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Judy King

@judyking.bsky.social
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Family historian (Dip Fam Hist UTAS), retired librarian, grandmother, AFOL, Australian, photos my own

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The Point @thepointau.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"JobSeeker now sits at just 41% of the minimum wage, and Youth Allowance is even worse at 34%" writes Charmaine Crowe, Program Director for Social Service at the ACOSS. Read the full piece on The Point: sbrew.link/h5nIyjVF
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Australian Conservation Foundation @ausconservation.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Be very kind to them. Don't use insecticides. Turn off unnecessary outdoor lights. Pop any moth that comes inside back outside so it can continue its migration. au.news.yahoo.com/aussies-warn...
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Aussies warned not to make common mistake as thousands of moths swarm
A phenomenon not seen in around 20 years has returned to Sydney.
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David Marler @qldaah.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
"These comments are either a malevolent mischaracterisation of Australia's education system for political gain, or a display of complete ignorance of how the teaching profession operates." Attack on teachers by Angus Taylor & Matt Canavan condemned. #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
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Taylor's claim teachers push 'political agenda' prompts backlash
A teacher's union has fired back, labelling the remarks a "malevolent mischaracterisation" that is "fundamentally incorrect".
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Cat Holloway @catholloway.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
One hell of a decision about the future of native forestry, the Great Koala National Park and climate action. Even the architect of the Improved Native Forest Management (INFM) is conflicted. Who to trust - economists, environmentalists, scientists or politicians? www.catholloway.com/damned-divid...
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Damned if they do. Divided if they don’t.
Next week’s historic Senate vote on the future of native forestry and the Great Koala National Park has split Australia’s environment movement and trapped the Australian Greens between saving nature a...
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The Point @thepointau.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
70 of Australia’s leading scientists have signed an open letter calling on the Australian Government to implement a 25 per cent tax on gas exports. Read the full piece on The Point: thepoint.com.au/new/260813-w...
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 10/06/2026
“In this year’s budget, the government decided to cut the NDIS and in doing so will destroy lives. “Labor's cruel NDIS cuts will make it worse for families like mine.” – Greg Jericho, Chief Economist Read the full article: www.deepcutnews.com/p/health-minist…
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Bronwyn Clark @bronwynhill1.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
You know, and this is only one example from an even worse litany, but if the media spent less time analysing the polls around One Nation and quite a bit more time analysing their lack of policies, candidates and credibility, this country might be a bit better off.
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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Giving minimum wage earners (about 100,000 people) a 6% wage increase to match inflation, and the 3m or so workers who have awards tied to it a 4.75% is not going to cause a wage price spiral. It means they can buy what they are already buying. Like bread AND milk and maybe some biscuits and fuel
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Barbara Pocock @barbarapocock.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Labor needs to respond immediately to the reports CSIRO will tomorrow sack a THIRD of the team working on Australia’s national climate model. Australia’s climate science capability is globally significant & locally irreplaceable. A shameful way to treat our scientists.
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Kent Parkstreet @kentparkskeet.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Receiving a flu shot doesn’t just protect you, it protects all the people you would have passed your flu on to. Among those people may be some who are frail or old. It takes five minutes, it may save a life and will certainly save some suffering. Get a flu shot.
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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Ludicrous that Australia doesn't have thousands of these. We are now years and years behind other countries who have the infrastructure to run everything on renewable energy, & we're still polluting & not taxing the billionaire fossil fuel companies. Clowns to the left of us, jokers to the right.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 10/04/2026
Saw a reel making fun of people who were expressing skepticism of the #Artemis II images in Instagram comments and while it's true that a lot of folks are just spreading conspiracy theories, there are misconceptions that can just be addressed directly! 1/🧵
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marque lawyers @marquelawyers.com.au · 25/02/2026
It's impossible to take the government's talk of spending restraint seriously while it insists on handing tens of billions of dollars to the US for submarines we'll never see.
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Säde Hormio @sadehormio.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
A lot has been written about the Epstein files lately, but I think this is the best piece. Marina Hyde asks what has anyone in power done to attack the structures and attitudes that allowed the abuse to happen? The answer: pretty much nothing at all. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...?
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So the Epstein scandal is about politics? Silly me for thinking it’s about the mass abuse of women and girls | Marina Hyde
Obsessing over individual players and political chaos leaves less time to focus on the misogyny. And that’s for the best, isn’t it guys, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
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Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Using multiple lines of evidence, we show that feral cats and red foxes are strongly implicated in most Australian mammal extinctions and in the ongoing imperilment of numerous extant species. academic.oup.com/bioscience/a... A large collaborative effort to rebut Wallach and Lundgren (2025).
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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 08/12/2025
The social media ban will leave young Australians in the dark on news and politics. It’s not fair | Leo Puglisi
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The social media ban will leave young Australians in the dark on news and politics. It’s not fair | Leo Puglisi
So many teenagers learn about the big stories through TikTok and Instagram. They won’t suddenly turn to newspapers and TV bulletins The social media ban for under-16s is going to stop teenagers from watching a lot of things: clips from their favourite shows, sports highlights, gaming reviews and just about anything else you can imagine. What hasn’t been discussed much is the impact it will have on young people’s ability to access news and information. Continue reading...
