@josephinet.bsky.social
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Time to end AUKUS, remove US bases and chart an independent, principled and safe defence and foreign policy for Australia. Cringing in fear under the tattered US umbrella while it’s being used to beat up US allies is no longer a credible plan.
January 17, 2026 at 8:43 PM
Time to end AUKUS, remove US bases and chart an independent, principled and safe defence and foreign policy for Australia. Cringing in fear under the tattered US umbrella while it’s being used to beat up US allies is no longer a credible plan.
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This is what happens when the country is run based on political opportunism thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Why we’re all the losers from the hate speech fracas
The biggest losers in the political brinkmanship Anthony Albanese and Labor lured Sussan Ley and the Liberals into with the hate group legislation no one wanted, is as always the public.
thepoint.com.au
January 22, 2026 at 1:04 AM
This is what happens when the country is run based on political opportunism thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
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At my desk, just saw a rat saunter through the back door. Ergh
Remember,important... DO NOT USE RAT POISON !
It's killing our lovely birds and wildlife!!
(I'll get the bugger... rat trap set up to go)
birdlife.org.au/stop-the-pub...
Remember,important... DO NOT USE RAT POISON !
It's killing our lovely birds and wildlife!!
(I'll get the bugger... rat trap set up to go)
birdlife.org.au/stop-the-pub...
Stop the public sale of lethal SGAR rat poisons - BirdLife Australia
The routine and widespread public use of Second Generation Anticoagulant Rodenticides (SGARs) is killing native wildlife across Australia. Help remove SGARs from supermarket shelves and ensure that on...
birdlife.org.au
January 17, 2026 at 6:45 AM
At my desk, just saw a rat saunter through the back door. Ergh
Remember,important... DO NOT USE RAT POISON !
It's killing our lovely birds and wildlife!!
(I'll get the bugger... rat trap set up to go)
birdlife.org.au/stop-the-pub...
Remember,important... DO NOT USE RAT POISON !
It's killing our lovely birds and wildlife!!
(I'll get the bugger... rat trap set up to go)
birdlife.org.au/stop-the-pub...
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January 15, 2026 at 8:18 AM
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Thanks Pete #Malinauskas and @australianlabor.bsky.social #auspol Another disaster. #SouthAustralia #MurrayRiver
The River Murray - Australia’s largest river system and its associated wetlands, floodplains and groundwater systems has been formally listed as a 'Critically Endangered Threatened Ecological Community' under national environment law.
glamadelaide.com.au/river-murray...
glamadelaide.com.au/river-murray...
River Murray ecosystem formally classed as critically endangered
The River Murray has been listed as a critically endangered ecological community under national law, acknowledging its declining health and strengthening environmental oversight ahead of future planni...
glamadelaide.com.au
January 15, 2026 at 7:55 AM
Thanks Pete #Malinauskas and @australianlabor.bsky.social #auspol Another disaster. #SouthAustralia #MurrayRiver
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Santos sponsoring the Tour Down Under is like Benson & Hedges sponsoring the cricket, it’s using sport to push their harmful unhealthy product.
www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/j...
www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/j...
‘It’s embarrassing’: riders say time is up for fossil fuel sponsorship of heat-affected Tour Down Under
Cyclists prepare for Australia’s big race by training in extreme temperatures – and they have noticed a contradiction in the relationship with Santos
www.theguardian.com
January 14, 2026 at 5:29 AM
Santos sponsoring the Tour Down Under is like Benson & Hedges sponsoring the cricket, it’s using sport to push their harmful unhealthy product.
www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/j...
www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/j...
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Just wondering how soon just speaking words against fossil fuel companies will be legally considered hate speech in Australia
January 14, 2026 at 2:07 AM
Just wondering how soon just speaking words against fossil fuel companies will be legally considered hate speech in Australia
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Start today.
Reach out to others in your local community.
Get organised. Campaign. Vote.
No one is coming to save us but us.
Start today #auspol
Reach out to others in your local community.
Get organised. Campaign. Vote.
No one is coming to save us but us.
Start today #auspol
January 12, 2026 at 8:57 PM
Start today.
Reach out to others in your local community.
Get organised. Campaign. Vote.
No one is coming to save us but us.
Start today #auspol
Reach out to others in your local community.
Get organised. Campaign. Vote.
No one is coming to save us but us.
Start today #auspol
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In the spirit of brotherly love, could I gently enquire why the almighty **** are government departments, government ministers and Labour MPs *STILL* using X?
