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Jenny O’Connor

@jenocon.bsky.social
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Rural woman from Indi where independents win. Former political candidate and mayor. Country folk are not all like Barnaby.

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Jenny O’Connor @jenocon.bsky.social · 4h
We did it in #Indi.
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Jenny O’Connor @jenocon.bsky.social · 7h
Brilliant response !
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Eddy Jokovich @eddyjokovich.bsky.social · 10h
Something about the #FlyDubai story doesn't add up. Conflicting accounts, extraordinary claims, unanswered questions – and an extraordinarily convenient political narrative. Why didn’t journalists check the stories? The Weekly Brief from New Politics: www.newpolitics.com.au/p/why-the-fl...
newpolitics.com.au
Why the FlyDubai story doesn’t add up, a Greens left turn and Australia’s politics of power
The FlyDubai narrative deserves more scrutiny, Shoebridge pushes the Greens towards the populist left; One Nation gets closer to Rinehart; Big tech and AI; and Labor pushes another massive coalmine.
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Jenny O’Connor @jenocon.bsky.social · 13h
Know some of the old guatd - thugs.
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Jenny O’Connor @jenocon.bsky.social · 13h
@albomp.bsky.social may have pipped #Malcolm Turnbull at the post for #MDPM (Most Disappointing Prime Minister ) 😔 @firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
theguardian.com
Is Anthony Albanese destined to be the most disappointing prime minister ever? | First Dog on the Moon
How could this happen?
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Jenny O’Connor @jenocon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
👇🏻 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The interest rate rise is the wrong medicine and an even worse alibi | Yanis Varoufakis
Inflation is again being used as an excuse for acts of vandalism on some of Australia’s important institutions
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Amante2 AmeliaBee7 @amante2ameliabee7.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Please stop; they’re insatiable!
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Sam @samesam02.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...
abc.net.au
Swiss count cost of 'unprecedented' glacier melting over European summer
Europe's record-breaking summer has led to "staggering" melting on Switzerland's famous glaciers, according to a new report.
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Jenny O’Connor @jenocon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Bloody barbaric US ‘justice’. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
Christa Pike remains on ventilator after failed execution in Tennessee
Attorneys say hospital staff are working to clear pentobarbital she was administered from her system
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Independent Media Australia. @indymediaaus.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
AUKUS public inquiry asks what Parliament won’t independentaustralia.net/politics/p… #Auspol
independentaustralia.net
AUKUS public inquiry asks what Parliament won’t
With AUKUS costs soaring and scrutiny lacking, a public inquiry is asking the questions Parliament has failed to confront.
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Jenny O’Connor @jenocon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The true cost of AUKUS will be over $500 billion. Please repost. Australians need to know this. @albomp.bsky.social #AUKUS #LaborSellout independentaustralia.net/politics/pol...
independentaustralia.net
AUKUS public inquiry asks what Parliament won’t
With AUKUS costs soaring and scrutiny lacking, a public inquiry is asking the questions Parliament has failed to confront.
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Margaret Morgan 🇪🇺🇳🇱🇦🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is a great decision by the Greens. Anyone who's followed his work behind the scenes in the NSW and Federal parliament knows what a fearless, forensic, insightful mind he has. He can cut through just as Australia really needs it. Bravo!
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Jenny O’Connor @jenocon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Great news. You talk truth to power David. We need fearless, honest leadership now. We’re counting on you.
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Jenny O’Connor @jenocon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🙄… and destroys how many more by adding to #climatecrisis
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Jenny O’Connor @jenocon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Who?
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Jenny O’Connor @jenocon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
So glad you’re ok!
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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Lone voice pleads for action in unfolding catastrophe - how are we so good at delivering missiles, but not climate action asks Nepal’s PM at UN www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2026...
thenewdaily.com.au
A lone voice pleads for help addressing this global catastrophe
As the world wrings it's hands over AI, which it seems to be enabling, a lone voice called for help fighting a true global catastrophe.
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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I'm always amazed at those who unhestitatingly use "woke" as a self-evident shorthand for everything wrong in their world. The opposite of being woke is being asleep: suckered, ignorant, gullible, non-sceptical. Curious why those us who are woke haven't embraced "asleep" as the obvious retort.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Latest energy figures are out for 2024-25 - once again 83% of Australia's gas is exported or used to convert gas to PNG exports. There is no gas shortage. We do not need more gas. We need to #TAXtheGAS
Charts showing in 2024-25 4,862PJ of gas was exported or used in LNG plants, while only 1,016PJ was use by the domestic economy of mining, manufacturing, residential and gas power plants.
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Jenny O’Connor @jenocon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The technology to allow a rapid transition to renewables is ready available and working effectively where it has been implemented . What is lacking is political will to fast track this due to the influence the fossil fuel industry has over politics here and overseas.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We (rightly) talk a lot about gas, but we should not forget we export a hell of a lot more coal and most of it is for burning for electricity rather than being used to produce steel. And all of it destroys the planet. #NoNewMines
Charts showing annual exports of thermal and coking coal and LNG since  1960-61

In 2024-25:

