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Simone van Hattem
@simonevh.bsky.social
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Community organiser Frack Free WA ⚠️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🍉
Prefer Mastodon: @simone@aus.social
Also public on Insta: simonevanhattem
Living south coast WA, Mirnang boodja
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simonevh.bsky.social
Oh lordy, these look like macadamia flowers..!
October 20, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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ketanjoshi.co
there was a great cartoon recently parodying the whole 'changing things from the inside' justification for working at awful places, does anyone know it?
October 20, 2025 at 11:33 AM
simonevh.bsky.social
This Sunday, Kinjarling Albany 10am (ignore other comms that say 11!). Then film fundraiser in Denmark Kwoorabup from 4pm with dinner.
October 6, 2025 at 4:40 AM
simonevh.bsky.social
Doing a terrible job using Bluesky! But here’s something that’s come out of action for Palestine in Albany/Kinjarling. This Wednesday!
September 21, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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whiterosesociety.bsky.social
Here is a link to the article in The Age unpaywalled: web.archive.org/web/20250905...
Dentist. Surveyor. Driver. Nazi. Unmasked extremists in everyday jobs
Nazi supporters are now openly marching through city streets as the group attempts to enter mainstream political discourse.
web.archive.org
September 6, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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slackbastard.bsky.social
'As neo-Nazis occupied the steps of Victoria’s parliament for the second time in as many years, many are asking the question: how has this happened again – and what can be done to prevent it?'

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Neo-Nazis have occupied the steps of Victoria’s parliament twice in two years. Are protest laws to blame?
Calls for tougher ‘move-on’ laws overlook the fact that police already have considerable powers in Victoria
www.theguardian.com
September 6, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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puckarks.bsky.social
Entire Madleen crew representing 7 countries has gone dark and presumed kidnapped by Israel
Greta Thunberg
Rima Hassan
Yasemin Acar
Baptiste Andre
Thiago Avila
Omar Faiad
Pascal Maurieras
Yanis Mhamdi
Suayb Ordu
Sergio Toribio
Marco van Rennes
Reva Viard
Crew of Madleen
June 9, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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ketanjoshi.co
I thought this was a pretty nice reference to my recent @crikey.com.au piece, in the ABC

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...

www.crikey.com.au/2025/06/02/n...
Climate change and the government's 'tactical fatalism' Last week, the climate analyst Ketan Joshi wrote a fiery article in Crikey that touched on many of these issues. It's really worth reading. Mr Joshi said the Albanese government's recent controversial decision to allow Woodside's North West Shelf gas project to continue operating until 2070 was a major blow to the climate movement and signified something sinister. He argued Labor was not a climate denier, it was something "far worse". UN asks Australia to do more to protect rock art Photo shows Murujuga Rock Art Monitoring Program 2023-11-13 08:11:00Murujuga Rock Art Monitoring Program 2023-11-13 08:11:00 The UN is proposing to knock back Australia's bid to add the Murujuga Cultural Area to the World Heritage list, instead asking the federal government to address concerns about emissions degrading the ancient Aboriginal rock carvings near Karratha in WA's north. He said if anyone in 2025 could work to worsen fossil fuel reliance in full acceptance of the consequences, without any willingness to work to prevent them, they were "far scarier" than climate deniers. "There isn't a great name for this, but we can call it "tactical fatalism": the intentional, weaponised insistence that a worse future is the only future (from those who benefit the most from whatever makes it bad)," he wrote. "The climate movement is ill-equipped to deal with a threat that looks like this. The easy binary of deniers vs believers died last decade. Any fantasy we had of a global moral pact of good intentions is dead. "This decade we are realising how much damage and death can be caused openly, without any shame. Genocidal countries know it, and the fossil fuel industry knows it, too. "A half-decade of wars, invasions, energy crises and a really nasty pandemic haven't been easy on our movement, and the tactical fatalist predators are circling." How do these sad political developments fit with the principles of "liberalism," where the right to speak freely, to tell the truth, and protest are supposed to be sacrosanct? In The Social Contract, Rousseau said when privileged groups can act with impunity we exist in a world where might is right. "And as the strongest is always right, the only problem is how to become the strongest," he wrote. Is that really the world we want to live in? Is that what younger Australians voted for?
June 9, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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euanritchie.bsky.social
Let’s rid ourselves of this jerk from Australian politics once and for all!

Another cracking explainer from @thejuicemedia.bsky.social youtu.be/euE8eZTyQQg

#AusVotes25
Honest Government Ad | Peter Dutton for Dickson
YouTube video by thejuicemedia
youtu.be
April 23, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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danilic.bsky.social
Dutton:
— I don’t know about climate change.
— I’m not a scientist..
— I don’t know Donald Trump

#abcleadersdebate
April 16, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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amyremeikis.bsky.social
Holy Shit - we are in 2025 and the Liberal leader STILL can't say the worsening weather we are seeing is because of climate change. "I am not a scientist"
Fuck me.
April 16, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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australiainstitute.org.au
Gas exports have tripled east coast wholesale gas and electricity prices.

