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Creative Catjk

@creativecatjk.bsky.social
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She/Her, #auspol (Australian) Creative, artistic, theatrey, engaged in the world people are my tribe. Reformed analyst. Love and solidarity to you all (to quote Mona Eltahawy - it's her line, but the sentiment can be shared)

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Doug Cameron @dncameron.bsky.social · 22h
Don’t listen to religious extremist and warmonger Hegseth and his sycophantic mate Marles who claims “shared values” with this obnoxious and dangerous fool. Military experts, politicians, diplomats peace activists, unions, faith groups all oppose the madness that is AUKUS.
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 20h
A news item we'll never see: Defence is reviewing its $370b commitment for US nuclear submarines it may never receive because 'changes to #AUKUS had excessively increased costs and the administrative burden'. "National security starts with securing people's health and care", said the PM. #auspol
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Tim Baxter @timinclimate.naruresearch.com.au · 9h
Oh wow. This is proper fucked. That list of folks eligible for a free vaccine is *narrow*. So anyway, we gave BHP $600m in diesel rebates this past year. You know they really needed them because in the same year the company booked a $14b profit.
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Fewer Australians will qualify for free COVID-19 vaccines from October - Australian Pharmacist
COVID-19 vaccines move onto the NIP this week. Who is now eligible for a funded vaccine and what should pharmacists tell patients who aren’t?
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Creative Catjk @creativecatjk.bsky.social · 9h
Star Trek - Strange New Worlds is so full of whimsy... but it's joyful. So.
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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The public housing answer Australia already knows Andrew Brown reports. Read it here: michaelwest.com.au/the-public-housi…
Michael West Media story graphic
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God @thegodshow.com · 03/10/2026
The reason that all this happened is because too many Americans thinks it’s cool and funny to be ignorant assholes. It’s not funny.
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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Ahem…
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This is rare: a mainstream journo - an ex-Murdoch one at that - acknowledging that "inequality and concentrated wealth" may be an issue for voters. Instead of the usual 'cost-of-living crisis' euphemism. If Shoebridge is having that impact already, it's a useful start to his leadership. #auspol
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💚🌏Myles🌏💚 @rainbowregionmyles.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
We have normalised something completely fucking insane. Australia now has 178 billionaires worth $686 billion, while working people are skipping meals and struggling to pay their fucking mortgages.
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Creative Catjk @creativecatjk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
New list: Read a book Draw a picture Write your novel Have a cup of tea - in a tea cup, with a saucer (fancy!) Watch fantasy or sci fi where the heroes win Pat the cat til it purrs Play with the dog Daydream Sit in the sun for a minute Fix or clean something that needs it Take a photo
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Perspicacity - 49 @perspicacity-49.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Albo is attacking Shoebridge for inconveniently drawing attention to the fact that Australian governments are supposed to represent the majority of Australians, not foreign powers and multinational corporations.
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“What we are seeing now is a complete explosion of these melt rates, leading to the disintegration of glaciers. They’re really just falling apart" Europe's glaciers are accelerating even faster on the road to oblivion www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Explosion of melt rates’: 20% of Swiss glaciers lost in five years
Alpine regions in Europe experiencing extreme glacier collapse due to heat-trapping effects of fossil fuel pollution
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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Sir Ian McKellen orates 'The Stranger's Case' from 'Sir Thomas More' by Shakespeare about the Evil May Day xenophobic riot of 1517 in London. This passage was written 400 years ago, but times never change. Humanity refuses to change its unwarranted bias against 'others'.
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Thread below: www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Riot police clash with students as education protests rage in France
About 735 schools have faced disruption as violent protests over standards and lack of teachers continue.
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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In 1974, Cornell lecturer Lin Farley began recognizing a pattern in the experiences women shared in her Women and Work course: women were being pushed out of jobs by men’s sexual behavior. Farley coined the term, “sexual harassment.”