Thermal coal: 204,847ky
Coking coal: 146,987kt
LNG: 79,128kt
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Jenny O’Connor @jenocon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
@albomp.bsky.social You are a hollow man.
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tonywindsor.bsky.social @tonywindsor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Mass walkout against mass murderer…Australia sqibbed it.
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Jenny O’Connor @jenocon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
You suck up to #Trump and then talk about values? 🤦
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Jenny O’Connor @jenocon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🤬
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Jenny O’Connor @jenocon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🤯
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Jill Newton @jillymn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
ABC Friends want to hear how you watch ABC news and current affairs, what you think of the coverage, and what you’d like to see more or less of. It only takes a few minutes. abcfriends.au/actions/abcn...
abcfriends.au
2026 ABC News Survey - ABC Friends
The ABC is Australia's most trusted source of news. But after years of funding cuts, there are fewer journalists, less investigative reporting and fewer
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Jenny O’Connor @jenocon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
So why are we expanding fossil fuels in this country? 🤔 Follow the money .. #politicaldonors #LaborSellout www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
Solar and wind generation meet record 80% of power demand on Australia’s national grid
Rooftop solar alone generates more than half of all power used, as clear sunny days and low demand drive record-breaking surge
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Jenny O’Connor @jenocon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Empty words from a hollow man. #auspol #climatecrisis #fossilfuels www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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‘Short on substance’: Albanese urges climate action on world stage – but advocates say Australia failing on fossil fuels
Prime minister says ‘climate security is the new national security’ in keynote speech in New York
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Jenny O’Connor @jenocon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The utter gall of the man
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Jenny O’Connor @jenocon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Excuse me while I choke. What blatant hypocrisy from this Labor PM who’s govt has approved literally dozens of new coal and gas projects directly contributing emissions which are fuelling the climate crisis. He’s even more disappointing than Turnbull was 😡😡 www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
theguardian.com
No avoiding the cost of inaction on climate, Anthony Albanese says in New York
Before United Nations meeting, prime minister says Australians knows the impact of global heating as well as anyone
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"Keating said Australia’s increasing enmeshment within the US military, especially through #AUKUS, was seeing Australia’s 'sovereignty effectively being shredded'." The greatest threat to Australia's national security is our own craven government. #EndAUKUS #auspol
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Jenny O’Connor @jenocon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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YOU HAD ONE JOB THE GREENS POLITICAL PARTY! Climate change is destroying life and you exist to save it! | First Dog on the Moon
It’s complicated and everyone is having a lot of feelings
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Jenny O’Connor @jenocon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I love Rhys Muldoon.
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Jenny O’Connor @jenocon.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Penny will be very cross
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Dan Ilic @danilic.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Depopulation…..
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
“Anyone can condemn the actions of the Israeli military, but only the government can impose the sanctions and material responses needed. Until they do their words are distractions.” Even worse than distractions. Wong's words are a cynical cover for doing nothing about Israel's crimes. #auspol
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Jenny O’Connor @jenocon.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Amen to this “I do not care what minister Wong’s personal feelings are, I don’t care about her outrage, I care about the actions taken as foreign minister,” Shoebridge told Guardian Australia. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
theguardian.com
Shoebridge criticises Labor response after IDF officer’s ‘reprehensible’ comments on deadly Zomi Frankcom strike
Greens defence spokesman says ‘words are just distractions’ until government takes action
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Jenny O’Connor @jenocon.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I detest the Israeli government and Netanyahu. I do not detest Jewish people, and am horrified by antisemetism. Go figure.
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Dan Ilic @danilic.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Happy BeetalooSummer
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Jenny O’Connor @jenocon.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This. 👇🏻 While our fucking disgraceful govt celebrates opening gas fields in the Beetaloo basin this week - among the dozens of other fossil fuel projects they have approved . www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
‘Supersizing before our eyes’: UN warns of record El Niño approaching
Event is likely to be largest in at least 1,000 years and will pile extra heat into a world already in a climate crisis
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Jenny O’Connor @jenocon.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Geezus wept. The audacity of these failed politicians 🤬
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Probably need a few more data centres to fix that. Some more gas fields and coal mines? www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
Global heating will hit at least 1.8C, UN warns, and there are ‘no good outcomes’
But scientists say the world could get back to 1.5C through deep, rapid emissions cuts and removing carbon from the atmosphere
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Jenny O’Connor @jenocon.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
So Much This @firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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A glacier collapsed in Nepal but this is not the time to talk about climate change | First Dog on the Moon
It’s always thoughts and prayers and please don’t politicise this horrible disaster
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Jenny O’Connor @jenocon.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Albanese is pissweak The end.
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Wendy Harmer @wendyharmer.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The Reckoning Yep... @birmo.bsky.social A climate change disaster. “It’s just murder, honestly.” aliensideboob.substack.com/p/the-reckon...
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The Reckoning
That imagery of the Himalayan tsunami smashing into the multi-story building in Nepal was horrifying, but then murder always is, isn’t it?
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Jenny O’Connor @jenocon.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Yep ‘because climate change is the fault of decisions taken by a relatively small number of human beings, mostly men, who knew exactly what they were doing, it was mass murder’ aliensideboob.substack.com/p/the-reckon...
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The Reckoning
That imagery of the Himalayan tsunami smashing into the multi-story building in Nepal was horrifying, but then murder always is, isn’t it?
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Jenny O’Connor @jenocon.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Thank you for the light you bring.
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Jenny O’Connor @jenocon.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Amen to these words from Richard Flanagan www.deepcutnews.com/p/segals-pla...
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The new McCarthyism: Gaza and Australia – Richard Flanagan
This is the full text of a powerful speech Flanagan delivered at the the Festival of Dangerous Ideas on August 22
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Jenny O’Connor @jenocon.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Best cover ever 🙏Dolly youtu.be/ykMzS6ugnPI?...
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Trio - After The Gold Rush (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Warner Records Nashville
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