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ApaulD @apauld.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

👇 ad put in both Fiji newspapers by the Australian Conservation Foundation. A concise summary of #auspol climate policy. #climatechange #australia

To our Pacific Island neighbours:

WE’RE SORRY.

Australia knows that new coal mines threaten your future. But last week we approved a huge new coal mine expansion anyway.

The Hunter Valley Operations coal project now has approval to operate to 2045 and generate 809 million tons of climate pollution.

Australia Institute research shows That no new coal or gas projects are compatible with limiting warming to 1.5°C. As the world transitions away from fossil fuels, AUSTRALIA is approving. New coal and gas.

This is a betrayal.

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ApaulD @apauld.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Data centres are energy vampires. They steal our water power land. They are an environmental disaster. So billionaires can make more money #climatechange #ai #datacenters #protest #billionaires #usa #australia #melbourne

Protesters standing outside an AI summit with two banners. “Data centres are energy vampires. They steal our water power land.

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ApaulD @apauld.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Data Centres-water & energy vampires 👿 #ai #datacenters #melbourne #australia -approved in & close to residential areas in Melbourne’s centre & west -use fossil fuels, huge emissions, emit noise, water drain -zero accountability - consultation ⏰4pm 📅 today Sept 7th 📌Melbourne Convention Centre

Poster: large red font. Energy Vampires Out 4pm Today Sept 7th Melbourne convention Centre

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ApaulD @apauld.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

“The easiest way to save our precious publicly owned native forests is for the government to rule out logging them. To suggest that the government cannot do this without a market mechanism is nonsense” #auspol #australia #nature #forest thepoint.com.au/new/260820-e...

Dense native Australian eucalyptus forest along a leafy path. 100 year old Scribbly bark gum trees with pale pink and orange brown trunks at the side of the path

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ApaulD @apauld.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

How would Mark Zuckerberg survive? #billionaires #taxtherich Or Gina Reinhart? They’d still have the money to buy our #politics #democracy #auspol youtube.com/post/UgkxGfY...

If voters in California approve the 5% billionaire wealth tax in November, Mark Zuckerberg would owe $10.5 billion in taxes & healthcare would be saved for 3 million low-income people.
Poor Mr. Zuckerberg would only have $200 billion left to feed his family. How will he survive?

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ApaulD @apauld.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

chapter & verse on why the oligarchs’ pursuit of the AI arms race is a (the?) central issue of our times. Did you know China is developing open source AI? substack.com/@empathicrev...

Image of walls of computers. At the top, words ‘Data Centres’ with a large eye underneath. At the bottom the sentence continues: “because calling them ‘’mass surveillance centres’ would cause a national uprising.

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ApaulD @apauld.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Want to fight against billionaires (& the trillionaire) #australia #politics #billionaires #taxtherich #protest #democracy beyondbillionaires.org

Photograph of Elon Musk on a pink background. Text reads: if you have $1 trillion in a world where children are starving, you’re not a visionary, you’re just an evil parasite.

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ApaulD @apauld.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

“Look at this astonishing chart and tell me we don’t have a billionaire wealth problem”. #billionaires #economy What do they do with all that money? Buy our political system. #politics #democracy #inequality Likewise in #australia www.linkedin.com/posts/robert...

Wealth growth in U.S. by income percentile showing that the income of .01% of the wealthiest 1% has exploded since 2010.

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ApaulD @apauld.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

We could pay for all of this if we had a fair taxation system. #billionaires #taxtherich #politics #auspol #democracy

A chart on a blue background. Two columns. First column - If we text rich people like this: for every dollar owned above 50 million, they pay two cents and for every dollar owned above 1 billion they pay one cent more. Second column – we could pay for all of this: universal childcare, lower housing cost by building millions of new homes, slash child poverty, expand Medicare, provide free community college and still have money left over

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ApaulD @apauld.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Billionaire owners & corporations can afford to clean up pollution. And pay compensation for their appalling climate pollution. We shouldn’t have to do this. Why doesn’t our government make them. #auspol #pollution #billionaires #taxtherich #taxwealthnotwork

