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Designer Hasan @designer4hasand.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
As parents, we struggle to afford basic household essentials and provide Amir and Osama with the clothes, shoes, and daily necessities they need.💔 Your support and share can make a real difference in our children’s lives and help our family through these difficult times. 🤍
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Donate to Help Hasan & Duaa Rebuild Their Lives., organized by Natalie taffal
Deep within the alleys of Gaza, a life story full of pain and challenges unfolde… Natalie taffal needs your support for Help Hasan & Duaa Rebuild Their Lives.
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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
'Greedy, heartless landlords drive desperate tenants into poverty, but still try to squeeze them'.
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Jenny O’Connor @jenocon.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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marque lawyers @marquelawyers.com.au · 24/09/2026
The Knesset (Israel's parliament) elections panel has voted overwhelmingly to exclude all the Arab majority parties from participating in the upcoming national election. The decision will be reviewed by the Supreme Court. We couldn't possibly suggest that this sounds a little like apartheid.
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Kon Karapanagiotidis @kkarapanagiotidis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The Albanese Government is looking to bring in an asylum ban and remove the right to work. We have just weeks to stop this, organise and mobilise a community push back. Help us win this fight. Donate here to do so: donate.asrc.org.au
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nordacious @nordacious.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"Always good to catch up with @POTUS" 📸
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Kon Karapanagiotidis @kkarapanagiotidis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The Albanese Gov is looking to bring in an asylum ban & remove the right to work. We’ve just weeks to stop this, organise & mobilise a community push back & send refugee led delegations to Canberra. Help the @ASRC1 win this fight. Donate: donate.asrc.org.au
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The tragedy has been so knowable. This from seven years ago — and we’re still paying for so many Americans letting it happen.
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Kon Karapanagiotidis @kkarapanagiotidis.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
My worst fears were confirmed by Tony Burke yesterday. The right to seek asylum & work while seeking safety are both in imminent danger. Help us bring a delegation of refugees to Parliament, to make sure their voices are heard by those in power. Donate 👇🏼 donate.asrc.org.au/_support
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trishdonovan.bsky.social @trishdonovan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Help USyd Palestine advocates defeat Israel Lobby legal attack! chuffed.org/project/1432...
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Help USyd Palestine advocates defeat Israel Lobby legal attack!
Dr Nick Riemer and Professor John Keane are academics at the University of Sydney and long-time advocates of freedom and justice for Palestinians. Since October 7, in articles, on social media and at ...
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
CPSU is calling for an immediate pause on automated decision making in the APS
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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Appeal abandoned. Rejection of IHRA antisemitism definition to stand Kim Wingerei reports. Read it here: michaelwest.com.au/appeal-abandoned…
Michael West Media story graphic
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Andrew Gardiner @ajgardineresq.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Cathy Wilcox with some anti-Zionist parting shots on her way out the door ... 🍉 Nothing to lose, so why not? #GazaGenocide #auspol
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Kon Karapanagiotidis @kkarapanagiotidis.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I’m shocked & appalled if the Albanese Gov is cutting our refugee & humanitarian intake by 30% to 13,750 places as reported by the Australian Financial Review. The ASRC will do all we can to stop this. The ALP if true, is following the lead of One Nation and Pauline Hanson.
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Dr Liz Allen @drdemography.com · 23/08/2026
‘parents caring for young children with disability are twice as likely to experience psychological distress and nearly twice as likely to say they are not in good health’ www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
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'Survival mode': Study reveals toll on parents of children with disability
A major Australian study finds parents caring for young children with disability are twice as likely to say they are in poor health, feeling constantly in demand and lonely.
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 22/08/2026
Australia Institute research shows that nurses pay more tax than gas and oil companies. Meanwhile, multinational gas companies get 56% of our gas for free and then export it overseas. Sign the petition: nb.australiainstitute.org.au/fix_ga…
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Fahad Ali @fahad-s-ali.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Yet another hit from Laura Tingle. You read through columns like this and you have to wonder why the rest of the press finds it so hard. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
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Israel's impunity has been virtually unaffected by collective concern
Even the United States is now criticising Israel's ongoing settler violence in the West Bank as Benjamin Netanyahu, once the "Trump whisperer", becomes the Trump ignorer.
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Bec Shaw @brocklesnitch.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
