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Sonya Semmens @sonyasemmens.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Bold to assume the backlash isn’t caused by sneaky fast-tracked deals between ministers and lobby groups bypassing Councils without local consultation because $2b was paid by Nvidia to VicGov and none of that has been returned (or guaranteed) to communities.. 🫠 www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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Australian backlash to datacentres is faux import from US, officials say: ‘We are not the United States’

Pro-datacentre officials argue scale of Australia’s buildout is smaller, more regulated and less damaging than in US

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Sonya Semmens @sonyasemmens.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Vale to the man who spent the final year of his life fighting to stop the government from closing the public health service that might save others from the cancer he had. (He succeeded.) Thank you Tim, you’re the best of us. Your footprint in Victoria is deep with your decency. We’ll miss you.💔

Photo of Greens MP Tim Read and announcement of his passing today aged 64

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Sonya Semmens @sonyasemmens.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

“How lucky is the United States that every time they look for democracy in other countries they find oil instead.”- Spain Deputy Gabriel Rufián 🔥🔥🔥🔥

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The Onion @theonion.com · 02/04/2026

Sam Altman: ‘If I Don’t End The World, Someone Far More Dangerous Will’

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Sonya Semmens @sonyasemmens.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Oil? The world’s greatest change of subject? Emergency powers to stop elections? The expansion of empire, a new world order ruled by child rapists? Whichever it is, or all of the above. Albanese was the first world ruler to support it. We need new leaders. Everywhere.

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Sonya Semmens @sonyasemmens.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Congratulations Hannah Spencer aka Hannah the Pumber for winning Gorton and Denton for the Greens! "Something exciting is definitely happening." Hope has beaten hate. Now let's spread hope everywhere. 💚

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Barbara Pocock @barbarapocock.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

IMF joins the long line of economists saying Labor’s 5% 🏠 deposit scheme is pouring fuel on the housing crisis bonfire. A 3.6% increase in price of eligible homes below the cap in the last 3 months of 2025. A disaster.

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Sonya Semmens @sonyasemmens.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

There is no left or right. There is only the predator class, and the prey. They prey on our labour, our lives. And now we know, sexual and sadistic predation too. Of course they do. Because where we are now is the logical conclusion of an economic system built on and rewarding exploitation.

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Sonya Semmens @sonyasemmens.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Thousands of peaceful people - kids, dogs, grandparents, people of all nationalities and creeds - gathered together this evening in NaarmMelbourne.

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Sonya Semmens @sonyasemmens.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Saw this today👇 Sure re billionaires, but people don't know what socialism or marxism is. They think both are possibly communism as in Pol Pot or Maoist China, ie. human suffering will ensue. We can try to educate people, or we can talk in terms people understand. The latter is probably quicker!

Screenshot of a tweet that says:

People are fascinating. They know politicians lie. They know the TV lies. They know billionaires lie. For some reason through, their skepticism stops at Marxism. That's the one belief they can't think twice about. It has to be evil.

This is re-tweeted with the comment:

Remember it's these same pedophile billionaires that tell you socialism doesn't work.

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Trish Fraser @trishf42.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Please support Tim's work to save VicHealth: the petition is the change org one, but there's more to do, see the link.

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Save VicHealth - Tim Read

Health Promotion saves us pain and money by fighting preventable disease at the cause. Sign the petition to save VicHealth

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Sonya Semmens @sonyasemmens.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

I want to take a moment to honour this bloke. He is absolute decency at every turn. Even now facing a health crisis of his own, he's worrying about what the closure of VicHealth will mean for his community. Strength and healing to you, Tim. You are a very good one. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

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MP battling cancer says condemned health agency could have saved him

Victorian Greens MP Tim Read reveals he will retire from politics at this year's election after he was diagnosed with metastatic cancer — but not before one last political fight.

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Sonya Semmens @sonyasemmens.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Did you know 54% Australians would prefer a respectful, inclusive Australia Day so long it gives us a guaranteed long weekend in summer?

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Sonya Semmens @sonyasemmens.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

I’m heartbroken by the violence at Bondi. We woke to learn 16 precious lives have been lost among Jewish families gathering to celebrate the first night of Chanuka - a festival of hope and light.

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Sonya Semmens @sonyasemmens.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Just watched this. It's sickening viewing, to say the least. #FourCorners tracked 148 childcare workers alleged or convicted of child sexual abuse or inappropriate conduct. Some got away with it. 88% of the offending happened at For Profit daycare centres... iview.abc.net.au/video/NC2503...