Photograph of a footbridge over a highway with a banner hanging over the side of the hand rail. The banner reads “Make Big Polluters Pay”

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ApaulD @apauld.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Local artist Light Guerrilla projected "TAX THE RICH" on the side of Mark Zuckerberg's boat while it was docked at Seattle's Lake Union. 👏 Let’s do this to our billionaires. And politicians #australia #protest #billionaires #taxtherich

A photograph of a huge luxury ship with "TAX THE RICH" projected the side

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ApaulD @apauld.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Until recently this was beautiful forest in the Dandenong Ranges National Park #nature #australia #victoria Now it’s been gutted by logging, under the guise of storm clean up one example of the loopholes that allow habitat destruction to continue by stealth. support.vnpa.org.au/isnt-it-obvi...

Ariel photo of logged national park. Lush mature forest with large slashes of utterly destroyed bare earth.

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ApaulD @apauld.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

BHP ‘laughing’ at Australia’s key climate policy while pocketing hundreds of millions in tax breaks. #auspol #climatechange Laughing & profiting from destroying our world Like Gina. #taxtherich www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Photo of Gina Reinhart, Multi billionaire laughing hysterically. The written text says:"If you go back a million minutes, you reach 2023. Go back a billion minutes, you reach the Roman Empire - that's the scale of inequality we're living with." Zack Polanski

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ApaulD @apauld.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Our one year anniversary outside Josh Burns’ office protesting #australia Labor fossil fuel approvals and we’re celebrating (mourning?) All welcome Friday May 29th Josh Burns MP electoral office. 219 Barkley St St Kilda 12:30-1:30pm .

Photo of young girl with two thumbs down in front of a birthday cake and a plume of fire behind her. Text says: It’s been one year and we’re still here! Labor in bed with dirty gas!
Friday May 29th
Josh Burns MP electoral office.
219 Barkley St St Kilda
12:30-1:30pm

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ApaulD @apauld.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

#poltics #auspol This forum will explore various models of deliberative democracy, and the exciting possibility of a party of independents, chosen by their community members and deciding their policies using local & national assemblies. Free registration actionnetwork.org/events/peopl...

Text:
BEYOND BILLIONAIRES presents PEOPLE POWERED DEMOCRACY FORUM.
This Sunday, May 31, 2026.
2 to 4 pm
Carlton, Melbourne.

Photo of 3 speakers :
Eddie Kowalski and Craig Lambie from conversations at the crossroads.
Sonia Randhawa from the Sortition foundation
Andrew George & Jane Morton Beyond Billionaires

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ApaulD @apauld.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

“At the root of all our problems stands one travesty, politicians surrender to the superrich“ George Monbiot Public forum: People-Powered Democracy Sunday, May 31, 2026. 2 pm to 4 pm Kathleen Symes Library, Multi-Purpose Room 2. 251 Faraday Street, Carlton VIC 3053 #australia #politics

Photograph of Zuckerberg, Bezos, Musk standing in a line together in Washington DC. Text reads. “At the root of all our problems stands one travesty, politicians surrender to the superrich“ George Monbiot

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ApaulD @apauld.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

“The economic system is working as designed” Clara Mattei In 2009-2019 the top 10% secure almost all gains - 93% of income growth in that period. #taxtherich #auspol They hijack our politics to increase this wealth australiainstitute.org.au/wp-content/u...

Photo of a graph showing “Per adult real economic growth: Share of growth (%) going to the top 10% and bottom 90%” After WW2, the majority of economic growth benefit flowed to the bottom 90% of income earners. Since then that declines. In 2009-2019 the top 10% secure almost all gains - 93% of income growth in that period.

