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Arno Schaaf

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Renewable energy and electrification nerd living on the NSW south coast

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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It's always good to know who you're really voting for. #auspol #Labor #Liberals #OneNation #Greens Image credit: @milesrandjack.bsky.social
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🌊🏄BlueWaveSurfer🏄🌊 @bluewavesurfer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Amante2 AmeliaBee7 @amante2ameliabee7.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
One Nation want an abortion ban. It’s all part of the MAGA playbook and it’s fundamentally misogynistic
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JRBsays @jrbsays.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
You know what not to do Victoria….right? www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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One Nation vows to abolish First Nations treaty and legalise pepper spray at Victorian campaign launch
Candidate Mark Nicholson said former premiers Daniel Andrews and Jacinta Allan would be ‘in prison by Christmas’ if One Nation won the election
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Do you know how much the pay of CEOs at major companies has skyrocketed since 1978? 50%? 100%? 500%? Try 1,316% Meanwhile, the typical workers’ compensation increased only 28%. This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.
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Arno Schaaf @aussiearnie.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
false www.climatecouncil.org.au/actions/end-...
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Call on the Federal Government to end the free ride for fossil fuels! - Climate Council
Join our call for Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and key Federal Ministers to stand up to fossil fuel corporations and protect the interests of all Australians
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Independent Media Australia. @indymediaaus.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026
SCRAP THE AGED CARE ALGORITHM. LET HUMANS DECIDE. Audrey has lived in her Perth home for 43 years. She's now 96 and blind, and needs just a few more hours of help each week to stay there. When a clinician came to her home, they could see Audrey's condition - […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
SCRAP THE AGED CARE ALGORITHM. LET HUMANS DECIDE.
Audrey has lived in her Perth home for 43 years. She's now 96 and blind, and needs just a few more hours of help each week to stay there.
When a clinician came to her home, they could see Audrey's condition - but they weren't allowed to make a decision. A computer algorithm was. And the algorithm said no.
That's how aged care works in Australia now. Since last November, every older person assessed for a Support at Home package has their care decided by a government algorithm. The trained clinician sitting in their kitchen is banned from overruling it. Not even when they can see it's wrong.
And it gets decisions wrong constantly. Health departments in five states and territories warned Canberra, some within days. The government kept it running.
We need to fix this, fast - and we can. The Senate has already passed a bill putting humans back in charge of these decisions. But Labor is blocking it in the House. MPs are privately admitting they're getting an earful from voters. A big enough public demand right now can push them to act.
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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Please. Never ever tell me that there's "faults on both sides." Israel is the oppressor. Israel has engaged in a brutal illegal occupation of Gaza and the West Bank for decades. #IsraeliWarCrimes #GazaGenocide #EndTheOccupation #FreePalestine
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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Here's a French video (with English subtitles) about what would happen if the far-right racists got their way and all foreigners and people of colour were forced to leave.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I resigned from ExxonMobil today. I spent the last three years doing fossil fuel extraction research at both BP and ExxonMobil. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing to maximize extraction while the window to act closes, and gambling with our lives. More below.
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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Offset shills: "a strong ACCU market w increasing prices over time [..] Investors & landholders need confidence there will be demand in the future" But "The only reason a country needs to create more ‘carbon offsets’ is because it expects to fail to decarbonise." (👀@louisemorris.bsky.social 👇)
Screenshot of a LinedIn post from Growing Australia's Nature Economy (GANE)

Australia has a once-in-a-generation opportunity to bring more private investment into climate and nature projects and build on the benefits these projects are already delivering across the country.

That was the core message from our recent roundtable with Assistant Minister Josh Wilson MP. Environmental markets can play a much bigger role, but investors need confidence. That means credible outcomes, clear and consistent policy and, above all, a strong Australian Carbon Credit Unit (ACCU) market with increasing prices over time.

