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I believe it still has to get federal approval, is that correct? I’m not familiar with the NSW system so I don’t know how it got approved under the circumstances. Would like more detail. Is there any hope it won’t get through fed process?

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If you’re considered ‘strong’ (like Hanson-Young or Faruqi) you won’t get leadership. If you’re considered too ‘strong’ (possibly even ‘aggressive’) like Alex Bhathal or me, you’ll get excluded. it’s all sad and predictable #Feminism #Patriarchy #Politics

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As someone who was banned from the Greens at least in part because I was making too much fuss about feminist causes (in their eyes) - it’s a pattern. They prefer women who are conventionally feminine in style, but even then they won’t fully support them

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I am personally not surprised that Steph Hodgins-May supported this. In my dealings with her, she came across as a ‘so-called’ feminist who is actually more concerned about her own success than the success of women in general

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It’s disappointing that the Greens have once again given short shrift to a female leader. Larissa Waters wouldn’t have been my pick, but if they wanted a ‘stronger’ style leader, I think Faruqi or Hanson-Young would be fine. Like Labor, they revert to patriarchal stereotypes under pressure #AusPol

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The latest corporate tax data just dropped. And congrats to Santos Ltd - 11yrs in a row of no company tax.

Table of Santos ltd company tax 2014-15 to 2024-25

Year Total income Company Tax
2014-15 $3,389,399,798 $0
2015-16 $3,476,002,729 $0
2016-17 $3,715,263,715 $0
2017-18 $3,498,043,596 $0
2018-19 $4,360,612,850 $0
2019-20 $5,013,931,702 $0
2020-21 $4,070,327,153 $0
2021-22 $4,746,037,784 $0
2022-23 $6,257,384,778 $0
2023-24 $8,210,276,022 $0
2024-25 $5,117,008,013 $0
Total $51,854,288,140 $0

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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

South-east Asia has been shrouded in health-harming wildfire smoke for months, affecting tens of millions of people, but there's been barely any coverage in Australian media

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 20/09/2026

Elite athletes, musicians, actors & more often use cultural importance as an excuse for why they're exempt from cutting their emissions. In this new analysis led by @manuelsuter.bsky.social, we argue the opposite: visibility and influence should raise the bar, not lower it! Read more:

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The climate responsibility of cultural influencers - npj Climate Action

In socially influential fields such as elite sport, music, and film, cultural relevance is often invoked as a special moral status that exempts them from genuine emissions reduction. We argue that vis...

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Val team earth @valakay.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Yep the Northern hemisphere is getting hot. Posted previously about one of my tennis friends saying she wouldn’t go to Europe in summer - “too hot” - which from an Australian, even a Melburnian, I thought was striking. But who knows what our summer will hold? Vic almost reached 50C last summer

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Val team earth @valakay.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Ordered, looking forward to it

Val team earth @valakay.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Julia Gillard suffered much worse abuse than this, and I don’t recall anyone being sacked. not that I’m condoning what he said, it’s wrong on either side of politics, but it still looks like selective outrage rather than genuine support for women www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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Labor staffer and former Play School host sacked for ‘abhorrent’ posts attacking Peta Credlin

Rhys Muldoon uses X to target Tony Abbott’s former chief of staff and senator Jacinta Price

Val team earth @valakay.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Absolutely. I have been car free for 25 years - I’ve been very aware of the health benefits but have only recently thought about the financial benefits and I’m stunned how much it adds up to.

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Val team earth @valakay.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Dr Flowers is now saying that the problem is riding on the highway rather than not having a basket, which is fair enough, but in fairness to me, that wasn’t clear in his previous post. Anyway glad you enjoyed mine 😀

Val team earth @valakay.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I find this statement quite intriguing as someone who is 78, car free, and does all my shopping, goes to tennis, etc etc on a pedal bike. Do you not have a basket or what?

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Val team earth @valakay.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I’m 78 and I do all my shopping on my treadly (pedal bike). sounds like this guy hasn’t heard of baskets

I haven’t tried Threads but Facebook has lately been asking me if I ‘purchased’ something from various independent politicians or climate groups I’ve looked at or follow, and how would I rate it if so. Everything is commercial in Meta world apparently

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I will never forget the faces of my children first seeing the snow covered world around them. I will never stop fighting the Woodsides and Santos‘s of this world, and the politicians in their pockets, for stealing their joy.

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Fossil fuel billionaires and their political lackeys are killing people, and they are also stealing the joy and beauty from our lives

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Thousands of people died in directly climate change-related disasters this year in Europe, Nepal and elsewhere. In Australia, we’ve also had climate disasters, though generally with loss of life, but I am also talking here about more insidious losses.

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Last year, the beaches of my childhood were not safe for swimming because of an algal bloom related to ocean warming. Millions of sea creatures died. This year, the low-lying snowfield where my children learned to ski had almost no snow.

