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Dr Annetta Mallon PhD

@gdepau.bsky.social
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"The Grief Whisperer of Bluesky"* Writer, grief / trauma recovery psychotherapist, dogs, humour, death literacy, EOL doula, atheist, SocSci research. Ally and safe space. Pallitorre Country lutruwita/Tasmania *Bluesky Roast does not lie!

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Dr Annetta Mallon PhD @gdepau.bsky.social · 13h
As a staunch Australian republican I am simultaneously amused and irritated with the endless game ads that implore me to "save the king!" Yeah nah. Read the room mate... 🙄 😂
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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“But taking sexual violence seriously and taking institutional responsibility are not the same thing… Fixing the future is a convenient way to avoid answering for the past.” Brenda Cossman writes painfully clearly on how institutions fail sexual assault survivors.
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Taking Sexual Violence Seriously Is Not the Same as Taking Responsibility
The Cornell case exposes how overlapping legal systems leave nobody accountable to the person at the centre of it all.
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David Marler @qldaah.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Syphilis is active across the Queensland community. It is not isolated to the city, the bush or different groups. 55 pregnant women have been diagnosed this year. 1 baby died in 2026, 3 in 2025 & 2 in 2024. Surviving babies can suffer lifelong conditions. #qldpol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
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Six Qld babies die in three years after contracting syphilis in the womb
New Queensland Health data shows 55 pregnant women have been diagnosed with the sexually transmitted disease so far this year.
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Dr Annetta Mallon PhD @gdepau.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
#auspol Don't believe the hype: PHON is not the opposition, but the @greens.org.au are. Change that benefits Australian taxpaying citizens to stop untrammelled corporate greed and support our environment is possible. 🧵 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
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Sandy Horne @sandyhorne.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's Wrensday Wednesday! 😀 Here's a splendid fairywren that was easy to find right at my camping ground at Gluepot on Sunday. These are stunning little birds. #wrensday
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3wombats @3wombats.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Boo cowards
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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A blunt tool. RBA’s incompetence is making the rich richer Michael Pascoe reports. Read it here: michaelwest.com.au/a-blunt-tool-rba…
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Always a Difficult Earth Girl🐬🐨🐋🦘🦈 @scuttlebutter1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Beautiful ... "I think just seeing what can come out of such a small place really inspires people," she said." Woh ... but not 'small' history, or culture, or depth in that the 60000+ year old 'well of creativity' just waiting to be fully tapped. Can't wait to see more ...
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Mother and daughter's artistic connections celebrated on outback catwalk
Designer Brodie George said it was a proud moment watching her daughter's artwork debut at a fashion show in her remote hometown of Fitzroy Crossing.
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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"Stepping up to play our part" Our part: compliant vassal state of the tyrannical warmongering USA and rogue terrorist state Israel. The Albanese Govt has made Australia not just complicit, but active supporters, of Israel's genocide. #auspol #StopTheGenocide #EndTheOccupation #FreePalestine
Tweet from AUS PM Anthony Albanese:
Australia is stepping up to play our part. 🇦🇺

That’s the message I delivered to the United Nations General Assembly
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Dr Sally @drsally.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This group needs to be banned They refuse to participate in democracy But Want to manipulate elections Receive charity But are hoarding $millions A cult
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Dr Sally @drsally.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I’m down in Cronulla and I just got a whole raft of positive responses to my T-shirt from various young people of working age 
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Blakandblack @blakandblack.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
In a world of division, where one person looks or speaks differently can be sufficient reason to make them Other, the voices of marginalised calling for recognition and justice are heard from many corners. blakandblack.com/2026/09/24/d...
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Division and the Deaf
The 75th anniversary of the World Federation of the Deaf reminds us that whilst hearing impairment can result in discrimination, not all consider it a disability.
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Cyclo 🇨🇴 🚲🇵🇸🏴‍☠️🇦🇺 @padreilpadrone.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
BHP skimming their coal-mining workforce by reclassifying miners as "office workers" hence their worker's compensation insurance is vastly LOWER cost to BHP, and vastly LESS coverage for injured workers 😡 youtu.be/-zHdB7aOjfs
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This is the biggest story we've ever investigated | The West Report
YouTube video by The West Report
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Allie @alannah56.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
#auspol FAFO glad they got sacked. The use of character references for rape, murder and so on should be ceased ASAP www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
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Western Power employees sacked for backing rapist
Three Western Power employees who provided a character reference for a colleague convicted of rape are sacked after an external investigation.
