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Larissa Waters @larissawaters.bsky.social · 6h

BUSTED: coal giant Adani dodged $400m in dues by fudging coal prices!

Billionaire Gautam Adani (wanted for fraud in the US) can’t get away with pushing up bills and giving nothing back.

Every tax dollar rich coal corps don’t pay is one stolen from schools & hospitals who need it.

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Holly Kirk @hollykirk.bsky.social · 5h

The good news is that if you needed more ongoing bird-related loveliness, the @birdlifeoz.bsky.social #AussieBirdCount starts on Monday!
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I'll be counting everyday, recording some of our Western Australian locals and posting terrible photos!

Sign up here:
aussiebirdcount.org.au
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Michael Dowling aka MeckeringBoy @meckeringboy.bsky.social · 7d

Taxpayers have paid a fortune to the toxic fossil fuel industries. Most of that money goes offshore with little or NO TAX paid.

The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 7d

Gas exports have meant Australian households and businesses have paid billions of dollars more for energy over the last decade.

For more info ⤵️
australiainstitute.org.au/post/gas-exp...

Gas exports have tripled Australian gas prices and doubled electricity prices

New Australia Institute research reveals that gas exports have led to the tripling of wholesale east coast gas prices and doubling of electricity prices, since exports began in 2015.

australiainstitute.org.au

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Verbatorium @verbatorium.bsky.social · 6h

What’s the metric behind a visit? Is that everyone who was triaged? How many were then referred elsewhere, how many treated in the clinic? How many were sent to emergency? What was the median waiting time for triage, median waiting time for treatment? Any follow-up surveys on outcomes?

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Beachbard @beachbard.bsky.social · 10h

Media allows GOP & Trump continue to shove the Overton Window to autocracy.
Bipartisan, middle of the road opinions from the 1970s widely receive a designation of "radical looney left" today.
Freeing the Upper Class from taxes shrunk the Middle Class & made life for the majority of Americans poorer.

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Verbatorium @verbatorium.bsky.social · 6h

Nice work 👍

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Verbatorium @verbatorium.bsky.social · 6h

“If there is a single sentence that characteristics Trump it is this “He says the things I’m thinking.” #NoKings

laurelbgood.bsky.social @laurelbgood.bsky.social · 10h

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pollietragic.bsky.social @pollietragic.bsky.social · 9h

No RBA warning that a CEO’s salary package should be no higher than, say, 4 times higher than their average employee’s wage?
The RBA is a complicit part of the conservative elite who feel entitled to tell wage earners continually that they must lower their expectations and wages.
No MSM blowback?

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Anti corruption @againstcorruption.bsky.social · 8h

Get stuffed. The bosses’ wages seem to go up exponentially but ours don’t

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Antifa CTO @squigs.bsky.social · 9h

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Kim Gould @trinity888.bsky.social · 10h

Companies and CEOs will have to accept lower profits and bonuses, says the RBA never.

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Phil Lormer @philiplormer.bsky.social · 11h

Lower wages growth has been happening now for decades. Both major parties have colluded with the private sector, who have no business model but exploiting workers. The RBA is assisting in this.

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Verbatorium @verbatorium.bsky.social · 13h

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Verbatorium @verbatorium.bsky.social · 1d

Andamooka’s 110 million-year-old fossil in mint condition share.google/WKS3xhopFehb...

Andamooka's 110 million-year-old fossil in mint condition - News | InDaily, Inside South Australia

Andamooka Underground Art Gallery has welcomed the return of a fossilised plesiosaur following a two-year restoration.

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MediaActive ▪️EQUALITY ▪️JUSTICE ▪️PEACE @mediaactive.bsky.social · 1d

“ @albomp.bsky.social Government has appointed Robyn Denholm, global chair of #Tesla, to lead Australia's review of our research & innovation system, even as Tesla & her other business interests could stand to gain from the policies she's helping to design.” Insane. www.getup.org.au/campaigns/ec...

Billionaire Hands off Public Policy!

Tesla's chair is in charge of our tech future - but it should be us shaping policy

www.getup.org.au

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Verbatorium @verbatorium.bsky.social · 1d

Labor criticised over worker visa rule backflip that could affect thousands
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Labor criticised over worker visa rule backflip that could affect thousands

Tens of thousands of people from the Pacific and East Timor currently work in Australia under the PALM scheme.

www.sbs.com.au

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 2d

To be effective, protest must be noisy, obstructive, annoying. No longer is this allowed. Now the last attribute of effective dissent – persistence – is also to be banned. But the moment protest ceases to be effective is the moment democracy dies. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Here’s what you need to know about Starmer’s illiberal protest curbs: they would have killed the Labour party at birth | George Monbiot

The rights we enjoy in the UK, and the movement the PM purports to lead, were built on protest. Those rights are in dire peril, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

www.theguardian.com

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Verbatorium @verbatorium.bsky.social · 1d

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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 1d

So to summarise: the Tas government bought two ships, that are years late, to run between Devonport and Geelong, but there is no wharf at all for them at Devonport because people forgot to build one and they can't safely use the wharf at Geelong.

ABC News (Unofficial) @abc-news.bsky.social · 1d

Breaking: Spirit of Tasmania IV ship unable to berth at Point Henry in Geelong, report finds: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-15/spirit-of-tasmania-iv-unable-to-berth-at-geelong/105883912

Breaking: Spirit of Tasmania IV ship unable to berth at Point Henry in Geelong, report finds

The ABC understands that a recent safety assessment found the berth would need two additional bollards for the ship to berth there at a cost of $2 million.

www.abc.net.au

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Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 1d

As with many things, the data is just the data. You might not like what its says, that's fair enough, but it doesn't change anything.

Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 1d

"Immigration is coming down," Labor Assistant Minister Hill, this morning. Except it clearly isn't, other than as a reversion from the artificially high post-COVID rebound ... which, tbf, is what he said. But why lie about this, by obfuscation? What is the objective?

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Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 1d

Raising children is now *wildly* expensive. It shouldn't be, and wouldn't be, if we valued it more than the many other things the federal budget gets spent on ... like subsidising coal, iron ore and gas miners.

Do we have a future, at all, without the child-raisers?

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Verbatorium @verbatorium.bsky.social · 1d

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Green Left @greenleftonline.bsky.social · 1d

NSW Labor is rushing to overhaul planning laws, which environmentalists and others say are a gift to developers and would make it easier to approve fossil fuel projects. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1404/ne...

NSW Labor’s ‘planning’ changes a gift to developers, threaten environment

Opponents of NSW Labor’s planning law changes say they are a gift to developers and make it easier to approve fossil fuel projects. Jim McIlroy reports.

www.greenleft.org.au

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Verbatorium @verbatorium.bsky.social · 1d

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Verbatorium @verbatorium.bsky.social · 1d

Is baldness really still ripe for ridicule? I’ve not heard anything like that for ages.

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