LRobinson
@sosayallofus.bsky.social
Concerned about integrity & accountability in public life; extreme inequality; corporate greed; environmental destruction. Animal lover and bird nerd.
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While the Australian War Memorial dinosaurs have been busy moving goal posts to ensure Chris Masters' "Flawed Hero: Truth, Lies and War Crimes" revealing truths about Ben Roberts-Smith will not receive the 2024 Les Carlyon literary award—never forget Masters is a legend and a hero. #auspol #qldpol
September 15, 2025 at 6:07 AM
'Labor's climate and AUKUS decisions prove Australia is a fossil fuel-addicted US protectorate' Bernard Keane
www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/15/n...
www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/15/n...
Labor's climate and AUKUS decisions prove Australia is a fossil fuel-addicted US protectorate
On defence and climate, the Albanese government can only double down on policies that clearly aren't working. It appears incapable of understanding the real challenges Australia faces.
www.crikey.com.au
September 15, 2025 at 9:48 AM
'Labor's climate and AUKUS decisions prove Australia is a fossil fuel-addicted US protectorate' Bernard Keane
www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/15/n...
www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/15/n...
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BREAKING: Palestinian witnesses and hospitals say Israeli forces opened fire toward hundreds of people waiting for aid trucks in central Gaza, killing at least 25 people.
Israeli forces fire on people waiting for aid in Gaza, killing 25, witnesses and hospitals say
Palestinian witnesses say Israeli forces and drones opened fire toward hundreds of people waiting for aid trucks in central Gaza.
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June 24, 2025 at 6:59 AM
BREAKING: Palestinian witnesses and hospitals say Israeli forces opened fire toward hundreds of people waiting for aid trucks in central Gaza, killing at least 25 people.
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Melbourne/Naarm yet again taking to the streets to protest our holocaust-enabling PM @albomp.bsky.social, his depraved foreign minister Penny Wong, and their complicity with Israeli and American atrocity. Free all of us from Zionist warmongers. Free Palestine.
June 22, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Melbourne/Naarm yet again taking to the streets to protest our holocaust-enabling PM @albomp.bsky.social, his depraved foreign minister Penny Wong, and their complicity with Israeli and American atrocity. Free all of us from Zionist warmongers. Free Palestine.
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Greta Thunberg and Madleen crew are in Israeli detention as Israel kills 70 people in Gaza, including more aid seekers.
Israel kills 60 in Gaza; Madleen crew, including Greta Thunberg, detained
Greta Thunberg and Madleen crew are in Israeli detention as Israel kills 70 people in Gaza, including more aid seekers.
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June 10, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Greta Thunberg and Madleen crew are in Israeli detention as Israel kills 70 people in Gaza, including more aid seekers.
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Coal and gas are costing Australia, not profiting Australia
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The price of coal and gas is down
Actually, so too Australia's exported volumes of coal and gas
Meanwhile Australia accumulated no significant or lasting benefit from the massive profits of the fossil extractors in the last few years, and now that value in decline
Actually, so too Australia's exported volumes of coal and gas
Meanwhile Australia accumulated no significant or lasting benefit from the massive profits of the fossil extractors in the last few years, and now that value in decline
December 29, 2024 at 10:17 AM
Coal and gas are costing Australia, not profiting Australia
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A wildlife crossing project planned near the Oregon-California border in the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument is set to receive more than $33 million from the Federal Highway Administration. It will be the first wildlife overcrossing for Oregon. ashland.news/proposed-int...
Proposed Interstate 5 wildlife overcrossing receives $33M federal grant - Ashland News - Community-Supported, NonProfit News
The planned wildlife crossing project near the Oregon and California border in the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument is set to receive more than $33 million from the Federal Highway Administration. I...
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December 22, 2024 at 8:11 AM
A wildlife crossing project planned near the Oregon-California border in the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument is set to receive more than $33 million from the Federal Highway Administration. It will be the first wildlife overcrossing for Oregon. ashland.news/proposed-int...
