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Jill Newton

@jillymn.bsky.social
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Politics junkie and worrier/warrier. Worked in science and law.

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Jill Newton @jillymn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Jill Newton @jillymn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Philip Thalis (@philipthalis) on Threads
The many freedoms of openable windows; - fresh air - sounds of street life - sound of birdlife & rustle of trees in the breeze - to call to people in the street - operability - being inside/outside Fr...
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Jill Newton @jillymn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Dave Resists (@dirkdaring61)
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Jill Newton @jillymn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Jonathan Cook (@jonathancook)
Outrage at the UK Green party's new policy on Zionism equating with racism ignores the fact that that position had international support 51 years ago. The UN overturned its resolution 16 years late...
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Jill Newton @jillymn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Jill Newton @jillymn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Australia is now a US base: A foreign military has the run of the country
The Australian continent has always been useful to other people’s wars.
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Jill Newton @jillymn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
www.thenewdaily.com.au/finance/fina... Raising the rate of jobseeker would save lives. It is the govt’s choice not to raise unemployment benefits particularly as the Reserve Bank chooses to raise unemployment by way of raising interest rates.
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Raising the rate of JobSeeker would save lives
The mortality rate for people receiving working-age payments was more than nine times that of the broader population in the 11 years to 2022.
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Jill Newton @jillymn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Luke McGregor (@lukewmcgregor) on Threads
Dear @reservebankau #rba #inflation #interestrates #economy #comedy
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Jill Newton @jillymn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
👏👏👏👏 Sasha Titchkosky on stopping the Lane Cove Data Centre and 🙏to Denise Shrivell for the write up and Q&A. Source: Women's Agenda share.google/SiUu0rgDZchL...
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Sasha Titchkosky on how a Sydney community fought a $1.2 billion data centre development and won
Sasha Titchkosky shares how a local community stopped a data centre and why the fight against future projects continues.
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Jill Newton @jillymn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
substack.com/@deepcutnews... Devastating!
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The great betrayal? AI imperialists and Albanese – Richard Flanagan
The Albanese government is opening the floodgates to American AI corporations
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Jill Newton @jillymn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Sony Thăng (@nxt888)
Imagine if China had military bases in Canada. In Mexico. In Cuba. In the Caribbean. You would call it encirclement. You would call it an act of war. America has 800 bases in other people's coun...
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Jill Newton @jillymn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Gekko @gekko.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Australia … listening yet?
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 27/09/2026
Happy ten year anniversary of the 2016 blackout in South Australia. I was told that as clean power grew in Aus, we'd see a blackout apocalypse. The chart below shows blackouts for generation shortfall as columns, and renewable proportion as a percent of the eastern grid. Enjoy :)
a chart showing blackout data for Australia
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Watching #insiders for ol’ times’ sakes and truly, we are bobbing about in the ocean emitting speech bubbles to keep us afloat, while the reality chained to our feet drags us under.
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Jill Newton @jillymn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Jill Newton @jillymn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Sammy K. Barton 🦋 (@sammykbarton) on Threads
Congratulations Marcus Mumford, without a doubt the best speech at the @unitednations summit. A perfect message to all those world leaders, STOP KILLING CHILDREN
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Jill Newton @jillymn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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The US media boycott hit Trump right where it hurts. Now it’s Hanson’s turn
Solidarity? In America? Among the media? It seems astonishing that anything quite so unified could grow from America’s famously polarised soil.
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"Watching NAZA, I felt the stinging truth of what has been done and continues to be done in my name, as an American and as a Jew; it’s a truth I’ve always known, but the clinical, mathematical descriptions of how the genocide has been carried out made it plain." #GazaGenocide
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sygent.bsky.social @sygent.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
EXPOSE THE LIE AND REVEAL THE TRUTH: We're living in times where the devil is acting in plain sight, and hardly anyone understands who he is. Satanyahu aka Net-anyahu is the devil himself. He heads a terrorist state that has killed 73+ thousand Palestinian civilians including 20,000 children.
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Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
You’d think the most effective ‘guardrail’ against the deleterious affects of AI is not let so many of the bloody awful data centres be built in the first place for a start www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
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Australia to pursue AI guardrails after unprecedented OpenAI breach
OpenAI's delayed reporting of an autonomous agent breaching a government website has strengthened Australia's push for tougher AI safety and disclosure rules.
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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...
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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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Jill Newton @jillymn.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
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‎Mohammad Kalash محمد كلش‎ on Instagram
90K likes, 2,760 comments - mohammad.aj.kalash on September 12, 2026
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Jill Newton @jillymn.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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RBA's own research shows that profits drove post-pandemic inflation, not wages
Last week, research by the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) confirmed that they were wrong in 2023 to criticise research by The Australia Institute, which showed rising profits were the significant cau...