i write things like this knowing im going to endure bad fatphobia & it will probably not help my overall wellbeing, but the payoff is that it is hopefully validating for some, and maybe..MAYBE it might like sway a few people into thinking differently a bit. feels like very slow going, but its goin
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Matt Golding @goldingcartoons.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
When the Israeli military investigates itself. @theageaustralia.bsky.social
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Andy Paterson @agpat.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Not all Jews support Israel or the political ideology of Zionism. To be critical of both Israel and Zionism is not antisimetic. I will always be critical of any ideology or Nation who partake in apartheid, genocide, ecocide or starving certain ethnic groups to death, always.
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Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
ICYMI- my final cartoon for the Guardian. It's on Trump's presidential library and the leaving of Leavitt.
Ornate sign says "Donald J Trump Presidential Library"
Room has golden escalator, Qatari plane, boxes of Top Secret files everwhere, Maga hats, Trump coin, Fifa Prize, Nobel Prize with Trump's name added, models of the ballroom and Arc d'Trump in glass boxes and large golden statue of Trump at Butler assasination attemtpt with fist raised heroically. 
In the right had corner, a woman and her son are looking at a portrait of Karoline Leavitt. The mother is reading the plaque under it out loud "Despite never publishing a novel or short story, she was a major voice in American fiction"
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AHMAD_JOHAR🕊𓂆🇵🇸 @ahmadjohary16.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I write after tears I could no longer hide.💔 A man’s tears are hard to explain; they carry fear, loss, and exhaustion. I place my life in your compassionate hearts, asking for a chance to reach safety and build a future for my wife and our baby girl, arriving in two months.💔 Support|↪️ bit.ly/483RUjk
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Our Baby Deserves Safety: Help Ahmad& Samar to Start Again
Hi, I'm helping my dear friends Ahmad and Samar who are seeking your support to build a secure and stable future for themselves and their growing family. Please read their story and consider supportin...
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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Medical workers protesting the adoption of the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism
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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Naarm/Melbourne has again showed up in force to protest Israeli atrocity in Gaza and the West Bank, grotesque Australian government and corporate complicity, and the silence and indifference of the husks posing as human among us. From the river to the sea.
The streets of Naarm/Melbourne filled with protesters and flags
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Ed Husic is being polite. It's not so much that Labor is allergic to dissent. But that Albanese has infected the government with a neoliberal, corporate donor-driven, chronic case of spinelessness. #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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News live: Ed Husic says Labor ‘allergic to dissent’ and Australians want to see politicians ‘stand up for something’
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Designer Hasan @designer4hasand.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
My friends, It's been 3 days without a single donation💔 Every £25 helps us put food on the table & cover the basic daily needs of my family. Your kindness is what keeps us going through the hardest days. If you're able to help or share,it would mean the world to us🧡 Help here: gofund.me/6c54d52fd
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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Centrelink is awash with highly-qualified graduates with huge uni debts who can't get a job: the politicians who got free uni degrees from their parents or the govt have loaded up a new generation with debt, deliberate tanked affordable housing & then asked them, 'why aren't you having kids?'
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AHMAD_JOHAR🕊𓂆🇵🇸 @ahmadjohary16.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Many of you remember Ahmad and Samar as a loving couple 🤍 But now our love story just added a new chapter 🫶🏻 Our baby girl is coming in 3 months 👶🏻🎀, and we’re fighting for a safer future for her. Your support means the world to us. 🤍 Donate here for our baby girl's brighter future.__》 bit.ly/483RUjk
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trishdonovan.bsky.social @trishdonovan.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Our Baby Deserves Safety: Help Ahmad& Samar to Start Again chuffed.org/project/1591...
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Our Baby Deserves Safety: Help Ahmad& Samar to Start Again
Hi, I'm helping my dear friends Ahmad and Samar who are seeking your support to build a secure and stable future for themselves and their growing family. Please read their story and consider supportin...
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 15/07/2026
It is, in fact, way cleaner to build data centres in America's worst data centre hotspots than it is to build in Sydney or Melbourne
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 18/06/2026
Just resharing this because it's clearly needed: Australia's data centre hotspots have nearly twice the grid emissions intensity as America's data centre hotspots.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 15/07/2026
Same day as this announcement, btw www.politico.com/news/2026/07...
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Hochul to approve nation’s first state-level data center pause
The New York governor is wading into a thorny political issue amid environmental and energy use concerns.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 15/07/2026
A quick hot take on Albanese's AI plan from a climate / energy perspective: ultimately nothing new, but reading between the lines, a hint at weakening a 100% clean standard specifically to allow for gas. www.pm.gov.au/media/ai-aus...
And we know they will need energy too.

