shallamaine
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Something is truly rotten in the state of victoria …
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What's (Still) Happening at the State Library of Victoria?
GH catches up
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February 1, 2026 at 12:26 AM
Something is truly rotten in the state of victoria …
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The story won't be new to anyone following it, but here's some thoughts on Minneapolis and watching a month of state-created violence from far away.
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Minnesota winter storm | Geoff Lemon
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January 31, 2026 at 10:00 PM
The story won't be new to anyone following it, but here's some thoughts on Minneapolis and watching a month of state-created violence from far away.
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Here's @ronnisalt. "Don't look back in anger"
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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...
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December 18, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Here's @ronnisalt. "Don't look back in anger"
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I signed this to prevent the State Library of Victoria (one of my favourite places on earth) from becoming a fun park. It's a library and it needs librarians! In 2025, spaces like this have never been more vital.
Hands off our State Library!
Library workers deliver essential services to 2.8 million people in our community each year. They run information services, connect people online, hold free workshops, develop community connections an...
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December 5, 2025 at 3:55 AM
I signed this to prevent the State Library of Victoria (one of my favourite places on earth) from becoming a fun park. It's a library and it needs librarians! In 2025, spaces like this have never been more vital.
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Because if there's one thing we learned from Robodebt...wait, no sorry, turns out we learned nothing from Robodebt
EXCLUSIVE: Funding and support plans for national disability insurance scheme participants will be generated by a computer program and staff will have no discretion to amend them, under a major overhaul of the NDIS to be rolled out next year, @australia.theguardian.com can reveal.
December 3, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Because if there's one thing we learned from Robodebt...wait, no sorry, turns out we learned nothing from Robodebt
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“People who attend UN climate conferences are loathe to describe any of them as a failure.”
Michael Jacobs telling it straight here. There is now a powerful and organised global resistance to climate action. What is to be done?
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Michael Jacobs telling it straight here. There is now a powerful and organised global resistance to climate action. What is to be done?
insidestory.org.au/not-so-good-...
Not so good COP • Inside Story
The latest UN climate summit was buffeted by geopolitical headwinds
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November 23, 2025 at 2:14 AM
“People who attend UN climate conferences are loathe to describe any of them as a failure.”
Michael Jacobs telling it straight here. There is now a powerful and organised global resistance to climate action. What is to be done?
insidestory.org.au/not-so-good-...
Michael Jacobs telling it straight here. There is now a powerful and organised global resistance to climate action. What is to be done?
insidestory.org.au/not-so-good-...
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"while Labor’s support for net zero creates no danger for the fossil fuel industry, it creates significant danger for our democracy as millions of voters are tricked into believing that they are voting to tackle climate change, when in reality they are voting for fossil fuel expansion"
Like ‘housing affordability’ ‘net zero’ has become one of those meaningless political sayings
Labors support for net zero hasn’t stopped them supporting new coal or gas or from spending billions on fossil fuel subsidies
My latest column on @thepointau.bsky.social
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Labors support for net zero hasn’t stopped them supporting new coal or gas or from spending billions on fossil fuel subsidies
My latest column on @thepointau.bsky.social
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Net Zero hides a truth the mining giants understand perfectly: nothing has to change
The point.com.au
thepoint.com.au
November 10, 2025 at 9:21 AM
"while Labor’s support for net zero creates no danger for the fossil fuel industry, it creates significant danger for our democracy as millions of voters are tricked into believing that they are voting to tackle climate change, when in reality they are voting for fossil fuel expansion"
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this essay on stomp-clap-hey is poignant enough to make me feel old defector.com/the-tragedy-...
The Tragedy Of “Stomp Clap Hey” | Defector
In 1971, the great rock critic Lester Bangs tried to imagine a time when the music of the recent past would seem alien. Projecting himself into the old age he would never reach, he pictured his future...
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August 30, 2025 at 1:24 AM
this essay on stomp-clap-hey is poignant enough to make me feel old defector.com/the-tragedy-...
