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Josie McSkimming
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PhD. Social Worker. Author: ‘Gutsy Girls’ @uqpbooks 2025, & ‘Leaving Christian Fundamentalism & the Reconstruction of Identity', Routledge, 2016. Environmentalist. No DMs. Living in Sydney NSW: Gadigal land. #exvangelical
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Josie McSkimming @josiemcskimming.bsky.social · Nov 14
I'm new to this platform, but some of you may know that I have been working on this book about my late sister, #DorothyPorter, my complicated family, & my exit from evangelical Christianity for some time.
I can very proudly say: HERE IT IS.
On presale.

#exvangelical
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Gutsy Girls
A unique behind-the-scenes story of love, family and the iconic Australian poet Dorothy Porter
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Josie McSkimming @josiemcskimming.bsky.social · Aug 15
‘The great cowardice of Australian politics is in its refusal to confront climate change. Federal policy is still set by the quarry-headed west. There are corals that have put up more fight than the cabinet.’
We are at the tipping point right now.
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The underwater bushfire
From the beach, you can see the flames burning on the oil and gas rigs that ring the northern part of Ningaloo Reef. Tim Winton calls them “sinister flares”. Like the bulk carriers shipping coal throu...
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Josie McSkimming @josiemcskimming.bsky.social · Jul 19
‘It is worth remembering a little about Scott Morrison, the man who conceived #AUKUS. He is the single worst leader the country has ever had, unique in his venality & unseriousness. He is a man without ambition for anything but himself…’

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The curse of AUKUS
Probably it is worth remembering a little about Scott Morrison, the man who conceived AUKUS. He is the single worst leader the country has ever had, unique in his venality and unseriousness. He is a m...
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Josie McSkimming @josiemcskimming.bsky.social · Jul 13
From Megan Davis & Pat Anderson for #naidocweek2025.

Such an important & relevant message.

Spread far and wide.
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Josie McSkimming @josiemcskimming.bsky.social · Jul 10
@4corners ‘Generation Cancer’
Who else has watched this?
It’s bloody unbelievable. The statistics of cancer in young people are shocking. Terrible.
And Australia are WORLD LEADERS.
We have created a toxic world.
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Four Corners: S2025 Generation Cancer
Australians in their 30s and 40s are facing an alarming surge in cancer diagnoses and researchers are scrambling to understand why. From bowel and breast to liver and kidney, aggressive cancers are hi...
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Josie McSkimming @josiemcskimming.bsky.social · Jul 4
‘Australia’s response to colonisation is a story of continuous betrayal. For every promise made, there is the same one broken. PMs have cried white tears & done nothing. In its years of steady work…this commission offers a new map for justice.’

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New map for justice
Occasionally a sentence will arrive and through its gentle, balanced clauses, through the patience of its metre, it will suggest a fresh reality. The words will not be new but their force will be. It ...
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Josie McSkimming @josiemcskimming.bsky.social · Jul 4
‘These are not allegations.They are findings; & while they echo the experiences of indigenous peoples globally, the report makes clear that what occurred in Vic. is not a vague tragedy of the past. It is an ongoing structure..’
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Yoorrook’s call for action on truth
The Yoorrook Justice Commission offers the Victorian government the chance to lead the country in acknowledging the truth and full history of First Nations genocide.
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Dobby Does Doom @sonofscience.bsky.social · May 23
The sea around the UK is unusually warm, up to 3°C above average on 20 May.

Most of the North Atlantic is running hot, but It’s the kind of heat we were expecting decades from now, not this year.

A thread on how this will affect Northern Europe this Summer. 1/6 (Image: Leon Simons) #collapse
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Josie McSkimming @josiemcskimming.bsky.social · May 23
“Abbott, his Sky News after dark cronies & those few people left in the parliamentary party who still listen to him, are so tone-deaf that they are trying to pretend the weaknesses that made the Coalition unelectable are actually strengths.”
Worth a read.
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Exclusive: How Abbott and Credlin control the Liberals
Liberal MPs reveal how the former prime minister and his close confidante have been at the centre of a string of disastrous decisions that led to the party’s stunning election loss and the collapse of...
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Ronni🧂Salt @ronnisalt.bsky.social · May 22
What a pig of a man.

David Littleproud got in a car and drove to Albury where Sussan Ley was attending to her dying mother?

He did this so he could harass Ley - while👏🏽her👏🏽mother👏🏽was👏🏽dying - purely and solely about the National's business?

