Reposted by Peter WrightM Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Naomi Klein Is Spot On....... 15787943407
Peter Wright @pwr1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026From @birmo.bsky.social: You know one way of stopping AI agents from accessing Australian government data would be by making them have MyGov accounts. 152
Reposted by Peter WrightBrexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Here's a French video (with English subtitles) about what would happen if the far-right racists got their way and all foreigners and people of colour were forced to leave. 12631351620
Reposted by Peter WrightGreg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 02/08/2026"Australia’s biggest industrial emitters are being paid to pollute, new analysis finds" Tegan George thepoint.com.au/new/260731-a...thepoint.com.auAustralia’s biggest industrial emitters are being paid to pollute, new analysis findsNew analysis has found Australia’s biggest industrial emitters received around $22 in Fuel Tax Credit rebates for every dollar they spent complying with the federal government’s emissions reduction po... 5214124
Reposted by Peter WrightYung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Did you know that if the 94-seat super-majority @albomp.bsky.social govt NIXED FUEL TAX CREDITS, they would INSTANTLY INCENTIVISE the likes of BHP to get off diesel & decarbonise by seriously pursuing fleet electrification plans 🙏 @accr.bsky.social #LaborNationalConferenceaccr.org.auInvestor briefing: Latest insights into BHP’s operational decarbonisation pathwayInvestors can help drive improvements by encouraging BHP to provide greater transparency about its decarbonisation plans. 0198
Reposted by Peter WrightThe Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com · 23/07/2026An animal, plant, landscape or waterway may be culturally vital even if not rare or threatened.theconversation.com‘A river is our life force’: why Indigenous cultural values must be visible in conservation 0103
Reposted by Peter WrightPearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 28/06/2026By identifying the shared attributes of several major global problems, Steve Dovers and his colleagues aim to build understanding of how to tackle these complex challenges. #disruption #complexunboundedproblems pearlsandirritations.comConfronting disruption and seeing it comingA new book examines how to deal with the complex problems caused by natural and humanitarian disasters, technological failures and geopolitical tensions. 176
Reposted by Peter WrightLucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 26/06/2026How the bloomin’ heck did I miss that @punterspolitics.bsky.social did a video on the IPA?! This is excellent. You can see how…wild Daniel Wild is. The current exec director comes across as rabid. See my piece below for how much more unhinged he performs cf peers. #Auspol youtu.be/0yFKNtpBkv8?...youtu.beHow a Small Group of Wealthy People Shapes What You Think | Punters PoliticsYouTube video by Punter's Politics 513865
Reposted by Peter WrightJonathan Green @greenj.bsky.social · 18/06/2026The first fleet had 60 nationalities and ethnic backgrounds among convicts, crew, and marines. 15 people of African descent. Multicultural Australia. 20372113
Reposted by Peter Wrightfernandolongo.bsky.social @fernandolongo.bsky.social · 16/06/2026 Australia is experiencing is a foreign infiltration of our democracy #auspol open.substack.com/pub/redbridg...open.substack.comCall It What It Is: Foreign InterferenceIf a hostile state ran this sort of operation to swing our vote, we'd call it foreign interference. It's time we did. 123
Reposted by Peter WrightMichael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 08/06/2026Human rights abuses next door as Prabowo militarism, censorship rise. Duncan Graham reports from Indonesia #auspol michaelwest.com.au/indonesia-mi...michaelwest.com.auIndonesia. Militarism on the rise amid censorship over West Papua - Michael WestAustralians are concerned with violent abuses of powerless people in the Middle East. Next door, similar evils thrive, in Indonesia 05637
Peter Wright @pwr1.bsky.social · 05/06/2026youtu.be/UEwPIfk6LpQ?...youtu.beAl Green - Everybody Hurts (Official Lyric Video)YouTube video by Al Green 110
Peter Wright @pwr1.bsky.social · 03/06/2026These guys do a great blend and deliver promptly. Also do a Smoky Russian Caravan. www.tealeaves.com.au/russian-cara...tealeaves.com.auBuy Russian Caravan Tea - Traditional Online AustraliaBuy Russian Caravan Tea - Traditional Online Australia. Free shipping on orders over $75 Australia-wide. 010
Peter Wright @pwr1.bsky.social · 31/05/2026So through an ecological frame, I see everything is connected. Labor gets rural conservative votes, unions get big construction jobs and the environment gets fewer ducks and more deer. 100
Peter Wright @pwr1.bsky.social · 31/05/2026As an environmentalist from NSW I'm completely mystified by the Victorian union movement's focus on hunting, unlike other states. What's behind it? 470
