Campbell Gome - Greens
@campbellgomegrn.bsky.social
Teacher, parent and community activist.
Greens candidate for Northcote, 2022 & 2026
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Authorised by M. Shield, 1.05/50 Queen St, Melbourne VIC
Greens candidate for Northcote, 2022 & 2026
💚☀️🌿
Authorised by M. Shield, 1.05/50 Queen St, Melbourne VIC
So grateful for Sarah's courage and honesty
Oh Sarah 😢
What a beautiful encapsulation of so much I feel.
“The danger was never difference; the danger was the oppression that demanded silence, that forbade questions, until even love could no longer be spoken.”
What a beautiful encapsulation of so much I feel.
“The danger was never difference; the danger was the oppression that demanded silence, that forbade questions, until even love could no longer be spoken.”
When you first heard me speak against this genocide, you heard my words as betrayal. But they were meant as love | Sarah Schwartz
Not speaking would go against everything I was taught to honour: the righteous among the nations – those who refused to be bystanders to injustice
www.theguardian.com
October 8, 2025 at 10:23 PM
So grateful for Sarah's courage and honesty
I was today years old when I found Lenin's analysis of the 1913 Aus Fed election. Includes this:
...The ALP does not even call itself a socialist party. Actually it is a liberal-bourgeois party, while the so-called Liberals in Australia are really Conservatives...
www.marxists.org/archive/leni...
...The ALP does not even call itself a socialist party. Actually it is a liberal-bourgeois party, while the so-called Liberals in Australia are really Conservatives...
www.marxists.org/archive/leni...
Lenin: In Australia
In Australia
www.marxists.org
July 30, 2025 at 11:06 AM
I was today years old when I found Lenin's analysis of the 1913 Aus Fed election. Includes this:
...The ALP does not even call itself a socialist party. Actually it is a liberal-bourgeois party, while the so-called Liberals in Australia are really Conservatives...
www.marxists.org/archive/leni...
...The ALP does not even call itself a socialist party. Actually it is a liberal-bourgeois party, while the so-called Liberals in Australia are really Conservatives...
www.marxists.org/archive/leni...
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Young Albo to be deported by Antisemitism envoy he appointed.
July 11, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Young Albo to be deported by Antisemitism envoy he appointed.
'...these policies are highly popular, and can form the basis of a winning political platform. Democratic socialism, where we extend the principle of democracy into the realm of production, is a viable path — indeed the only path — to a safe and just future.'
open.substack.com/pub/jasonhic...
open.substack.com/pub/jasonhic...
Climate socialism
I am writing this message to the millions of people who have been involved in the climate movement over the past several years.
open.substack.com
July 3, 2025 at 1:30 AM
'...these policies are highly popular, and can form the basis of a winning political platform. Democratic socialism, where we extend the principle of democracy into the realm of production, is a viable path — indeed the only path — to a safe and just future.'
open.substack.com/pub/jasonhic...
open.substack.com/pub/jasonhic...
Say no to bad bail laws. Support the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service's campaign to not proceed with more disastrous changes to the Bail Act
bailsaveslives.good.do/sayno/email-...
bailsaveslives.good.do/sayno/email-...
Join me in supporting the Bail Saves Lives: Say No to Bad Bail Laws Campaign
Bail Saves Lives. Say No to Bad Bail Laws.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people deserve to be safe. But the Victorian Government's disastrous bail laws are driving incarceration rates up, and ...
bailsaveslives.good.do
July 2, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Say no to bad bail laws. Support the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service's campaign to not proceed with more disastrous changes to the Bail Act
bailsaveslives.good.do/sayno/email-...
bailsaveslives.good.do/sayno/email-...
A street in Gaza, a map of dreams, and the people desperate to live www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
A street in Gaza, a map of dreams, and the people desperate to live
Gaza City’s main high street has been destroyed but Palestinian memories of life before the ongoing Israeli assault survive. As those in Gaza face bombing, starvation and miserable living conditions, ...
www.theguardian.com
June 27, 2025 at 2:14 AM
A street in Gaza, a map of dreams, and the people desperate to live www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
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No baby formula has entered Gaza for four months because of Israel’s genocidal blockades. There is nothing left to feed babies and their mothers can not produce milk as they themselves are starving. There is no defending what Israel is doing. No justification.
June 19, 2025 at 1:58 AM
No baby formula has entered Gaza for four months because of Israel’s genocidal blockades. There is nothing left to feed babies and their mothers can not produce milk as they themselves are starving. There is no defending what Israel is doing. No justification.
