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forestrising.bsky.social @forestrising.bsky.social · 2h
Australia lags the world in safeguarding personal data. When police extract data from your phone using Cellebrite AI technology, that data can now legally move to cloud servers owned by Israeli company, governed by Israeli law, accessible to Israeli govt. michaelwest.com.au/ai-intrusion...
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AI intrusions. Australia lags the world in safeguarding personal data - Michael West
It's not just the delayed response to the Medicare hack; Australia lags the world in measures to safeguard your personal data.
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Lysander @lysander1945.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Listen to this insane quote 👇from Peter Thiel and then tell me why he is not in a padded cell please? Thank you 🙏
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forestrising.bsky.social @forestrising.bsky.social · 3h
Australia MUST End ALL Live Animal Export - Sign the Petition! c.org/NtztwwvGCG via @ChangeAUS
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Australia MUST End ALL Live Animal Export
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forestrising.bsky.social @forestrising.bsky.social · 9h
Australians don’t have legislated rights despite: 75% wanting legislated protection for rights and liberties; ALP consistently calling for a Human Rights Act for decades. Albo consistently refused for 30 years to support a Human Rights Act as an MP www.cla.asn.au/News/?utm_ca...
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WELCOME - Civil Liberties Australia - Civil Liberties Australia
Promoting people's rights and civil liberties. It is non-party political and independent of other organisations.
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forestrising.bsky.social @forestrising.bsky.social · 9h
A Human Rights Act would: nip next Robodebt federal fiasco in the bud; ensure free speech. We Australians, almost alone, don’t have legislated rights. Albo has personally and consistently refused a Human Rights Act for 30 years as an MP. www.cla.asn.au/News/?utm_ca...
cla.asn.au
WELCOME - Civil Liberties Australia - Civil Liberties Australia
Promoting people's rights and civil liberties. It is non-party political and independent of other organisations.
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forestrising.bsky.social @forestrising.bsky.social · 10h
Doctor Exposes Israeli’s Barbarity Against Children of Gaza At the United Nations, Dr. Nahreen Ahmed's testimony compels a confrontation with the situation that Gaza's children are experiencing — and the causes of their deaths. mandissent.com/p/doctor-exp...
mandissent.com
Doctor Exposes Israeli’s Barbarity Against Children of Gaza
At the United Nations, Dr. Nahreen Ahmed's testimony compels a confrontation with the situation that Gaza's children are experiencing — and the causes of their deaths.
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forestrising.bsky.social @forestrising.bsky.social · 11h
A Human Rights Act would nip the next Robodebt federal fiasco in the bud; offer immediate relief for personal free speech. We Australians, almost alone, don’t have legislated rights. Albo has personally and consistently refused a Human Rights Act for 30 years as an MP. www.cla.asn.au/News/?utm_ca...
cla.asn.au
WELCOME - Civil Liberties Australia - Civil Liberties Australia
Promoting people's rights and civil liberties. It is non-party political and independent of other organisations.
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forestrising.bsky.social @forestrising.bsky.social · 11h
Albo made wild, unfounded claims about his supposed support of the UN Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, highlighting his own failure to give Australians what at least 75% want, a Human Rights Act for the nation. www.cla.asn.au/News/wp-cont... www.cla.asn.au/News/?utm_ca...
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forestrising.bsky.social @forestrising.bsky.social · 13h
How EU Funds Israeli Weapons EU is using civilian funding pipelines to fund Israeli war crimes and genocides in the Levant. mandissent.com/p/how-eu-fun...
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How EU Funds Israeli Weapons
EU is using civilian funding pipelines to fund Israeli war crimes and genocides in the Levant.
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forestrising.bsky.social @forestrising.bsky.social · 13h
We will not abandon dreams. We keep demanding justice for every mother and father taken from children. Your question will grow with you, and continue to confront conscience of world: Father, why won’t you turn look at me? Who took you from me? palestinewillbefree.substack.com/p/father-why...
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‘Father, why won’t you turn to look at me?’