Peter Wright @pwr1.bsky.social · 22/05/2026Introduce yourself with 10 bands / musicians you’ve seen live! Salif Keita The Clash The Skatalites The Neville Brothers Sonic Youth Tactics James Brown Public Enemy The Birthday Party New Order 020
Reposted by Peter WrightSallyRCbra @srpassesiton.bsky.social · 19/05/2026In the week since the Federal Budget failed to deliver any meaningful funding action on men’s violence against women ( they repackaged previous funding announcements) , five women and two children have been killed by men they lived with or knew. #auspol #MVAWC womensagenda.com.au/latest/eds-b...womensagenda.com.auFive women, two children killed since Budget. But PM claims they're 'throwing everything' at the issueThere will be more spent on offshore detention in one year than new spending addressing violence against women over next 4 years. 34932
Reposted by Peter WrightThe Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 15/05/2026Anthony Albanese says we at the Australia Institute need to be fair dinkum about a 25% gas export tax. Well, this is us being fair dinkum! @richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol 9223104
Reposted by Peter WrightIndependent Media Australia. @indymediaaus.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/04/2026Indonesian military massacres West Papuans in latest round of violence www.greenleft.org.au/2026/1451/worl… #Auspolgreenleft.org.auIndonesian military massacres West Papuans in latest round of violenceIndonesian security forces have killed at least six people, including two children, in Dogiyai regency in West Papua, allegedly in retaliation for the killing of a police officer. Ben Radford reports. 054
Peter Wright @pwr1.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Computer says 'Yes'.media.tenor.coma woman sits at a desk with a computer and a sign that says por 10 on itALT: a woman sits at a desk with a computer and a sign that says por 10 on it 000
Reposted by Peter WrightCarole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 10/03/2026NEW: Is this the broligarchy’s first world war? AI, like war & rape, is a hyper-masculine fantasy of God-like power, a myth at the dark heart of what we’re seeing play out in the Gulf. This war hasn’t replaced the Epstein scandal. It is the Epstein scandal. open.substack.com/pub/broligar...open.substack.comThe Broligarchy's First World War?AI-guided weapons, two out-of-control authoritarians, no legal authority and a toxic mess of masculinity: welcome to the manosphere's first major conflict 29840389
Peter Wright @pwr1.bsky.social · 06/03/2026The rivers of the Murray-Darling Basin won't do well out of this campaign. Water buybacks are opposed by the independent Michelle Millthorpe, One Nation and the Coalition. 000
Peter Wright @pwr1.bsky.social · 06/03/2026And last year was the 40th anniversary of French agents sinking the Grenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior in Auckland Harbour. How times have changed! 110
Peter Wright @pwr1.bsky.social · 26/02/2026Marxan is conservation planning software that helps design the most efficient and effective biodiversity conservation zones. It's widely used around the world in forest conservation, marine parks etc. Aussie luminary Professor Hugh Possingham @hugepossum.bsky.social was one of the originators. 040
Peter Wright @pwr1.bsky.social · 24/02/2026This is the real intergenerational legacy of the Albanese Government. 020
Peter Wright @pwr1.bsky.social · 22/02/2026That's a massive flotilla of Optimist dinghies sailing out of Rose Bay today. 010
Peter Wright @pwr1.bsky.social · 17/02/2026It was an astonishing feat of human survival, undiminished by the likelihood that the ad is not real: www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/e...smithsonianmag.comErnest Shackleton's Famous Job Ad, 'Men Wanted for Hazardous Journey,' Is Probably a MythCitizen historians have spent decades searching for the original text of Shackleton’s advertisement. Now, some say it might never have existed 000
Reposted by Peter WrightYung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 17/02/2026Fed gov signed up to the Global Biodiversity Framework which includes a target to "eliminate, phase out or reform annual incentives that harm biodiversity" & was meant to identify these harmful subsidies by 2025 🦗🦗🦗fr the Albo govt but Paul Elton & colleagues+@biodivcouncil.bsky.social did the jobabc.net.auAustralia spent $26 billion on 'nature-harming' incentives in a yearThe federal government funds $26 billion of incentives each year that may be harmful to the environment and is yet to report on its international commitments, researchers say. 11917
Reposted by Peter WrightSimon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 16/02/2026Readers or royalties? Why I've made my last 8 books open access (free) @bookshelfie.bsky.social simonchapman6.com/2018/12/12/r...simonchapman6.comReaders or royalties? why now I make my books open access[Updated 16 Fed, 2026] I wrote my first book in 1983. It was a small manual of tactics for counteracting the tobacco industry’s promotional strategies, described by a tobacco industry snoop at the … 033
