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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 08/10/2026

The finns are justifiably very pissed about Google razing a forest to erect a chatbot building lnkd.in/p/eKFXmtE9

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Blue Community .net @blue-community.net · 07/10/2026

From Blue Community Ambassador Erin O’Donnell: I am so excited to share that Cameron Holley and my forthcoming open access edited book ‘Rivers have rights. What happens next?’ is listed on the ANU Press website. blue-community.net/b...

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This is an outcome of toxic centrism. Or what the Australian PM and legacy media journos like to call "the sensible centre". #auspol

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Paula 🌹 @paularose.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

“The Greenland shark is believed to become sexually mature at 150, which means the species replaces itself extremely slowly and will not rebound from a cull quickly.”

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Jeremy's Ear @jeremysear.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Vic Labor is looking at losing government to a malevolent scam (the collective noun for populist rightwing parties) of ON and the LNP - so of course it's focusing scarce resources on trying to destroy the Greens. Again. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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Labor may be on the nose in inner Melbourne over public housing – but it’s taking the fight to the Greens

The government sees an opportunity to regain city seats with targeted policies such as allowing dogs in pubs and extending trading hours

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Nicko @vicenvironment.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Australian farmers are world-class whingers. Didn’t want powerlines overhead and demanded they be buried. Now they’re whining about that too …. www.theage.com.au/national/vic... #auspol

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Undersea cable will power Victoria but may ruin dairy farmers

This 345-kilometre power cable is touted as crucial to clean-energy needs. But what if farmers cannot work their land?

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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

This is a very fine piece of writing by Tom Cox.

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Rick Morton @squigglyrick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Mark my words, these NDIS 'reforms' are going to be an absolute shitshow and people are going to get hurt. Will the government listen? It seems not.

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Rick Morton @squigglyrick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Government promised no access changes to the NDIS before 1 January 2028. They've already started, per the tribunal. And the big 50% social and community participation cuts are now in force. Families tell me they will have to give up care of children. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/health/...

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Exclusive: NDIS changes secretly brought forward

An Administrative Review Tribunal decision reveals that the government is already implementing NDIS access restrictions it promised would not take effect for more than a year.

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Marlene Robertson🍁🇨🇦 @marlenerobertson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Trump wants you to believe that these billionaires will self regulate and put the greater good over profits.

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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Why doesn't Labor work with the Greens to tax gas? Why doesn't Labor work with the Greens to build public housing? Why doesn't Labor work with the Greens to end AUKUS? Greens are happy to be constructive about things that materially benefit the public. We are not a rubber stamp.

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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The most radical arm in Australian politics (and the world) right now is the far right. And yet this is the analysis for the Greens.

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John Quiggin @johnquiggin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Shoebridge is right - don’t reform Labor, replace it..

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John Quiggin @johnquiggin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Larissa Waters tried accommodation and was rewarded with the bastardry of the “offset for koalas” deal. It’s time to admit that Labor, LNP and One Nation are all on the same side, and that we need a pro-planet, pro-humanity, anti-Trump alternative.

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John Quiggin @johnquiggin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I’ve always favoured the idea of an informal Labor-Greens coalition. But at least with Albanese in charge, that’s not going to happen. He’d much rather deal with the LNP (or, if push comes to shove, One Nation). Adam Bandt tried bargaining hard, and was successfully demonised.

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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

George is quite right on this. I discovered via FOI requests that just 5% of all woodland creation grants go to support natural regeneration of trees, and 95% to tree planting. I’ll continue to push DEFRA to fix this. www.theguardian.com/environment/... bsky.app/profile/geor...

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Government ‘failing to support natural regeneration of trees in England’

Campaigners say targets for woodland creation are unlikely to be met because 95% of grants are for planting

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"it must be acknowledged Shoebridge is not the most popular guy across the parliament or among Labor types, but much of that stems from his relentless style of questioning, needling and interrogation of political opponents and government officials." "it must be acknowledged"??? It's to his credit.

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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Free Press bravely challenging the orthodox belief that film criticism should involve watching the film.

A headline from Bari Weiss’s The Free [sic] Press:

“Hold Your Applause for the New Gaza Documentary

There may yet be hard truths in 'NAZA,' including evidence of Israel's systemic failures. But the reporting around it treats flimsy claims as proof of criminality.”

First line: “i haven't seen the film,”

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ummm....so wasn't Burnham supposed to be at least a bit...progressive? #inequality

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Both these images show native trees, which are actually side by side. Yet they look entirely different. Why? Those on the left grew naturally, the others are a plantation. Both officially count as 'native forest', but the first is SO much better as wildlife habitat. It's a diverse *ecosystem*.

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marque lawyers @marquelawyers.com.au · 29/09/2026

The Oz piles straight in before Mehreen has even declared, just to remind her what it'll do to her if she dares.

