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Barbara Ryan

@disasterbarb.bsky.social
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Dungibarra/Jarowair land. Ass.Prof disaster behaviour research. Emergency comms/community engagement. RFS volly. Interested in: Renewables. Climate. Creatures. Dogs. Horses. #AusPol. I dont follow ppl without a bio.

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 7h
The latest corporate tax data just dropped. And congrats to Santos Ltd - 11yrs in a row of no company tax.
Table of Santos ltd company tax 2014-15 to 2024-25

Year	Total income	Company Tax
2014-15	$3,389,399,798	$0
2015-16	$3,476,002,729	$0
2016-17	$3,715,263,715	$0
2017-18	$3,498,043,596	$0
2018-19	$4,360,612,850	$0
2019-20	$5,013,931,702	$0
2020-21	$4,070,327,153	$0
2021-22	$4,746,037,784	$0
2022-23	$6,257,384,778	$0
2023-24	$8,210,276,022	$0
2024-25	$5,117,008,013	$0
Total	$51,854,288,140	$0
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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Israel lobby is infiltrating local councils via astroturfing outfits such as 'Better Australia', allied to hard-right Advance Australia. Secretive on funding. Investigation by @wendybacon1.bsky.social #auspol michaelwest.com.au/astroturfers...
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Astroturfers. Australia's local elections the new battleground for the Israel lobby - Michael West
Local elections are the new battleground for the Zionist lobby and its various astroturfing groups. Who are they, and who funds them?
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Barbara Ryan @disasterbarb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Ella Baron on Andy Burnham’s visit to the United Nations – cartoon
Donald Trump has praised the UK prime minister as a ‘natural businessman’ after their first meeting at the UN general assembly
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Stephen Moran. @moranstephen1000.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
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Barbara Ryan @disasterbarb.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
David Farley won the Farrer by-election because of his stance on water. Not because One Nation. PHON trio paint him as a naif, but he is more experienced than they are. Funny! www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/da2956...
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‘David, shut up’: Farley poised to quit One Nation
David Farley has confided to parliamentary colleagues his escalating tensions with One Nation, and particularly with Barnaby Joyce, which are likely to see the member for Farrer quit the party.
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Ryan Singh @singhisking.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
A 2,000 foot chunk of glacier snapped off and dropped 4,000 feet in Nepal. The flash flood killed 98 people. 391 tourists are missing. 47 Americans unaccounted for. 19 bridges gone. This isn't a natural disaster. This is climate breakdown.
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Bella the pygmy possum: the tiny marsupial that hibernates and pollinates
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Barbara Ryan @disasterbarb.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The International Journal of Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management is apparently located on Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania. Highly appropriate as crisis response ICT teams are actually powered by chocolate.
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Little Girl Wants Chocolate
ALT: Little Girl Wants Chocolate
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Maureen Chuck @irmagherd.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The difference between David Harley and Pauline Hanson is Farley did the research and found what numbers are needed to fill fundamental roles in the community while Pauline just pulled a number out of her arse. www.smh.com.au/national/aus...
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Australia news LIVE: Hanson intervenes after One Nation MP’s migration target comments; Sydney Swans crisis deepens amid fresh sexual assault allegation
Follow along as we bring you the latest live news updates from Australia and beyond.
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852dude @852dude.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Bro. People are cool as fuck.
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Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Long #Ozsnow piece by Tom Saunders: www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
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Year by year, Sydney's winter wonderland is becoming just a memory
New South Wales is in the middle of its 30th consecutive warmer than average winter — and a past staple of the season is rapidly vanishing.
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Barbara Ryan @disasterbarb.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
🌟HEADLINE OF THE YEAR ALERT🌟
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Barbara Ryan @disasterbarb.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
So. We are back to the days of Sodom and Gomorrah.
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Barbara Ryan @disasterbarb.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
“…stupid unsharpened crayons…”
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Nick Raschke @nickraschke.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
‘gina will get someone in Indonesia to photoshop a crowd in.
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Did you see this? Home Affairs has denied a visa to the ex-ASIO source who tried to warn about the Bondi gunmen. This is a deeply political decision, and now the Royal Commission may never hear his evidence. It looks like a stitch up by those who don't want this on the record.
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Woken at 4am by wildfire smoke filling the house. Southeast Wales, one of the UK's wettest regions, is shrouded in smoke today. You can feel it in your lungs. The climate crisis is now.
A map of the UK from firemap.live shows out-of-control fires burning in Northwest and Southeast Wales.
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Crowbar @crowbar.wtf · 20/07/2026
One week to go before the test alert to all Australian mobile phones. www.ausalert.gov.au/alerts-expla...
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Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Pity the poor person who has to do the index
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Megan Herbert @meganjherbert.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Discarded. My cartoon in today's @theageaustralia.bsky.social
A political cartoon by Megan Herbert showing a suited male bureaucrat sitting at a drawing board, with his back to us and a red pen in hand. In front of him is a document titled "Idea for a plan to stop gendered violence #3745". As he ponders the corrections he is going to make to the latest attempt at addressing what should be a national emergency, he tosses a scrunched up piece of paper, marked with red pen corrections (another failed attempt) over his shoulder towards a wastepaper basket which is full to overflowing with other such attempts. Closer inspection of the discarded pages shows that the crumpled and crushed paper balls closely resemble the bodies of women and girls, the victims of Australia's epidemic of male-perpetrated domestic violence which has claimed the lives of another four women in girls just in the last week.
