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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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Andrew Bartlett @andrewbartlett.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Yeah it feels that way. I feel a ‘use it or lose it’ charge (or incrementally increasing rates or the like) could work at Council level too - they’re always short of revenue.

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Andrew Bartlett @andrewbartlett.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Also the issue of land that's approved for building homes being land-banked - sometimes for decades - rather than built on, which keeps prices up through artificial scarcity. (But yeah, workforce shortages (and cost of materials) is also a reason why some sites approved for development sit vacant)

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Andrew Bartlett @andrewbartlett.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

No bother. It’s happened before - it’s all fine. Gives me a bit of accidental cred.

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Andrew Bartlett @andrewbartlett.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Thank you - but wrong Andrew Bartlett. The one you’re wanting is English, not Australian. (Never met him, but based on his Twitter he seems like a good guy)

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Andrew Bartlett @andrewbartlett.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

I had assumed as much, but given it’s a public conversation I thought I should be definitive.

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Andrew Bartlett @andrewbartlett.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

That’s not really the same party in my view, but answer is definitely no in any case. Last time I was in the Senate I gave up my job there when I didn’t need to, so I absolutely wouldn’t want to be back there - it would be too soul-destroying.

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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 🖤

Flyer from my collection for 4ZZZ’s Octobanana market day/festival on Saturday, 31 October 1992 featuring a line-up of several Brisbane and interstate bands

Flyer from my collection for 4ZZZ’s radiothon and market day from 9-11 March 1990, marking fifteen years of community broadcasting

Flyer 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

So it seems. I fear she will soon be in a lonely place.

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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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Andrew Bartlett @andrewbartlett.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

I was surprised when I first moved in to a large unit complex in the Valley - three towers with over 500 units/homes - how little traffic it generated. It only has car access through narrow single lane streets, but the local traffic impact is minimal. West End seems different in that way.

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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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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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