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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Endometriosis takes nine years to diagnose. That’s about to change. NICE has approved two tests: a saliva test reading microRNA markers, and a gut-sensor test returning results in 45 minutes, sparing women the keyhole surgery currently needed. buff.ly/QX3jHk8 #ShareGoodNewsToo
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Rapid endometriosis tests to be made available on NHS in England and Wales
Saliva and gut sensor-based tests hailed as ‘gamechanger’ for millions of women who can wait years for diagnosis
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Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Cartoon.
Scene is women's public toilets. A woman in a shirt saying 'TERF PATROL" is on a ladder peering over a locked door into a cubicle. She's saying "Just checking your genitalia to make sure you're not one of those creepy perverts who lurk in women's toilets"
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Auke-Florian 🪹 @aukeflorian.nl · 24/07/2026
Welcome to the Anthropocene 🔥
People “enjoying” the beach during the French forest fires People “enjoying” the beach during the French forest fires
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Spain responded harshly to Israel's statements: "We are not defaming you, Israel, we are describing you: You are a genocidal and criminal regime." "You will all be held accountable before the International Criminal Court." 👏🇪🇸👏🇪🇸👏🇪🇸👏🇪🇸👏🇪🇸👏🇪🇸👏
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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
David Pocock pauses, overcome with emotion, while detailing UN’s horrific findings against Israel “IDF has now killed 20,000 Palestinian children” “…deliberately shot at children’s limbs…as a twisted game of target practice”😔 Barbaric & sickening. This is our ally?
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Baffle no more. My @smh @theage cartoon.
Single frame. Intro: “Baffled at how a racist grifter who’s been flogging her schtick for 30 years with minimal success has suddenly shot to prominence? I present: A PLEASE EXPLAINER”
Series of illustrations: “THE STRATEGIST” Steve Bannon saying “Flood the zone…” “THE MODEL” Trump saying “Fake News murderers and rapists drill baby drill…” “THE BILLION/TRILLIONAIRE PLATFORM-OWNING HATE-SPEECH-LOVING AMPLIFIER (et al)” with Elon Musk performing the Nazi salute; “THE VESTED INVESTOR” with Gina Rinehart holding a toy bulldozer saying “BRRRRRRRRR”; “THE PRODUCT” Pauline Hanson saying, “Trashy journalist no good Muslims trans insurgency climate hoax”; “THE INDONESIAN BOT FARM* (and Vietnamese and Indian) Pumping out AI content and disinformation to boost Hanson and attack her political opponents”; “THE AVERAGE PUNTER” bloke looking at his phone which is pinging, saying “She seems authentic…”
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
War games. My @smh cartoon.
Four frames. 1. Large spiral bound book entitled: “UN COMMISSION OF INQUIRY INTO THE DELIBERATE TARGETING OF PALESTINIAN CHILDREN” lying on ground. 2. Scene from behind IDF soldier sitting at computer, on screen is the same book from frame 1 with a target, soldiers hand is on mouse moving cursor to side menu of symbols of weapons, cigarette resting in ashtray. 3. Close up on soldier’s hand clicking “CLICK” with curser on quad drone. 4. Scene of book as per frame 1, somewhat destroyed and in flames.
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Commissioner Brereton has resigned from the NACC the day before he was due to appear at Senate Estimates for the first time ever following a successful Greens motion in the Senate. Incredible timing.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Bit worrying that a state premier does not understand how income tax works.
Mr Minns said the current top marginal tax rate of 47 per cent – including the two per cent Medicare Levy – meant Australians were working half the week for the government.

“You’re working Monday, Tuesday and half of Wednesday for yourself, then Wednesday Thursday and Friday for the government,” Mr Minns said.

The top marginal tax rate applies to those earning incomes over $190,001 across Australia’s states and territories.
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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Note that property investors get grandfathered changes, but NDIS participants do not. So our Government is effectively saying property investors deserve the dignity of maintaining their current comfort levels, but people with disabilities do not.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
71% of Australians are in favour of a 25% tax on gas exports. Not sure why the govt is scared @skyelark.bsky.social thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...
Charts showing answers to the question of :to What extent do you agree/disagree: "Gas export corporations should pay a flat 25% on gas exports."

	Total agree	Don't know/Not sure	Total disagree
Labor	80	10	10
Greens	77	9	14
All Australians	72	9	19
One Nation	70	7	24
Liberal	54	13	34
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Westie @westie1.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
“This is illegal under international law. Israel has no jurisdiction in these waters. Boarding these boats amounts to illegal detention – potentially kidnapping on the high seas,” said Gur Tsabar, a spokesperson for the Global Sumud Flotilla. Attack on unarmed civilians in international waters.
