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Dr. Jeff Masters @drjeffmasters.bsky.social · 20h
Forget the sandbags, duct tape applied properly to an outside door does a better job of protecting against flooding! theconversation.com/duct-tape-ke...
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Duct tape kept out more flood water than sandbags in laboratory tests
A cheap roll of duct tape cut flood water leakage through a door by 97% in lab tests.
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Prosper Australia @prosperaustralia.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Australia is a resource-rich country. But we don't collect a strong public return from our finite mineral and energy resources. Our latest report estimates a $45 billion pa gap in resource revenue compared to int. peers. READ MORE: www.prosper.org.au/australias-r...
Australia is giving away $45 billion a year.

Background image, heavy machinery operating on red soil.
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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
David Shoebridge scolds Labor, LNP & One Nation saying it’s a “disgrace” they’re voting against Thorpe’s bill to ban shackling of women who are giving birth in custody. “Ask yourself what you would have thought, if you…your partner…your daughter was shackled to the bed.”💥
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Penny Allman-Payne @pennyallmanpayne.com · 15/10/2026
Today the Greens put up our amendment to the government’s escalation pathway bill to finally put clinical human override back in aged care assessments. It was very disappointing to see the Coalition fold, and side with the government to defeat our amendment, and pass this half-measure unchanged.
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Young people in India are protesting for a better future. The violent crack-down from the Modi Government, and mass detention of protesters must be condemned. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
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‘Cockroach’ party leaders say India is ‘at war with its citizens’ as protests enter second day
CJP leaders say Modi’s government is creating ‘atmosphere of fear’ after they were among thousands detained on Saturday
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 15/10/2026
Kenya’s Ebola cases test preparedness beyond Nairobi aje.news/9e7so0
Kenya’s Ebola cases test preparedness beyond Nairobi
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 11/10/2026
New cases in eastern DRC and a fatal imported infection in Kenya highlight the challenges of containing Ebola.
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Ebola spreads in eastern DRC as Kenya confirms imported case
New cases in eastern DRC and a fatal imported infection in Kenya highlight the challenges of containing Ebola.
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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Hard to find the words tonight. Helen was an amazing journalist, smart, hard-working, clear-eyed. She was also a kind, generous person and a good friend. Sad beyond words.
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CIDRAP @cidrap.bsky.social · 23h
US measles cases grow by 8% in one week for a total of 4,410 cases The highly contagious virus is tearing through unvaccinated communities across the United States. Read more: bit.ly/4hXLq9e
An illustration of measles infections.
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Ryan Hisner @ryanhisner.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
3/7 sequences uploaded by Western Australia today are PJ.2.1, including 3/4 of the most recently collected sequences. PJ.2.1 now seems to be well established and growing in Australia and New Zealand.
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
This brilliant new tool allows blame to be allocated and shames those seeking - in the face of our collapsing climate - to load the atmosphere with even more carbon Please take a look and share www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
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Just what damage can the emissions from a new fossil fuel facility cause? A new tool has estimates
From crop failures to coral bleaching, a new tool developed by climate scientists aims to predict in detail the impacts of each megatonne of carbon emissions
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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Labor & the Coalition decline to ban the barbaric, dehumanising, traumatic practices of shackling an incarcerated person during childbirth, and strip-searching children Say it's up to states and territories
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Labor and Coalition block bill that would ban incarcerated women being shackled in childbirth
Liberal Paul Scarr breaks ranks to condemn major parties, saying he will write to Queensland attorney general
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Home Affairs 'unlawfully' jailed Australian citizen for 945 days, ombudsman reports www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...
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Home Affairs 'unlawfully' jailed Australian citizen for 945 days
An Australian citizen was unlawfully held in immigration detention for 945 days due to a litany of departmental errors.
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garden-gnome.bsky.social @garden-gnome.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
End of the pay fortnight and no money left for a bus. Even back then missing a meeting meant immediate cessation of support and all that entailed. The bureaucratic evil was ramped up by successive governments and robodebt was the worst evolution. Probably won't be the last either
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garden-gnome.bsky.social @garden-gnome.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
I worked at Centrelink for a bit circa 2005. I remember one situation where some customers were invited to attend a voluntary meeting to test UI changes to the website. The invite looked a lot like the mandatory meeting requests! At least one person walked more than 10km to attend.
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
I am in the credits on this one
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Barbara Pocock @barbarapocock.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
We must protect renters from excessive & unpredictable rent increases by limiting the amount rent can be increased annually. We need a national target of at least 10% of public & community housing as a share of all housing stock. The government needs to build housing again.
