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@pheonixed.bsky.social
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He/Him. Born on unceded Kaurna land at 319.08 ppm. Chaotic Good. On your left. Sociology graduate. Eat the rich by whatever method necessary.

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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The Sunday Shot will be back the Sunday after next (18th) with Hannah Ferguson and an in-depth exploration of why she is attempting to unseat the Prime Minister and her ideas for a better/less overtly shitty Australia
Dave and Hannah sitting in the park talking politics
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 08/10/2026
"There is an astronomical increase in demand for homelessness services. "I find that deeply disturbing & I know a lot of other Australians do too." @barbarapocock.bsky.social & @ebonybennett.bsky.social discuss the housing crisis & its impact on younger Australians. #auspol 🎧 theaus.in/4y9JHDV
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Jon @pheonixed.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Worthwhile putting your mark on this one. Big Tech is profiting from online harms inflicted on Australians. One thing would change this faster than any regulator: the right for you to seek compensation. Sign the @australiainstitute.org.au petition now: nb.australiainstitute.org.au/big-tech
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✍️ PETITION: Make Big Tech pay when they harm Australians
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Dr Sally @drsally.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I would very much like PM Albanese to listen to the Canadian PM here👇🏼
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Ash @ash-has-6.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
#ndis #auspol
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💚🌏Myles🌏💚 @rainbowregionmyles.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Australian politics is now a bunch of people who've never worried about rent, groceries or missing a pay cheque explaining to everyone else why nothing meaningful can possibly change. Then they act surprised when we fucking hate them. #auspol
theguardian.com
The major parties several chances to meet the moment. Instead they chose to safeguard their collective mediocrity | Zoe Daniel
Labor and the Coalition united three times to defy the expressed desire of the voters; on gambling, on disability and on the power of the tech companies
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AliceK @coalisdead.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Poor mental health is linked to poverty, inequality, lack of safe housing and adequate food. Inadequate Centrelink payments are your governments policy. Your concern is patronising and cynical. As leader, you are directly to blame Anthony Albanese. #auspol
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Jon @pheonixed.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
This is significant. theconversation.com/we-revisited...
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We revisited a forest experiment that lay forgotten for 30 years. What we found was astounding
There is no silver bullet for managing forests, but this study answers some historic questions.
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 16/07/2026
The AUKUS Public Inquiry is live from Fremantle. Former Defence Minister Christopher Pyne is up first. 📺 Watch live here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rb7uJvNoPE4 #auspol
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AUKUS Public Inquiry: Adelaide Livestream
Will AUKUS keep us safe – at what cost?In 2021, Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States announced the AUKUS
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Alice Grundy @alicektg.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
@amyremeikis.bsky.social is right about the PM's speech yesterday: "Australia has a history of letting industry agree to policy before moving forward with implementing anything. Albanese’s speech on Wednesday shows no signs of this being any different."
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'AI with a kangaroo sticker': PM misses mark on 'inevitable' tech
Albanese doesn’t want to see AI replace workers, he says. But there is no plan for how the government will stop it.
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Jon @pheonixed.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Our largest trading partner has weapons. Be very frightened, but not too much. Our government will keep us safe. I’d like to get some news with my propaganda for a change. Utterly pathetic. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...?
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Australia criticises Chinese nuclear-capable missile test
China has test-fired a long-range missile with a dummy warhead in the Pacific Ocean, prompting concerns from the Australian government.
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Jon @pheonixed.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Here's the real @australianlabor.bsky.social Mean-spirited Cruel Viscious Paranoid and secretive They talk the talk but year after year their actions show us who they really are. They are not our ally. #Auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...
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Government rejects all UN recommendations on LGBTQIA+ rights
The Albanese government has accepted the lowest number of recommendations made by the UN Human Rights Council in 20 years, with none protecting the LGBTQIA+ community.
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Sir Render Monkey @sirrendermonkey.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
You know… if you’re selling your house and prices have dropped 5%, you can buy another one for 5% less. It’s only affecting people who use housing as an investment, not as a personal home. That’s. The fuck. King point. #insiders #auspol
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Jon @pheonixed.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
This one is worth a read. Well researched. #Auspol Australia’s newest political party, "Community Strong Australia" started by Teals Zali Steggall and Allegra Spender – Will it work? kangaroocourtofaustralia.com/2026/06/28/a...
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Australia’s newest political party, "Community Strong Australia" started by Teals Zali Steggall and Allegra Spender – Will it work?
Federal MPs, known as Community Independents or Teals, Zali Steggall and Allegra Spender, announced their new political party, “Community Strong Australia,” on Thursday (25/6/26). It is worth looking ...
