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brucec01.bsky.social
⌛️🧮 Bruce Carnwell (🐣 & 🌴) Australia
@brucec01.bsky.social
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Equity Trader. I still hope we can find a path through the #ClimateCrisis using enlightened capitalism & technology; no atom splitting!, but some days it is quite hard to sustain this belief! #Climate200 🩵 #AusPol
Also, duck feeder 🦆😁
Gold Coast, Australia
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Wow! I have always disliked #JamesPatterson but I credited him with some intelligence and political understanding … this is probably some spin bullshit, but to put it on the record is rather incredible! #Auspol
#LibSpill
February 12, 2026 at 11:35 AM
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@zalisteggall.bsky.social making some excellent points about the stupidity of @albomp.bsky.social inviting the Israeli President to come to Australia. #AusPol
February 10, 2026 at 12:46 AM
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Well, if that game between Alcaraz and the Demon showed anything, it is that you don’t have to be the number 1 to do very nicely in tennis. Just keep putting in the hard work, like Alex does & he is doing okay 😆 #ausopen
January 27, 2026 at 11:52 AM
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Just so we are all on the same page, below/attached is an image of our current toaster; it works great on a gas cooktop, but it will not work on an induction cooktop … 😁
January 26, 2026 at 1:11 PM
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#DonnieDuck is good for something !! 🙄 #DUSA
#AusPol 🍾🥂
50m ago14.57 AEDT Gold’s historic milestone amid Trump chaos Patrick Commins Patrick Commins Gold has jumped above $US5,000 an ounce for the first time, as investors continue to pile into the precious metal amid fears Donald Trump’s chaotic policies will trigger a financial market meltdown. This morning’s historic milestone comes as Trump threatened Canada with 100% tariffs if America’s northern neighbour “makes a deal with China”, and after Democrats warned of another government shutdown. The price of gold, which last traded at $US5,074 an ounce, according to Bloomberg, has doubled over the past two years. It jumped by an extraordinary 72% last year – the biggest rise since 1979 – and is already up 17% in 2026 as investors seek out the traditional safe haven in an increasingly volatile environment. Last week, silver topped $100 an ounce for the first time, and for similar reasons. Driving demand for gold is the so-called “debasement trade”: fears that the world’s number one currency, the US dollar, will eventually collapse under the weight of America’s huge debt and deficits. Evidence of this “sell America” trade came last week when Danish pension fund AkademikerPension announced it would sell its holding of US bonds, blaming weak US government finances. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2026/jan/26/australia-invasion-day-protest-victoria-bushfire-weather-heatwave-ntwnfb?filterKeyEvents=false&page=with%3Ablock-6976d0bd8f089b46e3ce2119#block-6976d0bd8f089b46e3ce2119
January 26, 2026 at 4:48 AM
brucec01.bsky.social
Of course this lying piece of scum would be posting on the porn Nazi platform! Even the @australia.theguardian.com is hooked on this bullshit from #Friedberg.
www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2026/jan/08/australia-news-live-bluescope-stokes-extreme-weather-heatwave-bushfire-bondi-royal-commission-anthony-albanese-antisemitism-ntwnfb?filterKeyEvents=false&page=with%3Ablock-695ee3e38f085fa3d4b3fefd#block-695ee3e38f085fa3d4b3fefd
January 7, 2026 at 11:53 PM
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That #climateCrisis impact is getting worse, much worse when even the elevators catch fire !! 🔥😁
From Wednesday night into Thursday those warm conditions will continue. The BoM is forecasting temperatures of 44 to 46C through much of Victoria’s north and north-west. Melbourne will cool down back to the mid to high 20s on Thursday. There will be an elevator fire danger through much of the north and the east of the state. The BoM said the state may see some records broken before “much cooler” weather begins on Friday night and Saturday, although an official said it may be an exceedingly hot rest of January. Emergency officials also warned residents to prepare for any unexpected power outages and to stay on top of potential fire bans. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2026/jan/06/australia-news-live-anthony-albanese-floods-queensland-bondi-shooting-royal-commission-antisemitism-inquiry-ntwnfb
January 6, 2026 at 4:19 AM
brucec01.bsky.social
This from #Coles; no change in price here
January 2, 2026 at 6:08 AM
brucec01.bsky.social
Excellent! Well done @greensnsw.bsky.social !!