January 12, 2026 at 10:27 AM
In the spirit of brotherly love, could I gently enquire why the almighty **** are government departments, government ministers and Labour MPs *STILL* using X?
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After Bondi, calls for a Royal Commission appeared overnight, delivered by rotating groups using identical language. That is astroturfing, a PR tactic that simulates grassroots demand to manufacture urgency, crowd out scrutiny, and lock in policy before evidence is tested. More on YT
January 9, 2026 at 4:40 AM
After Bondi, calls for a Royal Commission appeared overnight, delivered by rotating groups using identical language. That is astroturfing, a PR tactic that simulates grassroots demand to manufacture urgency, crowd out scrutiny, and lock in policy before evidence is tested. More on YT
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If we ever do have a royal commission into Bondi, its terms of reference should include an examination of the media’s highly political handling of the tragedy. That’s where we might also learn who really dials up hate and racism in this country.
January 6, 2026 at 5:11 AM
If we ever do have a royal commission into Bondi, its terms of reference should include an examination of the media’s highly political handling of the tragedy. That’s where we might also learn who really dials up hate and racism in this country.
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Quietly, without much scrutiny, NSW has climbed into the global top 10 rankings of jurisdictions with the most heavy-handed anti-protest laws. The media treats this normal. It’s isn’t. #auspol
January 6, 2026 at 10:46 PM
Quietly, without much scrutiny, NSW has climbed into the global top 10 rankings of jurisdictions with the most heavy-handed anti-protest laws. The media treats this normal. It’s isn’t. #auspol
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'cultural sensitivity'?
I know the headline is quoting the #AdelaideFestival statement, but this is a shamefully misleading headline by ABC News bc it implies Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah was somehow responsible for being cancelled, that SHE had been culturally insensitive. Appalling #journalism. #auspol
I know the headline is quoting the #AdelaideFestival statement, but this is a shamefully misleading headline by ABC News bc it implies Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah was somehow responsible for being cancelled, that SHE had been culturally insensitive. Appalling #journalism. #auspol
January 8, 2026 at 8:26 PM
'cultural sensitivity'?
I know the headline is quoting the #AdelaideFestival statement, but this is a shamefully misleading headline by ABC News bc it implies Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah was somehow responsible for being cancelled, that SHE had been culturally insensitive. Appalling #journalism. #auspol
I know the headline is quoting the #AdelaideFestival statement, but this is a shamefully misleading headline by ABC News bc it implies Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah was somehow responsible for being cancelled, that SHE had been culturally insensitive. Appalling #journalism. #auspol
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The recent sound of explosions over Venezuela, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Somalia, Yemen, and Nigeria are not merely the spasms by a declining U.S. empire. They are something much more terrifying — the dawning of the age of impunity.
Craig Mokhiber
Craig Mokhiber
January 8, 2026 at 2:23 AM
The recent sound of explosions over Venezuela, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Somalia, Yemen, and Nigeria are not merely the spasms by a declining U.S. empire. They are something much more terrifying — the dawning of the age of impunity.
Craig Mokhiber
Craig Mokhiber
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As a former Director of Adelaide Writers' Week I am appalled that the Adelaide Festival Board has rescinded Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah's invitation to the 2026 AWW, explicitly linking its decision to the shattering crimes in Bondi.
A shocking decision that will and should have far-reaching consequences.
A shocking decision that will and should have far-reaching consequences.
January 8, 2026 at 4:50 AM
As a former Director of Adelaide Writers' Week I am appalled that the Adelaide Festival Board has rescinded Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah's invitation to the 2026 AWW, explicitly linking its decision to the shattering crimes in Bondi.
A shocking decision that will and should have far-reaching consequences.
A shocking decision that will and should have far-reaching consequences.
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It’s going to be an interesting few weeks when the royal commission examines, as I suspect it will, the defraying of social cohesion caused by the organised censorship of writers, artists and employees across the country for daring to speak against an unfolding genocide
January 8, 2026 at 10:32 AM
It’s going to be an interesting few weeks when the royal commission examines, as I suspect it will, the defraying of social cohesion caused by the organised censorship of writers, artists and employees across the country for daring to speak against an unfolding genocide
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My statement regarding my decision to withdraw from this year’s Adelaide Writers Festival.
January 8, 2026 at 9:55 AM
My statement regarding my decision to withdraw from this year’s Adelaide Writers Festival.
