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Michelle Petterson
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Atheist, HCW 🦷 MPH student. 🍉
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Penny Allman-Payne @pennyallmanpayne.com · 2h
Robodebt was a mass deception based on a cruel bet: that people on income support would simply give up and pay debts they didn't owe.

Today I tabled a petition from Kath Madgwick and Jenny Miller calling for those responsible to finally be held accountable.
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kcarruthers @kcar.me · 1h
“Exclusive: Violent Maccabi fans were organised fighters 'linked to IDF', UK police found”

www.middleeasteye.net/news/violent-m…
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Captain Quoll @kudelka.bsky.social · 21h
We do keep electing the worst people.
thevenerablebede.bsky.social Bede Kelleher @thevenerablebede.bsky.social · 23h
21 years ago we had stillborn twins. It still hurts. I cannot express in words the loathing I feel about these men. To suggest people would cash in on such excruciating loss says everything you need to know about these “moral conservatives.” Arseholes. www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
Hastie, Joyce ignite late-term abortion fight over paid leave for stillbirth law
Four Coalition MPs have renewed a debate over “late-term abortions” in federal parliament, raising concern that laws guaranteeing paid leave for parents of stillborn children will be used by mothers w...
www.smh.com.au
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 13h
This is the president of the United States taking a break from gold-and-marble interior renovations to say he’ll defy a court order to feed hungry Americans.

Nero would be proud.
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 12h
Gift horse.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
Single frame. Murray Watt and Albo looking at papers with headlines “LIBS MAY DROP NET ZERO” and “LEY’s LEADERSHIP IN PERIL” Noticeboard behind them: “Environmental…#Weaken EPA ✔️#Never look a gift horse…”Approve new coal projects ✔️ #Approve North West Shelf ✔️ #Weaken Tas Salmon…” Murray Watt says, “They make us look like we’re serious about climate action!” Albo says, “Never look a gift horse…”
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Tim Dunlop @timdunlop.bsky.social · 13h
“Modern neo-Nazis crave attention and publicity. They see journalists as ‘useful idiots' in this regard, and they celebrate even the most critical coverage because it inevitably leads to a surge in membership applications.”
ASIO Chief, Mike Burgess
(paywalled)
www.afr.com/policy/forei...
At least three nations willing to kill on Australian soil: ASIO boss
ASIO chief Mike Burgess said the degrading trajectory of the security environment meant it was realistic a foreign government will attempt to assassinate a dissident in Australia.
www.afr.com
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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 11h
A video of Israeli soldiers gang-raping a Palestinian man in prison was leaked. The Israeli government and its supporters are upset – not at the horrific assault, but at the fact that the tape was released.

Read Minnah Arshad’s full article: zeteo.com/p/israel-pal...
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Fergus Ryan @fergus.bsky.social · 10h
Disturbing.
YouTube Quietly Erased More Than 700 Videos Documenting Israeli Human Rights Violations
The tech giant deleted the accounts of three prominent Palestinian human rights groups — a capitulation to Trump sanctions.
theintercept.com
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John Quiggin @johnquiggin.bsky.social · 2d
Green Left republished my Substack post on CCS. My work is in the public domain by default, so please feel free to copy their example. If you can drop me a note, I'd appreciate it.
Carbon capture and storage is a dead horse
Carbon capture and storage has long been presented as a magic bullet to solve the problem of decarbonising the energy system, but as John Quiggin argues, the statistics say otherwise.
www.greenleft.org.au
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 2d
Breaking news: documents reveal that Labor has done a hidden backflip to end some of the military exports to Israel. Now to end it all.

thenightly.com.au/politics/aus...
Australian defence companies face new Israel ban
Industry figures claim Australian firms have received written advice from the Commonwealth regulator outlining the latest restrictions taking effect on November 4.
thenightly.com.au
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Dave Earley @earleyedition.bsky.social · 2d
Gina Rinehart, Australia’s richest person, spotted at Donald Trump’s 1920s, Great Gatsby-themed Halloween party at Mar-a-Lago.

