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Gillian H

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I like yelling about books. Living on muwinina country She/Her www.gillyreads.com/links

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Scott Mitchell @scottmitchell.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
We counted, so you don’t have to. Insane is the number of things Jillian Segal actually HERSELF conceded she had no evidence for, or backflipped on, but went completely unreported. www.lamestream.com.au/we-counted-a...
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We Counted All the Errors in Jillian Segal’s Attack on the ABC and SBS
Jillian Segal wants a new body to vet journalism. If she had submitted her evidence in front of the Royal Commission as an article to a newsdesk, it wouldn’t pass fact-check.
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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Unfortunate that Charlie Pickering should declare Australian of the Year Grace Tame's gig at the ABC as 'problematic' while talking to a serial pest convicted of spousal abuse eh. #LetHerSpeak
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Rachel Withers @rachelwithers.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
The next person who labels the budget “communist” should have their house seized and turned into public property, so that they can learn what communism actually is.
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Actinotus forsythii @actinotusforsythii.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
I actually like giving the school bully my lunch money how dare you
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💜 phonakins 🍉🌲 @phonakins.com · 30/05/2026
This is the UK but cuts to the NDIS will see more vulnerable families and individuals "drop out" of the system. Even the privatisation has led to a loss of duty of care and providers of last resort already
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 30/05/2026
I’m a climate scientist. Let me fix this headline. “Nearly a century ago, scientists showed that burning fossil fuels warms the planet. Today, we know human emissions account for over 100% of the warming. Yet dark money and disinformation still work to keep Americans addicted to fossil fuels.”
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Jeremy Poxon @jeremypoxon.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
"its plan won't require legislative change. It won't abolish mutual obligations. It will still rely on private job agencies to find work for jobseekers So, major elements of our employment services system won't be changing at all." www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...
abc.net.au
Is the government really overhauling employment services?
The government isn't rebuilding the Commonwealth Employment Service, but will its proposed changes fix a broken system?
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Elias Greig @eliasgreig.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
And yet people keep saying it. The other common one is dogs - "without short stays, how can I go on holiday with my dog?" Dunno, mate - how many people should be homeless so your dog can go on holiday?
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Danielle Binks @daniellebinks.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
The Media's Treatment of Flotilla Detainees is Shocking and Unprecedented Australians are returning home with stories of abuse and mistreatment while the media is deferring to Israel by interrogating them as if they aren't reliable. #AusPol www.lamestream.com.au/the-medias-t...
lamestream.com.au
The Media's Treatment of Flotilla Detainees is Shocking and Unprecedented
Australians are returning home with stories of abuse and mistreatment while the media is deferring to Israel by interrogating them as if they aren't reliable.
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Antipoverty Centre @antipovertycentre.org · 25/05/2026
Replacing fossil fuel capitalism with renewable energy capitalism will not and cannot lead to any form of climate justice.
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Laura @tutusntinyhats.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
I wish more leftists would understand that the idea that fatness is unhealthy isn't some kind of objective truth, but a myth created to make profit for the weight cycling industry, using a racialized, gendered, classed body ideal.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
"A tragic birth, and death, in a tent – and still our poorest must pay" @amyremeikis.bsky.social thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
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A tragic birth, and death, in a tent – and still our poorest must pay
An Indigenous woman, living in one of the wealthiest countries in the world, gave birth to twins in a tent last week - because the waiting list for social housing in her area is up to seven years. And...
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Actinotus forsythii @actinotusforsythii.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
This is pretty fucked as is the government statement the kids will be put in counter terrorism programs using these as a threat basically rather than a genuine needs based intervention - this whole thing shows the worst of Australia
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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Have we worked out yet that every single "it's too expensive" from successive governments, for things like fast trains & hospitals & schools, is all just utter fucking bullshit in the face of hundreds of billions of dollars to fascists for submarines we don't need and won't get?
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Tim Baxter @timinclimate.naruresearch.com.au · 06/05/2026
This is such a ridiculous way to frame the topic, bordering on outright disingenuous. The report this headline is based on includes employer provided sick leave as "income support". The "more than 8 million Australians on income support" includes 7.5 million people who took any sick leave.
Table showing the count of "income supports" offered to Australians that was used to derive the "more than 8 million" figure.
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Homelessness is a policy choice and a policy failure. As the 1% don't have to pay their fair share, everyone else is suffering. Societies don't work when a few hoard the wealth of the many. www.smh.com.au/national/a-m...
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A mother had been living in a tent for months. Then she went into labour
The 37-year-old who gave birth to twins, one of whom did not survive, had been living in at a makeshift camp amid a regional NSW housing shortage.
