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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.
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Kate @kateclifford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Tonight's Naarm #criticalmass rode from the State Library to Kensington station, then to Melbourne uni, in memory of Will Richter, who was killed riding to uni a year ago.
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Leena 🌵 @leena.reuben.games · 22/09/2026
I apologize angelic soprano Charlotte Church… i was not aware of your game
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Steve Baty (He/him) @docbaty.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The other half of the supermarket duopoly posted financial results this morning, with profits up 18%. Again, in case you're wondering why your grocery bills seem to be going up faster than your wages can keep up.
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
1. AFM, the labor union representing professional musicians in North America, is paying tribute to Dolly Parton, who was a member of its Nashville Local 257 for 58 years. AFM says that for decades, Dolly consistently filed union contracts for her recording sessions, live gigs and tours.
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Danielle Binks @daniellebinks.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
‘No criminal probe over Israeli strike that killed Australian Zomi Frankcom’ It’s okay, everyone! Israel investigated itself and says it didn’t commit a crime and is totally innocent. Sorted! 🙄 #AusPol www.theage.com.au/world/middle...
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No criminal probe over Israeli strike that killed Australian Zomi Frankcom
The IDF said there was “no reasonable suspicion of criminal misconduct that would justify the opening of a criminal investigation”.
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
On 18 August, we remember Khaled al-Asaad, the heroic Syrian archaeologist who was murdered by ISIS on 18 August 2015 for refusing to reveal the hidden treasures of Palmyra. www.theguardian.com/world/2015/a...
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
'Examinations of London schoolchildren before and after the introduction of the city’s ultra-low emission zone (Ulez) found a restoration of lung capacity that had been stunted by exposure to pollution.' Brave politics, wise policy, good news.
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Ulez led to better lung size and function among London children, study finds
Researchers find capacity stunted by pollution restored after introduction of ultra-low emission zone
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Rhea Liang @liangrhea.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Please tell your family about your end of life wishes *beforehand*. This study showed discordance between pts and their families across most values (eg. dignity, independence). 88.5% of disagreement was on the family side wanting more treatment than pts. www.thebreastonline.com/article/S096...
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End-of-Life Care Values and Treatment Preferences Among Japanese Breast Cancer Patients and Families: A Dyadic Cross-Sectional Study
Patient–family discordance in end-of-life values complicates advance care planning (ACP) but is rarely quantified in Asian oncology settings. We measured patient–family differences in values and treat...
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Kate @kateclifford.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Arts Centre Melbourne staff are taking industrial action on Thursday for a fair pay deal www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/ac...
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STOP ARTS CENTRE MELBOURNE GOING BACKWARDS
Currently, Arts Centre Melbourne union members are fighting for a fair pay deal. This is the first time ACM staff have ever taken industrial action.   Industrial action is never taken lightly, bu...
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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Naarm/Melbourne has again showed up in force to protest Israeli atrocity in Gaza and the West Bank, grotesque Australian government and corporate complicity, and the silence and indifference of the husks posing as human among us. From the river to the sea.
The streets of Naarm/Melbourne filled with protesters and flags
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Kate @kateclifford.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I attended this concert Sunday night and it was beautiful. It was also the most diverse classical music event I've ever been to. www.crikey.com.au/2026/07/21/j...
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ABC News Australia @news.abc.net.au · 15/07/2026
DV advocates warn AusAlert system could put regional women at increased risk
abc.net.au
AusAlerts could compromise 'safe phones' for women at DV risk
Regional women experiencing domestic violence are at high risk of their safe phones being discovered during tests of the new AusAlert disaster warning system.
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ABC News Australia @news.abc.net.au · 13/07/2026
From Jurassic Park to The Piano, here are Sam Neill's best roles
abc.net.au
From Jurassic Park to The Piano, here are Sam Neill's best roles
With more than 150 acting roles under his belt, Sam Neill leaves a lasting legacy to the film and TV industry, and an array of characters that will stay in fans' hearts forever.
