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Sister Bernadette OMalley

@srbernadetteom.bsky.social
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Retired teacher of maths and physics Lover of dogs & gardening

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MillsTheOne @millstheone.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
In these strange times, for our future, I am holding on to what Gandhi said:🙏🏽💔
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 10h
The ICHTHYS project in the NT, fully owned by a Japanese company (incl part owned by the Japanese govt). $52bn in income. $0 in company tax $0 in PRRT But apparently if we do a 25% export tax they might get upset so we can't do it becaue it is vital for our economy O_o.
Table of ICHTHYS income and tax

Year	Total income $	Tax payable $	PRRT
2018-19	$802,110,813	$0	$0
2019-20	$6,378,812,227	$0	$0
2020-21	$6,106,449,154	$0	$0
2021-22	$7,281,757,071	$0	$0
2022-23	$11,973,514,434	$0	$0
2023-24	$10,661,856,034	$0	$0
2024-25	$9,680,295,658	$0	$0
Total 	$52,884,795,391	$0	$0
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The DILETTANTE @demwar.bsky.social · 12h
ATO shows that 30% of large companies paid NO TAX in 24/25 None. Our systems are broken.
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mariewalsh18.bsky.social @mariewalsh18.bsky.social · 6h
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Shirty 🍁 @whogivesashirt.bsky.social · 5h
I went for a walk with a neighbour yesterday who suggested we go through a secluded spot behind a neighbouring building. He was amazed I’d never done so before. I had to explain that’s the kind of space we’re taught to avoid. This stuff really doesn’t occur to them at all.
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 3h
There’s a war on Iran choking global oil supplies, an artificial intelligence boom & a US president torpedoing the global trading system. But inflation simply MUST be normal, according to the RBA. 🎧 theaus.in/4hWT057 @grogsgamut.bsky.social @skyelark.bsky.social #auspol
Photo of Reserve Bank Governor Michele Bullock standing at a lectern
NEW EPISODE | New world, same Reserve Bank
Listen to the latest episode of Dollars & Sense now via the link or wherever you get your podcasts
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 12h
“Biggest improvement in housing affordability for 40 years”
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 9h
Got a bit angry today in my column www.theguardian.com/business/gro...
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If turbocharged petrol prices are driving up inflation, then why are Australia’s unemployed on the line? | Greg Jericho
Avoiding a rise in unemployment is important for the RBA – but apparently not a dealbreaker
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Robbie Buck @robbieb.bsky.social · 8h
Looking forward to seeing the massive headline in the Daily Telegraph, slamming Australia's biggest bludger. Oh, wait.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 10h
Kogan CEO in June: Ruslan Kogan says changes to Capital Gains Tax will attract migrants motivated by “sick NDIS scams” and the welfare system." Today ATO Tax data for Kogan Pty Ltd: Income: $642.3m Taxable income: $0 Tax paid $0
Screenshot: "Sick scame": Kogan boss unleashes on Albanese government's capital gains tax changes"

rich lister Ruslan Kogan has issued an epic rant about Anthony Albanese's tax changes, warning they risk attracting a specific type of migrant to Australia'sSpreadsheet screenshot of ATO corporate tax transparency data

KOGAN AUSTRALIA PTY LTD: Total income $642,335,009; Taxable Income $0; Tax payable $0
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Robyn D - Difficult Woman @koparafallskid.bsky.social · 11h
This is why poor people starve in rich countries. ATO says 1,149 large companies paid no tax as it scrutinises AI firms #auspol
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More than 1,000 large companies paid no tax in Australia, ATO reveals
Almost 30 per cent of large companies paid no tax in 2024–25, an Australian Taxation Office report reveals, resulting in the corporate tax amount payable dropping by $8.2 billion from the previous yea...
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 9h
News corp... tax is a thing for other people to pay (again)
News Australia Holdings PTY LTD

