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A/Prof Charles Cranfield

@charlescranfield.bsky.social
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Bombers 🖤♥️, Vics (Cric), Love everyth 🇮🇪 (especially my wife) & Science. Works @ UTS. Born Bunurong, lives Dharug. Doesn't buy beef or fish anymore. 🍉Free Palestine. Views my own.

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A/Prof Charles Cranfield @charlescranfield.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is not the sort of government our country should be making defence deals with. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Pentagon says execution of Fort Hood shooter will be livestreamed
Nidal Hasan, army psychiatrist who killed 13 people, will be executed by firing squad on 3 December
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 04/10/2026
"Australia is a major producer of fossil fuels. We all know fossil fuels are the primary driver of the climate crisis," [Ralph Regenvanu] said. "The very least a country like Australia should be doing is stopping future expansion, and it's not doing that." www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...
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Australia's fossil fuel expansion 'slap in the face' to Pacific nations
Having just approved a major coal mine expansion, Australia's climate credentials will be under the spotlight at pre-COP talks in Fiji.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A reminder - the NDIS cuts will destroy lives. The ALP knows this. They don’t care. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
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'We are really scared': NDIS provider shutters day program as federal cuts loom
Canberra community members are concerned that the closure of a local NDIS program does not bode well ahead of looming federal cuts to the scheme.
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A/Prof Charles Cranfield @charlescranfield.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
His boss, the Australian public, should also tell him to pull his head in.
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A/Prof Charles Cranfield @charlescranfield.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I'm curious to know why a senior, unelected, public servant, Asio director general Mike Burges, is doing a podcast with Neil Mitchell?
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A/Prof Charles Cranfield @charlescranfield.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The Greens need to be far stronger and stop being played by the ALP. One appropriate action is to stop recommending preferences to the ALP on HTVs. Green voters can think for themselves and will know what do to. The message will be heard loud and clear. #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Contentious koala park plan to go ahead as three Greens senators cross the floor
Party backed plan to allow big industry to use a new koala national park in NSW to offset its climate pollution, but three senators dissented
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A/Prof Charles Cranfield @charlescranfield.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The Albanese Government is beyond pathetic. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Labor ditches new packaging laws to cut plastic waste, sparking unprecedented ‘scale and breadth of outrage’
Federal environment department tells industry representatives the government does not want to ‘exacerbate cost of living pressures’
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A/Prof Charles Cranfield @charlescranfield.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I'm terrified of summer and I'm really angry at our governments. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Supersizing before our eyes’: UN warns of record El Niño approaching
Event is likely to be largest in at least 1,000 years and will pile extra heat into a world already in a climate crisis
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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I am endlessly thankful to Just Stop Oil for taking to the streets again today But it's not easy seeing such good, generous-hearted and courageous people being handcuffed and taken away, many possibly to long jail sentences It shouldn't have to be this way
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A/Prof Charles Cranfield @charlescranfield.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
My teaching is worth every penny 😆. Hope you are well old friend!
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A/Prof Charles Cranfield @charlescranfield.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Our brave-new-university-world coming at us a little faster than anticipated. AI can't teach good lab skills yet, thankfully. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Macquarie University swaps in-person psychology classes with AI chatbot for two subjects
University’s move is part of trend that critics within academia say will lead to further staff cuts and loss of ‘everything that makes the job worth doing’
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A/Prof Charles Cranfield @charlescranfield.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Big love to our lgbtqa+ friends and family today! #wearitpurple
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Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Honestly, so tired of people bashing the Greens, again. Do your homework about the CPRS & what actually happened. The safeguard mechanism is an oxymoron; again, do your homework. Now we're supposed to back this nonsense, despite experts saying it's flawed & a scam! www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
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A fight over carbon credits tests the Greens
Sarah Ferguson presents Australia's premier daily current affairs program, delivering agenda-setting public affairs journalism and interviews that hold the powerful to account. Plus political analysis...
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A/Prof Charles Cranfield @charlescranfield.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I like this. We could name them after Melbournians and/or Kulin peoples, eg, The Dame Edna Line (anything that goes through Moonee Ponds), or the Bunurong line.
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John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Here’s a graphic projecting massive and devastating #climate driven drying out of soils right across Europe by mid-century… …oh wait, sorry, that’s an ACTUAL reading from August 10th last. My mistake.
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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Fri 7 Aug Aramco, BP, Chevron, ENI, Equinor, ExxonMobil, Shell & TotalEnergies made ~$93bn in climate-destroying WAR-PROFITS in 3 mths Woodside managed $6bn Govts like @albomp.bsky.social's help by handing out subsidies & approving new/extension Coal & Gas projects (36 & counting🤯)
Protest crew at the weekly Friday protest against the Albanese govt's approval of WoodCIDE's North West Shelf Extension carbon bomb.
Josh Burns, Macnamara MP talked a big game on climate & environment action which has turned out entirely the opposite Protestors outside Josh Burns' St Kilda office. One holds a placard that says HONK TO TAX BILLIONARES
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A/Prof Charles Cranfield @charlescranfield.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Our elected individuals are employed by us, and so are accountable to us, too. Demand they answer the uncomfortable questions.
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A/Prof Charles Cranfield @charlescranfield.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
I agree
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A/Prof Charles Cranfield @charlescranfield.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Good journalists, every time the government says it is doing something about the 'cost of living crisis', please ask them why they aren't also addressing the 'wealth inequality crisis'.
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A/Prof Charles Cranfield @charlescranfield.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Will send thoughts and prayers.