These projects require significant upfront investment and commitments that can last for decades. Investors and landholders need confidence there will be demand in the future and that the rules won't keep changing. Strong compliance markets provide that demand, while voluntary investment from businesses, investors and philanthropists can help fund new ideas and projects beyond what regulation requires. We need both.

Government also has an important role to play. Good environmental markets need credible methods, science, data, measurement, registries and regulation. They also need trusted organisations that can connect landholders with science, policy and investment, including Landcare Australia, First Nations organisations, agricultural groups and natural resource management organisations.

As the Nature Repair Market develops, we should build on what Australia already does well. Accounting for Nature, Reef Credits and other credible voluntary initiatives have created experience and expertise we can use rather than starting again from scratch.One particularly important point came from First Nations participants, who increasingly talk about "core benefits" rather than "co-benefits". Cultural, social, economic and environmental outcomes aren't necessarily extras attached to these projects. They can be fundamental to their value.

Environmental markets aren't the whole answer. Australia cannot offset its way to net zero. We need to reduce emissions and draw carbon from the atmosphere, alongside conservation, regulation and community action.

But markets can do something incredibly important: bring private money into projects at a scale that government and philanthropy cannot achieve alone.

The opportunity is there. The job now is to create the confidence needed for that capital to flow.

Murray Watt Lena Saboisky Barry J Hunter North Australian Indigenous Land and Sea Management Alliance Ben Sawley Pastoral Partners Australia Bill Hurditch David Brand Goslik Schepers Izzy Jensen Transition
Accelerator James Schultz GreenCollar Australian Climate and Biodiversity
Foundation Sally Higgins Sasha Courville Carbon Market Institute
(CMI) Brendan Foran Alasdair MacLeod Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water Shane Gaddes Kate Saunders Australian Ethical
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Miriam Cosic @miriamcosic.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I too am “very, very worried” about bad people using AI to perpetrate mass atrocities. I’m also very, very worried about AI doing so on its own—without the help of people at all. If you have any good ideas about how to limit these risks, now would be a good time to speak up.
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Anthropic report: could AI + synthetic biology = bioweapons?
Anthropic voluntarily blocked five concerning chats, but there are no legal guardrails to protect against potentially nefarious use.
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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Age bars are not a solution, but a symptom of refusing to accurately state a problem The problem is not that children are accessing addictive, harmful platforms that reward bullying and immiseration of their users It is that we are not stopping addictive, harmful platforms from exploiting everyone
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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I didn't speak up when RFK Jr.'s incompetence came for the lettuce. I didn't make a peep when his incompetence came for the alfalfa sprouts. But now this carcass eating, mind worm, vaccine denying SOB is coming for my cream cheese? Fuck Kennedy and this whole administration!!
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MingTheMerciless @mingthemercyless.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Israel appears determined to alienate every friend it ever had, and for what? So that Netanyahu can cling to power, and the so-called 'settlers' can continue to steal land & murder its lawful residents? www.theguardian.com/film/2026/se...
theguardian.com
John Malkovich cancels Israel trip over fabricated solidarity quote
The Wild Horse Nine actor had been due to appear on stage in The Music Critic in Tel Aviv – but pulled out over PR firm’s ‘unacceptable and untenable’ attribution of statement
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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Given the Coalition is now suddenly very concerned over what will happen if people retire while renting, a reminder they knew this was coming while Frydenberg was treasurer - their own review into retirement income highlighted this was a problem. They did nothing. treasury.gov.au/publication/...
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Retirement Income Review - Final Report | Treasury.gov.au
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Richard Marles, Australia’s Defence Minister, went to the US and surrendered even more control of our defence and our country to the US and its global war machine. Who are these people working for? This makes us less safe, more of a target and less in free. It’s a betrayal.
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Arno Schaaf @aussiearnie.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Of course Hegseth is incompetent. That was clear before he was confirmed. Like with many other Trump appointees, why did the Senate not do its job and reject these obviously unsuitable candidates? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Captain calamity: Pete Hegseth under fire for ‘inept’ leadership of US military
