Ebony Bennett
@ebonybennett.bsky.social
Deputy Director of @australiainstitute.org.au host of webinar series & Follow The Money podcast. Easily startled horror fan. Political tragic, amateur TV critic, solo hiking enthusiast. She/her
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New: 100+ legal experts, welfare groups & academics demand the Minister bin an amendment, allowing police to cancel welfare payments for people who have not been found guilty of any crime
@tanyaplibersekmp.bsky.social is trying to ram this amendment through today
Read more: archive.is/UHu9J
@tanyaplibersekmp.bsky.social is trying to ram this amendment through today
Read more: archive.is/UHu9J
November 23, 2025 at 11:16 PM
New: 100+ legal experts, welfare groups & academics demand the Minister bin an amendment, allowing police to cancel welfare payments for people who have not been found guilty of any crime
@tanyaplibersekmp.bsky.social is trying to ram this amendment through today
Read more: archive.is/UHu9J
@tanyaplibersekmp.bsky.social is trying to ram this amendment through today
Read more: archive.is/UHu9J
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I love Northern Australia, and it breaks my heart what's happening and is planned for this region. More people need to know why this place is so special and what's at risk, so I wrote about it. My first article for @australiainstitute.org.au's The Point. thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Northern Australia is extraordinary, and it’s under severe threat
Right now, this region, is under siege, in large part due to insatiable corporate and government desires to ‘develop’ the North.
thepoint.com.au
November 23, 2025 at 8:06 PM
I love Northern Australia, and it breaks my heart what's happening and is planned for this region. More people need to know why this place is so special and what's at risk, so I wrote about it. My first article for @australiainstitute.org.au's The Point. thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
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"Poverty is not evidence, the presumption of innocence must apply to everyone" Smashing column by @kristin8x.antipovertycentre.org & @maiyazize.bsky.social #ThePoint
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Poverty is not evidence, the presumption of innocence must apply to everyone
In the final days of October, the Federal Government quietly inserted a last-minute amendment into an unrelated bill. It has been trying to rush through a change that would allow police and the Home A...
thepoint.com.au
November 23, 2025 at 11:38 PM
"Poverty is not evidence, the presumption of innocence must apply to everyone" Smashing column by @kristin8x.antipovertycentre.org & @maiyazize.bsky.social #ThePoint
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
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The best way to keep up with whats going on in parliament is to follow @amyremeikis.bsky.social live blog
Its going to be a big final sitting week
live.thepoint.com.au
Its going to be a big final sitting week
live.thepoint.com.au
The Point Live: Coalition continues to tank as parliament enters its final week
The Coalition is now at 42 to Labor's 58 in the Newspoll two-party preferred measure after dumping net zero and naming immigration as its next target. Meanwhile Labor pushes to pass it's mining frien...
live.thepoint.com.au
November 23, 2025 at 9:41 PM
The best way to keep up with whats going on in parliament is to follow @amyremeikis.bsky.social live blog
Its going to be a big final sitting week
live.thepoint.com.au
Its going to be a big final sitting week
live.thepoint.com.au
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Zohran flip your hair again we need healthcare get him to give us healthcare.
November 21, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Zohran flip your hair again we need healthcare get him to give us healthcare.
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You cant protect nature if you wont protect native forests from chain saws & bulldozers
Great column by Virginia Young on Labors deeply flawed new ‘nature laws’…the ones that’s are so flawed the mining industry are desperately lobbying the Liberals to vote for them
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Great column by Virginia Young on Labors deeply flawed new ‘nature laws’…the ones that’s are so flawed the mining industry are desperately lobbying the Liberals to vote for them
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Australians are being asked to believe we can protect nature by exploiting it faster and with less scrutiny
The point.com.au
thepoint.com.au
November 22, 2025 at 9:29 AM
You cant protect nature if you wont protect native forests from chain saws & bulldozers
Great column by Virginia Young on Labors deeply flawed new ‘nature laws’…the ones that’s are so flawed the mining industry are desperately lobbying the Liberals to vote for them
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Great column by Virginia Young on Labors deeply flawed new ‘nature laws’…the ones that’s are so flawed the mining industry are desperately lobbying the Liberals to vote for them
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
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You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?
November 21, 2025 at 9:25 AM
You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?
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The right wing in this country worked over decades to get to this moment in time. All of the pieces are still in order. There is nothing that they’re going to let slow them down. This is their life‘s work. We have no organized opposition yet. We need to catch up quickly and plan for the long term.
November 20, 2025 at 8:40 PM
The right wing in this country worked over decades to get to this moment in time. All of the pieces are still in order. There is nothing that they’re going to let slow them down. This is their life‘s work. We have no organized opposition yet. We need to catch up quickly and plan for the long term.