We will create a legal obligation for the next generation of large-scale data centres to underwrite new power supply.

To pay their full share of grid connection, so no costs are passed on to homes or businesses.

And to put at least as much energy into our grid as they take out of it.

To be net-generators, not net-users.

To build new renewable generation – and firming – to strengthen our national energy resilience.
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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
New: The false material and bad-faith arguments presented by Jillian Segal against the ABC and SBS draw attention to deeper flaws in the royal commission
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A Nadir for the Royal Commission
How it became a platform for Jillian Segal's attack on the public broadcasters
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Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 14/07/2026
Another one framing copyright as an obstacle. It’s not complicated. It’s our right as creators not to have our work stolen. You have to ask permission. Licensing is not difficult! We’re all extremely contactable! www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...
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A 60-year-old law could decide if Australia gets billions in AI investments
Tens of billions of dollars in investment, and Australia's ambition to become a global AI power, could hinge on a law written in 1968 for an era of black-and-white television, film and radio.
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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
If you don’t let us steal everything we’re not going to build our massive theft-recycling machines in your backyard
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Anthropic tells Chalmers: $21b investment hinges on copyright
Chief executive Dario Amodei met with Treasurer Jim Chalmers and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese when AI giant Anthropic launched in Australia in April.
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Designer Hasan @designer4hasand.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
You can't imagine how powerful your kindness truly is. Every act of generosity helps feed our family, restores our dignity & reminds us that we are not alone in this journey. 💔 Please support by donating or sharing our campaign. Every gesture of kindness brings us one step closer to hope. 🤍
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Donate to Help Hasan & Duaa Rebuild Their Lives., organized by Natalie taffal
Deep within the alleys of Gaza, a life story full of pain and challenges unfolde… Natalie taffal needs your support for Help Hasan & Duaa Rebuild Their Lives.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
The absolutely ridiculous number of sports betting commercials shown on every commercial break during the #WorldCup, and during any sporting event these days for that matter, are irresponsible and disgusting.
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trishdonovan.bsky.social @trishdonovan.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Abandon plans to criminalise Palestine solidarity slogans www.parliament.vic.gov.au/get-involved...
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Abandon plans to criminalise Palestine solidarity slogans - Petitions - Parliament of Victoria
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
A strong job market doesn’t automatically mean people feel better off.⁣ ⁣ Jobs are growing. But when prices rise faster than wages, purchasing power falls.⁣ ⁣ That’s the part of the economy people feel every day.⁣ ⁣ newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/…
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Not good enough @australia.theguardian.com You cite APAN as opposing the IHRA definition, but: - Jewish Council of Australia and other non-Zionist Jewish groups have said same - the IHRA def principal author warned it would be weaponized - doctors *have already* been silenced by the Israel lobby.
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Danielle Binks @daniellebinks.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Fears doctors criticising Israel may be silenced as health watchdog adopts contested antisemitism definition Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency to use International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition for ‘regulatory work’ #auspol www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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Fears doctors criticising Israel may be silenced as health watchdog adopts contested antisemitism definition
Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency to use International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition for ‘regulatory work’
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Bridie Mac 🍉 @bridiemac.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Wow! FABULOUS Auction for the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre. ENDS SOON!! #Socceroos jersey #Shoreham Beach House stay #Flight with #MelbourneHeli valued at ~$600!! 89.3% towards their goal - let's get them there! #ASRC
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benjamin @benjamino.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Like clockwork... gaslighting crock of shit, just apologise for being a dick
The Guardian:
Charlie Pickering: ‘We used to be able to just disagree. Social media has a lot to answer for’
Broadcaster Charlie Pickering stands with an umbrella in Southbank, Melbourne, Australia

The comedian and broadcaster on his new radio gig, being diagnosed with ADHD and the problems with online discourse

“For anyone to suggest that I was commenting on her ability to host a podcast on autism … my feelings are irrelevant in this, but that was nothing about what I was saying. And it also saddens me that anyone would think that I would agree to an interview with that provocateur. I was out in good faith, trying to talk to protesters who were outside the ABC and were critical of ABC bias, and I wanted to get their stories.

“I was ambushed, essentially, while I was … repeatedly trying to talk to other people and trying to, as gracefully as possible, get out of the situation.”

Pickering pauses again, serious, his toastie untouched. He describes himself as “a huge fan of Grace Tame”, and expresses deep disappointment “that it’s been portrayed that I feel otherwise in any way”.

“I was asked a question about something that was of importance to myself and my family, and I was clear to say I was speaking … on behalf of myself and not my organisation.” After the incident, an ABC investigation found Pickering had not breached its code of conduct or public comment guidelines.

“I probably should have just walked away. But we live and learn.”
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 12/06/2026
A good time to remind everyone: Amazon stopped disclosing its total, company-wide energy consumption two years ago It is SO WEIRD to me how rarely this is remarked upon. They.....are not a small company, and this is a hugely important number. ketanjoshi.co/2025/05/23/d...
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nordacious @nordacious.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
"If you can’t get into the store, please pay them a visit online. Tell them I sent you. aboynamedaaron.com.au / nordacious.com 💚" - thanks so much, @owenminogue.bsky.social and Matt. I reckon Chippy is pretty chuffed with his new squeaky fries you kindly gifted too 🍟 Appreciate you boys x
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Em @empressoz.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
I hear this every day with the clients I work with. I also have a very disabled sister heavily dependent on NDIS and family care. When my parents are no longer able to help care for her I don’t know what’s going to happen given I work full time (and need to)…
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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Goodness, won't it be nice when they start applying this new policy to women employees.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Fair to say this was written in anger, frustration and despair. The NDIS cuts, and the way they are being done, are cruel. They cannot be supported. www.deepcutnews.com/p/health-min...
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Health minister wants to cut disability support by 99% without legislation - Greg Jericho
Labor's cruel NDIS cuts will make it worse for families like mine
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