“My heart broke when I lost my son Basir, and it broke again when I saw in your eyes a child searching for his father and unable to find him.”
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forestrising.bsky.social @forestrising.bsky.social · 13h
Those outside Gaza barely feel the pain Palestinians, living 3 years of bombings, sniper fire, starvation, little water, no electricity/cooking gas, fighting the elements in ramshackle tents or damaged buildings, during Western-backed Israeli genocide palestinewillbefree.substack.com/p/father-why...
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‘Father, why won’t you turn to look at me?’
“My heart broke when I lost my son Basir, and it broke again when I saw in your eyes a child searching for his father and unable to find him.”
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forestrising.bsky.social @forestrising.bsky.social · 13h
Palestinian womens’ generational preservation of collective memory, daily lives under continuing occupation and genocide, and resistance to the Zionist Colony. freepalestinetv.substack.com/p/qatr-al-na...
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Qatr al-Nada: Palestinians' Preservation of Memory in One Act
Ali Mazloum reports from Al-Madinah Theatre in Hamra, Beirut for the performance of Qatr al-Nada - the fifth play from acclaimed Palestinian director, political activist, writer & actor Raeda Taha foc...
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forestrising.bsky.social @forestrising.bsky.social · 15h
600–700 million farmed animals are bred and slaughtered in Australia each year, urging the public to recognize their suffering and watch the documentary 'Dominion'. dominionmovement.com/watch
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forestrising.bsky.social @forestrising.bsky.social · 15h
600–700 million farmed animals are bred and slaughtered in Australia each year, urging the public to recognize their suffering and watch the documentary 'Dominion'. www.dominionmovement.com/watch
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Watch Dominion (2018) - full documentary - Dominion (2018): A brutal reality uncovered | Australian documentary film
Watch the 2018 Australian documentary Dominion for free.
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forestrising.bsky.social @forestrising.bsky.social · 15h
Australian govt, beneath its babble of respect is feckless with our national sovereignty that we must regularly witness Richard Marles haunting Pentagon with yet another millions of dollars for AUKUS. Australia the vassal state www.deepcutnews.com/p/the-great-...
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The great betrayal? AI imperialists and Albanese – Richard Flanagan
The Albanese government is opening the floodgates to American AI corporations
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forestrising.bsky.social @forestrising.bsky.social · 15h
Albo the traitor. Australia in 1974 felt like a country shaking off being a colony. We began exploring a foreign policy separate of US, having withdrawn Australian troops from bloody and pointless quagmire of Vietnam. Proposals on AI make us a vassal state www.deepcutnews.com/p/the-great-...
deepcutnews.com
The great betrayal? AI imperialists and Albanese – Richard Flanagan
The Albanese government is opening the floodgates to American AI corporations
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forestrising.bsky.social @forestrising.bsky.social · 15h
To wave after wave of applause, Whitlam talked of buying back the farm. Australia as a nation independent and sovereign, proudly charting its own course. Albo promised to steer a careful path with AI, but is now selling out the Australian people. www.deepcutnews.com/p/the-great-...
deepcutnews.com
The great betrayal? AI imperialists and Albanese – Richard Flanagan
The Albanese government is opening the floodgates to American AI corporations
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forestrising.bsky.social @forestrising.bsky.social · 15h
PM as Benny Hill impersonator who rarely met a corporation for which he wouldn’t roll over. In noble tradition of online scammers, US AI corporations persuaded Albo that investment in Australia, with highly dubious conditions, is only for a short time. www.deepcutnews.com/p/the-great-...
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The great betrayal? AI imperialists and Albanese – Richard Flanagan
The Albanese government is opening the floodgates to American AI corporations
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forestrising.bsky.social @forestrising.bsky.social · 15h
Days after AI companies told us their product might destroy all humanity, we discover they threaten our govt. The govt’s leaked proposals add up to making Australia to AI regulation what the Cayman Islands is to tax evasion. www.deepcutnews.com/p/the-great-...
