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Jove Waits

@meadowargus.bsky.social
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Anarchist feminist cartoonist She/her

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 3h
Michael Tracey is up to his gross shit again, so if you need some background info on who he is and how awful he is, Posting Through It had a good episode on him open.spotify.com/episode/59a2...
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110: Who the Hell is Michael Tracey? feat. Bobby Silverman
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Sandy Horne @sandyhorne.bsky.social · 11h
Budgerigars at Gluepot Reserve.
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 3h
#OtD 1 Oct 1855 stonemasons in Sydney, Australia, held a victory dinner for a strike for the eight-hour working day. In advance of a planned campaign the following year, some workers had gone on strike early and quickly emerged victorious stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8142...
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Information Age @information-age.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The former head of IT at the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) has been charged over an alleged $8 million fraud scheme involving the purchase and resale of mobile phones. Read more: ia.acs.org.au/article/2026...
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IT manager accused of $8m invoice fraud
Allegedly bought and sold mobile phones.
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 13h
"he came straight out of the blocks with over-the-top rhetoric...and a strident left-wing economic agenda." Shoebridge is labelled "over-the-top", "strident" and "radical" because he's a challenge to the cosy toxic centrist neoliberal consensus of Australia's political and media class. #auspol
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Jove Waits @meadowargus.bsky.social · 20h
I just thought of that time I designed a font called 'Mr. Perkins' to impress someone I fancied.
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Jove Waits @meadowargus.bsky.social · 22h
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MILITARISM IN THE NT NEWSLETTER
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Jove Waits @meadowargus.bsky.social · 23h
Moths! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The bogong moths are back! Perhaps they are a sign that all is not lost | First Dog on the Moon
Remember – these moths are not an inconvenience they are a blessing
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mr dog @firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Donald Trump unpopular? Finally! How could this have happened? We may never know. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Oh no Donald Trump is becoming increasingly unpopular! Surely it must all be over soon | First Dog on the Moon
It’s so bad some Republicans are even turning against him – bit late guys but whatever
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Deepcut News @deepcutnews.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
For the first time, an Australian court has heard expert evidence linking Pine Gap to Israel's atrocities. Prof Richard Tanter tendered a 34-page report to the Alice Springs Local Court in a case involving two protestors. www.deepcutnews.com/p/pine-gap-l...
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Pine Gap linked to Israel’s atrocities, NT court told
Expert evidence was tabled in the defence of two protestors charged for an offence at the US spy base
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Royce Kurmelovs @roycerk2.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Only quibble here is the headline: the algal bloom was not "mysterious". It was another event exacerbated by climate change driven by burning fossil fuels. Government officials were also aware within the first months that hundreds of thousands of marine animals had been killed in the bloom.
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Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
All the answers- my #datacentres #climatechange cartoon for CPA magazine
A massive water guzzling, pollution pumping data centre with a sign saying "100% fossil fuelled" is looming over a tech bro and a group of people.
Tech bro is saying "...and thanks to data centres like these, AI will work out what we can do to stop climate change"
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marque lawyers @marquelawyers.com.au · 24/09/2026
Among the delegations who didn't walk out was the Australian one.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/09/2026
Ron Cobb’s original signage designs for Alien, made with felt tip pen and graph paper. humanoidhistory.tumblr.com/post/8286472...
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Jove Waits @meadowargus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"Describing this behaviour as “misaligned model activity” was using “a very euphemistic term”, said Santo." www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Anthony Albanese says OpenAI agent hacked Medicare and he expressed ‘extreme concern’ to Sam Altman
Prime minister says he told chief executive he was disappointed it had taken company ‘way too long’ to inform government of breach