When you get your next energy bill, blame the gas industry.

Our billboard in Brisbane ⤵️ #auspol
April 13, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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slackbastard.bsky.social
#auspol

~30 years ago, Hanson was denounced by local Jewish community groups for her racism, xenophobia & the incorporation of antisemitic followers into her party; in 2025, the batshit AJA (a registered charity) is happy to jump into bed with her.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
'PAULINE HANSON PLEDGES TO RECOGNISE JERUSALEM Last night during [at] an event with the Australian Jewish Association, One Nation Leader, Senator Pauline Hanson pledged to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel & support moving the Australian embassy there. This position is amongst the most supportive of any political party in Australia.'
April 10, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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blindboyboatclub.bsky.social
New podcast. Live from Sydney, I chat with Costa Georgiadis, a landscape architect and environmental educator, about biodiversity and rewilding. Absolutely lovely fella, whose enthusiasm is infectious open.spotify.com/episode/0MG7...
Rewilding for Biodiversity with Costa Georgiadis
The Blindboy Podcast · Episode
open.spotify.com
April 10, 2025 at 8:41 AM
simonevh.bsky.social
So great to be in the front row (apparently I booked the tickets yet did not remember doing that 😆 ) for @blindboyboatclub.bsky.social’s talk in Boorloo with Bardi Professor Pat Dudgeon, talking about decolonising psychology. Legends 💜
April 11, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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ketanjoshi.co
This is a right-wing media outlet using the false promise of nuclear power in a predatory, cynical and deeply cruel way to exploit the broad systemic failure to enact a just transition away from fossil fuels.

Just utterly messed up

HT @simonahac.bsky.social
The Advertiser · Follow roopenSsdtc31 0 m 1 a 0 u d s 7 t a c Y h y 6l4gt37546 : 10 t f e 5 e fia5t 5 g9 0 1 r 7 · Community sport clubs in Port Augusta are on the brink of collapse, locals say, unless the proposed construction of a nuclear power station goes ahead. 📍 Read more: https://bit.ly/4i2VaNW
February 21, 2025 at 10:59 PM
simonevh.bsky.social
Lovely start to @albanypride.bsky.social with Aunty Vern welcoming us to Minang country, and then the Huxleys last night at the town hall..!!
February 21, 2025 at 11:09 PM
simonevh.bsky.social
Crossposting to here from AlbanyPride, Albany/Kinjarling, Western Australia yesterday.
Sign the petition: transjustice.org.au/ban/
#protecttranskids #protecttranslives
February 9, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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gloomfather.bsky.social
Hey man sorry to hear about all your political turmoil. Would it help if I scrolled around on the computer all day and drove myself insane?
February 6, 2025 at 1:54 PM
simonevh.bsky.social
Today in Albany Kinjarling
February 7, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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australiainstitute.org.au
Murujuga's rock art is over 40,000 years old, and contains what could be the very first depiction of a human face in history.

And it's currently under threat of destruction from Woodside's North West Shelf gas export terminal expansion.

@markogge.bsky.social #auspol
February 5, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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aurelmondon.bsky.social
The euphemisation of far right politics over decades has led to the inability to call a Nazi salute a Nazi salute and fascist politics fascism

The use of populism, Euroscepticism, nationalism/nativism have all played a role in diluting and minimising the threat often based on the FR's own wishes
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January 26, 2025 at 8:42 AM
simonevh.bsky.social
The last days of my holiday were spent checking on fauna at the Balijup Wildlife Sanctuary near Tenterden Great Southern WA last weekend 💜 Quenda, possums, Phascogale, lizards, birds, bats, Christmas spiders and more!
January 24, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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ketanjoshi.co
It is really wild how the fossil fuel industry in Aus has managed to spread the false perception that the Aus economy relies on fossil fuel sector jobs + cash

www.industry.gov.au/publications...

australiainstitute.org.au/report/clima...
employment as a percentage of all jobs - nearly zero for oil, coal and gas and about 3 to 4% for the mining industry perceived jobs, money and tax all far higher than actual
January 23, 2025 at 9:18 AM
simonevh.bsky.social
Currently in full swing with the campaign to get a ban on fracking in the Kimberley. We’ve focussed on Fremantle where through doorknocking we’ve found 92% of voters want a ban, and there are so far two candidates who support that. Time for MP Simone McGurk and Premier Cook to get on board! ⚠️
January 23, 2025 at 1:31 AM