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Bob Elliston

@brunybob.bsky.social

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For: government for the biosphere, sustainable World, and a kind, egalitarian-democracy. Panphilist, Feminist, Peacenik, author of Liberation Economics #John13_34 #Matthew5_44 #अहिंसा #WorldPeaceNow

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Bob Elliston @brunybob.bsky.social · May 21

There's LOTS we CAN DO to slow global heating.
Denial's no use!
e.g. 'degrowth';
make economics fair, for need, not greed;
end fossil fuels;
restore Albedo;
go full electric;
environment treaty;
stop militarism/war;
minimise flying;
go vegetarian;
#TalkCollapse
#WorldPeaceNow

Bob Elliston @brunybob.bsky.social · 1d

Anthony Albanese says Senator Pocock should not be kicked from Parliament’s sports club, but the PM says his concerns over lobbying are “absurd”

OBVIOUSLY @AlboMP HAS LOST HIS MORAL COMPASS and HE NEEDS DAVID @davidpocock.bsky.social TO HELP HIM FIND IT AGAIN

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

PM criticises Pocock’s ban from parliamentary sports club but dismisses concerns about betting lobby

Exclusive: Senator accused of bringing social club into disrepute after raising concerns about its association with betting lobby

www.theguardian.com

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

Sometimes we need a moment, but if you tune out completely, they win. Fascism doesn’t need your support, just your silence.

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Denise Shrivell @deniseshrivell.bsky.social · 1d

What???
They threw a former Wallabies Captain out of their Parliamentary sporting club because he spoke up about gambling!!!! What???
#auspol #4Corners > www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 1d

“They make a desert and call it peace.” - Tacitus

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Wouldn’t it be great if we ran out of hate @wnhy.bsky.social · 1d

Still supporting this @albomp.bsky.social @senatorwong.bsky.social ?
#auspol #rape #torture #prison

Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 1d

New evidence presented at the UN confirms Palestinian women are being gang-raped by Israelis who videotape it as they do it.

Israel is a deeply depraved Estate.

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Bob Elliston @brunybob.bsky.social · 1d

How can anyone respond to needless violence, brutality and hatred? What kind of deliberate nastiness creates so much division and violence?
Why do so many people believe their own propaganda, aka lies?

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Dr Ingrid M @ingridm.bsky.social · 7d

just DFAT officials blaming humanitarians for having their human and legal rights violated by Israelis while ignoring the criminality of abduction and torture.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Dfat officials supporting five Australians in Israeli prison after they were detained on pro-Palestinian flotilla

The Global Movement to Gaza group have raised concerns about the conditions in which the Australians are being held in detention

www.theguardian.com

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Jenny Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithWatermelon🍉🍉 @joneshowdareyou.bsky.social · 6d

This is a truly excoriating and well-deserved take-down of the National Press Club @PressClubAust by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges.

You really, 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 should read it. His words cut like a hot knife into butter. #auspol #GazaGenocide
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10...

Hedges Report: NPC Australia caves to Israel Lobby, cancels talk on our betrayal of Palestinian journalists

The National Press Club of Australia cancelled my talk on how the media, by amplifying Israeli lies, have betrayed Palestinian journalists, 278 of whom have been assassinated by Israel.

johnmenadue.com

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Bob Elliston @brunybob.bsky.social · 1d

Independent Senator David Pocock, previous captain of Australia's national rugby team, The Wallabies, was told he is not welcome at the Parliamentary Sports Club after questioning the club’s sponsorship by gambling, alcohol and fossil fuel companies.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

PM criticises Pocock’s ban from parliamentary sports club but dismisses concerns about betting lobby

Exclusive: Senator accused of bringing social club into disrepute after raising concerns about its association with betting lobby

www.theguardian.com

Bob Elliston @brunybob.bsky.social · 13d

Great turn of sarcasm here, @timdunlop.bsky.social 👇

Tim Dunlop @timdunlop.bsky.social · 13d

A mere 2500-word ABC puff piece on rightwing extremist Andrew Hastie. The sort of balanced, professional reporting that has helped turn America into the democratic powerhouse of moderation and reasonableness we know today.

Screenshot of ABC article with a photo of Andrew Pastie under the headline: Soldier, Shakespeare die-hard, and the next Liberal leader? Andrew Hastie's week in the headlines

Bob Elliston @brunybob.bsky.social · 13d

We are calling on the United Nations General Assembly to deploy an Emergency Armed Multinational Protection Force to stop the #GazaGenocide

The Netanyahu government does NOT want PEACE, but we citizens of the world DO!!!

PLEASE sign this Petition via @changeaus.bsky.social

chng.it/VyY9smpZHH

UN General Assembly: Deploy an Emergency Armed Multinational Protection Force to Gaza!

Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?

chng.it

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Ms.Information (she/her) @kindregardz.bsky.social · 16d

This article by @ronnisalt.bsky.social should be compulsory reading for those of us that are terminally online...

Atlas/The Heritage Foundation: "Here's some rage baiting we prepared earlier..."

