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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 14h
i regret to inform you that people have absolutely lost it www.404media.co/someone-tort...
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Someone ‘Torturing’ LLMs in a Robot Prison Has Triggered the Dumbest Debate in AI Yet
The "AI Torture Chamber" has opened an upsetting and absurd window into the effective altruist obsession with "model welfare."
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Paul Karp @paulkarp.bsky.social · 15h
SCOOP: Australia eyes ripping up $2.3B immigration detention contract --new details of financial penalties being paid by Secure Journeys, US-owned private prison operator --Home Affairs asks AGS for all options including termination www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
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Australia eyes ripping up $2.3B immigration detention contract
ICE-linked contractor has been hit with millions in fines for its handling of immigration detention.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
RBA raises rates…
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Renew Economy @reneweconomy.com.au · 28/09/2026
Australia’s most powerful battery has finally been given approval to run at full capacity and act as a giant shock absorber to the grid reneweconomy.com.au/australias-most…
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Australia's most powerful battery finally completed, and acting as giant shock absorber to the grid
Australia's most powerful battery has finally been given approval to run at full capacity and act as a giant shock absorber to the grid.
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Kon Karapanagiotidis @kkarapanagiotidis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
ASRC had TWO VANS STOLEN OVERNIGHT in Melbourne from our CATERING SOCIAL ENTERPRISE. We are all so distressed and angry. Who robs a charity! Here’s are the license plates of the two white vans 👇🏼 and photos of them too➡️➡️➡️ Call 000 if spot them please 🙏🏼 Renault 🚐 is 1UO2YV Peugeot van 🚐 is 1QR 8PO
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Kon Karapanagiotidis @kkarapanagiotidis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I’m devastated this morning. We have just had two of our @asrc1 social enterprise catering vans stolen. Roller door smashed. Food stolen. Safe destroyed. Staff distressed. TWO VANS LICENSE PLATES - mini vans with ASRC Catering on them Renault is 1UO2YV Peugeot is 2DW4TB
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The Shovel @theshovel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Analysts urge investors to consider the potential impact of the apocalypse on their portfolios. theshovel.com.au/2026/09/28/a...
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AI Induced Human Extinction Could Devastate Share Markets, Finance Experts Warn — The Shovel
Analysts urge investors to consider the potential impact of the apocalypse on their portfolios.
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Paperback Paradise @paperbackparadise.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Thank you troops
Vintage pulp novel featuring an illustration of a man gasping for air as he pulls himself out of the water and onto the beach - he looks like he is thrusting passionately. Behind him a smoking plane is sinking in water. Copy and title read

He was supposed to fight a war, but he had sandier things to do

Beach
Humper

By Richard Sachs

A TRUE AMERICAN STORY

oh no he really is humping some sand while his friends die

"Questions the honor of veterans."
-Hump Magazine
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Paperback Paradise @paperbackparadise.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Photo of the back cover of Where’s My Leftover Meatball Sub? Plot summary reads:

Her meatballs went missing...
After five years together, Mark and Marianne were engaged to be married, but a small drop of red sauce in the fridge where half of a meatball sub had once rested called that all into question.

Where's my leftover meatball sub?

Salt and pepper had seasoned her meatballs, but shame and disgrace were now seasoning Mark's face.
Guilt and marinara were all over his lips, while the olive oil stain of • betrayal seeped into her heart. She tried to let it go, but this treachery lingered like garlic on her fingers for weeks. Could she really go through with the marriage? If this is who Mark really is, maybe she's better off aprovolone...

Another
PAPERBACK
PARADISE
BOOK
that you can grind up and add to any meatball recipe
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Paperback Paradise @paperbackparadise.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Photo of a book cover featuring a man with an intense face working a juicer with a carrot in his hand as he’s surrounded by fruits and vegetables. Copy and title read 

COMPLETELY LEGAL

TORTURING
FRUITS
VEGETABLES

GET THE
VEGETABLE SECRETS

THEIR BLOOD WILL MAKE YOU FEEL ALIVE™

"Torture is OK." - The U.S. Constitution

RALPH MOLTENSOLE
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We're just normal men @wejustinnocentmen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
We’re just normal men
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Joe Tracey @smoothcaramel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Maybe 5%? Yeah, unemployment will look good when it has a 5 in front of it. Inflation will just be totally under control when we hit the 5's, I'm probably pretty sure.
Australia's unemployment rate is currently 4.5 per cent.