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Most winters of my children’s childhood, we would drive a couple of hours to the nearest snowfield. My children would vie to be the first to see the snow. I am effortless in the ocean, my children are effortless on the snow. All this is being stolen from us.

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I grew up on the Fleurieu peninsula, Kaurna and Ngarrindjeri country. My children grew up in the hills near Melbourne, near the border of Bunurong/Wurundjerri country. Every summer, my family would go to the beach for a holiday. As we drove, we children would vie to be the first to see the sea

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Spring began 5 days ago in Australia and there’s currently more than 50 fires burning across NSW

Fires burning across NSW at 1850hrs 5/9/26

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Val team earth @valakay.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Treating veganism as a minority special interest or even a joke, is a way for some climate activists to perform that they’re relatable. they’re normal, one of the gang. It’s time to stop doing that and start treating veganism seriously

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Val team earth @valakay.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Climate scientists are having debates on Bluesky about how we respond to overshoot and how best to get back to 1.5C or less. in spite of differences, it’s clear rapid reductions in methane need to be part of this So I ask all climate activists to stop treating veganism as ‘out there’ or ‘foolish’.

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Val team earth @valakay.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

My experience with Greens here is they have a habit of treating people badly and then finding it impossible to acknowledge or resolve This spreads ripples of distrust into the community. In my case I’ve tried repeatedly to resolve this, but the party seems sadly unable to do so

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Val team earth @valakay.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

This is predicted to be hotter than 1983, the previous worst El Niño. I remember 1983 - living in the hills in Victoria, evacuating the Ash Wednesday bushfires with three little kids We’ve already had bad bushfires this year - what will next summer bring? www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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BoM forecasts strongest El Niño on record as research points to ‘alarming’ climate change influence

Bureau of Meteorology suggests El Niño has already broken records, with Pacific Ocean temperature change exceeding 2C in six months

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Val team earth @valakay.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Yes I don’t like to say too much but I worked with someone from BoM in a former job - v good at what they did but v cautious about political statements - preferred to work ‘inside the tent’. As someone working in public health, i found this a bit frustrating. Former CEO sounds 😳

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Val team earth @valakay.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I worked in public health for years - in spite of its limitations, it’s accepted that advocacy is a legitimate part of the work. I wish other disciplines would accept that.

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My explanation of this is that because summer was hot, they experience winter as relatively cold. In reality, both are hotter than they used to be. We need repeated, very clear evidence from BoM and govt to educate people about this, but I’m not seeing it.

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Matt Golding @goldingcartoons.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Repeating my informal observation that most people don’t ‘experience’ climate change, they experience relatively hot or cold weather - judging from the number of people who have told me that this last winter has been ‘cold’.

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Melbourne has officially recorded the warmest winter since records began in 1855, with a mean temperature of 12.8 degrees – just above the 2013 record of 12.7 degrees.

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Looking at people like Trump, or Musk, or the Iranian IRGC, surely people can see that this is some kind of cult of masculinity which is not just ridiculous but existentially dangerous?

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Thinking of situations like US/Israel-Iran war, but more broadly the amount countries spend on ‘defence’ and the damage it causes to people and planet, surely anyone can see it’s ridiculous? And yet, somehow no one says so

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Val team earth @valakay.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

i don’t know why women continue to let men run the world. Is it fear, or some kind of collective delusion (not involving all women, but a significant number), or a feeling that it can’t be changed so may as well just put up with it?

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Beautiful, I hope they will be able to keep feeding

Why is this story not coming up in the app? Do you @australia.theguardian.com subscribe to the belief that we in the eastern states don’t care what happens in WA, no matter how big the story?

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Or past version of UK in the case of Reform, I mean - sorry got my wording a bit mixed up there!

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It is frightening how much support there is for ON. I’ve read lots of analysis but I still don’t get it. What is it that people think they will get from voting ON? Seems like ON and Reform are promising people that they can return to the security of childhood, some sort of past version of Australia

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Quite a few people have talked to me about ‘how cold it is this winter’ - I think they don’t get that it’s relative, we had a hot summer so winter feels relatively cold. The human capacity to adapt is impressive but it can also conceal reality from people

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Yes there is a bit of that here too, including for older people who live alone. I hadn’t thought of that thing about not being able to get out but that is scary. OOH they can leave their windows a bit open at night which is handy in hot weather

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I understand what you mean because people also generalise about Australia, whereas there’s a lot of regional difference say between inner city Melbourne and a country town in Queensland. But I was shocked by those signs, I’d never seen them anywhere else

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I saw those signs in San Diego which I don’t think is particularly conservative by US standards right? And yes the police are a big problem but my point was that US householders are paranoid as well - having signs on houses that say ‘armed response’ is not normal in other parts of the world.

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The issue is ‘could theoretically have happened any time’ vs ‘more likely to happen at this time because of global warming’. I’ll leave that with you.

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