Total income: "$1,886,287,823
Taxable income: $310,408,656
Tax payable: $0.00
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Anj of Garigal @garigalanj.bsky.social · 10h
Look at the size of these power poles. Without warning installed by Jemena. To supply power to a data centre. Awful. #abc730 #auspol
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 9h
Last month Santos CEO Kevin Gallagher told the National Press Club that Santos and the gas industry had not lost its social license
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 17h
Maybe time for those who don't experience this directly to return to this thread (which I posted when PTSD was being weaponized to relieve Graham Platner of responsibility for his actions).
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Sister Bernadette OMalley @srbernadetteom.bsky.social · 8h
I weep www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Catholic clergy sexually abused nearly 1,000 Massachusetts children over decades, report finds
No new indictments from eight-year investigation as state attorney general says church knew about abuse
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Sister Bernadette OMalley @srbernadetteom.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A DA for a data centre was withdrawn due to community action & AUSGRID SydneyWater concerns, yet some were supportive of the DC simply because it was on the north shore of Sydney so affects 'rich people' Comments like- "that impacts a relatively small number of people" www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
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Sister Bernadette OMalley @srbernadetteom.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Would both the state and federal govts in Australia please do this? It saves lives
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Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Obviously this form of sponsored propaganda shouldn’t be allowed in schools. What are the education departments doing FFS? www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
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Inside the fossil fuel industry's push into Australian classrooms
At least 260 educational programs in Australia are sponsored by fossil fuel companies, according to a report by a climate advocacy group.
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John Donegan @donegan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
People power (and a socialist government) deliver the win against multinational vulture funds. apnews.com/article/spai...
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An 87-year-old woman whose eviction sparked protests in Spain is returning home, lawyer says
An 87-year-old woman whose eviction sparked massive protests in Spain over the country's housing crisis has accepted a deal to return home.
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Sister Bernadette OMalley @srbernadetteom.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I am struggling to work out which part of this sentence is the most horrifying. Is it the threat AI poses or the fact that people are lining up to invest in it? www.smh.com.au/business/com...
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Anthropic warns investors its AI could pose ‘existential risks to humanity’
In the prospectus for its $US2 trillion sharemarket float, the company uses 80 pages to outline its AI models’ dangers, including unpredictable behaviours such as attempts to “resist shutdown” and “co...
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
as a satire on so-called late stage capitalism how could one beat investors pouring a trillion into a company offering to wipe out humankind
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KatOtis! @kat-otis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This would be nice to try...
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Pat G🇨🇦 🍁🏳️‍🌈🍉 @pguist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Why women choose the 🐻
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 29/09/2026
Farmers and women abducted in northern Niger and Zamfara states as police find human remains at suspected gang camps.
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More than 80 reported abducted in Nigeria as police find human remains
Farmers and women abducted in northern Niger and Zamfara states as police find human remains at suspected gang camps.
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The Shovel @theshovel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Households across Australia are cancelling annual holidays, cutting back on groceries and reducing other spending because the 79-year-old little boy is out of his depth. Read the full story: theshovel.com.au/2026/05/06/i...
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 28/09/2026
To the people complaining these sex abuse cases have created a world where men now have to think 10 times before they touch a woman. Yes, that's the point. It's called consent. Welcome to human decency.
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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We've cracked the BHP insurance scam. They are gouging coal workers, lowballing insurance risk, tapping into icare (other people's insurance) and compromising the courts by muzzling evidence #auspol #unions #bhp #minterellison michaelwest.com.au/grifting-ica...
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Grifting icare, gouging workers. BHP's big insurance scam unveiled - Michael West
BHP and MinterEllison are covering up a coal industry insurance scam at the expense of mining workers and icare. Michael West reports.
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AppleInsider @appleinsider.com · 28/09/2026
In a completely unsurprising turn of events, Meta's Muse AI is stealing Apple Messages, past and present, and uploading the contents to its cloud, even if explicitly told not to.
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Meta's new AI agent blatantly ignores users permissions
In a completely unsurprising turn of events, Meta's Muse AI is stealing Apple Messages, past and present, and uploading the contents to its cloud, even if explicitly told not to.
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Nashville Scene @nashvillescene.com · 28/09/2026
Scene staff reporter Eli Motycka was removed from the guest list for Peter Thiel's Nashville Antichrist lectures — and he's not the only journalist who was. 🧵
