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Carol Andersen

@carolandersen.bsky.social
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Adelaide musician & hopeful artist! Definitely to the left of politics & believer in human rights. Also likes gardening, fountain pen addict & anything to do with science, archaeology etc.

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Robert Maxwell @robmax4.bsky.social · 18h
theconversation.com/the-coalitio...
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The Coalition’s migration policy rests on a series of false premises
The long-awaited plan includes cutting net overseas migration by two thirds and a crackdown on visa-hopping, but it’s all built on shaky foundations.
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Carol Andersen @carolandersen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
More for Inktober - Day 4 Cactus
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Carol Andersen @carolandersen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
#Inktober2026 I posted my previous day's efforts on Threads but unfortunately it seems Threads is now doing strange things so moving over here. My "miniature" elephant getting loud with my coffee & cookie!
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Ewart, Dave @davidewart.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
heres us doing a gig for the full moon . its a fun thing to do / a themed street gig youtu.be/lJtSTgrAQWI?...
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Latrobe community concert band full moon tunes performance
YouTube video by davey ewart
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Kon Karapanagiotidis @kkarapanagiotidis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Victorian Police are investigating after our 2 ASRC Catering Social Enterprise Vans were stolen. To those who have reached out asking how they can help. There’s two ways: Chip in to help cover what insurance won’t: donate.asrc.org.au Call 000 if you spot either of our ASRC Catering white vans
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Shani 🫧 (Bluesky hates Palestinians) @mom4medicare4all.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
abc.net.au
Israel blocks wheelchairs bound for Gaza - ABC listen
Australian-made wheelchairs intended for injured children in Gaza have been barred from entering the territory by the Israeli government. Hundreds of wheelchairs have been sitting in Jordan waiting f...
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Carol Andersen @carolandersen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I've been using the Gmail app on my phone since it existed. Now so full of bloatware AI that it takes forever to load & just sits there doing nothing. So I downloaded Thunderbird. And it worked immediately. So not the server, only Google. #Google
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Carol Andersen @carolandersen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Catching a few spare moments between musical things to draw some mushrooms!
Drawing of mushrooms
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Ewart, Dave @davidewart.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Annual findings from the Stockholm-based International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA) show democratic metrics in the United States hitting their lowest levels in five decades.
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Carol Andersen @carolandersen.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... Don't fall for this Victorians! #auspol
theguardian.com
Alarming AI ads are flooding social media in the lead-up to Victoria’s election. But who is behind them?
A machete-wielding robber, a ‘tsunami of debt’ … campaigns echoing opposition talking points outspend major parties
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Carol Andersen @carolandersen.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I spent all weekend at the Adelaide Recorder workshop as a nice change from my usual rock saxophonist gig. Fun to play some baroque & early music as well as some contemporary pieces. Here's my pet - unfortunately couldn't play the descant as one of my fingers was a bit swollen (too much playing!)
Moeck recorder
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Jim Chalmers @jimchalmers.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
GET THE FACTS: Australia's gross debt as a share of GDP is substantially lower under us than what our predecessors forecast in 2022. Gross debt in the last financial year was almost $200 billion lower than what we inherited.
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T @terry-157.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
abc.net.au
Facebook pays controversial creators to produce rage-bait content
An ABC NEWS Verify investigation reveals Facebook is directly funding some controversial Australian content creators including a white nationalist and an anti-vaxxer influencer.
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Carol Andersen @carolandersen.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
#Artist Feeling like I wasn't getting anywhere with my drawing & had to find an old photo (totally unrelated to art). Saw some drawings from 7 years ago & suddenly realised I had improved, it just wasn't a huge & fast process. Might go back & redo some of the same subjects just for comparison.
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Carol Andersen @carolandersen.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Apart from trying to sell me TV streaming services I don't want, what is the point of Google TV? I only want to stream a few Netflix things etc from my phone (because the TV interface via the remote is dreadful). Who thought this was a good idea to come pre installed on a TV set?
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Debbie Northway 🇦🇺🦘🐨 @debbienorthway.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
#auspol #Australia #Pauline
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Debbie Northway 🇦🇺🦘🐨 @debbienorthway.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
#auspol #Australia #OneNation
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Carol Andersen @carolandersen.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
A delicious post from Threads! 😂😂😂
A conversation ,
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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Every time I see #TimWilson trying to position himself as a moderate Liberal, I remind myself of his rapacious years as an anti-regulatory hothead for the #IPA. See examples here simonchapman6.com/2026/06/28/p...
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Raymond Wilton @raymondwilton.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... Man who defended Hitler Youth organisation, used offensive & racist language about Aboriginal people & migrants is working as a policy development officer for One Nation in QLD. & rhinehart owns part of Ch7, & now supports, (unsurprisingly) rhinehart’s one nation
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Carol Andersen @carolandersen.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
#Pelargoniums Heading into winter & looking forward to these next spring! I've been tidying up & making sure everything is healthy. A frost free area so they just sit outside & get very wet!
Three varieties of pelargoniums
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Debbie Northway 🇦🇺🦘🐨 @debbienorthway.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
#auspol #Australia #OneNation
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Carol Andersen @carolandersen.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
youtube.com/watch?v=FLxK... One for you @davidewart.bsky.social ! I'm soloing at the end. This is the Trad jazz band I play with every month.
youtube.com
apex blues bari metal mouthpiece
YouTube video by WIP25
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Here's a National Science Foundation paper I worked on that will be impossible under the regime's proposed rules. We study evolution, which happens across the entire globe. We had collaborators in Argentina, in Australia, in Germany. We cannot do our kind of science in one country.
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The beetle tree of life reveals that Coleoptera survived end‐Permian mass extinction to diversify during the Cretaceous terrestrial revolution
Here we present a phylogeny of beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera) based on DNA sequence data from eight nuclear genes, including six single-copy nuclear protein-coding genes, for 367 species representing ...