One Nation leader Pauline Hanson was also reportedly there, but her office declined to confirm whether Hanson attended.
Australia’s richest person Gina Rinehart spotted at Donald Trump’s Halloween party
The 1920s, Great Gatsby-themed bash also reportedly attracted the likes of One Nation leader, Pauline Hanson, though her office did not confirm
www.theguardian.com
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💧 simon holmes à court @simonahac.bsky.social · 2d
📢 @climate200.bsky.social launches:
The Canavan Climate Trust

we're cataloguing the stupidest statements by climate denying Nats.

👇 all proceeds → airing ads highlighting Nats' unhinged comments in @liberalaus.bsky.social marginal seats next election!

www.climate200.com.au/campaign/the...
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RanTLaw @rantlaw.bsky.social · 2d
*Redacted to protect the author's reputation*
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Adam Morton @adammorton.bsky.social · 2d
Will COP31 be in Adelaide, Antalya...or Bonn?

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Cop out? Anthony Albanese wants to host the next global climate summit – so why isn’t he attending this one?
The Australian PM’s non-attendance at Cop30 would ‘raise questions’ about his seriousness about co-hosting Cop31 in Adelaide
www.theguardian.com
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 2d
Today reporting in the Guardian highlights the "minimum of 30 Nitazene-related overdoses in Australia since 2021". We can’t pretend this is not happening, responses start with greater funding for harm reduction and access to pill testing.
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 2d
"I shut my eyes. I don't see it."
Sums up the attitude of most Israelis to #WestBank 'settler' violence [aka terrorism] and the #GazaGenocide.
pauleric70.bsky.social Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 2d
Israeli settler leader Daniella Weiss tries to claim that "there is no settler violence" against Palestinians.

In response, ITV News' Peter Smith pulls out his phone and plays a video of a recent attack on a grandmother in the West Bank.

Watch her reaction:
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Nick Evershed!? @nickevershed.bsky.social · 2d
the Coalition dumping net zero and going harder on immigration to chase One Nation votes is not likely to help them if they ever want to win enough seats to form government again - and this (complicated) chart shows one reason why!

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
scatterplot showing electorates, with the winning two-candidate preferred % vote at the 2025 election on the Y axis and the one nation primary vote on the X axis. there are far more marginal labor and independent seats in areas with a lower one nation vote
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Agnes Mack @agnessmack.bsky.social · 3d
Dave Rowe when you're ready..
Financial Review
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 3d
Pondering tea-towels, at this late stage. A few people ask if I will ever do the Socialist Birdies again, which were very popular some years ago.

And below, my AI dog, might be the best suited visually for a tea-towel.

Everything else is so tied to issues of the moment, I'm not sure they hold up.
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Lenore Taylor @lenoret.bsky.social · 3d
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

and once again we enter the alternate reality where the coalition is "looking for" another magic policy to reduce emissions without any transition cost or disruption to try to please the climate deniers and those in their ranks who know something must be done. 🤦
Sussan Ley under pressure as Nationals formally scrap net zero target
David Littleproud says he informed the Liberal leader days ago of the policy position his party was considering
www.theguardian.com
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Dr Ingrid M @ingridm.bsky.social · 3d
Germany has issued export licences for weapons worth €500 million since October 2023 SO FAR <Simpsons gif>
micchiato.bsky.social micchiato 🍉 @micchiato.bsky.social · 3d
“Germany issued export licenses for military equipment worth almost €500 million throughout Israel’s war on Gaza, according to its own figures …. Shipments from the Bundeswehr are shielded from the public eye due to possible ‘adverse effects on the welfare of the German state’”
Exclusive: Germany Coordinated ICJ Testimony on Arms Exports With Israel
As Germany faces accusations of "complicity in genocide" at the International Court of Justice, documents from its own defense ministry suggest Berlin may have provided incomplete testimony.
www.dropsitenews.com
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David Marler @qldaah.bsky.social · 3d
This is the David Crisafulli government's Queensland energy roadblock. With his Qld LNP colleagues David Littleproud & Matt Canavan wiping out Net Zero, Queensland is a snapshot of what the Coalition wants the country to look like. #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
Coal to stay in Queensland for decades as government reveals energy plan
The five-year plan lays out what role coal, gas, wind, solar, pumped hydro and battery storage will play over the long-term in Queensland.
www.abc.net.au
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Dr Ingrid M @ingridm.bsky.social · 4d
hate crime legislation is for ramping up charges against racialised people, not for criminalising whites.