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My personal reflection on the Bendigo Writers Festival debacle and why discomfort is always better than disconnection.
Not Here. Not Now.
A writers festival, a silencing, and what it means to speak plainly in the current climate.
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August 23, 2025 at 1:47 AM
My personal reflection on the Bendigo Writers Festival debacle and why discomfort is always better than disconnection.
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Triple R's Radiothon is on now – Digging Deeper! 🌱
Radiothon is Triple R’s annual subscription and donation drive. It’s an essential time of year to plant the seed and help us grow!
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August 14, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Triple R's Radiothon is on now – Digging Deeper! 🌱
Radiothon is Triple R’s annual subscription and donation drive. It’s an essential time of year to plant the seed and help us grow!
Subscribe and donate now! rrr.org.au/subscribe + rrr.org.au/donate
🎨 Deon Slaviero
Radiothon is Triple R’s annual subscription and donation drive. It’s an essential time of year to plant the seed and help us grow!
Subscribe and donate now! rrr.org.au/subscribe + rrr.org.au/donate
🎨 Deon Slaviero
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I really love the hottest 100. Because it opens and shows the hearts of people of all ages and circumstance across Australia, leaving you to think about their lives and what it is about them that makes them pick songs that clearly suck over much better ones. #hottest100
July 26, 2025 at 6:54 AM
I really love the hottest 100. Because it opens and shows the hearts of people of all ages and circumstance across Australia, leaving you to think about their lives and what it is about them that makes them pick songs that clearly suck over much better ones. #hottest100
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Israel has killed one Palestinian child in Gaza every 45 minutes for 20 months straight. This is based on the official death toll, widely understood to be an extreme undercount
July 22, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Israel has killed one Palestinian child in Gaza every 45 minutes for 20 months straight. This is based on the official death toll, widely understood to be an extreme undercount
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"If the actions of Israel in the past 20mths or indeed the past 75yrs doesn’t engender any dissent in the diaspora, it’s unsurprising that critics of Israel conclude that Jews are to be condemned for their appalling myopia & lack of moral clarity."
— Louise Adler
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— Louise Adler
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The special envoy’s plan is the latest push to weaponise antisemitism, as a relentless campaign pays off | Louise Adler
The omissions are as important as the inclusions in Jillian Segal’s plan, which is guilty of overreach
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July 11, 2025 at 10:44 PM
"If the actions of Israel in the past 20mths or indeed the past 75yrs doesn’t engender any dissent in the diaspora, it’s unsurprising that critics of Israel conclude that Jews are to be condemned for their appalling myopia & lack of moral clarity."
— Louise Adler
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— Louise Adler
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Here's @ronnisalt.bsky.social. 'Israel: silencing dissent everywhere'
Israel: silencing dissent everywhere - The Shot
The pro-Israel lobby isn’t designed to balance debate nor to enrich it – it is designed to silence it.
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July 10, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Here's @ronnisalt.bsky.social. 'Israel: silencing dissent everywhere'
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Tragic to see the flooding across NSW. As these disasters get more common and more severe, we should make fossil fuel exporters pay a climate disaster levy.
So that those causing the damage pay for the clean-up, not ordinary Australians.
Add your name > theaus.in/fossilfuelco...
So that those causing the damage pay for the clean-up, not ordinary Australians.
Add your name > theaus.in/fossilfuelco...
Make fossil fuel exporters pay for the damage they are causing, not ordinary Australians
Climate change is making natural disasters like fires, floods, heatwaves and drought worse, costing Australians billions every year.
Make fossil fuel producers pay a climate disaster levy to help pay...
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May 23, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Tragic to see the flooding across NSW. As these disasters get more common and more severe, we should make fossil fuel exporters pay a climate disaster levy.
So that those causing the damage pay for the clean-up, not ordinary Australians.
Add your name > theaus.in/fossilfuelco...
