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Possum @pollytics.bsky.social · 7h
And it's not going to perfect - it's going to be as messy as fuck. With mistakes everywhere, and time making the policy redundant. And that's OK, because we can fix it as we go. Technology will always be able to work faster than parliaments. That's a given. But it's not an excuse for inaction
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Croakey Health Media @croakeynews.bsky.social · 7h
When an execution becomes ‘content’, we need to protect Australian children www.croakey.org/when-an-exec... #publichealth
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Valentenya the climate policy strategy cat 🍉 🐈‍⬛ @valentenya.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Doomism, including a weird acquiescence to fossil fuels, has become ubiquitous within the climate movement. We need to normalise stating publicly: 1) Fossil carbon mining and burning is driving global heating; 2) the current trajectory is civilisation ending; 3) international cooperation is
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Valentenya the climate policy strategy cat 🍉 🐈‍⬛ @valentenya.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Key point missing is US produces more diesel than it needs and is a net exporter. Trump could reduce diesel prices in the US via domestic reserve quotas and price controls. This policy is ENTIRELY about helping Putin and paving the way for the further lifting of sanctions.
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I’ve been saying this for a couple of years now. The French get it. Several other countries have done it in the past few years. So why don’t we?🤔
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1EarthMedia @1earthmedia.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Its cheaper & easier to ask for forgiveness than permission.
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Leena 🌵 @leena.reuben.games · 10/10/2026
i blindfolded a 7yo and gave him a bat and stood right behind him while he tried to take a swing at the t-ball and, my nuts got owned it’s made me rethink standing behind blindfolded kids with wiffle ball bats fr
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Debbie Northway 🇦🇺🦘🐨 @debbienorthway.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
#EpsteinFiles
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Viktor 🇵🇸🍉🦘🦘🪃 @viktx.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
@albomp.bsky.social @australianlabor.bsky.social AUSTRALIAN LABOR GOVERNMENT MISSING IN ACTION TOO AFRAID OF UPSETTING US-ISRAEL TRUMP THE RAPIST AND NETANYAHU MILEIKOWSKY THE POLISH MASS MURDERER.
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 08/10/2026
Related - for grid-connected power stations, the EIA's new projection shows that in 2027, emissions cuts from coal will be offset by rising gas consumption to meet data centre demand growth www.eia.gov/outlooks/ste...
We forecast U.S. energy-related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions to decrease by 1.5% in 2026 relative to 2025 and remain flat in in 2027. In 2026, decreases in CO2 emissions primarily reflect expected declines in coal consumption and, to a lesser extent, declines in consumption of various petroleum products, most notably motor gasoline and distillate fuel oil. Declines in coal-related emissions are expected to continue in 2027 but are offset by rising natural gas-related emissions, largely from consumption growth in the commercial and industrial sectors.
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Glenn Plummer I👀U @glenntheplummer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Typical over the top reaction by the NSW State Govt and the heavy handed police. A police unit with long arms patrolling the streets has zero chance of being in the right place at the right time when another tragic massacre occurs. A ridiculously zealous response to Minn’s sponsored public paranoia.
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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026
Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf
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ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
More than 6,400 older Australians died while waiting to receive home care last year, an increase of more than a third on the previous year.
abc.net.au
An average of 17 older Australians died each day last year waiting for home care
More than 6,400 older Australians died while waiting to receive home care last year, an increase of more than a third on the previous year.
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Esther Anatolitis @anatolitis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It's not "training" – it's assimilation. It's not "intelligence" – it's content generation. It's not a "life form" – it's a commercial product. Humanising it absolves Big Tech of responsibility. Let's change how we talk about AI. My latest for @thepointau.bsky.social: thepoint.com.au/opinions/261...
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The Point
The Point, helping readers make sense of the issues shaping their lives today.
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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Lol. Apparently all the newspapers are lining up to get their butts kicked. SMH stepping up to crease. I'll get around to it when I have a minute. Been having fun.
