#134YearsInSolidarity
@laborforus.bsky.social
Irish-Australian. Analytical Marxist (Social Democrat), husband, father of a young man, believer in science, God & 'the light on the hill'.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0IYcHFiYVp5QjQzoD-QDRQ
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F**king #ABC730 is in full campaign mode. According to #JacobGreber the "focus" is shifting from the Coalition's "troubles" and is now firmly on the Govt, & "Albanese" (wince like just saying the name is offensive), is "haunted" by promises made during the election.
#auspol #alboPM
#auspol #alboPM
November 25, 2025 at 8:44 AM
F**king #ABC730 is in full campaign mode. According to #JacobGreber the "focus" is shifting from the Coalition's "troubles" and is now firmly on the Govt, & "Albanese" (wince like just saying the name is offensive), is "haunted" by promises made during the election.
#auspol #alboPM
#auspol #alboPM
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November 25, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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New job
November 25, 2025 at 3:58 AM
New job
Agree
Brilliant observation!
November 24, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Agree
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rofl
The US White House has announced it has eliminated the Department of Government Efficiency, DOGE.
November 24, 2025 at 9:58 AM
rofl
EXACTLY!
#netzeroseats isn't getting enough love. If we can do it to Pig Iron Bobs first party we can do it to his second.
November 24, 2025 at 9:31 AM
EXACTLY!
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‘EnergyAustralia will convert its 101-year-old Yallourn coal power site in Victoria into a low-carbon emissions hub supplying data centres, industry and households, in an ambitious plan that will cost over $5 billion.’ #EnergyTransition #auspol www.afr.com/companies/en...
EnergyAustralia plots $5b-plus transformation of ageing Yallourn plant
The country’s third-largest electricity and gas retailer wants the site of the coal power station, set to close in 2028, to become a new renewables precinct.
www.afr.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:57 AM
‘EnergyAustralia will convert its 101-year-old Yallourn coal power site in Victoria into a low-carbon emissions hub supplying data centres, industry and households, in an ambitious plan that will cost over $5 billion.’ #EnergyTransition #auspol www.afr.com/companies/en...
These figures are staggering when you account for the fact that this is the Newspoll 👀 #auspol
🚨 6 NEWS PROJECTION (based on latest Newspoll): Labor expands its majority while the Coalition is reduced to just 33 seats
🟥 ALP: 36%
🟦 L/NP: 24%
🟧 PHON: 15%
🟩 GRN: 13%
⬛️ OTH: 12%
Two-party-preferred
🟥 ALP: 58%
🟦 L/NP: 42%
🟥 ALP: 36%
🟦 L/NP: 24%
🟧 PHON: 15%
🟩 GRN: 13%
⬛️ OTH: 12%
Two-party-preferred
🟥 ALP: 58%
🟦 L/NP: 42%
November 24, 2025 at 9:15 AM
These figures are staggering when you account for the fact that this is the Newspoll 👀 #auspol
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Parkville is gorgeous and so capacious. great demonstration of how much natural light a cut and cover station can get.
only 6 more days to go 🥰
only 6 more days to go 🥰
November 24, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Parkville is gorgeous and so capacious. great demonstration of how much natural light a cut and cover station can get.
only 6 more days to go 🥰
only 6 more days to go 🥰
This is a fantastic explainer in the counterintuitive research findings on how the 'Nordic model' reduces social inequality. The wingnut left and right will not like the findings 🤣 #auspol #JoinYourUnion - youtu.be/nTMXPa-GJjM?...
Income Equality in the Nordic Countries: Myths, Facts, and Lessons
YouTube video by econimate
youtu.be
November 24, 2025 at 7:25 AM
This is a fantastic explainer in the counterintuitive research findings on how the 'Nordic model' reduces social inequality. The wingnut left and right will not like the findings 🤣 #auspol #JoinYourUnion - youtu.be/nTMXPa-GJjM?...
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A big battery located next to a substation, on land used as a gravel pit, attracts no objections from people within 50 kms. But long distance antis force a review.
reneweconomy.com.au
November 23, 2025 at 10:47 PM
A big battery located next to a substation, on land used as a gravel pit, attracts no objections from people within 50 kms. But long distance antis force a review.
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I don't necessarily disagree with our economically conservative friend here.
But do you know who will? The very rich and very powerful MEU Who represent workers in that industry.
Not that Zali will be a fan of unions.
But do you know who will? The very rich and very powerful MEU Who represent workers in that industry.
Not that Zali will be a fan of unions.
Zali Steggall says it’s time to stop pretending gas is needed, as gas companies are taking us for a ride.
“Australia does not have a gas shortage problem. We have lots of gas.”
Says moving toward electrification is better tor ppl’s “health & their wallets.” #HouseOfReps
“Australia does not have a gas shortage problem. We have lots of gas.”
Says moving toward electrification is better tor ppl’s “health & their wallets.” #HouseOfReps
November 24, 2025 at 12:40 AM
I don't necessarily disagree with our economically conservative friend here.
But do you know who will? The very rich and very powerful MEU Who represent workers in that industry.