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Kevin Bonham @kevinbonham.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Not taking this for granted yet but encouraging whispers about possible scrapping of Group Ticket Voting in Victoria. It is absolutely necessary that it be scrapped or this year's upper house election will be another farce. #springst archive.md/FoOq8
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A/Prof Charles Cranfield @charlescranfield.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Keep protesting. Keep up the pressure. #FreePalestine
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A/Prof Charles Cranfield @charlescranfield.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
I know, it will be tough.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Director of a Gaza Hospital, Dr Hussain Abu Safiya is in horrific danger to his life. The Foreign Secretary must demand Israel provides urgent treatment and releases him. He's been detained by Israel without charge since 2024 and reported to have new life threatening injuries.
Free Dr Hussam Abu Safiya now!
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Dovewoman 💙 🇺🇦 💙 @dovewoman.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
YES!!!
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A/Prof Charles Cranfield @charlescranfield.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
This is not good governance. It is cruel intergenerational indifference. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Arts degrees to cost $50,000 until at least 2028 as measures to lower Australian university fees put on hold
Barney Glover, head of the Australian Tertiary Education Commission, says he will provide advice about degree funding to the government next year
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
I get the feeling that things are rapidly falling apart for Israel. Unconscionable despicable behaviour 🤬🤬🤬🇮🇱♾️ Please share
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A/Prof Charles Cranfield @charlescranfield.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
These really are absurd sentences. Politics is overriding justice in the USA again. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Texas anti-ICE protesters convicted of terrorism charges sentenced to at least 50 years in prison
Activists accused of being part of antifa face harsh sentences in case seen as test of Trump’s crackdown on dissent
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Andrew Wilkie MP @andrewwilkiemp.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
The Government and Opposition are avoiding meaningful gambling reform because, in their heart, they have no humanity #auspol #politas
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A/Prof Charles Cranfield @charlescranfield.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Pauline Hanson is a whinger! Pass it on.
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A/Prof Charles Cranfield @charlescranfield.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Training on how to avoid the amplification sociopathic causes.
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A/Prof Charles Cranfield @charlescranfield.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Good questions. My take on this: Courage? They will look to their own interests. Too late? Own intersts again, so perhaps not too late; Will they accept/let LNP win? Possibly, both parties are heavily influenced by the same special interest groups.
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A/Prof Charles Cranfield @charlescranfield.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
It is highly unlikely the current Victorian Premier could turn this around before November. It seems obvious what is coming.
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the Juice Media @thejuicemedia.com · 11/06/2026
Pretty much sums it up.
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A/Prof Charles Cranfield @charlescranfield.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Thank you Senator, your responses to questions that seemed to only serve a set agenda, were very cogent.
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Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
We can't let Roger Cook, Murray Watt, and their fossil fuel industry corporate sponsors destroy the Kimberley www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rh9I... - @thejuicemedia.com
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Honest Government Ad | Visit the Kimberley!
YouTube video by thejuicemedia
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Asking the Royal Commission into Social Cohesion and Antisemitism if Muslim communities can't give evidence and false claims of antisemitism which conflate a bake sale or wearing a keffiyeh with antisemitism go unchallenged, what exactly is this royal commission for?
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Antfarmer @antfarmer.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Fucking BHP got $622m taxpayer money in diesel rebates last year. Meanwhile slow walking decarbonization and shelving green energy plans in the Pilbara. This is how stupid this country is. God it makes me angry. #4corners @albomp.bsky.social fucking do something about it. #climatechange
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Andrew Wilkie MP @andrewwilkiemp.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
My Human Rights Bill tabled today spells out in plain terms, the rights and freedoms that everyone in Australia is entitled to. It requires that fairness, respect, dignity and compassion must be put at the centre of all government decision and polices. #auspol #politas
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A/Prof Charles Cranfield @charlescranfield.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
How our government is breaking a promise on protecting Australia's wildlife by people in the know, @yungenchen.bsky.social and @euanritchi.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Australia’s ‘green Wall Street’ is failing to launch. Threatened species deserve better than the nature repair market | Euan Ritchie and Yung En Chee
One must ask why Labor is so comfortable continuing to ignore the wishes of the vast majority of voters
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A/Prof Charles Cranfield @charlescranfield.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
An absolute pleasure to be outpaced at Lawson parkrun this morning by the NSW upper house MP, the extremely hard working (and hard running), Dr Amanda Cohn.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
No one in govt is talking about before the budget, but just FYI, the level of Jobseeker is now 42% below the poverty line - worse than it was during the Howard years... live.thepoint.com.au
Chart showing level of unemployment benefits relative to the poverty line. It's now at 42% below. In 2007 it was 43%, in 1996 it was 25%
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David Pocock @davidpocock.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Appalled but not surprised to see govt caving to the gas companies. This just makes me more determined to go harder on our campaign to get a fair return on our gas through a 25% tax on gas export revenue. Head to ourgas.com.au to add your voice. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...
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The Great Gas Scam
TRUST. INTEGRITY. LEADERSHIP.
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A/Prof Charles Cranfield @charlescranfield.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Yes, it has been very glitchy.
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A/Prof Charles Cranfield @charlescranfield.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
The Attorney General should intervene. This is not in Australia's interests if they have done nothing wrong under our laws.
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A/Prof Charles Cranfield @charlescranfield.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
You had me at 50c beers
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A/Prof Charles Cranfield @charlescranfield.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Congratulations to all involved!
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A/Prof Charles Cranfield @charlescranfield.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Being "deeply concerned" about the massacre in Lebanon doesn't cut it. Sanctioning Israel is what we should be doing. Is the Albanese government waiting for permission from someone?
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Australia could take the lead here and, given our close relationship to the US, the world would listen. Starting with shutting our airspace to the US military, removing troops embedded in the US military and stopping US bases here being part of war crimes.
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A/Prof Charles Cranfield @charlescranfield.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Australia must be on the other side of the disk. Makes sense.
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