A hit job from the SMH at Shoebridge and by extension The ShotEditor Bevan Shields rolling around in the mud in Israel
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Piers Morgan “Mohammed, do you condemn the Hamas attacks on October the 7th?” Mohammed Hijab “Yes, I do. Do you condemn Israel killing over 1000 kids?” Piers Morgan “I believe Israel has a right to defend themselves” That answer should be on the tombstone of his career.
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kjcon.bsky.social @kjcon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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mr dog @firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
A state-owned Mamdani style commnist supermarket chain that causes Colesworths to fall into the sea? Yes please! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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A Mamdaniesque state supermarket?! Anything that causes the duopoly to suffer is good for me| First Dog on the Moon
I endorse this completely
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ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Six months after Aboriginal human remains were found at the site, authorities have officially put an end to the works.
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Rottnest Island bus stop redevelopment over after bones found
Six months after Aboriginal human remains were found at the site, authorities have officially put an end to the works.
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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The French police are so militarized they blew up a 15-yr-old’s hand and took the eye of another one. Why are grenades being used to quell student protestors who are unarmed? Now the labour unions are stepping in to protect the students
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Megan Herbert @meganjherbert.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Penny Allman-Payne @pennyallmanpayne.com · 07/10/2026
The private school lobby claims they’re relieving pressure on the public school system, but that’s a false economy. Public schools are so underfunded that out-of-pocket costs are soaring and teachers are dipping into their own pockets to pay for classroom supplies.
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Derek Jarman 🤘🏏⬛🔴 @derekjarman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Hey, @australianlabor.bsky.social, stop being cunts. Don't fucking pixel bitch about the victims of Robodebt; it was an egregious crime committed by the state against it's most vulnerable. Just pay the compensation. #auspol
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‘You’re denying what you did to my son’: mother of robodebt victim told she is ineligible for compensation
Commonwealth lawyers argue Jarrad Madgwick, whose death by suicide was highlighted at royal commission, ineligible as he only received provisional debt notice
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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
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Whatever happened to the new no-patent COVID vaccine touted as a global game changer?
The inventors of Corbevax said it was cheap, easy to make, effective and safe. They hoped it could bring vaccine equity to countries that can't access costlier shots. Has it lived up to its promise?
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The Point @thepointau.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"They don't make supervillains like they used to" a new cartoon by @fionakatauskas.bsky.social See today's cartoon on The Point: sbrew.link/R84bjFD8
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The Shovel @theshovel.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“It was a moving speech,” one local said. “At one point he did accidentally switch to a different speech which confirmed that BHP will be able to extract a further 55 million tonnes of coal at its Saraji mine”. theshovel.com.au/2026/10/07/a...
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Albo Takes Break From Approving Fossil Fuel Projects To Tell Pacific Nations About El Nino — The Shovel
Swapping his favourite Woodside polo for a colourful Fijian shirt, Albanese – whose government has approved 37 new or expanded fossil fuel projects since taking office – told the summit that “climate ...
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Chris Bowen @chrisbowenmp.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Melelusi Sokotia is a Year 8 student who dreams of being a doctor. Yesterday she spoke at Pre COP about the impact climate change is already having on her community in Tuvalu and what it means for her future. And she did a great job in front of prime ministers, presidents and ministers.
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Debbie Northway 🇦🇺🦘🐨 @debbienorthway.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Rex Patrick @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
They lost, have appealed, and want me to pay their legal costs. It’s the second time in three months, except for the new appeal they’ve also added a ‘shake-down’ to the repertoire. @albomp.bsky.social clearly hates #transparency, especially #FOI wins. #auspol
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Shakedown at Transparency Corral. Government brings out the money gun - Michael West
The Albanese Government has reached a new low, using a Federal Court appeal application and questionable legal tactics to avoid scrutiny.
