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Liz Furler @zilenaj.bsky.social · 1h
Not only an antisocial act by Labor govts but politically and economically stupid given people will simply pile into already overloaded hospital EDs
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Liz Furler @zilenaj.bsky.social · 1h
Dog act by Labor govts at both state+fed levels to abandon the most vulnerable... ironic given Victoria held strongest+longest to preserve Whitlam's community health centres against the onslaughts of managerialist bureaucrats+neolib govts👇
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ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 2h
Inner-city Melbourne community health service cohealth will be shuttering its GP services at the end of the year, citing escalating costs and aging infrastructure.
Cohealth CEO says closure follows 'death by thousand cuts' from government
Inner-city Melbourne community health service cohealth will be shuttering its GP services at the end of the year, citing escalating costs and aging infrastructure.
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Blair Palese @blairpalese.bsky.social · 9h
Buried on rhe @abcnewsbot.bsky.social app… this is a shocking indictment of global (and Australia on #exports) #climate inaction! www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
CO2 emissions reached record high in 2024, report finds
The World Meteorological Organization says carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are increasing at rates that have tripled since the 1960s, and emissions from human activities and more wildfires hav...
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 1d
This is so significant: a new comprehensive report detailing the myriad modalities of Canadian university complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

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Palestine at Canadian Universities: How institutional complicity in colonial genocide is maintained
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 10h
US president has taken a series of escalatory steps that appear aimed at toppling the Venezuelan government.
Trump appears to confirm report he authorised CIA operations in Venezuela
US president has taken a series of escalatory steps that appear aimed at toppling the Venezuelan government.
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Tom Quinn @tomquinn.bsky.social · 10h
“They know the identity of these bodies but they want the families to suffer even more about these victims,” the doctor said.

Nasser hospital authorities said the bodies, which had been kept in refrigerators in Israel, were returned with numbered labels but no names.
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Tom Quinn @tomquinn.bsky.social · 10h
"Many of the 90 bodies of Palestinians returned to Gaza by Israeli authorities under the ceasefire deal showed signs of torture and execution, including blindfolds, cuffed hands and bullet wounds in the head, according to doctors’ accounts."

Kidnapped, tortured, handcuffed and executed by Israel.
Palestinian bodies returned by Israel show signs of torture and execution, say doctors
Almost all had been blindfolded and had gunshot wounds between the eyes, says medic at Nasser hospital in Gaza
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 13h
If the US and other western nations were serious about the so-called 'peace deal', they would insist on access for international observers - including journalists - into Gaza.
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Robert Maxwell @robmax4.bsky.social · 13h
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Adani should be declared persona non gratia. Australia never wants him or needs him
Adani denies claims it sold ‘below-market coal’ leading to Queensland missing out on hundreds of millions in royalties
Adani has strongly rejected the Australia Institute’s findings, including that customers paid an average of $102 a tonne in 2022-23
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Kenbehren @lyns84.bsky.social · 13h
Got it in one.
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Peggy Sanders @peggysanders.bsky.social · 1d
Many voted Greens or Independents.

Don’t think anyone expected @albomp.bsky.social to turn out to be such a traitor to the Australian people or nation.

He’s in bed with Scott Morrison’s Mega fossil fuel and AUKUS agenda. Selling out Australia to lowest bidder.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 13h
The wet tropical rainforests of Queensland are now a carbon source because CO₂ emitted from trees dying and decaying outstripped the CO₂ taken up by trees growing. 😕
Australia's tropical trees emit more carbon than they absorb: study
Climate change is killing trees faster than they can be replaced leading to greater carbon emissions, according to a new study.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 17h
BREAKING: A Palestinian was killed by Israeli fire east of Gaza’s Khan Younis amid the first phase of the ceasefire, according to sources at Nasser Medical Complex.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/ttcve3
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 18h
No doubt this de-banking will also be splashed across the front pages of every single newspaper in the country and lead BBC bulletins for weeks on end too? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Pro-Palestine activist couple have UK bank account closed without explanation
John Nicholson and Norma Turner’s joint retirement savings account was shut by Yorkshire Building Society
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 17h
‘Intersected’. The torturous language to avoid calling corruption, corruption
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 22h
President Trump's personal business and his government role intersected when he was heard on a hot mic arranging a meeting between his son Eric, who runs the family company, and Indonesia’s leader.
‘I’ll Have Eric Call’: Trump Sets Up Son’s Meeting With Indonesian President
A hot-mic moment suggested a blurry line between the U.S. president’s roles as political leader and businessman.
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Left Foot Forward @left-foot-forward.bsky.social · 17h
We’ve put together a starter pack of alternative media outlets. Follow these to get a different take on the news. 👇
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Polly Hemming @pollyjhemming.bsky.social · 1d
“The Albanese Government is committed to no new extinctions” Environment Minister Murray Watt, reaffirming Labor’s 2022 pledge on Threatened Species Day 2025