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kristin (she/her) @kristin8x.antipovertycentre.org · 05/05/2026
ABC so desperate for a headline that fuels anti welfare rhetoric that they’ve conflated “income support” with “comparatively generous private insurance policies and compensation schemes”. Since when are these part of ANY ordinary definition of income support? www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...
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More than 8 million Australians now receive income support
The number of people accessing income support payments has risen by 2 million in the past decade, with more Australians unable to work due to deteriorating mental and physical health.
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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Three Tasmanian police charged in the space of 6 days, over separate incidents. Two involved stealing! The other was "charged with common assault and issued with a Police Family Violence Order".
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Three Tasmanian police employees charged over separate incidents
Three Tasmanian Police employees have been charged over separate incidents in the space of six days.
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Kate Littlejohn @kelittlejohn.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
I have not stopped thinking about this since I first saw this horrific story. What kind of society are we when babies are dying in tents while some people own multiple houses that they rent for prices that so many can't afford. Why are we paying for weapons and not housing for vulnerable ppl?
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Rob Arnol @robertarnol.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
222 years ago on this date, the first massacre was committed against Aboriginal people in Tasmania. The occupational settlement by white British nationals was one day old. About 300 Aboriginal people from the Big River and Oyster Bay tribes had gathered for a kangaroo drive. Upon being sighted by
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Dan Ilic @danilic.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
it's as if there's some unseen force — encouraging them to say the opposite of what's true — in the face of millions of Australians who have solar on their roof and batteries in their garage who are just paying to be connected to the grid... What force could that be?
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 01/05/2026
FRIENDS Here's my great big story about my experiences deep in the guts of the "wind turbine syndrome" debate. What I fucked up, what I learnt, and what it tells me about the growing fears around data centres and inaudible "infrasound" Make some tea, sit down, have a read (thread coming later) ❤️
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The exact wrong lesson to learn from data centre infrasound fears
Data centre infrasound fears are a thing now. So here’s a deep dive into my history with wind turbine syndrome, and what it means for the wild data centre frenzy
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Tristan Stevens @tristanstevens.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Richard Dawkins is the perfect avatar of our times; a man who thinks large language models are people and muslims are not.
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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
"[Amal] Khalil was a veteran reporter ... raised under Israeli occupation in the 1980s in southern Lebanon, and was driven by a desire to chronicle daily life in south Lebanon under constant threat of Israeli invasion and bombardment."
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
My latest newsletter is about how the media defines "political violence" as something that happens exclusively to politicians, and ignores its primary victims: everyone else.
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What's Political Violence?
When the media talks about political violence, they're only telling part of the story
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Danielle Binks @daniellebinks.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
At least six Australian activists detained by Israel navy after Gaza flotilla boats intercepted Spokesperson says just two out of 14 Australians remain in communication, after CCTV footage showed Israeli navy boarding vessels in international waters #AusPol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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At least six Australian activists detained by Israel navy after Gaza flotilla boats intercepted
Spokesperson says just two out of 14 Australians remain in communication, after CCTV footage showed Israeli navy boarding vessels in international waters
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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
how's this for an unintended consequence: some research suggests that teens perceive peers who comply with Australia's teen social media ban as less popular. i.e. banning social media for teens made it cool again
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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
War profits season is officially on people! Total's profits grew a third due on higher oil and gas prices due to the illegal war on Iran. This is as HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF PEOPLE face power cuts and fuel rationing, btw www.reuters.com/business/ene...
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TotalEnergies raises dividend by 5.9% as earnings beat expectations
TotalEnergies raised its dividend by 5.9% and exceeded market expectations with a 29% jump in first-quarter earnings on Wednesday, boosted by strong trading and high oil prices linked to the Iran war.
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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
I can see how Vice Admiral Justin Jones was a Scott Morrison pick to be Commander of Operation Sovereign Borders His giving permission for racist expression is disgraceful & he should resign
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ADF boss defends right to heckle Anzac welcome to countries
The military community has backed one of the country’s most senior officers after he highlighted the importance of ‘freedom of expression’ following the booing of the Indigenous welcome to country on ...
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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters
All you do is take all the sex out, and use little short words, and little dumb ideas, and don't be too scary, and be sure there's a happy ending. Right? Nothing to it. Write down. Right on.

If you do all that, you might even write Jonathan Livingston Seagull and make twenty billion dollars and have every adult in America reading your book.

But you won't have every kid in America reading your book. They will look at it, and they will see straight through it, with their clear, cold, beady little eyes, and they will put it down, and they will go away. Kids will devour vast amounts of garbage (and it is good for them) but they are not like adults: they have not yet learned to eat plastic.
