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Colleen Rowe @colleenrowe.bsky.social · 16h

That's amazing ... so it's not just the fossil fuel barons with a stake in keeping the industry going

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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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Colleen Rowe @colleenrowe.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I suspect it’s a combination of people resistant to change (“I’ll run my business my way”) and not wanting to recognise that if they have a big tax bill their accounting throughout the year is sub-par. My opinion obviously…

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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 · 08/10/2026

Small business owner here: I can’t imagine using a credit card to pay a tax bill when the ATO bends over backwards to set up no/low interest payment plans. And if the tax bill is interfering so much with cash flow, then maybe businesses need to re-look at how they pay their tax throughout the year.

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Colleen Rowe @colleenrowe.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This is such an important point. The false economy of enabling/allowing chronic illness ... and we circle back to the difficulty of proving the value of preventative health, and the value (sadly, mostly monetary value from govt perspective) of fixing the social determinants of health issues

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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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Colleen Rowe @colleenrowe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The high powered ones /those that have motors that don’t require pedalling are already illegal. Start enforcing existing laws or other states will end up with stupid laws like Qld now have that don’t solve the problem.

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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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Colleen Rowe @colleenrowe.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Perhaps you could try for blue stop signs, given they have now changed all state gov letterheads to blue from maroon

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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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Colleen Rowe @colleenrowe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I think people do realise. It’s exhausting to think about what ever come into the public domain

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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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Colleen Rowe @colleenrowe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Where did you get your merino socks?

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Colleen Rowe @colleenrowe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It would be nice to think this resulted from the increased pedestrian and bike infrastructure/uptake.

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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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Colleen Rowe @colleenrowe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It also doesn’t seem to include stepping up to walk out on Netanyahu with a large contingent of our allies

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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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Colleen Rowe @colleenrowe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Does “AI agent” refer to a person or a bot? (Genuine question) If intent & having “the mental element to engage” inform whether to charge, does that mean we might need to subject a bot to a psych exam to determine competence to stand trial? I despair of the anticipated reasons for not charging

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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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Colleen Rowe @colleenrowe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It never made sense to mandate Aust data is held on servers that are physically in Australia. Shows a lack of understanding of how servers are accessed. 🤦‍♀️

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Colleen Rowe @colleenrowe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

So far the fork appears to be expressing concern and disappointment. And what’s with the “AI agent” doing the hacking (as per ABC): it’s not a person, it’s a bot. Is this the time to put all government data on Australian owned servers that are completely independent of the tech bros?

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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

He’s challenging the status quo while talking sensibly (admittedly not original thoughts & not the only one) but has the added kudos of a male sports star. Never underestimate what this confers. He sits apart from other pollies bc of his sports status. Esp when compared to past rugby player attempts

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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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Colleen Rowe @colleenrowe.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

There’s are weird dichotomy here: A fundamental aspect of copyright law in Australia is that it is automatic. And yet Albo wants artists to opt out of a system where someone takes away that which is automatically conferred.

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Colleen Rowe @colleenrowe.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I think he’s wanting to shape it into some sort of pseudo-legitimate intellectual property theft

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Colleen Rowe @colleenrowe.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

While women continue to passively die, there won’t be a Royal Commission. 💯 agree. Words matter; words make a difference

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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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Colleen Rowe @colleenrowe.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I can deposit cheques into my bank account at the post office.

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Colleen Rowe @colleenrowe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Ah yes, I skipped over the <17 yrs. Apologies. So much for evidence based public health policy

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