Joanna Mendelssohn
@oldlillipilli.bsky.social
First lived in Sydney’s inner west when it was called a “slum”. Writes about art, sometimes. Owned by 2 dogs.
Strangers who dm me will be blocked
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Pauline Hanson’s use of the Burqa speaks volumes about her and the kind of country she wants
But Senator Fatima Payman’s essay on bravery speaks volumes about the need for quite a different Australia
Please read and share if your want to cleanse people’s feeds…
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
But Senator Fatima Payman’s essay on bravery speaks volumes about the need for quite a different Australia
Please read and share if your want to cleanse people’s feeds…
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
The Floor I Crossed Was Between Fear and Freedom
The point.com.au
thepoint.com.au
November 25, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Pauline Hanson’s use of the Burqa speaks volumes about her and the kind of country she wants
But Senator Fatima Payman’s essay on bravery speaks volumes about the need for quite a different Australia
Please read and share if your want to cleanse people’s feeds…
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
But Senator Fatima Payman’s essay on bravery speaks volumes about the need for quite a different Australia
Please read and share if your want to cleanse people’s feeds…
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
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"progressive politics is not just about climate targets and tax reform. It must also be about moral courage: the ability to say, “Not in our name,” when innocent lives are being destroyed and our government looks away."
An excerpt from Senator Fatima Payman's brilliant essay from @australiainstitute.org.au latest book, "A Time For Bravery".
Rather topical given Hanson's bullshit yesterday
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Rather topical given Hanson's bullshit yesterday
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
The Floor I Crossed Was Between Fear and Freedom
The point.com.au
thepoint.com.au
November 24, 2025 at 11:38 PM
"progressive politics is not just about climate targets and tax reform. It must also be about moral courage: the ability to say, “Not in our name,” when innocent lives are being destroyed and our government looks away."
It’s fascinating to hear the double entendres in Sussan Ley’s tribute to the late Graham Richardson at the beginning of Question Time #auspol
November 25, 2025 at 3:08 AM
It’s fascinating to hear the double entendres in Sussan Ley’s tribute to the late Graham Richardson at the beginning of Question Time #auspol
Well said @theconversation.com
#AircraftNoise over housing is vile. A reminder to @albomp.bsky.social: The No Aircraft Noise Party that later morphed into NSW’s Greens started as a response to Labor rerouting planes over #Grayndler
theconversation.com/aircraft-noi...
#AircraftNoise over housing is vile. A reminder to @albomp.bsky.social: The No Aircraft Noise Party that later morphed into NSW’s Greens started as a response to Labor rerouting planes over #Grayndler
theconversation.com/aircraft-noi...
Aircraft noise from new runways will hit thousands more homes. Australia needs fairer solutions
Even moderate night-time aircraft noise can increase insomnia – particularly children. The US and UK both do more to mitigate the noise around airports.
theconversation.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Well said @theconversation.com
#AircraftNoise over housing is vile. A reminder to @albomp.bsky.social: The No Aircraft Noise Party that later morphed into NSW’s Greens started as a response to Labor rerouting planes over #Grayndler
theconversation.com/aircraft-noi...
#AircraftNoise over housing is vile. A reminder to @albomp.bsky.social: The No Aircraft Noise Party that later morphed into NSW’s Greens started as a response to Labor rerouting planes over #Grayndler
theconversation.com/aircraft-noi...
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November 24, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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This is so vile and unnecessary- the kind of nasty bullying, hatebaiting thing Howard or Morrison would do. Just gobsmacking that Labor is initiating this out of nowhere.
What tf are Labor doing
New: 100+ legal experts, welfare groups & academics demand the Minister bin an amendment, allowing police to cancel welfare payments for people who have not been found guilty of any crime
@tanyaplibersekmp.bsky.social is trying to ram this amendment through today
Read more: archive.is/UHu9J
@tanyaplibersekmp.bsky.social is trying to ram this amendment through today
Read more: archive.is/UHu9J
November 24, 2025 at 6:32 AM
This is so vile and unnecessary- the kind of nasty bullying, hatebaiting thing Howard or Morrison would do. Just gobsmacking that Labor is initiating this out of nowhere.
