Reposted by Avril 📎 🇦🇺 🇳🇿mariewalsh18.bsky.social @mariewalsh18.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Same here. 1323165 231
Reposted by Avril 📎 🇦🇺 🇳🇿Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 29/09/2026Australian households — world leaders in solar panel installations — are adding new units at the fastest pace in five years, defying forecasts for a slowdown as the grid pivots at pace toward renewables.bloom.bgAustralia’s World-Leading Household Solar Buildout Continues to SurpriseAustralian households — world leaders in solar panel installations — are adding new units at the fastest pace in five years, defying forecasts for a slowdown as the grid pivots at pace toward renewables. 22112 21
Reposted by Avril 📎 🇦🇺 🇳🇿𝘈𝘭𝘦𝘹𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘔𝘤𝘒𝘪𝘯𝘭𝘦𝘺 🍁 @ajohmss1956.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I don't think I've ever heard an American president threaten to annihilate another country during a speech to the UN. You must all be so proud. 65044701132 4.5K
Reposted by Avril 📎 🇦🇺 🇳🇿Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Healthcare workers belong in hospitals, not detention centers. Over 100 nurses rallied outside Maine Medical Center in Portland on Aug 5, forcing ICE to release Debora Kapisha on Aug 6. Organize, speak out, and demand permanent protection for essential workers. 🎥NowThisImpact 228125164563 12.5K
Reposted by Avril 📎 🇦🇺 🇳🇿The DILETTANTE @demwar.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Australia 2026 A social cohesion envoy who is the largest driver of social disunity An anti corruption commission being investigated for corruption A sovereign program that builds the sovereign capability of other nations A defence Minister who increases our likelihood of being attacked 1515060 150
Reposted by Avril 📎 🇦🇺 🇳🇿Andrew Lissiman @andrewlissiman.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Aukus is actually a nuclear waste contract wrapped up in bright submarine wrapping paper ☢️ 162 6
Reposted by Avril 📎 🇦🇺 🇳🇿Australian Unions @australianunions.bsky.social · 24/05/2026Young workers don’t need an investment portfolio. They need a fair shot at owning one home. 1257 25
Reposted by Avril 📎 🇦🇺 🇳🇿BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 14/05/2026The West is appalled by the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. Couldn't care less about the blockade of Cuba, the Ethnic Cleansing of Lebanon or the continuing Genocide in Gaza. 514545 145
Reposted by Avril 📎 🇦🇺 🇳🇿Jack Cousteau ⚓️ @angrywaterman.bsky.social · 08/05/2026The billionaires don't appear to understand how much we hate AI and their data centers. 1201312215 1.3K
Reposted by Avril 📎 🇦🇺 🇳🇿Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 13/04/2026Trump is processing his grief over Victor Orban’s crushing defeat by attacking the leader of the largest Christian organization on earth. 24574117 574
Reposted by Avril 📎 🇦🇺 🇳🇿BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 01/04/2026The USA can and should be stripped of the World Cup and the Olympics it is not a safe country. 18769601222 7K
Reposted by Avril 📎 🇦🇺 🇳🇿Econ Analytica @econanalytica.bsky.social · 31/03/2026Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social 204182266718 18.2K
Reposted by Avril 📎 🇦🇺 🇳🇿Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 13/03/2026As one high ranking official quoted another former high ranking official who, when asked why there aren’t women at negotiating tables, said: “Women? They’ll go to the enemy, make peace and the wars will end!” That describes it pretty well. 26706214 706
Reposted by Avril 📎 🇦🇺 🇳🇿🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 03/03/2026“Repeated shocks like this push countries to reassess what energy security really means. Wind, solar, storage, and, where available, hydro are not immune to operational challenges. they increasingly look less like a climate choice and more like a stability strategy.”nationalobserver.comFossil fuels will be collateral damage in Trump’s war on IranCanada's oil and gas industry and the politicians in its thrall will use the US attack on Iran as a justification for more pipelines. In reality, it will actually erode the economic case for them. 04522 45