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ApaulD @apauld.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

“If you go back a million minutes, you reach 2023. Go back a billion minutes you reach the Roman Empire - that’s the scale of inequality we’re living with” Zack Polanski #taxtherich #capitalism #economics And we’re dealing with multi-billionaires

Photo of Gina Reinhardt Australian mining magnate laughing and the words “If you go back a million minutes, you reach 2023. Go back a billion minutes you reach the Roman Empire - that’s the scale of inequality we’re living with” Zack Polanski

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ApaulD @apauld.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

They blame migrants so you don’t blame billionaires #tax #billionaires #taxtherich #australia

Poster black & red text on white background.
“They blame migrants [insert Photograph of six Australian billionaires] so you don’t blame billionaires

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ApaulD @apauld.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

The Australian Youth Climate Coalition is asking we all send Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese & Treasurer, Jim Chalmers a clear message. It’s their future. Tax gas exports, not our future. @albomp.bsky.social

Two people at the side of a street holding up a banner that says “tax gas exports”

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ApaulD @apauld.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

St Kilda, Victoria #australia Thank you for all the photographs you share.

A beach scene with silvery grey clouds and smooth calm sea. A pier stretches on the horizon with an old style building, a cafe, to the right side. Three yachts are in the foreground and they are reflected in the calm sea.

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ApaulD @apauld.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) Swedish artist and mystic whose paintings are considered to be among the first major abstract works in Western art history. Her later period of abstract art (1906–1920)

Abstract painting in Orange & warm tones, circles & spiral shapes. By Hilma at Klint female artist. Swedish artist and mystic whose paintings are considered to be among the first major abstract works in Western art history.[1] A considerable body of her work predates the first purely abstract compositions by Kandinsky, Malevich, and Mondrian.

Hilma af Klint abstract work of circles spheres & spirals in blues & yellows.

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ApaulD @apauld.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

“The fossil fuel sector spends over $A5.7 billion every year on the politely-termed “communications and public affairs” (and pays almost no tax) #disinformation #auspol #fossilfuels lucyham29.substack.com/p/theres-a-w...

Text - The overall objective is not simply to convince, but to degrade the information environment itself, creating confusion, mistrust & institutional delegitimisation that weakens democratic decision- making on complex issues including climate and energy. The problem is becoming more acute with the emergence of even more powerful anti-climate- action coalitions, expansion of generative Al, and the global corporate consolidation of information
power.

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ApaulD @apauld.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

US Senator Elizabeth Warren #usa “"we need to stop fighting poverty and start fighting wealth. We need to stop debating the minimum wage and start debating the maximum wage." And enact it. #taxtherich

Meme by US Senator Elizabeth Warren #usa
“"we need to stop fighting poverty and start fighting wealth. We need to stop debating the minimum wage and start debating the maximum wage."
#taxtherich

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ApaulD @apauld.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Rising Tide added another message on a coal transport! 👏 “TAX ME” Naming a ship "Climate Respect" feels like they are just asking for it. #australia #activism #climate #energy #taxtherich

Photograph of a black and red coal transport tanker in Newcastle, named “climate respect“.. the words TAX ME are painted on the hull.

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ApaulD @apauld.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

word is that Marubeni may be very sensitive to protest & could be encouraged to walk away from this incredibly polluting coal mine extension. And if Marubeni walks away, the extension may not go ahead. #climate #activism #australia #japan

Poster: red & black text on white background “don’t expand Hail Creek Coal Mine”

Join a vigil at Marubeni Melbourne Office.
Tuesday 24th March 12pm-1pm 120 Collins Street

Join online action using vigil images on Wednesday March 25, 5-6pm

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ApaulD @apauld.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

1/ We are watching a tiny class of AI billionaires reshape society, redistribute political power, & embed themselves into government infrastructure without a single vote being cast. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Palantir CEO Alex Karp announced on camera that he is going to reduce the economic power of highly educated Democratic voters. In a recent CNBC interview, Palantir CEO Alex Karp stated that his AI disrupts humanities trained, largely Democratic voters and makes their economic power less, while increasing the economic power of vocational, working class, often male voters. He then had the audacity to admit these technologies are "dangerous societally," but justified it with a Cold War style argument thats if America doesn't do it, adversaries will. This isn't some fringe conspiracy. This is a sitting CEO, with billions in government contracts, telling you exactly what he's doing to your democracy while daring you to stop him.

