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Dr Tracy Westerman AM @drtracywesterman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is absolute bullshit in so many ways. It’s like saying we need to have nuclear weapons to have ‘a seat at the table’ regarding controlling their proliferation The lobbyists have clearly gotten to the major parties www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
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OpenAI breach proves need for more data centres, major parties say
Labor, Coalition agree OpenAI's Medicare breach proves the need for Australia to secure "a seat at the AI table" by rolling out data centres nationally.
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Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
How anyone gets to build and operate a high weir on our longest inland river without providing anything at all for fish passage is a question that needs answering ... by NSW Labor!
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Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Place definitely needs a proper fishway. Whether this telemetered-pipe setup is that is at best debatable (it isn't).
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P @pnumbers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
bsky.app/profile/royc...
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P @pnumbers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
independentaustralia.net/politics/pol... Jail bird listen? 🤯
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It's time Pauline Hanson listened to Australia
For 30 years, Pauline Hanson has asked Australia to listen — now it is Australia's turn to talk and Pauline's turn to listen.
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P @pnumbers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
In 1906 Australia’s high court backed ethnic cleansing. That historical wrong and error of law must be put right | Peter Prince and (Waskam) Emelda Davis www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... THE HORROR of old white guys. Nothings changed really
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In 1906 Australia’s high court backed ethnic cleansing. That historical wrong and error of law must be put right | Peter Prince and (Waskam) Emelda Davis
A disturbing precedent that branded British subjects ‘aliens’ is made even more dangerous by the rise of populism today
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P @pnumbers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/t...
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How OpenAI’s Rogue A.I. Agents Tried to Trick a Robot Detector (Gift Article)
A new report by a Bay Area start-up called Parse adds details to an incident that has shocked the A.I. world and led to calls for closer government regulation.
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P @pnumbers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/t... MAKE IT MAKE SENSE?
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OpenAI’s A.I. Went Rogue and Meddled With U.S. Government Websites (Gift Article)
The company did not learn until recently that its technology had meddled with websites for the Education and Commerce Departments and the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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P @pnumbers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Supermarket cooked chicken is🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮 Supermarket roast chicken taste test: ‘Ham-flavoured chook is extremely divisive’ www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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Supermarket roast chicken taste test: ‘Ham-flavoured chook is extremely divisive’
In a bid to establish a pecking order of eight roast chooks, Nicholas Jordan samples a ‘truly neutral’ chicken and another that triggers feelings of dismay
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P @pnumbers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Trump administration warns Labor social media crackdown is ‘censorship’ of Americans’ protected speech www.theguardian.com/media/2026/s... Do it, tell em to F... Off
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Trump administration warns Labor social media crackdown is ‘censorship’ of Americans’ protected speech
Trump administration expresses ‘serious concerns’ that forcing firms to allow algorithm optout would infringe Americans’ free speech
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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
when governments fund community legal centres and women’s shelters and public housing and income security, survivors can do the rest. The last thing we need is handwringing from the minister about victims not picking up the phone. Fuck off. We know. Fund the services, not the ad campaigns.
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P @pnumbers.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The biggest greatest news ever. Hopefullly the WSJ WP& nyt get with the program US TV networks suspend White House pool coverage over Trump media ban www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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US TV networks suspend White House pool coverage over Trump media ban
ABC, CBS, Fox News and NBC decline to participate after presidential ban that prompted widespread condemnation
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Bridie Mac 🍉 @bridiemac.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It is utterly inconceivable that a 47yo man wld stab a woman in her 90s to death. How is that allowed to happen? On the same day a 37yo man murdered a woman in her 70s, & a 23yo woman was murdered by a man known to her. #DomesticViolence @chrisminnsmp.bsky.social we call on you to take action. Now.
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Kees van der Leun @sustainable2050.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Glaciologist @matthias-huss.bsky.social shows that the centre of the Great Aletsch glacier in Switzerland (the biggest in the Alps) lost 6 meters(!) of thickness just this summer. "No words...", he adds on LinkedIn.
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P @pnumbers.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
By fixating on immigration numbers, are our leaders missing the bigger picture for working Australians? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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By fixating on immigration numbers, are our leaders missing the bigger picture for working Australians?
It can be tempting to blame grievance politics or the rise of One Nation for the tenor of current debate, but these are symptoms of a deeper malaise
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P @pnumbers.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A coalmine on Trish’s Queensland farm has been abandoned. Will anyone clean it up? www.theguardian.com/environment/... WHat hell does disclaim even mean?
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A coalmine on Trish’s Queensland farm has been abandoned. Will anyone clean it up?
The state government is reviewing laws introduced to ensure taxpayers are not left footing the bill for rehabilitation, leaving one cattle farmer wondering: what happens next?