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Tim Howard @tmhwrd.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
The two greatest New Zealand-Australians are both gone now. RIP.
John Clarke and Sam Neill in Death In Brunswick
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alexis simpson is confused by display name changes @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
my god, this is amazing. apparently from a NY Times interview with Neill and Goldblum. Resharing with alt text so everyone can enjoy
How long has it been since you've seen the original "Jurassic Park"?

SAM NEILL: The last time I watched it in its totality was sitting beside Princess Di at Leicester Square at the London opening. On the other side of me was my son Tim he was 11 and completely swept away by it, but about the time the T-Rex turns up, Tim started to fart. And the draft was drifting across me to royalty! I spent the whole film in a muck sweat, thinking, "Princess Di is being exposed to the horrors of a little boy's fart, but she's going to think it's me. I am going to be subliminally blamed for my son's crimes, and I don't think she'll talk to me afterwards." But she was well brought up and never mentioned it.

JEFF GOLDBLUM: I love that story, Sam. I've heard him tell that a couple of times, and it's just amazing the lengths that he will go to still blame the boy.
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Kate @kateclifford.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
We all need a good news story, and this one is excellent www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...
abc.net.au
First Nations midwifery program in leads to healthier babies
First Nations babies born through a midwifery program offered at three Melbourne hospitals are more likely to be full term and a healthy weight, a study has found.
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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
TFW you're an ASIO agent who's wasting their time monitoring an Irish Republican meeting in 1973.
Notes from ASIO report on Irish republicanism in Sydney:

"This whole Bession was devold of politics, every person at the meeting thoroughly enjoyed himself by singing Irish songs, etc.
There was no interest shown about H.M. The Queen's visit to Sydney and nothing was proposed in the way of demonstrations
to support the Irish Cause generally)."
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
A UN commission of inquiry report details how Israel deliberately kills Palestinian children Chris Sidoti recounts how Israeli soldiers shot a 14yr old in the occupied West Bank, then stood around him for 45mins while he bled to death, preventing any help from getting to him.
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nohostages.bsky.social @nohostages.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
English commentators need to stop analysing Northern Ireland through an English lens! When you see anti-immigrant riots in Belfast, Ballymena or Larne and immediately reach for "Britain's far-right problem", you're missing half the story. This isn't just racism. It's loyalist terrorism. 1/
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Hey @markbutlermp.bsky.social - I am giving you an open invitation to come see my daughter with Down Syndrome and then you can tell me to my face that it will be good to cut her social, economic and community participation funding by 25% (heck the explanatory memorandum gives an eg of 50%).
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Kate @kateclifford.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Victoria works because public servants do - please sign: www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/je...
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Jess Wilson: Hands Off Our Public Services!
These jobs aren’t just numbers on a spreadsheet.  These are the workers who keep our trains running, deliver vital support to children and families, provide security in our prisons and correctio...
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Kate @kateclifford.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Flight cuts to public service jobs, get to the Sofitel at midday www.instagram.com/p/DYDdvzWkmO...
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CPSU Victoria on Instagram: "SNAP RALLY SOFITEL 12PM! TODAY MAY 8TH! Come join us to say no more job cuts! The Victorian Liberals have announced their plans to cut 7000 public service jobs if they a...
47 likes, 1 comments - cpsuvic on May 7, 2026: "SNAP RALLY SOFITEL 12PM! TODAY MAY 8TH! Come join us to say no more job cuts! The Victorian Liberals have announced their plans to cut 7000 public ser...
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Rob Arnol @robertarnol.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
222 years ago on this date, the first massacre was committed against Aboriginal people in Tasmania. The occupational settlement by white British nationals was one day old. About 300 Aboriginal people from the Big River and Oyster Bay tribes had gathered for a kangaroo drive. Upon being sighted by
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Ruth Mitchell @drruthmitchell.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
I recently returned from a medical mission to Gaza, working as a neurosurgeon with the Palestinian Australian New Zealand Medical Association. I spoke to Croakey Health Media about my experience, and here is the interview. #neurosurgery #publichealth www.croakey.org/inside-gazas...