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TheChef @thechef-52.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Anoher gold from our living treasure, Cathy Wilcox. #auspol #Israel #IDF
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Jon @pheonixed.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
The Federal gov is interfering with the ABS. it's illegal, but we know they get to ignore the law. They did it for the Roman Catholic Bishops, who lobbied the gov to stop a no religion question on the census. Cool and normal. #Auspol www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/religio...
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Exclusive: Catholic bishops lobby Albanese over census question on religion
Documents obtained under FOI show Catholic bishops lobbied the prime minister over the ‘no religion’ census question and succeeded in halting changes to it.
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Anthony Hurd @anthonyhurd.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Tell Me I’m Pretty - 18x24” acrylic on canvas. Available.
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🆂🅷🅴🅴🅽🅰 @sheena-mck.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Littered with colour #ThursdayBins #graffiti #UrbanGaze #colour
A litter bin covered in multi coloured graffiti on a street corner with a railing behind
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 18/06/2026
A new data drop by the ATO has A) brought @grogsgamut.bsky.social great joy & B) shed new light on Australians’ incomes. Greg & @elinorjohnstonleek.bsky.social discuss interest rates, the latest tax & income data + what Pokemon cards have to do with capital gains tax. #auspol 🎧 theaus.in/3QOX64D
Photo of union members striking, holding a sign reading 'FAIR PAY'
NEW EPISODE | What is ‘middle income’ in Australia?
Listen to Dollars & Sense now via the link or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Because I’m a very silly person I have another book coming out next month (please keep letting me know what you think of Where it all went wrong though!) - but is an audio book version also helpful?
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thicc husband and father @lukeisamazing.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
yeah, you could say I’m an ally
Sausages in a grocery store case with sign on them that says “LGBT sausage (lemon, garlic, basil, tomato), $15.25 per lb, hand cranked and twisted
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Scalawag Jack @scalawagjack.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
He's a heroic samurai. He's a galactic superhero. He's both at the same time! He's also an Autobot, an Imaginary Friend, and a Jamaican bureaucrat from THE WORLD OF TOMORROW!!! #VoiceoverWednesday salutes the great Phil LaMarr, a man of impeccable range and talent.
Image of Phil LaMarr surrounded by some of his most iconic roles such as Ollie Williams from Family Guy, Kit Fisto from the Clone Wars, Hermes Conrad from Futurama, Samurai Jack, Wilt from Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends, Jazz from Transformers: Animated, and John Stewart the Green Lantern. Text says, “The Many Voices of Phil LaMarr #VoiceoverWednesday.”
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iolanthe @iolantherosa.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
My daughter got her PhD this week! Sociology, specifically, Sociology of Law, looking at inequities in conferring citizenship to immigrants (worldwide problem). Thesis topic is actually more complicated than what I just wrote, but anyway, KVELL KVELL, SO PROUD!
A young woman, seen from behind, wearing her PhD finery.
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Ronni🧂Salt @ronnisalt.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
At the #NPC today, Pauline Hanson doubled down on the allegation the late Tim Fischer had once called her a "witch" and to "burn her at the stake" When pushed, she couldn't recall the evidence. "In some newspaper somewhere" she claimed Here's the quote It was from a man called Terry Andrews 🙄
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 17/06/2026
"The US has given this indication that they will sell Australia second-hand submarines, but they're actually under no obligation to do that." "The President can decide that it's not in the US’s interest to do so, and just renege on that commitment at any moment." @emmashortis.bsky.social #auspol
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Robert Haider @roberthaider.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
As they were walking from behind the building, I asked them if they could find a better spot to park (like the parking lot literally five feet in front of their vehicle). They both angrily glared at me like I was the asshole in that situation. Squad 562, true public servants.
MPD squad 562 parked across both bike lanes, right next to a parking lot while someone bikes around them.
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 15/06/2026
"If you had a $50,000 share portfolio five years ago...then that person would be about $1,000 over five years worse off because of the tax changes." "But also, over those same five years, house prices have been increasing by about $60,000 a year." @mattgrudnoff.bsky.social #auspol
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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Don’t ban kids using YouTube. Make YouTube behave like a broadcaster. Pay creators. Reinvest in the creative industries. Pay fair tax back into creators’ economies. Follow guidelines on fair usage and copyright. Play fair. It’s bigger than TV now. Make it behave like TV.
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Discovery of a 14-protein biomarker that predicts lung cancer 5.6 years before it is diagnosed, even in non-smokers, and an anti-inflammatory medicine that prevents its progression. And, challenging dogma, the proteins are not coming from cancerous cells!
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Simon Moya-Smith @simonmoyasmith.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
You go to that fancy Italian restaurant — and who’s in the kitchen? Latinos. You go to that fancy French restaurant — who’s in the kitchen? Latinos. Latinos grow it, pick it, clean it, cook it, serve it, and do the dishes. We are the backbone. Don’t fuck with us, we’re busy.
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⚘ DES ⚘ @dezaway.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
osprey
a blue ballpoint pen sketch of an osprey holding her little claw up. the background is orange
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 15/06/2026