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Bab @bab102.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
@bab102.bsky.social @caactivist.bsky.social @hengel1615.bsky.social @crankyoldcrackpot.bsky.social @grannylater.bsky.social @j1j2.bsky.social‬ @pattyger.bsky.social @coolsprings.bsky.social @filosia.bsky.social @merlinmm.bsky.social @kya609.bsky.social @lenny60.bsky.social @book960.bsky.social
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Creative Catjk @creativecatjk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Dark Matter. I just... 'Love and Be Loved' is so beautifully, intentionally quiet in the midst of the maelstrom of everything. S2, E5 is... a heart beat.
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Creative Catjk @creativecatjk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I've been watching S.W.A.T. Season One irritated me with the overly long moralising and deep, concerned, and somewhat trite messaging... but the writing did get better, as did the acting. The show interests me - though I have only watched to Season 7.
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Tim Hollo @timhollo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I’m backing Cassian Andor and Leia Organa for co-leadership of the Australian Greens. They bring the right mix of insurgency and establishment to appeal to a large cross-section of voters across the galaxy at a moment like this. Plus, gender balance is crucial.
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Tim Baxter @timinclimate.naruresearch.com.au · 29/09/2026
I think I'll put the answer online about 9pm. No-one has it yet.
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Tim Baxter @timinclimate.naruresearch.com.au · 29/09/2026
$1 million says you will never guess who wrote this without googling. @grogsgamut.bsky.social @ketanjoshi.co @louisemorris.bsky.social
Carbon credits, by their very nature, are priced on a story about what would have happened, and that is a soft number. Soft numbers don't fail quietly. When a court or a regulator, or another peer-reviewed study, puts hard figures on how much of this scheme was never real, we will not get a gentle correction. We'll get a stampede. The buyers will flee, the prices will crater and every company, every facility and every government contract that leaned on these credits to claim compliance will be exposed all at once.
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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"Australia has become fluent in women’s survival strategies, but has very little to say about the men." Andrew Brown on failure of domestic violence responses by authorities/govt #auspol michaelwest.com.au/domestic-vio...
michaelwest.com.au
Domestic violence crisis needs more than words and flowers - Michael West
So far this year, 52 women and 21 children have died from domestic violence in Australia, an epidemic that cannot be stopped by words alone.
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Creative Catjk @creativecatjk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If you care about climate change, you cannot vote for these policies. #auspol
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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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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Prime Minister just confirmed how Labor is run for News Corp and the 1%, by handing Lachlan Murdoch’s right hand strategist a critical NY diplomatic post.
Image of Australia’s next NY consul general Siobhan McKenna
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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
What’s your favorite Bible verse? (Wrong answers only)
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Joanne Hall @hierath77.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
"There's some good in this world, Mr Frodo, and its worth fighting for". The Book Of Sam Gamgee
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Maranoa Girl @maranoagirl.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Q. AU. Proposed laws in Queensland would restrict who can object to a mine and give politicians greater control over whether objections are heard in court. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
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New laws on mining objections 'hacking at safety net'
Proposed laws in Queensland would restrict who can object to a mine and give politicians greater control over whether objections are heard in court.
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Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Stop spreading that Meloni-in-a-Palestinian-flag video. It’s AI. Totally fake
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Sato Juniper @satojuniper.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Shame, Australia, and Shame, Western Australia in particular. There is NO excuse for this in the wealthiest state, in one of the wealthiest countries on Earth. Shame on us. #Auspol
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polqat @polq.at · 18/09/2026
Australia is the Ed Sheeran of countries #auspol
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Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Ed Sheeran, Macklemore and the ‘Apolitical’ White Ally
The Macklemore-Sheeran controversy exposes the cowardice of people who uphold the status quo by pretending to be neutral.
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Rɪᴄʜᴀʀᴅ Tᴜꜰꜰɪɴ ᵃᵘ ᶜᵇʳ ᶜᶠᶜ @richardtuffin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This seems a serious headline from the Guardian. I mean, April 1 is still a bunch of months away yeah?