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The great betrayal? AI imperialists and Albanese – Richard Flanagan
The Albanese government is opening the floodgates to American AI corporations
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forestrising.bsky.social @forestrising.bsky.social · 15h
Albo betrays us. Not one other country in world has signed up to such brazen theft being made law. Other countries are closed or are closing strip-mining their cultures for AI. Nonsense that Australia will miss unless it sacrifices to Anthropic and Grok www.deepcutnews.com/p/the-great-...
deepcutnews.com
The great betrayal? AI imperialists and Albanese – Richard Flanagan
The Albanese government is opening the floodgates to American AI corporations
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forestrising.bsky.social @forestrising.bsky.social · 15h
Albo's secret proposals on AI copyright hand us to anti-democratic oligarchs, with Australia becoming a vassal state. If these words sound overstated, they merely repeat Arthur Mensch, CEO Paris-based AI company Mistral, told French National Assembly. www.deepcutnews.com/p/the-great-...
deepcutnews.com
The great betrayal? AI imperialists and Albanese – Richard Flanagan
The Albanese government is opening the floodgates to American AI corporations
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forestrising.bsky.social @forestrising.bsky.social · 15h
We are being bullied into becoming fully integrated into US system but without the critical American legal protection of statutory damages that is leading to a proliferation of litigation against AI companies in the US. www.deepcutnews.com/p/the-great-...
deepcutnews.com
The great betrayal? AI imperialists and Albanese – Richard Flanagan
The Albanese government is opening the floodgates to American AI corporations
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forestrising.bsky.social @forestrising.bsky.social · 15h
Albo govt found us ideal for colonising by rapacious greed. Community after community says no to data centres; AI execs fear assassination; AI oligarchs – close to being run out of their own country – look for another nation to pillage for water, power, www.deepcutnews.com/p/the-great-...
deepcutnews.com
The great betrayal? AI imperialists and Albanese – Richard Flanagan
The Albanese government is opening the floodgates to American AI corporations
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forestrising.bsky.social @forestrising.bsky.social · 16h
Albo govt found us ideal for colonising by rapacious greed. Community after community says no to data centres; AI execs fear assassination; AI oligarchs – close to being run out of their own country – look for another nation to pillage for water, power, www.deepcutnews.com/p/the-great-...
deepcutnews.com
The great betrayal? AI imperialists and Albanese – Richard Flanagan
The Albanese government is opening the floodgates to American AI corporations
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forestrising.bsky.social @forestrising.bsky.social · 16h
Every Australian should care because AI corporations are really coming for you – for your water, your power, your nation’s sovereignty, and your very lives. 52 years after Whitlam, Albo plans to sell us out. www.deepcutnews.com/p/the-great-...
deepcutnews.com
The great betrayal? AI imperialists and Albanese – Richard Flanagan
The Albanese government is opening the floodgates to American AI corporations
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forestrising.bsky.social @forestrising.bsky.social · 16h
The great betrayal? AI imperialists and Albanese – Richard Flanagan The Albanese government is opening the floodgates to American AI corporations www.deepcutnews.com/p/the-great-...
deepcutnews.com
The great betrayal? AI imperialists and Albanese – Richard Flanagan
The Albanese government is opening the floodgates to American AI corporations
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forestrising.bsky.social @forestrising.bsky.social · 16h
AnimalKIND’s Nup to the Cup is on 30 Oct 30, Brisbane! Good food, great company, and compassionate conversation. $25 for vegan dinner (think delicious pizza!), plus raffles, games and plenty of good times. Space is limited, so be sure to book early! www.eventbrite.com.au/e/nup-to-the...
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Nup To The Cup 2026
AnimalKIND’s annual Nup to the Cup event is back! Join us for an evening of good food, great company, and compassionate conversation.