A 25% tax on gas exports would raise $17 billion a year (which yes, is far more than $6.9 billion over four years!) Let's put it to the Australian people. Join the call for a national plebiscite to introduce a 25% gas export tax! #auspol @richarddenniss.bsky.social
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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 14/06/2026
A basic income program in central Iowa gave 110 people $500/mo. It caused improvements in savings, stress, and agency. It also found significant changes in scores relating to hope — the ability to create goals and feel capable of working toward them, and also increases in mattering and self-reliance
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Iowa basic income program generates an outcome not found in other states: high levels of hope
Researchers presented their findings from the Central Iowa Basic Income Pilot in Des Moines. Their study looked at how participants used monthly $500 payments, and how it affected their well-being and...
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Patricia "Grandma" X2 @msvugraduate.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
BikeHFX A bike lane sweeper! It can't sweep parked cars from the lane, but imagine the little hazards all getting picked up and carried away.
share.google
Portland biking group wins sweeper to keep bike lanes clean
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
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Peggy Sanders @peggysanders.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Ronnie Salt: The NACC was a dangling, shiny bauble of election bait offered to the Australian people by Anthony Albanese, a so-called “corruption commission with teeth” as Albanese spruiked on the 2022 election trail. theshot.net.au/uncategorize...
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The NACC: The high price you pay for corruption - The Shot
Let’s all cast our minds back three years to July, 2023, when the much-anticipated National Anti-Corruption Commission officially started life…...
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Miser @misernyc.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
We will know we've won when everyone lets their kids ride bikes without fear. Also, my family was nowhere near as cool as @charlietodd.com's growing up.
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Memento Mori @mementomori4950.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
www.cbc.ca/radio/asitha...
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Librarian fired after refusing to censor 2SLGBTQ+ books wins $700K US settlement | CBC Radio
A former Wyoming library director who was fired amid an uproar over books with sexual content and 2SLGBTQ+ themes that some people complained were inappropriate for young readers will be paid $700,000...
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Dark Emu 14/6/26
Dark Emu 14/6/26 - Milky Way over Wangaratta
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Jonathan Green @greenj.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Turns out we are in fact a country of arseholes. Not sure I was ready for that.
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Andy Paterson @agpat.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Yes, it has the same ring as Bob Hawk saying "no child will live in poverty" when a generation later we have more families living in poverty than ever before.
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The Women In Science Archive @wisarchive.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Indian virologist Asha Mathur was born 88 years ago today. She authored over 170 papers in her lifetime, shedding particular light on how Japanese Encephalitis Virus (JEV) infects hosts, how the body responds to it, and how it engages with the placental barrier. #WomenInSTEM #BioSky 🦠
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Rob Arnol @robertarnol.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
First Nations peoples know worldwide the arguments about why we’re not real (insert First Nations name) because we don’t live like we did X many years ago. White culture is allowed to evolve but ours isn’t? That’s mighty white of you.
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Alexander Glass @alexanderglass.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Angela Moulton
Impasto painting of a little yellow bird.
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Chris Meder @evcurvefuturist.com · 13/06/2026
This is Elizabeth City Centre in Adelaide. Australia's most solar-covered shopping centre. Rooftops & car parks generating clean electricity while providing shade for customers. With around 16,000 solar panels, Elizabeth City Centre has approximately 5.8 MW of solar capacity & 3,530 parking spaces
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Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife.com · 13/06/2026
The Dutch mobility system isn't just built around cycling. It's built around bike-train intermodality: cycling solves the train's convenience problem and the train solves cycling's range problem. Together, they offer an attractive alternative to driving on a mass scale. WATCH: youtu.be/jq93DgLvmFc
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Rotty Kato @rottykato.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
These are alternatives to subscription based programs. #free #subscription #save
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David Branch @dbranch9.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
I'm sure @AlboMP thinks a two tier education system, one well funded for the privileged and one underfunded for the poors, is good for "social cohesion".
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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 12/06/2026
Trillionaires shouldn't exist while poverty exists. Or as Paine wrote, "I care not how affluent some may be, provided that none be miserable in consequence of it. But it is impossible to enjoy affluence with the felicity it is capable of being enjoyed, while so much misery is mingled in the scene."
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Hell yes, @cathywilcox.bsky.social
When contacted by SkyNews.com.au at the time, Ms Wilcox unleashed an extraordinary expletive-laden rant.

“Why in God's name do you think I would answer the questions of Murdoch's petty little propaganda operation, to give them more fuel for their campaign of hatred?” she said.

“The irony of me having to answer to charges of hatred when your grubby outfit gives not one shit about what you do to people you target.

“Remind the boss about how much they cared about free speech when one of theirs was in the spotlight.

“Political correctness gone mad, eh? You and your hit squad goons can fuck right off.”
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