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Collette Snowden @drcollette.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

see: - E M Forster's 1909 short story "The Machine Stops"

Collette Snowden @drcollette.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

For heaven's sake can someone print this, and distribute to every journalist and politician in the country - with all their staffers, and research services available, the continued ignorance is just wilful ignorance and deliberately divisive.

There is a chart showing the different varieties of XY Chromosomes in humans.

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Collette Snowden @drcollette.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

They have control over a large number of voters via social media, now they want to control more through sporting portals. Read Orwells 1984 on how "the proles" were controlled - or even the Roman poet, Juvenal,

Image of two gladiators in a Roman arena, with the quote from Juvenal that says - "The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things: bread and games!"

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Collette Snowden @drcollette.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

"Journalist" William Elliott claims to be interested in public-minded journalism. Maybe he could start by explaining the public interest in duplicity.

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Collette Snowden @drcollette.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Sometimes you just have to say "off with their heads"

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Collette Snowden @drcollette.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Please read this book from Australian journalist @roycerk2.bsky.social it details strategy, tactics and the international political reach of the oil industry

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Collette Snowden @drcollette.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Please urgently consult Australian authorities who have managed this level of catastrophe for decades. And get journalists prepared for the conditions.It's hard to see a reporter wearing a sleeveless dress in an out-of-control fire zone. Australian journalists look like this in those conditions.

Reporter is shown standing in front of fire truck wearing bright orange helmet with rear neck protection, and full fireproof jackets, pants, and boots

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Collette Snowden @drcollette.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Pauline Hanson's latest display of ignorance exposes warped values, total ignorance, and incompetence. Is it unreasonable to expect someone with 30 years in politics to know about the various reports and inquiries into DV and Family violence by the Federal Parliament (HofR and Senate)?

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Collette Snowden @drcollette.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Same on ABC Radio National in Australia this morning - with the Israeli ambassador to Australia spewing venom and defamatory statements about the humanitarian flotilla and activists. The Hasbara/propaganda campaign never ends, as The Times of Israel reported in Dec 2024

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Collette Snowden @drcollette.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Fails to mention that the lower contribution to GDP can be largely attributed to lower wages in feminised jobs, and wage gap in others. We can all throw numbers around haphazardly - it doesn't mean they can be understood fully out of context.

Graph showing gender wage gap in the USA

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Collette Snowden @drcollette.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Apparently a lot of people walked out, it was so radical, which is one reason I don't like cultural lists. Lists ARE good for shopping though! And I'd be lost without my daily to do list!

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Collette Snowden @drcollette.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

The easiest action of a politician is to propose unfeasible policy that sounds good. This morning on @news.abc.net.au the newly elected One Nation member for Farrer outlined his party's policy to remove the GST on building supplies for new houses. Not a single question about how it would work.

Image of the following text:
Uncertain Price Drops: no guarantee that removing GST on materials will reduce the final price of the house. Developers and builders might absorb the savings to increase profits.
Marginal Cost Impact: The cost of building supplies is only one component of a new home. GST exemptions on materials generally translate to a small decrease in the overall cost and final price of a new residential dwelling.
Budget and Revenue Losses: The GST revenue funds essential state and territory services. Exempting specific sectors means lost revenue
Complexity in the Supply Chain: Removing GST on supplies requires complex tracking and recording to identify materials exclusively used for new houses versus renovations, commercial properties, or repairs; creating monitoring and compliance burdens and costs for builders and the Australian Taxation Office (ATO). Also rorts.
Broader Economic Impacts: Artificially dropping the price of new dwellings can artificially lower the CPI affecting revenues and expenses tied to inflation indexes.

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Collette Snowden @drcollette.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

.. check out what she actually votes for - negative, cruel, and abandonment of anyone who is vulnerable

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Collette Snowden @drcollette.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

As a political scientist Diermeier is lying blatantly. Universities are inherently political. Look at the history of Vanderbilt! Check out its donors, the research it has done, and the funding of that research.

The defining political stoush at Vanderbilt University in the 1960s was the 1960 expulsion of Divinity School student James Lawson, which triggered a massive civil rights crisis. Lawson was dismissed for leading nonviolent desegregation sit-ins at Nashville's downtown lunch counters, prompting national outrage and faculty resignations.

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Collette Snowden @drcollette.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Andrea Dworkin addressed this phenomenon

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Collette Snowden @drcollette.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Americans can't say they weren't warned - over and over - for decades.

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Collette Snowden @drcollette.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Interesting people are concerned about the pump price - maybe some concern for the revenue lost would be appropriate - the gas tax typically raises roughly $35 billion to $40 billion annually for the Highway Trust Fund. But that's not all

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Collette Snowden @drcollette.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

News Limited appear to endow a machete with autonomy to erase gender as a factor.

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Collette Snowden @drcollette.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Like Kemi Badenoch in the UK! How coincidental!

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Collette Snowden @drcollette.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Funny how she's using the same 'lines' as Kemi Badenoch in the UK - it's almost like it's an orchestrated and scripted narrative. So much semiotic coding going on with just a few words!!

