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Kate Auty

@kateauty.bsky.social

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Living and working on #Taungurung country in Victoria the #TreatyState of #Australia. Things I am: a reader, lawyer, writer, curious. Posting out of interest.

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Kate Auty @kateauty.bsky.social · 1d

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

BRAVO! Nobel #PEACE Prize goes to a deserving woman from Latin America.

Breaking: María Corina Machado awarded Nobel Peace Prize

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

www.abc.net.au

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Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

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Kate Auty @kateauty.bsky.social · 1d

We too!

Kate Auty @kateauty.bsky.social · 1d

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

BRAVO! Nobel #PEACE Prize goes to a deserving woman from Latin America.

Breaking: María Corina Machado awarded Nobel Peace Prize

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

www.abc.net.au

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Kate Auty @kateauty.bsky.social · 1d

How is it possible that the NACC has to have its work done at “arms length” from its organisation. This is truly bizarre.

Kate Auty @kateauty.bsky.social · 1d

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Bad form - sports #gambling is out of control and the losses to the community are horrendous. Politicians should get with the program and stop “socialising” this industry.

Sportsbet dines with government minister at Labor fundraiser despite calls to reject lobbying from industry

Exclusive: Dinner occurred on the same day that four crossbench MPs held a press conference calling on government to ignore lobbying from gambling industry

www.theguardian.com

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Kate Auty @kateauty.bsky.social · 1d

Good work on exposing the sponsorship
conflict of the Parliamentary Sports Club - Centre for Public Integrity Catherine Williams said the club offered “an invaluable opportunity for monied interests to build relationships with members of parliament and their staff”.

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Kate Auty @kateauty.bsky.social · 1d

Highly commendable action quitting. The whole situation provides “an invaluable opportunity for monied interests to build relationships with members of parliament and their staff”. (per Catherine Williams Centre for Public Integrity.)

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Rachel Withers @rachelwithers.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine kicking the former national rugby captain out of your sports club instead of the gambling lobby.

To paraphrase Groucho Marx, who'd want to belong to a club that would accept Responsible Wagering Australia as one of its sponsors?

Bill Browne @browne90.bsky.social · 1d

Making his point for him -- just asking about the power of the gambling lobby gets Senator David Pocock booted from sports club the Prime Minister heads. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Former Wallabies star David Pocock booted from parliamentary sports club

Exclusive: Senator accused of bringing social club into disrepute after raising concerns about its association with betting lobby

www.theguardian.com

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Kate Auty @kateauty.bsky.social · 1d

They don’t make it easy to find out who is on the board. It is there but not with a quick search.

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Rick Morton @squigglyrick.bsky.social · 2d

The man bent over his guitar,
A shearsman of sorts. The day was green.
They said, "You have a blue guitar,
You do not play things as they are."
The man replied, "Things as they are,
Are changed upon the blue guitar."

Plus ça change! My newsletter: rick-morton.ghost.io/a-new-three-...

A New Three Laws of Motion

I night not tell you if I win the Prime Minister's Literary Award for Non-Fiction, but there will be signs. Ha ha, I'm fully kidding. I did win it. The news was everywhere anyway. I was a push notifi...

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Kate Auty @kateauty.bsky.social · 2d

www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Haka #NewZealand - ode to joy…

Watch: Haka breaks out after Te Pāti Māori MP Oriini Kaipara's maiden speech, Parliament suspended

Speaker Gerry Brownlee intends to investigate whether anyone knew about the haka, after Te Pāti Māori MP Oriini Kaipara's maiden speech.

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Kate Auty @kateauty.bsky.social · 2d

And right back at you. Your reporting is a revelation. Enjoy Paris.

Kate Auty @kateauty.bsky.social · 3d

You know it isn’t really that they were stupid was it? They knew what they were doing…

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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 3d

To the NACC: can you tell us why there haven't been any public hearings into the Robodebt matter?

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NACC says: No comment.

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Kate Auty @kateauty.bsky.social · 3d

No - he is English by birth and a University of Melbourne scholar by choice. But what a thrill.

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Kate Auty @kateauty.bsky.social · 3d

chemistry.unimelb.edu.au/about/news/t...

The man who built a whole new field of chemistry

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Kate Auty @kateauty.bsky.social · 3d

Astounding.

Kate Auty @kateauty.bsky.social · 3d

Exactly so. The colonial theft of country from Aboriginal people needs to be the subject of reparation.

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Kate Auty @kateauty.bsky.social · 3d

Very funny.

Kate Auty @kateauty.bsky.social · 4d

Ghastly stuff.

Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 4d

The Federal Government funds 71% of every spit hood put on an Aboriginal child in the NT. It's time to ensure Federal Funding comes with conditions including complying with human rights law!

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Rob Arnol @robertarnol.bsky.social · 4d

I wonder if his stolen wages were ever repaid to him or his family?

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Kate Auty @kateauty.bsky.social · 4d

Sandy Horne @sandyhorne.bsky.social · 4d

Ready for launch! The lovely little black-fronted dotterels were my (almost) constant companions at Lake Hattah.

Kate Auty @kateauty.bsky.social · 4d

This is such a challenging commentary.

Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 4d

ASIC doesn't prosecute bankers, or NACC the perpetrators of Robodebt.

@yelgeb.bsky.social on the blistering double standard in prosecuting white collars v blue, and protecting corporate reputations
#auspol #ANZ #austrac
michaelwest.com.au/asic-nacc-ex...

A culture of leniency. Exposing wrongdoing or protecting wrongdoers? - Michael West

Corporate regulator ASIC lets crooked bankers walk free, and the notional anti-corruption commission ignores Robodebt.

michaelwest.com.au

Kate Auty @kateauty.bsky.social · 4d

Surely not? Irony.

Jenny Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithWatermelon🍉🍉 @joneshowdareyou.bsky.social · 4d

One tiny smidgen of positive news. #NobelPeacePrize

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Andrew Wilkie MP @andrewwilkiemp.bsky.social · 4d

Gambling regulation in Aus is a national disgrace. The govt has ignored the Murphy Report & repeatedly blocked my bill to hold gambling giants accountable. If they won’t listen to evidence, experts or the crossbench, they should at least listen to the community. #auspol #politas

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