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Charlie Bell

@charlieb0.bsky.social
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Retired scientist, greenie, social activist. On Yuin land.

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Charlie Bell @charlieb0.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I have just listened to the best speech I have heard in many years. Kerry O'brien’s address to the Byron Writers Festival. On ABC Radio National’s Big Ideas. On the failures of western politics and economics over the last 5 decades. Why we have Musk, Bezos, AUKUS and One Nation.
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Kerry O'Brien on the perfect storm destroying our politics — with Richard Flanagan - ABC listen
Acclaimed journalist Kerry O'Brien has seen it all, but nothing like right now. And he's not mincing his words. On AI, neoliberalism, education, equality, gutless governments, and more. For over 50 ye...
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Anyway, a reminder. Fuel Tax Credits over the next 4 years will cost the Govt $47bn. The savings from the cuts to the NDIS is $38bn. Gillard in 2010: "Budgets are about choices, and you show what you value through the choices you make" Indeed.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
The effective federal corporate income tax rate: 1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13% Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate. That is how we will pay for it.
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Paul Macdonald @paulmac.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
CAUSED AND/OR AMPLIFIED/INTENSIFIED BY HUMANS BURNING FOSSIL FUELS #Oil #Coal #Gas #FossilFuelPollution bsky.app/profile/fire... #Precipitation #ExtremePrecipitation #Floods #Storms #ExtremeWeather #Infrastructure #HumanDisplacement #FossilFuelPollution #AnthropogenicGlobalWarming
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Charlie Bell @charlieb0.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The state of Israel vs the children of Gaza | First Dog on the Moon
A United Nations inquiry tells us Israel continues to commit genocide by deliberately targeting Palestinian children
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Absolutely not.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 04/06/2026
Congrats to the winner of the "environment" category photography awards held by Australia's largest fossil fuel industry lobby group
a photograph of a huge (REALLY HUGE) oil rig in the ocean, a huge ugly diesel fuelled boat next to it, and then a really tiny bird in the foreground in the sky area
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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Wait, you're telling me that we could effectively address climate change, everyone could work fewer hours, and 9 out of 10 people would be richer? I'm in!
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‘An equal and habitable world is possible’: academics set out sweeping vision for planetary survival
Global report provides an alternative to climate breakdown, political extremism and economic tensions
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Always a Difficult Earth Girl🐬🐨🐋🦘🦈 @scuttlebutter1.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
AUKUS - on the face of it - seems like a fraudulent use of funds that belong IN Australia, TO Australians, for the wellbeing OF Australians. War is a (very dumb) choice. Whether to house, feed, educate & keep citizens healthy is NOT. It's a fucking obligation, @albomp.bsky.social
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Charlie Bell @charlieb0.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
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Australia is manufacturing explosives for Israel’s atrocities - The Shot
Australia’s complicity in Israel’s atrocities has many ugly layers. It’s worse than the bomb release mechanism on the F-35 death...
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Charlie Bell @charlieb0.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Help stop Israel’s illegal takeover of the West Bank of Palestine. secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/...
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Most people don’t know this
Land grabs in the West Bank are accelerating – and most people don’t even know it’s happening. But if key countries freeze trade with illegal settlements and sanction the ministers driving annexation,...
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Charlie Bell @charlieb0.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
I just got a free "I ❤️ Nature" sticker pack! You can too: 30by30.org.au/get-your-sti...
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Get your sticker pack! - 30 by 30
Show your support for nature, and order your FREE stickers today! This isn’t just a sticker. It’s a love letter to Aussie nature. Stuck on your car, drink bottle, laptop, bike or surfboard, each stick...
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Charlie Bell @charlieb0.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
A chance to have your say on a n important issue greens.org.au/campaigns/co...
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Coercive Detention Powers | The Australian Greens
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Lucy @leftliblucy.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Speaking as a Labor voter: kinda crazy that Malcolm Turnbull just has better foreign policy opinions than Albo in pretty much every dimension. He believes in standing against Russia and the US, and he's against the war in Iran. Much more of a vision of Australia's place in the world. #auspol
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Charlie Bell @charlieb0.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Help two retired teachers take on a coal giant in the High Court of Australia chuffed.org/project/aust...
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Help two retired teachers take on a coal giant in the High Court of Australia
Click on the play button in the image at top of page to watch the video and learn more about our story
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Charlie Bell @charlieb0.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
We are all paying for the failure of capitalism. www.filmsforaction.org/articles/dar...