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Interesting, now we can see where the accounts are based.
November 23, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Interesting, now we can see where the accounts are based.
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Well said by Malcolm Knox in the @sydmorningherald.bsky.social #AustralianValues
November 22, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Well said by Malcolm Knox in the @sydmorningherald.bsky.social #AustralianValues
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The corrupt president who has always had his
SNOUT in the TROUGH
Piggy Greed!!
SNOUT in the TROUGH
Piggy Greed!!
November 21, 2025 at 7:08 AM
The corrupt president who has always had his
SNOUT in the TROUGH
Piggy Greed!!
SNOUT in the TROUGH
Piggy Greed!!
I accidentally misread this in @theguardian.com as “Trump’s daft plan” - which makes more sense
November 21, 2025 at 5:56 AM
I accidentally misread this in @theguardian.com as “Trump’s daft plan” - which makes more sense
open.substack.com/pub/aliensid...
A great suggestion from @birmo.bsky.social on disposing of Richardson + Laws’s corpses: “fire both of their rancid carcasses into the sun”
A great suggestion from @birmo.bsky.social on disposing of Richardson + Laws’s corpses: “fire both of their rancid carcasses into the sun”
Who deserves a state funeral less? Lawsie or Richo?
It’s nice for John Laws that so many people remembered him when he finally shuffled off his golden coil, even if they were lining up to piss on his grave, and it’s nice too that he died so close to Gr...
open.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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A great suggestion from @birmo.bsky.social on disposing of Richardson + Laws’s corpses: “fire both of their rancid carcasses into the sun”
A great suggestion from @birmo.bsky.social on disposing of Richardson + Laws’s corpses: “fire both of their rancid carcasses into the sun”
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It is now clear when Albo said "no-one left behind", he really meant:
- the gambling industry
- big media
- fossil fuel lobby
- for-profit childcare corporations
- aged care companies
- employment service providers
- property developers...
But Australians with the greatest needs? Yeah nah. #auspol
- the gambling industry
- big media
- fossil fuel lobby
- for-profit childcare corporations
- aged care companies
- employment service providers
- property developers...
But Australians with the greatest needs? Yeah nah. #auspol
Gambling ruins lives. It is absolutely unacceptable that the Albanese government will continue to choose vested interests over the wellbeing of Australians and hide behind a watered-down policy - if they ever introduce one. We need action on gambling harms now.
Labor tipped to drop proposal for online gambling ad ban
Political and industry sources expect Communications Minister Anika Wells to crack-down on illegal offshore gambling websites.
www.afr.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:42 AM
It is now clear when Albo said "no-one left behind", he really meant:
- the gambling industry
- big media
- fossil fuel lobby
- for-profit childcare corporations
- aged care companies
- employment service providers
- property developers...
But Australians with the greatest needs? Yeah nah. #auspol
- the gambling industry
- big media
- fossil fuel lobby
- for-profit childcare corporations
- aged care companies
- employment service providers
- property developers...
But Australians with the greatest needs? Yeah nah. #auspol
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I saw this on the news myself
November 20, 2025 at 4:50 AM
I saw this on the news myself
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Have NSW Police still not learnt anything?
I guess he’s lucky he wasn’t shot
I guess he’s lucky he wasn’t shot
NSW police use capsicum spray to subdue 87-year-old man in Sydney nursing home
NSW police use capsicum spray to subdue 87-year-old man in Sydney nursing home
Police allege man ‘had reportedly threatened to harm other residents and himself while armed with a metal object’
New South Wales police have used capsicum spray to subdue an 87-year-old man in a Sydney nursing home.
Police said the incident occurred at a south-west Sydney aged care home on Wednesday at about 8pm. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Have NSW Police still not learnt anything?
