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Lenre
@lenreli.bsky.social
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Lenre • 30 • they/them • au + Maori • nonbinary bi-aro • idk what else? Gif-maker, fanfic writer, baker.
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Lenre @lenreli.bsky.social · Oct 17
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euanritchie.bsky.social
The utter sham of offsets, yet again...

“Destroying the equivalent of 40 MCGs worth of greater glider habitat and then attempting to relocate all hollows and claim this somehow offsets the harm to greater gliders is genuinely deluded, and contemptuous.” - me

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Qld coalmine expansion approved by Albanese government will clear habitat and fuel climate crisis, scientists say
Conservationists estimate coal exported from expanded mine to release CO2 equivalent of about half Australia’s annual carbon footprint
www.theguardian.com
February 13, 2026 at 7:03 AM
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peterwmurphy1.bsky.social
It's a bit greedy and selfish for Gina to own THREE Australian political parties. #auspol #Liberals #Nationals #OneNation
Gina Rinehart.
February 13, 2026 at 12:46 PM
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horatio-hornblower.bsky.social
Parliament's best work is done in committees. They have provided much of what informs government for legislation.

#ALBO doesn't care.

"In the Senate, the picture is bleaker – more than 150 inquiry reports tabled since the 2022 election have received no government response at all."

🇭🇲🦘🤠

#auspol
The Albanese government is ignoring Parliament’s best work
The outcomes of Parliamentary committeesare being ignored by the current government, and it’s undermining our democracy.
www.thenewdaily.com.au
February 13, 2026 at 11:04 AM
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jessiegender.bsky.social
Online leftists miss the point when they treat trans, women’s, BIPOC, and disabled struggles as secondary to the “workers’ revolution.” Dismantling racial supremacy and patriarchy is the revolution. If you overthrow capitalism without uprooting those foundations, it just comes back with a new names.
February 13, 2026 at 9:23 AM
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joneshowdareyou.bsky.social
"The protests in Australia over the visit of Israeli President Herzog tell us quite a lot about our media. Surely it is apparent that that media is a pro-Israel mouthpiece."
johnmenadue.com/post/2026/02...
Counting protesters down – how the Adelaide protest against Herzog was reported
The Adelaide protest against the visit of Israel’s president drew thousands and passed peacefully. Yet its treatment in the media raises familiar questions about whose voices are amplified, whose are ...
johnmenadue.com
February 12, 2026 at 8:29 PM
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marnshibski.bsky.social
People need to ask some simple questions: Who now owns much of Australia’s water? Why have investors invested downstream in the same direction as environmental flows? And why do politicians, bureaucrats and their consultants not have to declare whether they own water entitlements?”
February 13, 2026 at 6:25 AM
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zalisteggall.bsky.social
AEC disclosures show more than $138 million in political funding in 2024–25 had no declared source under the current rules.

When dark money & big donors shape our politics, public trust suffers. Australians deserve govts that are not fundraising from industries that profit when policy is weakened.
February 13, 2026 at 5:09 AM
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haaarpb.bsky.social
i refuse to give in to despair but i will give in to gluttony or like revenge maybe even horny
February 13, 2026 at 4:27 AM
lenreli.bsky.social
While it's impt to get rid of Albanese/Wong/Minns/etc, there will be another crop of corrupt, career pollies to take their place in Labor as long as they accept lobbying. Not to mention no term limits on politicians. These corrupt pollies are dime a dozen in the duopoly. #auspol
February 13, 2026 at 6:49 AM
lenreli.bsky.social
It's #ferdiefriday time once more! #ferdinandkingsley
Ferdinand Kingsley with a cone of ice-cream, staring down at the camera Ferdinand Kingsley as God/Jesus for the York Mystery Play 2012, glaring at the camera
February 13, 2026 at 6:43 AM
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maranoagirl.bsky.social
So it's our billions & billions & our land not the USAs but we are not allowed into it or know what it does. Its been dumped on Arrernte Country.
Gaza genocide redflag.org.au/article/what...
www.abc.net.au/news/backsto...
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkPm...
Everyone has an opinion about Pine Gap, but no-one wants to talk about it
Journalist Alex Barwick has lived in Alice Springs for 16 years but she's only recently dared to investigate Pine Gap, the ultra-secretive US spy base in her own backyard.
www.abc.net.au
February 13, 2026 at 4:35 AM
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larissawaters.bsky.social
More funding to Stolen Generations survivors for support, reunification & healing is welcome - and much needed.