I can't believe I know this. How vile.
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Ronni🧂Salt @ronnisalt.bsky.social · May 17
People reacting to the She Matters mural in Hosier Lane, Melbourne. The mural contains the names & faces of 128 Australian women killed since Jan 1, 2024

This is the work of Sherele Moody of #FemicideWatch

Donate: australianfemicidewatch.org/support/
Shop: australianfemicidewatch.org/shop-2/
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Josie McSkimming @josiemcskimming.bsky.social · May 10
‘His relationship to truth is the same as his relationship to decency, which is the same as his relationship to competence. He was the country’s cruellest immigration minister & its least capable…Everywhere behind him is a scene of ruin.’
A serious burn 🔥
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Stop the votes
Surely this is the end, the rock bottom drunks talk about at their first meeting. For more than 20 years, the Liberal Party has staggered further and further from the political centre, stopping occasi...
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Ronni🧂Salt @ronnisalt.bsky.social · May 9
Angus is so desperate for every vote he had to wheedle Jacinta over to the Liberal party in return for some sort of shadow ministry

A confederacy of dunces - 8.9 out of 10 on the Babet scale
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Andrew Gardiner @ajgardineresq.bsky.social · May 8
Seatless fascists in glass houses should avoid throwing stones ...
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Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · May 7
Big fan of solar when he was a 'Modern Liberal' along with Dave, but now blowing with the wind.
He's a careerist without principle. Perfect Liberal Party leadership material.

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marque lawyers @marquelawyers.com.au · May 6
"People aren't relating to us", complains senator who mostly relates to people by suing them
'People aren’t relating to us': Linda Reynolds unloads on Liberal Party
Retiring Liberal senator Linda Reynolds labels the party's federal election campaign a "comprehensive failure", blasting it for not doing more to increase female representation.
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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · May 6
Wrote this in March last year, but could have written it anytime in the years leading up to it, and indeed, the years coming:
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The Liberal party does not have a ‘women problem’. Men are the problem | Amy Remeikis
The party’s women continue to wring their hands in their support group chats, apoplectic with rage off the record, while soothing on it
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · May 5
Swim to the light.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
Dutton underwater, foot chained to a weight holding him among placards of negative, culture war/mean-spirited things he said during the campaign. He is trying to swim to the surface, breathing out a speech/air bubble saying “I congratulated him on his win and told him his mum would have been proud of him”.
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Josie McSkimming @josiemcskimming.bsky.social · May 6
We need @albomp.bsky.social to go the full Gough!
australiainstitute.org.au The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · May 6
"For decades progressive voters have been told that Australians can’t have the nice things people in other developed countries take for granted because the Liberals and the Murdoch media would never accept such a progressive challenge... no need to be scared anymore." - @richarddenniss.bsky.social
Nothing stands the way of Labor and ambitious, progressive reform
The big question now is whether the second term Labor government will make the big changes that Australians clearly want and need.
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Josie McSkimming @josiemcskimming.bsky.social · May 2
‘Tapping into the historical racism that began with the British invasion has proved easier for the race-baiters than even I could imagine.’
Marcia Langton’s must read article about Advance & the Liberals. Let’s hope decency prevails.

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Dutton, Advance and the Welcome to Country
On Anzac Day, at the Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne, a sacred moment was ruptured. Neo-fascist Jacob Hersant led a group in abusing Uncle Mark Brown, a Bunurong and Gunditjmara Traditional Owner w...
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · Apr 22
When a firefighter dies on duty, a small team of federal workers is often called on to pinpoint what went wrong and identify how to avoid similar accidents.

But Trump is firing nearly all of the employees responsible for conducting those reviews.
Trump Laid Off Nearly All the Federal Workers Who Investigate Firefighter Deaths
The cuts, which are part of Trump’s slashing of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, will also halt a first-of-its-kind study of the causes of thousands of firefighters’ cancer c...
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Cheryl Kernot @cherylkernot.bsky.social · Apr 19
@latingle.bsky.social One of the few journalists capable of looking beyond the blatant & joining the very consequential dots for us to consider. So informative. Meanwhile the others criss cross Australia on buses chasing the “leaders.” Set pieces. Learn little
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Josie McSkimming @josiemcskimming.bsky.social · Apr 18
Climate change denial... ‘This is the safe harbour of ignorance. It’s Dutton’s most concrete promise, the right not to think too hard. It is “if you don’t know, vote no”. It’s leadership as blind eye, the turned back of a man who walked out on history.’

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Freethinkers United @freethinkersunited.bsky.social · Apr 17
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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · Apr 17
Sky host Laura Jayes ends up red faced after saying the LNP backed Labor’s $300 energy bill relief last year
Clare “no they didn’t…they opposed it…the fact is they voted against that rebate”
“People would have paid higher energy bills last year if Dutton was in power”💥#auspol
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Shiannon Corcoran @shiannonc.bsky.social · Apr 16
While it is likely the serial sycophantic nutjacks at The Australian are conceding that Dutton may well be an epic turd-tinselling fail

Paul Kelly saying the No Campaign was Dutton’s “finest call” is absolutely despicable

The No campaign was racist, divisive & punched down on vulnerable minorities
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