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Non-partisan community group in Eastern Suburbs of #Sydney aiming to improve democracy by listening, informing & advocating for change #Australia #NSW #Gadigal www.voicesofwentworth.org 📺YouTube: @VoicesofWentworth5595 🐘@VoicesofWentworth@toot.community

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Rex Patrick @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
The duopoly have rewritten the election rulebook, making it almost impossible for independents to stand and win. Zoe and I are in the High Court challenging this rigged rulebook to ensure choices remain on election day. Please chip in to help us👇. #auspol
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The Fair Elections Case | High Court Challenge
The major parties have re-written the rules to rig elections in their favour. But Zoe Daniel and Rex Patrick are fighting back, all the way to the High Court.
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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 05/01/2026
NSW residents urged to check if they are owed share of $300m in unclaimed money
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NSW residents urged to check if they are owed share of $300m in unclaimed money
Millions of dollars held by Revenue NSW includes uncashed cheques, refunds and other payments owed to individuals who may have died or changed address * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast New South Wales residents are being urged to check if they are owed some of the $300m sitting in Revenue NSW’s unclaimed money pool. The pool includes funds from overpayments, uncashed cheques, dividends, refunds, and other amounts owed to individuals the government has not been able to contact. Continue reading...
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3wombats @3wombats.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
theaimn.net/the-venezuel...
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The Venezuela Playbook: How Australian Media Sold Us Another War
Part One: The Anatomy of an Imperial Project “Venezuelan strongman Maduro seized in daring US operation.” That’s how our ABC led its coverage when American forces stormed Caracas in January. Over at T...
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DuchessFrida aka Deb @duchessfrida.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
The 2 politicians elected to represent the entire South East region of South Australia are starting the year in custody.🤬 That's nearly 50,000 voters — living across an area roughly the size of the Netherlands — whose elected member of state parliament is detained. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
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The bizarre political-legal drama unfolding in SA’s South East
The lower house of South Australia's parliament has two representatives from the Limestone Coast. Both are now in custody.
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Rosie de Difficult Kat 🌱🍉🍉 @rosiedekat.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
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Trump's blatant disregard for international law is one thing. The reaction is another
Even in a world that has grown used to a cavalier attitude to international law from Donald Trump, the move stuns leaders across the globe.
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
One of the many reasons we need an accelerated transition to renewable energy: You don't have wars for oil if you are not dependent on oil.
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Sabrina Fernandes @sabrinafernandes.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Rubio is claiming that they did not need Congress permission because it was a law enforcement mission. The US is behaving as a global police state, extending its own arbitrary legal decisions to the whole world. This is not a problem just for Venezuela.
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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
More gas drilling and a leg-up for foreign states, gas cartel, over Australian electricity customers. @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social takes the long handle to Gas Reservation Plan #auspol michaelwest.com.au/king-plan-fa...
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A gas betrayal. King plan favours foreign buyers, gas cartel over mums and dads - Michael West
The Government’s Gas Reservation Policy is nothing short of a betrayal. They claim it will put downward pressure on gas and electricity prices. It won’t.
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Chris Bowen @chrisbowenmp.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
From 1 July to 31 December Australians have installed 184,672 home batteries under the Albanese Government's Cheaper Home Battery policy. This has added 4.27 gigawatt hours of storage capacity.
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Svetovid @svetovid.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
This video discusses a proposal in the Australian State of New South Wales to prohibit the use of certain political chants and slogans. Anne Twomey, who is Professor Emerita of the University of Sydney, has both taught and practised in constitutional law and policy #auspol youtu.be/WK8ZluRFxNw
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Prohibiting political chants and slogans
YouTube video by Constitutional Clarion
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Tim Stephens @proftimstephens.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
“We may sometimes think of ourselves as a young nation on an ancient continent. Yet as well as being home to the oldest continuous culture on Earth, Australia is also one of the world’s oldest – and strongest – modern democracies.” @albomp.bsky.social www.smh.com.au/national/on-...
smh.com.au
On our 125th birthday, let’s rise to the test of our national character
Modern Australia has been built by countless individual acts of service, bravery, ambition and kindness – resources that we must call upon following the Bondi atrocity.
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jump-smash.bsky.social @jump-smash.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
@zalisteggall.bsky.social Happy New Year! SBS: Australia is a world leader in the use of rooftop solar with more than 4.2 million solar systems installed on homes and businesses nationwide. www.sbs.com.au/news/video/w...
sbs.com.au
Western Sydney’s green roof revolution
Australia is a world leader in the use of rooftop solar with more than 4.2 million solar systems installed on homes and businesses nationwide. Some researchers say this renewable energy could be even ...
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Blair Palese @blairpalese.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Funny that #climate #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Cabinet papers reveal Alexander Downer warned of dire climate change outcomes in 2005
Officials warned of major economic, environmental and social disruption to Australia due to its dependence on coal
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ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
New Year's Day brings a host of new laws, regulations and guidelines into effect. Here's a quick breakdown of some of the changes.
abc.net.au
Australian-made content and cheaper medication among January 1 changes
New Year's Day brings a host of new laws, regulations and guidelines into effect. Here's a quick breakdown of some of the changes.
