Dr Sally
@drsally.bsky.social
Media communication, dog lover (black labs rule) wine lover (and seller) climate activist, environment should come first. Save Planet
Supporter of First Nations and social justice🔻means anti Nazi/fascist
Supporter of First Nations and social justice🔻means anti Nazi/fascist
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Dr Sally
@drsally.bsky.social
· Nov 16
I’m all for curating a space
I do it
I’m here for chats
But I also have a serious purpose that informs who I follow
Research
Environmental science
Climate activism
Progressive policy and politics
I do it
I’m here for chats
But I also have a serious purpose that informs who I follow
Research
Environmental science
Climate activism
Progressive policy and politics
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Let’s invite a politician from a state committing a genocide to help promote social cohesion. Let’s limit the ability of the public to protest the visit so we can ensure ‘social cohesion’ is maintained. What the heck did the state and federal governments expect would happen?
February 9, 2026 at 9:18 PM
Let’s invite a politician from a state committing a genocide to help promote social cohesion. Let’s limit the ability of the public to protest the visit so we can ensure ‘social cohesion’ is maintained. What the heck did the state and federal governments expect would happen?
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But I have noticed in the last 50 years that Australian Prime Ministers act as if they think their job is to manage and control Australia on behalf of foreign powers.
They listen more to foreign leaders than to the Australian people.
They listen more to foreign leaders than to the Australian people.
February 10, 2026 at 10:28 AM
But I have noticed in the last 50 years that Australian Prime Ministers act as if they think their job is to manage and control Australia on behalf of foreign powers.
They listen more to foreign leaders than to the Australian people.
They listen more to foreign leaders than to the Australian people.
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This report from Sydney, Australia, is reminiscent of news we hear of ICE in Minnesota.
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
— "The 69-year-old said a riot squad officer pushed her in the chest, and she hit the concrete "very hard"."
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
— "The 69-year-old said a riot squad officer pushed her in the chest, and she hit the concrete "very hard"."
'It was agony': Grandparents injured in Sydney anti-Herzog protest
A Sydney grandmother says she suffered four broken vertebrae after being "violently" pushed to the ground while trying to leave a protest on Monday night. Warning: This story contains images some read...
www.abc.net.au
February 10, 2026 at 8:44 AM
This report from Sydney, Australia, is reminiscent of news we hear of ICE in Minnesota.
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
— "The 69-year-old said a riot squad officer pushed her in the chest, and she hit the concrete "very hard"."
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
— "The 69-year-old said a riot squad officer pushed her in the chest, and she hit the concrete "very hard"."
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"Japanese companies have resold more than a third of the gas they bought from Australia, reaping more than $1bn in profit in 2024." #auspol
Green vote skyrocketing next election?
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Green vote skyrocketing next election?
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Australian ministers met Japanese gas companies 20 times amid fossil fuel lobbying push
Thinktank analysis claims to show that Japan campaigns to prolong the carbon industry in Australia and hinder move to clean energy
www.theguardian.com
February 10, 2026 at 11:57 AM
"Japanese companies have resold more than a third of the gas they bought from Australia, reaping more than $1bn in profit in 2024." #auspol
Green vote skyrocketing next election?
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Green vote skyrocketing next election?
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
There were so many of us there who were seniors
But entire families also
I am starting to get a version of PTSD
But entire families also
I am starting to get a version of PTSD
February 10, 2026 at 11:58 AM
There were so many of us there who were seniors
But entire families also
I am starting to get a version of PTSD
But entire families also
I am starting to get a version of PTSD
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removal from office in my opinion.
Both were elected to represent the populace of Australia, not the people of a foreign country, and not a wanted foreign criminal.
Both are guilty of being foreign agents through these actions and must themselves be arrested and charged as such.
#Auspol
Both were elected to represent the populace of Australia, not the people of a foreign country, and not a wanted foreign criminal.
Both are guilty of being foreign agents through these actions and must themselves be arrested and charged as such.
#Auspol
February 10, 2026 at 8:24 AM
removal from office in my opinion.
Both were elected to represent the populace of Australia, not the people of a foreign country, and not a wanted foreign criminal.
Both are guilty of being foreign agents through these actions and must themselves be arrested and charged as such.
#Auspol
Both were elected to represent the populace of Australia, not the people of a foreign country, and not a wanted foreign criminal.
Both are guilty of being foreign agents through these actions and must themselves be arrested and charged as such.
#Auspol
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So far today I’ve heard both Minns and Albanese blaming protesters for the violence by breaking the law.
Let’s talk about both of them breaking the law by supplying asylum to a wanted criminal and refusing to honour their commitments to the United Nations by arresting Herzog. That’s grounds for
Let’s talk about both of them breaking the law by supplying asylum to a wanted criminal and refusing to honour their commitments to the United Nations by arresting Herzog. That’s grounds for
February 10, 2026 at 8:24 AM
So far today I’ve heard both Minns and Albanese blaming protesters for the violence by breaking the law.
