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Rob Phair

@robphair.bsky.social
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Rural generalist doctor working on Gunaikurnai country, Victoria, Australia 🚲🤹‍♂️ 🇺🇦

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Rob Phair @robphair.bsky.social · 16h
#ClimateAction #auspol
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 18h
OTD in 2006 journalist & activist Anna Politkovskaya was shot dead. Whoever ordered her killed is still at large. And turns 74 today.
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Rob Phair @robphair.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
#Trump #Russia
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Rob Phair @robphair.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
@davidshoebridge.bsky.social, you need to review your #Ukraine policy as a matter of top priority. Speak with your German colleagues who understand the threat and are well respected for their firm stance towards #Russia. #auspol @gruene.de @gruene-bundestag.de @senatorwong.bsky.social
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Rob Phair @robphair.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
To be clear: it’s GOOD that @albomp.bsky.social condemned #Russia. He falls well short on #Trump, though
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Rob Phair @robphair.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
#FossilFuels #Straya #auspol @australianlabor.bsky.social #COP31
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 03/10/2026
I split the G (train) with the Prime Minister of Ireland, Michéal Martin. Sláinte!
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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Excerpts from the tremendous public service & public resource that is the HANSON DOSSIER - the "complete public accountability record of Pauline Hanson. Drawn from court judgments, parliamentary records, AEC data, and verified journalism" Share it & keep it handy‼️ 👉 thehansonrecord.com
Excerpt from the HANSON DOSSIER

Senator Hanson had a tendency to make racist, discriminatory, hateful, derogatory and Islamophobic statements, particularly in relation to persons of colour, migrants to Australia and Muslims. She was found to be an argumentative witness who would say anything which came to mind if she felt it would suit her at the time. - Justice Angus Stewart, Federal Court of Australia - Faruqi v Hanson, November 2024. 
This is a formal judicial finding made after hearing Hanson testify under oath. It is not a political opinion. It is the considered judgment of an Australian Federal Court judge.Excerpt from a section titled The Verdict in the HANSON DOSSIER

Pauline Hanson has spent 30 years telling Australians she is one of them. A battler. A plain-speaker. A politician who cuts through the rubbish and fights for ordinary people against a self-serving political class and the wealthy elites who have rigged the system. That story does not match what she has actually done.

She has been found guilty of racial discrimination by the Federal Court of Australia. She has been suspended from the Senate and censured 55 votes to 5. Her senior staff were caught on hidden camera trying to sell Australia's gun laws to American lobbyists for up to $20 million. She personally cast doubt on the Port Arthur massacre on hidden camera. She has accepted a $2 million plane from Australia's richest billionaire and undisclosed jet flights from that same billionaire. She billed taxpayers to attend that billionaire's fundraising events on a luxury cruise ship. She placed her daughter in a $150,000 taxpayer-funded job and banned the journalist who asked about it from all future access. She attended just 12 per cent of Senate estimates hearings over her career while being paid a full senator's salary. She promoted vaccine misinformation linking vaccines to autism and cancer. She published a book claiming Aboriginal women ate their babies to "demonstrate savagery" and used it to raise funds for her party.Excerpt from a section titled The Verdict in the HANSON DOSSIER cont'd

While doing all of that, she has voted against wage increases for workers, against childcare funding for families, against housing affordability policies, against public school funding, against renewable energy, against renters' rights, against COVID vaccine urgency as Australians were dying in aged care, and against nearly every social safety net mechanism that would actually help the working-class Australians she claims to represent.

She changed her party's constitution in 2017 to give herself lifetime leadership and the sole right to choose her own successor, making One Nation constitutionally indistinguishable from a personal fiefdom. Seven senators have quit or been expelled from the party since 2016. The party founded on anti-establishment populism is now bankrolled by a mining billionaire worth tens of billions of dollars, flying on her private jet and attending her fundraisers on a luxury cruise ship.

The people who pay the price for Pauline Hanson's political career are the ordinary Australians she claims to represent. The record is public. The choice is yours.Excerpt from the HANSON DOSSIER

Table comparing the policy position of One Nation, Labor, Coalition and the Greens on 13 policies relating to: Climate Science, Gun Laws, Worker Pay Rises, ABC and SBS, Renewable Energy, Housing Affordability, Childcare, Public School Funding, Abortion Rights, UN Membership, Multiculturalism, Trans Healthcare, and Press Freedom