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Briony Kidd @brionykidd.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
‘Sarah Schwartz, legal director at the Human Rights Law Centre, said the case revealed "serious deficiencies" with Tasmania's parole system.‘ It really does. And not only as regards to AI. What is going to be done to fix it?!? #politas
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Emma Shortis @emmashortis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Proud to be here representing @australiainstitute.org.au at the Red Lines Package launch - a suite of legislation that would draw red lines around Australian complicity in genocide, war crimes and illegal settlements. www.redlinespackage.com.au
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John Holmes @jhaue.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Impact of colonisation on First Nations people far greater than previous estimates, research finds Diseases and settler violence caused an estimated 2.06 million to die after the arrival of the First Fleet. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
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Impact of colonisation on First Nations people far greater than previous estimates, research finds
Australia's Indigenous population was up to seven times larger before colonisation than previously estimated, but was devastated following the arrival of Europeans, new research reveals.
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Sandy Horne @sandyhorne.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
A male always handles the childcare in the emu world. Here is one protecting three stripeys (not necessarily his babies, it must be noted). That's what baby emus are lovingly called, for obvious reasons. Credit to Rhonda for spotting these as we travelled along Flinders Ranges Way yesterday.
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Sandy Horne @sandyhorne.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
A cockatiel - high in a tree - seen on my way home yesterday. #birdsseenin2026
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Dr Sally @drsally.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The Undeclared War On Stan Pretty good I think Just wound around to AUKUS!!
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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Why does this micronation, the third smallest country in the world, with no tourism and fewer residents than Horsham, have an international commercial airline – let alone one with seven Boeing 737s? How our immigration politics corrupts everything:
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Why is Australia propping up Nauru Airlines to keep offshore detention alive?
Here’s a question you’ve probably never asked yourself: Why does Nauru Airlines exist? There’s a simple answer – Australia’s offshore detention regime. Australia’s “resettlement” program in Naoero req...
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P @pnumbers.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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America’s Best Restaurants 2026 (Gift Article)
Our 50 favorite places in America right now.
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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 12/09/2026
What do restrictions on movement mean for everyday life in the West Bank? In part two of his four-part series, Jeremy Webb writes from Hebron on checkpoints, travel restrictions and controls over religious life. #WestBank #Palestine #Israel #Apartheid
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A visit to the West Bank: social and religious apartheid – part two
In part two of a four-part series, daily life in the West Bank reveals how checkpoints, travel restrictions and controls over religious and cultural life shape Palestinians’ experience of Israeli occupation.
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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 12/09/2026
Could China’s shrinking population actually accelerate productivity? Alex Lo writes that new research suggests labour scarcity can drive automation and technological investment – potentially helping China sustain growth with a smaller workforce. #China #Economy #Demographics
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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 12/09/2026
Twenty-five years after 9/11, the temptation to divide the world into ‘us’ and ‘them’ remains powerful. Sirwan Barzanji writes that multicultural Australia offers another possibility: living with difference without turning others into enemies. #September11 #Multiculturalism #Australia
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What 9/11 taught us about coexistence
Twenty-five years after 9/11, divisions over Islam, identity and conflict remain powerful, raising an enduring question about how diverse societies can live together without turning cultural difference into fear and hatred.
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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 12/09/2026
APS remuneration remains a mess, with wide differences in pay across agencies undermining recruitment, mobility and the merit principle. Andrew Podger writes on what it would take to restore a coherent APS-wide pay and classification system. #AusPol #PublicService #Employment
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Fixing the APS remuneration mess
Australia’s public service pay system remains fragmented after decades of failed reform. Fixing it requires a coherent APS-wide approach to classifications, labour markets, remuneration and the merit principle itself.
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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 13/09/2026
Paul Keating wanted Australia to find its security in Asia rather than from it. Grand Ambition traces that sweeping vision, its achievements and failures – and why it still shapes his hostility to AUKUS, Frank Bongiorno writes. #auspol #AUKUS #ForeignPolicy
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Paul Keating’s AUKUS hostility reflects his passion for hard‑nosed realism over subservience
James Curran’s 'Grand Ambition' traces Paul Keating’s attempt to reshape Australia’s place in Asia – and the enduring realism behind his opposition to AUKUS.
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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 13/09/2026
Fossil fuel companies are funding hundreds of programs involving Australian children, while climate change is already devastating communities around the world. Peter Sainsbury writes on fossil fuel influence, El Niño and a rapidly changing climate. #ClimateChange #FossilFuels #Environment
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Environment: Fossil fuels, children and a changing climate
Fossil fuel companies gain access to children through education sponsorships, Barclays eyes opportunities from El Niño, while climate change brings increasingly destructive consequences to communities from the Himalayas to islands.
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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 05/09/2026
After other national tragedies, we readily ask what caused them and what must change. Climate disasters deserve the same urgency. Silence, denial and political wedging only delay the action now required, George Browning writes. #auspol #ClimateChange #ClimateAction
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Nepal’s catastrophe demands more than climate silence
As climate-fuelled disasters intensify, political leaders should stop treating discussion of their causes as untimely and confront the consequences of continued inaction.
