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Andrew Bartlett

@andrewbartlett.bsky.social
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working for positive social change & community development for 40+ years, incl ~12 years as Senator for Qld & 20+ years volunteering at 4ZZZ community radio. Anti-war. Views stated here are my own. RTs ≠ agreement.

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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Are Aust weapons sales enabling atrocities in Sudan? Fmr Senator @andrewbartlett.bsky.social for @warpowersreform.bsky.social #auspol @davidshoebridge.bsky.social michaelwest.com.au/are-australi...
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Are Australian military exports fuelling massacres in Sudan? - Michael West
While the heat is on Defence for arms sales to Israel, the government is mute its role enabling the atrocities in Sudan. AWPR report
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Andrew Bartlett @andrewbartlett.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Looks like party members can have a vote on their Parliamentary leader in a contested ballot & the sky doesn’t fall in. About time the Australian Greens did this as well. (Well past time actually)
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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 14/02/2026
A small German state’s quiet revolt against Microsoft – and what it means for Europe
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A small German state’s quiet revolt against Microsoft – and what it means for Europe
How Schleswig-Holstein is challenging big tech dominance and redefining digital sovereignty
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
finally, we're living through precedented times
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Jane Doe @noticingclimate.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Loving reminder Australia, that @4zzzradio.bsky.social hosts "Locked In" on Christmas Day for VIP (Very Important Prisoners), friends + family. Grab the community broadcasting app CPLUS, to listen to your favourite community radio stations around Australia! #Australia #CommunityRadio @boltsmag.org
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Chris Salisbury @chrissalisbury.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Taking a moment to acknowledge that today marks 50 years since Brisbane/meanjin’s original community radio station @4zzzradio.bsky.social began broadcasting from studios at UQ’s St Lucia campus. Brisbane’s thriving music scene and independent news landscape (and my youth) owe a lot to the Zeds 🖤
Black and white flyer from my collection showing ‘4 Triple Z’ and the station’s banana logo/mascotFlyer from my collection for 4ZZZ’s Octobanana market day/festival on Saturday, 31 October 1992 featuring a line-up of several Brisbane and interstate bandsFlyer from my collection for 4ZZZ’s radiothon and market day from 9-11 March 1990, marking fifteen years of community broadcastingFlyer from my collection for the first Livid Festival, promoted by 4ZZZ and hosted at UQ’s St Lucia campus on Saturday, 21 January 1989. The bill featured notable Brisbane bands/artists like the Go-Betweens, Chris Bailey and the Ups & Downs
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Andrew Bartlett @andrewbartlett.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Fighting to host the next COP as though it’s hosting the Olympics is offputting. 50 000 people fly here to be part of the 31st demonstration of failure to prevent runaway climate change. “The cost of hosting the summit could reach $2 billion, according to govt estimates” www.afr.com/policy/energ...
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Game of chicken fires up as Turkey rejects Australia’s deal
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has rejected the federal government’s offer to split hosting duties for next year’s UN climate summit.
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Chris Salisbury @chrissalisbury.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Freshly delivered! It’s a busy time for 50th anniversaries… look forward to diving into these pages and reminiscing on five decades of 4ZZZ radio on Brisbane’s airwaves 📻 🤘 @4zzzradio.bsky.social
Cover of Heather Anderson’s new book celebrating fifty years of Brisbane/Meanjin’s groundbreaking community radio station, 4ZZZ
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Bat Conservation and Rescue Qld @batsbcrq.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Hail storms have injured and orphaned hundreds of bats. If you would like to help our team of volunteers who are helping rescue, transport & rehabilitate these bats, please donate here bats.org.au/get-involved... #bats #flyingfox #biodiversity www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Almost 120 flying foxes hospitalised after giant hail smashes Queensland colony
Rescued bats taken to RSPCA wildlife hospital in Brisbane’s south-west with injuries including ‘faces that were smashed and broken wings’
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 02/11/2025
What is unfolding in Sudan, where the armed group RSF has taken control of the key city of El Fasher, is "the sum of all our fears," says human rights investigator Nathaniel Raymond. "RSF is killing at a scale and a velocity that I haven’t seen since Rwanda."
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Mass Killings Reported in Sudan as RSF Seizes El Fasher; 460 Killed at Hospital
Sudan’s military is accusing the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces of killing at least 2,000 people since seizing control of El Fasher in the Darfur region, including some 460 at the Saudi Maternity H...
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Andrew Bartlett @andrewbartlett.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
She’s Lost Control. No shark has ever been more jumped, no bow more longer drawn. Joy Derision. Something apparently so clearly inappropriate it took them 5 days to say so. (Or more accurately 45 years to say so, given how long #JoyDivision shirts have been worn for). Disorder
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV is set to effectively disband Opus Dei in the coming weeks. This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.
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NEW: Pope Leo Set To Break Up Opus Dei
If Pope Leo does indeed approves a plan that effectively dissolves Opus Dei’s structure, it would be the most significant internal action of his short pontificate to date.