But the number of First Nations kids in out-of-home care has more than doubled since an Apology that should have meant “never again”.
February 13, 2026 at 5:33 AM
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lizwfab.bsky.social
Including disabled people in our utopian futures pushes back against a eugenicist ideal.
nome.bsky.social Nome @nome.bsky.social · 16h
I have a friend who said, of Starfleet Academy, that this took them out of it - that seeing a person in a wheelchair in the 32nd century seemed unrealistic, since medicine in Star Trek "should be able to cure whatever was wrong with them."

That's not the case, for any number of possible reasons.
Lines of academy cadets, one in command red seated but at attention while in a wheelchair.
February 13, 2026 at 12:02 AM
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debnoller.bsky.social
I used to follow Kylie on Twitter. There is not a week go by that I dont think of her. #WaterGate #AusPol #AngusFuckingTaylor
martinelms.bsky.social Corporate Pravda has appropriated your thought and response. @martinelms.bsky.social · 1d
#aupol Whilst people bring up "Watergate" as a fraud perpetrated by Taylor and Joyce - a lady, Kylie Kilroy died as a consequence of Taylor's actions.

Please bring this up whenever Watergate is mentioned.
February 13, 2026 at 3:51 AM
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asherwolf.bsky.social
Hundreds of thousands of Australians with Robodebt are going to miss out on compensation because they didn’t know they had to sign up for it
February 13, 2026 at 2:48 AM
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ournewhomecoach.bsky.social
Susssssan Ley using “punk”. #Auspol.
a man says " you keep using that word i do not think it means what you think it means . "
Alt: a man says " you keep using that word i do not think it means what you think it means . "
media.tenor.com
February 13, 2026 at 3:24 AM
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kentparkskeet.bsky.social
Is it possible to take a class action against The King’s School, and similar institutions, for creating monsters?

While we’re thinking about The King’s School, seriously, that name, The King’s School.

Wankers.

#AusPol
Private & Independent Schools in Sydney NSW - The King's School
Welcome to The King's School: a unique adventure in learning, where students develop their qualities of mind, body and soul, to become global thought leaders.
www.kings.edu.au
February 13, 2026 at 3:28 AM
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useyourbrain.bsky.social
"Despite the extensive evidence and comprehensive recommendations, the government is once again choosing to tinker around the edges, instead of committing to actual reform."

#WhoWouldaThunk

#AusPol
Government accused of "failing to meet the moment" on consultancy ethics after PwC scandal
The Albanese Government has been accused of being a “government of gestures” that has “failed to meet the moment” after responding to two parliamentary inquiries into the consultancy sector and its et...
thepoint.com.au
February 12, 2026 at 10:55 PM
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siriusstar3.bsky.social
SHOCKED BY MONDAY NIGHT'S POLICE BRUTALITY?
THEN YOU HAVEN'T BEEN PAYING ATTENTION TO WHAT
INDIGENOUS PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY HAVE BEEN
SCREAMING ABOUT
#Auspol
Graphic SHOCKED BY MONDAY NIGHT'S POLICE BRUTALITY? THEN YOU HAVEN'T BEEN PAYING ATTENTION TO WHAT INDIGENOUS PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY HAVE BEEN SCREAMING FOR CENTURIES. Graphic LOT OF PEOPLE KEEP ACTING LIKE WHAT HAPPENED WAS UNTHINKABLE. LIKE IT WAS UNPRECEDENTED. BUT THAT KIND OF SHOCK SAYS MORE ABOUT OUR COLLECTIVE AMNESIA. DOl IT EXPOSES HOW LITTLE WE REALLY UNDERSTAND ABOUT THE STRUGGLE OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY. ASCIS A STRUGGLE THAT IS TOO OFTEN REDUCED TO SYMBOLIC GESTURES AND TOKENISTIC WELCOME TO COUNTRY ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. FOR INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES, THE REALITY HAS NEVER BEEN ONE WHERE POLICE VIOLENCE WAS UNIMAGINABLE OR SOME RARE EXCEPTION. IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE NORM. CALLING WHAT THE NEW SOUTH WALES POLICE FORCE DID "SHOCKING" IS PURE NAIVETY. PALESTINE AUSTRALIAN POLICING HAS ALWAYS BEEN ROOTED IN VIOLENCE, RACISM, BRUTALITY AND CORRUPTION. IF WE DON'T KNOW THAT BY NOW, WE'VE BEEN COMPLETELY HEEDLESS ABOUT THE INDIGENOUS STRUGGLE. Graphic HOW DO WE FORGET THE GENOCIDE & ETHNIC CLEANSING OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES IN THIS COUNTRY? AND MORE IMPORTANTLY, HOW DO WE FORGET WHO ENFORCED IT? THE AUSTRALIAN POLICE RECORD: • CLEARING LAND FOR SETTLERS • RAIDING CAMPS • CRUSHING RESISTANCE • ENFORCING FORCED REMOVALS • PROTECTING SETTLERS WHILE CRIMINALISING INDIGENOUS EXISTENCE
February 12, 2026 at 10:57 PM
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nicknobody.bsky.social
Labor have steadfastly, staunchly, consistently refused to act on climate change and fossil fuels.
It's just about the only thing they've taken a 'principled' stand on - burning your future to avoid hurting their corporate donors. #auspol
australiainstitute.org.au The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 14h
The Australian government must announce a plan to phase out fossil fuels "way before" COP31, says @kuminaidoo.bsky.social.