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Jill Newton @jillymn.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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Australia’s top bureaucrats want to block sharing of clips from parliament on social media to save them from ‘ridicule’
Secretaries board concerned material posted without proper context as Greens warn ban could result in lack of transparency
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Jill Newton @jillymn.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
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500+ health professionals defy AHPRA in open letter on Gaza
Nobel laureate among signatories who declare that silence on the slaughter of Palestinian children is a "failure of our ethical obligations”
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Jill Newton @jillymn.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
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Phiri M Innocent (@phiriim0506) on Threads
Iran attacked two American Navy warships the other day. I was very surprised that America didn't launch any counterattack. But today America attacked three Iranian tankers. I mean, it attacked oil-car...
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Jill Newton @jillymn.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
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Sam Viavant (@samviavant)
Israel isn’t a pariah. Not yet. Not where it matters most. Israel is a pariah among ordinary people. It’s not yet a pariah among governments. Instead, governments that are supposedly democracies ...
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Jill Newton @jillymn.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
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Peter Cronau (@PeterCronau) on X
“When residents want to march, resources are scarce and the law is tightened. “When Israel’s soldiers want to jog, resources appear and the law is forgotten.” Sydney Marathon. Who told NSW Police t...
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Royce Kurmelovs @roycerk2.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I'm sure this outcome will be read a hundred different ways, but it is another reminder that when centre-left parties punch left and pander right, they lose. Voters can see the party doesn't have any principles, and if the trajectory is rightward, they might as well vote for the real deal.
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Royce Kurmelovs @roycerk2.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Labor ran a former federal staffer who left politics to join Woodside's government relations team back in WA. One Nation is similarly pro-fossil fuel. Woodside, essentially, has covered all bases here.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Maybe Labor should not put up gas lobbyists as candidates? Just throwing out seeds here, maybe some might take root….
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mariecolemanao.bsky.social @mariecolemanao.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Israel is the pariah nation. I am beyond disgusted that the Minister for Home Affairs has granted visas to allow IDF members of units implicated in Gaza to compete in the Sydney marathon
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The IDF, and those who fought for the IDF in the genocide in Gaza, should not be celebrated or platformed in any country that believes in humanity and basic international justice. They should not be allowed to use the Sydney marathon as a platform this weekend.
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Wear The Peace @wearthepeace.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
A child attending his first-ever live concert was brought on stage by British rock band IDLES in Belfast, Ireland. When asked to say one thing to his people, he shouted “Free Free Palestine.”
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Jill Newton @jillymn.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Spot on!
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Sally @wooferunleashed.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I agree with everything he said. Seems in Australia that the Zionist’s version of “social cohesion” is the only one Minns, in particular, and the Labor Party, will accept. Any dissent by the population is met with tear gas, batons and arrests. 😡😡😡
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Jill Newton @jillymn.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
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Democracy check Australia (@keepitrealandmoving) on Threads
'At the same time Labor Premier Chris Minns is rightly saying we need to get guns off the streets, he is planning to put guns into the hands of a private Israel-linked group called the Community Secur...
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Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
So wonderful to see the outpouring of love and respect for the absolute legend that is @cathywilcox.bsky.social www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
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Fitting farewell for cartoonist Cathy Wilcox, who captured news with wit and intellect
Readers pay tribute to one of Australia’s most beloved cartoonists, Cathy Wilcox, who has left the Herald after 37 years.
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Jill Newton @jillymn.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
👏👏👏👏To you and Cathy!
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Matt Golding @goldingcartoons.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Cartoonists like Cathy Wilcox are a gift to society who thankfully can’t, and won’t, be muzzled. Bernd Rieve, Brighton @theageaustralia.bsky.social letters
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Same. This was a craven act of capitulation that should be embarrassing for everyone involved.
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Jill Newton @jillymn.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Cathy What can I say. We/Australia can’t do without you telling it like it is so brilliantly in your cartoons. Go well and I can’t wait until you pop up somewhere else very soon! Finally thank you so much for what you’ve done to date! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
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Debra Oswald @debraoswald.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
What a brilliant woman you are. Your cartoons have made me laugh, shriek ( in an appropriate way), wince or weep. Your work has brought so much joy and clarity and deep thoughtfulness that we need. Sorry to lose your work. Thank you xx
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
A valediction. My @smh @theage cartoon.
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Jill Newton @jillymn.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
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Amy Remeikis 😴🤷‍♀️ (@pyjamapolitics) on Threads
Things are about to get very stupid around migration
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Ian Graves @xskinn.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Seriously, how bad are the State and Federal Liberals travelling to imagine this bloke is a political asset? HA!😳😂🤣🤣Ian
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 27/08/2026
If this enrages you, it should. And you’re not alone. The 19-year-old sailor who jumped off the USS Abraham Lincoln is facing disciplinary charges instead of receiving the mental health services he needs. 👀
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OleSkool @oleskool.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The numbers are brutal: 80% of postdoctoral researchers say they’re looking for positions outside America, while US researchers applying to Europe have tripled. America spent generations attracting the world’s brightest minds—now the flow may be reversing. “We’re losing our scientific base.” #News
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The U.S. is losing its scientists. These countries are cashing in
The great American brain drain could define science for a generation
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Jim Stanford @jimbostanford.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Prime Minister Carney has described this as a “hinge moment” for Canada, as Canadians collectively face up to the unprecedented threat posed by Donald Trump and aggression from Washington. It is also a hinge moment for labour. /8
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