NSW Greens move successful late-night amendment to gun control laws Anne Davies Anne Davies The NSW lower house will reconvene today to approve the final version of the terrorism and other offences amendment bill, which tightens up gun laws and allows police to restrict protests for up to three months after a terrorist incident. The Greens successfully moved an amendment overnight in the upper house which goes directly to what we know about the alleged gunmen, namely that one had been on an Asio watch list and lived with his father at a house in Bonnyrigg. The amendment says the police commissioner must be satisfied before he grants a gun licence that the applicant “has never been investigated by a Commonwealth or state law enforcement or intelligence agency for terrorism-related offences or for association with members of a proscribed terrorist organisation”. The commissioner must also be satisfied an applicant “is not an associate or does not reside at the same residential dwelling as someone who has been investigated by a Commonwealth or state law enforcement or intelligence agency for terrorism-related offences, or for associating with members of a prescribed terrorist organisation”.
December 23, 2025 at 11:59 PM
brucec01.bsky.social
I speak/understand un poco Español, but no Italiano, so I put your phrase into Google translator, and got the following result, which I think makes sense in the context 🥂
December 16, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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December 12, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Just forget about the country that used to be the USA & read some good news from the NT - finally!
"Ten of the Year 12 students to complete their certificate were Indigenous and travelled from remote parts of the Northern Territory to attend the school." #AusPol
Caitlin Cassidy Darwin students celebrating the VCE The only school offering the VCE outside of Victoria has received its best ever results this year. At Haileybury Rendall School in Darwin, 40% of students received an ATAR of 90 or above, placing them in the top 10% of students nationwide. Its median ATAR was 86.5, marking the school’s highest performance in its eighth year of operation. Ten of the Year 12 students to complete their certificate were Indigenous and travelled from remote parts of the Northern Territory to attend the school. Its principal, Andrew McGregor, said the “best-ever” results were a testimony to brilliant teaching, a positive school learning culture and hard-working students: Our students have absolutely smashed it this year and shown what young people in the Territory can achieve with the right support and high expectations. Haileybury was founded in Melbourne in 1892 and now has four campuses in Victoria, one in China and a virtual campus, Pangea in addition to its Darwin outpost. Some 14% of students at its Darwin campus are Indigenous and 31% have a language background other than English. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2025/dec/11/vce-atar-results-victoria-social-media-ban-reactions-abs-employment-figures-queensland-parliament-aukus-meeting-washington-dc-anthony-albanese-labor-sussan-ley-coalition-ntwnfb
December 11, 2025 at 1:41 AM
brucec01.bsky.social
Whoever are these critics (probably scum Liberals), tell them to shove it up their arse! 😁🥂
November 27, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Yay! The revised EPBC_Act has now passed the Senate with the final bill being passed, 32 yays (ayes) to 20 noes. 🍾🥂
#AusPol #Greens #RFA
Environment Protection Reform Bill 2025 Opposition Sheet 3511 - amendments (1) to (5), (7) to (9), (11) to (14), (18) and (19) - negatived (Committee divided: Ayes 19; Noes 34) Sheet 3556 - amendments (4) and (5) oppose Schedule 1, section 33C in item 85 and section 46C in item 117. Sections - agreed to (Committee divided: Ayes 34; Noes 19)—(The sections were supported and remain in the bill) Sheet 3508, Sheet 3511 amendments (6), (10) and (15) to (17), Sheet 3522, Sheet 3523, Sheet 3556 - amendments (1) to (3) and (6) - negatived (Committee divided: Ayes 20; Noes 33) Government Sheet GJ129 - agreed to Sheet GJ130, Sheet LM113 - agreed to Australian Greens Sheet 3564 amendments (1) and (3) oppose Schedule 1, items 77 and 121. Items - negatived (Committee divided: Ayes 19; Noes 33)—(The items were not supported and were removed from the bill) Sheet 3573 amendment (17) opposes Schedule 1, item 303. Item - negatived (Committee divided: Ayes 19; Noes 33)—(The item was not supported and was removed from the bill) Sheet 3567 - agreed to Sheet 3564 (amendments (2), (4) and (5)), Sheet 3565, Sheet 3566, Sheet 3568, Sheet 3569, Sheet 3570, Sheet 3571, Sheet 3573 (amendments (1) to (16) and (18) to (26)), Sheet 3572, Sheet 3574 revised, Sheet 3577, Sheet 3576 - agreed to (Committee divided: Ayes 33; Noes 19) Senator D Pocock Sheet 3539, Sheet 3541, Sheet 3545 - negatived (Committee divided: Ayes 4; Noes 35) Sheet 3540, Sheet 3542, Sheet 3543 - negatived (Committee divided: Ayes 5; Noes 35) Senator Thorpe Sheet 3551, Sheet 3538 - negatived The Nationals Sheet 3557 - negatived (Committee divided: Ayes 19; Noes 34) National Environmental Protection Agency Bill 2025 Opposition Sheet 3509, Sheet 3512 - negatived (Committee divided: Ayes 22; Noes 31) Question that the remaining stages of the bills be agreed to and the bills be now passed - agreed to (Senate divided: Ayes 32; Noes 20)