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Carol Andersen @carolandersen.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Band gig tonight & rain is coming down by the bucket load. I'm sure we'll enjoy playing to the 6 people who make it to the gig without being washed away. 😑 #musicians
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Debbie Northway 🇦🇺🦘🐨 @debbienorthway.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
#auspol #Australia #NDIS
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Debbie Northway 🇦🇺🦘🐨 @debbienorthway.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Why is News Corp attacking tax reform? Because it’s actually a real estate company News Corp’s controlling share of REA Group is worth about $13.75 billion — about 65% of News Corp’s entire market value. No wonder The Australian is tut-tutting so hard. #Auspol #Australia
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Damian Lynch 🟧 🇦🇺 Rebellion is Mandatory during times of Tyranny @dpsl.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05... No Trump Tower for Australia!!! Thanks to everyone who protested this!
abc.net.au
Breaking: 'Toxic': Plan to build 91-storey Trump Tower on Gold Coast scrapped
The branded tower proposed for Surfers Paradise would have been Australia's tallest building.
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Carol Andersen @carolandersen.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Did these at Monday's art group session - both dip pen.
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Carol Andersen @carolandersen.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
#fountainpens I think these are my favourites for writing & drawing - l to r Cheap nameless Temu Parker Vector Jinhao 82 EF Lamy Safari Platinum Preppy And of course the Rotring Tikky pencil! All reasonably inexpensive & easy to use.
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Blakandblack @blakandblack.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
I dedicate “The Populist” to that small group of self serving populist politicians destroying Australia from the inside. I’ve put my representative populist in sponsors jacket. It’s important to know who owns our politicians, especially those making the most noise… blakandblack.com/2026/04/27/t...
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The Populist
She storms through rallies like a queen of the lost,and something in the crowd completes the circuit – not stupidity, not theatre, but a costlong owed, long felt, finally given a verdict.She reads the...
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Carol Andersen @carolandersen.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
#sketchbook Mountain stream - fountain pen with some grey coloured pencils.
Sketch of mountain stream
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Kerry Jaggers 🇦🇺 @kerryjaggers.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Idiotic laws in Queensland. If these threats progress, Queenslanders need to take to the streets in support of Nordacious.
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Ewart, Dave @davidewart.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
trump is the root of all evil
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Carol Andersen @carolandersen.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... The world will be a much poorer place when we lose people like this. #books
theguardian.com
The Melbourne expert who has spent a lifetime uncovering ‘the archaeology of the printed book’
Prof Wallace Kirsop, 92, is one of Australia’s foremost experts in rare books – not just their contents but their makers, buyers and readers, and the stories they tell beyond the page
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Carol Andersen @carolandersen.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
@snarkygherkin.bsky.social I loved the reply to one of your posts on Facebook! Obviously one of One Nation's literary giants!
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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Launching #TAXDATA where you can find Australia's biggest 'lifters and leaners' with the tap of a keystroke A co-pro with UTS and @jasonward-cictar.bsky.social #auspol michaelwest.com.au/taxdata-corp...
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Time to make 'em pay! The big bludgers are the corporate tax dodgers - Michael West
The first step to fix corporate tax dodging is to expose who pays and who doesn't pay their share. To that end, MWM is launching TAXDATA.
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Carol Andersen @carolandersen.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
#Auspol. #SouthAustralia This is the standard of candidates for SA's LNP! www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03... Taking us backwards again.
abc.net.au
SA Liberal Party candidate says 'same-sex marriage is not real' and 'feminism is demonic'
A Liberal candidate says "same-sex marriage is not real" and "feminism is demonic", in views Liberal leader Ashton Hurn says she does not share, but will leave up to voters to decide.
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Carol Andersen @carolandersen.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Just looking at some investments (retirement funds) & seeing they've dropped by thousands in last few days. Now I'm not being shot or bombed, it's not life threatening, but I live on the other side of the world & Trump & his crazy mob are still affecting my life. Multiply this by millions/2
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Ewart, Dave @davidewart.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
thanks for suporting my you tube channel . i love bringing good music to you . even more so when im in it.
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Debbie Northway 🇦🇺🦘🐨 @debbienorthway.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
#auspol #Australia
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Royce Kurmelovs @roycerk2.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
"Prepare for bedlam. Each El Niño event in recent decades has gotten steadily worse, because each one drives the temperature to a new record. That’s because each is super-imposed on a higher baseline temperature that comes with the steady warming of the planet."
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Aussie News @aussienews.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
It's the Central Australian mine promised to help upset China's dominance of the rare earths market worldwide, and bring hundreds of jobs to Australia. But where is it? #mining #metals #industry #trade #agreements #federal #government #funding
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It's been backed by Trump and Rinehart — but where is the Arafura mine?
It's the Central Australian mine promised to help upset China's dominance of the rare earths market worldwide, and bring hundreds of jobs to Australia. But where is it? #mining #metals #industry #trade #agreements #federal #government #funding
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Ewart, Dave @davidewart.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Australia’s main power grid crossed a threshold long viewed as pivotal to the nation’s energy transition, with renewables supplying more than half of electricity demand across an entire quarter for the first time, according to the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO)"
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Dr Sally @drsally.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
@caramia200.bsky.social rp Time for all Australns to do homework & recognise vast damage & manipulation,#oligarchs have wrought on #Auspol. We’re not doomed to follow #USAcatastrophe but will be so if we fail to bring oligarch lobbying to an end. Presently, Gina OWNS all #conservative parties.
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Carol Andersen @carolandersen.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Was complaining about heat in Adelaide (45C yesterday) then I saw this!
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 26/01/2026
🔴 In the past 24 hours, Gaza’s Health Ministry reported 2 killed & 20 injured arriving at hospitals. ▪️Since the ceasefire on Oct. 11, 2025: - Total killed: 486 - Total injured: 1,341 - Bodies recovered from the rubble: 714 This brings the recorded death toll from the Israeli genocide in Gaza to...
🔴 In the past 24 hours, Gaza’s Health Ministry reported 2 killed and 20 injured arriving at hospitals.