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Geoff Field @geofffield.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“Aged care workers have labelled the algorithm “cruel” and “inhumane”, saying it frequently under-assesses the needs of aged care clients, and the Senate has voted for ditching it altogether. The Labor government has committed $18 million to reviewing it“ #Auspol www.crikey.com.au/2026/10/06/h...
crikey.com.au
Hundreds of documents on controversial aged care algorithm withheld from public
A Crikey investigation shows the Health Department fell well short of its obligations concerning the release of documents related to a controversial assessment tool.
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suthernx.bsky.social @suthernx.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I love that this is happening to him. So damn sick of the "good bloke" trope. Blowing up abusers lives might make them think twice before they lay hands on other people. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...
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Influencers, firms cut ties with former Bachelor Sam Wood after DV charges
Businesses and colleagues are cutting ties with reality TV star and businessman Sam Wood as he faces domestic violence allegations.
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 06/10/2026
While miles apart in their responses to the Trump administration, Canada & Australia are in lock-step on expanding fossil fuel production. Senator for Québec Rosa Galvez joins @emmashortis.bsky.social to discuss shared challenges & common failures in Australia & Canada. 🎧 theaus.in/3VRTBfQ
Photo of Canadian PM Mark Carney & Australian PM Anthony Albanese
NEW EPISODE | Shared challenges, shared failures: Canada and Australia aren’t meeting the moment
Listen to After America now via the link or wherever you get your podcasts
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Adam @kels316.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
its extremely cool and good the government is treating unauthorised access to it's ICT and data as something they just need to discuss with the company doing the unauthorised access.
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Rick Morton @squigglyrick.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I loathe AI and will personally never use it, in my work or otherwise. Even if it wasn't hideous in almost every way, why would I cede ground to something with precisely zero creative spirit? rick-morton.ghost.io/the-boast-in...
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The Boast in the Machine
While browsing the Australian Government's contract notices portal AusTender a few days ago – regular readers of this august publication will know that this is one of my principal meditative outlets –...
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Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The cognitive dissonance and hypocrisy are staggering. This feels like cigarette producers touring oncology wards www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...
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Live: Albanese heads to pre-COP in Fiji, Tuvalu
Anthony Albanese will attend a pre-COP meeting in Fiji and Tuvalu today with Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen. Follow live.
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Always a Difficult Earth Girl🐬🐨🐋🦘🦈 @scuttlebutter1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
wtaf ... "The largest weapons spruiking expo ... in Boorloo-Perth for the first time, as the biannual event was run out of Magan-djin-Brisbane by antiwar activists in 2022 & Naarm-Melbourne in 2024. This year ... (it's) being held on the 3rd anniversary of the beginning of the Gaza genocide." 1/2
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“A US Military Outpost”: WA Greens MLC Sophie McNeill on Land Forces and AUKUS
WA Greens MLC Sophie McNeill has been keeping the Cook Labor government honest, when it comes to security around Land Forces 2026 and ongoing AUKUS developments.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Sirius Star 🍉 🍉 🍉 @siriusstar3.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“Labor does not consult with or listen to the wider population or to Labor constituencies in the poorer half of the community. Rather, it is a classical crony government, in many respects worse than the Morrison government, governing for its mates, its donors and itself.” #Auspol
Article excerpt 
Albanese has shifted his party sharply to the right in pursuit of his aim of making Labor
"the natural party of government"
". Doing so is helping to squeeze the Coalition between Labor and Pauline Hanson's One Nation party. Not coincidentally his policy shifts have made Labor more attractive to an array of fundamentally anti-Labor vested interests and put Labor in their thrall. Mates, cronies, party donors, lobbyists and insiders work to the
disadvantage of the interests of the constituencies he has pretended to champion.
Albanese knows this but thinks he can get away with it. Those fashioning the pitch for the Greens as a party of wider influence would argue that Albanese and Labor can no longer be seen to be a progressive party, or a socially democratic one. Labor's internal administrative structures have atrophied, to the benefit of party insiders, who have always included Albanese himself. The party conference is about as responsible to or responsive to a wider Labor membership as the Chinese Communist Party. As in China, party meetings are stage-managed to predetermined
conclusions.