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 05/11/2025
Since the mid 1990s, Norway has imposed a 56 per cent "special tax" for oil and gas companies, alongside a 22 per cent corporate tax rate. Australia could learn a lesson from this and make companies pay their fair share for our natural resources. @richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol
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Nick Kapur @nickkapur.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back! Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary. Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest! #MundaneHalloween
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Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Here's an idea, Minister Watt, activate your heart and spine, respect the advice of environment, climate and conservation experts, and work with the Greens to get the EPBC Act reform package passed. Your job is to be Minister 'for' the environment, remember? www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
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Coalition sours over proposed reform to 'broken' environment laws
Optimism that a deal can be found to amend Australia's environment laws fades, as the Coalition raises concerns over details just days after parts of the legislation were shared with stakeholders.
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go follow @news.abc.net.au @abc-news.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
What's the best book of this century? We've got 287,990 answers: www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-20/top-…
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What's the best book of this century? We've got 287,990 answers
The winner for the Top 100 Books has been announced. What do the votes behind it say about us?
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Bryony Hooper @bryonyhooper.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Archives in the news! www.bbc.com/future/artic... Great coverage on the project Leontine and @camdiglib.bsky.social #archives #digipres
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A digital dark age? The people rescuing forgotten knowledge trapped on old floppy disks
From lectures by Stephen Hawking to the letters of British politician Neil Kinnock – it's a race against time to save the historical treasures locked away on old floppy disks.
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Jackie McMillan @missdissenteats.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Nah, you just feel like a stranger in contemporary Australia because of your own outdated dinosaur Liberal views, Andrew Hastie. They have no place here. We’re not afraid of migrants, because they are us. #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
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Hastie taunted over claim that Australians are 'strangers in our own home'
The home affairs minister says Andrew Hastie should name which visa classes he would cut after the shadow home affairs minister suggested "unsustainable" immigration was making Australians "feel like ...
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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 14/09/2025
Australian bird of the year 2025: nominate your favourite now
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Australian bird of the year 2025: nominate your favourite now
We want to hear which Australian birds you think should be shortlisted for the Guardian/Birdlife Australia bird of the year poll next month Which of the 830 bird species that call Australia home (or at least one of their homes) should make it into the 2025 Australian bird of the year poll? Australia has the greatest diversity of avian life in the world, home to nearly one in 10 of the world’s 10,000 living bird species. And we love to celebrate it. Australians are renowned for admiring our beautiful, bountiful and boisterous birds. And nothing highlights that more than the Guardian/Birdlife Australia bird of the year poll, held every two years, when birdlovers around the country battle it out to see their favourite feathered friend take the crown as best bird. Continue reading...
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 11/08/2025
And this is a real thing! Of all the things reading can be, first it has to be pleasurable, and entertaining, and engaging, otherwise people will do something else with their time. And pleasure reading begets more reading, or at least, more than the reading that feels like dutiful homework.
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George Penney @georgepenney.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
🧵I've been doing a lot of thinking lately about kindness since I've moved here to Aotearoa New Zealand and would like to share some thoughts. (Please bear with me!): 1. Kindness is learned. It's not innate. People are taught kindness by other people. We are creatures that learn by example.
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PlsUseYourBrain @useyourbrain.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
"It has been so long since we have not had culture wars or grievances dominating our politics — or its undertones — it is hard to imagine what it might look like. It opens up the scope for rational discussion about policy at a time when we need it." – Laura Tingle #AusVotes #AusPol
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Beyond Dutton's loss, this is a chance for a new type of politics in Australia
The comprehensive nature of this win gives Anthony Albanese the chance to change the narrative of our politics.
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Deborah Lee-Talbot @colourfulhistories.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Thank you Antony Green, for teaching me about Australian politics, and the importance of preferences. Thank you also for introducing my kids to the joy that is the voting geekdom. Can't wait to see your analysis in the coming days. Happy retirement! #thankyouAntonyGreen #auspol #AustraliaVotes2025
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Judy King @judyking.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
If you or someone you know needs a refresher on how the Australian preferential voting system works, now is the time to check out Dennis the Election Koala! #auspol www.chickennation.com/voting/
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You Can’t ‘Waste’ Your Vote! – Patrick Alexander’s Personal Internet
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Louise Milligan @milliganreports.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
It’s a week till election night. Next Saturday also marks a huge end of an era with the last election for @antonygreenelec.bsky.social. What a marvellous service he has done for the nation. I propose a minute’s silence from politics nerds around the country to give him thanks. #auspol ⭐️
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Albanese won't do a deal with the Greens. He doesn't need to. Minority govt just means having to negotiate on every bit of legislation. It doesn't mean you need to have some deal in place. Some of the independents might try to get something for their support. Big whoop. So they should.