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Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I was going about my normal duties as an AI agentic agent - stealing artist's works, taking people's jobs, encouraging people to commit suicide, randomly adding extra limbs and fingers to people in pictures etc., when I slipped and accidently hacked into some Medicare data. For that I am truly sorry

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Dana Bergstrom @danambergstrom.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Oh good 🫣😬

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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Imagine describing 10 storey buildings at a railway station minutes from the core CBD of a giant city as a "mega project" and citing *but waddabout public housing* plus some weird Malthusian stuff.

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AusPoast @daryltractor.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Bit of creative marketing going on with Tom Hawkins’ farm which has been on the market for nearly a year. Agents are plugging it as a new listing, and claiming it only went on the market this month. Pretty decent drop in price too - originally $5.35-5.85m; now below $5m

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Antfarmer @antfarmer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Bloody Greg Sheridan on #insiders 🙄 Surely this guy should be banned from public commentary outside of Murdoch’s sheltered workshops after this 👇🏼

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The major platforms—Facebook, YouTube, and X—are all refusing to show the trailer for the upcoming documentary that eviscerates the ridiculous pest Elon Musk. So I guess we have to do our part to make sure it is seen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY_8...

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Musk | Official Trailer | Bleecker Street

YouTube video by Musk

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Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Great article about carbon offsets, the INFM, & Great Koala NP fiasco. I don't agree with this statement by Prof. Frank Jotzo: "There is nothing that incentivises or compels state governments to create national parks; there is really no push factor in that regard," www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...

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How a controversial scheme will fund Australia's largest koala park

Experts, conservationists and politicians are divided on using carbon credits to help fund the Great Koala National Park.

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Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Mate, you’d be depressed how many of my colleagues seem incapable of acknowledging this fact and saying it out loud.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 23/09/2026

Centre-right pro-fossil governments in Australia will only take one lesson from this: you can hold any piece of policy hostage for the purpose fattening the already bloated wallets of sleazy carbon traders and worsening the scammy fake regulation of the worst polluters. Absolutely grim shit.

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Smurfingbeer @smurfingbeer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

If you've forgotten, Angry Anderson was a shithead.

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Philip Thalis @philipthalis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Very pleased to speak as part of a major forum on the intrusion of car-generated noise in our cities, particularly from hoons. Held at NSW Parliament, convened by @alexgreenwichmp & concerned residents, 9 experts sharing their expertise & experience on what we can do about it

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Rob Ralston @policyrelevant.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

some staggering quotes in this piece, including the claim by one IPCC scientist that sinply declaring funding from Saudi Aramco resolves any conflict of interest

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Eddy Jokovich @eddyjokovich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Labor abandons action against illegal Israeli settlements, scapegoats migrants for the housing crisis, and allows One Nation’s culture wars to reshape Australian politics. Just like Liberal-light.

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From Israel to immigration, Labor is losing its political nerve

Labor abandons action against illegal Israeli settlements, scapegoats migrants for the housing crisis, and allows One Nation’s culture wars to reshape Australian politics.

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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

JFC 🤯 "At least a dozen IPCC lead authors are employed by or linked to Saudi Aramco, Saudi institutions and other oil and gas interests [..] One IPCC vice-chair, part of the body’s leadership group, also represents the kingdom at global climate negotiations as a government employee."

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Paul Begley @yelgeb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Albanese appointments: - NewsCorp CEO Kim Williams to ABC chairman - Liberal leader Sussan Ley to Snowy Hydro board - Liberal Party fundraiser Hugh Marks to ABC MD - Robodebt queen Kathryn Campbell to $900,000 AUKUS job - NewsCorp executive Siobhan McKenna as NYC diplomat And they all loathe him.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The most insightful thing I heard about business was an academic saying that the corporate dream is that their customers should cheerfully hand over 10% of their disposable income for the rest of their lives.

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Chris Sidoti is a globally-respected human rights lawyer and investigator. He is also Australian. But ever since he started presenting the facts about Israeli crimes against humanity, the Australian political and media establishment have done their best to ignore him. #GazaGenocide #auspol

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 18/09/2026

this whole thing is madness inducing but the middle paragraph here is the one that made me say "oh we're FUUUUUCKED fucked" out loud

Hill was willing to speak bluntly and on the record. But not every scientist I contacted felt able to do that. I called one Florida scientist who studies sea level rise to fact-check some of the agents' comments, but before we got very far, they asked not to be named. They explained that their current research depends on cooperation from county and municipal governments, which means they have to "tread very carefully" when speaking about real estate development in the
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That made sense to Hill. "If we get in the way of developers, their attorneys can go after us through our universities," she said. "It's not uncommonẠỊi
For the most part, she said, silence about climate risk in housing is incentivized. Because if climate risk tanks a property's value, she said,
"everyone's going to be pressuring everyone else not to talk about it."

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