"I think between 4.5 and 5 [per cent unemployment] will probably take enough heat out of the labour market that it'll ease pressure on inflation," Bullock said.
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Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Wrote about Ed Sheeran, censorship, and the transformative power of collective action by Irish artists in solidarity with Palestine.
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Una Mullally: Irish artists became the biggest in the world when they walked away from Ed Sheeran’s tour
Until now, there has been a perception and reality that speaking out against Israel’s genocide in Palestine will hurt the bottom line
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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
In June I did a calculation of the downstream environmental and harm of a strike on a refinery like this, and I’ll repost it here: The Moscow Oil Refinery processes 12M tonnes of crude a year, ≈ 240,000 barrels a day. It's in a residential area, with people living within 500m of the tanks.
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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
High skool students respond to the presence of convicted spousal abuser & serial pest Avi Yeminem at the strike today (Yeminem is w his bodyguard Daniel Jones & Xtian nationalist Nick 'Banjo' Patterson) by chanting 'wife beater' & 'smol d!ck' (?).
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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 16/09/2026
Israeli airstrikes continue to hit #Gaza every day, killing and injuring people across the Strip. In the last 24 hours, our teams have treated 11 people, including five children, wounded by airstrikes.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 16/09/2026
thread time, my lovelies Let me take you through what we found, and why I think NVIDIA's climate approach is extremely consequential drive.google.com/file/d/1rX7d...
NVIDIA ceo jensen huang on stage holding a phone, and the phone now says NVIDIA'S CLIMAT EHOAX
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Joe Tracey @smoothcaramel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
ABC working hard to conflate data centres with ai data centres again
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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
“as Irish people we know all too well about genocide, forced famine, and violent occupation” - Aaron Rowe pulling out of Ed Sheeran The Loop tour🇵🇸Free Palestine🇵🇸
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I have made the decision to withdraw as a support act for Ed Sheeran's 'The Loop' North American Tour.
I don't take the decision lightly. Ed has been a friend to me and has changed my life, I could never thank him enough for this.
But as Irish people we know all too well about genocide, forced famine and violent occupation.
I cannot stand by and allow billionaires to use their position of power to silence the rightful voices of those who speak up against Israeli genocide and who highlight the savage murder of children.
I would lose all respect for myself to carry on as normal.
I need to be true to myself and my ancestors who resisted colonisation, and fought for a freedom that I enjoy today in Ireland.
FREE PALESTINE
aaRON
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Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The Irish musician Aaron Rowe has said he is withdrawing as a support act on Ed Sheeran’s tour.
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Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The Irish musicians, Beoga, who play alongside Ed Sheeran, have withdrawn from Sheeran’s tour. This is the statement they published on Instagram:
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Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The artist Finneas, who was due to support Ed Sheeran on upcoming dates, has withdrawn from Sheeran’s tour.
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Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Lukas Graham, another support act on Ed Sheeran’s tour, also now withdrawing from the tour.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/09/2026
Australia's already-severe housing shortage is about to get a lot worse thanks to data centre growth sucking workers and resources away from housing www.afr.com/policy/econo...
Data centre boom to put pressure on interest rates, housing
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New modelling predicts the data centre building boom will tip hundreds of billions of dollars into the economy over the next four years and lure workers away from home building, fuelling inflation and the housing shortage and keeping pressure on the Reserve Bank to raise interest rates.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
OK then. Fuck off.
Screenshot from The Australian