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Creative Catjk @creativecatjk.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Why are people just... giving up? Because. There is not meaningful action based on evidence in ANY area - climate, education, MEDICINE... People's 'feels' are the basis for policy, and their policies suck. See beow.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"Can someone explain why – in an economy in which the central bank has decided we need almost 700,000 people to be unemployed – those people live in such dreadful poverty that it can make you up to 10 times more likely to die in the prime of your life?" www.theguardian.com/business/gro...
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In such a rich country, it is shameful how many Australians on jobseeker are dying in desperate poverty | Greg Jericho
Lifting the abysmally low jobseeker rate to the poverty line would save thousands of lives
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Sexy Hyperpolitical Husband @sexyhusband.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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Creative Catjk @creativecatjk.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I think we've probably lost the war re: reading in Australian schools. But, I remember that sick feeling in my stomach when I read people on line complaining that the first season of The Witcher was too complicated (it involved different timelines). People can't process anything not obvious.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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Creative Catjk @creativecatjk.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I think we've probably lost the war re: reading in Australian schools. But, I remember that sick feeling in my stomach when I read people on line complaining that the first season of The Witcher was too complicated (it involved different timelines). People can't process anything not obvious.
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Creative Catjk @creativecatjk.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
japantoday.com/category/fea... Mobile phones as distractors are bad enough. Adding AI brings it/will continue to drag it to another level.
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Teen reading slumps to worst this century due to surge in screen time: OECD
Teenagers more accustomed to smartphones than Shakespeare are reading at the worst levels seen this century, driving a broader decline ‌in education, a global student assessment found. The Organisatio...
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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Cool terms and/or writing prompts from the latest issue of Acta Astronautica: - strut injector - multi-lobe nozzles - event-triggered - neuromorphic star - spacecraft jitter mitigation - shock train - momentum theory solver - random positioning machine - hingeless 🧪 🔭 📚💙🪐
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Rudy Terwilliger 🐺 🥷 🍉 @wolftickler2000.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Albo’s log cabin story is made totally powerless & irrelevant by his own inaction, dithering, & sycophancy to corporate power. It doesn’t ring true when the nation is full people living in cars & caravans while Air BnBs sit vacant & the 1% make off with all the cash.
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Kon Karapanagiotidis @kkarapanagiotidis.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
8.16pm. Nearly 14 hours of walking and just 1 km to go 🙌🏼for my 50km walk to help end male violence against women and children. I’m less than $800 short of my $30,000 fundraising target. You can donate here: www.walkforwagec.org.au/fundraisers/... 💜
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Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Perfection. I hope Labor and their supporters are proud.
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Joel Jenkins @boganintel.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I had a chance to speak to UN Lawyer Chris Sidoti about concrete steps our government could make to be on the right side of history. My latest for the @theshot.net.au: 'UN lawyer lists concrete steps Australia must take to stop Israel’s atrocities' #auspol theshot.net.au/uncategorize...
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UN lawyer lists concrete steps Australia must take to stop Israel’s atrocities - The Shot
Australia is currently not practising what it preaches regarding international law, nor is it doing what it could to ensure...
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The best piece of news, after a relentless and brutal attempt to destroy a decent person and make an example of her, to scare others to silence. No thanks to the mainstream, which said and did nothing to defend the principle of press freedom and her right to report fact and express an opinion.
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Briony Kidd @brionykidd.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Is it seriously only Michael West Media and The Australian reporting on this? Plus the Australian Jewish News and the Greek Herald. Wow.
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Creative Catjk @creativecatjk.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"...Australia’s inflation and interest rates are particularly high." But, they can't afford to pay teachers more. And yes, public teachers' salaries are a state matter... compounded by terrible funding models at a federal level... #auspol
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Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
⚠️ "People receiving an income support including disability, unemployment or carers payments had an average mortality rate more than nine times higher than people who did not access the welfare system." What an epic waste of human life. Raise the rates. 7news.com.au/news/shockin...
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'Profound' increased death rate for Aussies on welfare payments
‘Australians facing economic disadvantage are carrying a much higher burden of premature mortality than others.’
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Creative Catjk @creativecatjk.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Why are *some* boys so disrespectful to women? Could be their role models. I dunno.
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