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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Lucky this wasn’t in Australia. The doctors protesting may have been investigated by the health regulator #AHPRA, and even suspended from practice on the grounds of “antisemitism”. #auspol

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Harlinah Teoh, creates botanical ceramic art inspired by walking in the Australian landscape #WomensArt

A group of six vases in different shapes and sizes all ddcorated with flowering plant designs, all on a white surface against a white background

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Maple colour, 2019 by US painter Erin Hanson #WomensArt #AutumnWeek 🍂

Painting of a tree in a kandscaoe. The tree has bright red and orange autumn leavers

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Antipoverty Centre @antipovertycentre.org · 08/10/2026

The experts in poverty are the people who live it. Once again, everyone else needs to sit down, stfu and respond to what people are telling them must happen.

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Colleen Rowe @colleenrowe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

$60/wk/household doesn't seem much for $25.1bn. Put the money into the PBS and Medicare; then those who need it most will gain more than $60/wk in medical and medication costs, as well as save on the long term costs of preventable illness.

Screen shot from The Saturday Paper Post: "The plan would cost $25.1 billion over five years, but would save an average four-person household $60 a week — or $3,134 a year. While costing the government more than the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, Chandler-Mather said this was “half the cost of a single AUKUS submarine” (link to The Canberra Times)."

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Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) 🦠🤧🧬📑🦟🧀 @mackayim.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Will those work under water? Asking for a country that keeps opening coal mines and that has jurisdictions who delay renewable power projects in favour of drilling for oil.

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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 03/10/2026

Opposing military aid to Ukraine is not a ‘non-violent’ position, it is an explicit selection between the two available positions, both violent. You can’t say ‘we oppose Russia’, without then explaining, with what?

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Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Do you reckon it’s smart to publicly be pals with a guy whose company doesn’t pay tax in Australia and is always out to bring your party down no matter what you do? #auspol

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Kogan CEO in June: Ruslan Kogan says changes to Capital Gains Tax will attract migrants motivated by “sick NDIS scams” and the welfare system." Today ATO Tax data for Kogan Pty Ltd: Income: $642.3m Taxable income: $0 Tax paid $0

Screenshot: "Sick scame": Kogan boss unleashes on Albanese government's capital gains tax changes"

rich lister Ruslan Kogan has issued an epic rant about Anthony Albanese's tax changes, warning they risk attracting a specific type of migrant to Australia's

Spreadsheet screenshot of ATO corporate tax transparency data

KOGAN AUSTRALIA PTY LTD: Total income $642,335,009; Taxable Income $0; Tax payable $0

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Valentenya the climate policy strategy cat 🍉 🐈‍⬛ @valentenya.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

industries are untouchable. We've forgotten that governments have sovereign power to actually regulate or even nationalise industries for the common good. Declaring a climate emergency incl a science based public information campaign would pave the way re community acceptance.

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Deepcut News @deepcutnews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Albanese's proposal to water down Australian copyright to appease AI companies is a "terrible betrayal", writes Richard Flanagan in a blistering piece. "A government that doesn’t understand its nation’s culture is a government incapable of leading the nation." www.deepcutnews.com/p/the-great-...

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The great betrayal? AI imperialists and Albanese – Richard Flanagan

Australians should be furious that Anthony Albanese has opened the floodgates to American AI companies

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Tom Quinn @tomquinn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

[The Future Fund] bought another 8,000 shares in the Israeli company Elbit Systems, with the value of its holdings in the defence technology and electronics company jumping by another 128 per cent (from $8.6m to $19.7m). Two years ago, the Future Fund only held $1.3m worth of Elbit Systems shares.

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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Coming soon: 'AI company apologises for accidentally triggering multiple missile launches causing WW3, it was trying to find a definition for the word 'silo'.