Reposted by Avril 📎 🇦🇺 🇳🇿Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) 🦠🤧🧬📑🦟🧀 @mackayim.bsky.social · 09/02/2026Our eyes don't lie. Resorting to brutal and unnecessary physical violence against peaceful protests is wrong. And who put the police in this allegedly 'impossible situation'? Don't gaslight Australia. We're not the US. Yet. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...theguardian.comSydney protest: NSW premier defends police in ‘impossible situation’ after accusations of violence against protestersPoliticians who attended protest against visit of Israeli president Isaac Herzog say police actions against demonstrators were ‘wildly inappropriate’ 23711 37
Reposted by Avril 📎 🇦🇺 🇳🇿Denise Difficult-Shrivell @deniseshrivell.bsky.social · 09/02/2026A post from 2019. We’ve been betrayed 😞😞 #auspol 17299140 299
Reposted by Avril 📎 🇦🇺 🇳🇿Ky @ky.fyi · 22/01/2026bro there’s a gofundme to crowdfund attorney fees for a preschooler who was kidnapped by our federal government and shipped across state lines and his senator is posting about high school hockey while every other elected official is debating whether to give a zillion more dollars to the kidnappers 78114953724 11.5K
Reposted by Avril 📎 🇦🇺 🇳🇿Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 20/01/2026Maybe Greenland could invade us instead? 48297943459 9.8K
Avril 📎 🇦🇺 🇳🇿 @avrilm.bsky.social · 17/01/2026substack.com/@lisagranger...substack.comLCG (@lisagranger1)Alright, I’m saying this as an Australian who is absolutely sick to death of watching the world hold its breath every time this blabbering blubbering blithering blustering baffoon opens his grotesque... 021 2
Reposted by Avril 📎 🇦🇺 🇳🇿Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 16/01/2026Reading all these mealy-mouthed statements together, there are common themes: 'safety', 'sensitivity' and 'division'. This is the Israel lobby's script; hosing down anyone who dares criticize Israel's apartheid, genocide and ethnic cleansing, while pretending it's about Jews under attack. #auspol 02813 28
Reposted by Avril 📎 🇦🇺 🇳🇿Ashley Zacharias @ashleyzacharias.bsky.social · 05/01/2026The weirdest thing about Americans is how many of them think their laws apply to every person in the world. But they're certain other countries' laws don't apply to them. 808173462836 17.3K
Reposted by Avril 📎 🇦🇺 🇳🇿Wendy Harmer @wendyharmer.bsky.social · 17/10/2025My good God, reading about USA politics is both exhausting and scary. Here in Australia, we should be both alert and alarmed. Protect our precious and fragile democracy - with its checks and balances- to stop the contagion. 2973551508 3.6K
Reposted by Avril 📎 🇦🇺 🇳🇿BouncingBison @bouncingbison.bsky.social · 27/09/2025This is American innovation. A country so efficient at war that it can invade a country without needing to leave its own country. 2487 48
Reposted by Avril 📎 🇦🇺 🇳🇿Tempvsfvgit76 @tempvsfvgit76.bsky.social · 24/09/2025Non American here. So many of us are just sick and tired of Americans and all the bullshit. Yes there are millions of good and decent Americans but some stereotypes exist for a reason. Trump is also a major symptom of the ills of America, not the disease. 0132 13
Reposted by Avril 📎 🇦🇺 🇳🇿Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 19/09/2025So if anti-fascists are Trump’s political enemies, what does that make Trump? 42063631537 6.4K
Reposted by Avril 📎 🇦🇺 🇳🇿Texas Paul @realtexaspaul.com · 15/09/2025Live your life in such a way that when you die people aren't ashamed to quote the shit you said. 1094687948 4.7K
Reposted by Avril 📎 🇦🇺 🇳🇿The Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com · 25/08/2025It’s taken years for Australia to ban three types of forever chemicals. But Europe plans to ban thousands of these chemicals to avoid future issues.theconversation.comAustralia has banned 3 ‘forever chemicals’ – but Europe wants to ban all 14,000. This precautionary approach makes clear sense 0148 14
Reposted by Avril 📎 🇦🇺 🇳🇿Chris Dwan (he/him) @somershade.bsky.social · 30/06/2025> Open Internet You open the internet. The government is gutting science and social services to fund a literal masked gestapo. Wars are spiraling out of control. Millions are dying of preventable disease. A woman spent $9M on a wedding dress and [Ctrl-C] > Open puzzle game 21504104 504
Reposted by Avril 📎 🇦🇺 🇳🇿Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 03/06/2025The environment isn't 'an issue' It is life itself 622382 223