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Tom Quinn @tomquinn.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Second, the information economy, this is the big one. Gen AI is turbocharging misinformation both intentionally malign as well as unintentionally, like Google telling us to go 'drift snorkelling in the Daintree River' last year. LLMs can't actually determine if something is true or accurate. 10/
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Barbara Ryan @disasterbarb.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Stunningly bad decision-making.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Pete Hegseth seems *obsessed* with the appearance of the men in our military. He monitors how much facial hair they have. He wants them to get bigger muscles by doing pull-ups. And now he wants them to take testosterone. Is he running a military or a stable of porn actors?
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Anthony Klan @anthonyklan.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
🚨Australia's taxpayer-funded Antisemitism Envoy Jillian Segal remains a top executive of major pro-Israel lobby group ECAJ. Her ECAJ role was exposed last year - yet she still holds the position. And refuses to answer Senate... theklaxon.com.au/q4oi
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Segal remains Israel lobby executive, two years into role - The Klaxon
Taxpayer-funded Antisemitism Envoy Jillian Segal remains a top executive of a major pro-Israel lobby group, more than two years into the role.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 15/07/2026
It is, in fact, way cleaner to build data centres in America's worst data centre hotspots than it is to build in Sydney or Melbourne
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Barbara Ryan @disasterbarb.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
It’s time for Europe to seriously work with communities on bushfire preparation and evacuation. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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Fast-spreading wildfire kills at least 12 in southern Spain
Twenty-three people missing and four Britons thought to be among those who died trying to flee Almería blaze
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Barbara Ryan @disasterbarb.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Despicable. www.politico.com/news/2026/07...
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Trump denies disaster aid for 4 Democratic-led states
The move deepens what Democrats say is the president's politicization of federal emergency management decisions.
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Barbara Ryan @disasterbarb.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
And Bob Katter is not afraid say what we’re all thinking. (or ‘says it how it is’, depending on which quote of Pauline’s fans you want to paraphrase) vt.tiktok.com/ZSCEv4w6x/
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TikTok - Make Your Day
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 08/07/2026
For decades, coastal mangrove forests have been decimated by development. But just this past week, forty years of satellite data confirmed something remarkable... Read more in this week's edition of Talking Climate.
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Mangrove forests are proof that protecting nature works | Talking Climate with Katharine Hayhoe
Mangroves recover, the cost of biodiversity loss, and a new way to visualize heat For decades, the world’s coastal mangrove forests were dis
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Barbara Ryan @disasterbarb.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
In disinformation manipulation techniques, this is the seventh, false balance.
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Barbara Ryan @disasterbarb.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Yes this! In disaster, co-operation and helpfulness always win out, despite media’s best efforts to find evidence of societal breakdown, like looting (myth shot down in the ‘80s), and despite storylines of disaster movies made in the USA. 🤔
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Barbara Ryan @disasterbarb.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Anomalies of up to 5 degrees in the Mediterranean!
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kyleayers.bsky.social @kyleayers.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Not saying that game was stolen from Egypt but it is now on display at museum in London.
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Petra Michaela @petramichaela.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
The next generation deserves living forests, not stories about them.
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Andrew Steele @statto.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Happy 250th birthday, America! 🎂🇺🇸 To put that into perspective: here are some animals that live even longer—some of them alive today were probably around when the Declaration was signed… 🧵
A Greenland shark, looking blue, appearing out of the inky black depths of the ocean
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Axel Bruns @snurb.info · 01/07/2026
Hey ABC TV Queensland: a single month-on-month decline in the median Australian house price of 0.4% does not seem to justify the heading ‘PRICES PLUMMET’. Maybe just stick to the actual facts, hey.
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Barbara Ryan @disasterbarb.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
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Barbara Ryan @disasterbarb.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Latest disinfo from One Nation: the landholder hosting turbines has to dispose of them at the end of their life. At least, this was the rant of a potential PHON candidate. They talk thru their arse, but people believe them!!!
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Barbara Ryan @disasterbarb.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
This is so true, and should have been a key message since the money thing reared its head. Academics don’t get the money, their institutions do and it subsidises more than the scientist’s pretty ordinary wages.
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Barbara Ryan @disasterbarb.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Imagine the cost of having to install air conditioning in every government building. But tackling climate change causes is too expensive…. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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UK June heat record broken for third day in a row as ministers urged to act
Plans to protect people fall ‘far short of what is needed’, government told, as MP warns of heatwave deaths
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 24/06/2026
I've said this before and it's a good day to say it again: media outlets have horny male editors and horny male photographers who want to snap creep pics of women in skimpy outfits, and that is a big part of why they illustrate a deadly event with this type of stuff
Temperatures to top 47C in Portugal today as heatwave scorches Europe