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After years of limbo, the U.S. government has given the green light to a crash test dummy based on the female body. But will it be used right away? Not so fast. n.pr/48r84mJ
The female crash test dummy has been a long time coming — but she isn't here yet
After years of limbo, the U.S. government has given the green light to a crash test dummy based on the female body. But will it be used right away? Not so fast.
n.pr
November 21, 2025 at 7:31 PM
After years of limbo, the U.S. government has given the green light to a crash test dummy based on the female body. But will it be used right away? Not so fast. n.pr/48r84mJ
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#GVerse #KingResist #Unite #FBaRmy
News Flash - Racism can be very expensive.
Nazi Karen calls the police on the Boston Police Chief. Good for him for suing that racist. #DemsUnited
News Flash - Racism can be very expensive.
Nazi Karen calls the police on the Boston Police Chief. Good for him for suing that racist. #DemsUnited
November 21, 2025 at 4:18 PM
#GVerse #KingResist #Unite #FBaRmy
News Flash - Racism can be very expensive.
Nazi Karen calls the police on the Boston Police Chief. Good for him for suing that racist. #DemsUnited
News Flash - Racism can be very expensive.
Nazi Karen calls the police on the Boston Police Chief. Good for him for suing that racist. #DemsUnited
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The President of the United States is publicly calling for the political prosecution of his political opponents, urging the death penalty because they urged soldiers to uphold the rule of law.
This should be front page news everywhere. It is not, which tells much about how we got to this point.
This should be front page news everywhere. It is not, which tells much about how we got to this point.
November 20, 2025 at 5:35 PM
The President of the United States is publicly calling for the political prosecution of his political opponents, urging the death penalty because they urged soldiers to uphold the rule of law.
This should be front page news everywhere. It is not, which tells much about how we got to this point.
This should be front page news everywhere. It is not, which tells much about how we got to this point.
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The BCA keeps saying Victoria is the worst place to invest… and yet business investment keeps growing faster there than just about anywhere else…
My column #ThePoint
thepoint.com.au/news/251120-...
My column #ThePoint
thepoint.com.au/news/251120-...
Contrary to BCA claims, Victoria actually among strongest places for business investment according to actual data
Despite continual demonisation of Victoria’s economy and suggestion that the state is a bad place to invest, the most recent state economy figures show that the Victoria remains a very popular place f...
thepoint.com.au
November 20, 2025 at 10:12 PM
The BCA keeps saying Victoria is the worst place to invest… and yet business investment keeps growing faster there than just about anywhere else…
My column #ThePoint
thepoint.com.au/news/251120-...
My column #ThePoint
thepoint.com.au/news/251120-...
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Tossing and turning last night on the Premiers plan for this private health care system for so called elective surgeries. Mine, if I were to opt into a private surgery, would run me $60-$90k, the final amount I wouldn’t know until after the surgery due to complications
November 20, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Tossing and turning last night on the Premiers plan for this private health care system for so called elective surgeries. Mine, if I were to opt into a private surgery, would run me $60-$90k, the final amount I wouldn’t know until after the surgery due to complications
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Here's a groundbreaking report that examines how countries around the world have successfully expanded abortion access and protected reproductive rights. The reports offer U.S.-based policymakers proven strategies to counter restrictions and treat abortion as essential health care.
New Reports Bring Global Solutions to Bolster U.S. Lawmakers in the Fight to Protect Reproductive Freedom - O'Neill
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the State Innovation Exchange (SiX) and the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health, released Beyond Borders, a groundbreaking report series that examines how countr...
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November 21, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Here's a groundbreaking report that examines how countries around the world have successfully expanded abortion access and protected reproductive rights. The reports offer U.S.-based policymakers proven strategies to counter restrictions and treat abortion as essential health care.
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AOC to @pabloreports.bsky.social : A swastika is one of the clearest symbols of hatred in all of humanity… to remove that designation… indicates a possible collaboration with those very elements, which I think is genuinely frightening to any American.
November 21, 2025 at 12:00 AM
AOC to @pabloreports.bsky.social : A swastika is one of the clearest symbols of hatred in all of humanity… to remove that designation… indicates a possible collaboration with those very elements, which I think is genuinely frightening to any American.
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1/ No surpirise that Business Council of Australia's leading the charge for further regressive changes to Watt's already regressive EPBC package
But 🤯 that the Group of 8 Unis (ANU, Monash, UAdelaide, UMelb, UNSW, USyd, UQ, UWA) have signed the 'Letter from the Alliance of 26 industry Groups' 🤬🤬🤬
But 🤯 that the Group of 8 Unis (ANU, Monash, UAdelaide, UMelb, UNSW, USyd, UQ, UWA) have signed the 'Letter from the Alliance of 26 industry Groups' 🤬🤬🤬
Alliance of Industry Groups: Letter on EPBC - Business Council of Australia
www.bca.com.au
November 21, 2025 at 3:09 AM
1/ No surpirise that Business Council of Australia's leading the charge for further regressive changes to Watt's already regressive EPBC package
But 🤯 that the Group of 8 Unis (ANU, Monash, UAdelaide, UMelb, UNSW, USyd, UQ, UWA) have signed the 'Letter from the Alliance of 26 industry Groups' 🤬🤬🤬
But 🤯 that the Group of 8 Unis (ANU, Monash, UAdelaide, UMelb, UNSW, USyd, UQ, UWA) have signed the 'Letter from the Alliance of 26 industry Groups' 🤬🤬🤬
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It’s fun to think about the surgeon who will botch your surgery 20 years from now and what he’s doing at this moment. He just ran all his homework through ChatGPT. He just read that article about vaccines and autism at the CDC website. He just watched an Instagram video about the moon landing hoax.