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Dare to Declare Capitalism Dead – Before It Takes Us All Down With It | George Monbiot
The economic system is incompatible with the survival of life on Earth. It is time to design a new one.
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Charlie Bell @charlieb0.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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We can move beyond the capitalist model and save the climate – here are the first three steps | Jason Hickel and Yanis Varoufakis
Capitalism cares about our species’ prospects as much as a wolf cares about a lamb’s. But democratise our economy and a better world is within our grasp, say Jason Hickel and Yanis Varoufakis
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Charlie Bell @charlieb0.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
An article about; Neo-liberalism, The Atlas Network, Corporate disinformation, and why we should support centrist think-tanks like The Australia Institute. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...?
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A discreet intellectual network has been reshaping the world for 70 years. Here's how
A constant battle of ideas reshapes the world we live in, and few groups have been more successful in winning the war than the little-known Atlas Network.
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Charlie Bell @charlieb0.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Support the Jewish Council of Australia. jewishcouncil.good.do/unity/jewish...
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SIGN ✍️ We will not be divided after Bondi
Add your name to the Jewish Council petition today
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Charlie Bell @charlieb0.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Sign the petition: Stop arming the genocide getup.to/PYyv8FP5ef7Z...
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Anthony Albanese: Stop Arming Genocide
An independent movement to build a progressive Australia and bring participation back into our democracy.
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welshaustralian.bsky.social @welshaustralian.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
This boycott has to happen. Come on Australia!
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MingTheMerciless @mingthemercyless.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Who does @australianlabor.bsky.social represent? The Australian people or the billionaires stealing our gas for free? Let's make sure it's the former. Donate. nb.australiainstitute.org.au/fullpage-gas... #auspol @albomp.bsky.social
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Chip in for urgent full-page ads to rein in the gas industry
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Charlie Bell @charlieb0.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
informationrights.org/take-action/...
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Stand with Mary Kostakidis | The Information Rights Project
The Information Rights Project protects freedom of communication and access to information.
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Greg T @gregt314.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
We all agree that if the government said that they were banning people under 16 from reading newspapers or watching the news, that that would be an unjustifiable overreach, right?
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David Pocock @davidpocock.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Australia’s biggest miners have pocketed almost $60BN in diesel tax subsidies in <20 years. Unless we act, taxpayers lose $84BN more by 2030. It makes no sense for 🇦🇺ns to pay tax while coal giants get a free pass. End this fossil fuel subsidy now. www.afr.com/companies/mi...
afr.com
Big miners have banked $60b in diesel fuel tax credits
A Climate Energy Finance report recommends a $50 million cap on the fuel tax subsidy for mining companies to create more cash for green projects.
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Big T @big-tony.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
NRAR, Australia's National Resource Access Regulator, has paused all environmental water for the Murray Darling Basin. No environmental flows means no water for the fish or animals. Cotton Barons have been pushing for this for a long time. Get angry. 😡
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
The truth is out about Australia’s military exports to Israel and ongoing Labor lies. Defence Minister Marles said exports were all “dual use” for civil or military purposes. Turns out 90% are “inherently lethal” or only for military purposes. He has never apologised.
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Australian journalists #withMEAA have made a video in recognition of the many Palestinian journalists and media workers killed by Israel while/because of reporting on the ground in #Gaza. #StopKillingJournalists #StoptheKilling www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMq8...
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Stop Killing Journalists
YouTube video by withMEAA
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Just a thought: what if we stopped measuring the economy by the state of the stock market and started measuring it based on how many people are housed and clothed and fed? youtu.be/tFjoDq0HfFw?si=vtbE2QNmXsk…
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The Biggest Economic Lies We’re Told | Robert Reich
Just a thought: what if we stopped measuring the economy by the state of the stock market and started measuring it based
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
CO₂ removal (CDR) deployments require materials and energy, which emit CO₂. That’s why we talk about net CDR. Even if CDR affects ecosystems, it’s likely minor compared to the significant negative impacts of climate change on ecosystems. So we should focus on the net ecosystem benefits of CDR.
A black-and-white cartoon shows a trolley approaching a junction where its track splits into two directions. A person stands next to a lever, which can switch the trolley from one track to another. On the left track (the default path), there are five dolphins labeled “Not removing CO₂ from the atmosphere.” On the right track, there is one dolphin labeled “Deploying CO₂ removal (CDR).” The drawing suggests that not taking action to remove CO₂ may result in greater harm (symbolized by the five dolphins), while deploying CO₂ removal may have its own risks or costs (symbolized by the single dolphin), but is the comparatively better choice.
