Candy van Rood
@cvanrood.bsky.social
Visual artist, astrologer, environmental activist, progressive, left-leaning, grandmother.
I want: Social & Environmental Justice and World Peace
no dm’s
https://www.candyspender.com.au
https://earthheart.love
https://www.savewesternport.org
I want: Social & Environmental Justice and World Peace
no dm’s
https://www.candyspender.com.au
https://earthheart.love
https://www.savewesternport.org
Pinned
Lilies from my garden in a twenties glass vase
acrylic on multi-media paper
42.0 x 59.4 cm
acrylic on multi-media paper
42.0 x 59.4 cm
Reposted by Candy van Rood
@albomp.bsky.social no company he's connected to should be allowed to trade in Australia and should CERTAINLY not be allowed to hold our intelligence and data!!
#auspol #palantir
youtube.com/shorts/LXpc1...
#auspol #palantir
youtube.com/shorts/LXpc1...
January 21, 2026 at 11:00 AM
@albomp.bsky.social no company he's connected to should be allowed to trade in Australia and should CERTAINLY not be allowed to hold our intelligence and data!!
#auspol #palantir
youtube.com/shorts/LXpc1...
#auspol #palantir
youtube.com/shorts/LXpc1...
U.S. Emissions Jumped in 2025 as Coal Power Rebounded www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/c...
U.S. Emissions Jumped in 2025 as Coal Power Rebounded
www.nytimes.com
January 19, 2026 at 8:30 AM
U.S. Emissions Jumped in 2025 as Coal Power Rebounded www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/c...
I thought @albomp.bsky.social was all about a fairer more equitable Australia???
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Australian billionaires increased their wealth by almost $600,000 a day on average over last year, report shows
Data collected by Oxfam shows 48 billionaires hold more wealth than bottom 40% of the population – 11 million people – combined
www.theguardian.com
January 19, 2026 at 2:53 AM
I thought @albomp.bsky.social was all about a fairer more equitable Australia???
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Reposted by Candy van Rood
"Where It All Went Wrong: The Case Against John Howard"
by @amyremeikis.bsky.social
On the thirtieth anniversary of John Howard coming to power, a searing analysis of the untouchable prime minister: how the ‘great economic manager’ sold our future. 26Feb2026 #auspol #AusHistory #politics #BookSky
by @amyremeikis.bsky.social
On the thirtieth anniversary of John Howard coming to power, a searing analysis of the untouchable prime minister: how the ‘great economic manager’ sold our future. 26Feb2026 #auspol #AusHistory #politics #BookSky
January 18, 2026 at 4:23 AM
"Where It All Went Wrong: The Case Against John Howard"
by @amyremeikis.bsky.social
On the thirtieth anniversary of John Howard coming to power, a searing analysis of the untouchable prime minister: how the ‘great economic manager’ sold our future. 26Feb2026 #auspol #AusHistory #politics #BookSky
by @amyremeikis.bsky.social
On the thirtieth anniversary of John Howard coming to power, a searing analysis of the untouchable prime minister: how the ‘great economic manager’ sold our future. 26Feb2026 #auspol #AusHistory #politics #BookSky
Reposted by Candy van Rood
Can we stop with this BS that launching a civil war (or thereabouts) is a distraction from the Epstein files. Trump doesn’t give a stuff about the files, and has already won that battle. ICE assaults are their very own thing.
Whatever’s in these Epstein Files (and we have some idea) must be really bad.
January 18, 2026 at 5:37 AM
Can we stop with this BS that launching a civil war (or thereabouts) is a distraction from the Epstein files. Trump doesn’t give a stuff about the files, and has already won that battle. ICE assaults are their very own thing.
If you have your super in invested in any of these companies, @marketforces.org.au have prepared an email you can send to them to get them to wake up.
www.marketforces.org.au/FFX200/
www.marketforces.org.au/FFX200/
The Fossil Fuel Expansion Index - Market Forces
How Australian superannuation funds are propping up the world’s most unforgivable climate polluters
www.marketforces.org.au
January 18, 2026 at 6:03 AM
If you have your super in invested in any of these companies, @marketforces.org.au have prepared an email you can send to them to get them to wake up.
www.marketforces.org.au/FFX200/
www.marketforces.org.au/FFX200/
Reposted by Candy van Rood
It's a massive conflict of interest and nobody cares. MPs will never vote against their own interests. This is how you know nothing will ever change in Australian housing affordability until this one issue is addressed. Labor has more property investors than the Liberals, seriously.