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huronbluechief.bsky.social @huronbluechief.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#Maddow Reality Check Cartoon Break
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masim @masim29.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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forestrising.bsky.social @forestrising.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Stop queensland approving fracking for the Taroom Trough oil expansion - Sign the Petition! c.org/FSNQ6g7Zv5 via @ChangeAUS
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Stop queensland approving fracking for the Taroom Trough oil expansion
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forestrising.bsky.social @forestrising.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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forestrising.bsky.social @forestrising.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Australia’s data centre boom promises to turn everything it touches into gold, but it won’t matter much if rising temperatures, devastated ecosystems and dwindling water supplies make Australia uninhabitable. thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
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This is Australia’s only chance to get the data centre boom right
A data centre boom may be this decade's alchemy, but it won’t matter much if rising temperatures, devastated ecosystems and dwindling water supplies make my home state uninhabitable.
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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
'...J.H.S. Burgess, who commanded brutal interrogations of Shihuh tribesmen in Oman—incl. hooding, noise bombardment, & prolonged stress positions—later became a senior intelligence officer in Northern Ireland, where similar "five techniques" were used...' progressive.international/wire/2026-09...
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When Britain Used Torture To Control The Strait Of Hormuz
Declassified files reveal that brutal interrogation techniques used by British forces in 1970s Oman were later applied in Northern Ireland, with key officers involved in both operations.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Good of the Albanese govt to give Wilson the ability to cut programs in the NDIS by 99% without having to bother with legislation...
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forestrising.bsky.social @forestrising.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I’ve taken action to help secure an Independent Office of Animal Welfare in NSW. Labor promised this reform, but there are just 18 sitting days left to deliver it this term. Contact your MP too: allianceforanimals.org.au/ioaw-mp-acti...
allianceforanimals.org.au
Call on NSW Labor to introduce the IOAW (MP) — Australian Alliance for Animals
Speak up for animals in NSW by calling on your local MP to advocate for the Independent Office of Animal Welfare this term.
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forestrising.bsky.social @forestrising.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
On October 16, 2026, farmers, activists, researchers, and communities share regenerative practices, the farmer innovations, and grassroots movements quietly healing soil, water, communities around world. Join us to celebrate Grassroots Rising. regenerationinternational.org/peoples-food...
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Peoples Food Summit 2026 - Regeneration International
Annual Food Summits: HOME | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 The grassroots are rising. That was our founder Ronnie Cummins’ call to action, and it is the […]
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forestrising.bsky.social @forestrising.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Israel behead another Palestinian in Gaza. You probably didn’t hear about it. Israelis have been beheading and burning Palestinians alive since Oct 7. Subjecting Palestinians to worst fate imaginable has not dimmed during the supposed ceasefire. palestinewillbefree.substack.com/p/israel-beh...
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Israel beheads another Palestinian in Gaza. But you probably didn’t hear about it
When the victims are Palestinian, even a severed head can become invisible.
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forestrising.bsky.social @forestrising.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Terror suspects with 3 vans of explosives are set free. Ed Miliband assures us that the suspects have been safely returned to Mossad. Just remember the next time a major incident is taking place that Israel is probably behind that one too. www.normalisland.co.uk/p/fairford-s...
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Fairford suspects released on bail and returned to Mossad
The five men suspected of plotting a massive terror attack at RAF Fairford have been released on bail.
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forestrising.bsky.social @forestrising.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Two genocidal maniacs portray themselves as the leading lights of the Middle East. At the Security Council the U.S. stood out as the only country that thinks AI breaking free of human control and endangering humanity is a hoax. consortiumnews.com/2026/09/26/w...
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WATCH: TWTW -- 'Shameless!'
Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu this week used the seat of world diplomacy -- established to pursue peace -- to spread their vile supremacist ideologies. Ray McGovern & Rick Wolff. Watch the repla...
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forestrising.bsky.social @forestrising.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Australia and New Zealand use public broadcasters as “soft power” in geopolitical battle for minds of people of Pacific. Wong says a country projects its multicultural reality is not just a public relations exercise, but genuine element of national power. consortiumnews.com/2026/09/28/p...
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Pacific Public Broadcasters Target China & Russia
Australia and New Zealand are using their public broadcasters as "soft power" in a geopolitical battle for the hearts and minds of the people of Pacific nations. By William Evans Declassified Aust...