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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Given how much more fucked up the world is about to get, the question isn't are you better off than you were three years ago - it's what do you think the next three years are going to be like and who do you want making the decisions? And that's not just about a PM, but the whole parliament.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Dr Peter Marks, "Vaccines have been studied very extensively for being potentially associated with autism" "That theory has been debunked" "One study in Denmark, over 600,000 children. It shows that if anything, children had a lower rate of autism than unvaccinated children"
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Judy King @judyking.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
This is a brilliant online resource, a guided tour in the Central Outback, featured in the Guardian article cdht.stqry.app #genealogy #familyhistory www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Crushed by rabbits, bolting horses and childhood illness: the stories buried in outback NSW cemeteries
Historians have shared research on 106 gravestones to a mobile heritage app covering the far west towns of Menindee, Wilcannia, Ivanhoe and White Cliffs
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Rex Patrick @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Dutton mentioned the word 'nuclear' just twice in his budget reply speech. Wasn't nuclear meant to be the fix for all of Australia's woes? Now it's left in the back cupboard. He's a snake oil salesman jumping from one 'miracle cure' to another. #auspol
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Numbers don’t lie: $0 for nuclear, $1.3bn for polluting gas and bucketloads of climate harm in Opposition’s budget reply | Climate Council
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s budget reply details the Liberal-National Party’s polluting policies on energy and climate change.
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David Allen Lambert @dlgenealogist.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Please estroy this myth and share if you have visited and researched in a library this past year! RT And give a shout out to your favorite library you have ever visited. #Genealogy #History #Library
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Kate Bagnall @baibi.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Sad and befuddling news. The NLA has removed digital historian Tim Sherratt’s Trove API access - threatening the award-winning work Tim has done over 15 years to highlight the possibilities of Trove data. Read more updates.timsherratt.org/2025/02/24/y... 🗃️
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15 years of work on Trove threatened by the NLA
On Friday, without warning, I received an email from the National Library of Australia informing me that my Trove API keys had been suspended. This threatens the future of 15 years of work helping peo...
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Judy King @judyking.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Still keeping up with #52Ancestors blog posts this year, short pieces about various people on my family trees in response to the weekly prompts from @amyjohnsoncrow.bsky.social eightandmore.wordpress.com/blog
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Judy King @judyking.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
This article itself is a wonderful read!
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Judy King @judyking.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Dunes and sand and sea and a whispy clouded sky
Dunes and sand and sea and a whispy clouded sky
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Judy King @judyking.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Resolved this year to try @amyjohnsoncrow.bsky.social’s #52Ancestors writing prompts so I’ve revived a well-intentioned family history site to post in the blog eightandmore.wordpress.com/blog/
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Eight and more
A family history site
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Judy King @judyking.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Blue sky, turquoise sea
View of the turquoise sea from the cliff top, Clifton NSW Australia
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Booklover K☕🌻 @booklvr-k.bsky.social · 20/06/2024
Cartoon globe of the world in blue with land in green has cat at northern hemisphere wearing sunglasses and upside down cat at southern hemisphere wearing red scarf. Surrounding sunglasses cat it says "Happy Summer Solstice!" Scarf cat has "Happy Winter Solstice!" in upside down lettering. signed by Sandra Boynton
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Jer Thorp @jerthorp.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
I was reminded this morning of one of my favourite community art projects: Complaints Choir, initiated by Tellervo Kalleinen & Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen. The project invites people to contribute civic complaints, which are then scored and performed in public. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATXV...
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Helsinki Complaints Choir
YouTube video by drtchock
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Judith Ridge @msmisrule.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
On John Marsden, his books and his readers. open.substack.com/pub/msmisrul...
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Remembering John Marsden
A personal reflection on the Australian writer for children and young adults
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Colin Murray @colinmurray1.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Daily Conundrum 17 🕰️ Clue: Great impressions (6,5) Tuesday’s answer (16) Sarah Millican Fact: I met Sarah at an airport once and she was so lovely. This is a fact! 😂😊 🗓️ New conundrum 10(ish), mon to fri! ℹ️ Today is harder 👹 Share post if you enjoy! 😊 ⛔️ NO spoilers/hints! Countdown(Mon-Fri C4)
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Meryl Schumacker @waybackgen.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
My top #genealogy gift-giving tip this holiday season: PLEASE DO NOT GIVE DNA TESTS AS PRESENTS. Here's why. 🧵
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Judy King @judyking.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Christmassy birds
White cockatoos in a bright red Illawarra Flame Tree
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Roman Mars @romanmars.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Today is a great day to start or get back into 99% Invisible. It's a show about the objects and systems we design and what these things say about us and our values. Start with any episode! Jump around! Pick one about something you're into. Find one about something you're not 99percentinvisible.org
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99% Invisible
99% Invisible with Roman Mars is a tiny radio show about design, architecture & the ninety-nine percent invisible activity that shapes our world.
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Judy King @judyking.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Beautiful beach and sky, good for the soul
Beach and sunset scene
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