Reposted by HBurlingameDr. Karen Austria @kavienna.bsky.social · 5hApproving the Hunter Valley Operations extension the largest coal project in NSW history, run by Glencore and Yancoal and set to continue to 2045 under a Labor government weeks before COP31 and Pacific pre-talks undercuts claims of climate leadership. 123
Reposted by HBurlingameSenator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 5hThey don’t trust Australia to fix a problem when Labor keeps making it worse. Approving NSW’s largest ever coal project just weeks before COP shows how unserious Labor is on climate. 26215
Reposted by HBurlingameSenator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 5hEvery new mine heats our planet, harms millions and cooks our global reputation. Labor is selling out our planet and future for coal & gas corporate profits. 16618
Reposted by HBurlingameCODEPINK @codepink.bsky.social · 9hIsraeli pogroms are escalating against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. Settlers and the IOF have: - raided and bulldozed homes - stolen agricultural produce - abducted people, including a pregnant woman - set dozen of cars alight - stormed mosques and neighbourhoods All with U.S. impunity 57336
Reposted by HBurlingameMr Fabulous @mrfabulous.bsky.social · 11hIsraelis have as much right to self-determination as white South Africans do. Self-determination doesn't let you build an apartheid state on the rubble of someone else's home. 3281
Reposted by HBurlingamericho84.bsky.social @richo84.bsky.social · 6hCorporate welfare! Everyone else can take care of themselves. 021
Reposted by HBurlingameCanberra Artemis @canberraartemis.bsky.social · 9hSo BHP would have *only* made $13.4 billion profit without the subsidy… 161
Reposted by HBurlingameTim Baxter @timinclimate.naruresearch.com.au · 20hOh wow. This is proper fucked. That list of folks eligible for a free vaccine is *narrow*. So anyway, we gave BHP $600m in diesel rebates this past year. You know they really needed them because in the same year the company booked a $14b profit.australianpharmacist.com.auFewer Australians will qualify for free COVID-19 vaccines from October - Australian PharmacistCOVID-19 vaccines move onto the NIP this week. Who is now eligible for a funded vaccine and what should pharmacists tell patients who aren’t? 17200122
Reposted by HBurlingameBladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 8hThis fake outrage in the Media and from the Politicians in the UK is disgusting. They pretend the Greens vote on Zionism is outrageous, but the only people it has outraged are THEIR Zionist bosses and donors. Everyone else is happy. 44914
Reposted by HBurlingamePeggy Sanders @peggysanders.bsky.social · 4hAlbanese be a monster. He knows exactly what he is doing. He’s fooled the nation. The anger at his betrayal of voters trust is palpable. The consequence is Rinehart’s ON Party is filling the gap created by the death of the Labor Party. @australianlabor.bsky.social 021
Reposted by HBurlingameSirius Star 🍉 🍉 🍉 @siriusstar3.bsky.social · 5h“Albanese is pondering a terrible betrayal: selling out Australian artists and, more than that, the Australian people to Al imperialists.” Every month we wait, the machinery of control gets stronger, so if we want real systemic change, now is the time to organise. #Auspol 55933
Reposted by HBurlingameMichael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 2hAustralia wants a seat on UNGA. Yet our silence over attacks on the ICC, the US attack on Venezuela & Iran rings loudly. Pass the Red Lines Package, says Professor Emily Crawford @SydneyLawSchool #auspol michaelwest.com.au/internationa...michaelwest.com.auInternational law isn't dead. It's being tested. Australia can prove it matters - Michael WestThe silence in Canberra over attacks on the ICC, the US attack on Venezuela and the war on Iran rings loudly. Legislate the Red Lines Package. 24322
Reposted by HBurlingameTwang 🍉 @twangmaker.bsky.social · 7hWhen the millions of tonnes of coal they extracted is burnt and the extreme weather events and bushfires it causes rage across Australia our leaders will not take the blame they'll skulk off out the door and hide somewhere else, like Hawaii and pretend it has nothing to do with them. #auspol 74825
Reposted by HBurlingameYung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 2h"For many of the nations represented by leaders here it is literally a threat to their very existence. Which is why the world must act" - Anthony Albanese, head of petrostate govt that issued their 37th fossil fuel new/extension project approval on 3 Sep 2026 21712
Reposted by HBurlingamedownunder 🇦🇺 @sabrinanotowar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026#FreePalestine 🇵🇸🍉 #genocide 155
Reposted by HBurlingameSirius Star 🍉 🍉 🍉 @siriusstar3.bsky.social · 22h“Far too much money, information technology, & weaponry have been allowed to concentrate into the hands of the few, and that unchecked power has deranged our elites, (& the duopoly) goading them to take risks that put our societies & countless species in existential peril.” We need change #Auspol 113053