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In Israeli-occupied Gaza, the IDF murder journalists.
In Trump's USA, his ICE agents murder legal observers.
The goal is the same: eliminate witnesses for crimes by the state. #GazaGenocide #USA #Minneapolis #ICEshooting
In Trump's USA, his ICE agents murder legal observers.
The goal is the same: eliminate witnesses for crimes by the state. #GazaGenocide #USA #Minneapolis #ICEshooting
January 8, 2026 at 8:07 PM
In Israeli-occupied Gaza, the IDF murder journalists.
In Trump's USA, his ICE agents murder legal observers.
The goal is the same: eliminate witnesses for crimes by the state. #GazaGenocide #USA #Minneapolis #ICEshooting
In Trump's USA, his ICE agents murder legal observers.
The goal is the same: eliminate witnesses for crimes by the state. #GazaGenocide #USA #Minneapolis #ICEshooting
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A couple of very arguments for moving on from the duopoly. They have massive conflicts of interest and enact rules for the majority but exempt themselves. It’s a stitch up
January 3, 2026 at 1:53 AM
A couple of very arguments for moving on from the duopoly. They have massive conflicts of interest and enact rules for the majority but exempt themselves. It’s a stitch up
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Can’t believe I’m only person disturbed by normalisation of NSW police carrying rifles at events. Stop it! @greencate.bsky.social
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
Police riot squad to carry long-arm firearms at Sydney Ashes series
Officers will carry long-arm firearms as part of a bolstered police presence at the Ashes series in Sydney in the wake of the Bondi terror attack.
www.abc.net.au
January 3, 2026 at 3:10 AM
Can’t believe I’m only person disturbed by normalisation of NSW police carrying rifles at events. Stop it! @greencate.bsky.social
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
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Oil & gas steel platforms like skyscrapers in our Bass Strait oceans since ‘60s, decommissioned. Exxon Mobil & Woodside remove your junk. We don’t want your fake ‘artificial reefs’ with arsenic & mercury ‘traces’ but our clean seabed back. Thanks & go.
January 3, 2026 at 5:43 AM
Oil & gas steel platforms like skyscrapers in our Bass Strait oceans since ‘60s, decommissioned. Exxon Mobil & Woodside remove your junk. We don’t want your fake ‘artificial reefs’ with arsenic & mercury ‘traces’ but our clean seabed back. Thanks & go.
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“In Australia, we subsidize the fossil fuel industry, and we charge our kids a fortune to go to uni.” - Australia Institute co-CEO Richard Denniss.
Add your name to the call and demand the gas industry pays its fair share: https://nb.australiainstitute.org.au/increase_the_prrt
Add your name to the call and demand the gas industry pays its fair share: https://nb.australiainstitute.org.au/increase_the_prrt
January 2, 2026 at 8:43 PM
“In Australia, we subsidize the fossil fuel industry, and we charge our kids a fortune to go to uni.” - Australia Institute co-CEO Richard Denniss.
Add your name to the call and demand the gas industry pays its fair share: https://nb.australiainstitute.org.au/increase_the_prrt
Add your name to the call and demand the gas industry pays its fair share: https://nb.australiainstitute.org.au/increase_the_prrt
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1/2 A calm response to the #BondiShooting:
"All this finger-pointing before we’ve even had a moment to collectively mourn the dead and injured. How about we pause and consider the two lasting images that the December 14, 2025, Hanukkah massacre presents us with?...
www.smh.com.au/national/i-t...
"All this finger-pointing before we’ve even had a moment to collectively mourn the dead and injured. How about we pause and consider the two lasting images that the December 14, 2025, Hanukkah massacre presents us with?...
www.smh.com.au/national/i-t...
I told a friend the world was trembling, then Bondi erupted
We were two Jewish men and two non-Jewish women, settling down for dinner in Bondi. Then the gunshots rang out.
www.smh.com.au
December 16, 2025 at 1:30 AM
1/2 A calm response to the #BondiShooting:
"All this finger-pointing before we’ve even had a moment to collectively mourn the dead and injured. How about we pause and consider the two lasting images that the December 14, 2025, Hanukkah massacre presents us with?...
www.smh.com.au/national/i-t...
"All this finger-pointing before we’ve even had a moment to collectively mourn the dead and injured. How about we pause and consider the two lasting images that the December 14, 2025, Hanukkah massacre presents us with?...
www.smh.com.au/national/i-t...