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Australia has a home insurance crisis and climate change is going to make it worse – @jack-thrower.bsky.social in @thenewdaily.bsky.social.
"Between 2022-2023, the average home insurance premium in Australia rose by 14%, the biggest increase in a decade. A major reason for this is #climate change."
"Between 2022-2023, the average home insurance premium in Australia rose by 14%, the biggest increase in a decade. A major reason for this is #climate change."
Australia has an insurance crisis. Climate change will make it worse
Climate change makes disasters more frequent and more destructive, this is leading insurance companies to charge higher prices.
www.thenewdaily.com.au
June 19, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Australia has a home insurance crisis and climate change is going to make it worse – @jack-thrower.bsky.social in @thenewdaily.bsky.social.
"Between 2022-2023, the average home insurance premium in Australia rose by 14%, the biggest increase in a decade. A major reason for this is #climate change."
"Between 2022-2023, the average home insurance premium in Australia rose by 14%, the biggest increase in a decade. A major reason for this is #climate change."
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It's been exactly five years since the Black Lives Matter uprising, and this week our communities will mobilise again to demand justice for Kumanjayi White 👇🏾
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A scuffle in the lolly aisle. The sickening death toll climbs. Another family face gut-wrenching grief | Lorena Allam
Australians will rally this weekend to mourn Kumanjayi White, a Warlpiri man with disabilities who stopped breathing after being restrained by NT police
www.theguardian.com
June 5, 2025 at 12:59 AM
It's been exactly five years since the Black Lives Matter uprising, and this week our communities will mobilise again to demand justice for Kumanjayi White 👇🏾
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Justice for Kumanjayi White: Snap Rally
- Friday 6 June
- 5:30pm
- Victorian Parliament Steps, Spring Street, Melbourne
Last week, Kumanjayi White was killed while being restrained by NT Police in a Coles supermarket in Mparntwe (Alice Springs).
- Friday 6 June
- 5:30pm
- Victorian Parliament Steps, Spring Street, Melbourne
Last week, Kumanjayi White was killed while being restrained by NT Police in a Coles supermarket in Mparntwe (Alice Springs).
June 3, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Justice for Kumanjayi White: Snap Rally
- Friday 6 June
- 5:30pm
- Victorian Parliament Steps, Spring Street, Melbourne
Last week, Kumanjayi White was killed while being restrained by NT Police in a Coles supermarket in Mparntwe (Alice Springs).
- Friday 6 June
- 5:30pm
- Victorian Parliament Steps, Spring Street, Melbourne
Last week, Kumanjayi White was killed while being restrained by NT Police in a Coles supermarket in Mparntwe (Alice Springs).
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Labor have just approved a 45 year extension to our most polluting gas project faster than Peter Dutton said he would if he won office.
They sold out to their fossil fuel donors a long ago, and it's never been clearer.
They sold out to their fossil fuel donors a long ago, and it's never been clearer.
May 28, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Labor have just approved a 45 year extension to our most polluting gas project faster than Peter Dutton said he would if he won office.
They sold out to their fossil fuel donors a long ago, and it's never been clearer.
They sold out to their fossil fuel donors a long ago, and it's never been clearer.
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Politics with a heart 💚 to get shit done!
@larissawaters.bsky.social and @mehreenfaruqi.bsky.social are the dream team - powerful, compassionate & brilliant women with a heap of experience & a tonne of intellectual heft.
Now, if Labor comes to the table, things could turn for the better 🌎
@larissawaters.bsky.social and @mehreenfaruqi.bsky.social are the dream team - powerful, compassionate & brilliant women with a heap of experience & a tonne of intellectual heft.
Now, if Labor comes to the table, things could turn for the better 🌎
May 15, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Politics with a heart 💚 to get shit done!
@larissawaters.bsky.social and @mehreenfaruqi.bsky.social are the dream team - powerful, compassionate & brilliant women with a heap of experience & a tonne of intellectual heft.
Now, if Labor comes to the table, things could turn for the better 🌎
@larissawaters.bsky.social and @mehreenfaruqi.bsky.social are the dream team - powerful, compassionate & brilliant women with a heap of experience & a tonne of intellectual heft.
Now, if Labor comes to the table, things could turn for the better 🌎
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An absolutely wonderful reflection on the recent election by former senator, Janet Rice.