The US defense secretary faces internal dissent and discord at the Pentagon, accused of focusing on culture war issues and his own political ambitions as the Iran war drags on
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The Saturday Paper @thesaturdaypaper.com.au · 05/09/2026
Editorial: “My view of the country was bigger than the country’s view of itself, but the vision will never deteriorate,” said Paul Keating. The problem with Australia is that it has no vision. It’s like a jumper after a run through the hot cycle. trib.al/x1ThXW5
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The vision ended
It is no great stretch to imagine who Paul Keating has in mind when he describes the state of Australian politics. ‘Timidity,’ he says, ‘is like a virus in the bloodstream.’ He says: ‘My view of the country was bigger than the country’s view of itself, but the vision will never deteriorate.’
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 05/09/2026
“This is probably one of the larger, if not the largest, climate events…that anybody alive is potentially ever experiencing.”
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This “supersized” El Niño is only just beginning to wreak its havoc
Its likely consequences"are so large, I’m not sure we fully understand them.”
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 05/09/2026
Rome wasn't overthrown in a day. Oligarchies are stubborn, and by the time they've established and entrenched themselves, they have resources, power blocs and even mercenaries they can deploy to repel would-be dethroners.
A woodcut engraving of a courtroom scene in which the divorcee has thrown herself into the arms of one of the lawyers and they are about to kiss. The image has been altered: the heads of the judge, the court clerk and both lawyers have been replaced by green Android 'droid' mascots in judicial powdered wigs. The judge's bench sports a pixelated, 1998-era 'I'm feeling lucky' Google button.
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
If you privatise the profits from fossil fuels, you can’t keep socialising the costs of the damage. Those who’ve profited should pay their fair share of the impacts. That’s why Spain’s push for an EU oil and gas tax to help fund climate adaptation is worth supporting. www.ft.com/content/86da...
ft.com
Spain pushes for EU oil and gas tax to pay for climate change response
Rising extreme weather costs fuel campaign ahead of new resilience strategy
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God @thegodshow.com · 31/08/2026
I am so sick and tired of corporate media obsessing about made-up bullshit while people can’t afford to eat.
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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Overwhelmed by grief at: • Israel's ongoing horrific atrocities • the boastful arrogance of the Zionist Lobby re its control of the US, UK and Australian Govts • the cowardice & complicity of our Australian state and federal govts Can't sleep. 😔 #auspol #nswpol #FreePalestine #SaveLebanon
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God @thegodshow.com · 28/08/2026
Remember that time South Koreans rose up and arrested their president because he tried to incite AN INSURRECTION? Be like the South Koreans! 🇰🇷
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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Adapting to climate change without ending the fossil fuel industry.
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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
From De Strandharker.. just lovely
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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
40 current and fmr IDF soldiers are traveling to Australia to participate in the #SydneyMarathon on 30Aug! Superb commentary re this. 👇 😨 #auspol #nswpol #ZomiFrankcom #GazaGenocide #FreePalestine
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Brittlestar @brittlestar.com · 23/08/2026
A Message From The Government of Canada Regarding the US Trade War
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livesarah @livesarah.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Justice is found in the courts, claims Hillel Newman. Meanwhile: “Conviction rates for Palestinians tried in military courts run to 99.74 percent. In contrast, the conviction rate from 2005 to 2024 for Israelis tried for crimes committed in the West Bank is about 3 percent” Apartheid lies.
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‘This is an apartheid regime’: Critics decry Israel’s new death penalty law
Celebrations in the Israeli parliament mark the passing of legislation intended to apply to Palestinians only.
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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Ambassador Hillel Newman defends Israel’s farce of an investigation into Zomi Frankcom's killing, then pivots to attacking Aussie protesters with already-debunked false claims. Australia shouldn't tolerate this contempt. He must be expelled.
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 18/08/2026
To protect South Australia’s Limestone Coast, The Australia Institute is calling on Parliament to abandon the Energy Resources (Regulated Activities) Bill and instead legislate a permanent ban on fracking in the region. Read more on The Point ⤵️ theaus.in/4ggodOB
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
