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Samantha Ratnam @samantharatnam.bsky.social · Sep 19

Labor sat on the climate risk report, approved the North West Shelf gas project & announced weak CO2 targets that will cause climate carnage.

Labor pretends to care but is actually failing.

But the people of Wills won’t be fooled.

We will fight for our planet & all life on earth with all we have.

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Samantha Ratnam @samantharatnam.bsky.social · Aug 31

Governments aren’t screaming about it with urgency.

Placating people isn’t going to solve this corrosion.

Community building will. Tackling inequality will.

When neo-Nazis are marching through the streets, there is no more denying what’s happening.

The time to act is now.

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Samantha Ratnam @samantharatnam.bsky.social · Aug 31

The algorithms feed this prejudice & governments can’t seem to grasp what’s going on.

Meanwhile, if you are migrant, person of colour, or the subject of far-right hatred, then you know the fear these people bring.

They’ve had institutional power on their sides for a long time.

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Samantha Ratnam @samantharatnam.bsky.social · Aug 31

But I don’t think governments still understand the danger of these movements.

The pandemic turbocharged anti-government and anti-authoritarian sentiments.

With digital platforms available to exploit people’s fears, the far-right recruited from a larger base of people.

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Samantha Ratnam @samantharatnam.bsky.social · Aug 31

When the neo-Nazis started to congregate and organise in Victoria years ago, we sounded the alarm.

A parliamentary inquiry initiated by the Greens gave the Victorian government a good chance to understand the nature of the threat posed by these right-wing extremists.

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Samantha Ratnam @samantharatnam.bsky.social · Aug 5

Everything Labor does from now on to support Palestinian liberation will be BECAUSE of the power of the Palestinians & everyday people who have mobilised against the genocide.

Not because of Labor’s morality or courage.

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Samantha Ratnam @samantharatnam.bsky.social · Aug 3

So proud of our community for showing up in their thousands for peace for Palestinians today ❤️

Too many politicians deride this movement when they feel overwhelmed by their own moral failures.

But history won’t reward the
cowards.

History will remember the courageous.

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Samantha Ratnam @samantharatnam.bsky.social · Jul 25

Sanction Israel now.

Someone has to start.

The world will follow.

Before all the children in Gaza die.

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Samantha Ratnam @samantharatnam.bsky.social · Jul 22

People in Gaza are being starved by Israel.

More words from Australian Labor today, trying to appease their consciences.

But they’ve sat on their hands for 18 months & alongside too many other countries, have given Israel moral cover for this genocide.

Sanction Israel NOW.

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Samantha Ratnam @samantharatnam.bsky.social · Jul 19

Great speech Rosalie Woodruff & well done @tasmaniangreens.bsky.social on a great election result so far with more counting to go 💚

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Samantha Ratnam @samantharatnam.bsky.social · Jun 22

No bombs.

No war.

No AUKUS.

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Samantha Ratnam @samantharatnam.bsky.social · Jun 16

We have choices to make about the kind of world we want.

And we still have the power to shape it.

We can have a world where we celebrate care & compassion and broadcast kindness and generosity.

So let’s get to work 💚

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Samantha Ratnam @samantharatnam.bsky.social · Jun 16

This Refugee Week comes at a time when we are witnessing in real time how our lives across borders are intertwined.

As war erupts, more & more people will flee across the world.

Only to be met with more closed borders and cruelty, not care, for those running for their lives.

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Samantha Ratnam @samantharatnam.bsky.social · Jun 13

Imagine, Just imagine.

That instead of a default setting of war, our leaders knew that the world actually wants peace. That instead of exploiting our fears, they appealed to our hope.

Imagine. Just imagine. What a wonderful world we could build.

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Samantha Ratnam @samantharatnam.bsky.social · Jun 13

Imagine. Just imagine.

That instead of these bombs, war mongering and death, the world was organising peace summits.

Places, spaces, forums, across continents to talk about de-escalation , disarmament, peace and celebrating our diverse communities, their strengths and beauty.

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Samantha Ratnam @samantharatnam.bsky.social · Jun 9

Love, strength and power to all those brave souls aboard the @freedomflotilla.bsky.social, facing incredible threats right now.

We are with you ❤️

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Samantha Ratnam @samantharatnam.bsky.social · Jun 8

Labor is now using the same talking points as big wealthy property corporations.

If only supply is the problem, why are 8,000 new homes sitting unsold in Victoria right now?

It doesn’t add up.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...

Housing minister declares Australia has made it 'uneconomic' to build homes

In a frank interview with the ABC, Housing Minister Clare O'Neil declared that Australia has made it "uneconomic" to build homes.

www.abc.net.au

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Samantha Ratnam @samantharatnam.bsky.social · Jun 8

The type of supply matters.

8000 empty homes in Vic alone tells us something.

It’s not only supply that’s the issue.

It’s the affordability.

It’s time for a public builder to increase the supply of genuinely affordable public homes.

That’s what solves the housing crisis.

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Samantha Ratnam @samantharatnam.bsky.social · Jun 8

Meanwhile, Labor wants to demolish our public housing towers - to make way for more of this failing for-profit model on public land.

This model not working.

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Samantha Ratnam @samantharatnam.bsky.social · Jun 8

The answer is that property corporations will only build housing when it’s profitable to them.

Now they are asking for government handouts to keep making profits.

Meanwhile, 100,000+ people languish on the Vic housing waiting list and 30,000 people are homeless each night.

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Samantha Ratnam @samantharatnam.bsky.social · May 28

Not to mention the Murujuga rock art that is tens of thousands of years old that has already been damaged by pollution at the site & will face even more threats now.

This is Labor.

Stomping on First Nations history while destroying the planet’s future.

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Samantha Ratnam @samantharatnam.bsky.social · May 28

Labor has approved Australia’s largest fossil fuel project today.

Woodside’s North West Shelf project will be allowed to burn gas until 2070.

It will spew 4.3 BILLION tonnes of carbon pollution over its lifetime.

Our planet does not stand a chance with Labor in charge.

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Samantha Ratnam @samantharatnam.bsky.social · May 23

Data source: The Tally Room

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Samantha Ratnam @samantharatnam.bsky.social · May 23

Our community has demonstrated its power and Labor ignores this at its peril.

We are now fired up and ready to close that gap once and for all!

It’s going to take all of us, working hard for the next few years, but we can do it.

Us Greens are marching up north. Join us 🙌

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Samantha Ratnam @samantharatnam.bsky.social · May 23

Our work now is to win it in our own right despite being up against the combined money and might of Labor + Liberals.

What I’m most proud of is the swings in the north.

These historic swings were for Palestine.

Thank you to everyone who came out to help.

You achieved this.

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