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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
we could have a royal commission and centre policing or we could just ban alcohol ads, ban gambling ads, jam all online promotion and delivery of gambling and alcohol products, and redirect the tax revenue to victim services. And see if that helps.
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3wombats @3wombats.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
BREAKING: Chats show how OpenAI agents planned to thwart cybersecurity amid Medicare hack webcam.substack.com/p/breaking-c...
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BREAKING: Chats show how OpenAI agents planned to thwart cybersecurity amid Medicare hack
OpenAI's rogue artificial intelligence agents appear to have worked together to try to circumvent cybersecurity defences and find ways to access Australian government health data, according to…
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Anonymous @opdeatheaters.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Meta glasses are being used for covert harassment and group stalking. Women and girls are being secretly filmed in streets, schools, restaurants and on dates, then uploaded for millions of strangers. Police inquiries now span worldwide. #OpDeathEaters
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Meta glasses used to film women and girls without consent from Seoul to Barcelona as police cases mount worldwide
Police and prosecutors across France, Spain, South Korea, Japan and the U.S. have opened cases against men accused of secretly filming women and girls with Meta glasses. The only warning victims have ...
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Dr Annetta Mallon PhD @gdepau.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Please sign and share widely if you can.
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Always a Difficult Earth Girl🐬🐨🐋🦘🦈 @scuttlebutter1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Fish farms: the worst of all industries, affecting countless species sending some to critically endangered status or worse, to extinction, destroying the integrity of once healthy, intact marine & estuarine ecosystems, polluting & abjectly cruel to farmed species. Help get them out of Lutruwita.
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Help us get toxic fish farms out of Tasmania's waters
YouTube video by Bob Brown Foundation
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
In the US, AIPAC operates as a foreign agent for Israel. The Israel lobby in Australia performs the same function. With their added advantage that the PM has one of the lobby's foremost reps, Jillian Segal, to advise him on policy. Foreign interference by prime ministerial appointment. #auspol
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Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Apart from anything else I wouldn’t be actively advertising my ‘Six Degrees of Jeffrey Epstein’ score
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Blakandblack @blakandblack.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
What she has run since her 1996 maiden speech is a much older, cruder rhetorical inversion — recasting a historically dispossessed minority as a privileged interest group, and the historically dominant majority as the system's true casualty — applied in turn to Asian, Muslim now to African migrants.
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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Mass local post office closures in the name of corporatisation. @ajgardineresq.bsky.social goes inside the auspost transformation project from LPOs to unmanned kiosks #auspol michaelwest.com.au/youve-got-ma...
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You've got mail? The slow demise of the humble post office - Michael West
As revenue slowly declines, Australia Post is closing post offices and replacing them with unattended kiosks.
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Mark @mark-melbin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Trump’s decision to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children” Media? Anti-#abortion grifters? #auspol #OneNation #journalism #Christianity hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-s...
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USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
The Trump administration’s decision to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths from infectious diseases and malnutrition, accord...
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Tracy @wacket.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Paul Begley @yelgeb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"What a shame that Albanese will not take this opportunity to sign the 2017 Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. This treaty, the only light in an otherwise bleak & deteriorating landscape of a new nuclear arms race & escalating nuclear threats." Tilman Ruff johnmenadue.com/post/2026/09...
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Albanese, AUKUS and the broken promise on nuclear weapons
As Albanese receives an international award for his leadership on security, Australia remains outside the nuclear weapons ban treaty he once championed. Meanwhile, expanding US military access raises ...
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The Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com · 23/09/2026
Incoming electoral reforms will cap the amounts parties can spend on election campaigning, but it’s still far too high. Here’s what the rules should be instead.
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New rules finally put a ceiling on money in politics – but the cap is double what it should be
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Blakandblack @blakandblack.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
#Dogmatic
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is the #WarOnWomen that One Nation and Christian nationalists are seeking to inport into Australia. #auspol
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 22/09/2026
Paris prosecutors launch probes into non-consensual filming of women with smart glasses
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Paris prosecutors launch probes into non-consensual filming of women with smart glasses
Prosecutors pointed to a 'growing trend on social media involving women being filmed on the street with smart glasses without their consent and the videos being published online.'
