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Progressive left leaning boomer. Kiwi/Aussie living in Sunshine Coast, QLD. Lover of all wildlife and nature in general. Hoping mankind wakes up to itself before it’s too late. Fearful for my grandchildren’s future.

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CNN @cnn.com · 10/12/2025
Denmark has labeled the United States as a potential security concern for the first time in an annual report released by one of its intelligence agencies, offering more evidence of the increasingly fraught transatlantic alliance between Europe and the US.
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Denmark sees US as potential security concern | CNN
Denmark has labeled the United States as a potential security concern for the first time in an annual report released by one of its intelligence agencies, offering more evidence of the increasingly fraught transatlantic alliance between Europe and the US.
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Anomander @anomander.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
This video from @richarddenniss.bsky.social is both compelling and absolutely terrifying. Every Australian should watch this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XG-4...
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Australia isn't trying to get off fossil fuels | Richard Denniss at the Senate Environment Committee
YouTube video by The Australia Institute
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GG @gg58.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Best description of 🍊🤡 I’ve seen yet 🤣
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GG @gg58.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Always well worth watching
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Sad mazov @sadmazov.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Israel just bombed a children's birthday party www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/...
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“We found people torn apart,” said Yahya Sharif. “This place wasn’t affiliated with anyone – no politics and no military association whatsoever. It was packed with people including children for a birthday party.”
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Peggy Sanders @peggysanders.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Did you watch #SundayShot. Absolutely brilliant discussion about AUKUS and the militarisation of Australia. Very very revealing indeed. www.youtube.com/live/CIVsrEf...
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Truth to Power (watch the uploaded video instead) - June 29 - Josh Bornstein and Doug Cameron
YouTube video by The Sunday Shot
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Dr Alan Nixon @alangnixon.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
#ClimateCriminals #Australia #auspol
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 26/05/2025
hey lovelies, I finally got around to publicly sharing my compilation of big tech energy and emissions data. I'll be using it in articles, posts etc but it's yours too, free to use (w/ attribution is nice) ketanjoshi.co/2025/05/23/d...
a chart showing power consumption of big tech companies
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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
I find myself completely unable to function today. I’ve seen a child surrounded by the flames of what was her family home. Starving babies. Defeated, broken men. Women cradling their shrouded children. It’s too much. And yet I still have to hear ‘but Hamas..’ FUCK OFF. Israel is committing genocide
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Mark Ogge @markogge.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Approving this would have emissions equivalent to opening 12 large new coal power stations for 50 years. It would make a mockery of all @AustralianLabor renewables and climate policies.
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 20/05/2025
Add your name to the call to STOP the extension to the North West Shelf!✍️ nb.australiainstitute.org.au/reject_north...
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SIGN NOW: REJECT AUSTRALIA’S BIGGEST FOSSIL FUEL PROJECT!
Sign the petition: REJECT AUSTRALIA’S BIGGEST FOSSIL FUEL PROJECT!
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🦋 ~Bindi~ 🦋 @bindiatthebeach.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
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Lilly @lillyull.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
A great article, please read and share. www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/resisti...
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Resisting the Suppression of Western Colonial Crimes: Interview with Activist Stephen Langford
The District Court Judge quashed a Local Court Magistrate’s conviction after finding that sticking paper on a statue of Governor Macquarie did not amount to ‘destroying or damaging property’.
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David Lamond @davidlamond.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
No care taken; no responsibility accepted #SLOB* #auspol @aarondodd.bsky.social (*Sussssan Ley & O’Brien)
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GG @gg58.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
If you haven’t seen it already this is well worth watching - it’s the highlight of my weekend viewing and a great alternative to the RW bias of David Speers on Insiders
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GG @gg58.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Let’s hope this works to keep the LyingNastyParty from winning the Aus election
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AAP FactCheck @aapfactcheck.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has falsely accused Labor of slashing $80 billion from defence. Officials say Labor has increased defence funding by $50 billion over the next decade.
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Dutton wrong to claim Labor has cut $80 billion from defence
Peter Dutton is accusing Labor of taking $80 billion out of defence, but experts say that funding for the portfolio has actually increased.
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Deeny-Diney Dumdrop @diane-in-sa.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Now might be a good time to remind ourselves (and anyone else who will listen) about this #auspol newpolitics.com.au/2020/02/20/a...
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A short history of LNP corruption: When too much just isn’t enough : New Politics
It’s hard to keep a tab on the current deluge of corruption coming out of federal politics, and barely a day goes by where there [>>>]
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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Here's me. 'On doing the same inadequate shit over and over again until the end of democracy'
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On doing the same inadequate shit over and over again until the end of democracy - The Shot