November 27, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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Great to see the comments from #GraemeSamuel regarding the agreed changes to the #EPBC_Act negotiated by the #Greens. #AusPol 🥂
43m ago13.14 AEDT Graeme Samuel welcomes EPBC deal The man who five years ago wrote a report with recommendations that will finally be implemented today, says he’ll be “delighted” to no longer hear his name mentioned in the media five times a week. Graeme Samuel popped up on Sky News said all the reforms are “sensible” and “tighten up issues that will both be in favour of protecting the environment” while not impacting efficiency. I went through the amendments this morning with the minister’s office and gave a tick across every single one of them … The problem is that we keep kicking the can down the road. The can just gets dented and gets rusty and and I think there was no guarantee that would ever get there. Now, what Minister, what has done, in great credit to him, he said, ‘This is it. We’ve got to do this now' and let’s get the thing moved’. He said it will now be up to the parliament and the environment department to set all the new rules and environmental standards that will be established under this legislation.
November 27, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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The #BCA Business Council of Australia is clearly living in the past ... " sensible, stable reform backed by both *major* parties" and they must have missed the memo that says we are experiencing a #ClimateCrisis !! 🙄 Thank goodness most voters don't even know who they are ... 🥂
#AusPol #EPBC_Act
‘Missed opportunity’ is also the reaction of the Business Council of Australia who say the reforms won’t deliver “transformational economic change”. BCA chief executive, Bran Black, says the business group has supported reform to the environment protection and biodiversity conservation act (EPBC), but raised concern that the agreed upon position still contains “ambiguity and risk, which may shut out projects before a proper assessment”. In a statement, Black says: We have always said a sensible, stable reform backed by both major parties is what we need if Australia is to deliver the energy and renewables, critical minerals and infrastructure projects that underpin productivity and living standards. Our concern with this package, as it stands, is that there’s lots more work to do to deliver a net benefit for business and the economy. He also adds that the BCA does not support the concession to the Greens that prevents gas projects from being approved through “streamlined pathways”.
November 27, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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There is a lot to like in the new #EPBC_Act but there are still a number of areas where it should have gone a lot further, but #Labor were intransigent about a #climateTrigger #AusPol
50m ago10.21 AEDT Environmental groups welcome Labor-Greens EPBC deal but remain concerned over fossil fuel approvals The government and the Greens are pretty happy about their deal announced this morning, and so too are some of the climate and environment advocacy groups. But they warn the job of protecting nature isn’t done, and express concern that the legislation will still allow the expansion of fossil fuel projects. The Greenpeace Australia Pacific CEO, David Ritter, said: The agreement announced today secures a significant improvement on the broken laws that for too long failed to deliver credible environmental protection. Removing the risk of fast-tracking coal and gas projects is also welcome. But the big sting in the tail is that the legislation still fails to address the enormous climate harm to nature from these sorts of projects. It still leaves the door open for the heedless expansion of coal and gas. The Climate Council CEO, Amanda McKenzie, said the law still “fails” the 2025 climate test. This deal strengthens protections for our native forests, and provides a faster yes to responsible renewable energy projects that cut climate pollution … But this 2025 law fails the climate test. All new coal and gas projects still get a free pass on climate pollution. In fact, the law forbids the environment minister from considering a project’s climate pollution when assessing whether it should go ahead.