Reposted by HBurlingamePinnacledrop54 🌈 @pinnacledrop54.bsky.social · 10hI thought Chalmers was OK until I heard his obsequious/grovelling about "Anthony". We need a Treasurer that is going to challenge and when required, clash with the ever-collapsible Albanese. 232
Reposted by HBurlingameRosie’s mum (Kylie) @kylieac1.bsky.social · 10hIt's very distressing. Not the same but 2.5yrs after my son's suicide, I am still waiting for a final outcome from the super company on his insurance. Communication is sporadic. I have a lawyer chasing it up. They are also trying not to pay. 121
Reposted by HBurlingamegmf 1979 🇦🇺 @gmf1979.bsky.social · 10hNow our Fucking corrupt #auspol duopoly gov led by labour is doing this again to even more vulnerable Aussies, those relying on #NDIS. As fukn usual, instead of targeting those who are making profits they attack the ppl needing help. WTF are we doing Australia 031
Reposted by HBurlingame🎃👻🧡N𝔦cøℓe ଘ(੭ˊᵕˋ)੭ 🧡👻🎃 @nicoleyc17.bsky.social · 10h🎃😡we should never let this be forgotten & that the victims & their families deserve justice.Shame on you @albomp.bsky.social for being complicit in allowing this criminal scheme to continue to go unpunished💔 #auspol 3126
Reposted by HBurlingameDeepcut News @deepcutnews.bsky.social · 11hBasketball Australia is rolling out Israeli AI system Pixellot to record games of children, and requiring players to pay for the system with a mandatory fee. 21811
Reposted by HBurlingameDeepcut News @deepcutnews.bsky.social · 11hIsraeli AI cameras livestreamed a Ballarat Basketball game. Then a female player was allegedly contacted by a man who had a family violence intervention order against him. “No one should have to choose between their safety and participating in sport.” www.deepcutnews.com/p/israeli-ai...deepcutnews.comIsraeli AI streamed a Ballarat basketball game. Then an alleged family violence breach.Basketball Australia’s Pixellot rollout is putting women and children at risk – and players are paying for it 45243
Reposted by HBurlingamegmf 1979 🇦🇺 @gmf1979.bsky.social · 11hWell fuck, in the NT a white, teenage boy can literally run over 2 aboriginals in his car & gets to think about his fucking racist actions in the comfort of his family home... 1125
Reposted by HBurlingameRob Arnol @robertarnol.bsky.social · 18hThe figures say it all, in the NT 100% of youth in the juvenile jails are Aboriginal, in Tasmania it’s 80%. And it’s not because we’re more criminal than anyone else, it’s racism in the police forces that cause such an imbalance in charges for Aboriginal people but especially youth. 2197
Reposted by HBurlingameRob Arnol @robertarnol.bsky.social · 19hyoutube.com/shorts/btf-9... Please watch this and think about the words. If they resonate with you, email, write of call your local member, state and federal. 🖤💛💔youtube.com'No One Should Call This Place Home' | Always Was TonightYouTube video by ABC Indigenous 52114
Reposted by HBurlingamePaul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Israel has taken away the limbs of more than 6,000 children in Gaza. Children! Netanyahu calls these children “barbaric” while portraying himself as the good one. 15839
Reposted by HBurlingameAliceK @coalisdead.bsky.social · 10hCentrelink has been a murderous policy for too long. And if it doesn’t kill, it destroys health and well being. 062
Reposted by HBurlingameCanberra Artemis @canberraartemis.bsky.social · 10h#Auspol showing its colours again. Heartless cowards. Morrison’s goons argued against #Robodebt accountability because it was “just a legal technicality”. In 2026, government apparatchiks follow the same logic to deny compensation for the broader harms of industrialised debt collection. 1139
Reposted by HBurlingameDerek Jarman 🤘🏏⬛🔴 @derekjarman.bsky.social · 12hHey, @australianlabor.bsky.social, stop being cunts. Don't fucking pixel bitch about the victims of Robodebt; it was an egregious crime committed by the state against it's most vulnerable. Just pay the compensation. #auspoltheguardian.com‘You’re denying what you did to my son’: mother of robodebt victim told she is ineligible for compensationCommonwealth lawyers argue Jarrad Madgwick, whose death by suicide was highlighted at royal commission, ineligible as he only received provisional debt notice 0166
Reposted by HBurlingamePeggy Sanders @peggysanders.bsky.social · 10hGet Up: It comes down to a handful of seats in Melbourne's south east: Frankston, Carrum, Cranbourne, Narre Warren North and Narre Warren South. #auspol 001
Reposted by HBurlingamePeggy Sanders @peggysanders.bsky.social · 10hGet Up: The Poll Bludger's forecast has One Nation winning 16 seats in November. No party wins enough to govern on its own. On these numbers, Victoria will have the most extreme government this country has seen: the Coalition, propped up by One Nation. 2/ 112
Reposted by HBurlingamePeggy Sanders @peggysanders.bsky.social · 10hGet Up: The forecast has One Nation narrowly taking Narre Warren North & Carrum. The other 3 are within few hundred votes. These 5 seats are difference between One Nation falling short and One Nation in government. Victoria is their launchpad into New South Wales and the next federal election. 012