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Hypocrisy is endemic in Tas politics. Govt and Tas Labor promote tourism on back of Environment while proactively destroying it with logging/ fish farms, rejecting restoration #LakePedder and deliberately sending species to extinction #MaugeanSkate #SwiftParrot #Quolls. #politas
December 3, 2024 at 10:01 PM
Hypocrisy is endemic in Tas politics. Govt and Tas Labor promote tourism on back of Environment while proactively destroying it with logging/ fish farms, rejecting restoration #LakePedder and deliberately sending species to extinction #MaugeanSkate #SwiftParrot #Quolls. #politas
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In the name of humanity … Australia to vote for an “irreversible pathway” to a Palestinian state. Yes Netanyahu supporters here will be enraged as @senatorwong.bsky.social joins the international community. Matthew Knott SMH/Age.
December 3, 2024 at 8:22 PM
In the name of humanity … Australia to vote for an “irreversible pathway” to a Palestinian state. Yes Netanyahu supporters here will be enraged as @senatorwong.bsky.social joins the international community. Matthew Knott SMH/Age.
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Their schools, your money. They need their equestrian facilities and Olympic aquatic wellness centres…
Twenty private schools with wealthiest parents received $130m total in Australian public funds in 2023
Data comes as education minister remains stalled in negotiations with states and territories over contributions to Schooling Resource Standard
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2024 at 9:39 PM
Their schools, your money. They need their equestrian facilities and Olympic aquatic wellness centres…
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Students, nurses and teachers contribute more tax to Australia than the gas companies. If you think it’s time to address the loopholes in the Petroleum Resources Rent Tax (PRRT) sign the petition below.
✍️: nb.australiainstitute.org.au/increase_the...
✍️: nb.australiainstitute.org.au/increase_the...
December 3, 2024 at 12:34 AM
Students, nurses and teachers contribute more tax to Australia than the gas companies. If you think it’s time to address the loopholes in the Petroleum Resources Rent Tax (PRRT) sign the petition below.
✍️: nb.australiainstitute.org.au/increase_the...
✍️: nb.australiainstitute.org.au/increase_the...
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“Profit gouging, supply shortages, climate change, all these things [are driving inflation]. Putting up interest rates won’t deal with that, but it’ll make life worse,”
– Former RBA governor, Bernie Fraser.
'How not to battle inflation' from @stephenlongaus.bsky.social in @satpaper.bsky.social 👇
– Former RBA governor, Bernie Fraser.
'How not to battle inflation' from @stephenlongaus.bsky.social in @satpaper.bsky.social 👇
How not to battle inflation
Economists including former Reserve Bank governor Bernie Fraser are increasingly convinced there are more effective tools than interest rates to fight inflation – but what are they?
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
December 2, 2024 at 3:28 AM
“Profit gouging, supply shortages, climate change, all these things [are driving inflation]. Putting up interest rates won’t deal with that, but it’ll make life worse,”
– Former RBA governor, Bernie Fraser.
'How not to battle inflation' from @stephenlongaus.bsky.social in @satpaper.bsky.social 👇
– Former RBA governor, Bernie Fraser.
'How not to battle inflation' from @stephenlongaus.bsky.social in @satpaper.bsky.social 👇
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The whole Nacc effort if written as an screenplay could make an dozen episodes of Get Smart and F Troop each with enough material left over to kick off 3 seasons of Hogan's Heroes!
November 22, 2024 at 6:48 AM
The whole Nacc effort if written as an screenplay could make an dozen episodes of Get Smart and F Troop each with enough material left over to kick off 3 seasons of Hogan's Heroes!
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The head of the NACC, Paul Brereton, may be a decent man, but he is desperately out of his depth as the head of this large, multi-faceted, public-facing, modern, public service organisation.
His disastrous performance this afternoon in the Senate hearing underlines that in very clear detail.
#NACC
His disastrous performance this afternoon in the Senate hearing underlines that in very clear detail.
#NACC
November 22, 2024 at 4:36 AM
The head of the NACC, Paul Brereton, may be a decent man, but he is desperately out of his depth as the head of this large, multi-faceted, public-facing, modern, public service organisation.
