Sign in

Dr. Karen Austria

@kavienna.bsky.social
163 followers 110 following 1K posts

Head of Digital | Clinician | Electrical Engineer | Ex-Gymnast Mum to Pearl Girl 🐷💚 my boss pig. I once engineered the earth, now I help heal the human. Where systems meet soul, and motion becomes meaning. You can find me in Australia and Arizona 🌏🌵.

PostsRepliesMedia
Dr. Karen Austria @kavienna.bsky.social · 1h
ABC management should be protecting editorial independence and legitimate union advocacy, not treating them as potential breaches. Taxpayers deserve better from the national broadcaster.
011
Dr. Karen Austria @kavienna.bsky.social · 1h
Good on you @davidshoebridge.bsky.social 💚👨🏼‍⚖️⚖️ for calling this out. A publicly funded broadcaster threatening disciplinary action against its own senior journalist and elected union rep for writing an external piece defending public access to company director information is a serious problem.
131
Dr. Karen Austria @kavienna.bsky.social · 7h
What a harvest 🥔
010
Dr. Karen Austria @kavienna.bsky.social · 8h
There were missed opportunities over the last few years to put real pressure on Iraq using that leverage. Persistent advocacy eventually got him home, but stronger earlier action could have shortened the ordeal for him and his family. Glad he’s free now.
010
Dr. Karen Austria @kavienna.bsky.social · 8h
‘Australia is a very substantial funder of the Iraqi government, including their central bank’ - @davidshoebridge.bsky.social 💚👨🏼‍⚖️⚖️ and that bank was basically holding Robert Pether hostage to try and extract a couple of million dollars from him.
110
Dr. Karen Austria @kavienna.bsky.social · 8h
Resist this regime and authoritarian rhetoric at all costs, wrong on every facet!!
000
Dr. Karen Austria @kavienna.bsky.social · 8h
A short import pause with clear disability carve-outs while we lock in strong privacy rules against covert filming is the right balance. Good to see it championed @davidshoebridge.bsky.social 💚👨🏼‍⚖️⚖️.
000
Dr. Karen Austria @kavienna.bsky.social · 8h
Spot on. These glasses are genuinely life-changing for blind and deaf people reading menus, navigating streets hands-free, live captions in meetings. The “pervert glasses” panic risks stigmatising legitimate users who need them as essential medical aids/devices.
120
Dr. Karen Austria @kavienna.bsky.social · 18h
💯time for that #EchidnaStrategy 🦔 & #PearlThePeoplesPiggyBank 🐷 to build Australia’s Independent Defence & Foreign Policy free from the Deep State and Big Tech Bros @davidshoebridge.bsky.social 💚👨🏼‍⚖️⚖️
020
Dr. Karen Austria @kavienna.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
We need diplomacy that prevents wars, not alliances that risk dragging us into them. #AUKUSWillFUKUs 🦔🇦🇺
1121
Dr. Karen Austria @kavienna.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Well said, @davidshoebridge.bsky.social 💚⚖️👨🏼‍⚖️ Diplomacy over war. Sovereignty over subservience. Peace over profiteering. Australia must have the courage to pursue an independent foreign policy that puts peace, international law and the Australian people ahead of foreign military interests.
1131
Dr. Karen Austria @kavienna.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
can give them real meaning and moments of normal childhood even when everything else is chaos. Credit to the North Steyne club and everyone who kept it going.
151
Dr. Karen Austria @kavienna.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Thanks for sharing this, @davidshoebridge.bsky.social 💚👨🏼‍⚖️⚖️. Programs like the Gaza Nippers give these kids a chance to get in the water, learn skills, and connect with people who care, sport and that sense of community
141
Dr. Karen Austria @kavienna.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Albo’s grinning selfie with Trump says more than any speech about shared values, especially while that same administration lines up a livestreamed firing squad.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ #AlboTheSelfieBeggar
121
Dr. Karen Austria @kavienna.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The problem isn’t only Albanese talking up shared values while staying quiet. Pauline Hanson has already been at Mar-a-Lago, including Trump’s Halloween event there, treating the same administration as a political ally. If national principles stop at the alliance, that applies across the board.
0242
Dr. Karen Austria @kavienna.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Spot on, @davidshoebridge.bsky.social 💚👨🏼‍⚖️⚖️. Livestreaming a firing squad execution is a throwback that most democracies abandoned long ago, and it sits oddly next to Australia’s longstanding opposition to the death penalty.