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ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Dozens of firefighters are battling a massive factory fire in Sydney's west.
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Breaking: Massive factory blaze in Sydney's west puts properties at risk
Dozens of firefighters are battling a massive factory fire in Sydney's west.
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The Saturday Paper @thesaturdaypaper.com.au · 30/12/2025
Anthony Albanese calls 2025 his “year of delivery”. The Saturday Paper catalogued all 50 pieces of legislation passed into law so far in this term, and measured them against Labor’s promises. satpa.pe/jS0YbYh
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Full list: what Albanese has legislated this term
A survey of Labor’s legislative achievements in 2025 testifies to Anthony Albanese’s methodical approach but not to his extraordinary mandate.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 29/12/2025
Zelenskyy calls Russia’s claim of a strike on one of Putin’s residences a “complete fabrication,” a lie designed to sabotage diplomacy, justify more attacks on Kyiv, and excuse Moscow’s refusal to end the war. He warns the world must not stay silent as Russia tries to derail peace.
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Voices of Wentworth @voicesofwentworth.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Lots of people on Bondi Beach this morning to watch the dawn Lots of police, too. Looks like the police are using the Bondi Beach carpark as a holding bay, waiting for call outs, with cars leaving under lights and sirens
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Cate Q @cateq.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
About 12% of fossil fuel is used finding, refining, moving, & delivering fossil fuels. For solar, about 3 months of the energy production of the solar cell covers the energy cost of its production. The energy return on energy invested is 50 or 60 to 1 instead of 8 to 1 with Fossil Fuel. #auspol
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 27/12/2025
"In Australia, we subsidise the fossil fuel industry. We give more than half of the gas we export away for free, and we charge our kids a fortune to go to uni." See more of Richard Denniss on Q&A here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAYxzRNfC6k
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Denise Difficult-Shrivell @deniseshrivell.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Here's a very handy clickable list of publishers & commentators in Aust's independent news media sector. Please support & share these news media publishers - & of course sign up to TrueNorth! #auspol > docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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#auspol news media list
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Queen Mab @queenmab99.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
As the rest of the world leaves the U.S. behind.
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Bruce Little @brucedlittle.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
In thinking about what you can do this year, keep this in mind: Showing up at protests has real impact!
theguardian.com
How effective is protesting? According to historians and political scientists: very
From emancipation to women’s suffrage, civil rights and BLM, mass movement has shaped the arc of US history
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Marcus Kelson @marcuskelson.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
I like this a lot…
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Blair Palese @blairpalese.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Tk you Anne Davies, @guardian #righttoprotest www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Wanting action after the Bondi attack is understandable - but kneejerk responses that curtail freedoms have their own perils
Proposed changes to gun laws and protest rights in NSW need to be approached with forensic clarity – taking a pause might be wiser
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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Australians: we don't like guns. This is excellent.
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Marcus Kelson @marcuskelson.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Well this will surprise no one… www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
abc.net.au
Teens flock to alternative apps after social media ban
The Commonwealth's long-awaited social media ban for under-16s came into effect this month. But some experts note a rise in alternatives to popular platforms as teens find ways to stay active on socia...
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Deepcut News @deepcutnews.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Politicians and the media have seized on the Bondi tragedy to drag Australia further right, writes @amyremeikis.bsky.social. www.deepcutnews.com/p/massacre-a...
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Massacre as political theatre: our shameful national response to Bondi
Politicians and the media have seized on the Bondi tragedy to drag Australia further right
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climatecouncil.org.au @climatecouncil.org.au · 22/12/2025
MAJOR 2025 WIN: Australia just recorded one of its biggest-ever drops in climate pollution this year, driven by a surge in renewable energy replacing coal. Let’s go 2026!
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Watchdog Progressive @watchdogprg.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Speaking about energy.... in my state 👇 ‘The biggest transformation in a century’: how California remade itself as a clean energy powerhouse. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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‘The biggest transformation in a century’: how California remade itself as a clean energy powerhouse
The Golden State’s clean energy use hit new highs in 2025. As the Trump administration abandons US climate initiatives, can California fill the void?
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Patrick Gilligan-O'Loughlin @patrickgilligan098.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Selling for a 335k paper gain means nothing if you rebuy into the same market and pay higher stamp duty the housing boom created trillions in equity but zero extra shelter this is illusionary wealth created by inaction #auspol
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Independent Media Australia. @indymediaaus.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/12/2025
The stark reality we need to face about guns in Australia australiainstitute.org.au/post/the-… #Auspol
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The stark reality we need to face about guns in Australia
The horrific anti-Semitic terrorist attack in Bondi, the most deadly mass shooting since the Port Arthur massacre thirty years ago, makes gun law reform
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 22/12/2025
There are more than four million guns in Australia, and Australia Institute research shows that a gun is stolen every four hours. 📺 Research Director Rod Campbell on CNN @rodcampbell.bsky.social #auspol
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Robert McLachlan @robertmclachlan.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
New Zealand just recorded its first-ever day of zero coal- or gas-fired electricity. In fact two days, 20 & 21 December. (Still some co-gen, about 1.8%.)