Seems like you can't trust anything from the FBI anymore-is that on purpose?
#uspol #epstein #auspol

You’re being played – your part in the culture wars - The Shot

When Zack de la Rocha told you to rage against the machine, he didn’t mean take it literally. Agitprop. Fury bait. Yes, you feed it too.

theshot.net.au

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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 16d

It's time our politicians kicked their US habit

www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...

It's well beyond time our politicians kicked their US habit

So Anthony Albanese has secured his one on one meeting with Donald Trump and we are all supposed to pretend this is a good outcome.

www.thenewdaily.com.au

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Bob Elliston @brunybob.bsky.social · 16d

I just signed The Australia Institute's petition to phase out fossil fuels. Will you please join me?

nb.australiainstitute.org.au/phase-out-fo...

✍️ ADD YOUR NAME: Phase out fossil fuels

Emissions reduction targets won’t solve the climate crisis if they’re built on fiction. It's time for the government to tackle the biggest source of carbon emissions in Australia – fossil fuels.

nb.australiainstitute.org.au

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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 16d

Huge news that Spain and Italy have sent navy boats to protect the Sumud flotilla - the world should support and join them protecting the flotilla in international waters

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Bob Elliston @brunybob.bsky.social · 16d

Australia needs transition - to reality!
As the third largest Petrostate (by Fossil fuel exports) Australia's entire fossil fuel sector contributes only 2.5% of total federal & state government revenues.
And that’s before they get big subsidies.

By David McEwen
michaelwest.com.au/climate-risk...

Climate risk report is old news. Australia needs transition ... to reality - Michael West

The National Climate Risk Assessment, released this week, has made headlines, but adds little to all the other such reports of recent decades

michaelwest.com.au

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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 20d

www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...

Coalition dearly loves a 'cruel hoax' – now it has become one

Pretending the Coalition matters, or its criticisms are worth anything, allows Labor to get away even less. That is the cruellest hoax.

www.thenewdaily.com.au

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Bob Elliston @brunybob.bsky.social · 20d

Endless lies by propaganda outlet Fox News has brought US democracy to its knees, in the process ushering in the most dangerous international environment since the Cold War.
Those destructive forces have been locked in to 2050.
By Andrew Dodd and Matthew Ricketson

theklaxon.com.au/massive-loss...

Massive loss for climate, democracy and western power as Murdoch battle ends - The Klaxon

The destructive forces that brought US democracy to its knees, ushering in the most dangerous global environment since the Cold War, have been locked in to 2050.

theklaxon.com.au

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raven-mumur @raven-murmur.bsky.social · 20d

Writing like this is what an education is good for. #auspol

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MingTheMerciless @m1ngthemerciless.bsky.social · 20d

Optus.com.au triple-0 failure linked to deaths. Again! www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09... Unless such lethal repeat 'failures' are linked to jail terms for senior executives, all the handwringing in the world will yield no positive change. #auspol

Optus admits early warning about triple-0 failure as fourth death investigated

Optus reveals it received an early warning of Thursday's system failure — which has since been linked to a fourth death — hours before the situation was fixed, but that it did not respond appropriatel...

www.abc.net.au

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Bob Elliston @brunybob.bsky.social · 25d

WHY is #abc730 interviewing yet another irrelevant LNP member over reducing global heating emissions, when there are plenty of actual CLIMATE SCIENTISTS who could be MUCH MORE INFORMATIVE?!?

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Maranoa Girl @maranoagirl.bsky.social · 25d

www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/trump-admi...
Americans who don't agree with conservative views held by MAGA & Republicans are now designated "far left terrorist organisations" & antisemitic. Trump's Government will "disrupt, dismantle & destroy these networks" to make America safe again: for Charlie Kirk.

Trump Administration Rushes To Kill Free Speech In Response To Kirk Assassination

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):

www.caitlinjohnst.one

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Bob Elliston @brunybob.bsky.social · 25d

Should have included 'catastrophic' among the 'c' alliterations. 😰

Adam Morton @adammorton.bsky.social · 25d

‘Cascading, compounding’: five key takeaways from Australia’s national climate risk assessment
- by @readfearn.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘Cascading, compounding’: five key takeaways from Australia’s national climate risk assessment

From rising heat-related deaths to the environmental and economic cost of climate change, here’s what the landmark report warns

www.theguardian.com

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Jenny Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithWatermelon🍉🍉 @joneshowdareyou.bsky.social · 25d

"Israel says" is not journalism, @australia.theguardian.com.

Just like GENOCIDE is not "war" nor an "offensive." #auspol #GazaGenocide #GazaHolocaust #WesternMediaToTheHague

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Kent Parkstreet, Laird of Doofus @kentparkskeet.bsky.social · 25d

@australianlabor.bsky.social

@albomp.bsky.social

Jeremy Bowen: UN genocide report a blunt indictment of Israel's actions in Gaza

A new report accuses Israel of committing genocide in Gaza, in "the strongest and most authoritative UN finding to date".

www.bbc.com

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