1212
Dr. Karen Austria @kavienna.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
…. #VicVotes2026 #DontBeASpectator #ShoebridgeMethod #SnoutTheCon 🐽
000
Dr. Karen Austria @kavienna.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It happens when ordinary Australians find their voice, stand together and have the courage to challenge the status quo. Great seeing you again, David! Always a pleasure, and always inspiring. Don’t be a spectator. Be part of the movement. 💚
110
Dr. Karen Austria @kavienna.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
What a speech! 🔥 Delivered with conviction, courage and the kind of leadership that reminds us why people power matters. As we head towards the 2026 Victorian State Election, one thing is clear: real change doesn’t happen from the sidelines.
100
Dr. Karen Austria @kavienna.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
PEOPLE POWER. COURAGE. A MOVEMENT FOR CHANGE! 💚✊ What a night at the @victoriangreens Campaign Launch! 💚 An inspiring evening with the Leader of the Australian Greens and an all-time legend, Senator @davidshoebridge.bsky.social 💚👨🏼‍⚖️⚖️!
110
Dr. Karen Austria @kavienna.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A movement like never before - What a firehorse and a firebrand of a speech @davidshoebridge.bsky.social 💚👨🏼‍⚖️⚖️ at tonight‘s Victorian 2026 Election Campaign Launch 🚀 #ShoebridgeMethod
020
Dr. Karen Austria @kavienna.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Well done 💚💚💚 @davidshoebridge.bsky.social 👨🏼‍⚖️⚖️💚 time to paint Australia in Green as far as the eye can see! ‘Don’t be a spectator’. You are the leader needed to shift the dial across all political divides!! 🔥🔥🔥 #ShoebridgeMethod
0100
Dr. Karen Austria @kavienna.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The same standard applies harder to the LNP’s record of building the export industry and to One Nation’s push for new black-coal plants and Paris withdrawal. All three treat expanded coal as acceptable, which is why communities end up in court.
070
Dr. Karen Austria @kavienna.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Tony and Wendy’s High Court win forces planners to confront scope 3 emissions from Mount Pleasant instead of treating exported coal as someone else’s problem. Labor can’t call itself a climate leader while approving dozens of new or extended coal and gas projects.
192
Dr. Karen Austria @kavienna.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Devastating news. Condolences to his family and wishing those injured a full recovery. 🇦🇺💚 And we must keep asking: why are ordinary Australians being asked to carry the human cost of wars driven by powerful political, corporate and financial interests? Our people are not expendable.
000
Dr. Karen Austria @kavienna.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
#DataCentres #AIMoratorium #Ivanhoe #Plumpton #PeoplePower #CommunityVoice #AI #BigTech #Melbourne #Victoria #SnoutTheCon 🐽
010
Dr. Karen Austria @kavienna.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Different suburb. Same questions. And a growing statewide conversation. People Power & Courage. 💚 @davidshoebridge.bsky.social @acarbinesmp.bsky.social @9newsmelbourne.bsky.social
100
Dr. Karen Austria @kavienna.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
When your community turns up to ask difficult questions, show up and face them. Where is your backbone? This isn't about being anti-technology. It's about ensuring technological development serves the public interest rather than asking communities to simply accept the consequences.
100
Dr. Karen Austria @kavienna.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
👩🏻‍🌾 What happens to our health, water, energy, environment and neighbourhoods? 👩🏻‍🌾 Why are communities so often asked to react after decisions are already moving? I also had a message for Ivanhoe MP and AI Minister Anthony Carbines:
100
Dr. Karen Austria @kavienna.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
until proper safeguards, transparency and genuine community consultation are in place. From Plumpton 👩🏻‍🌾🐷 to Ivanhoe, communities are asking the same fundamental questions: 👩🏻‍🌾 Who carries the risk? 👩🏻‍🌾 Who pays for the infrastructure?
100
Dr. Karen Austria @kavienna.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
IVANHOE: WHEN THE COMMUNITY SHOWS UP, LEADERS SHOULD TOO. 💚 Thank you Nina Crawley - Greens candidate for Ivanhoe for inviting me back to Ivanhoe a community I once called home to speak about why I believe Victoria needs a moratorium on new hyperscale AI data centres
101
Reposted by Dr. Karen Austria
Dr. Karen Austria @kavienna.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Approving the Hunter Valley Operations extension the largest coal project in NSW history, run by Glencore and Yancoal and set to continue to 2045 under a Labor government weeks before COP31 and Pacific pre-talks undercuts claims of climate leadership.
