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Valerie Heath

@valerieheathmbc.bsky.social

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Barrister. Swansfan. Opinions mostly my own. 💟= many meanings (often = bookmark); RT= discuss. WE NEED FIRST NATIONS' MAKARRATA and a NACC with public hearings. Democracy needs participation, good information & sausages. Dharug country, Sydney Australia

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Valerie Heath @valerieheathmbc.bsky.social · 19h

20,000 residents of Lithgow NSW without water for 3 days, yet not a big news story in Aus?? #Lithgow #Water #auspol

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Valerie Heath @valerieheathmbc.bsky.social · Sep 2

Highly recommend the excellent #PipFioretti #AusCrime historical mystery crime police procedural and psychological drama #BoneLands #booksky Boer War vet Gus Hawkins Mounted Trooper policing western NSW 1911

Book cover Bone Lands by Pip Fioretti red dirt desert with scattered bleached bones in the foreground and low scrub in the distance under pale sky at horizon with dark menacing dust storm closing in over rider in slouch hat in the middle distance

Valerie Heath @valerieheathmbc.bsky.social · Aug 29

Monstrous and terrifying, which is the point; they are nasty little Eichmanns every one. Wishing you love, courage and safety

Valerie Heath @valerieheathmbc.bsky.social · Aug 29

Phone-in voting is provided in Australia for some approved voters with disability. Our elections are run by independent professional commissions at federal and state level (the state commissions also run local elections)

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · Aug 23

Here’s what was NOT released today:

- the proffer agreement between Maxwell and the DoJ

- the agreement transferring Maxwell to club fed

- communications showing who waived Maxwell’s sex offender status allowing her transfer and possible work assignments outside prison

- the Epstein files

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Valerie Heath @valerieheathmbc.bsky.social · Aug 18

www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025.... Clean air as productivity powerhouse

Healthier workers: How productivity reform hides in plain sight

Australia faces a neglected crisis that is quietly eroding our labour supply, increasing health costs and dragging on growth.

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Valerie Heath @valerieheathmbc.bsky.social · Aug 14

Bass Straits

Valerie Heath @valerieheathmbc.bsky.social · Aug 14

Beach balls

Valerie Heath @valerieheathmbc.bsky.social · Aug 14

Rose transfer

Valerie Heath @valerieheathmbc.bsky.social · Aug 14

In moderate amount

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I Post Animal Vids... 😊 @realjfairclough.bsky.social · Aug 5

Penguin’s reaction when her favorite human comes to check up on her... 🥹 #bluesky

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LIV 🌻🍉😷 @mmechomski.bsky.social · Aug 6

Kate on Twitter today.

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Valerie Heath @valerieheathmbc.bsky.social · Aug 6

I am currently watching last night’s Colbert - Smithsonian has removed Trump from impeachment exhibit - US is going full Stalin

Valerie Heath @valerieheathmbc.bsky.social · Aug 6

Protection of creators’ property and moral rights is essential. Theft is not “productivity”.

Valerie Heath @valerieheathmbc.bsky.social · Aug 6

Editors doing fact-checking and source-checking are always heroes but now more than ever.

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Valerie Heath @valerieheathmbc.bsky.social · Jul 21

Having had two ‘successful’ hip replacements and done all the rehab and exercises I am more 🌵than ever as my hips now irremediably uneven in angle, not as much as between the two surgeries, but the torque is the thing! I empathise bigly

Valerie Heath @valerieheathmbc.bsky.social · Jul 21

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · Jul 18

So Trump has been directly or indirectly responsible for canceling Colbert, PBS and NPR all in the span of one week?

Are people awake to what’s happening yet?

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Valerie Heath @valerieheathmbc.bsky.social · Jul 18

#Colbert #CancelCBS are the lights going off in America?

Valerie Heath @valerieheathmbc.bsky.social · Jul 18

Highly recommend Brassic on SBS On Demand

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mzletter1.bsky.social @mzletter1.bsky.social · Jul 18

Thank you Stephen Colbert for making wit, humor, knowledge, & empathy cool. Thank you Rachel Maddow for your authentic, brutal, and tireless hope. Thank you Chris Hayes for all your down to Earth fearless reporting.
You all give us the strength to keep fighting the good fight in these dark times ✊

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scarletbegonia @scarletbegonia67.bsky.social · Jul 18

Two exceptional humans; Stephen Colbert & Rachel Maddow.

Two lanterns in this dark time.
One makes me laugh and think.
The other makes me think and laugh.

#FreePress

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dmcg201.bsky.social @dmcg201.bsky.social · Jul 18

You took that thought right out of my head, I guess great minds think alike. Bet we are not the only MSNBC fans who would watch!

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John Hutchinson @hutchj.bsky.social · Jul 18

Hire him at MSNBC. Give him a late show, same format, and expand the type of programming that your network does

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