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Barbara Pocock @barbarapocock.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Labor has done nothing for renters. The HAFF has added just 1,432 social & affordable homes while 640,000 people need housing. Successive govts have neglected investment in public housing & community housing, which has dropped to a record low of 3.7% of all housing stock.
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Barbara Pocock @barbarapocock.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
The majority of Australians support some form of rent regulation (78%) as well as increased funding for more public housing (75%), new polling from the Australia Institute reveals today. The polling shows Labor’s housing policies are out of step with ordinary Australians.
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Market Forces @marketforces.org.au · 14/10/2026
Today #AustralianSuper has woken up to a strong warning in the SMH — as leading #climate, nature and public policy organisations urge the fund to put its members first and stop backing Whitehaven’s new coal mines. Sign the open letter: australiansuperpolluter.com
A photo of a full page ad in the Sydney Morning Herald that says 'AustralianSuper, backing new coal is not super. Put your members first and say no to Whitehaven's new coal.'
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ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
The Gold Coast's push for more housing faces growing climate risks, with urban planners warning rising seas and worsening flooding will force up premiums and push people out of some suburbs.
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More homes amid rising seas is the Gold Coast's dilemma
The Gold Coast's push for more housing faces growing climate risks, with urban planners warning rising seas and worsening flooding will force up premiums and push people out of some suburbs.
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Tim Sherratt @wragge.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026
Trying to update my dashboard of open access articles in Australian history journals, but realising that a lot of the supposed 'green' versions go to Figshare records with permanent embargoes.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 13/10/2026
40% of *everything being shipped everywhere on Earth* is fossil fuels Just an absolute laughing-stock clown-show of an energy source. This is laughably absurd, why do we treat this like it's normal and good Fossil fuels are a satirical fuel www.irena.org/-/media/File...
Global shipping transports fossil fuels and runs on oil: 40% of shipped products are fossil fuels or derivatives, while 99% of international shipping’s energy demand is met by oil-based fuels.
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Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
"Weakening" == lowest Labor primary vote in 125 years.
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Australia: 222 workers died from workplace injuries in 2025, the highest annual toll since 2012. There were also 147,200 serious workers' compensation claims in 2024–25, averaging over 400 a day. Vehicle incidents caused 41% of workplace fatalities, followed by falls from heights (13%).
An image featuring a dark background populated with numerous small, isometric, 3D-rendered human figures wearing varied clothing. Overlaying the top and center of the image is bold, white text that reads, "Key Work Health and Safety Statistics Australia 2026."
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
itswilwheaton: "I got my updated COVID and flu vaccines. Thanks, science! Thanks, medicine! Thanks, @dollyparton!" Source: www.instagram.com/p/DeSFRhZybOQ/
Instagram post by verified account @itswilwheaton showing actor Wil Wheaton receiving a vaccination while seated in a medical clinic.
•	Wheaton wears black-framed glasses, a black graphic T-shirt and a smartwatch.
•	His tattooed arms are visible, with his left sleeve rolled up to expose his upper arm.
•	A healthcare worker wearing a purple medical glove holds his upper arm during the vaccination.
•	Wheaton sits in a beige chair, smiling slightly towards the camera.
•	The clinic has beige walls, medical paperwork and a sharps disposal container.
•	Caption reads: “I got my updated COVID and flu vaccines. Thanks, science! Thanks, medicine! Thanks, @dollyparton!”
•	Post was shared two days earlier.
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ABC News Australia @news.abc.net.au · 10/10/2026
As temperatures rise, calls grow to redesign Queensland's urban sprawl
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Planning under pressure to tackle rising heat risk
As Queensland's urban centres grow rapidly, experts and conservationists are concerned with how our communities will plan for extreme heat
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
"The Cocos Islands are becoming a frontline player in a future war against China". Great work from @petercronau.bsky.social As usual, the Albanese govt keeps quiet on US military use of Australian territory, with huge security consequences. #EndAUKUS #auspol pearlsandirritations.com/post/2026/10...
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Australian island base's hidden US military role
Runway extensions, new military infrastructure and US planning are transforming the Cocos Islands into a strategically important forward operating base, with little public debate about the role Austra...
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Matt Golding @goldingcartoons.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Clothes make the man. Today’s @theageaustralia.bsky.social @sydmorningherald.bsky.social cartoon
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DrJuliaI @durridgere.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
“By refusing to take the community seriously and by hiding from public discussion on issues such as AUKUS, Labor has disenfranchised its natural constituency.”
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Labor should not take Green preferences for granted
Labor’s primary vote is weakening while Green preferences remain crucial in close contests. Albanese’s hostility to the Greens may become increasingly difficult to sustain.