Not that Zali will be a fan of unions.
But do you know who will? The very rich and very powerful MEU Who represent workers in that industry.
Not that Zali will be a fan of unions.
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November 23, 2025 at 11:11 PM
The loss of The Guardian is a tremendous tragedy...
Since seeing it, I've never eaten plasticine again. www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
My cultural awakening: Chicken Run turned me vegetarian
Aardman’s tale of a group of plucky hens standing up to their pie-making masters was a favourite in our house, and – I realised – incompatible with my taste for burgers
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:46 PM
The loss of The Guardian is a tremendous tragedy...
Here is the CNA coverage. God Speed to those lawyers in Argentina. I suspect Opus Dei will be abolished as a Prelate even before this civil case is resolved 👌 - www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/265189/...
November 23, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Here is the CNA coverage. God Speed to those lawyers in Argentina. I suspect Opus Dei will be abolished as a Prelate even before this civil case is resolved 👌 - www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/265189/...
It's awesome....
Dan’s the official enemy of unhinged Cookers and entitled billionaires…
Onya, Dan👍
Onya, Dan👍
November 23, 2025 at 11:27 AM
It's awesome....
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"My NHS colleagues & I weren’t willing to let the bodies pile high in their thousands. Boris no longer mentions them at all."
My piece on the responses to the UK Covid-UK Inquiry report that try to airbrush the dead away.
Sincere thanks, @theobserveruk.bsky.social.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
My piece on the responses to the UK Covid-UK Inquiry report that try to airbrush the dead away.
Sincere thanks, @theobserveruk.bsky.social.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
I’ll never forget the horror of the Covid wards | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 9:18 AM
"My NHS colleagues & I weren’t willing to let the bodies pile high in their thousands. Boris no longer mentions them at all."
My piece on the responses to the UK Covid-UK Inquiry report that try to airbrush the dead away.
Sincere thanks, @theobserveruk.bsky.social.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
My piece on the responses to the UK Covid-UK Inquiry report that try to airbrush the dead away.
Sincere thanks, @theobserveruk.bsky.social.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
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Chris Bowen eating the Greens lunch.
‘Chris Bowen’s new role as Cop31 “president of negotiations” puts the climate and energy minister at the helm of the most complex and consequential multilateral process in the world.’ #COP30 #COP31 #auspol @smartenergycouncil.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Australia’s unconventional Cop31 deal puts Chris Bowen at the helm of the world’s most complex negotiations. It’s a huge opportunity | Thom Woodroofe and Dean Bialek
Australia may not be hosting Cop31, but the unprecedented Turkey partnership is a real chance to secure global influence and turbocharge a new green zeitgeist
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Chris Bowen eating the Greens lunch.
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A non-epistemic, ethical/aesthetic auxiliary attraction of evolutionary psychology for me is its freedom from psychological elitism. Adaptationist approaches to human affairs bear in this regard an affinity with Nietzsche's praise of Thucydides.
Psychological elitism - Theory and Society
Elites can be differentiated from non-elites by their status-enhancing attributes: their accomplishments, expertise, and group memberships. Elitism is the belief that elites deserve epistemic deferenc...
link.springer.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:09 PM
A non-epistemic, ethical/aesthetic auxiliary attraction of evolutionary psychology for me is its freedom from psychological elitism. Adaptationist approaches to human affairs bear in this regard an affinity with Nietzsche's praise of Thucydides.
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"In the meantime, dubious ideas about the unconscious causes of behavior & dubious rejections of conscious thought as a determinant of behavior persist, influencing countless students, elites in gov & the media, & the general public (as happened w/ social psychologists’ claims about implicit bias)."
November 22, 2025 at 8:36 PM
"In the meantime, dubious ideas about the unconscious causes of behavior & dubious rejections of conscious thought as a determinant of behavior persist, influencing countless students, elites in gov & the media, & the general public (as happened w/ social psychologists’ claims about implicit bias)."
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My thoughts on the dismissal of the Whitlam govt. 50 years later - the language of the dismissal has shifted to now acknowledge, as the PM described, a ‘calculated plot’ to remove an elected govt #auspol johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
A calculated plot, an ambush, a coup
Five decades on from the dismissal of the Whitlam government, Australia is seeing a notable shift in the narrative that now recognises it as a calculated coup, and an assault on the conventions of gov...
johnmenadue.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:16 AM
My thoughts on the dismissal of the Whitlam govt. 50 years later - the language of the dismissal has shifted to now acknowledge, as the PM described, a ‘calculated plot’ to remove an elected govt #auspol johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
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As we say in Scotland, hell mend any Labour MP's who are behind these endless articles attacking their own PM. A PM who in 4 years took them from the worst defeat in living memory to number 10. He's not perfect show me anybody who is but cast your mind back to the previous 14 years.
November 22, 2025 at 8:51 AM
As we say in Scotland, hell mend any Labour MP's who are behind these endless articles attacking their own PM. A PM who in 4 years took them from the worst defeat in living memory to number 10. He's not perfect show me anybody who is but cast your mind back to the previous 14 years.