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Israeli forces raid Global Sumud Flotilla boats in international waters
Seven out of 58 vessels were captured by Israel near Crete, as flotilla aims to deliver aid to Gaza under blockade.
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
As we speak, Israel is currently illegally hijacking a boat that is going to provide humanitarian aid to Gaza. There are Australians on board the Global Sumud Flotilla. The Albanese Government must respond.
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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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hidinginplains.bsky.social @hidinginplains.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
@grogsgamut.bsky.social can you get on the program and respond to all the problems with this interview? www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
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An economist answers your fuel questions - ABC listen
It's now been a month since Israel and the United States launched military strikes against Iran and as the conflict deepens, many of you have questions. We're asking you to text your questions to 041...
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feminist next door @emrazz.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
What if all the European leaders just got together and bought him a big trophy like You did it! Congratulations you are the strongest boy! I feel like that could work
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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Just a reminder - while NDIS subsidies are allegedly 'unsustainable' fossil fuel subsidies grew by 9.6% in the last year to $16.3bn. thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
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If the NDIS is ‘runaway spending’, what do we call $16 billion in fossil fuel subsidies?
New research shows fossil fuel subsidies will reach $16.3 billion in 2025–26, rising faster than the NDIS. Handouts to mining giants are growing faster than support for Australians with disability.
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Party trick. My @smh @theage cartoon.
Three horizontal frames. 1. Trump stands at one end of a long table set with tablecloth, food, plates, cutlery, wine, glasses. Netanyahu sits smiling  at other end holding a glass of wine.
Trump holding the tablecloth says, “Aaaand…” 2. Same set up, Trump has whipped the tablecloth out from under setting - sending the whole lot flying. “PRESTO!” Netanyahu still smiling. 3. Same scene but all the table setting has landed broken on the floor. Trump calls offstage “SOMEBODY COME AND CLEAN UP THIS MESS.” Netanyahu drinks his wine.
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Purplepingers ☭ @purplepingers.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Someone tell Albo that you can’t say Australian personnel acted in compliance with international law and in the same breath say you haven’t done an assessment on the international law bit because that’s for the US and Israel to decide.
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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Lol, US military commanders are telling their troops they're on a "spiritual mission" to bring about "Armageddon", and the Zionists have been using their old religious books to justify bombing kids in EIGHT fkn countries, and our media is like "IRAN IS AN UNHINGED THEOCRACY"
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marque lawyers @marquelawyers.com.au · 03/03/2026
Tell it to the ICC mate
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 28/02/2026
Albanese actively standing up and volunteering to loudly defend the bombing of girls schools feels like a defining moment of his tenure www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Albanese says Australia supports US action against Iran and stands with the Iranian people’s ‘struggle against oppression’
Department of foreign affairs warns travellers of risk of reprisal attacks, further escalation and flight cancellations in Middle East
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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
If Reform had won this, it would be all over our media as an ‘unstoppable force’ and Hanson would be platformed as saying it was inevitable here. But no one ever treats a progressive win in the same way. That’s an ‘outlier’
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Anthony Klan @anthonyklan.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Writer Randa Abdel-Fattah was cancelled from Adelaide Writers’ Week because of the intervention by SA Premier Peter Malinauskas, explosive board minutes reveal. The new Adelaide Festival board had tried to hide the docs until after the March 21 SA election… theklaxon.com.au/tipx
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Randa Abdel-Fattah cancelled due to Malinauskas, board documents reveal - The Klaxon
Writer Randa Abdel-Fattah was cancelled from Adelaide Writers’ Week because of intervention by Premier Peter Malinauskas, explosive board documents reveal.
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Committee to Protect Journalists @pressfreedom.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Israel is responsible for two in three journalist killings across the globe in 2024 and 2025. The Israeli military has committed more targeted killings of journalists than any other government’s military since CPJ began documentation in 1992. Read more in CPJ’s #2025KilledReport: cpj.org?p=553549
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
It does not take any especial brand of genius to understand that if you have no moral standards and don't care about breaking the law, you can accumulate wealth and power in a way that people who are morally and ethically upright cannot.
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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
new police version of what police did to Muslims praying at Town Hall just dropped. This is why we never believe what police say, and why the dominant media culture of Police Say reporting is both grotesquely irresponsible and intentionally spreads disinformation. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
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Officer allowed men to pray before they were removed from rally, police say
A group of Muslim men had already received police permission to worship during a Sydney protest before they were disrupted mid-prayer by officers, NSW Police Force confirms.