[On every single one, One Nation has a regressive, frequently far-right radical stance]
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Rob Phair @robphair.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
David, you need to reconsider your #Ukraine policy, which is hopelessly naive and not fit for purpose. In contrast: @gruene.de understand the existential threat posed by #Russia. bsky.app/profile/brit...
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Rob Phair @robphair.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
@davidshoebridge.bsky.social #auspol #Greens #Ukraine
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Rob Phair @robphair.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
#auspol #antisemitism
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Why would you trust an industry founded on theft to self-regulate?
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Rob Phair @robphair.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
#Santos #FossilFuels #Straya #auspol
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Rob Phair @robphair.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
#springst
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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
At least 21 members of my extended family were arrested and sent from Lithuania to camps or exile colonies in this 1951 act of repression by the Soviet occupiers.
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Dan Ilic @danilic.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Good Halloween costume idea this year — "politician opening methane valves."
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Dr Tracy Westerman AM @drtracywesterman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
My opinion piece on the Western Australian child protection situation I think it’s a pretty important read nit.com.au/30-09-2026/2...
nit.com.au
Too quick to remove, too slow to protect: What South Hedland tells us about WA child protection
I was born and raised in the Pilbara. Before becoming a psychologist, I spent close to a decade as a child protection worker in some of our highest-risk remote Indigenous communities. In 25 years of p...
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Rob Phair @robphair.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
@acrrm.bsky.social
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Dr Monique Ryan @mon4kooyong.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Donald Trump's war with Iran has sent energy prices through the roof - Australians are fighting back by putting solar panels on their rooftops. In the first half of 2026 we installed 180,878 rooftop solar systems and 276,011 home batteries, massively exceeding expectations.
cleanenergycouncil.org.au
Australians backing rooftop solar, home batteries in record numbers | Clean Energy Council
As conflict far from Australia’s shores drives up fuel prices and renews inflation pressures, households are increasingly taking energy security into their own hands.
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 28/09/2026
Medical center, science academy struck in downtown Kyiv as all-day Russian drone attacks continue; Ukraine's Operation Vivaldi liberates 3 more settlements, inflicts 2,000 Russian losses, 3rd Army Corps announces; and more.
kyivindependent.com
Ukraine war latest: Russia strikes downtown Kyiv, kills one, injures 21, damages National Academy of Sciences
Key developments on Sept. 28: * Medical center, science academy struck in downtown Kyiv as all-day Russian drone attacks continue * Ukraine's Operation Vivaldi liberates 3 more settlements, inflict...
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Rob Phair @robphair.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
@acrrm.bsky.social #RMA26 #ClimateAction
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Rob Phair @robphair.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#FossilFuels #energy
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Jody🌻 @jodyv.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.
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Rob Phair @robphair.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It‘s possible that Wadephul judged this interaction with Lavrov well bsky.app/profile/joer...
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Rob Phair @robphair.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#springst #Gippsland #lovegippsland
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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Grannies for Action are a group of older women who: ✳️ Believe that individual problems can be social; ✳️ Engage in careful analysis of political issues; and, ✳️ Take action for a more just and fair society "Poverty is a political choice. It can be changed" GET THEIR PETITION TO 500 (& MORE)‼️
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Sign the Petition
Raise JobSeeker Above the Poverty Line Now
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Rob Phair @robphair.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Is it strange? I would expect that Wadephul delivered a message which Lavrov didn’t want to hear, and got out of there.
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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Incidentally, the private sector-owned Jamnagar oil refinery Minister Bowen will visit is owned by India's richest man, Mukesh Ambani, Anant Ambani's father Perhaps he'll also visit Anant's private mega-zoo chock-full of exotic & endangered animals (& a suspected major animal trafficking hub)
theguardian.com
Backlash as Indian oil heir made professor of sustainability by Newcastle University
Role for Anant Ambani, son of India’s richest person, who also runs a controversial mega-zoo, met with incredulity
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Rob Phair @robphair.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#springst #lovegippsland
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Rob Phair @robphair.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
#Ukraine 🇺🇦
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Rob Phair @robphair.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
#springst #ClimateAction @docsenvaus.bsky.social
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Rob Phair @robphair.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
At the very end: «на ракете»
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Rob Phair @robphair.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
#Trump
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Rob Phair @robphair.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
#ClimateAction #Straya #auspol @acrrm.bsky.social
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Rob Phair @robphair.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
@acrrm.bsky.social #ClimateEmergency
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Climate Tracker @climate.skyfleet.blue · 23/09/2026
Huge El Niño projected to cause 450,000 deaths in next six months #Climate
theguardian.com
Huge El Niño projected to cause 450,000 deaths in next six months
New report predicts a heavy toll from Nigeria to the US – and comes on top of existing impacts of the climate crisis
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Rob Phair @robphair.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Disgraceful conduct from #France and #Luxembourg in seeking exemptions from #EU sanctions for Usmanov & Fridman. #Russia #Ukraine 🇺🇦 @phillipspobrien.bsky.social @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social @olgalautman.bsky.social @joerglau.bsky.social @efdavies.bsky.social @berlinbridge.bsky.social
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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
September 22 is commemorated in Estonia as Resistance Day. It marks a critical historical window in September 1944 when Estonia attempted to restore its de facto statehood and constitutional government between the departure of Nazi German forces and the arrival of the Soviet Red Army. 🧵
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Rob Phair @robphair.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
#CleanAir #BreatheLife #AirQuality
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Rob Phair @robphair.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
#ClimateEmergency #Straya #auspol @australianlabor.bsky.social @acrrm.bsky.social #RMA26
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Rob Phair @robphair.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
#Germany
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Rob Phair @robphair.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
#Russia
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Rob Phair @robphair.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
#Russia #disinformation
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Joerg Lau @joerglau.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Hello world, meet Germany‘s equivalent to @mayor.nyc.gov - Elif Eralp who just won a landslide victory in Berlin for @dielinkeberlin.bsky.social. She is on ourse to become Berlin‘s first mayor with immigrant background, and the second Turkish speaker in that position after Ernst Reuter.
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Rob Phair @robphair.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
😆😆😆
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Rob Phair @robphair.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
@australianlabor.bsky.social @janecaro.bsky.social #EverySchoolEveryChild #auspol #Straya #PublicEducation
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Rob Phair @robphair.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
…but will @australianlabor.bsky.social act on clear #RoadSafety evidence? #Straya #auspol @profraywills.futuresmart.com.au
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Rob Phair @robphair.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It’s way past time for #Fremantle to bail out of #Woodside #FossilFuels sponsorship. #AFLDockersSwans #sportswashing @sophiemcneill.bsky.social @docsenvaus.bsky.social #ClimateAction @acrrm.bsky.social
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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026
Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible
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