I guess he’s lucky he wasn’t shot
I guess he’s lucky he wasn’t shot
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“The government is cannibalising the very institution that has repeatedly proven its ability to deliver game-changing, globally successful solutions.”
Well said @canberratimes.bsky.social
On the foolish #CSIRO cuts
Well said @canberratimes.bsky.social
On the foolish #CSIRO cuts
November 19, 2025 at 11:57 PM
“The government is cannibalising the very institution that has repeatedly proven its ability to deliver game-changing, globally successful solutions.”
Well said @canberratimes.bsky.social
On the foolish #CSIRO cuts
Well said @canberratimes.bsky.social
On the foolish #CSIRO cuts
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I'm loving Ed Unleashed
‘Pry open the jaws of Treasury’ to fund CSIRO amid hundreds of job losses, Labor MP Ed Husic tells own party
‘Pry open the jaws of Treasury’ to fund CSIRO amid hundreds of job losses, Labor MP Ed Husic tells own party
Husic, who oversaw CSIRO cuts as the former science minister, said some in government see scientific agency funding as a ‘cost’ not an ‘investment’
Ed Husic has challenged his own government to “pry open the jaws of Treasury” to boost funding for Australia’s national scientific agency after it announced up to 350 research jobs would be cut to deal with an imminent budgetary cliff.
The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) announced on Wednesday it would look to cut between 300 and 350 research unit roles as part of efforts to narrow its research scope and address an ageing property portfolio in need of urgent modernisation. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:51 AM
I'm loving Ed Unleashed
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How many thousands of years of experience and expertise has our preeminent science & research body lost over the past decade or so?
It’s so sad. What a massive loss to the nation and our futures.
Wake up.
#CSIRO #science
It’s so sad. What a massive loss to the nation and our futures.
Wake up.
#CSIRO #science
That's more than 1,100 jobs lost at the CSIRO over the last two years.
"Combined, the staff association estimates that equates to cutting the agency’s size by a third."
This is more cuts to the CSIRO than was attempted by the Abbott government.
www.smh.com.au/national/csi...
"Combined, the staff association estimates that equates to cutting the agency’s size by a third."
This is more cuts to the CSIRO than was attempted by the Abbott government.
www.smh.com.au/national/csi...
CSIRO to slash hundreds of jobs in cost-saving drive
The staff association at the nation’s leading scientific research organisation says the latest round of cuts marks “a sad day for publicly funded science”.
www.smh.com.au
November 18, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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South African neo-Nazi taken into custody
#ausnews #vicnews #nazis #nsn #racists #immigration #detention #deportation #auspol #nsw
#ausnews #vicnews #nazis #nsn #racists #immigration #detention #deportation #auspol #nsw
South African neo-Nazi taken into custody
CANBERRA, ACT — South African man Matthew Gruter was taken into immigration detention in the early hours of this morning, the home affairs minister, Tony Burke, said.
www.victoriannews.com.au
November 18, 2025 at 5:10 AM
South African neo-Nazi taken into custody
#ausnews #vicnews #nazis #nsn #racists #immigration #detention #deportation #auspol #nsw
#ausnews #vicnews #nazis #nsn #racists #immigration #detention #deportation #auspol #nsw
Poetic justice?
November 18, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Poetic justice?
Another phewdle –tricky
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Metallica took to the stage before a roaring crowd organisers described as “just shy of the attendance you’d see at a typical inspection for a two-bedder in Marrickville”
Huge Crowd at Sydney Metallica Gig Almost As Big as Average Rental Inspection for Two Bedder — The Shovel
Organisers described the massive crowd as “just shy of the attendance you’d see at a typical two-bedder rental inspection in Marrickville”.
theshovel.com.au
November 16, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Metallica took to the stage before a roaring crowd organisers described as “just shy of the attendance you’d see at a typical inspection for a two-bedder in Marrickville”