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Gregory Andrews @lyrebirddream.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
South Australia’s algal bloom isn’t random. It’s what happens when we cross #PlanetaryBoundaries—climate, nitrogen, ecosystem collapse. This is real. It’s economic. It’s now. My latest blog: 🔗 www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/south-a... #AlgalBloom #ClimateCrisis
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South Australian Algal Bloom: A Warning Shot on Planetary Boundaries
South Australia’s algal bloom is more than an environmental incident. It’s a warning shot to Australia from our planet. We’ve been red-lining our life support systems. And now the consequences are com...
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 18/07/2025
Giving billions in tax cuts to big business would strip $57 billion out of the budget, meaning less to spend on things like hospitals and schools. Our research details 10 reasons why Australia does not need company tax cuts. @jack-thrower.bsky.social #auspol
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10 reasons why Australia does not need company tax cuts
1/ Giving business billions of dollars in tax cuts means starving schools, hospitals and other services. Giving business billions of dollars in tax cuts
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 18/07/2025
"Like an old street directory, the left/right/centre map of Australian politics is dated, disorienting and dangerously incomplete." "We need a new map." Dead Centre, the Vantage Point essay is available to pre-order now ⤵️ @richarddenniss.bsky.social australiainstitute.org.au/store/dead-c...
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Joanna Mendelssohn @oldlillipilli.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Well said @jennaprice.bsky.social #Antisemitism #auspol
Article in the Canberra Times on the folly of Jillian Segal
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Charlie Bell @charlieb0.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
The Empire Has Accidentally Caused The Rebirth Of Real Counterculture In The West www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/the-empire...
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The Empire Has Accidentally Caused The Rebirth Of Real Counterculture In The West
Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):
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Gill Tavner @gilltav.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
If you can watch this and then think ‘I won’t share because that might be putting myself on the line’ then you know what you’d have done if you were in Germany when your Jewish neighbours were being loaded into to cattle trucks. Nothing. Please share - it’s our ‘I’m Spartacus moments
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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
New: It’s absurd and embarrassing in a liberal democracy to have to say this, but people shouldn’t be punished for protesting against genocidal oppression, or speaking about it. So many cultural institutions have done this very thing though - and damaged themselves in the process.
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The Lattouf case and the ongoing chilling effects
On pro-Israel pressure campaigns and Australia’s cultural organisations
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The Saturday Paper @thesaturdaypaper.com.au · 25/06/2025
"The government likes to claim the moral high ground... the Woodside decision is proof of Labor’s allegiance to fossil fuel companies until the bitter end," writes Joëlle Gergis.
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The moment for bold climate action is now
As I write, I’m listening to the sound of repairs to my home following the impacts of Tropical Cyclone Alfred, a rare category 2 system that tracked as far south as the Gold Coast in March, and left a trail of destruction throughout northern New South Wales and south-east Queensland.
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Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Remember these people - already starved and weak- are forced to walk up to 10km to pick up this food and carry it back to wherever they have managed to make a temporary home
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Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
The Not-Fab Four- my cartoon for @australia.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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As the threat of war looms, are these four horsemen out of a job? | Fiona Katauskas
It’s all looking a bit apocalyptic
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Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
The Not-Fab Four www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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As the threat of war looms, are these four horsemen out of a job? | Fiona Katauskas
It’s all looking a bit apocalyptic
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Charlie Bell @charlieb0.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
F U Labor. www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
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Revealed: the astonishing greenhouse gas emissions that will result from the North West Shelf project
The annual total dwarfs CO2-e from many other sources – including whole countries
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Hannah Daly @hannahdaly.ie · 05/06/2025
An exciting battery project - based on rusting iron! - is being developed in Donegal, one of Ireland's most remote outposts. It's a new ultra long-duration energy storage tech, and the subject of my latest column: www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
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One of Ireland’s most exciting energy projects is taking place at a remote outpost in Donegal
At a Time of Climate Crisis: Pioneering Donegal project shows how long-duration energy storage can make a big contribution
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Sue Higginson MP @suehigginson.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
On ABC this morning, I called out the Shooters new bill for what it is: Game Council 2.0. I remember what the old one was like. It was shocking — riddled with corruption and failure. We can’t let that happen again.
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Barbara Pocock @barbarapocock.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Labor’s NWS is the biggest gas export project in Aus’ history. In a climate crisis, people didn’t vote for this. So we're here to tell the govt NO to new coal & gas projects, that we want a clean energy future & the govt to work with The Greens to strengthen enviro protection in parliament.
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