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Basil 🌱 @basil-mage.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Can I just say I'm genuinely so tired of this. Ableism being still alive and well, non-autistic people fetishizing autism("get yourself an autistic gf!"), and now people spreading the idea of autism diagnosis as a "social contagion"
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The Map Center @mapcenter.com · 26/04/2026
It's a shame that "defend your culture" always means "hate strangers different from you" and never "enact anti-pollution laws so that you can go fishing with your grandkids the way your grandpa taught you."
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Jacob @tullamore-jew.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
It's been clear for a hot minute an anti-autism diagnosis campaign is in the works but I am truly stunned they are literally just going for the Detransitioner playbook
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Danielle Binks @daniellebinks.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Well, it's confirmed: government documents show we're negotiating to hand access to every Australian travellers' biometric data to the United States. And it's worse than we thought #AusPol www.crikey.com.au/2026/04/27/d...
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FOI confirms Donald Trump's grab of Australians' biometric data is even bigger than feared
Well, it's confirmed: government documents show we're negotiating to hand access to every Australian travellers' biometric data to the United States. And it's worse than we thought.
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Tim Byrne @tbyrne75.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Zhang Shan won the gold medal for the mixed skeet shooting event in the 1992 Olympics. The International Shooting Union *immediately* banned women from competing against men.
Zhang Shan holding a rifle.
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Danielle Binks @daniellebinks.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
'At least 160,000 people to be removed from NDIS as Labor unveils ‘unavoidable and urgent’ cuts' ... meanwhile; 'In charts: A look at Australia's record spending on defence' #AusPol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...
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In charts: A look at Australia's record spending on defence
The Defence Department reveals where the money will be going as Australia plans to spend a record $425 billion over the next decade.
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David Sligar @davidsligar.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
The government is booting people off the NDIS and supposedly onto other support. For this to be credible, rather than a fig leaf, they will have to significantly expand funding for alternatives including invent programs that don’t exist.
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Gillian H @gillyreads.com · 22/04/2026
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Exclusive: University of Queensland scraps Indigenous children’s book, citing controversial anti-Semitism policy
The book's author has described the decision to pulp all 5,000 copies of the book as reckless and disrespectful, and says it "sets a chilling standard".
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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Media outlets should spend less time writing about the “legitimate grievances” of people who loathe immigration and more time addressing how racist reporting about migrants, Muslims, Black folks, and other racialised communities has cultivated the fascism we are enduring today. Just saying.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 21/04/2026
The Olympics’ trans policy polices womanhood | Moira Donegan
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The Olympics’ trans policy polices womanhood | Moira Donegan
Sports bans have humiliated trans women and girls across America. Now, the Olympics joins in
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Gillian H @gillyreads.com · 20/04/2026
“If the modern Australian nation wants to rebuild the social cohesion we enjoyed here before the boats, it needs to acknowledge where it all started to unravel – with the failure of the British crown to negotiate Treaty. Or to put it in simpler terms – no justice, no peace.”
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‘A white man’s fantasy’: if we want to rebuild social cohesion, we need to acknowledge where it all started to unravel
Australia has a serious problem with social cohesion, but it’s no good pretending it’s recent. Koori civilisation has been torn asunder ever since the convict ships dropped anchor
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Yeah cause it’s the kind of thing you propose building to appease the ego of a narcissistic leader whose army just got its asked kicked by a Black military general (Touissant L’Overture) and Black enslaved people who ran your troops off their island. It’s a monument to ego and defeat. Perfect.
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
The Guardian documented quadruple-tap by Israeli forces in southern Lebanon. Three waves of ambulances were struck. Paramedics came for the injured. They were struck. Backup crews arrived. They were struck too In six weeks of war, Israel has killed at least 91 medical workers.
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rimidar @rimidar.au · 17/04/2026
I’m struggling to find an appropriate way to express my contempt for these kinds of ridiculous appeals to a highly subjective Arcadian vision of society as it was perceived to exist around the time that the person speaking was twelve years old and I really wish people would stop doing this
Take this post from The Karl Stefanovic Show's Instagram page, which uses Al to paint the soft focus, late-20th-century Australia Stefanovic says he grew up in. The caption is particularly revealing
"I love this country. That's why I won't stop talking about what's destroying it.
We have to remember what is was like.
No air con. Long days on bikes.
Chased by chickens. Pizza Hut. Sizzler for special occasions.
Skipped rocks across the creek.
The hard work, the smell of the country.
Wally Lewis. Allan Border ...
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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
more than 70% of incarcerated children and young people in NSW are presumptively innocent (locked up “on remand”). More than half of all incarcerated children, on any given night, in every jurisdiction, are Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Ben Roberts-Smith granted bail after being charged with five counts of war crime murder
Former SAS soldier to be released from Silverwater prison ahead of possible trial on charges relating to alleged killing of civilians in Afghanistan
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