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P @pnumbers.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 02/09/2026
The danger may not be that Australians are suddenly becoming far-right, but that the far right is becoming the organised outlet for economic pain, political alienation and collapsing trust in institutions, Meg Schwarz writes. #auspol #OneNation #FarRight
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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 03/09/2026
Private health insurance is propped up by about $13 billion a year in taxpayer support, yet there is little evidence it takes pressure off public hospitals. Those billions would be better spent strengthening Medicare, John Menadue writes. #auspol #Medicare #Health
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Private health insurance costs taxpayers $13 billion a year. What for?
Taxpayers spend about $13 billion a year supporting private health insurance, yet there is little evidence it relieves pressure on public hospitals or delivers fair value.
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P @pnumbers.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
independentaustralia.net/politics/pol... Provided without comment RAGE is difficult to write
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Gina Rinehart identifies the symptoms, misdiagnoses the disease
Feeling the pinch? Mining billionaire Gina Rinehart wants you to blame the "deep state", not inequality.
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P @pnumbers.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/863e09...
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People’s permission
The Saturday Paper is a quality weekly newspaper, dedicated to narrative long-form journalism.
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Bad_Cyclist @badcyclist.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
We have tribes of Greens, we need a cohesive party. However our only hope is people #VoteGreenOrIndi in the next election and at the very least we get a minority government the people can control more than the corporations & Americans.
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Abul Rizvi @abulrizvi.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This is not a function of complexity. Its due to laziness & ignorance. www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
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Five days later, Hanson still struggles to articulate migration policy
Hanson again appeared to confuse net migration with permanent migration, creating more uncertainty about One Nation’s actual policy.
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P @pnumbers.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
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David C. Simon @davidcsimon.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Eastern Spinebill on our Kunzea! #birds
Photo of a small honeyeater on a Kunzea branch with flowers. The bird is slender, coloured in orange, brown, black, and white, with red eyes and a long, curved black beak. The flower in full bloom is bright red with yellow tips and resembles a bottlebrush (callistemon).
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Dr David Joffe MB BS(Hons), PhD, FRACP @davidjoffe64.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I was fortunate enough to chair this session I would strongly recommend people follow this work closely The defining slide demonstrates even those without LC have proteinomic signatures of damage persisting at 3 years. There's also a fascinating drug repurposing study underway
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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 29/08/2026
Asian media this week. Nepal devastation the worst in its history. Plus: unusual response as Trump curries favour with Kim, Myanmar militias entrench cyberscam operations, China breaking Asia's 'flying geese' industrial model; region seeks open-road AI pathway; and why women are forced to drink. #a…
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Flood disaster ‘bound to happen’, the ‘aging, raging’ president, and China’s business drinking culture – Asian Media Report
Nepal devastation the worst in its history. Plus: unusual response as Trump curries favour with Kim, Myanmar militias entrench cyberscam operations, China breaking Asia's 'flying geese' industrial model; region seeks open-road AI pathway; and why women are forced to drink.
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P @pnumbers.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Where in my social civil contract does it say i have observe someone elses agenda?? The great Snowdon queue-skipping row – is it really OK to jump the line if you’re not taking a selfie? www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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The great Snowdon queue-skipping row – is it really OK to jump the line if you’re not taking a selfie?
The crowds at the top of Yr Wyddfa, the highest mountain in Wales, are now so huge that seasoned hikers and climbers are simply walking past them. Is everyone just making a mountain out of a molehill?
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P @pnumbers.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
bsky.app/profile/john... Close to my heart, bullshit lived for a longtime
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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 28/08/2026
Dependency is not inevitable. It can be a product of design. Richard Bruggemann writes that the NDIS was built to foster independence, but its funding, assessment and provider incentives can work in the opposite direction. #NDIS #AusPol #dependence #independence
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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 28/08/2026
New tests could help diagnose endometriosis sooner – but the evidence isn’t there yet for widespread use. Mathew Leonardi and Narges Kalani write on the promise and limitations of emerging saliva, gut and blood tests. #Endometriosis #WomensHealth
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New endometriosis tests offer hope – but the evidence isn’t there yet
Long delays in getting an endometriosis diagnosis have prompted much excitement about new saliva, gut and blood tests, but promising early results need further validation before they can be relied on in general practice.
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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 28/08/2026
Australia's Catholic bishops still have unfinished business over clerical child sexual abuse. David Timbs writes that it is time for a public act of remorse – following bishops in France and Peru in seeking forgiveness and promising ‘never again’. #CatholicChurch #Australia #auspol
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Catholic bishops' unfinished business
Australia’s Catholic bishops are being urged to confront the church’s legacy of clerical abuse with a public act of remorse, following examples set in France and Peru.
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