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forestrising.bsky.social @forestrising.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
84 days for Australian government to learn that an artificial intelligence agent had gone somewhere it was not allowed to go. It has taken less than a week for the government to concede that our criminal law may not be able to hold anyone responsible. suebarrett.substack.com/p/an-ai-agen...
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An AI agent broke into a government system. The government now says our laws may not reach anyone.
BYV: The government has confirmed the legal gap at the centre of this case. Who decides what happens next, and what to ask your MP before the rules are rewritten.
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forestrising.bsky.social @forestrising.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Labor govt is Ed Sheeran of Australian politics. More opportunity to push against toxic centrism. Not taking a side is siding with bullies. ‘Working together’ means, in bully power speak, allows tech to create boundaries they are willing to accept. www.deepcutnews.com/p/this-labor...
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This Labor government is the Ed Sheeran of Australian politics – Amy Remeikis
There is more opportunity to push back against toxic centrism
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forestrising.bsky.social @forestrising.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
That is precisely the danger. Legality becomes a fig leaf for persecutory outcomes, the rule of law does not protect the minority; it legitimises the majority’s preferences. Raw exposure of how majoritarian politics, media bias, and state power converge. www.savageminds.co/p/the-bulldo...
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The Bulldozer at the Altar
Ujjain and the Future of Minority Belonging
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forestrising.bsky.social @forestrising.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Tell Federal Environment Minister Murray Watt to protect Kimberley’s extraordinary offshore waters. www.environskimberley.org.au/protect_our_...
environskimberley.org.au
Australia’s biggest ocean protection opportunity in 10 years
Protecting the nature of the Kimberley
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forestrising.bsky.social @forestrising.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Stop "Lions of Zion" War Games in Caulfield Park. Sign Petition! Jewish community in Australia believe in justice, dignity, safety regardless of background, faith or nationality. “Lions of Zion” celebrates a Israeli military operation. c.org/D2T4RxrTPk via @ChangeAUS
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Stop "Lions of Zion" War Games in Caulfield Park
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forestrising.bsky.social @forestrising.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Democracy is a continuing obligation: to represent people, challenge power, improve their lives and permit them to expose or correct capture. We should ask: Who gets to decide? Who is left behind? Who can challenge power? Who shares in the result? independentaustralia.net/politics/pol...
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Democracy must be measured by more than elections
China, India, the United States and Australia reveal why democracy must be judged not only by elections, but by who holds power, who benefits and who gets heard.
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forestrising.bsky.social @forestrising.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Democracy must be measured by more than elections. China, India, the United States and Australia reveal why democracy must be judged not only by elections, but by who holds power, who benefits and who gets heard. independentaustralia.net/politics/pol...
independentaustralia.net
Democracy must be measured by more than elections
China, India, the United States and Australia reveal why democracy must be judged not only by elections, but by who holds power, who benefits and who gets heard.
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forestrising.bsky.social @forestrising.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Successive Australian governments turned shelter into a casino. What is missing is a public builder. That takes a National Public Housing Summit, every level of government at the table and ministers with the spine to say no to the property lobby. michaelwest.com.au/australias-h...
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Australia’s Housing Casino: the house always wins - Michael West
Andrew Brown analyses how successive Australian governments turned shelter into a casino. Australia's Housing Casino.
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forestrising.bsky.social @forestrising.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Govt should have reviewed all foreign private AI and cloud defence contracts under the guise of ‘sovereign AI integrity’, instead of sending Kevin Rudd out to wag his finger. Govt failed to marry the reality of its words couched in sovereignty with reality www.boganintel.com/p/digital-so...
boganintel.com
Digital sovereignty after the Medicare hack
Data centers on Australian soil are not the same as control over the models, the disclosure, or the terms.
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forestrising.bsky.social @forestrising.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Govt failed to marry the reality of its words couched in sovereignty when clashed with the realities of its rushed insistence to hyperscale a technology it doesn’t understand, by fusing it to outside forces we cannot control. www.boganintel.com/p/digital-so...
boganintel.com
Digital sovereignty after the Medicare hack
Data centers on Australian soil are not the same as control over the models, the disclosure, or the terms.
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