“The times are urgent, so let us slow down” - Green Agenda
Reflecting on three decades of Greens politics, former Victorian senator Janet Rice urgently calls for slow long-term movement building. Janet rejects the post-election media narratives of Greens “fai...
greenagenda.org.au
May 15, 2025 at 8:50 AM
An absolutely wonderful reflection on the recent election by former senator, Janet Rice.
‘A horror movie’: Marine heatwave off the coast of South Australia is killing sharks, octopuses, leafy sea dragons and other marine species
#ClimateCrisis
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#ClimateCrisis
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘A horror movie’: sharks and octopuses among 200 species killed by toxic algae off South Australia
Karenia mikimotoi algae can suffocate fish, cause haemorrhaging and act as a neurotoxin, one expert says
www.theguardian.com
May 12, 2025 at 10:11 PM
‘A horror movie’: Marine heatwave off the coast of South Australia is killing sharks, octopuses, leafy sea dragons and other marine species
#ClimateCrisis
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#ClimateCrisis
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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To the politicians & ‘leaders’ who’ve nurtured & emboldened racism in Australia, then condemn & feign shock at the repugnant booing incident...
Fanning the flames, then expressing sorrow at the damage the fire’s doing.
We see the hate mongering, greedy, opportunists you are.
Fanning the flames, then expressing sorrow at the damage the fire’s doing.
We see the hate mongering, greedy, opportunists you are.
April 25, 2025 at 5:12 AM
To the politicians & ‘leaders’ who’ve nurtured & emboldened racism in Australia, then condemn & feign shock at the repugnant booing incident...
Fanning the flames, then expressing sorrow at the damage the fire’s doing.
We see the hate mongering, greedy, opportunists you are.
Fanning the flames, then expressing sorrow at the damage the fire’s doing.
We see the hate mongering, greedy, opportunists you are.
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The Greens are running in seats across the country — and today we confirm our how-to-vote cards will preference Labor ahead of the Liberals.
Vote 1 Greens to keep Dutton out and get Labor to act on the cost of living, housing and climate crisis.
Vote 1 Greens to keep Dutton out and get Labor to act on the cost of living, housing and climate crisis.
April 20, 2025 at 2:09 AM
The Greens are running in seats across the country — and today we confirm our how-to-vote cards will preference Labor ahead of the Liberals.
Vote 1 Greens to keep Dutton out and get Labor to act on the cost of living, housing and climate crisis.
Vote 1 Greens to keep Dutton out and get Labor to act on the cost of living, housing and climate crisis.
This year's TreeProject seedlings are coming along nicely. I'm loving watching the golden wattles' transition from their juvenile to adult leaves. It's like they start with little tiny solar powered CO2 - oxygen converters then scale up when they've stored up enough energy
treeproject.org.au
treeproject.org.au
April 18, 2025 at 11:46 PM
This year's TreeProject seedlings are coming along nicely. I'm loving watching the golden wattles' transition from their juvenile to adult leaves. It's like they start with little tiny solar powered CO2 - oxygen converters then scale up when they've stored up enough energy
treeproject.org.au
treeproject.org.au
Well said @senatorthorpe.bsky.social
It adds insult to injury that today is Close the Gap Day and tomorrow is the International Day for the Elimination of Racism
26 yrs ago PM John Australians aren't racist Howard changed it to 'Harmony Day'. No PM since had gotten around to changing it back
It adds insult to injury that today is Close the Gap Day and tomorrow is the International Day for the Elimination of Racism
26 yrs ago PM John Australians aren't racist Howard changed it to 'Harmony Day'. No PM since had gotten around to changing it back
During the senate inquiry into child incarceration, we heard that kids released from custody into homelessness in QLD have been given tents by the department.
Tents.
We need to do far more to support children on bail and leaving prison – it’s in everyone’s interest.
nit.com.au/19-03-2025/1...
Tents.
We need to do far more to support children on bail and leaving prison – it’s in everyone’s interest.
nit.com.au/19-03-2025/1...