Reposted by Avril 📎 🇦🇺 🇳🇿Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19/05/2025Today is unfortunately a good reminder of just how depraved many Trump supporters are. It should be the easiest thing in the world to just wish someone well in light of a devastating health diagnosis. That they can't even meet that very low bar says a lot about their character. 48196311840 9.6K
Reposted by Avril 📎 🇦🇺 🇳🇿Denise Difficult-Shrivell @deniseshrivell.bsky.social · 06/05/2025Tim Wilson will be a clear and constant reminder of why so many of us don't vote for the Liberal Party #auspol 75990156 990
Reposted by Avril 📎 🇦🇺 🇳🇿Democratic Activists @democratswin.bsky.social · 05/05/2025 152141463136 14.1K
Avril 📎 🇦🇺 🇳🇿 @avrilm.bsky.social · 04/05/2025open.substack.comWelcome to Country, Mr DuttonIt's beautiful country 010 1
Reposted by Avril 📎 🇦🇺 🇳🇿Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 30/04/2025ICYMI, this excellent 4 minute clip is 🎯💥💯. Please watch, share, and vote accordingly. Some mainstream journos are also shining a light on #AtlasNetwork. But many are still too timid, lazy or complicit to highlight the truth behind Dutton's culture wars. #ausvotes #auspol 26730 67
Reposted by Avril 📎 🇦🇺 🇳🇿stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 27/04/2025Bridget McKenzie can’t help but laugh at the proposition of emissions going down under the LNP. David Speers, “is there anything you would do to bring down emissions in the next 10 years?’ McKenzie “LoL” It’s going to be even funnier when they lose the election 🤣 1419962 199
Reposted by Avril 📎 🇦🇺 🇳🇿Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 23/04/2025One of the most shocking things I have read for a while: t.co/lg46ijHLDF 20332955810564 29.6K
Reposted by Avril 📎 🇦🇺 🇳🇿6 News Australia @6newsau.bsky.social · 07/04/2025Opposition Leader Peter Dutton says the Coalition ‘got it wrong’ with its now-dumped policy to require all federal public servants to return to the office A promise to cut 41,000 Canberra-based public service jobs through forced redundancies has also been walked back 318313 83
Reposted by Avril 📎 🇦🇺 🇳🇿Blake Murdoch @blakemurdoch.bsky.social · 05/04/2025First stage capitalism lie: more stuff makes life good. ($$) Second stage capitalism lie: stuff doesn't make you happy, but experiences (travel and events) to make memories will ($$$$) Reality: a good life comes from surrounding yourself with kind and principled people instead of assholes. 1124 12
Reposted by Avril 📎 🇦🇺 🇳🇿Josie McSkimming @josiemcskimming.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Vote Dutton, you get Trump. Simple as that. @cathywilcox.bsky.social nails it. #auspol #AustraliaVotes 2156 15
Reposted by Avril 📎 🇦🇺 🇳🇿The DILETTANTE @demwar.bsky.social · 31/03/2025Vote like your best mate is indigenous, your daughter is gay, your uncle is on NDIS, your brother is on the poverty line, your neighbour is an immigrant and your kids have to live on this planet for decades after you leave. 43974367 974
Reposted by Avril 📎 🇦🇺 🇳🇿Rex Patrick @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social · 27/03/2025Senior officials brazenly admit to using disappearing message apps for Govt business - a clear violation of law (a crime under s24(1) of the Archives Act). The bureaucratic lawlessness that enabled #robodebt is alive and well. The AFP should act. #auspoltheguardian.comAustralian home affairs secretary admits to using disappearing messages on Signal for workIn wake of Trump administration group chat scandal, department’s chief operating officer tells Senate there is no ban on staff using the feature 1611454 114
Reposted by Avril 📎 🇦🇺 🇳🇿Ravenna @ravenna321.bsky.social · 25/03/2025Hegseth's playing a dangerous game of chicken by denying this. Goldberg says he has more texts about this, super sensitive info he voluntarily held back. Or are they going to say he got the info some other way and put him in jail? This is the 'Anything Goes' administration, who knows? 1163 16
Reposted by Avril 📎 🇦🇺 🇳🇿Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 18/03/2025Israel just killed hundreds of Palestinians, including kids. The US just killed dozens of Yemenis, including kids. "Why do they hate us?" asks the American public, blissfully ignorant of what's being done in its name in the Middle East by the US and its ally Israel. Sigh. 26185112233 8.5K