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Collette Snowden @drcollette.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

It's about the same (using data from Human Rights Commission report of 2022) - BUT (big but!) theoretically you would expect the workplace that represents the people and makes laws would be considerably lower

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Collette Snowden @drcollette.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

this proposal seems to meet the criteria of being 'vexatious' and would be unlikely to pass the AEC Commissioner's scrutiny for party registration - which (surprise!!) takes into account the potential for this kind of cynical manipulation.

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Collette Snowden @drcollette.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

that's funny because she is Country Chair for Shell Australia and Executive Vice President (EVP) for Integrated Gas Australia, and previously held an Executive position where she had the following responsibilities

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Collette Snowden @drcollette.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Hey News Limited don't let the fact that feminist scholars and researchers have made the same arguments for DECADES. It's always best to wait for a man to make the connection, and to co-opt concepts and principles developed by feminists to make men the victims.

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Collette Snowden @drcollette.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

#Auspol media - Pauline Hanson is on other SM sites quoting Cicero as a guide to One Nation politics - clearly not knowing much about Cicero. Why don't you ask her to explain what relevance Cicero has to Australia in the 21st century, especially as

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Collette Snowden @drcollette.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

And there he was during the 2022 election campaign - not finding her difficult then. What changed? OH that's right - she wasn't co-opted by the Australian Zionist lobby, or the Fossil Fuel industry, or the Defence Industry.

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Collette Snowden @drcollette.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

He was happy enough to bask in her glow when she was Australian of the Year - what a fake and opportunist he is! He lapped up the "By Association" boost it gave him.

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Collette Snowden @drcollette.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Stop it. Stop the boosterism. Stop the propaganda. Celebrating the minor gains gives a false impression when we're at a tipping point. Try explaining reality and the urgency of what humanity has to do. Stop treating people like fools.

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Collette Snowden @drcollette.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

How disgusting that "integrity" is cited as one of the core values of Goldman Sachs when it is one of the most active enablers of Israel's genocide and ethnic cleansing campaign in Palestine. www.banktrack.org/news/seven_u...

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Collette Snowden @drcollette.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

See what I mean!!! NEXT LEVEL HYPOCRISY

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Collette Snowden @drcollette.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

The conflict over Australia's National Day is not new. The history is easily accessible even to ignorant media commentators like poor excuse for a journalist, Karl Stefanovic, or manipulative self-serving sociopaths like Hanson. Australia needs to have a mature debate.

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Collette Snowden @drcollette.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

@theguardian.com - here you go I fixed your tepid, and possibly defamatory headline about bully Farage

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Collette Snowden @drcollette.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

How easy it is for all of these people to "call for" a Royal Commission without considering the expense as well as the legal limitations.

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Collette Snowden @drcollette.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Not that much - if the latest polls are reliable - www.opinionsandratings.com/top-stories/...

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Collette Snowden @drcollette.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Chris Minns, and others like him in the ALP, should read their own party's constitution - especially Objective 5 (n). If they are contravening it, can members organise to expel them?

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Collette Snowden @drcollette.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

It must be great to have a senior executive position with Goldman Sachs and take off as much time as you like to travel and pursue political activities. That's the Goldman Sachs that's heavily committed to Israel. Surely the Australian media should report this interest?

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Collette Snowden @drcollette.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

An otherwise interesting article in Mumbrella argues - the money's already been spent, so we need to invest more resources!! WHAAAT! If the terms of the contract weren't met the contractor must be liable to make it right ... unless some fool signed off the work as acceptable and complete

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Collette Snowden @drcollette.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Does the Australian Government pay any attention to its own inquiries. How quickly the work of the Senate inquiry into consultants has been shoved aside. BTW Accenture is based in Ireland - why not use Australian businesses.

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Collette Snowden @drcollette.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

"shareholders" - such a nebulous term - are people in companies that support this - and their companies also have shareholders - it is an interconnected web of self-interest. Now all CEOs will 'benchmark' their payments to this abomination of greed.

Shows list of major shareholders in Tesla - also available at https://au.marketscreener.com/quote/stock/TESLA-INC-6344549/company-shareholders/

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Collette Snowden @drcollette.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

According to the Senate roll, P.Hanson has attended 23/31 2025 sitting days - about 2/3rds of the schedule. In that time she's only introduced TWO motions, also showing her priorities/obsession - NOT cost of living, health, education but this ⬇️

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Collette Snowden @drcollette.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

... the panels and battery subsidies for home solar seems to have done more to promote renewables across all homeowner demographic groups than any other policy.

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Collette Snowden @drcollette.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

I'm not suggesting people physically confront the thugs but recording and verbally acknowledging - from a safe distance - what's happening at least shows disapproval and without that there's the danger of descent into a "spiral of silence. "

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Collette Snowden @drcollette.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Another tepid headline from @nytimes.com as it does its best to transform into the approved state-sponsored media organisation. Yet every week it publishes a climate change news update. Do the staff there ever talk to each other?

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Collette Snowden @drcollette.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

How do YOU define accurate? ... between 1993 and 2019 "a third of the estimates of the 2PP vote, Labor’s first preferences, and the LNP’s first preferences, involved errors greater than those attributable to sampling error".

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Collette Snowden @drcollette.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

There is not "room" in the surveys if the question is not asked.As for the election results the 2PPP system disguises dis-satisfaction, even though it is preferable to FPTP. But people who study this closely have more to say on the topic ..

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