January 16, 2026 at 3:10 AM
It's a massive conflict of interest and nobody cares. MPs will never vote against their own interests. This is how you know nothing will ever change in Australian housing affordability until this one issue is addressed. Labor has more property investors than the Liberals, seriously.
Reposted by Candy van Rood
The energy that I'm bringing into 2026, is that there's more than the USA in the world, and it's time to tax the Greedy billionaires in Australia.
Poverty is a policy choice, and we have over 3 million in poverty.
#Australia #poverty #inequality #billionaires
#AndrewForrest #GinaRinehart
Poverty is a policy choice, and we have over 3 million in poverty.
#Australia #poverty #inequality #billionaires
#AndrewForrest #GinaRinehart
January 16, 2026 at 8:47 AM
The energy that I'm bringing into 2026, is that there's more than the USA in the world, and it's time to tax the Greedy billionaires in Australia.
Poverty is a policy choice, and we have over 3 million in poverty.
#Australia #poverty #inequality #billionaires
#AndrewForrest #GinaRinehart
Poverty is a policy choice, and we have over 3 million in poverty.
#Australia #poverty #inequality #billionaires
#AndrewForrest #GinaRinehart
Reposted by Candy van Rood
George Conway: “Donald Trump is a man who represents all the things we teach our children not to be. He’s a liar. He’s a thief. He’s a molester. He has no remorse, no shame, no empathy. He has no loyalty to the law, to the Constitution. This man is the lowest character of all”
January 15, 2026 at 4:31 AM
George Conway: “Donald Trump is a man who represents all the things we teach our children not to be. He’s a liar. He’s a thief. He’s a molester. He has no remorse, no shame, no empathy. He has no loyalty to the law, to the Constitution. This man is the lowest character of all”
Lilies from my garden in a twenties glass vase
acrylic on multi-media paper
42.0 x 59.4 cm
acrylic on multi-media paper
42.0 x 59.4 cm
January 16, 2026 at 8:36 AM
Lilies from my garden in a twenties glass vase
acrylic on multi-media paper
42.0 x 59.4 cm
acrylic on multi-media paper
42.0 x 59.4 cm
Reposted by Candy van Rood
‘Peace Dove’
gouache on arches paper
Postcard size
.
"Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding." ~ Albert Einstein
#peace #AlbertEinstein #understanding
gouache on arches paper
Postcard size
.
"Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding." ~ Albert Einstein
#peace #AlbertEinstein #understanding
October 7, 2025 at 11:09 PM
‘Peace Dove’
gouache on arches paper
Postcard size
.
"Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding." ~ Albert Einstein
#peace #AlbertEinstein #understanding
gouache on arches paper
Postcard size
.
"Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding." ~ Albert Einstein
#peace #AlbertEinstein #understanding
from The New Yorker, their brilliant current cover
January 16, 2026 at 8:31 AM
from The New Yorker, their brilliant current cover
Reposted by Candy van Rood
Reposted by Candy van Rood
We no longer have a functioning democracy, we have a duopoly of morally bankrupt politicians, captured by corporations & selfish greed, who perpetuate the status quo because it benefits them. We need Change.
January 15, 2026 at 6:52 AM
We no longer have a functioning democracy, we have a duopoly of morally bankrupt politicians, captured by corporations & selfish greed, who perpetuate the status quo because it benefits them. We need Change.
Reposted by Candy van Rood
The major parties continue to show us that they are incapable of putting the public interest ahead of their donors, their factions and their self interest. #auspol
January 15, 2026 at 6:44 AM
The major parties continue to show us that they are incapable of putting the public interest ahead of their donors, their factions and their self interest. #auspol
Reposted by Candy van Rood
We'll say it again: "social cohesion", when uttered by the holders of political and social power and privilege, means simply the maintenance of the dominant culture and silencing of any challenge to it.