Calls for government to fund universal access to therapeutic bail support
Independent Senator Lidia Thorpe has called on the federal government to fund universal access to therapeutic bail support, mirroring calls from more than 90 legal, human rights and Indigenous organis...
nit.com.au
March 19, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Well said @senatorthorpe.bsky.social
It adds insult to injury that today is Close the Gap Day and tomorrow is the International Day for the Elimination of Racism
26 yrs ago PM John Australians aren't racist Howard changed it to 'Harmony Day'. No PM since had gotten around to changing it back
It adds insult to injury that today is Close the Gap Day and tomorrow is the International Day for the Elimination of Racism
26 yrs ago PM John Australians aren't racist Howard changed it to 'Harmony Day'. No PM since had gotten around to changing it back
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In the middle of a disease-related mass mortality event, while rotting salmon fat is washing up on TAS beaches, …
Albanese to rush through new laws to protect Tasmania’s salmon industry from legal threat
Labor will push the contentious bill through parliament next week despite concerns about the extinction of the Maugean skate
www.theguardian.com
March 19, 2025 at 10:41 AM
In the middle of a disease-related mass mortality event, while rotting salmon fat is washing up on TAS beaches, …
The Age can have my $20 a month or Clive's $200k for today's front page ad that harms vulnerable people.
But they can't have both.
Until their policies are updated or #auspol passes truth in political advertising laws, my $20 pcm will instead go to support Transgender Victoria's work
But they can't have both.
Until their policies are updated or #auspol passes truth in political advertising laws, my $20 pcm will instead go to support Transgender Victoria's work
Transgender Victoria | TGV
TGV is Victoria’s leading body for trans and gender diverse advocacy. We work to achieve justice, equity and inclusive service provision for trans and gender diverse people, their partners, families a...
www.tgv.org.au
March 12, 2025 at 12:02 PM
The Age can have my $20 a month or Clive's $200k for today's front page ad that harms vulnerable people.
But they can't have both.
Until their policies are updated or #auspol passes truth in political advertising laws, my $20 pcm will instead go to support Transgender Victoria's work
But they can't have both.
Until their policies are updated or #auspol passes truth in political advertising laws, my $20 pcm will instead go to support Transgender Victoria's work
On current trend, wheelchair users could wait 150 years for accessible tram stops? VicGov's current rate: 8 stops/year. That's 150+ years beyond their own 2022 deadline #disabilityrights
www.theage.com.au/politics/vic...
www.theage.com.au/politics/vic...
This New York train station was the world’s most expensive. Sunshine may have it beat
The architecturally splendid Oculus, at New York’s rebuilt World Trade Centre, cost $US4 billion to build. Sunshine station could give the record a nudge.
www.theage.com.au
March 5, 2025 at 8:41 PM
On current trend, wheelchair users could wait 150 years for accessible tram stops? VicGov's current rate: 8 stops/year. That's 150+ years beyond their own 2022 deadline #disabilityrights
www.theage.com.au/politics/vic...
www.theage.com.au/politics/vic...
fwiw I'd rather the election wasn't held on the first day of Passover and in the middle of school holidays
@albomp.bsky.social
#auspol
@albomp.bsky.social
#auspol
February 28, 2025 at 8:47 PM
fwiw I'd rather the election wasn't held on the first day of Passover and in the middle of school holidays
@albomp.bsky.social
#auspol
@albomp.bsky.social
#auspol
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The old world is dead. Its corpse is attracting flies.
We have to bury it.
Then we can grow our gardens on its grave, and share the food and smell the flowers.
I wrote this in November, but just posted it. It’s a speech to the 10th birthday party of an awesome community renewable energy group.
We have to bury it.
Then we can grow our gardens on its grave, and share the food and smell the flowers.
I wrote this in November, but just posted it. It’s a speech to the 10th birthday party of an awesome community renewable energy group.
Growing gardens on the grave of the old world - celebrating community energy - Green Agenda
By building alternative systems from the ground up while existing systems collapse, communities like Yackandandah are creating pathways to a democratic and ecological future
greenagenda.org.au
February 10, 2025 at 7:08 AM
The old world is dead. Its corpse is attracting flies.
We have to bury it.
Then we can grow our gardens on its grave, and share the food and smell the flowers.
I wrote this in November, but just posted it. It’s a speech to the 10th birthday party of an awesome community renewable energy group.
We have to bury it.
Then we can grow our gardens on its grave, and share the food and smell the flowers.
I wrote this in November, but just posted it. It’s a speech to the 10th birthday party of an awesome community renewable energy group.
My Holocaust survivor grandparents taught me that, having escaped the oppression of Pharaoh's Egypt, it is our duty to fight for the freedom of all.
Also not sure that ML knows what 'unfounded' means?
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
Also not sure that ML knows what 'unfounded' means?
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
February 10, 2025 at 8:02 PM
My Holocaust survivor grandparents taught me that, having escaped the oppression of Pharaoh's Egypt, it is our duty to fight for the freedom of all.
Also not sure that ML knows what 'unfounded' means?
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
Also not sure that ML knows what 'unfounded' means?
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...