So that those causing the damage pay for the clean-up, not ordinary Australians.
Add your name > theaus.in/fossilfuelco...
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Opinion | The data centres needed to power AI are polluting the air and breathing new life into coal and gas. Governments must step in.
My protests against AI make me feel like a total loser, but not in the way you think
Big tech companies are seeing their power consumption skyrocket far faster than any greenwashing actions they can take to pretend that power is ‘clean’.
www.crikey.com.au
May 12, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Opinion | The data centres needed to power AI are polluting the air and breathing new life into coal and gas. Governments must step in.
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Frank Bongiorno on the Liberal bloodbath insidestory.org.au/are-the-libe...
Are the Liberals in danger of becoming the Kodak of Australian politics? • Frank Bongiorno
The party is taking a long time to understand its plight
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May 4, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Frank Bongiorno on the Liberal bloodbath insidestory.org.au/are-the-libe...
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Drive it like you stole it, stop fucking around, deal with climate change, poverty, and deal with inequality to pay for it. Deal with industry transition, deal with education costs, accept that large investments in ourselves today pay for more than themselves in the future. And dental in Medicare
May 3, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Drive it like you stole it, stop fucking around, deal with climate change, poverty, and deal with inequality to pay for it. Deal with industry transition, deal with education costs, accept that large investments in ourselves today pay for more than themselves in the future. And dental in Medicare
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One of the best 3 minutes of your life will be spent watching this. It's powerful stuff
Atlas Network - the subversive people manipulating and controlling public debate and holding Australia back from its full potential. #AusVotes2025
Credit: Regenerators
Full vid: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecqD...
Atlas Network - the subversive people manipulating and controlling public debate and holding Australia back from its full potential. #AusVotes2025
Credit: Regenerators
Full vid: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecqD...
April 30, 2025 at 1:56 AM
One of the best 3 minutes of your life will be spent watching this. It's powerful stuff
Atlas Network - the subversive people manipulating and controlling public debate and holding Australia back from its full potential. #AusVotes2025
Credit: Regenerators
Full vid: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecqD...
Atlas Network - the subversive people manipulating and controlling public debate and holding Australia back from its full potential. #AusVotes2025
Credit: Regenerators
Full vid: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecqD...
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We need to elect MPs who are already committed to environmental protection and sustainability. That will not occur until people value and vote for the environment and climate. #auspol
Environment: Humans’ contempt for the natural world drives environmental destruction
Fifteen companies produce 30% of Australia’s greenhouse gases. Mountains provide 60% of our fresh water, but not for much longer.
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March 30, 2025 at 7:46 AM
We need to elect MPs who are already committed to environmental protection and sustainability. That will not occur until people value and vote for the environment and climate. #auspol
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Hey so this is really bad and the fact that Trump is destroying every U.S. effort to do anything about it should be a much bigger story wmo.int/publication-...
March 21, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Hey so this is really bad and the fact that Trump is destroying every U.S. effort to do anything about it should be a much bigger story wmo.int/publication-...
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If you've ever observed a flock of chooks/chickens in a mob fleeing hysterically from something that actually isn't there, then you'll understand the recent behaviour of the ABC, Creative Australia et al.
Jumping at shadows, the lot of them.
My latest for The Shot 🙏🏽
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Jumping at shadows, the lot of them.
My latest for The Shot 🙏🏽
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Chicken run - The Shot
We are not so much being led by donkeys, as led by chooks. And these events have highlighted, we’re probably being led by a foreign country.
theshot.net.au
March 20, 2025 at 9:47 AM
If you've ever observed a flock of chooks/chickens in a mob fleeing hysterically from something that actually isn't there, then you'll understand the recent behaviour of the ABC, Creative Australia et al.
Jumping at shadows, the lot of them.
My latest for The Shot 🙏🏽
theshot.net.au/uncategorize...
Jumping at shadows, the lot of them.
My latest for The Shot 🙏🏽
theshot.net.au/uncategorize...