Helen
@heleng-gee.bsky.social
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Lifelong learner, always busy, work with numbers, hope to travel more.
Lifelong learner, always busy, work with numbers, hope to travel more.
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Here’s an idea for the PM: try to understand that the vast majority of Australians don’t like ANY extreme violence against civilians - whether at Bondi or in Gaza - and have the right to say so.
December 24, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Here’s an idea for the PM: try to understand that the vast majority of Australians don’t like ANY extreme violence against civilians - whether at Bondi or in Gaza - and have the right to say so.
Agreed
Everyone has their favourite writers and commentators on particular topics. And when it comes to Australian politics, mine are very easy to nominate; Amy Remeikis, Dave Milner and Ronni Salt. If you're not familiar with their work, do yourself a favour, they're all outstanding.
December 23, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Agreed
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If you're working these public holidays, thank you.
You deserve your penalty rates.
That's why Labor passed laws this year to protect them for millions of Australians.
You deserve your penalty rates.
That's why Labor passed laws this year to protect them for millions of Australians.
December 23, 2025 at 3:47 AM
If you're working these public holidays, thank you.
You deserve your penalty rates.
That's why Labor passed laws this year to protect them for millions of Australians.
You deserve your penalty rates.
That's why Labor passed laws this year to protect them for millions of Australians.
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Remember, Ley & news.corp et al aren't talking to you, or even about you. They're screaming at each other & mistaking the echo as a response.
Most Australians want to honour the victims, have stronger gun laws and to get on with their holidays in peace free of unhinged ranting (relatives excepted).
Most Australians want to honour the victims, have stronger gun laws and to get on with their holidays in peace free of unhinged ranting (relatives excepted).
December 22, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Remember, Ley & news.corp et al aren't talking to you, or even about you. They're screaming at each other & mistaking the echo as a response.
Most Australians want to honour the victims, have stronger gun laws and to get on with their holidays in peace free of unhinged ranting (relatives excepted).
Most Australians want to honour the victims, have stronger gun laws and to get on with their holidays in peace free of unhinged ranting (relatives excepted).
Amy Remeikis “Never has there been a time where politics has been played so blatantly, so openly at the expense of a terrified, traumatised community and the wider nation at large”…
“why are we letting grasping politicians spread further hate and division?”.
“why are we letting grasping politicians spread further hate and division?”.
Our hearts are shattered – and some have broken them further
There is no going back to where we were before December 14. But a social contract Australians relied on has been destroyed by the Coalition.
www.thenewdaily.com.au
December 20, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Amy Remeikis “Never has there been a time where politics has been played so blatantly, so openly at the expense of a terrified, traumatised community and the wider nation at large”…
“why are we letting grasping politicians spread further hate and division?”.
“why are we letting grasping politicians spread further hate and division?”.
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There is no credible evidence that the perpetrators of the Bondi terrorist attack had anything to do with recent protests www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
NSW will move to ban phrase ‘globalise the intifada’ in crackdown on ‘hateful’ rhetoric. Here’s what we know so far
NSW parliament will sit next week to consider legislation to limit protests and ban hate speech in response to the Bondi attack, Chris Minns says
www.theguardian.com
December 20, 2025 at 10:54 AM
There is no credible evidence that the perpetrators of the Bondi terrorist attack had anything to do with recent protests www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Also: the NSW Police authorised a nazi rally (“Abolish The Jewish Lobby” etc) in front of NSW parliament 6 weeks ago.
But it’s the bridge protesters calling for a ceasefire that are the problem? Srsly
But it’s the bridge protesters calling for a ceasefire that are the problem? Srsly
December 19, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Also: the NSW Police authorised a nazi rally (“Abolish The Jewish Lobby” etc) in front of NSW parliament 6 weeks ago.
But it’s the bridge protesters calling for a ceasefire that are the problem? Srsly
But it’s the bridge protesters calling for a ceasefire that are the problem? Srsly
“While getting dangerous weapons out of the hands of dangerous people is likely to have widespread support in Australia, it's sad that it takes horrific events like the massacres in Port Arthur and Bondi to get governments to review their own laws.”
How the Bondi shooters got access to now-banned guns
With Australia's strict gun laws, how was Sajid Akram able to legally own the gun he was using to slaughter innocent people in Bondi on December 14?
www.abc.net.au
December 19, 2025 at 9:34 PM
“While getting dangerous weapons out of the hands of dangerous people is likely to have widespread support in Australia, it's sad that it takes horrific events like the massacres in Port Arthur and Bondi to get governments to review their own laws.”
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Most of Australia’s media are ghouls.
December 17, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Most of Australia’s media are ghouls.
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I've never been more convinced Australia has the worst mainstream journalists in the world. Simple, thick, racist, ahistorical, bootlicking dipshits that lie and screech more than they think and feel. This weaponisation of a tragedy against anti-genocide voices is grotesque.