The mechanism is straightforward and worth understanding. As AI automates the cognitive, analytical, and communications work that college educated professionals have built careers around, those white collar jobs shrink in value and number. The people most exposed are educated women who vote Democrat. Meanwhile, trade and vocational workers, the plumbers, electricians, and machinists who lean Republican and male, become harder to replace with software. Karp isn't just predicting this shift. He is building the technology that accelerates it, cashing Pentagon checks along the way, and calling it patriotism.

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ApaulD @apauld.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

@abcaustralia Please focus on WHY ”all the gas in the world doesn’t save us from price spikes during conflicts”. #journalism #media www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

Australians suffer high & spiking gas prices because our govt continues to allow the majority to be exported (for obscene corporate profit instead of used domestically. Moreover these companies pay minimal tax that could be used to fund the transition away from fossil fuel dependence.)

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ApaulD @apauld.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Peacefully greet 👋🏻 & message attendees at the Carbon Capture & Storage Conference #climatechange #fossilfuels #pollution #australia #auspol 📆Tuesday 24 February ⏰8:15am 📌501 Bourke Street Melbourne

POSTER TEXT Santos is coming. Shell is coming.
Madeline King & Martin Ferguson, current & former Mnisters for Resources will be there.
📆Tuesday 24 February
⏰8:15am
📌501 Bourke Street Melbourne

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ApaulD @apauld.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Telling truth to the Australian government. Every Friday 1230 to 1:30 pm. At Sarah Witty MP electoral office 142 Johnson Street, FITZROY, Naarm #auspol #climatechange #environment

Multiple banners along the footpath in front of Sarah witty MP Electoral Office on Johnson Street FITZROY Melbourne. Banners read: “Elected by you serving the fossil fuel lobby” and.” honk for climate action.”

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ApaulD @apauld.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Via @amywestervelt@journa.host a little chart showing the fossil fuel roots of a non-exhaustive list of modern political problems. drilled.ghost.io/content/imag...

chart showing the fossil fuel roots of a non-exhaustive list of modern political problems. Very complex so really difficult to describe here. But a short list includes interactions between : climate change, tech takeover, Greenland, Gaza, Epstein files, Venezuela, ICE,

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ApaulD @apauld.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

No meme but here’s a list from 2024.

Text lists:
Australian Atlas units
(formerly listed on Atlas partners web page)

The Institute of Public Affairs (Think tank, Melbourne)
The Centre for Independent Studies (Think tank, Sydney)
The Australian Taxpayers Alliance (Think tank, Sydney)
Australian Institute for Progress (Think tank, Brisbane)
Mannkal Economic Education Foundation (Training
organisation, Perth)

Indirect affiliates (unlisted but linked by personnel
or funding)
Advance Australia (Campaign organisation, Canberra)
Sydney Institute
CPAC Australia - Conservative Political Action Network

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ApaulD @apauld.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

there is no right to free speech in Australia’s constitution. Laws to suppress free speech in VIC & NSW are currently being challenged in our courts. #auspol #politics #democracy We have to fight for our right to protest. 📍 Vic State Parliament 🗓️ Tuesday Feb 3rd ⏰ 5:30pm

Purple poster calling on people to stand up for the right to protest. Text “We have to fight for our right to protest. 📍 Vic State Parliament 🗓️ Tuesday Feb 3rd ⏰ 5:30pm”

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ApaulD @apauld.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

TODAY Friday 30 January 12:30-1:30pm continuing every Friday in 2026 @ Josh Burns MP electoral office, 219 Barkley St , St Kilda #melbourne #naarm to express our outrage Labor is about to approve fracking in the Kimberley! #energy #environment #australia

Street scene with banners & protesters. No New Coal & Gas. Stop New Gas. Labor destroys oldest art gallery in the world. Honk for climate action

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ApaulD @apauld.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Friday 23 Jan 12:30-1:30pm continuing every Friday in 2026 @ 219 Barkley St , St Kilda #melbourne #naarm Labor is about to approve fracking in the Kimberley! #australia #protest We gather at Josh Burns' office every Friday to express our outrage. Not in our names!

Background picture of a fire flare from a gas field. Text: Labour in bed with dirty gas. Vigil every Friday 12:30-1:30pm

People protesting outside Labor MP Josh Burns office. Banner: Stop new gas in WA & NT. PLACARD: Honk for climate action.