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Jove Waits @meadowargus.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A very tame article; chocolate is so vulnerable to climate change that you might as well eat it all now; it wont be here forever.
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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NEW: The Trump administration has made an extraordinary public intervention in Australia's digital of care debate It responded to a draft of the law saying it could lead to "extraterritorial censorship of protected speech” and demanded Australia exclude US tech companies www.abc.net.au/news/...
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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Red-rumped parrot obligingly showing off its red rump 🥰 (Bonus galah)
Back view photo of a single red-rumped parrot in a grassy patch. It's red rump is clearly visible. It's head is turned  to the left showing it's beautiful blue-green plumageFront view of 2 red-rumped parrot on a grassy patch. They have blue-green plumage on their heads which shades to light green on their breastfeeding and then yellow-green towards the bellyIn the foreground, rightside view of a red-rumped parrot
In the background, leftside view of a second red-rumped parrot Leftside view of a galah showing off it's white crest
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Penny Allman-Payne @pennyallmanpayne.com · 21/09/2026
Labor backbenchers have been out in force the past few days spruiking "increases" in Centrelink payments. To be very, very clear: this is absolute bullshit. This is an automatic CPI adjustment, not an increase. Labor is still keeping people on income support in poverty.
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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Why does this micronation have a commercial airline with seven Boeing 737s? Because the Australian government goes to absurd and dangerous lengths to prop it up. The scandal of Nauru Airlines and Australia’s offshore detention regime. Now on my substack:
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The scandal of Nauru Airlines and Australia’s offshore detention regime
Why does this micronation have a commercial airline with seven Boeing 737s? Because the Australian government goes to absurd and dangerous lengths to prop it up.
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Good to see this finally get coverage in my old paper. This is the same mob who campaigned against me, but it wasn’t sufficiently newsworthy then.
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Jove Waits @meadowargus.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
My tribute to Charlie is a bit late. #carrytheflame
A watercolour portrait of wet ham in a bowtie.
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Warwick Anderson @wombatscholar.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
How terribly sad. I've known Tim since our days as medical students, then as colleague at Doutta Galla community health centre. Funny, wise, politically committed. Great doctor and Greens rep in Victoria. Devastating that he died so young, still fighting for VicHealth, which Labor betrayed #greens
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Victorian Greens MP Tim Read dies aged 64
Health promotion campaigner and Victorian Greens MP Tim Read has died after a high-profile battle with cancer.
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mr dog @firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Prepping for the once in a thousand years El Niño? Ask a penguin! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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El Niño is supersizing! Are governments finally taking climate change seriously? No! | First Dog on the Moon
Your government will NOT come to save you – we have to do that for each other now
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Radical Graffiti @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"Destroy Capitalism before it Destroys the Planet" Poster seen in Melbourne
"Destroy Capitalism before it Destroys the Planet"
Poster
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Being hit by an SUV or ute increases the chances of pedestrian or cyclist fatality by 44% or 82% for children
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Antipoverty Centre @antipovertycentre.org · 17/09/2026
Today there is (yet another) senate inquiry hearing that will receive evidence about the extraordinary harm caused by compulsory income control programs. We know the government has no evidence that people want to be forced to use the BasicsCard. If the evidence existed, they would publish it.
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Labor rewrites history on cashless welfare as it quietly traps people in income control programs
The Antipoverty Centre is disturbed by Labor's comments regarding the failure to deliver on the government’s promise to end compulsory income control programs such as the BasicsCard and SmartCard.
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Antipoverty Centre @antipovertycentre.org · 17/09/2026
in government vs in opposition
In an ABC article today, Minister Malarndirri McCarthy said the following: 

