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Kristin Hannaford

@kristyhan.bsky.social
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Poet, writer, teacher.

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Kristin Hannaford @kristyhan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Here we have all this wondrous life on the planet. www.abc.net.au/news/science...
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Tiny cells and creatures dazzle in microscopic video competition
Stunning scenes of the world through microscopes have been put on display by the Nikon Small World In Motion competition winners.
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Kristin Hannaford @kristyhan.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
What a time we live in. Turning away from the oncoming viral onslaught so we don’t have to witness it. Just awful.
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Kristin Hannaford @kristyhan.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
A good new story. www.clc.org.au/singleton-na...
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Singleton native title holders win landmark water rights case
Native title holders and traditional owners celebrate today as the High Court rules that the Singleton Station water licence was...
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Kristin Hannaford @kristyhan.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Unbelievable. Just keep giving it all away, Australia. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Adani to pay no company tax despite $1bn revenue from Queensland coalmine
Indian conglomerate offsets earnings from Carmichael mine to report $340.6m loss, after promising billions in taxes and royalties
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Kristin Hannaford @kristyhan.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Living in Central Queensland is certainly challenging at times. Jesus wept.
Picture of Angus Taylor, Karl Stefanovic, Matt Canavan and Colin Boyce- arms around each other. Poster for an Energy Forum in Central Queensland
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Kristin Hannaford @kristyhan.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
A great video - tax the gas!
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Gemolisch @jodievdw.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Scrutineers: are they like musketeers? And how does one learn to scrut? An important investigation: #RockyNats #RockyNats06 #RockyNatsRookie www.instagram.com/reel/DXOAzVr...
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rockynats on Instagram: "1900 cars. One shed. And Owen… the undisputed king of scrut. #rockynats06"
1900 cars. One shed. And Owen… the undisputed king of scrut. #rockynats06View all comments
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Kristin Hannaford @kristyhan.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Bastards. Australian political land is becoming more and more Americam by the minute. Deceptive and manipulative tools of public influence are rife. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...
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Creators of fuel dashboard quoted by News Corp have links to Liberals
An ABC NEWS Verify investigation raises questions about popular independent fuel security dashboards that have emerged online, including one whose creators are linked to the Liberal Party.
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Kristin Hannaford @kristyhan.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Really peeved about Amazon’s decision to not support Kindle readers older than 2021. I’ve got two early models and they both work fabulously. Unnecessary planned obsolescence for useful tools. Bezos can go get f****d!
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Kristin Hannaford @kristyhan.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
The world has gone full Black Mirror… 😳https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-15/outsourcing-our-souls-to-ai/106442290?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=link
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Are we outsourcing our souls to artificial intelligence?
More people are turning to AI companions during personal crises, treating it as a confidante and even a way to speak to the dead. And while it helps some, it can also have devastating consequences, wr...
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Kristin Hannaford @kristyhan.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
The world feels like it’s in a death spiral 🌀 😳
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Kristin Hannaford @kristyhan.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
So, I wonder if this oil crisis will actually mean the world may realise it needs renewables.
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Kristin Hannaford @kristyhan.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
We’ve got to tax the big corporations…
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Kristin Hannaford @kristyhan.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Some great writing about the ‘muck’ of powerful men getting away with everything. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
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I have a question for the men who had no questions about Epstein
The millions of pages of documents related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein have shone a light on how many influential men were ready to disregard the experiences of countless women.
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rowecartoon.bsky.social @rowecartoon.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
smile more..
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Miriam Cosic @miriamcosic.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Sen. David Shoebridge: Palantir, the far-right US data corporation, has just been given security clearance with access to secret Australian govt data. They're enabling ICE surveillance and helping target the genocide in Gaza. It's time ban them from govt contracts and all our data. #auspol
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Kristin Hannaford @kristyhan.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
So, in a heatwave, rather than provide energy for Australian households we are being offered incentives to use less - because AI data centres are straining the system? www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
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Households 'paid to switch off' as extreme weather stalks power grid
In a move labelled a sign of the times, energy firm AGL was last week offering customers money to cut use during a heatwave.
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Kristin Hannaford @kristyhan.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Some important reflections in here: www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
abc.net.au
Between AI and humanoid robots, we could be at a turning point in history
What makes the AI-driven stockmarket bubble unique in history is that if it's not a bubble, the impact on humanity could be far more challenging than any previous technology.
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Kristin Hannaford @kristyhan.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
This seems to me to be the part of The Handmaid’s Tale where Americans get the hell out of the country. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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Meta shuts down global accounts linked to abortion advice and queer content
More than 50 organisations report sites being restricted or removed, with abortion hotlines blocked and posts showing non-explicit nudity triggering warnings
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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
1/ The overturning circulation is a network of ocean currents transporting heat, carbon, oxygen and nutrients around the world. At the heart of this circulatory system is the global pumphouse of #Antarctica and the Southern Ocean. Animation: NASA-SVS
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
"Poverty is not evidence, the presumption of innocence must apply to everyone" Smashing column by @kristin8x.antipovertycentre.org & @maiyazize.bsky.social #ThePoint thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
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Poverty is not evidence, the presumption of innocence must apply to everyone
In the final days of October, the Federal Government quietly inserted a last-minute amendment into an unrelated bill. It has been trying to rush through a change that would allow police and the Home A...