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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 10/10/2026
Labor’s primary vote is sliding while Green preferences remain critical in marginal seats. Anthony Albanese may discover that treating the Greens as an enemy carries an electoral price, John Menadue writes. #auspol #Greens #Labor
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Nobel Prize @nobelprize.org · 09/10/2026
In awarding this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, the Norwegian Nobel Committee wants to remind the world that the rule of law – national and international – underpins the system we have set up to ensure peace and resolve conflicts non-violently. Peace requires justice.
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Nobel Prize @nobelprize.org · 09/10/2026
The #NobelPeacePrize for 2026 goes to a person who with exceptional courage and integrity has led the way towards a more comprehensive global legal order. This year’s laureate Navi Pillay has been instrumental in ensuring that war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide are prosecuted.
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Technically the court’s ruling, technically the law
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Guardian Environment @environment.theguardian.com · 07/10/2026
‘A real-life moment from The Castle’: the retired Australian couple who took on a coal giant and won
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‘A real-life moment from The Castle’: the retired Australian couple who took on a coal giant and won
Wendy Wales and Tony Lonergan’s four-year fight over MACH Energy’s Mount Pleasant coalmine went all the way to the high court
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Sydney Knitting Nannas and Friends @knitnannassyd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Join us in congratulating Hunter Valley school teachers and farmers Tony and Wendy who took on big coal and won! More to do - but this is a big win for sensible people who want a safe climate and a healthy environment. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Hunter Valley community group wins landmark high court climate change case over Mount Pleasant coalmine
Ruling on Mount Pleasant coalmine shows ‘we cannot continue to dig up coal … and pretend the consequences have nothing to do with us’, group says
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Sirius Star 🍉 🍉 🍉 @siriusstar3.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Hunter Valley community group has won Australia’s first high court case to consider climate change. #FossilFuel induced #ClimateChange
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Steph Hodgins-May @stephhodgins-may.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The government cannot claim to be serious about climate action, to lead climate negotiations at COP, all while continuing to approve new fossil fuel projects and pretending their emissions are someone else’s problem.
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Steph Hodgins-May @stephhodgins-may.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Authorities must now consider the environmental impacts of a project’s emissions. All the emissions.
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Steph Hodgins-May @stephhodgins-may.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
They’ve gotten away with massive destruction of our planet and environment as a result. When Australian coal is burned overseas, the climate impacts don’t suddenly disappear the way Labor likes to pretend they do.
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Steph Hodgins-May @stephhodgins-may.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This is despite approximately 80% of our coal and gas being exported - at massive profit to those corporations.
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Steph Hodgins-May @stephhodgins-may.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
With more coal and gas giants looking to expand further, the government should be paying close attention to this verdict. The fossil fuel parties have long argued that mining corporations aren’t responsible for emissions burned overseas.
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Steph Hodgins-May @stephhodgins-may.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The High Court ruling is a David v Goliath victory for those people, and for communities across Australia impacted by destructive corporate operations. The Prime Minister himself said he hoped the coal corporation would win the case against locals in the Hunter Valley.
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Steph Hodgins-May @stephhodgins-may.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The local community has spent years standing up to this massive corporation, which has been backed by the government against everyday Australians. I want to say congratulations to the two retired science teachers who spent four years challenging this massive fossil fuel company.
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Steph Hodgins-May @stephhodgins-may.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Today’s landmark High Court ruling is a victory for the environment and for the future of our planet. This is the first ever climate judgement from the Australian High Court and changes the game for the fight for climate justice.
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Steph Hodgins-May @stephhodgins-may.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
BREAKING: Today, the High Court ruled against MACH Energy in their appeal over the proposed expansion of the Mount Pleasant coal mine in the Hunter Valley.
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MrLiquid @mrliquid.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Good news Scope 3 emissions to be taken into account when approving (or not) climate bombs #auspol www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Hunter Valley community group wins landmark high court climate change case over Mount Pleasant coalmine
Ruling on Mount Pleasant coalmine shows ‘we cannot continue to dig up coal … and pretend the consequences have nothing to do with us’, group says
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Labor can't call itself a climate leader while it keeps approving new coal and gas. Governments must lead. New coal and gas is incompatible with a safe climate. Congratulations, Tony and Wendy. You've shown us we can win.
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
But it shouldn't take everyday people years in court to force anyone to consider the climate. That's how broken our environmental laws are.
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This is what happens when communities step up where governments fail. The High Court has made clear that planning authorities can't ignore greenhouse gas emissions when assessing fossil fuel projects. That's a landmark win for climate accountability.
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