 at 10:40 PM
"We are in danger of being swamped by Black Friday sales"