Reposted by HBurlingameSimon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 10h"The extremist rhetoric, including the incendiary video, barely made the mainstream media coverage of the event." Excellent reporting from Abbir Dib. #auspol 32924
Reposted by HBurlingamePhilip Thalis @philipthalis.bsky.social · 10hSo little scrutiny of the banks in all the talk about costs of housing. They rest their huge profits on the shoulders of mortgage holders. Yet our supine economists punch down on planning as cause of ‘supply’ issues, never up at the banks 53014
Reposted by HBurlingameMemento Mori @mementomori4950.bsky.social · 10hopen.substack.com/pub/blueamp/...open.substack.comThe Fed Is Hitting the Brakes. AI Is Flooring the Gas.Higher rates are supposed to make borrowers flinch. Families are. Businesses are. But Big Tech is borrowing hundreds of billions to win the AI race—and taking whatever price the market gives them. 022
Reposted by HBurlingameTwang 🍉 @twangmaker.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Palantir's reputation should plummet along with the reputation of the Albanese Labor government that installed it in so many government departments. 0122
Reposted by HBurlingameTwang 🍉 @twangmaker.bsky.social · 04/10/2026US surveillance company Palantir has hired former Labor minister Stephen Conroy to rehabilitate its reputation in Canberra After supermarket giant Coles "was targeted by woke campaigners" it doesn't want its $17 million in federal government contracts put at risk www.afr.com/rear-window/... #auspolafr.comPalantir calls on Stephen Conroy for reputation rehabilitationWith $17 million in federal government contracts on the line, the spy data giant is desperate for friends in Canberra. 159557
Reposted by HBurlingameJim Pembroke @jimpembroke.bsky.social · 10hWe now have evidence from Sth Australia and Queensland that aggressive, sustained enforcement can materially disrupt illicit tobacco markets. Qld shows the revenue pays for enforcement. #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...abc.net.auLegal cigarette sales, Quitline calls surge after state crackdownCalls to Quitline more than doubled in the days after major tobacco black market enforcement operations in Queensland, suggesting the crackdown may encourage some smokers to quit. 035
Reposted by HBurlingameMaranoa Girl @maranoagirl.bsky.social · 10h4/ Today's models can write & refine their own code, which makes the question "when?" rather than "whether?" an active research debate. Commentators like Alan Kohler favour the use of "Other Intelligence," OT, arguing we're creating something without the full package of living systems. 5/ 112
Reposted by HBurlingameMaranoa Girl @maranoagirl.bsky.social · 10h⁉️⁉️ Alan Kohler: Calling AI 'other intelligence' better describes the advent of a new lifeform. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10... I asked my search engine, Kagi what it thought it was: super intelligence, a new life form or what? 2/abc.net.auAI is evolving rapidly. Is it a new form of life?We are clearly creating a kind of non-biological life, an idea that has been clarified by several events in the past couple of weeks. 687
HBurlingame @hburlingame.bsky.social · 10hchrishedges.substack.com/p/thoughts-o...chrishedges.substack.comThoughts on the Mass Rape at Cornell UniversityThe Chi Pi fraternity house at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.(Photo by Matt Burkhartt / AFP via Getty Images) 010
Reposted by HBurlingameTony Cartledge @decentral21.bsky.social · 12hTaxing the rich is gaining popularity around the world. Hatred of oligarchs is growing. It's a smart move by the Greens. Maintain the rage, Shoey. #Auspol michaelwest.com.au/new-greens-l...michaelwest.com.auNew Greens leader 'angry' on behalf of everyday workers - Michael WestReforming the tax system is on new Greens leader David Shoebridge's agenda as he looks to convert Australian voter angst into support for the progressive party. 312951
Reposted by HBurlingameCheck Tan @chequers7.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Yet, the fighting in Iran and Ukraine has shown that these oversized vassels are sitting ducks and not nimble for what is needed. Really the question is do we need any or who are our threats. At this juncture, the US is a bigger threat than any nation to the north of us 042
Reposted by HBurlingameDr. Karen Austria @kavienna.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Why are we funding malfeasance with Superannuation? Even our super funds are exposed. AustralianSuper, Aware Super and others hold shares in BAE Systems, so members’ retirement savings are tied to the same company making billions from the Hunter program. 133
Reposted by HBurlingameSenator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 13/09/2026At $9 billion per obsolete boat only the UK arms dealer making them thinks the Hunter frigate is a good idea. We should scrap them now before billions more are wasted. The only naval ships that cost more anywhere on the planet are nuclear powered aircraft carriers. 1213465