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bill doyle @billjondoyle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

on the edge of sea and sky— at the mouth of the onkaparinga river, south australia #photography #AustralianPhotographers #landscapephotography

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

While listening to council meetings in Montreal, local mayor Sue Montgomery decided to knit in red when men spoke and in green when women spoke, when similar numbers of both attended. Day 1 results.... #WomensArt

Photo of uneven knitting with much larger amounts of red yarn than green

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John Birmingham @birmo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

You know one way of stopping AI agents from accessing Australian government data would be by making them have MyGov accounts.

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Tom Quinn @tomquinn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

So much of this bullshit, just like the corruption in the big build, doesn't need special new legislation. We just need existing laws applied and enforced without fear or favour.

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Chris Cox @coxyjindas.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Authorities preparing for domestic violence spike with AFL Grand Final tomorrow. In other news, AFL tribunal allows player who assaulted another player to take part in Grand Final. "Because it's important and he's a good bloke, really". I'm sure these phenomena are completely unrelated.

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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

So the war criminal Netanyahu gets to deliver a speech at the UN, but Palestinian Authority’s Mahmoud Abbas is denied a US visa and can’t attend.

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3wombats @3wombats.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Dogs

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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If ultimately there's no criminal responsibility for this incident here then FOI just became a lot easier if we ask AI agents to go find those documents for us. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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Albanese says OpenAI hacked Medicare and told Australia months later via email to generic inbox

Prime minister says he told Sam Altman he was disappointed it had taken OpenAI ‘way too long’ to disclose breach

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Steve Baty (He/him) @docbaty.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I wonder if Mark Carney took a selfie with Trump on the sidelines of the UN

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bill doyle @billjondoyle.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

in a rational economic universe we would compete for migrants particularly in an ageing nation whose comfortable denizens find a lot of work distasteful

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Colleen Rowe @colleenrowe.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

On the wall of the Stone's Corner pub:

Large poster on a brick wall in the style of a tryptic: 3 panels side-by-side, each with a person of a non-caucasian origin with the word AUSSIE in capital letters underneath. Reading left to right it reads "Aussie Aussie Aussie"

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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The US situation is what will happen here if One Nation & a lot of Lib/National Party politicians get their way. Pregnancy is the biggest statistical risk to women's health - after ex- and partner violence. The next politician to say a version of 'feminism has gorn too far' should be abyss-hurled.

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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Dear ABC News, You continue to publish appalling headlines that minimise men killing women as "women die". Word choice matters. Your editors need to use the words died, killed, or murdered, accurately. #DV #VAW #crime #journalism

Australian ABC News headline:
Three women die in domestic violence-related incidents across NSW

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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Any body of water controlled by Donald Trump should be renamed Far Canal. (Say it with an Australian accent.) 😏 #auspol #USA #USPolitics

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bill doyle @billjondoyle.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

if you can’t oppose a genocide, you have no moral centre if you facilitate a genocide, you cannot claim to be a good person and if you enthusiastically endorse a genocide, you’re one of history’s monsters you all deserve to be remembered for this, and only for this it’s that simple

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marque lawyers @marquelawyers.com.au · 14/09/2026

The AI industry is following the oldest entrepreneurial playbook of all: create the problem and offer its solution.

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marque lawyers @marquelawyers.com.au · 14/09/2026

Orwell, on fascism (1937): "If you pretend that it is merely an aberration which will presently pass off of its own accord, you are dreaming a dream from which you will awake when somebody coshes you with a rubber truncheon."

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026

Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.

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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Pro tip: if a politician uses the phrase “we’ve been very clear…” it means they’ve been completely incoherent on that policy

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Colleen Rowe @colleenrowe.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Wordle 1,910 5/6* FFS 🟨🟨⬜🟨🟨 🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟨🟨🟨🟨🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Jewish Council of Australia @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The Jewish Council supports the decision of the 12 countries who have put trade restrictions on illegal Israeli settlements and urges the Australian government to do the same and then go further, imposing country-level sanctions. www.jewishcouncil.com.au/2026/09/jewi...