Is this an Albanese Liberal government, or a Labor one? Many of Labor's old constituents see the broad policies of the Albanese government as
being in no significant way different from those of the Coalition parties which preceded it. It has become at least as deceitful and dishonest about sincere action on climate change. It is now the party of big coal and big gas. Nearly always, more frequently under present environment management, the interests of the fossil fuels industry, and their subsidiary the West Australian government, will be preferred over environmental, heritage or Aboriginal interests. That the handmaiden of this surrender is the environment ministerNor has Labor, on its record, any reason for seeing strident criticism from within as some sort of undeserved betrayal. The Albanese government deserves no leave pass. Nor anything like a pass mark for generally good conduct. It is not a model of good
government, of effective government or efficient government. It has become the problem.
Good intentions cannot excuse bad performance Insiders and intimates of ministers get secretive deals and jobs, some of which involve a major corruption of principles of open, transparent and accountable government. Labor does not even have open debate within its caucuses, because the two senior faction leaders, Albanese and Richard Marles, play the politics of reward and punishment, and the
allocation of jobs, not by merit but by loyalty and silence. Labor does not consult with or listen to the wider population or to Labor constituencies in the poorer half of the community. Rather, it is a classical crony government, in many respects worse than the Morrison government, governing for its mates, its donors and itself. It treats public money and things as spoils to be distributed among its own. It listens primarily to vested interests paying for their access. Labor has consciously nobbled many of the watchdogs and anti-corruption agencies. Indeed, Labor has attempted to completely strangle freedom of information and might have succeeded had it not been for Green and
independent outrage. Labor policies and practices on immigration neither follow the party's own policies nor the
nation's broad economic interests but are a reprehensible piece of pandering to
manufactured One Nation panic. This has not been an occasion in which the party, perhaps reluctantly, switches to accommodate vagaries of public opinion. Labor's policies damage the nation economically,
morally, socially and culturally.
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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The world must stop equating wealth with knowledge, wealth with wisdom, wealth with sainthood, or to any other redeeming quality.
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Pissedoffpundit @pissedoffpundant.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
🤔...
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Taylor Strong @taylorklong.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Anyone got a list of the top 10 places in the greater Seattle area where I can go scream out all of this rage? Thanks 🙏
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💠𝑺𝒄𝒉𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒛𝒊𝒆𝑷𝒊𝒆💠 @schultziepie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Exactly correct! #BelieveTheWomen #Pinks
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"Why do men think they can get away with it?" Because you can sexually assault a girl in high school and still become a Supreme Court Justice. Because you can drug and rape a woman in a hotel room, pay her off after she goes to the hospital and reports it to the police, and still become Secretary of Defense. Because you can grope your family's nanny and still become Secretary of Health and Human Services. Because you can rape a woman in a dressing room and still become President.
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Harvey @harvey-normal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
40% of police... #auspol
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mariewalsh18.bsky.social @mariewalsh18.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Aussies:
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"It should not go unnoticed that whenever the inflation conversation takes hold, profits never enter the chat. The usual suspects are happy to talk further cuts – to services and jobs – but never actually raising funds from those businesses that benefit from our pain." #RBA #inequality #auspol
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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
On National Poetry Day, here’s a short poem about the power of poetry to change the world.
The Power of Poetry
 
with things falling apart
and anarchy let loose,
 
it was only poetry, he found,
which had any use,
 
so he reached for his copy  
of The Complete Works of Yeats
 
and bludgeoned the President
of the United States


Brian Bilston
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Marie-Pierre Cleret @marie-pierre.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Women standing up for truth
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"In the eyes of the state, a 94-year-old human rights lawyer is a dangerous terrorist supporter." This is precisely where Australia is headed if the PM's Special Envoy for the Israel Lobby* Jillian Segal continues to guide domestic policy. [*not her official job title, but the reality.] #auspol
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