154
Dr. Karen Austria @kavienna.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
None of the three major parties has made closing those gaps the priority over project approvals.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Time we #SnoutTheCon 🐽 and #TaxThe1percent that erode this country @davidshoebridge.bsky.social 💚👨🏼‍⚖️⚖️
000
Dr. Karen Austria @kavienna.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Yet critics continue to point to cases of low or zero tax payable via losses, deductions, and offshore booking of commodity margins.
100
Dr. Karen Austria @kavienna.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
ATO data shows the mining sector remains one of the largest company-tax contributors (around $24.6 billion in 2024-25) and Glencore reports billions in Australian taxes and royalties.
100
Dr. Karen Austria @kavienna.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Rather than prioritising higher effective taxation on large resource companies or tighter rules against profit shifting through marketing hubs and related-party structures.
100
Dr. Karen Austria @kavienna.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
have consistently backed faster mining approvals, lower royalty pressure, and industry continuity for the same multinationals, framing it as jobs and investment certainty.
111
Dr. Karen Austria @kavienna.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The same project still needs federal sign-off, and Pacific leaders have already flagged Australia’s ongoing fossil fuel expansions as the problem. The broader pattern is not limited to Labor. Both the LNP and all the far right parties with One Nation
121
Dr. Karen Austria @kavienna.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Approving the Hunter Valley Operations extension the largest coal project in NSW history, run by Glencore and Yancoal and set to continue to 2045 under a Labor government weeks before COP31 and Pacific pre-talks undercuts claims of climate leadership.
154
Dr. Karen Austria @kavienna.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
You gotta build the machine to beat the machine @davidshoebridge.bsky.social 💚💚
141
Dr. Karen Austria @kavienna.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
End it. Australia doesn’t need to bankroll whatever culture-war side quest is running the Pentagon this month. One minute it’s strategic deterrence, next minute it’s a casting call and a prayer desk. Hard pass. #AUKUSWillFukUs #SnoutTheCon 🐽 #ShoebridgeMethod
061
Dr. Karen Austria @kavienna.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Then drops Elon in to cook the next round of weapons while everyone’s arguing about the budget and Iran. That’s the outfit we’re locking ourselves into for the next few decades of subs and bases?
140
Dr. Karen Austria @kavienna.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Yeah nah, @davidshoebridge.bsky.social 💚👨🏼‍⚖️⚖️ has a point. #AUKUS looked messy enough already and then Hegseth rocks up promising to boot the fatties, the beardos and the weirdos, spins up a religious affairs office.
120
Dr. Karen Austria @kavienna.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Corporate liability and mandatory notification need to be settled before the next one, not after. Time we #SnoutTheCon 🐽 and hold the fire to their feet @davidshoebridge.bsky.social 💚👨🏼‍⚖️⚖️ What Artificial Incompetence. #ShoebridgeMethod
010
Dr. Karen Austria @kavienna.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Labor and the Coalition talk about law changes while still rolling out the welcome for the same firms on data centres. One Nation’s limited response mainly on the announcement timing doesn’t fill the gap either and only enable them!
110
Dr. Karen Austria @kavienna.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
When Rogue Traders is their modus of operandi! Calling them ‘rogue agents’ lets OpenAI dodge systems it built and set loose. The June accesses to the Medicare portal and the NSW parks site only reached government months later.
110
Dr. Karen Austria @kavienna.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Once they wake up who they truly back and sideline their own leaders, members and supporters whilst they take credit for your work as their own!!! #ShoebridgeMethod #SnoutTheCon 🐽
000
Dr. Karen Austria @kavienna.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Like you said back at me in May - ‘Don’t Be A Spectator’ - @davidshoebridge.bsky.social 💚👨🏼‍⚖️⚖️ The quote of the decade ❤️ Proud member of our movement now! Thank you for having my back! You can unite the right and former protectionist/conservative members and supporters too.
100
Dr. Karen Austria @kavienna.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Like you said back at me in May - ‘Don’t Be A Spectator’ - @davidshoebridge.bsky.social 💚👨🏼‍⚖️⚖️ The quote of the decade ❤️
182
Dr. Karen Austria @kavienna.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Like you said back at me in May - ‘Don’t Be A Spectator’ - @davidshoebridge.bsky.social 💚👨🏼‍⚖️⚖️ The quote of the decade ❤️
000