"What we agreed to abolish was actually the cashless debit card, and that's what we took to the election, and that's the card we actually abolished," Minister for Indigenous Australians Malarndirri McCarthy said.

"There has always been the BasicsCard in place, we know that some forms of income management has to be there, usually through the courts, usually it's part of conditions for people either in family and domestic violence situations or in regards to legal circles."

Senator McCarthy said First Nations people had indicated at various points that they wanted to keep the BasicsCard.Senator Malarndirri McCarthy rightly called the BasicsCard "discriminatory and racist" when she condemned it during a senate debate in December 2020. She said: 

"The hurt was palpable. The anger has never gone away. That sense of deep oppression, of racism, has gone on for 13 years since that Intervention, in the policy of the BasicsCard. [The community] are very passionate about the fact that income management that is forced upon them is unfair, is discriminatory and racist. The BasicsCard was imposed as an income management measure under the Northern Territory Intervention in 2007. Twelve years later there has been no evidence to show any success of the BasicsCard."Labor’s shadow social services minister Linda Burney made the following commitment to welfare recipients during the 2022 election campaign. She said: 

"Our fundamental principle on the BasicsCard and the Cashless Debit Card, it should be on a voluntary basis. It’s not up to Labor or anyone else to tell them what to do. At the moment it’s compulsion and that’s not Labor’s position."
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"Can someone explain why – in an economy in which the central bank has decided we need almost 700,000 people to be unemployed – those people live in such dreadful poverty that it can make you up to 10 times more likely to die in the prime of your life?" www.theguardian.com/business/gro...
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In such a rich country, it is shameful how many Australians on jobseeker are dying in desperate poverty | Greg Jericho
Lifting the abysmally low jobseeker rate to the poverty line would save thousands of lives
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Jove Waits @meadowargus.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Reposting for @jaredlholt.bsky.social
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mr dog @firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
If you are reading this cartoon I have been m*rdered by the Greens Political Party www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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YOU HAD ONE JOB THE GREENS POLITICAL PARTY! Climate change is destroying life and you exist to save it! | First Dog on the Moon
It’s complicated and everyone is having a lot of feelings
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 15/09/2026
This is a thing everywhere in the world: on-site diesel generation is advertised as "backup" generation, but data centre operators plan to use it way, way more than that. Firmus in Australia now fighting against rules to limit pollution from their fossil-fuelled project
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Data centre company lodges appeal against 'unreasonable' restricted generator use
An energy-hungry data centre that received recent council approval to have diesel generators as backup power is now appealing against the "unreasonable" conditions on how they can be used.
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Elias Greig @eliasgreig.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Every major masthead in Australia, including The Guardian, is selling Hanson's "immigration policy" — that is, every major masthead is expressing degrees of approval for a revamped White Australia policy. An extraordinary, explicit demonstration of the fundamental racism of this country.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/09/2026
Shame on everyone calling this out - don't you know that you're not meant to call Pauline Hanson racist? That just makes them even racister, meaning you are the real racist for calling them racist www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
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Hanson swiftly condemned for labelling Indigenous Australians 'primitive race'
Politicians from across the divide have condemned Pauline Hanson's remarks about Indigenous Australians, labelling them "vile", "divisive" and "derogatory".
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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online.
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Jove Waits @meadowargus.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Drew this couple I saw on the railway station.
Drawing of a man and woman in hooded sweatshirts and baggy tracksuit pants in knitted cotton as popularised by Coco Chanel. He is in grey marl and she in black; she has exposed her torso but has her head covered.
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Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
While we remember the great sadness & suffering of 9/11, brace yourself against the use of the anniversary to manufacture consent for genocide. As Israel trashes its reputation through crimes against humanity, the Islamophobia network has cranked up. #Auspol lucyham29.substack.com/p/dont-let-t...
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Don’t let the wave of 9/11 articles help manufacture consent for genocide
The media in all its forms has been the loudhailer that helped Netanyahu’s 1980s Jonathan Institute project become networked propaganda for neocolonial activity in the Middle East.
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JJW @jjw.wtf · 12/09/2026
Running a crowdfunding campaign for @notypewriters.com's literary journal, Patter. It kicks off next Wednesday. If you pledge $75, I'll write some fanfic about you or you can get one of @meadowargus.bsky.social's lovely illustrations. More info 👇 www.pozible.com/profile/no-t...
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Jove Waits @meadowargus.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
It is my 62th birthday and I seem to be spending it on this microblogging site : never grow up!
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Jove Waits @meadowargus.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
@prophiphop.bsky.social I really appreciated your enthusiasm for Anarchism on the Daily Zeitgeist.
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Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
🚨 New report from the Australian Institute of Health & Welfare on mortality rates of working-age welfare recipients between 2012-2022 makes for grim reading, could be hugely improved tomorrow by raising rates as per the Government's own committee. @aihw.bsky.social www.aihw.gov.au/reports/cent...
Key findings

Of the 287,000 people aged 22-64 who died over 2012-2022, almost 3 in 5 people received income support payments

Coronary heart disease was the leading cause of death among income support recipients

Income support recipients were overrepresented in deaths from suicide, accidental poisoning, and alcoholic liver disease

Mortality rates and leading causes of death differed depending on the type of payment received
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No Typewriters / No Talking @notypewriters.com · 11/09/2026
Edited by @jjw.wtf , illustrations by @meadowargus.bsky.social, pieces by 10 amazing writers / poets. Find out more here 👉 www.pozible.com/profile/no-t...
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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I'm sorry to say that the Kirkiversary in Australia was very subdued. Nonetheless, here's Kevin Rudd -- former Australian PM, now US Ambassador -- expressing 'the thoughts of all Australians' this time last year:
KRudd on Twitter, SEP 11, 2025:

The death of Charlie Kirk today is deeply distressing. There is no space for political violence in any democracy. My thoughts, and those of all Australians, are with his family and loved ones.
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Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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Jove Waits @meadowargus.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
In case you were wondering, we are at 'hazmat suits to inspect dead wildlife on the beach' stage of the dystopia.
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Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Remember the LNP - and the Right in general - wants to savage building codes. The very thing that could save lives and energy, they want gone. Naturally the wealthy will have the best and sturdiest buildings, code or none. #Auspol
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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Three chances. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Grassroots Labor group urges Albanese government to chart course away from ‘American war machine’
Pressure follows revelations US military and weapons manufacturers control or have access to more than 100 bases across Australian continent
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Ebony Bennett @ebonybennett.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The cruelty, imagine having your siezure medication just thrown away
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Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Today is National Threatened Species Day, a day that marks the death, via callous negligence, of the last Tasmanian tiger (thylacine), Benjamin, in captivity. Australia's atrocious, post-colonisation conservation record won't be improved with political rhetoric, platitudes & the magic of the market
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