November 21, 2025 at 4:27 AM
It’s fun to think about the surgeon who will botch your surgery 20 years from now and what he’s doing at this moment. He just ran all his homework through ChatGPT. He just read that article about vaccines and autism at the CDC website. He just watched an Instagram video about the moon landing hoax.
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and Australia funding US military installation plus obscene AUKUS. Ask Chalmers to tax gas and pay for CSIRO!
Australia is one of the richest countries on Earth, if we can afford $600m for a PNG footy team, we can certainly afford to properly fund our premier scientific agency
My column on the CSIRO job cuts >
www.canberratimes.com.au/story/911683...
My column on the CSIRO job cuts >
www.canberratimes.com.au/story/911683...
Who needs world-changing, life-saving science when you've got rugby league
What does it say about us when we let CSIRO whither on the vine?
www.canberratimes.com.au
November 21, 2025 at 6:21 AM
and Australia funding US military installation plus obscene AUKUS. Ask Chalmers to tax gas and pay for CSIRO!
Australia is one of the richest countries on Earth, if we can afford $600m for a PNG footy team, we can certainly afford to properly fund our premier scientific agency
My column on the CSIRO job cuts >
www.canberratimes.com.au/story/911683...
My column on the CSIRO job cuts >
www.canberratimes.com.au/story/911683...
Who needs world-changing, life-saving science when you've got rugby league
What does it say about us when we let CSIRO whither on the vine?
www.canberratimes.com.au
November 21, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Australia is one of the richest countries on Earth, if we can afford $600m for a PNG footy team, we can certainly afford to properly fund our premier scientific agency
My column on the CSIRO job cuts >
www.canberratimes.com.au/story/911683...
My column on the CSIRO job cuts >
www.canberratimes.com.au/story/911683...
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The same public servants who created the rules for the ‘market’ for aged care, child care, disability care and water in the Murray River are now pretending they will do a good job of making a ‘market’ for biodiversity…what could go wrong
Australia Institute co-CEO Dr Richard Denniss breaks down the problem with offsets at a Senate Inquiry into proposed changes to the Environment Protection Reform Bill.
Sign the petition calling on the government to fix our broken environment laws nb.australiainstitute.org.au/strong_envir...
Sign the petition calling on the government to fix our broken environment laws nb.australiainstitute.org.au/strong_envir...
November 21, 2025 at 2:30 AM
The same public servants who created the rules for the ‘market’ for aged care, child care, disability care and water in the Murray River are now pretending they will do a good job of making a ‘market’ for biodiversity…what could go wrong
At a gas industry tax conference, the government’s representative did not use the words “gas” or “tax” in his 2500 word speech, writes @rodcampbell.bsky.social www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...
It's the perfect time for the government to defy the mining lobbies
Long-gone are the days when the mining industry could claim to have the power to topple prime ministers and governments.
www.thenewdaily.com.au
November 21, 2025 at 3:09 AM
At a gas industry tax conference, the government’s representative did not use the words “gas” or “tax” in his 2500 word speech, writes @rodcampbell.bsky.social www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...
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The mining lobby is weak right now.
Perfect time for strong env laws, @albomp.bsky.social
Last week the Minerals Council and gas lobby literally threw a party and no one (important) turned up.
My piece on it for @thenewdaily.bsky.social
@australiainstitute.org.au
Perfect time for strong env laws, @albomp.bsky.social
Last week the Minerals Council and gas lobby literally threw a party and no one (important) turned up.
My piece on it for @thenewdaily.bsky.social
@australiainstitute.org.au
It's the perfect time for the government to defy the mining lobbies
Long-gone are the days when the mining industry could claim to have the power to topple prime ministers and governments.
www.thenewdaily.com.au
November 21, 2025 at 1:35 AM
The mining lobby is weak right now.
Perfect time for strong env laws, @albomp.bsky.social
Last week the Minerals Council and gas lobby literally threw a party and no one (important) turned up.
My piece on it for @thenewdaily.bsky.social
@australiainstitute.org.au
Perfect time for strong env laws, @albomp.bsky.social
Last week the Minerals Council and gas lobby literally threw a party and no one (important) turned up.
My piece on it for @thenewdaily.bsky.social
@australiainstitute.org.au