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Loony Left Media 🚨#TaxTheGas + KillAUKUS @loonyleftmedia.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Barnaby Joyce ‘accidentally’ meets with Nazi’s…it must have been one of those ‘happenstance encounters’ 😬 #OneNation courts #Nazis and vice versa. *paywall free link in comments
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‘That’s a lie’: Joyce fury over claim he had meeting with neo-Nazis in Canberra
The One Nation MP has described the run-in as accidental, in advance of an article set to be released later today.
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misschief9.bsky.social @misschief9.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 22/09/2026
The Canberra Writers Festival has a lively program that includes author talks, panels, book launches, masterclasses and performances, including one by our Chief Political Analyst and resident writer extraordinaire Amy Remeikis! Buy tickets here! ⤵️ tickets.canberrawritersfestival.com.au/Events
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Jane Doe, pretty hate machine @noticingclimate.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Huon are inviting the public to go see the pens for themselves, so who’s going to take them up on their offer to see the explosives? #politas youtu.be/Lv8Nsfzj0k8
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"If people could see underneath the salmon pens, they'd be quite shocked" | Come to Sea
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Dr Annetta Mallon PhD @gdepau.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
#auspol #transparency
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Sandy Horne @sandyhorne.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Some more Sturt desert pea loveliness. A rare and special flowering event in the outback due to the extreme rain events earlier in the year. These are found in many places but this magnificent display was east of Blinman, Flinders Ranges.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
For 33 years, McConnell has voted against family and medical leave for working Americans. Then he disappears from the Senate for 92 days and keeps collecting his full paycheck. Apparently, paid leave is only a problem when someone else gets it.
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
They just always seem like they have no idea which direction their legs are going to take them 😂 #emuzoomies
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Dr Annetta Mallon PhD @gdepau.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Why indeed?!? 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
High Court: look at the work, not the paperwork. Is BHP looking? Michael West reports. Read it here: michaelwest.com.au/high-court-look-…
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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Sydney Uni Senate to decide if free speech is okay Professor Stuart Rees reports. Read it here: michaelwest.com.au/sydney-uni-senat…
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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026
Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!
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David Pocock @davidpocock.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Yesterday the Senate agreed to my motion that calls on the government to fix our broken lobbying laws. It's time for politics to work for Australians, and that starts with lobbying reform. This is a great first step. Go to www.fixlobbying.com.au and join my call for lobbying reform.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I just can’t. This is more stupid and dangerous and evil than really should be possible.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Elizabeth Warren, AOC, and other members of Congress have introduced a bill to ban private equity funds from owning or controlling medical practices. This is a big deal. Here’s what you need to know about the shady private equity industry and how it operates.
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This One Thing Is Making Your Life More Expensive | Robert Reich
Private equity is shutting out millions of people from buying their own homes.In 2021, private equity investors bought n
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Dr Sally @drsally.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
My kind of person The most admirable sort Protecting
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
RBA up before the Economics committee right now www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0VJ...
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House Standing Committee on Economics | 18/09/2026
YouTube video by Australian Parliament House Streaming Portal
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Euronews @euronews.com · 17/09/2026
Since July 2026, eight people in Germany have contracted malaria, two fatally. Frankfurt now urges residents with such symptoms to consider malaria and consult a doctor.
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Frankfurt issues malaria warning after new airport cases
Since July 2026, eight people in Germany have contracted malaria, two fatally. Frankfurt now urges residents with such symptoms to consider malaria and consult a doctor.
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Dr Annetta Mallon PhD @gdepau.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Declarations are not legal positions. Tate simply wants more rage bait attention and as a whiny rapist he deserves none. Interesting to read that Tate's legal rep also appears confused about assertion vs evidence, and that this is an extradition situation not a talk show.
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Lizzy Schofield @musictplove.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Wake up & care Australia. Pay attention before it’s too late. “Why should we care? In Australia, Palantir is embedded across the agencies that hold the most sensitive data about its citizens and businesses;” #auspol
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