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Peter Wright

@pwr1.bsky.social
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PhD candidate, ANU Fenner School. Biodiversity governance and strategy, incremental transformation, intergenerational institutions. | Recovering cynic | Walking addict | Music fanatic | Nature bather |

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Naomi Klein Is Spot On.......
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Peter Wright @pwr1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
From @birmo.bsky.social: You know one way of stopping AI agents from accessing Australian government data would be by making them have MyGov accounts.
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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Here'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.
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Peter Wright @pwr1.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
"The goose is cooked".
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Greg 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...
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Australia’s biggest industrial emitters are being paid to pollute, new analysis finds
New 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...
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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Did 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 #LaborNationalConference
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Investor briefing: Latest insights into BHP’s operational decarbonisation pathway
Investors can help drive improvements by encouraging BHP to provide greater transparency about its decarbonisation plans.
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The Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com · 23/07/2026
An animal, plant, landscape or waterway may be culturally vital even if not rare or threatened.
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‘A river is our life force’: why Indigenous cultural values must be visible in conservation
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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 28/06/2026
By 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
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Confronting disruption and seeing it coming
A new book examines how to deal with the complex problems caused by natural and humanitarian disasters, technological failures and geopolitical tensions.
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Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
How 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?...
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How a Small Group of Wealthy People Shapes What You Think | Punters Politics
YouTube video by Punter's Politics
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Dr Monique Ryan @mon4kooyong.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
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Jonathan Green @greenj.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
The first fleet had 60 nationalities and ethnic backgrounds among convicts, crew, and marines. 15 people of African descent. Multicultural Australia.
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fernandolongo.bsky.social @fernandolongo.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Australia is experiencing is a foreign infiltration of our democracy #auspol open.substack.com/pub/redbridg...
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Call It What It Is: Foreign Interference
If a hostile state ran this sort of operation to swing our vote, we'd call it foreign interference. It's time we did.
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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Human rights abuses next door as Prabowo militarism, censorship rise. Duncan Graham reports from Indonesia #auspol michaelwest.com.au/indonesia-mi...
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Indonesia. Militarism on the rise amid censorship over West Papua - Michael West
Australians are concerned with violent abuses of powerless people in the Middle East. Next door, similar evils thrive, in Indonesia
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Peter Wright @pwr1.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
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Al Green - Everybody Hurts (Official Lyric Video)
YouTube video by Al Green
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Peter Wright @pwr1.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
These guys do a great blend and deliver promptly. Also do a Smoky Russian Caravan. www.tealeaves.com.au/russian-cara...
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Buy Russian Caravan Tea - Traditional Online Australia
Buy Russian Caravan Tea - Traditional Online Australia. Free shipping on orders over $75 Australia-wide.
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Peter Wright @pwr1.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
So 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.
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Peter Wright @pwr1.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
As an environmentalist from NSW I'm completely mystified by the Victorian union movement's focus on hunting, unlike other states. What's behind it?
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Peter Wright @pwr1.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Introduce 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
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SallyRCbra @srpassesiton.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
In 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...
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Five women, two children killed since Budget. But PM claims they're 'throwing everything' at the issue
There will be more spent on offshore detention in one year than new spending addressing violence against women over next 4 years.
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 15/05/2026
Anthony 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
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Pantrywoman @pantrywoman.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
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Independent Media Australia. @indymediaaus.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/04/2026
Indonesian military massacres West Papuans in latest round of violence www.greenleft.org.au/2026/1451/worl… #Auspol
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Indonesian military massacres West Papuans in latest round of violence
Indonesian 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.
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Peter Wright @pwr1.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Computer says 'Yes'.
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a woman sits at a desk with a computer and a sign that says por 10 on it
ALT: a woman sits at a desk with a computer and a sign that says por 10 on it
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Peter Wright @pwr1.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Parties on boats - trapped!
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
NEW: 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...
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The 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
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Peter Wright @pwr1.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
The 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.
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Peter Wright @pwr1.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
And last year was the 40th anniversary of French agents sinking the Grenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior in Auckland Harbour. How times have changed!
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Peter Wright @pwr1.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
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Peter Wright @pwr1.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Marxan 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.
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Peter Wright @pwr1.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
This is the real intergenerational legacy of the Albanese Government.
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Peter Wright @pwr1.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
That's a massive flotilla of Optimist dinghies sailing out of Rose Bay today.
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Peter Wright @pwr1.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
It was an astonishing feat of human survival, undiminished by the likelihood that the ad is not real: www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/e...
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Ernest Shackleton's Famous Job Ad, 'Men Wanted for Hazardous Journey,' Is Probably a Myth
Citizen historians have spent decades searching for the original text of Shackleton’s advertisement. Now, some say it might never have existed
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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Fed 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 job
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Australia spent $26 billion on 'nature-harming' incentives in a year
The 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.
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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Readers or royalties? Why I've made my last 8 books open access (free) @bookshelfie.bsky.social simonchapman6.com/2018/12/12/r...
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Readers 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 …
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Peter Wright @pwr1.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
One 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.
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Peter Wright @pwr1.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Aldous Huxley - Brave New World, Eyeless in Gaza
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Professor 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.com
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Yes, feral cats and foxes really have driven many Australian mammals to extinction
Decades of evidence link foxes and feral cats with extinctions of Australian mammals. Claims these introduced predators aren’t responsible don’t stack up.
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 01/01/2026
Australia 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…
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purepapua.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.org
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Papua, Indonesia: The World's Largest Deforestation Project
YouTube video by Mighty Earth
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Tim Barlow @timbarlow.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
This.....
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Peter Wright @pwr1.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
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Power to the People (Demo Version)
YouTube video by Curtis Mayfield - Topic
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Dr Monique Ryan @mon4kooyong.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
The 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.
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Treasury figures reveal $18 billion capital gains windfall for Australia’s richest 10 per cent
The 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 ...
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Steven Bernard @sdbernard.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
NEW: 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
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purepapua.bsky.social @purepapua.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
World’s largest deforestation program. Military occupation. Indigenous land. One crime scene: West Papua. #WestPapua #ecocide #deforestation #palmoil #sugarcane #GreenColonialism #RainforestDestruction
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Indonesia is running the world’s largest deforestation program in occupied West Papua
In 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...
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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Closing 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...
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Peter Wright @pwr1.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Offer hope to the disenfranchised and disengaged, but then unlike the populist right, deliver meaningful change that benefits them.
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Peter Wright @pwr1.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Not just the greatest cover of all time, but also the greatest ever pop single. youtu.be/AkfmPmaTnKg?...
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David Bowie - Sorrow (Live 1973)
YouTube video by Ichnos71live
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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 07/10/2025
Does the news reflect what we die from?
The image presents a comparison of the leading causes of death in the United States for 2023 and the media coverage these causes receive from three news outlets: The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Fox News. 

In the footer, it notes the data sources, indicating that the information is based on media mentions from Media Cloud (2025) and death data from the US CDC (2025) and the Global Terrorism Index, with a clarification that values are normalized to sum to 100%.
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Peter Wright @pwr1.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
It 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...
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Sato Juniper @satojuniper.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
There 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
Portrait of Voltaire (maybe) with inscription: "If you want to know who controls you, look at who [sic] you are not allowed to criticize"
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