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Four Corners: S2025 Hunting Ground

In a powerful follow up to her Logie-winning investigation, Adele Ferguson returns with a searing expose that reveals the true scale of sexual abuse in Australia's childcare sector. Despite government...

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Sonya Semmens @sonyasemmens.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Labor positioning the environment as just another stakeholder misses the point. The weighty task of legislating environment laws is not to find the "middle ground" between protecting nature vs unlocking wealth creation. It's to do what's right. Nature is our wealth. And in the end, we are nature.

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Sonya Semmens @sonyasemmens.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Incredibly courageous testimony from from @clareheathmcivor.bsky.social at the Vic parliamentary inquiry into cults. Scary stuff. I can't think of more dangerous coercive control than abusive men on a mission from God. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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Liberal MP’s sister says father’s church is a ‘cult’ where ‘gay conversion’ practices may still be happening

City Builders pastor’s daughter tells Victorian parliamentary inquiry into cults of ‘grave concerns’ about church

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Alex Fein @auspoldaily.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

In these apocalyptic times, a little project I'm working on with 2 of my favourite people: @sonyasemmens.bsky.social & @lerns10.bsky.social makes it all seem a little bit better. We ask, when the 1st City falls, what does the 2nd City look like? youtu.be/WsBTbIo_0I4

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Episode 1: What is the Second City?

YouTube video by Second City

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Sonya Semmens @sonyasemmens.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Vale to the great Dame Patricia Routledge 🩷

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alexjungle.bsky.social @alexjungle.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Breaking news: ICE stops family at gunpoint—smash car window on top of newborn baby. "I was screaming that there was a baby. But they didn’t care," cried mother. “I covered my baby with my body—I was so scared he was going to be hurt because glass was landing on him."

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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Anyone in the press pack got the spine to ask the PM about Israel attacking six nations in a single day (not to mention, Greta Thunberg, and an Australian, Bianca, from Josh Burns' electorate, that was on the same boat)? Maybe tag the journo you'd most like to hear ask it?

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Sonya Semmens @sonyasemmens.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

“As soon as I saw you, I knew a grand adventure was about to happen.” A.A. Milne Happy Father’s day to all the dads, grand-dads, bro-dads, step-dads, dad-adjacent and father figures who’ve leaned into the adventure.

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Sonya Semmens @sonyasemmens.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Don't go to the march. Come and Robin Hood the elites with me instead. There is no left or right, there is only the 0.01% and the rest of us.

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Sonya Semmens @sonyasemmens.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Media reaction is the clearest sign yet - they know it's over for them. They can't control compassion. They can't control us. As my friend Hannah Thomas said, "Our cause is righteous, we keep each other safe and the greatest threat to our safety at protests is the police." She would know.

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Sonya Semmens @sonyasemmens.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

The arson attack on the East Melbourne synagogue and the mob who targeted restaurant-goers last night sought to spread fear in places of faith, family and connection. How dare they? We condemn this. This I know: hate begets hate. Fear begets fear. Only love begets love. Only peace begets peace.

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Tim Hollo @timhollo.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

This is a really lovely piece by @sonyasemmens.bsky.social over at @greeninstitute.bsky.social's magazine, Green Agenda. Sonya writes beautifully, and expresses a tremendously hopeful view of political organising as cultivating connection and community. Give it a read:

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"I am because we are" - Green Agenda

“I didn't win a seat, but my god I've won a neighbourhood”, writes Sonya Semmens on her Macnamara campaign. In an atomised society where “people see themselves not as part of a collective, but an ind...

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Sonya Semmens @sonyasemmens.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

I'm thinking of everyone who has a child in childcare today with such sickening, horrifying news this week. So much sorrow for the little ones and families involved. There are no sufficient words. 💔 Our children deserve a childcare system that puts their safety above all else.

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Sonya Semmens @sonyasemmens.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Thinking of the brave souls aboard the Madleen this morning, with reports they’ve been boarded and communication lost. The Madleen is carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza, in the last two weeks the UN has described Gaza as “the hungriest place on earth”. Eyes and hearts with the Madleen.🕊️

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Sonya Semmens @sonyasemmens.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

This dazed child is 6 year old Ward Jalal Al-Shaikh Khalil - her name means “flowers” in Arabic. She's trying to escape in a school-turned-shelter that was bombed overnight. Somehow she survived. 36 others (including her mum and sister) were killed.