The consequence of not good enough, as evidenced in the United States right now, is that you inevitably get much, much worse.
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Maz is difficult 🍉 @maz54.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
They never change.
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 28/04/2025
🔴 We're going LIVE on election night! Tune in for live reactions & analysis from @richarddenniss.bsky.social, @amyremeikis.bsky.social & @ebonybennett.bsky.social. We'll explain key issues, unpack intricacies of our voting system & preview the next Parliament. 🕠 5:30pm AEST, Sat 3 May #auspol
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Election Night Live
YouTube video by The Australia Institute
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Peggy Sanders @peggysanders.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
“Melbourne Storm co-owner and director Brett Ralph is one of the biggest funders of disinformation group “Advance” — which has been running a campaign of hate and division against the Indigenous Welcome to Country.”
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GG @gg58.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Just another nail in his coffin. Hopefully Dickson buyers do the right thing and ensure this POS is not re-elected.
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jaquix173🦋 @jaquix173.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Tell Little Jimmy that these stories don't frighten people any more .. .
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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
If you'd like to hear from a Palestinian Aussie in a long-form interview that covers genocide, Western imperialism, media/Australian complicity (and even f'n Star Wars), I had an insightful chat with Nasser Mashni, head of APAN. You won't hear this sort of stuff on TV www.youtube.com/live/LxbWO1I...
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Christ has Risen (Jo and Dave, not so much!) - April 20
YouTube video by The Sunday Shot
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Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
‘Brian, I can’t be any more clearer about our policy on that’ ‘Why not?’ ‘Mainly because at this moment I can’t remember if it’s the one we backtracked on, the one we backflipped over, the one we said we’d modify, or the one that we took behind the shed and quietly bludgeoned to death’
Late comedian John Clarke
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KooyongVotes @kooyongvotes.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Worried about the health and environmental impacts of nuclear? Check out this thread with expert links. Nuclear is too slow, vastly expensive, delays clean energy so increases asthma, respiratory disease and cancer, and hardly deliver much power at all by 2050. It's worse than a lemon. #auspol
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
With #AUKUS, "It is clear Australian leaders have decided to intensify Australia’s dependence on the US rather than seeking to create a military capable of securing the nation on our own." This blind trust in a dangerous "ally" must be reviewed now. #auspol theconversation.com/security-wit...
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Security without submarines: the military strategy Australia should pursue instead of AUKUS
By adopting a different military philosophy as its guide, Australia could manage its security largely on its own.
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Lynnette Dobson . Because truth is golden.🔑 @lynnettedobson.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
theaimn.net/dotty-and-cr... “Nebulous, amorphous and foolish, this absurd pact continues to sunder.” No truer sentiment of the worst defence and foreign policy, has be written. With clowns in the US administration and tariffs on steel and aluminium etc, it’s an expensive pipe dream #Auspol #Aukus
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Dotty and Cretinous: Reviewing AUKUS
It was a deal for the cretinous, hammered out by the less than bright for less than honourable goals. But AUKUS, the trilateral security alliance between Australia, the United Kingdom and the United S...
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Everything that the United States, and by extension the world, is going through right now can all be characterized as “change.” It’s a good reminder that lazily voting for “change” can absolutely result in things getting much, MUCH worse.
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𝓚𝓲𝓶 𝓒𝓪𝓻𝓻𝓮𝓻𝓪 🦘🌏 @kimcarrera007.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Oh how history haunts us
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Julie @julie-mela.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Thank you for the amazing interview with Nasser Mashni, on @theshot.net.au today. Even if you don't have the time, the last 30-45 minutes was so important. Must watch/listen. #auspol
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Christ has Risen (Jo and Dave, not so much!) - April 20
YouTube video by The Sunday Shot
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Debbie Northway 🇦🇺🦘🐨 @debbienorthway.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
#auspol #Australia #politics #AusVotes25 #Climate
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Claire Ferres Miles @claire4casey.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
The Liberal Party has scored 1 out of 100 for their environment and climate policies. We can do better, we can Vote 1 Independent, the better choice for Casey. #claireferresmiles www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Marcus Kelson @marcuskelson.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
La Tingle’s rather eviscerating assessment of the Opposition leader should be read by everyone… www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...
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The Coalition can't distract from its lack of policy detail indefinitely
The Coalition has resorted to relentless social media posts about the prime minister falling off a stage and lying about it.
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BlueSkyThinking @blueskythinking.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
This needs to be shared as much as it can. Do your part. #auspol
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Liberal Party Lie Collector @lie-collector.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Liberal Lies Collector Card #8: ☢️ "Our Energy Plan Using Nuclear Will Cost 44% Less" ☢️ The truth? Their modelling excludes MOST of the cost of nuclear plants! 🔄 Repost to share the truth 💾 Save now to quickly share 👇 See thread for extra details ➕ Follow for more! #auspol #factcheck #AusVotes2025
An imitation collector card, with the brand "Australian Liberal Party Lies". This is #8. The tagline is "Collect them all ... so you don't elect them all!"