His disastrous performance this afternoon in the Senate hearing underlines that in very clear detail.
#NACC
His disastrous performance this afternoon in the Senate hearing underlines that in very clear detail.
#NACC
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Paul Brereton in today's #NACC public hearing:
"Adding a stamp of corrupt conduct ... to conduct already exposed by the Royal Commission would add no public value. That was our thinking, or my thinking"
Then how could he put out a public statement saying he wasn't involved in any decision making?
"Adding a stamp of corrupt conduct ... to conduct already exposed by the Royal Commission would add no public value. That was our thinking, or my thinking"
Then how could he put out a public statement saying he wasn't involved in any decision making?
November 22, 2024 at 4:30 AM
Paul Brereton in today's #NACC public hearing:
"Adding a stamp of corrupt conduct ... to conduct already exposed by the Royal Commission would add no public value. That was our thinking, or my thinking"
Then how could he put out a public statement saying he wasn't involved in any decision making?
"Adding a stamp of corrupt conduct ... to conduct already exposed by the Royal Commission would add no public value. That was our thinking, or my thinking"
Then how could he put out a public statement saying he wasn't involved in any decision making?
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I'm a little less concerned about trans people using the bathroom they choose than I am about Republicans having proof Matt Gaetz slept with a minor and withholding it from the public so they can put him in a position where he can make that evidence essentially never see the light of day.
November 21, 2024 at 4:28 AM
I'm a little less concerned about trans people using the bathroom they choose than I am about Republicans having proof Matt Gaetz slept with a minor and withholding it from the public so they can put him in a position where he can make that evidence essentially never see the light of day.
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Quote from Australia’s Environment Minister in 2016.
The narrative hasn’t changed - shift blame to cyclones and starfish, and never mention the greenhouse gas emissions that cause coral bleaching.
The narrative hasn’t changed - shift blame to cyclones and starfish, and never mention the greenhouse gas emissions that cause coral bleaching.
November 20, 2024 at 5:38 AM
Quote from Australia’s Environment Minister in 2016.
The narrative hasn’t changed - shift blame to cyclones and starfish, and never mention the greenhouse gas emissions that cause coral bleaching.
The narrative hasn’t changed - shift blame to cyclones and starfish, and never mention the greenhouse gas emissions that cause coral bleaching.
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Arthur Sinodinos, our former Ambassador to USA, told a defence/arms forum Australia, US, UK should put Elon Musk in charge of AUKUS N subs project “and I’m not joking”. There goes any semblance of Australia’s sovereignty. Arthur, a majority of Aussies (57%) don’t want AUKUS.
November 20, 2024 at 10:12 PM
Arthur Sinodinos, our former Ambassador to USA, told a defence/arms forum Australia, US, UK should put Elon Musk in charge of AUKUS N subs project “and I’m not joking”. There goes any semblance of Australia’s sovereignty. Arthur, a majority of Aussies (57%) don’t want AUKUS.
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Watching Albanese lose the 2025 election was not something I had in my Bingo card in 2022.
Albanese & the ALP trail in the polls to the most talentless LNP opposition ever.
If only @albomp.bsky.social would address …
#AUKUS it’s laughable
#GAZA it’s atrocious
He might have a chance.
#auspol
Albanese & the ALP trail in the polls to the most talentless LNP opposition ever.
If only @albomp.bsky.social would address …
#AUKUS it’s laughable
#GAZA it’s atrocious
He might have a chance.
#auspol
November 18, 2024 at 11:17 PM
Watching Albanese lose the 2025 election was not something I had in my Bingo card in 2022.
Albanese & the ALP trail in the polls to the most talentless LNP opposition ever.
If only @albomp.bsky.social would address …
#AUKUS it’s laughable
#GAZA it’s atrocious
He might have a chance.
#auspol
Albanese & the ALP trail in the polls to the most talentless LNP opposition ever.
If only @albomp.bsky.social would address …
#AUKUS it’s laughable
#GAZA it’s atrocious
He might have a chance.
#auspol