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Paul

@paking.bsky.social
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Reflective soul, interested in social justice, sport, and the future of the planet/ caring for nature. Social Worker by day, morning 🌄 ocean swimmer and lazy as in the PM.

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Paul @paking.bsky.social · 24m
Not we, not the 65% plus of us who want climate action, the bloody duopoly 🥺❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹
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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 7h
the destruction we are causing. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...
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Australia's fossil fuel expansion 'slap in the face' to Pacific nations
Having just approved a major coal mine expansion, Australia's climate credentials will be under the spotlight at pre-COP talks in Fiji.
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Paul @paking.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼🥂
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Pat G🇨🇦 🍁🏳️‍🌈🍉 @pguist.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Paul @paking.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
What was once abundant is now a quarry of sycophants 🚨🥺
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Paul @paking.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Count 🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈
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John Quiggin @johnquiggin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Looking at #ukpol from afar, I’m struck by the completeness of Starmer’s disappearance. I’ve seen no assessments of his record, favorable or not. He appears more as a zero starting point, against which Burnham can be rated. A year ago, he had a massive majority and an iron grip on the Labour Party
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Crikey @crikey.com.au · 02/10/2026
Opinion | The prime minister seems ruffled by the Greens' new leadership. He's right to be, writes Rachel Withers. www.crikey.com.au/2026/10/02/d...
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How worried is Labor about new Greens leader David Shoebridge?
It seems Anthony Albanese would rather only One Nation spoke to voters’ “searing anger”, even if it means more seats for the right than the left.
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Paul @paking.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Meanwhile in Australia’s duopoly 🥺🚨
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Robyn @jailbirdstreet.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This stinks
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Paul @paking.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The distortion is old mate 2gb (2gruby) for not calling out the duopoly for their unhinged and immoral support for a foreign govt implementing genocide
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Paul @paking.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Weekend beach 🏖️
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Paul @paking.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It’s the mo isn’t it, just too much!!
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Margaret Morgan 🇪🇺🇳🇱🇦🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Of all the flaws of the Labor government, its walking in lockstep with the US is the most alarming and depressing. And worse, any alternative government will only be more so.
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Paul @paking.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It’s a cluster f….
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Paul @paking.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Hitting a nerve
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Jommy Tee @jommytee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Had 2 FOIs rejected by the Attorney-General's Dept under the rarely used s26(2) - all docs totally exempt from FOI. The docs relate to interference by the former AG, on two seperate occasions, in the appointment process for NACC Dep Com positions. Have appealed both decisions.
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Paul @paking.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Cool 😎 and normal 🤔😳😳
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Amante2 AmeliaBee7 @amante2ameliabee7.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Why is any public reference or visibility of Palestine or Palestinian culture seen as causing “discord”? Zionist, much?
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Paul @paking.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Some truth in that
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Bethany Williams @bethanyincbr.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Apparently APS in certain departments are required to attend antisemitism training. Tax payer funds are being used to pay for APS to attend training where they are being told that it “hurts the feelings” of Jewish people (I.e. Jewish Zionists) to say that a genocide is being committed by Israel.
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Gekko @gekko.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Australia - are you listening?
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
⚡️JUST NOW: MASS UN WALKOUT ON NETANYAHU
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Amante2 AmeliaBee7 @amante2ameliabee7.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
So…is Bibi the Butcher saying that over 20,000 Palestinian children killed themselves? Netanyahu is one of the most evil men in modern history FREE PALESTINE 🇵🇸
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Paul @paking.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
We need to be far more focused on decarbonisation and massive planning for economic shifts from profit at all costs, to cooperation 🥺
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 24/09/2026
Despite dire warnings from scientists & Australia’s Pacific neighbours, the federal government isn’t getting the message. Tuvalu Climate Change & Environment Minister Dr Maina Talia & Canadian Senator @senrosagalvez.bsky.social discuss the need to phase out fossil fuels #auspol 🎧 theaus.in/3TheJLN
Photo of Minister Maina Talia speaking at the Australia Institute's Climate Integrity Summit in Sydney
NEW EPISODE | The promise of a future: it’s time to phase out fossil fuels
Listen to Follow the Money now via the link or wherever you get your podcasts
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Paul @paking.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
👏👏👏👏👏
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Netanyahu is coming to New York to attend the UN. Zohran Mamdani has called for his arrest. Do YOU want to see Netanyahu arrested for committing War Crimes? I DO.
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🇨🇦Tadhg Dalaigh @tadhgdalaigh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Israel was repeatedly called out at the UN for the genocide in Gaza. They’ve lost the narrative that protected them for so long. Netanyahu is now openly called a pathological liar and war criminal. Americans are also recognizing their pedophile compromised President is destroying the U.S.
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Paul @paking.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Not again
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Paul @paking.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Validating and enshrining stupidity
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Antfarmer @antfarmer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
#ABC730 doing a hatchet job on Victorian Labor. Vox popping a woman from Bacchus Marsh complainng that only regional trains service her. Err there’s probably a good reason. Distance.