"I think they would have no legitimacy to play the key coordinating role in Türkiye...if they don't do that." #auspol

🎧 theaus.in/46xvC8e

@fossiltreaty.bsky.social
February 13, 2026 at 12:05 AM
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fahad-s-ali.bsky.social
And despite this, NSW Premier Chris Minns and police commissioner Mal Lanyon refuse to apologise.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Agreement to allow Muslims to finish prayer at Isaac Herzog protest didn’t reach officers, NSW police say
Men praying were grabbed at Sydney town hall rally against Israeli president’s visit
www.theguardian.com
February 12, 2026 at 11:59 PM
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kentparkskeet.bsky.social
The US doesn’t have its own atmosphere. This is an assault on the entire world.

What Trump does to Americans is their business, they elected him. What he does to our atmosphere is the business of the rest of the world.

@albomp.bsky.social, is this “shared values”?

#AusPol
Trump revokes landmark ruling that greenhouse gases endanger public health
The White House calls it the largest deregulation in US history, but environmentalists say it will prove costly for Americans.
www.bbc.com
February 13, 2026 at 12:40 AM
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joneshowdareyou.bsky.social
Citizens are alarmed to see how many IOF terrorists of Australian nationality are serving in genocidal state of Israel's military, @albomp.bsky.social @senatorwong.bsky.social.

What steps are you taking to investigate these people for possible war crimes & keep all Australians safe at home? #auspol
February 12, 2026 at 9:47 PM
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scarletalliance.bsky.social
Australian Border Force raids on sex industry workplaces target and dehumanise Asian migrant sex workers, making it impossible to access the benefits of decriminalisation. Read our briefing paper "Policing of Asian Migrant Sex Workers" buff.ly/QnDilez
FAQ Friday How does Australia's visa compliance system harm migrant sex workers? Scarlet Alliance logo in bottom right corner Australian Border Force (ABF) conduct “compliance operations” in Australian workplaces. ABF claims that raiding sex industry workplaces helps to detect exploitation and trafficking. n reality, these raids target Asian migrant sex workers for visa checks, visa cancellations, detention and deportation, and disproportionately impact their human rights. Raids traumatise and dehumanise Asian migrant sex workers They are ineffective in addressing workplace exploitation, trafficking, or visa issues within the sex industry, and they isolate workers from community. Sex workers describe intimidating behaviour from ABF officers, including carrying weapons and using militarised tactics. Raids make it hard to access the protective benefits of sex work decriminalisation. Fear of police pushes workers into isolation where they are out of touch with peer support. Workers are less likely to have access to condoms, safer sex information and testing, resulting in health harms. The evidence demonstrates raids increase vulnerability, rather than preventing harm, and should be replaced by approaches that enhance sex workers’ agency and safety.
February 13, 2026 at 1:01 AM