Let’s talk about both of them breaking the law by supplying asylum to a wanted criminal and refusing to honour their commitments to the United Nations by arresting Herzog. That’s grounds for
Let’s talk about both of them breaking the law by supplying asylum to a wanted criminal and refusing to honour their commitments to the United Nations by arresting Herzog. That’s grounds for
I love the police denials when we all have smart phones and someone had a drone 🤷♀️
February 10, 2026 at 11:55 AM
I love the police denials when we all have smart phones and someone had a drone 🤷♀️
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wow - this is an astonishing high-up view of the police tactic of "kettling": trapping protesters and then squeezing that space smaller to provoke confrontation and justify police officers violently bashing and attacking protesters
February 10, 2026 at 10:58 AM
wow - this is an astonishing high-up view of the police tactic of "kettling": trapping protesters and then squeezing that space smaller to provoke confrontation and justify police officers violently bashing and attacking protesters
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“Amnesty International Australia calls for independent investigation of police violence towards peaceful protestors”
Amnesty International Australia calls for independent investigation of police violence towards peaceful protestors
Amnesty International Australia condemns the unnecessary and disproportionate use of force by the NSW police against peaceful protesters demonstrating
www.amnesty.org.au
February 10, 2026 at 11:41 AM
“Amnesty International Australia calls for independent investigation of police violence towards peaceful protestors”
15 years old
We now know
The woman whose back was broken is 69
We now know
The woman whose back was broken is 69
February 10, 2026 at 11:51 AM
15 years old
We now know
The woman whose back was broken is 69
We now know
The woman whose back was broken is 69
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Nothing says cohesion like a punch in the head: Violence of Minns’ goons exposes the lie of ‘social cohesion’ www.crikey.com.au/2026/02/10/s...
Nothing says cohesion like a punch in the head: Violence of Minns' goons exposes the lie of 'social cohesion'
NSW Police's actions against protesters in in Sydney was about the powerful dictating the terms of free speech — through state-sanctioned violence if necessary.
www.crikey.com.au
February 10, 2026 at 4:49 AM
Nothing says cohesion like a punch in the head: Violence of Minns’ goons exposes the lie of ‘social cohesion’ www.crikey.com.au/2026/02/10/s...
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Ah the passive voice reserved for police brutality strikes again
February 10, 2026 at 10:28 AM
Ah the passive voice reserved for police brutality strikes again
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*Old woman, accidentally walks into clenched fist of innocent bystander Police Officer whose body and arm were moving in a direction that inadvertently intersected with her ribs!*
Surrealism, evidently, is the preferred modality for modern news editorial practice.
Surrealism, evidently, is the preferred modality for modern news editorial practice.
February 10, 2026 at 10:13 AM
*Old woman, accidentally walks into clenched fist of innocent bystander Police Officer whose body and arm were moving in a direction that inadvertently intersected with her ribs!*
Surrealism, evidently, is the preferred modality for modern news editorial practice.
Surrealism, evidently, is the preferred modality for modern news editorial practice.
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[In the Magistrates Court]
Officer: according to my contemporaneously compilated notes, Your Worshipness, we were "proceeding in an easterly direction and to ensure public order kicked seven shades of shit out of nanna"
Officer: according to my contemporaneously compilated notes, Your Worshipness, we were "proceeding in an easterly direction and to ensure public order kicked seven shades of shit out of nanna"
February 10, 2026 at 10:07 AM
[In the Magistrates Court]
Officer: according to my contemporaneously compilated notes, Your Worshipness, we were "proceeding in an easterly direction and to ensure public order kicked seven shades of shit out of nanna"
Officer: according to my contemporaneously compilated notes, Your Worshipness, we were "proceeding in an easterly direction and to ensure public order kicked seven shades of shit out of nanna"
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February 10, 2026 at 10:22 AM
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The last time someone wrote up police brutality right, Cold Chisel still headlines pub Friday nights.
February 10, 2026 at 10:44 AM
The last time someone wrote up police brutality right, Cold Chisel still headlines pub Friday nights.
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"interaction with police" what are we doing here?
February 10, 2026 at 10:07 AM
"interaction with police" what are we doing here?
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Another brilliant cartoon from Cathy Wilcox.
February 10, 2026 at 8:44 AM
Another brilliant cartoon from Cathy Wilcox.
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“‘Disunity is death’ is a phrase often used in Labor circles, but it’s rarely discussed how government unity at all costs, on all things, fragments society,” writes @amyremeikis.bsky.social, Chief Political Analyst at The Australia Institute.
Read more on The Point: https://theaus.in/4toVtZM
Read more on The Point: https://theaus.in/4toVtZM
February 10, 2026 at 3:48 AM
“‘Disunity is death’ is a phrase often used in Labor circles, but it’s rarely discussed how government unity at all costs, on all things, fragments society,” writes @amyremeikis.bsky.social, Chief Political Analyst at The Australia Institute.
Read more on The Point: https://theaus.in/4toVtZM
Read more on The Point: https://theaus.in/4toVtZM
Indeed
Well said Bernard
Well said Bernard
February 10, 2026 at 10:45 AM
Indeed
Well said Bernard
Well said Bernard
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Maybe cops shouldn't be cops if they're simply triggered by the presence of other human beings.
February 10, 2026 at 6:21 AM
Maybe cops shouldn't be cops if they're simply triggered by the presence of other human beings.