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Inside Gaza’s hospitals: neurosurgeon Ruth Mitchell on deprivation, courage and determination
With Israel enforcing a blanket ban on international journalists entering Gaza it is getting harder to find independent accounts of
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
"So even as the economics, facts and the public will give Labor the room for reform, its fear has it falling back to what is becoming the default position – LACO. Labor always chickens out." @amyremeikis.bsky.social www.thenewdaily.com.au/life/health/...
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NDIS a victim of familiar scare tactics – while untouchables roll on
We rarely speak about how the NDIS became a catch-all because we don’t have enough social services and supports to help people who need it.
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Nicolai von Ondarza @nvondarza.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Israeli attacks on UNIFIL peace keepers tonight. Irish service men were not directly hit, but they aided their counterparts from Ghana. This will further deteriorate Irish Israel relations.
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UNRWA @unrwa.org · 03/03/2026
"A new chokehold on #Gaza. Once again, Israel is renewing its ban on supplies entering Gaza." Read the full statement by UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini: www.unrwa.org/newsroom/off...
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Jessie L @jessielilley.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
This is not a headline at ABC or 9Papers or Newscorp papers online. Shame on you all for giving cover AGAIN to Israel’s merciless disdain for human life.
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At least 80 children dead as missile reportedly hits school in southern Iran
The building appears to be among many devastated in Trump’s ‘major combat operations’ as long expected attacks arrive
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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Long time coming and a long way to go to address the damage - but so grateful to everyone who has ordered a copy of Where It All Went Wrong (including through your library!) I’m still so angry - and I hope it makes you angry too (so we can fix it) x
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Antifa_Ultras @antifa-ultras.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
The Swiss commentator is telling viewers about Israel’s war crimes that the team’s pilot has openly supported while the Israeli bobsleigh team is racing.
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Kate @kateclifford.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Years ago my partner and I went to a real estate agents to ask about a rental and the receptionist there told us in great detail about her daughter's Shrek themed wedding and I really hope that couple have one of these
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Travis Jordan @grugstan.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
One of this year’s biggest elections that will fly under the radar is the United Workers Union elections. Union elections are pretty lowkey unless you’re a member, but UWU’s Queensland influence and their reputation as the laboratory of the union movement makes this important for everyone.
membersfirstunion.org
Members First - Vote for a better UWU in the April 2026 union election
Only Members First will put our Union back in the hands of members Only Members First will put our Union back in the hands of memberS Here's everything you need to know about how we'll put Mem...
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Michael Beveridge @tattieboy.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01... To be clear. This was an act of domestic terrorism. The reason it hasn't been declared as such, is that the intended victims are indigenous Australians. Welcome to Western Australia.
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Device allegedly thrown into Invasion Day crowd designed to 'explode on impact', say police
A 31-year-old man is charged with making explosives in suspicious circumstances after a device was allegedly thrown into a crowd of hundreds of people attending an Invasion Day rally in central Perth ...
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
"After two years of Israeli attacks, more than 39,000 children in Gaza have lost at least one parent. A further 17,000 kids have lost both parents. Nearly 2,600 of those children have been registered as what is known as 'WCNSF', wounded child no surviving family" Genocide.
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Kate @kateclifford.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
I can't manage a march today but the Invasion Day speeches were as inspiring as ever, and as I left the large crowd was still growing. The people who want truth, treaty and justice are far greater in number than the fascists.
Crowd gathered for Invasion Day rally in Naarm, with the Imperial Hotel and Windsor Hotel in the background.
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Victorian Socialists @vicsocialists.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
See you all at the Invasion Day rally and march tomorrow, starting 11am at Parliament House on Spring Street. Come prepared for hot weather! ✊ 🖤🌕❤️
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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
via ABC Indigenous 'I shouldn't call this place home. Warning: This video contain themes that may be distressing to viewers.'