“OpenAI’s ultimatum to PM: dilute creatives’ rights or we won’t discuss renewables”
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Ben Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I can’t think of a better qualified person
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Renew Economy @reneweconomy.com.au · 14/09/2026
Australia needs to phase out coal, gas and oil faster than planned to meet its climate commitments, a report says, with changes in energy, transport and mining reneweconomy.com.au/hitting-climate…
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Hitting climate goals means no coal power, and no new petrol and diesel cars by 2035, report finds
Australia needs to phase out coal, gas and oil faster than planned to meet its climate commitments, a report says, with changes in energy, transport and mining.
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Ben Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The NSW government is now fighting a High Court case to prevent Chris Minss' chief of staff from appearing before NSW's upper house to answer questions about the Dural caravan hoax www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
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NSW premier's top staffer in High Court showdown over arrest powers
James Cullen faced being detained and forced to give evidence before a committee after refusing to attend a parliamentary inquiry over the leaking of confidential minutes.
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This Week in Videogames @thisweekinvideogames.com · 10/09/2026
Xbox has announced a deal with Kojima Productions to publish its in-development action-espionage title Physint. Physint was first announced as a project developed in partnership with PlayStation Studios in 2024. Hideo Kojima has stated that Sony decided to cancel the project in June 2026.
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Xbox to Publish 'Physint' in Deal With Kojima Productions, Following PlayStation cancellation
The deal comes in addition to the partnership between Kojima Productions and Xbox to publish horror title OD, and comes with the film adaptation rights to both titles
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The Point @thepointau.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
In a joint statement, Senators Nick McKim, Vanessa Bleyer, and Jordan Steele-John said “we have decided to exercise our right to take a position according to our consciences.” Read the full piece on The Point: thepoint.com.au/new/260910-a...
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Jewish Council of Australia @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The Jewish Council supports the decision of the 12 countries who have put trade restrictions on illegal Israeli settlements and urges the Australian government to do the same and then go further, imposing country-level sanctions. www.jewishcouncil.com.au/2026/09/jewi...
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Jewish Council welcomes UK, Canada, France and others banning settlement trade, urges Australia to not be left behind
MEDIA RELEASE 09 September 2026 The Jewish Council of Australia welcomes moves by twelve countries including the UK, Canada, and […]
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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Here's @lucyham.bsky.social. "Governments (and their corporate owners) have no safety net plans for our climate permacrisis"
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Governments (and their corporate owners) have no safety net plans for our climate permacrisis - The Shot
Australians are walking a tightrope. Imagine a long line of us traversing a chasm. Some of us – not many...
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Renew Economy @reneweconomy.com.au · 08/09/2026
SEC says Queensland state government has deliberate policy to make renewable uninvestable, by scrapping targets, boosting coal and fighting data centres rules reneweconomy.com.au/its-an-ideology…
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"It's an ideology:" Queensland LNP accused of deliberate strategy to kill large scale renewables
SEC says Queensland state government has deliberate policy to make renewable uninvestable, by scrapping targets, boosting coal and fighting data centres rules.
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Sabrina Fernandes @sabrinafernandes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Off to Australia for the first time this week. I'll be in Magan-djin/Brisbane for Ecosocialism 2026. Given the latest UNEP Overshoot report, it's a moment to stress even more how an ecosocialist alternative is needed to approach climate change and the other planetary boundaries.
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Ecosocialism 2026 | Resistance, Decolonisation, Liberation
Ecosocialism 2025: Ecosocialism not Barbarism will bring together activists from across the Indo-Pacific to share experiences in resisting capitalism's drive to barbarism and building the mass movemen...
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Jenny O’Connor @jenocon.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Amen to this “I do not care what minister Wong’s personal feelings are, I don’t care about her outrage, I care about the actions taken as foreign minister,” Shoebridge told Guardian Australia. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Shoebridge criticises Labor response after IDF officer’s ‘reprehensible’ comments on deadly Zomi Frankcom strike
Greens defence spokesman says ‘words are just distractions’ until government takes action
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Jewish Council of Australia @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Pro-Israel groups are pressuring governments & institutions to adopt the IHRA definition of antisemitism, which would prohibit legitimate criticism of Israel. We can’t let widespread adoption of this definition cement further censorship. Sign our petition: www.jewishcouncil.com.au/2026/08/dont...
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 03/09/2026
Microsoft just found yet another way to enshittify Xbox Game Pass aftermath.site/microsoft-xbox...
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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The Shot has the right to "self-defence"
The Shot has the right to “self-defence”

In Crikey, Sami Shah stated that The Shot is anti-Semitic, describing our masthead as “an attempt at a satirical site for people who found Facebook comments insufficiently moderated” and our work as “Practically demonstrations of antisemitism". Embarrassingly, in the same week, The Australian more accurately described us as “left-wing” and “probing the limits of law and language”.  
 
Sami singled out two article headlines, The royal commission into the hurt feelings of genocidal psychopaths and Updates from the royal commission into the selective outrage of Zionists, which he clearly didn’t read before accusing us of sloppy “media criticism”. The headlines were mine, the body copy written by Joel Jenkins. They were no-bullshit, reality based tear downs of the fascistic assaults on our democracy, which all of us can see so plainly with our own eyes. Even liberal Zionist cowards like Shah. 

During a mass slaughter that our government is supporting materially and diplomatically, it's not good enough to have segments of the indie media community trying to un-stretch the Overton Window back inside the borders set by decades of hasbara, horrifically biased and supremacist mass media, and the whims of the genocidal psychopaths. We don’t know how many Australians love milquetoast fence-sitting during atrocity, but Pew research shows that 80% of us despise Israeli atrocity and fascistic overreach into our democracies.