and the picture is two young women in bikinis jumping into water
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rowecartoon.bsky.social @rowecartoon.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
stuffed..?
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Laurel Gale @laurelgale.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
I found this neat tool that lets you generate text and images just from your ideas. It's really good!
a pencil
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Just in case anyone is unsure why fewer women work than men... and whether childcare is important. live.thepoint.com.au
Chart showing reason for not looking for work ('000s)

	Men	Women
Own short-term illness or injury	13.1	6.2
Own long-term health condition or disability	19.7	24.2
Had no need or want to work	26.9	26.0
Working in an unpaid voluntary job	6.3	2.8
Problems with access to transport	0.4	3.2
Moved house or holidays	1.5	8.1
Caring for ill or elderly person or family member	4.5	14.3
Childcare	7.3	110.5
Other family considerations	2.1	16.7
Other reasons	29.0	36.8
Not determined	17.5	16.1
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Barbara Ryan @disasterbarb.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
I have a subscription to the @australia.theguardian.com. Despite this, I regularly have 2-3 stories relating to my state sitting there for over a week as if there is nothing new happening up here. The one on the left is last Monday, on the right Wednesday 10 days ago. Still appearing today.
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Barbara Ryan @disasterbarb.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Nearly 15,000 people died in Fance’s 2003 heatwave. Now it faces its second in a year. Other countries are not so prepared. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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Macron calls for vigilance as western Europe faces second heatwave of year
More than half of France’s population under severe weather warning with temperatures expected to exceed 40C
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rowecartoon.bsky.social @rowecartoon.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
FAFO world cup
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Barbara Ryan @disasterbarb.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
At last, a sensible level of government. Local councils finally sick of the ultimate cost-shift.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
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