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Jewish Council welcomes UK, Canada, France and others banning settlement trade, urges Australia to not be left behind

MEDIA RELEASE 09 September 2026 The Jewish Council of Australia welcomes moves by twelve countries including the UK, Canada, and […]

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AusPoast @daryltractor.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Watching the red racist running her mouth again. Imagine if they gave even a 10th as much airtime to Larissa Waters’ every thought.

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Tom Quinn @tomquinn.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Another 27,000 EVs on the road this month - that's another 33 million litres of annual fuel demand destruction. Will cut another $73m in annual fuel imports - assuming $2.20/L. This is what real energy security looks like for Australia.

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EV sales outpace petrol cars for first time as Australians dodge soaring fuel costs

New record for Australia as more than 27,000 EVs sold in August, driven by the rising cost of fuel and new government policy

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Colleen Rowe @colleenrowe.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

👇👇[Why is there no chef’s kiss emoji?]

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Ellie Saurus @elliesaur.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Reasons to ride a bike: - Bikes are fast and get you places on time - Gives you a nice butt - Most energy efficient way to travel - Get to go whee the whole time - Virtually immune to traffic - The going whee thing, but again

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Dr Monique Ryan @mon4kooyong.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The illicit tobacco industry is a policing & health issue, not a tax one. 66 🇦🇺’ die every day from tobacco smoking. If the excise is cut and cigarettes are cheaper, people will smoke more.

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Coalition unveils plan to slash tobacco tax by $24 a pack

A future Coalition government would slash the tobacco excise by 80 per cent, legalise and tax vapes and nicotine pouches, and bolster law enforcement to shut down the illicit trade.

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

At what point does a British by-election get awarded to the silver medalist, à la Ben Johnson and Carl Lewis? Asking for a friend of a friend, i.e. me. #Clacton

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

HELL YEAH!!!!!! (And congrats to @gregpak.net for his absolutely tireless work pushing for this outcome)

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Rocketpilot 🇵🇸 @rocketpilot.xyz · 03/09/2026

Tech overlords might stop pretending algorithms are human if we treat them legally like they are

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Possum @pollytics.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Governments dealing with social media algorithms isn't hard - just legally treat them like curated content by a human Editor. In the US it's simple under section 230 of the communications act, in Australia it's even simpler. Especially if you up the penalties in Australia.

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Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) 🦠🤧🧬📑🦟🧀 @mackayim.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

"Aother chronic illnesses, including post-polio syndrome, post-Ebola syndrome and post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome" have been linked to pathogens. "but fatigue and neurological features are common. “Almost every infection, viral, bacterial, parasite, is associated with chronic symptoms""

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Jewish Council of Australia @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Our statement responding to the news that Israel will not be pursuing criminal liability for the murder of Zomi Frankcom or her fellow aid workers. We renewed calls for sanctions, the expulsion of the Israeli ambassador, and demands for justice: www.jewishcouncil.com.au/2026/08/comp...

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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

This (from a Prof. of Genetics) is a ripper few hundred words.

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Sirius Star 🍉 🍉 🍉 @siriusstar3.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

“Obscene wealth, greed & power are driving the world into war, climate collapse & economic chaos. The wars, the extreme heat, floods & fires are neither accidental nor isolated. They’re symptoms of a system designed by the ultra-wealthy to enrich themselves at our collective expense.” #Auspol

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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

From De Strandharker.. just lovely

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Tom Quinn @tomquinn.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

"The perpetrators were the boards and CEOs of fossil fuel companies who have known for decades what they were doing, have known the consequences of it, and carried on with reckless indifference to those consequences. They murdered the hundreds, maybe a thousand or more" - @birmo.bsky.social

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The Reckoning

That imagery of the Himalayan tsunami smashing into the multi-story building in Nepal was horrifying, but then murder always is, isn’t it?

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