November 27, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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#EPBC_Act An outcome that can be celebrated for many reasons & this one in particular! 🍾 🥂 #Greens #Environment #Liberals The #RegionalForestAgreements that enabled the logging of #OldGrowthForests will be gone! And I spared you having to see a pic of #JonnoDuniam 😄 who needs a slap!
1h ago09.34 AEDT ‘Dodgy dirty deal’: Coalition furious over EPBC agreement Jonathon Duniam, who was a key negotiating figure for the Coalition is ropable in the Senate – which has passed the motion to bring on debate of the environment bills. He says the bills will “now be rammed through in record time” and warns the bill will see native forestry “shut down” within years. The government was negotiating with both the Coalition and the Greens to pass the bill, with two separate sets of amendments. Duniam is not happy the Greens won out on the negotiations, and says the Coalition found out that the government was not accepting its amendments at the prime minister’s press conference this morning. This is a pattern of behaviour at the end of every sitting year we see the arrangement be the mighty new Labor-Green alliance come together, they’ve been together behind closed doors for a couple of weeks now hatching this one up. Where are they [Labor] standing up for the workers who have been abandoned under this the dodgy, dirty deal done behind closed doors at the 11th hour. He’s also critical of the Greens who had forced the parliament to set up an inquiry into the bill, that’s due to report back in March next year. Who’s voting to ram the bills through the Senate today, none other than the Australian greens enviro spokesperson senator Hanson-Young and all her colleagues.
November 27, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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Complete bullshit from #Santos again, of course! #AusPol
Santos says it is time for people to move on and back Narrabri gas project Santos has responded to today’s statements by the NSW Farmers’ Federation about exploring avenues for legal action against the company’s Narrabri gas project due to concerns about impacts on groundwater. The company says it is time for everyone to move on. A Santos spokesperson said: In 2020, the NSW Department of Planning found in its assessment report, that it is “ difficult to reconcile the significant community concerns about the Narrabri Gas Project with the technical advice from experts that the risk of any significant impacts occurring is generally low and can be controlled using standard engineering practice and imposing strict conditions on Santos. The spokesperson said the project had been approved by the state’s independent planning commission after consideration of the state planning department’s assessment report and other expert evidence on groundwater. They said a legal challenge to the approval was dismissed by the Land and Environment Court in 2021: It’s time for everyone to now move on and respect the outcome of the extensive approvals and litigation processes that have been carried out for the Narrabri Gas Project under NSW and federal laws, including recognising that the project is in the public interest and is necessary to ensure energy security and reliability for east coast gas and electricity consumers.
November 26, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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So we can now add #JulianHill to the list of #Labor dicks for this stupid & clearly unhelpful point of view of the @greens.org.au ! And to think they want the #Greens to compromise on the appalling #Labor Environmental Protection Act !! #AusPol @sarahhansonyoung.bsky.social
The assistant minister for immigration, Julian Hill, has hit out at the Coalition and One Nation for stoking an increasingly “toxic debate” on immigration in Australia. Speaking at a conference at the Australian National University in Canberra on Tuesday, Hill said the parties are seeking to “generate anger, trade on the ancient human instinct to fear people who are different, or to foster division for some belief in short-term partisan gain.” But he warned the Coalition of forgetting the lessons of One Nation’s rise in the late 1990s, when leader Pauline Hanson first rose to prominence for attacks on Asian immigration. She was suspended from the Senate on Monday after a stunt in which she donned a burqa in the chamber and disrupted the sitting. Hanson has a bill to ban face coverings before parliament now. Hill said former prime minister John Howard understood how to deal with Hanson. “As Penny Wong said last week, you can’t out-Pauline, Pauline,” he told the conference. The Labor party knows this with respect to the Greens political party – you can’t out green the Greens, and do not ever try. They are populists and not actors of good faith. Their political business model is as a party of protest not a party of progress – similar in that sense, actually, to One Nation. To try to accommodate them is to legitimise them. Many voters then conclude - why buy the lite version? Hill praised the shadow immigration minister, Paul Scarr, for pushing back on Coalition rhetoric around “mass migration” and said Liberal and National MPs were “running around spreading fear and nonsense.” https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2025/nov/25/australia-politics-live-anthony-albanese-sussan-ley-tanya-plibersek-domestic-violence-helpline-pauline-hanson-burqa-net-zero-labor-coalition-greens-question-time-ntwnfb