Description continued on next slide As a credo, I try to treat people with the same level of respect I am shown. We have done more serious analysis and investigative reporting on this depravity than Crikey has, a much larger outlet with more staff and resources. Over the years, The Sunday Shot has also platformed many Crikey writers. Needless to say, that moment has passed us by.

To make such petty remarks at some of the few unvarnished truth-tellers in Australian journalism on this subject, in this moment of abject moral failure, of cowardice and of complicity, speaks to the hollow pettiness of Shah’s analysis. Focus on what really matters, please. 

There is enough genocide apologia in the corporate press already. It's pathetic to see it in the indie space, too. Do better, Crikey, your readers expect more. 

Fuck fascism. Free Palestine.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
There was meant to be one done in 2020-21. Obviously the pandemic would have massively distorted the result. But there was no survey in 2025-26. Now the ABS says none is planned. It means policy is being made with little understanding of the impact on households.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
So for eg let's say we put the GST on private school fees. The Household Expenditure Survey would tell us if this would hit richer households more than poorer one, and by how much. Right now we're going off spending habits from a decade ago. Basically just a good guess.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
In econ news, the ABS today says there is no planning for a new "Household Expenditure Survey". This survey breaks down spending by household types - incomes, wealth, age etc. Vital for determining how price changes affect people. Meant to be every 5 years. The last was in 2015-16.
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Economy
Statistical release	Changes made	Rationale
Monthly Business Turnover Indicator	Publication ceased in November 2025	Experimental publication developed in 2021 to provide insights into economic activity following the COVID-19 pandemic. Several alternative measures of business activity by industry are available on the ABS website.

Household Expenditure Survey, Australia: Summary of results	Not currently scheduled	The timing of the next Household Expenditure Survey is to be confirmed. 

Household Income and Wealth, Australia	Schedule correction	Initially scheduled for release in 2027–28 in the 2025–26 FWP, this has been revised to 2026–27 in this FWP.

Australian National Accounts: Input-Output Tables	Frequency change from yearly to two-yearly	The ABS has produced Input-Output (I-O) tables annually since the early 2000s. I-O tables primarily provide detailed structural information on production activity. Because these structures tend to change slowly, the frequency of I-O tables was reviewed in consultation with users. 

Consumer Price Index, Australia	Standalone quarterly publication ceased in October 2025	The ABS now publishes a complete monthly Consumer Price Index (CPI) as the primary measure of headline inflation. Quarterly CPI data tables are included in every third month of the monthly CPI release. 

Consumer Price Index, Australia – Monthly Indicator	Publication ceased in October 2025	The ABS now publishes a complete monthly CPI.
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 27/08/2026
I am begging websites to remember they are read by human beings, who possess at least some small amount of dignity: aftermath.site/video-game-mov...
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
A valediction. My @smh @theage cartoon.
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ABC News Australia @news.abc.net.au · 27/08/2026
Greens MP Sophie McNeill threatens to sue Nationals MP Lachlan Hunter over antisemitism claims
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Greens MP seeks apology for 'horrific slur', threatens to sue Nationals rival
Two of WA parliament's biggest personalities are staring down the barrel of a legal fight, with Greens politician Sophie McNeill taking the first step towards suing Nationals counterpart Lachlan Hunter.
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 26/08/2026
Is this all you can conjure aftermath.site/google-ai-vide...
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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
PM @albomp.bsky.social & Energy Minister @chrisbowenmp.bsky.social also comprehensively done over by NT chief minister, Lia Finocchiaro "NT’s chief minister, Lia Finocchiaro, said she had won approval to use gas from the massive Beetaloo basin project in the meeting."
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Albanese backs down on states powering AI datacentres using renewable energy
Shift comes after Chris Bowen said Labor would use constitutional powers to override states resisting rules on sustainable energy
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ABC News Australia @news.abc.net.au · 26/08/2026
Farming changes linked to improved water quality across Great Barrier Reef catchments
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Reduced fertiliser use linked to cleaner water flowing to Great Barrier Reef
Separate studies claim to show a connection between improved water quality in catchments along Queensland's Great Barrier Reef and farmers changing the way they fertilise their crops.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Just remember, the Reserve Bank is worried that wages might grow too fast and cause inflation
Chart showing growth of wages, inflation and Coles and Woolworths profits

Wages: 3.2%
Inflation: 4.0%
Coles profits: 13.7%
Woolworths profits: 18.1%
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Gemma Driscoll @geeofdee.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
What an informative, well curated list you should definitely click on 💖
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 25/08/2026
All the biggest announcements from Gamescom Opening Night Live aftermath.site/gamescom-openi...
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