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Larissa Waters @larissawaters.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Today, under the cover of the Liberals tearing each other down, Labor has approved another coal mine extension. Extending Middlemount to 2044 means Labor has now approved 35 fossil fuel projects. In the middle of the climate crisis, they're approving more coal & gas.
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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
I've attended many rallies in Sydney: anti-nuclear, anti-war, Aboriginal rights, climate action, gay marriage, Voice, pro-Palestine. At the #HerzogNotWelcome rally tonight, I felt genuinely afraid of our NSW Police. Protesters were peaceful & cooperative. The police were angry & violent. 😔 #nswpol
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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Isaac Herzog, special guest of the Australian government this week, is in the Epstein files. It appears he went to the pedo rape torture island, alongside Ehud Barak, former Israeli PM, in 2014, long after Epstein’s conviction and outing as a predator.
An email from Epstein naming Herzog as coming to the island "this weekend" from 2014
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
A heavily redacted cartoon. My @smh cartoon.
Single frame. Title: “[redacted]” A line of early teen? girls looking at the viewer. Behind them, silhouettes of four generic men, some with hand on shoulders of the girls, which have been through six iterations of redaction to satisfy the newspaper’s lawyers that none are identifiable.
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Jonathan @renewableenergy.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Every unit of sunshine that hits earth is precisely $0. It’s literally insane that we know that fact and allow a profiteering scheme to tell us that’s not good enough and charge us for an alternative that literally kills us.
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(Lesley) Erin Brown @thektownteacher.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Racism is so entrenched in Australia that when someone throws a bomb into a peaceful protest, of 2000 First Nations Peoples and their allies, that we call it unacceptable instead of what it actually is, terrorism.
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Jane Howard @janeannehoward.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
The Advertiser has the letter Malinauskas wrote to the board of Adelaide Festival. It is very hard to see how this is not a direction to remove Abdel-Fattah, despite a line saying board decisions are independent. drive.google.com/file/d/169Pi...
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Letter from the Hon Peter Malinauskas MP, Premier of South Australia - Whiting, Tracey - fB526314 (B2460669).pdf
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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
name one white male who was cancelled because a white Australian male walked into two mosques and murdered 51 people. I’ll wait.
"I don't speak for the board," Mr Malinauskas said.
"Can you imagine if a far-right Zionist walked into a Sydney mosque and murdered 15 people," he reportedly said.
"Can you imagine that as Premier of this state, I would actively support a far-right Zionist going to Writers' Week and speaking hateful rhetoric towards Islamic people? Of course I wouldn't."
"The reverse is happening in this instance, and I'm not going to support that either.
"I think it's a reasonable position for me to have, it's a view that I believe.
He said the Government had "always stood up for the independence of arts events and that's a record that we're proud of."
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
This should be more obvious to everyone, but we cannot let the people comfortable with the mass slaughter of children further shape our culture, our democracies, our future as a species. It's the path to a depraved fascistic hellhole.
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Grass roots. My @smh cartoon.
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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Is a royal commission supposed to investigate and judge the killer’s motives before or after his trial?
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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Forgive me if I don’t take moral guidance about the killing of innocents from Netanyahu
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 05/12/2025
The fact that a second strike like that in an armed conflict is definitely a war crime should not completely negate the fact that *there is no war* and ALL the strikes are cold-blooded murder. The whole chain of command are murderers.
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Penny Wong accidentally saying the quiet bit out loud - for Labor the US relationship is more important than the Australian environment. Who do this lot think they work for?
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Israeli leaders screamed their genocidal intent at the top of their lungs all the way through. No crime in history has been so confessed to as it actually happened. But almost all Western media outlets suppressed this. Kudos to @scotnational.bsky.social for not being one of them.
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Jessie L @jessielilley.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
What is the Australian government doing to free the 6 Australians detained by Israel in international waters? Where is the outrage? The urgency?
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Larissa Waters @larissawaters.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
DFAT has now confirmed Australians and others have been abused by Israeli authorities after their abduction from the flotilla. Assaulted and injured. Deprived of sleep and medication. Still illegally detained. The PM and Foreign Minister must urgently demand their safe release.
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Ben Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Just a reminder that no politician or bureaucrat has ever faced any charges for Robodebt
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hidinginplains.bsky.social @hidinginplains.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Amazing interview by Francesca Albanese this morning. So clear on how what’s happening on Gaza is genocide and handling the straw man arguments perfectly. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
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Australia formally recognises Palestine - ABC listen
Australia has officially recognised Palestine as a sovereign state, in a move it hopes will build momentum for a two-state solution.  Prime Minister Anthony Albanese made the declaration at the Unite...
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