January 15, 2026 at 6:12 AM
We'll say it again: "social cohesion", when uttered by the holders of political and social power and privilege, means simply the maintenance of the dominant culture and silencing of any challenge to it.
Reposted by Candy van Rood
I just signed this open letter to the ABC. getup.to/vQA115uEC1YEfo
ABC: Stand with your journalists
An independent movement to build a progressive Australia and bring participation back into our democracy.
getup.to
January 15, 2026 at 7:04 AM
I just signed this open letter to the ABC. getup.to/vQA115uEC1YEfo
I just signed this open letter to the ABC. getup.to/DoJ5OCdCxPyfl
ABC: Stand with your journalists
An independent movement to build a progressive Australia and bring participation back into our democracy.
getup.to
January 15, 2026 at 6:38 AM
I just signed this open letter to the ABC. getup.to/DoJ5OCdCxPyfl
Reposted by Candy van Rood
"Malinauskus was regularly agitating for Abdel-Fattah’s cancellation... Eventually, the board relented. They had seen what had happened at Bendigo, and they did it anyway."
New: On the background to the Adelaide Writers' Week debacle, and the involvement of Premier Malinauskas.
New: On the background to the Adelaide Writers' Week debacle, and the involvement of Premier Malinauskas.
The implosion of Adelaide Writers’ Week
An autopsy of a festival
nickfeik.substack.com
January 13, 2026 at 6:37 AM
"Malinauskus was regularly agitating for Abdel-Fattah’s cancellation... Eventually, the board relented. They had seen what had happened at Bendigo, and they did it anyway."
New: On the background to the Adelaide Writers' Week debacle, and the involvement of Premier Malinauskas.
New: On the background to the Adelaide Writers' Week debacle, and the involvement of Premier Malinauskas.
Festival of Cowardice, the Adelaide Festival of Arts, Writers week cancelled!!
open.substack.com/pub/savagemi...
open.substack.com/pub/savagemi...
Festival of Cowardice
The Cancellation of Randa Abdel-Fattah
open.substack.com
January 13, 2026 at 8:31 AM
Festival of Cowardice, the Adelaide Festival of Arts, Writers week cancelled!!
open.substack.com/pub/savagemi...
open.substack.com/pub/savagemi...
Jacinta Allan, sending condolences to Victorians whom have lost everything or/and family members because of the fires, and yet her Government is opening new gas along the southern coast????
Wakey, wakey @australianlabor.bsky.social
Wakey, wakey @australianlabor.bsky.social
January 11, 2026 at 9:06 PM
Jacinta Allan, sending condolences to Victorians whom have lost everything or/and family members because of the fires, and yet her Government is opening new gas along the southern coast????
Wakey, wakey @australianlabor.bsky.social
Wakey, wakey @australianlabor.bsky.social
Also, imo, why do we need a Royal Commission, into antisemitism in Australia, when its very obvious that Netanyahu and his cabinet of right wing extremists' actions in Gaza is what has caused a world wide rise in antisemitism!?
www.crikey.com.au/2026/01/08/b...
www.crikey.com.au/2026/01/08/b...
There's a glaring problem with calls for a royal commission into the Bondi terror attack
Australians deserve answers after the Bondi Beach shooting — but a royal commission won't deliver them.
www.crikey.com.au
January 10, 2026 at 9:02 AM
Also, imo, why do we need a Royal Commission, into antisemitism in Australia, when its very obvious that Netanyahu and his cabinet of right wing extremists' actions in Gaza is what has caused a world wide rise in antisemitism!?
www.crikey.com.au/2026/01/08/b...
www.crikey.com.au/2026/01/08/b...
There’s a glaring problem with calls for a royal commission into the Bondi terror attack www.crikey.com.au/2026/01/08/b...
There's a glaring problem with calls for a royal commission into the Bondi terror attack
Australians deserve answers after the Bondi Beach shooting — but a royal commission won't deliver them.
www.crikey.com.au
January 10, 2026 at 8:57 AM
There’s a glaring problem with calls for a royal commission into the Bondi terror attack www.crikey.com.au/2026/01/08/b...