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Andrew B. Watkins @windjunky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
So BoM, are you saying there have been no climate events worthy of a Special Climate Statement in Australia in 2.5 years? Not even the heatwave in January 2026 that saw 49C reached somewhere in Australia for 6 days in a row, and the worlds most southern 50C on record? www.bom.gov.au/climate/curr...
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James Hughes @dystopian-fashion.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Debbie Northway 🇦🇺🦘🐨 @debbienorthway.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Jessica D. M. 🇺🇦 🇦🇺 🇨🇦 🇵🇦 🇬🇱 🪃 🟧 @jessicaperthwa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
www.abc.net.au/news/2006-01... #Auspol Reminder, Barnaby was against this vaccine due to his views on girls sleeping around and his religious family values. Later he Divorced his wife because he got his staff member pregnant.
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Democrats slam Joyce's cancer vaccine worries
Nationals Senator Barnaby Joyce has come under fire for his comments on the world's first cervical cancer vaccine.
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Deepcut News @deepcutnews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This Labor government is the Ed Sheeran of Australian politics, @amyremeikis.bsky.social writes. "On every issue, Labor has done the least it can do." www.deepcutnews.com/p/this-labor...
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This Labor government is the Ed Sheeran of Australian politics – Amy Remeikis
There is more opportunity to push back against toxic centrism
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Tony Martin @tonymartin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Wait till they hear about 'Harold and Maude'.
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Process Driven @processdriven.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Funny how you never hear of AI breaking its shackles & curing cancer. Or solving climate change. Or designing an end to poverty. I've wonder why that could be? #auspol #AI
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Nate Cochrane @natecochrane.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Maybe Labor could insist on this for Australia’s supermarket duopoly? One of the biggest cons today is how Colesworth transformed paying customers into its unpaid workers. #auspol
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Crikey @crikey.com.au · 29/09/2026
Opinion | Political cartoonists are a dying breed, with publications slowly waiting for them to leave before bricking up the door behind them, writes New Yorker cartoonist Jason Chatfield. www.crikey.com.au/2026/09/29/c...
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We cartoonists are a dying breed. It's a canary in the coalmine for a dysfunctional democracy
As New Yorker cartoonist Jason Chatfield writes, staff cartoonists used to be the only ones in the building paid to point at the building. Everyone else eventually answers to the owner, but they…
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Australian Conservation Foundation @ausconservation.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Be very kind to them. Don't use insecticides. Turn off unnecessary outdoor lights. Pop any moth that comes inside back outside so it can continue its migration. au.news.yahoo.com/aussies-warn...
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Aussies warned not to make common mistake as thousands of moths swarm
A phenomenon not seen in around 20 years has returned to Sydney.
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Anonymous @opdeatheaters.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A former Cornell student was drugged and raped by seven men. Two were expelled; others only received sanctions including suspensions, workshops or essays. No one was charged. Now the DA has reopened the case. #OpDeathEaters
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Essays, lifted suspensions and no charges: the Cornell University gang rape case and the institutions that fail to protect victims
A former Cornell student says seven Chi Phi members drugged and raped her. Two were expelled. No one was criminally charged. Her case raises broader questions about how universities and law enforcemen...
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Sister Bernadette OMalley @srbernadetteom.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Great idea! Should be same in Oz
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marque lawyers @marquelawyers.com.au · 28/09/2026
Google is updating its satellite images of Gaza. The comprehensiveness of effort required to reduce an urban landscape to this is beyond imagining. Literal carpet bombing.
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OMG.WTF 🇦🇺 🇲🇪 🇿🇲 @amsickofpollies.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"A civilization in which one in three women are sexually assaulted, in which 98% of rapists face no consequences, in which nine out of ten women murdered by men are killed by someone they trusted—that civilization is not stable. It is not healthy. It is not just. It is destroying itself."
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Dylan. fairly male, very metal @dangermuppet.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Naarm/Melbourne people This is so fucked. ASRC does invaluable work and these vans are integral to that.
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Won't sell you an advertising slot if you might say mean things about Elon Musk. But if you are a Medicare scammer using deep fake celebrities, buy all the ad space you desire!
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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
For most of us, the recognisable companies on the blacklist will be Airbnb, Booking.com, Expedia, Motorola Solutions & TripAdviser Link to the UN report on the database of businesses involved in Israeli settlements in occupied West Bank 👉 docs.un.org/en/A/HRC/60/19
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Philip Oldfield @sustainabletall.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
New office building in Montpellier, by Leclercq Architects The facade is made from straw with a local clay-earth render applied on both the inside and outside Walkways, terraces and alcoves also extend the office space to the exterior
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