nit.com.au/30-10-2025/2...
Federal Police criticised for failing to pursue hate crime charges after Camp Sovereignty attack
The Australian Federal Police continue to defer responsibility for classifying the attacks on Camp Sovereignty as a hate crime, Senator Lidia Thorpe says.Earlier this month, more than 20 federal cross...
nit.com.au
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Dr Sophie Scamps MP @sophiescamps.bsky.social · 3d
We all loved the 80s but this is ridiculous!
The Nats now stand for dead assets, dead end jobs, higher energy prices & a more insecure future.
If we don’t want to be left behind we should be building for our future - not yearning for the past.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
'Found our voice': Nationals formally abandon net zero by 2050 climate promise
The Nationals have formally abandoned a commitment to reach net zero emissions by 2050, setting a challenge for Opposition leader Sussan Ley whether to follow or risk splitting the Coalition.
www.abc.net.au
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 4d
CBS firing most of its climate team is another very, very important reminder that there needs to be a massive effort to set up cleanly-funded media outlets immune to takeover, to avoid those fired jumping into the Substack bonfire where they'll be exploited and enshittified in a new way
ketanjoshi.co Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 23d
It's a little understated that Bari Weiss is really a flat-out 'just-asking-questions' style climate change denier.

Eg, here she is saying the science is up for public debate rather than settled, publishing the work of a big-name denier influencer (Koonin), and boosting a fake controversy
Bari Weiss @bariweiss "Is Donald Trump a “dictator”? Did the events of January 6, 2021, in Washington, D.C., constitute an “insurgency”? Is Joe Biden “sharp as a tack”? Is the science of climate change “settled”? Are Javier Milei of Argentina, Marine Le Pen of France, and the AfD party in Germany “far right”? Is the Wuhan lab leak hypothesis a “conspiracy theory”? Was the persistence of the virus a “pandemic of the unvaccinated”? Does Anthony Fauci “represent science”? Does Elon Musk’s social media platform, X, “promote hatred”? Do “fact-checkers” check facts? Let’s ask a question about these questions: Why on Earth were we placed in a position of having to answer them? In an open society, perspectives on reality confront one another in forceful competition. Each may contain some particle of truth—or at least some useful information. So even the flat-earthers are allowed their say. Even the Bigfoot-seekers appear on the Discovery Channel. Somewhere among the nonsense, there may be something worth hearing. Because we don’t precisely know where or when, the conversation is never over. A vast diversity of perspectives should be promoted within an open society. It’s the intellectual equivalent of hybrid vigor. If we all think alike, a single fatal error, being shared by all, could destroy the world. These precepts are not original. They have long been part of the American DNA. The default, for us, has always been debate. When certain subjects, like slavery, were made taboo and removed from the possibility of discussion, towering figures arose and terrible conflicts were fought to restore the balance. However, the past four years have seen a sustained effort to overturn the principles of the open society. The just-departed administration, of which Biden was the decrepit figurehead, tried to impose, by threat or mandate, a version of reality that brooked no discussion. Supported by its allies in the media, the academy, and the bureaucracy, the administrati… Bari Weiss @bariweiss Climate change did not cause the LA fires says Steve Koonin in an essential conversation with our @EmilyYoffe : https://thefp.com/p/climate-change-did-not-cause-the-la-fires-steve-koonin Bari Weiss @bariweiss · Sep 6, 2023 Gratified at the outpouring of responses to this important and courageous piece by @PatrickTBrown31 . https://thefp.com/p/i-overhyped-climate-change-to-get-published From thefp.com Bari Weiss @bariweiss · Sep 5, 2023 "Savvy researchers tailor their studies to maximize the likelihood that their work is accepted. I know this because I am one of them. Here’s how it works." @PatrickTBrown31 with a must-read piece: https://thefp.com/p/i-overhyped-climate-change-to-get-published
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