The Lie section says: “Our energy plan using nuclear will cost 44% less”.

The Facts section says:
“Their modelling excludes most of the cost, because nuclear arrives late in the 25 years modelled, and the cost is spread over the 50 years after their 20 year construction.
It only includes about 16% of the cost of nuclear plants!
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A stacked bar chart shows the annual electricity production in TWh from renewable (in green), fossil (in charcoal), and nuclear (in red) sources.
Nuclear plants can be seen only generating small amounts of energy at 2040, and significant amounts of energy from 2045 onwards.
The large bar at the right, with a timeframe of “Later”, is labelled “The other  5 / 6ths  of  the  nuclear lifetime / costs not  in  the  model”.

A small yellow line above the 2051 bar shows the energy expected from the AEMO Step Change scenario. A note says the Liberal’s nuclear plan “produces 25% less energy than AEMO’s plan they’re comparing to”.

Footnotes refer to the data being “TWh annual electricity production, ‘Nuclear alternative – Progressive’”, and the source as Frontier Economics.

The graphic is licensed as Creative Commons, Non-Commercial, No Derivatives.
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Mike Hudema @mikehudema.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
The majority of earth's scientists now believe we are headed for at least 2.5°C of warming. We're in a climate emergency. No time to wait. #ActOnClimate #climate #energy #renewables #go100re
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Jane Caro @janecaro.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
When even the gas industry doesn’t like your gas plan…https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/mar/29/coalitions-gas-plan-unlikely-to-lower-prices-and-could-push-up-greenhouse-gas-emissions-experts-say?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Hey Penny's intern, hope you're well. Is @senatorwong.bsky.social 'gravely concerned' yet, because I'm fucking appaled
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Liberal Party Lie Collector @lie-collector.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
NEW RELEASE! - March 2025 Liberal Lies Collector Card #7: "We have a $5 BILLION plan to create 500k new homes" How many homes will their policy build? ZERO! 😲 🔄 Repost to share the truth 💾 Save now to quickly share 👇 See thread for extra details ➕ Follow for more! #auspol #factcheck #AusVotes2025
An imitation collector card, with the brand "Australian Liberal Party Lies". This is #7. The tagline is "Collect them all ... so you don't elect them all!"

The Lie section says: “We have a $5 billion plan to create 500,000 new homes”.

The Facts section says:
“The have no plan to build homes.
Their policy is:
A $5B fund;
grants & loans to companies & governments for infrastructure; 
Increasing spending on public infrastructure by just 2.3%.
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A stacked bar chart shows the $43B was spent on roads and utilities infrastructure in FY 2023/24, next to the $1B per year the Liberal policy is expected to spend on infrastructure.

Footnotes refer to the data being “Engineering work done for the public section” and the source as ABS via The Australia Institute.

An easter egg footnote says “A property development lobby group claims this would result in 500,000 new homes”.

The graphic is licensed as Creative Commons, Non-Commercial, No Derivatives.
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It's Not A Race @itsnotarace2025.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
As safe as houses… #auspol #election2025 #cllmate
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Amante2 AmeliaBee7 @amante2ameliabee7.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
As Fed election looms closer,it’s worth noting that when Trump fan boy,Dutton, was Health Minister he tried to destroy Medicare to point where AUS doctors called him “the worst Health Minister in 35 years” This puppet of Trump disciple Rinehart would spell the end of Medicare. No doubt #LNPMAGALite
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Australia on alert over Trump attacks on cheaper medicines
The US president has already attacked Ireland’s pharmaceuticals industry. Australia fears our medicines could be next.
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Rick Morton @squigglyrick.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
The 'no cuts to frontline services' shibboleth is such a furphy. When Dutton says he wants to cut (or let wither) 36,000 jobs from the public service, everything is affected. The response post ex-cyclone Alfred proves how vital the work of the APS is www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/environ...
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Cyclone Alfred and the real cost of Dutton’s public service cuts
The involvement of the public service in the aftermath of ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred underscores the reality of the Coalition’s promise to cut 36,000 people from government departments.
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Jo Dyer @instanterudite.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
The weekend is nearly upon us! Join @davemilbo.bsky.social and me for another #SundayShot with @beneltham.bsky.social & @claireconnelly.bsky.social plus a wrap-up of the WA election & preview of the Federal one with The Tally Room's @benraue.com. Watch and subscribe @ www.youtube.com/@TheSundayShot
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