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Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Yes Mr Macron. Gaza shamed you all. And it will continue to shame you as long as your complicity with Israel's genocide continues, because of (rather than despite) your crocodile tears at the UN. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/...
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France rebukes world over Gaza as Canada, UK back Palestinian state at UNGA
France's Macron says suffering in Gaza should 'shame all of us' as Canada's Carney pledges $71m for two-state efforts.
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Paul @paking.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
He’s a shape shifting Morrison
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Gekko @gekko.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Australian gas is cover for NO CLIMATE ACTION AND CONTINUED, INCREASED EMISSIONS DRIVING CLIMATE CHANGE
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Crikey @crikey.com.au · 21/09/2026
Opinion | "Albo’s 'humble origin' stories are utterly hypocritical when you consider that his government is ripping $38 billion out of the NDIS to help pay for secondhand submarines we may never actually get," writes one Crikey reader. www.crikey.com.au/2026/09/21/a...
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Hey Albo and Jim, we've got some economic reset ideas for you!
Plus, add excessive data extraction to the long list of sins corporate behemoths are enacting on Australia's live music scene.
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Rob Arnol @robertarnol.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This is how dictatorships start.
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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The horror has come to our city: ICE has shot a person in Austin this morning. As the facts emerge, I am demanding a full, independent investigation, immediate release of the body camera footage, and accountability for any ICE officer who broke the law.
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Bethany Williams @bethanyincbr.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Dan Tehan thinks that teaching First Nations history in school is teaching us to be “apologists for who we are”. He wants to teach our kids white supremacy & ignore the violent colonial past that is part of who we are. It’s not about becoming “apologists”. It’s about truth telling & reconciliation
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Patty_in_AZ 🌵☀️🐈‍⬛💙 @pattyinaz.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Cartoonist: Dave Granlund
Cartoon by Dave Granlund shows the White House on a tiny piece of land in the water. The drawbridge is coming down, and the caption above is "Only softball questions!" On the other side are members of the press.
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Paul @paking.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Phew, thought reading the title that it was a remake of the Armageddon movie 🎦!!!! 🥺🎭
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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Uniparty's new funding laws "will only shorten the journey towards complete disillusionment". Jack Ayoub #auspol #OneNation #democracy michaelwest.com.au/democracys-d...
michaelwest.com.au
Democracy's despair. New donation laws to entrench Uniparty power - Michael West
Trust in our democratic process is in sharp decline, and the Federal Government's new donation laws are unlikely to change that.
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Gekko @gekko.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Labor treats asylum seekers and refugees the same way the LNP IPA Regime did and hiding the corruption needed to ensure that deceit bsky.app/profile/gekk... Australia once helped create the UN's Treaty for Asylum Seekers and Refugees - but can't live the ideals johnmenadue.com/post/2026/09...
johnmenadue.com
The government's failure to make the case for refugees
Australia’s migration debate has become consumed by numbers, borders and fear, while failures in temporary migration management and the treatment of Palestinians expose deeper questions of multicultur...
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Paul @paking.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
In human
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Crikey @crikey.com.au · 19/09/2026
When you crunch the numbers, the way the media frames the debate on immigration is simply un-Australian. www.crikey.com.au/2026/09/14/i...
crikey.com.au
One of legacy media’s big problems? How it frames migration is, statistically, un-Australian
The second episode of the ABC's National Forum will look at "Australia's migration challenge". It's proof, yet again, that the media is asking the wrong questions.
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Ireland against Fascism @irlagainstfascism.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Starting to look like the artist-boycott of South Africa back in the 80s. Maybe it can grow equally big? Boycotting ALL artists who support IsraHell/ refuse to use their voice against genocide? It only takes one to start the ball rolling. www.thenational.scot/news/2655742...
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Radio station drops Ed Sheeran music after listener feedback on Macklemore row
A radio station has dropped Ed Sheeran’s music after “the reaction from our listeners” to the decision to remove Macklemore from his tour over…
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David Marler @qldaah.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Queensland Premier David Crisafulli is in unprecedented territory. No Australian government has ever criminalised speech. 30 arrested so far under his law. The High Court recognises implied freedom of communication on government & political matters. #qldpol www.crikey.com.au/2026/07/30/i...
crikey.com.au
Ismail v State of Queensland. Remember that case — it’s going to make some laws
Even if you do not care about the Middle East, this case regards your freedom to express your view on whatever political topics are important to you.
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 15/09/2026
Rowan Hanley, Ocean Campaigner and Activist at Surfrider Foundation Australia, told the #ClimateIntegrity Summit about how the PEP11 project was cancelled due to community pressure on politicians.  "We need to threaten their very survival with our advocacy".
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 15/09/2026
"[The Safeguard Mechanism] allows the unlimited use of offsets to enable fossil fuel expansion. "So it's not a constraint. It's a release valve." - The Wilderness Society CEO Dr Kirsty Howey at today's #ClimateIntegrity Summit 2026
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