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UNRWA @unrwa.org · 20/01/2026
This morning, Israeli forces stormed a United Nations site: the UNRWA Headquarters in occupied #EastJerusalem. “International law has come under increasing attack for too long and is risking irrelevancy in the absence of response by Member States,” says UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini
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Emily Mayo @emilymayo.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
“If you ask a footballer how many concussions they have had, generally they will know," Dr Symons said. But, she said, when asking a survivor of family violence if they had had a concussion, the typical answer would be no.” www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
abc.net.au
The hidden injuries linked to memory changes in family violence survivors
An Australian-first study finds evidence of previously undetected, long-term cognitive changes in women more than six months after they experienced repeated concussions and strangulation during intima...
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Jeremy Poxon @jeremypoxon.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Important call-out for O type blood donors. Make an appointment if you can: my.donateblood.com.au/app/utils/lo...
Our thoughts are with the injured, their families and those who have lost loved ones because of this tragedy.
On Sunday we issued several life-threatening orders for O- blood, in the wake of the incident at Bondi.
Please make an appointment if you can.
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murchadhfinn.bsky.social @murchadhfinn.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
They were 8 and 11 years old
Asked for comment by Sky News, the IDF responded: "Earlier today, IDF troops identified two suspects who crossed the yellow line, conducted suspicious activities on the ground, and approached IDF troops operating in the southern Gaza Strip, posing an immediate threat to them.
"Following the identification, the IAF eliminated the suspects in order to remove the threat."
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Kate @kateclifford.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Libraries need librarians! Save the State Library www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/ha...
megaphone.org.au
Hands off our State Library!
Library workers deliver essential services to 2.8 million people in our community each year. They run information services, connect people online, hold free workshops, develop community connections an...
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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 25/11/2025
‘Vast overreach’: police allowed to conduct warrantless pat-downs of people across inner Melbourne for six months
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‘Vast overreach’: police allowed to conduct warrantless pat-downs of people across inner Melbourne for six months
Search powers, usually reserved for protests, will be in effect in the CBD and beyond in move criticised by human rights groups Victoria police will have the power to conduct warrant-less pat-downs, search cars and move people on in Melbourne’s CBD for six months, in a move human rights and legal groups have described as a “vast overreach”. Police on Tuesday declared the CBD, Docklands, Southbank, the sporting and entertainment precinct and parts of East Melbourne and South Melbourne as a “designated area” from Sunday, until 29 May 2026. Continue reading...
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Kate @kateclifford.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
@birdmichael.bsky.social went to Tassie, took a shit photo of a bird
Bushland with a bird that is very hard to see but has a yellow head. It might be a rosella.
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Thesiswhisperer @thesiswhisperer.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
I'd appreciate help circulating this survey, part of our overall work on neurodivergence. This one is on behalf of the graduate deans, to develop better supervision guidelines. You can help by boosting and circulating the link in your various networks 🙏 redcap.unisq.edu.au/surveys/?s=D...
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Developing guidelines for supervising Neurodivergent HDR students
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Antipoverty Centre @antipovertycentre.org · 30/10/2025
Today we learned of a shocking amendment to the income apportionment bill that involves police in social security decisions. We're joining the call for Labor to abandon police powers to stop Centrelink payments. Why is @amyremeikis.bsky.social is the only one in the press gallery covering this?
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Australia Institute Live — Daily Updates
Stay updated with the latest from The Australia Institute.
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Deepcut News @deepcutnews.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
A Labor staffer mistakenly emailed the federal government’s full talking points on Israel, Palestine and Gaza to the Australia Palestine Advocacy Organisation. Read them in full here: www.deepcutnews.com/p/exclusive-...
deepcutnews.com
Exclusive: Australian government’s full talking points on Gaza accidentally sent to Palestinian advocacy group
Government notes reveal they won’t back Gaza hospital proposed by Dr Mohammed Mustafa
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