Virginia Wright
vmcw.bsky.social
Virginia Wright
@vmcw.bsky.social
Tasmania
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Bendigo Bank has pulled out of Nauru. Now it's time for Home Affairs to follow.

You cannot inflict intentional cruelty on refugees without corruption.
December 10, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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The US should not be allowed to make Australia complicit in nuclear war. 50 years ago Whitlam believed that and he was right.

It’s time to end AUKUS. Close Pine Gap.
November 11, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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“Educators across Tasmania are calling for smaller classes, more professional support staff and time for teachers and support staff to focus on helping students reach their potential."

https://bit.ly/4oOtiQT
November 5, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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"The stadium would 'diminish the economic welfare' of Tasmania (and) would have an 'irrevocable and unacceptable' impact on Hobart's landscape.

"The govt would need to accumulate $1 bil in debt for construction costs, which would rise to $1.8 bil over 10 years"

Govt proceeding anyway. Awesome.
Breaking: Hobart stadium shouldn't proceed, planning commission recommends
The proposed Macquarie Point AFL stadium in Hobart should not proceed, a long-awaited assessment from the Tasmanian Planning Commission recommends.
www.abc.net.au
September 17, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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If genocide isn't your redline, then you have no redlines.

The Sydney Harbour Bridge was closed temporarily as tens of thousands of Australians made their voices heard against Israel's genocide in Gaza. #FreePalestine #3E
August 3, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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A brilliant piece: ‘The debacle has all the hallmarks of the rapacious gouging that big sports inflict on taxpayers’: the unnecessary sporting infrastructure, the support of the major parties, cost blowout, the abandonment of proper policy process, the big 4 at the trough….
Rapacious sport scumbags like the AFL make a mockery of taxpayers — just look at the Tassie stadium chaos
For decades, Big Sport has teamed up with the major political parties to gouge taxpayers. But for once, the rort has blown up in the face of the Tasmanian government.
www.crikey.com.au
June 11, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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Marinus Link is one of AEMO’s huge blunders in discredited ISPs. It must be reviewed before the Feds, Vic and Tas give go ahead to this mill stone around Tas neck. reneweconomy.com.au/marinus-link... #auspol
Marinus Link is an expensive risk for Tasmanians, and it needs better scrutiny
The Marinus Link is likely to cost four times more than the equally controversial football stadium in Hobart. It should be subject to deeper scrutiny and better modelling.
reneweconomy.com.au
May 28, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Laudato si, published in 2015, was Pope Francis’s second encyclical. He condemned consumerism and environmental destruction of our common home and called on all people to take swift and unified action on global warming. #auspol
April 21, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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The problem with tax in Australia is not that we pay too much income tax, but that the richest and most profitable get huge tax breaks that distort the housing market, encourage fossil fuel emissions and general make inequality worse.

Start there.
March 18, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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March 9, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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A plate of beautiful Tasmanian Salmon. But if you take the time to look underneath you’ll see the rot and damage done to the environment and other wildlife by salmon farming in Tasmania.

Nanna Anne saw it firsthand.

Here you’ll find more detail from a former employee.
spainvida.net/fish-farming
March 3, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Israel activists Ofir Birenbaum and Sophie Calland infiltrate Labor backed by far-right money to hit Greens. A Wendy Bacon & @yaakov-aharon.bsky.social investigation
#auspol
michaelwest.com.au/israel-activ...
Israel activists infiltrate Labor Party in 'grassroots' putsch to hit Greens - Michael West
Israel campaigners Ofir Birenbaum and Sophie Calland have infiltrated the Labor Party backed by far-right money
michaelwest.com.au
March 1, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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“We have political leaders who insist that mining & forestry underwrite Australian prosperity. Those who believe this nonsense cannot be trusted with the wellbeing of future generations.”

“Mining & native forest logging industries, collectively, employ only ~2% of the labour force."

– Ken Henry
February 20, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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Labor just voted with the Coalition to kill THEIR OWN Nature Positive reforms🤯

Enough crossbenchers voted to keep it alive in the Senate for Labor to have passed their long promised reform.

Neither of the major parties will stand up for Nature 😥
February 5, 2025 at 6:06 AM