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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 19/05/2025

Huge news: EnergyAustralia has acknowledged that carbon offsetting is not the most effective way to reduce emissions, and they will now focus on direct emissions reductions. Last year, @pollyjhemming.bsky.social explained how the government's Climate Active is facilitating greenwash ⤵️ #auspol

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Sonya Semmens @sonyasemmens.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

I took a week off socials and spent Mothers Day weekend with my kids, my mums and my gran. It was excellent. So this post is a delayed reflection on what it’s meant to be a mother this year for me. And what it means to parent in a world that feels (increasingly) uncertain.

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Kent Parkstreet @kentparkskeet.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

@sonyasemmens.bsky.social, thank you for standing for Macnamara, we need change in policy and in representation. My vote is in the box, let’s try to get those three hundred voters to change to Greens 1 and add our electorate to the cross bench that will change the country. #AusPol

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Sonya Semmens @sonyasemmens.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Vale Pope Francis of the poor, the people, and for peace. "Love makes hope blossom in the wilderness." To my Catholic friends in mourning, I share your sadness to farewell a man truly after Jesus' heart. Keep walking the walk.

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Sonya Semmens @sonyasemmens.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Here is our How To Vote card! If you Vote 1 Greens and 2 Labor, you’ll keep out Dutton and get Labor to act. So long as you put Labor above Liberals, your vote will never strengthen Dutton. We guarantee we won’t help Dutton form government, and everything we’re doing is about preventing that. 💚👈🏻

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Sonya Semmens @sonyasemmens.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

If you want to keep Dutton out, the only progressive vote in Macnamara is 1 Green. 💚

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Jac @cultofjack.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

There’s an epic day of doorknocking for @greens.org.au in Macnamara. Don’t want vested interests dictating who vote for? Don’t approve of progressive women being silenced? Head on down to @sonyasemmens.bsky.social office on Fitzroy Street. Weather will be good, winning will be better! #auspol

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Sonya Semmens @sonyasemmens.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Did you know our future rests on you? If you live in Macnamara you’re in one of the closest seats in the country - we’re just 300 votes away from winning here! YOUR VOTE could deliver a golden age of progressive power-shared parliament. Don’t miss your moment.🌏🐨🌱 This election, vote 1 Greens 💚👈🏻

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Sonya Semmens @sonyasemmens.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Free early education gives children the very best start in life, while also supporting parents to re-enter the workforce sooner… but for many it’s not affordable. So our bold plan will ensure no child is left behind. Just like primary and secondary school, it should be fee-free!!

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Sonya Semmens @sonyasemmens.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Why does Medicare stop at your neck?! Everyone should be able to go to the dentist when they need to. The last time Greens were in minority Gov, we got dental into Medicare for kids. Now we want to finish the job. This election, Vote 1 Greens to keep Dutton out and get Labor to act.💚🪥👈🏻

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Sonya Semmens @sonyasemmens.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

If you’re worried about the cost of living, housing or climate, you’re not alone. This could be the most important election in a generation. With a minority government predicted, we can keep Dutton out and get Labor to act. Vote 1 Greens.

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Kent Parkstreet @kentparkskeet.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Macnamara folks. If we care about people on unemployment benefits, let’s vote Greens. The Greens can win Macnamara. @sonyasemmens.bsky.social is a sound candidate. We can add to a strong cross bench that can demand better for those doing it hard in this wealthy nation. #AusPol

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Sonya Semmens @sonyasemmens.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

I'm heartbroken to wake to this news. I join my NGO and Greens colleagues once again in calling for a ceasefire, urgent aid, the unconditional release of all hostages, cease arms trade, sanction Netanyahu's govt, and end this unbearable suffering. Only peace brings peace. Only peace brings peace.

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Sonya Semmens @sonyasemmens.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Tonight's Four Corners' investigation into the childcare crisis is very distressing viewing. It's outrageous and unacceptable that shoddy, for-profit centres continue to surge while high-quality local services like Windsor Community Children’s Centre are on the chopping block.

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Sonya Semmens @sonyasemmens.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

I’m really alarmed by the proposal for Port Phillip Council to fine people for being homeless. I’ve certainly heard that my community is concerned about street safety and very worried people being made homeless by the housing crisis. Yet of thousands of conversations we've had 👇

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