November 25, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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As usual, one of the best #Labor Ministers not in Cabinet, Ed @edhusicmp.bsky.social made some excellent points & points out the failure of the post-election changes by the “factional assassin” ! ✅🥂
#AusPol #CSIRO
Ed Husic on CSIRO cuts: 'we need to start valuing and having faith in Australian ideas' Labor MP Ed Husic is on Afternoon Briefing talking about the loss of hundreds of CSIRO jobs. He said investing in the CSIRO and science and research is an investment in the future. We need to start valuing and having faith in Australian ideas. I’m personally sick of seeing an idea that began in an Australian mind [ending up as] a product made in another country. We need to address that. Some of the driest, driest minds in the sphere of government, notably treasury and finance, do view these things as a cost. You know, in some cases their view is, if another country wants to spend money and they turn an idea into a product that we just buy off the shelf, that’s great. I actually think that’s the worst example of short-term thinking you can have when [we] need a long-term commitment to back in science and research. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2025/nov/19/australia-news-live-optus-amazon-nsw-leaders-mark-speakman-challenge-spill-coalition-john-laws-funeral-ntwnfbhip-liberal?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
November 19, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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Just to be clear, this is the man that decided the #Liberal #climateCrisis policy. OMFD! 😆
November 13, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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I don't think you are correct. #Mamdani is now on over 1 million votes & more than the total of his two competitors :) 🥂#NewYorkMayor #DUSA
November 5, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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Sophie @sophiescamps.bsky.social said "I cannot support the EPBC Act … in their current form, because there are the most ginormous, gigantic loopholes that you could drive a heavy hauler through, which means there is no guarantee that our #environment will be better protected." #EPBC #AusPol
Independent MPs are pushing for changes to Labor’s proposed new nature laws, with one claiming the bill contains “gigantic loopholes that you could drive a heavy hauler through”. The laws to overhaul the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act are scheduled for debate on Tuesday, with the government planning to rush them through the lower house this week. The independent MP for Curtin, Kate Chaney, is drafting amendments to address two loopholes that she fears could undermine the entire bill. The first is the proposed “restoration fund”, which developers would have the choice of contributing to as one option to offset damage from their projects. Chaney said: That means projects can actually just pay to destroy, they can choose to just put money into a fund, and we may end up with a lot of money but no projects that actually offset the damage that’s being done. And that would not be a good outcome for nature. The independent MP also wants changes to a contentious new exemption that would allow the environment minister to approve projects in breach of nature laws if it was deemed in the “national interest”. The former treasury secretary Ken Henry, the Labor MP Ed Husic and Labor’s grassroots environment action group have all called for guardrails to limit how the power could be wielded. Fellow independent MP Sophie Scamps said she couldn’t support the laws in their current form, criticising the new loopholes and plans to devolve more decision-powers to the states. I cannot support the EPBC Act … in their current form, because there are the most ginormous, gigantic loopholes that you could drive a heavy hauler through, which means there is no guarantee that our environment will be better protected. Labor wants the EPBC reforms to pass the Senate this year but that hinges on a deal with either the Greens or the Coalition, neither of whom support the bill as it stands.
November 3, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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This country must be starting to rival North Korea for the worst dictator in the world trophy! #Gaza
By Urooba Jamal and Federica Marsi Published On 30 Oct 202530 Oct 2025 * Palestinians in Gaza say they are losing hope in the ceasefire after Israel’s deadliest violation yet killed more than 100 people in Gaza, mostly women and children, on Wednesday. * US President Donald Trump says the ceasefire is still strong while mediator Qatar expresses frustration but says the mediators are looking forward to the next phase of the truce. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/10/30/live-palestinians-lose-hope-in-ceasefire-after-israeli-strike-wave-on-gaza?UTM_Source=pnsOS&UTM_Medium=push&UTM_Campaign=standard
October 30, 2025 at 7:12 AM