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Ciarán Cuffe @ciarancuffe.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Breakthrough of the year? Renewable energy www.science.org/content/arti...
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Peter Gardner @peterdgardner.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
First solar-battery hybrid on Australia's main grid is energised, and ready to send PV into evening peaks reneweconomy.com.au/first-solar-...
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ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Most Australians live by the beach, but the coastline we have built our lives around is disappearing before our eyes.
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The fight to save Australia's disappearing beaches
Most Australians live by the beach, but the coastline we have built our lives around is disappearing before our eyes.
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Voices of Wentworth @voicesofwentworth.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
A National Day of Reflection will be held today, Sun 21 Dec, to honour those impacted by the #BondiBeach attack. Australians are invited to light a candle at 6:47 pm and observe a minute of silence as an act of remembrance with family, friends and loved ones www.pmc.gov.au/news/nationa... #auspol
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 20/12/2025
‘Borrowed time’: crop pests and food losses supercharged by climate crisis
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‘Borrowed time’: crop pests and food losses supercharged by climate crisis
Heating means pests breeding and spreading faster, warn scientists, with simplified current food system already vulnerable * How climate breakdown is putting the world’s food in peril – in maps and charts The destruction of food supplies by crop pests is being supercharged by the climate crisis, with losses expected to surge, an analysis has concluded. Researchers said the world was lucky to have so far avoided a major shock and was living on borrowed time, with action needed to diversify crops and boost natural predators of pests. Continue reading...
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Doug Cameron @dncameron.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Minns fails to understand that real democracy requires concerned citizens demonstrating against inhumanity, genocide, apartheid, colonialism and misuse of power. A Labor Premier must not sacrifice democratic rights on the altar of ill informed, short term, knee jerk reactions.
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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
“Ahmed Al Ahmed. He saved my life & my 4yr old” “I can only say thank you to that Muslim brother” This is what the media should show. Messages of unity & hope from survivors. Despite that it’s not the answer this Sky News journo was seeking. #auspol #Bondi
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Voices of Wentworth @voicesofwentworth.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
“This year, renewables surpassed coal as a source of electricity worldwide Solar & wind energy grew fast enough to cover the entire increase in global electricity use from Jan to June” China “will cut its carbon emissions by 10% in a decade” via wind & solar www.science.org/content/arti... #auspol
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Science’s 2025 Breakthrough of the Year: The unstoppable rise of renewable energy
Clean energy infrastructure is being deployed with unmatched scale and speed—and China is leading the way
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AusPoast @daryltractor.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
This didn’t get much coverage at the time, so in case you missed it: Allegations NSW Premier Chris Minns took thousands of dollars from unnamed donors a decade ago referred to ICAC
abc.net.au
Allegations surface of NSW premier's decade-old undeclared donations
The allegations are included in an affidavit by a former ALP state organiser, which was tendered during a secret hearing of a parliamentary inquiry.
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The Chaser @chaser.com.au · 19/12/2025
“You will never work in this industry if you don’t understand that your job is make this country as unsafe as possible so we can later win awards for reporting on what we stoked.” chaser.com.au/general-news...
News columnist fired for wanting to use their platform to bring people together instead of stoking division
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Pestilence @pestilence4all.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Need something to feel good about? I sure do. Here are 7 fantastic science stores from 2025. Science will continue, even if The Regime tries to kill it at home. #Science 🧪
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Seven feel-good science stories to restore your faith in 2025
Immense progress in gene editing, drug discovery and conservation are just some of the reasons to be cheerful about 2025.
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Independent Media Australia. @indymediaaus.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/12/2025
Climate hot takes for 2025 johnmenadue.com/post/2025/12/2025-i… #Auspol
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Climate hot takes for 2025
Scientific evidence in 2025 showed global warming accelerating faster than expected, while emissions continued to rise and climate policy lagged dangerously behind physical reality.
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George's Σουβλάκια🏺🥙 @thebigsouvlaki.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Parliamentary Friends of AUKUS is like Parliamentary Friends of Big Coal, Oil & Gas, Parliamentary Friends of Pokies/TAB. All bought and paid for by Big Lobby and never for your interests. #auspol www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
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Parliamentary Friends of Aukus group sponsored by lobbying firm with high-profile defence clients
Exclusive: Greens condemn sponsorship of group’s launch by Precision Public Affairs, which represents clients with lucrative contracts with the Australian government
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Good analysis from Sarah Martin, but misses a key point: if the Bondi massacre is being hijacked by culture warriors like Howard and the anti-immigration right, it's because that's how mainstream media chooses to frame it. They are lazy or complicit. #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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John Howard’s dog-whistle intervention in gun debate all but dashes any hope of meaningful reform
In the absence of strong, swift action from Anthony Albanese, the former PM is shifting political debate from gun control to a divisive culture war
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