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ApaulD @apauld.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

firefighters are incredible. This coming heat is frightening.

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ApaulD @apauld.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Outing them. Mug shots for this article. #politics #democracy #australia #auspol Hoping people are starting to cotton on www.afr.com/world/north-... archive.md/2FCAo

Poster of the faces & names of 9 billionaires under the text “ Lobby group of and for the rich. ADVANCE. A.K.A. Advance Australia. Below are some of Australia’s richest individuals funding Advance. Their aim: trying to direct your vote to where it benefits them. This undermines our democracy.

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ApaulD @apauld.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Australia’s climate action as of June 2025. #climatechange climateactiontracker.org/countries/au...

Click on the link for full information. Policies & action poor. Climate finance critically insufficient. Net zero target poor. Land use & forestry, Australia is a source of emissions.

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ApaulD @apauld.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Handy guide to the proposed amendments to the EPBC Act from Environmental Justice Australia #australia #auspol #environment #law

Chart Summary:
Deforestation- no meaningful improvement
National Standards - mixed
Independent Umpire - yes (but needs teeth)
First Nation Rights - no meaningful improvement
National leadership - worse than current law
Threatened species - mixed
Fair Transparent System - worse than current law

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ApaulD @apauld.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

How should proposed federal environmental legislation be improved? #australia #environment #nature #law

Photograph of text reads:

The draft reforms must be amended so that all actions and decisions under the Act are required to meet the national standards, including:

approval decisions and setting conditions for approvals
bilateral agreement accreditations and approval declarations
rulings
bioregional plan decisions
strategic assessments.
In addition, the draft laws should be amended so that:

the non-regression principle is clearer and cannot be undermined
the mitigation hierarchy does not allow companies to pay to destroy
unacceptable impacts are defined in line with community expectations about protecting nature from development, and giving certainty about where and when projects cannot proceed.

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ApaulD @apauld.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

“Advance Australia recently passed 500,000 supporters on its email list. It raised funds on the back of an email drive after being called before a parliamentary inquiry into disinformation…Monthly donors jumped from 2500 to 3500 in the past 2 months, its income stream hit $1.5 mil a year.“ Scary!!

Photo of full text quote:
“Advance Australia recently passed 500,000 supporters on its email list. It raised funds on the back of an email drive after being called before a parliamentary inquiry into disinformation. Its committed monthly donors jumped from 2500 to 3500 in the past two months and its income stream hit $1.5 million a year. Another 40,000 donors have given money at least once and its social media reach is huge. In just the past four weeks, across all platforms, it had 25.68 million views and 1.57 million interactions with followers.”

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ApaulD @apauld.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Can you believe there's a coal ship called Climate Justice?! 🤯🤮Hats off to the legend who painted the message on its hull “TAX ME”

A coal ship in a river port (probably Newcastle Australia) named Climate Justice. Graffiti on the hull under the ships name reads “TAX ME”

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ApaulD @apauld.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Make history. The People’s Blockade of the World’s Largest Coal Port! Nov 27 - Dec 2 Newcastle #risingtide #protest #australia #climatechange www.risingtide.org.au/pb2025

Colourful poster of a crowd of people in front of a river with coal ship and the words: Make history. The People’s Blockade of the World’s Largest Coal Port! Nov 27 - Dec 2 Newcastle

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ApaulD @apauld.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Is that the truth? Or did Sky News tell you? Anti-Sky News sticker. It prints out on A4 sticker stock (Officeworks #australia) #media #journalism #disinformation

Is that the truth? Or did Sky News tell you? Sticker text

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ApaulD @apauld.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Daylesford side-street, 4:30pm 30Sep: 2x Triple Jinkers fully loaded to go & 3rd Double on way from log-dump to join convoy! Recent logging from Osborne Rd, Wombat State Park 🪵 National Park legislation to be introduced to Parliament in November #australia #nature #trees #animals #logging

Huge pile of mature tree logs removed from Wombat State Park

First photo: huge trucks fully loaded with logs that were recently 80 year old native tree habitat & carbon sinks.

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