🚨🚨🚨BREAKING: ASIO no. 2 is being rushed through parliament this week. This is the bill that allows warrantless questioning by ASIO, without a lawyer, and you can't tell a soul without being sent to prison. Share this widely and make some noise.
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Lisa Cox @lisacox.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
A little penguin has died from H5 bird flu on Victoria’s Phillip Island.
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First Australian death of little penguin with H5 bird flu confirmed on Phillip Island
Authorities confirm first Australian death of species found with virus near where it attracts crowds to a ‘penguin parade’
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God @thegodshow.com · 14/08/2026
Their assets are frozen, construction is suspended, and their deal is under investigation for fraud. SMITE!
thegodshow.com
Bless The Albanians Who Stopped Jared And Ivanka
Dear Humans,
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Arno Schaaf @aussiearnie.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
It’s a high bar…. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Will Trump’s next press secretary be a better liar than the first five?
As Karoline Leavitt plans to step down, it’s apparent how the president above all values a readiness to twist the truth
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Arno Schaaf @aussiearnie.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Why should individuals shoulder the responsibility and the cost of reducing emissions, whilst big corporates do nothing? www.climatecouncil.org.au/actions/end-...
climatecouncil.org.au
Call on the Federal Government to end the free ride for fossil fuels! - Climate Council
Join our call for Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and key Federal Ministers to stand up to fossil fuel corporations and protect the interests of all Australians
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Pierre Polyester @canadian-critic.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 11/08/2026
“What is helping fuel antisemitism in this country… is the notion that Israel is the collective Jew.” @eliclifton.com and Ian Lustick, co-authors of ‘Israel’s Lobby,’ talk to @mehdirhasan.bsky.social about the outsized influence of AIPAC. Watch the full interview: zeteo.com/p/aipac-expo...
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Independent Australia @independentaus.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
'Australia therefore needs a balanced strategy. Data-centre approvals should reflect demonstrable demand, energy availability and rapidly changing technology.' Australia needs AI skills — not just more data centres ~ Paul Budde independentaustralia.net/business/bus...
independentaustralia.net
Australia needs AI skills — not just more data centres
Data-centre approvals should reflect demonstrable demand, energy availability and rapidly changing technology.
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Rob Arnol @robertarnol.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Morning. ☕️
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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Highly profitable health insurers BUPA, NIB, HCF, Medibank dragging Australia towards a US-style 'managed health system' by stealth Claudia Weisenberger v important story #auspol michaelwest.com.au/buyer-beware...
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Buyer beware. Private health insurance funds are in your GP's office - Michael West
Private health insurers are making their way into your doctor's office and the specialists they refer you to. It may not be to your benefit.
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Dr Sally @drsally.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... A shocking tecord Sack Segal Support is needed for First Nations not foreign interferers
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A record number of First Nations people died in NSW prison custody last year. Advocates fear this year will be worse
Exclusive: Karlene Whitton says her son Matthew Roberts took his own life three months into his jail term. ‘I keep picturing it every night’
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Rob Arnol @robertarnol.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
No! This is Australia, not some vassal state of Israel!
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The Point @thepointau.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
"But this is all propping up a dying resource and is likely to be a total waste of $15b, let alone the desperate shepherding of Asian oil products into our transport system” writes Professor Peter Newman & Professor Ray Wills. Read the full piece on The Point: thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
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Arno Schaaf @aussiearnie.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
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Sign the Petition
We Demand Accountability: Remove Jillian Segal from Public Office
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🍁 Danimac67 🍁 @danimac67.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
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GroovyShelly @groovyshelly.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Epstein files aren't worth seeing or discussing, but Fauci's personal diary...? THERE's our new distraction. I'd listen to this remarkable woman.
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