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Nick Evershed!? @nickevershed.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Interesting chart in this report surveying people on what they think are the major contributions to the 'housing problem'. Feels like a failure of the (non-right wing) media, politicians and experts that the measures that would have the most impact are so far below immigration
chart showing people's responses to which issues they believe are most contributing to the housing crisis - immigration is the top issue at 39%
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Gavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 25/10/2025
🗳️ #aras25 Count Results live, from as soon as each of the 43 constituencies start to report their results: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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Presidential Election 2025 (#aras25) - live results by @gavreilly
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Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Looking like a resounding victory for Catherine Connolly. A huge moment for the united left in Ireland, for the many young people whose energy and optimism fuelled Connolly’s campaign, and a pretty clear rejection of uninspiring government party candidates who couldn’t offer a vision. #Aras25
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Travesty-Account Holder 77 @rebussy.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
We are now as far from the film 24 Hour Party People as it was from that album... 1979 - 2002 -2025 😬 www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFiy...
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24 Hour Party People Official Trailer #1 - Simon Pegg Movie (2002) HD
YouTube video by Rotten Tomatoes Classic Trailers
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Degenerate artist @johnalees.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Zed50 going on. Wish I could have been there for it all. Enjoy it all whether you're in a band or just a punter.
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Andrew Bartlett @andrewbartlett.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Velociraptor playing early at #Zed50 - a celebration of music, #Brisbane & @4zzzradio.bsky.social Tons more great bands to come until 9pm - nearly sold-out
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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Hope the ATO and government are proud of themselves. Pursued this poor guy for 7 years, wrecked his life for the crime of exposing serious wrongdoing - costing millions - all for a final result of no recorded conviction and a 12-mth good behaviour bond.
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ATO whistleblower Richard Boyle spared convictions, jail sentence
Australian Taxation Office whistleblower Richard Boyle has avoided convictions and a jail sentence, seven years after publicly exposing aggressive debt collection practices at the tax office.
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peterrohweder.bsky.social @peterrohweder.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
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JD Random - RandomWhiteGuy @thereelrandom.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
My wife shared this with me and I’m tellin you… it’s worth the read.
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Animal Justice Party @animaljusticeparty.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
- Emma Hurst AJP MLC NSW
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Andrew Bartlett @andrewbartlett.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Even Gareth Evans is now calling for the recognition of #Palestine as a state - which has been Labor policy for a while - & sanctions on #Israel. Stopping Australian manufactured arms components ending up in Israel would also be a simple thing to do www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...
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‘The time is right’: Labor luminary calls for Netanyahu sanctions, Palestine statehood
Gareth Evans, Labor’s longest-serving foreign minister, rejected claims that recognising a Palestinian state would reward Hamas’ terrorism.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Same day the Israel govt stated plainly it plans to destroy all of Gaza. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/m...
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Jonny Greenwood and Israeli musician Dudu Tassa condemn ‘silencing’ after UK concerts pulled
After two performances were cancelled over threats linked to protests against Israel, the duo said the actions were ‘self-evidently a method of censorship’
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Rocketpilot 🇵🇸 @rocketpilot.xyz · 02/05/2025
Coalition threatening to release further tweaks to this policy on an hourly basis until the close of voting tomorrow night
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Coalition proposes ‘migrating’ public servants to regions in last-minute tweak to plan to slash workforce
Angus Taylor reveals further twist to efficiency drive, stating a Dutton government would ‘move people around appropriately to meet the needs of regional areas’
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Andrew Bartlett @andrewbartlett.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
When people ask me which politicians - regardless of whether I agreed with their position or not - I found to be upfront, capable & as true to their ideals as Parliament’s party system allows them to be, Petro Georgiou is always one who springs to mind #auspol neoskosmos.com/en/2025/04/0...
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Vale Petro Georgiou: A principled voice for multiculturalism and humanity - Neos Kosmos
Petro Georgiou AO, often described as the conscience of the Liberal Party during the Howard government's increasingly hardline stance on refugees, passed away peacefully last night at the age of 77.
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Andrew Bartlett @andrewbartlett.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
A reminder that St Patrick’s Day also marks the date in 1948 that a Member of Parliament was deliberately bashed unconscious by Queensland police while observing a demonstration by striking workers. rossfitzgerald.com/2012/03/17/t...
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The White Rose Society (Australia) @whiterosesociety.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Today is the sixth anniversary of an Australian neo-Nazi massacring 51 Muslims at prayer in Christchurch. Fraser Anning destroyed his political career by attributing blame for the massacre to its victims. An abhorrent assessment of an unspeakable atrocity.
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Dr Mark | 北马克 |🍉🇦🇺🇲🇾🇹🇭 @ajaanmark.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Severe weather warning for SEQ (note not NSW) with immediate effect from 11.01pm. Next warning at 2.15am. Please go to the Bureau of Meterology (BOM) website for details.
Map shows coverage of warning. Please go to BOM website.
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Andrew Bartlett @andrewbartlett.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Some more headstones to ponder while awaiting the Storm. 🪦
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