Peter Wright @pwr1.bsky.social · 03/02/2026One more: A high wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes (1929). This is a masterpiece. A group of unaccompanied children sailing from Jamaica to England are captured by pirates. Not in any sense a children's book, however. Chilling realism. 020
Reposted by Peter WrightProfessor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 23/01/2026"Some have argued the impact of introduced species has been overstated, and that introduced species should be seen as a legitimate part of Australia’s ecosystems. Scientific evidence and conservation outcomes do not support this." theconversation.com/yes-feral-ca... - @aunz.theconversation.comtheconversation.comYes, feral cats and foxes really have driven many Australian mammals to extinctionDecades of evidence link foxes and feral cats with extinctions of Australian mammals. Claims these introduced predators aren’t responsible don’t stack up. 510450
Reposted by Peter WrightThe Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 01/01/2026Australia Institute research shows that nurses pay more tax than gas and oil companies. Meanwhile, multinational gas companies get 56% of our gas for free and then export it overseas. Sign the petition: nb.australiainstitute.org.au/fix_ga… 513158
Reposted by Peter Wrightpurepapua.bsky.social @purepapua.bsky.social · 02/01/2026—The World’s Largest Deforestation Project — West Papua: A forest that couldn’t scream loud enough, and a people the world chose NOT to hear. #deforestation #rainforestdestruction #ecocide #WestPapua via @mightyearth.orgyoutube.comPapua, Indonesia: The World's Largest Deforestation ProjectYouTube video by Mighty Earth 043
Peter Wright @pwr1.bsky.social · 30/12/2025youtu.be/KNaKL3TwORg?...youtu.bePower to the People (Demo Version)YouTube video by Curtis Mayfield - Topic 020
Reposted by Peter WrightDr Monique Ryan @mon4kooyong.bsky.social · 28/12/2025The richest 10% of Australian households get more money from the capital gains tax discount than the government spends on Jobseeker, the childcare subsidy, government schools or higher education - nearly $4.5bn more than it would cost to include dental in Medicare.thepoint.com.auTreasury figures reveal $18 billion capital gains windfall for Australia’s richest 10 per centThe latest tax expenditure figures released on Friday by the Treasury department show this financial year the richest 10 percent of Australians will receive $18bn worth of tax breaks from the capital ... 16304187
Reposted by Peter WrightSteven Bernard @sdbernard.bsky.social · 21/12/2025NEW: Deforestation in Indonesia is underway at a rapid pace, with the help of the military, to make way for rice and sugarcane. Huge thanks to @mightyearth.org for their help with the data. Read Anantha Lakshmi's excellent report www.ft.com/content/27a6... #dataviz #gistribe 1135
Reposted by Peter Wrightpurepapua.bsky.social @purepapua.bsky.social · 22/12/2025World’s largest deforestation program. Military occupation. Indigenous land. One crime scene: West Papua. #WestPapua #ecocide #deforestation #palmoil #sugarcane #GreenColonialism #RainforestDestructiongreenleft.org.auIndonesia is running the world’s largest deforestation program in occupied West PapuaIn Indonesian-occupied West Papua, soldiers are enforcing the destruction of vast areas of rainforest to be replaced by the monoculture plantations of the government’s “food estate” program, reports C... 11916
Reposted by Peter WrightBen Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 19/12/2025Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird... 6823741211
Peter Wright @pwr1.bsky.social · 05/11/2025Offer hope to the disenfranchised and disengaged, but then unlike the populist right, deliver meaningful change that benefits them. 140
Peter Wright @pwr1.bsky.social · 27/10/2025Not just the greatest cover of all time, but also the greatest ever pop single. youtu.be/AkfmPmaTnKg?...youtu.beDavid Bowie - Sorrow (Live 1973)YouTube video by Ichnos71live 020
Reposted by Peter WrightOur World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 07/10/2025Does the news reflect what we die from? 8332198
Peter Wright @pwr1.bsky.social · 08/10/2025It would have been easy to do the homework on this because BOM report publicly on the accuracy of their forecasts every year. beta.bom.gov.au/about-the-bu...beta.bom.gov.au 110
Reposted by Peter WrightSato Juniper @satojuniper.bsky.social · 19/09/2025There seems to be increasingly frenzied coercive activity to silence legitimate comment and questioning. Maybe because that's all that's left to people who have lost all credibility in their denial & justification of the depraved behaviour of a cruel & vindictive rogue state. Truth will win #Auspol 0183