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Kristin Hannaford @kristyhan.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Wondering why Australia spends so much of its time encouraging young people to study STEM subjects at high school… Why? There won’t be any jobs?! www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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‘Sad day for publicly funded science’: up to 350 more jobs to go at CSIRO
Australia’s national scientific agency announces more research job losses as it looks for budgetary savings
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Captain Quoll @kudelka.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
FFS tasmanianinquirer.com.au/news/cement-...
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Endangered Tasmanian crayfish habitat damaged by unapproved works
The habitat of an endangered native crayfish in northern Tasmania was damaged by unauthorised earthworks and land clearing by a cement company, according to an order issued by the Environment Protecti...
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Kristin Hannaford @kristyhan.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
ABC journalism why don’t you do an article about those Australians with less than $100,000 in superannuation? Pity the farmers with 5.5 million? Because they don’t want to pay some tax? Nope. Not feeling any sympathy in my bones. Labor, hurry up and bring about real economic change.
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Super changes will hit those with millions but they say the impact could be devastating
This farming family has millions in super but proposed reforms have left them in a position where they may have to sell the farm.
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Jon Stewart is a legend & the way this show is trying to explain to a mainstream audience the gravity what is happening in the US is amazing. It was both thrilling & terrifying to be part of it. Thank you @TheDailyShow 👏 www.youtube.com/watch?v=vG7C...
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Carole Cadwalladr - Broligarchs, AI, and a Techno-Authoritarian Surveillance State | The Daily Show
YouTube video by The Daily Show
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 20/05/2025
"If this was somewhere else in the world, there would be a national outcry. "The pollutants that are coming out of those Woodside stacks are actively degrading the rock art surfaces. "It's incontestable." 🎙️Professor of Archaeology Benjamin Smith #savemurujuga #auspol
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Kristin Hannaford @kristyhan.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Australians do diplomacy, a little differently 😂 www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...
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Anthony Albanese gifts Prabowo Subianto's cat a scarf
Follow the latest news headlines from Australia's most trusted source. Read in-depth expert analysis and watch live coverage on ABC News.
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Kristin Hannaford @kristyhan.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
They are trying on this environmental bastardry globally, it seems. In the UK, the USA … in Australia (in Queensland particularly) developers just love the word ‘offset’. Pay some cash and put up a parking lot.
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Kristin Hannaford @kristyhan.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
As an Australian here in this Bluesky space, I’ve been intrigued by references to books banned in the many schools and states in the US at the moment - The Handmaid’s Tale, the Colour Purple… obviously the power of ideas is something the oligarchs hope to lock in a drawer. Keep reading and resist!💚
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Banned Books List 2025 - PEN America
What books are banned in 2025? These are the 11 most banned books of the 2023-2024 school year. The banned books list for 2025 includes "Nineteen Minutes," by Jodi Picoult.
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Kristin Hannaford @kristyhan.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
It’s such a strange time. Australia as a nation has been imbued by America culture for so long - even the kids I teach are more likely to sound American than English. The world is turning away. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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America used to fire the world’s imagination – but now the cultural conversation is being silenced | Van Badham
Not only are TV-watching, book-reading, show-going, music-listening travellers declining to visit the US, we have started to cease to imagine it
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 16/04/2025
Australia's nurses pay more tax than the gas industry. How is that fair? Our billboard in Melbourne ⤵️ #auspol
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Kristin Hannaford @kristyhan.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
No, eating Tasmanian farmed salmon is not worth the cost our native species. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Is eating farmed salmon worth snuffing out 40m years of Tasmanian evolution? | Tim Flannery
Without the strongest conservation efforts, it can’t be long before the Maugean skate – and other marine living fossils in Australia – are wiped out
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Kristin Hannaford @kristyhan.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Musk hands out $1m checks to voters amid Wisconsin supreme court election race Oh America. Things are so broken.
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 26/03/2025
Australia is selling its gas to Japan so cheaply, that Japan is selling it again to other countries! But Big Gas wants us to think we have a shortage problem, not an export problem. 🎤 Yuki Tanabe at the Australia Institute's #ClimateIntegrity Summit 2025 #auspol
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Kristin Hannaford @kristyhan.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
The Australian Prime Minister wants to introduce new laws to let destructive salmon corporations bypass environmental protections. I've signed the @australiainstitute.org.au petition to protect the Maugean skate - will you join me? nb.australiainstitute.org.au/end_salmon_f...
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End salmon farming in Macquarie Harbour—protect the skate
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Kristin Hannaford @kristyhan.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
www.youtube.com/live/UK7QJ1a... A really interesting video about the state of America today, fascism, and the need for disruption.
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Redneck Gone Green: The Build & Fight Formula with Kali Akuno
YouTube video by Democracy At Work
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