2 weeks later Australia’s only shrew is declared extinct.
#auspol #climate @australiainstitute.org.au
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screenshot of Minister watt's media release. Text captured says: Recognising Threatened Species Day 7 September 2025 Today is Threatened Species Day, an opportunity to acknowledge the risks to Australia’s unique species and the work being done across the country to help them recover and thrive. From tree plantings and weed removal to species specific mapping and monitoring using the latest conservation technology, countless individuals and organisations help every day to support and provide hope for threatened species. It’s not just the work happening on the ground – research is finding innovative solutions to stay ahead of the game in the fight against key threats like feral cats, invasive weeds and climate change.
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Jim Pembroke @jimpembroke.bsky.social · 1d
Appalling. Record number of indigenous deaths in custody.
Here's some perspective.
In 2023-24, 108 people died in custody in Australia.
24 were Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander...that's 23%!
Only 3.8% of Australians are indigenous.

#auspol
Via The Guardian
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 1d
Unlawfully built, now leaking through the safety liner. Enough fuel to blow Darwin Harbour to kingdom come
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ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 1d
Groundwater is leaking through the safety liner under some of the fuel facility's 11 tanks, which were constructed unlawfully on Darwin Harbour without a building permit. It comes after the NT government approved the tanks for operation in September.
Safety liner under US military fuel tanks still failing, weeks after approval
Groundwater is leaking through the safety liner under some of the fuel facility's 11 tanks, which were constructed unlawfully on Darwin Harbour without a building permit. It comes after the NT government approved the tanks for operation in September.
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Wanderfound @wanderfound.bsky.social · 1d
Vassal state.
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ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 1d
Groundwater is leaking through the safety liner under some of the fuel facility's 11 tanks, which were constructed unlawfully on Darwin Harbour without a building permit. It comes after the NT government approved the tanks for operation in September.
Safety liner under US military fuel tanks still failing, weeks after approval
Groundwater is leaking through the safety liner under some of the fuel facility's 11 tanks, which were constructed unlawfully on Darwin Harbour without a building permit. It comes after the NT government approved the tanks for operation in September.
www.abc.net.au
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Rex Patrick @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social · 1d
ICYMI #auspol
Albo's dangerous expansion of Cabinet secrecy - Michael West
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s proposed modifications of Freedom of Information laws are a huge secrecy grab and undermine democracy
michaelwest.com.au
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Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 1d
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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 1d
Israel’s Supreme Court is set to hear arguments in a related case next week, “but there is no reason to wait that long,” the group added. “Enough with the excuses and delay tactics. The restrictions on press freedom must come to an end.” #auspol media #Gaza
Ceasefire sparks fresh calls for global media access to Gaza
Press groups are also demanding justice for the more than 200 journalists slaughtered in Palestinian territory over the past two years.
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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 1d
The tyrant that Albanese and Wong keep trying to ingratiate us with keeps ordering extrajudicial murders
U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 1d
Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.
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Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 1d
The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...
U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says
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Jenny Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithWatermelon🍉🍉 @joneshowdareyou.bsky.social · 1d
"Albanese and Wong have been making excuses for doing nothing, saying that we are so far away and not having much influence, not being a great power. But as Chris Sidoti explained at the National Press Club in Canberra, this is the wrong question."
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Time for a 'just peace' for all peoples in Palestine
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Foreign Minister Penny Wong took a long time just to call for a ceasefire in Gaza. And their belated declaration of Palestinian statehood is an empty gesture when w...
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Liz Furler @zilenaj.bsky.social · 1d
Muhammad Shehada tells me. “We’re screaming of a major warning of what’s about to come your way. When you have a media-political class that’s relishing, delighting in the murder of our children, do you think they’re going to care about yours?” 👇
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Be sure of this: many of the horrors the west allowed in Gaza will come closer to home | Owen Jones
History shows the crimes of empire were later mirrored on European soil. Dehumanisation and militarised terror both seem normalised now, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
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