▪️Since the ceasefire on October 11, 2025:
- Total killed: 486
- Total injured: 1,341
- Bodies recovered from the rubble: 714

This brings the recorded death toll from the Israeli genocide in Gaza to 71,660 and 171,419 injuries (likely 3-5x higher, including indirect deaths)

🎥 A Palestinian killed by Israeli forces in the Al-Tuffah neighborhood of Gaza City yesterday.
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Ray Collins @eraycollins.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
America's deficits are funded by debt, and Trump's ability to service that debt relies upon global investors, including central banks, to keep buying bonds and keep the US afloat. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
abc.net.au
Debt is America's Achilles heel in a fracturing world order
For decades, global investors have bought US government debt as a safe haven when things turn pear-shaped. But investor attitudes are changing, and America's financial domination is at stake.
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Ewart, Dave @davidewart.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
allan facing bush revolt, One Nation challengers as farmers and fireys fume Chip Le Grand, Rachel Eddie, Angus Delaney and Kieran Rooney One Nation star recruit Barnaby Joyce will meet with disaffected Victorian farmers and volunteer firefighters " same fuckers who went after dan andrews
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Carol Andersen @carolandersen.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... Well, sadly looks like we'll be dumping Netflix very soon. I enjoy the Korean & Chinese content on this service but not putting money into anything Trump touches. Also, judging by his current performance he'll probably dump all the non USA content.
theguardian.com
Trump buys $1m in Netflix and Warner Bros bonds days after saying he’ll ‘be involved’ in merger
Warner Bros is also being pursued by Paramount Skydance, helmed by David Ellison, son of president’s ally
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