December 17, 2025 at 6:08 AM
I've never been more convinced Australia has the worst mainstream journalists in the world. Simple, thick, racist, ahistorical, bootlicking dipshits that lie and screech more than they think and feel. This weaponisation of a tragedy against anti-genocide voices is grotesque.
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If only the government had acted earlier to let an unqualified, politically appointed anti-semitism Czar police the thoughts of university campuses, the government could have .. <checks notes> .. persuaded a father/son IS terrorist cell from terroristing.
<blink blink>
Are we really going there?
<blink blink>
Are we really going there?
December 15, 2025 at 5:56 AM
If only the government had acted earlier to let an unqualified, politically appointed anti-semitism Czar police the thoughts of university campuses, the government could have .. <checks notes> .. persuaded a father/son IS terrorist cell from terroristing.
<blink blink>
Are we really going there?
<blink blink>
Are we really going there?
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The idea that changing a definition to include criticism of Israel as being anti-Semitic and cracking down even further on anti-genocide protests would have in any way made anyone safer is madness. That the Coalition have so comprehensively jumped to blame here is insanity. Who is this speaking to?
December 17, 2025 at 8:14 AM
The idea that changing a definition to include criticism of Israel as being anti-Semitic and cracking down even further on anti-genocide protests would have in any way made anyone safer is madness. That the Coalition have so comprehensively jumped to blame here is insanity. Who is this speaking to?
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I would dearly love a long, extendable stick with a stuffed boxing glove on the end, or a rubber hand that I could use in coffee shops to slap people who insist on amplifying whatever loud crap is on their mobile phones or just yelling their convo on speaker as if we all need to join in too
SLAP!!
SLAP!!
two cats are playing on a white couch and one is standing on its hind legs
ALT: two cats are playing on a white couch and one is standing on its hind legs
media.tenor.com
December 11, 2025 at 7:12 AM
I would dearly love a long, extendable stick with a stuffed boxing glove on the end, or a rubber hand that I could use in coffee shops to slap people who insist on amplifying whatever loud crap is on their mobile phones or just yelling their convo on speaker as if we all need to join in too
SLAP!!
SLAP!!
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ICYMI #auspol
'Valley of death' or mountain of spin? Gas reservation must be retrospective to cut power bills - Michael West
The price of electricity in Australia could be halved, but the Government is suckered by the gas cartel’s lies and spin. Rex Patrick reports
michaelwest.com.au
December 7, 2025 at 8:37 PM
ICYMI #auspol
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As sure as day follows night, the gas cartel is rolling out its spin campaign to avoid a retrospective gas reservation scheme. But let’s hope their day of reckoning is upon them. Australians first - it’s OUR gas! Go hard @albomp.bsky.social! #auspol
December 7, 2025 at 8:35 PM
As sure as day follows night, the gas cartel is rolling out its spin campaign to avoid a retrospective gas reservation scheme. But let’s hope their day of reckoning is upon them. Australians first - it’s OUR gas! Go hard @albomp.bsky.social! #auspol
Amy Remeikis-
“Because if Labor is to act at all on what needs to be done, then it only has next year. The year after that is straight back into election mode, when reforms tend to be short term and even shorter-sighted.”
“Because if Labor is to act at all on what needs to be done, then it only has next year. The year after that is straight back into election mode, when reforms tend to be short term and even shorter-sighted.”
First whispers of discontent for Labor are coming from within
Labor has the space to do what it wants – and what it wants, apparently, is to be the Liberal Party of the 1990s.
www.thenewdaily.com.au
December 7, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Amy Remeikis-
“Because if Labor is to act at all on what needs to be done, then it only has next year. The year after that is straight back into election mode, when reforms tend to be short term and even shorter-sighted.”
“Because if Labor is to act at all on what needs to be done, then it only has next year. The year after that is straight back into election mode, when reforms tend to be short term and even shorter-sighted.”
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An actual decent FOI law change (rather than the friendless bill before the parliament now) would be to actually have some sort of penalty for documents of government that should be retained for FOI purposes but aren't (such as disappearing messages in certain apps)
"Albanese government staffers – as well as senior Commonwealth public servants – privately fume at what they claim are abuses of laws and practices surrounding transparency by people whose sole aim is to embarrass the government."
Exclusive: PM’s office directs lobbyists to use encrypted, disappearing messages
Multiple sources confirm the Albanese government has pushed lobbyists and industry groups to use encrypted messages and verbal briefings when proposing policy ideas, to avoid FOI and disclosure requir...
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
December 6, 2025 at 1:26 AM
An actual decent FOI law change (rather than the friendless bill before the parliament now) would be to actually have some sort of penalty for documents of government that should be retained for FOI purposes but aren't (such as disappearing messages in certain apps)
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Labor sat on the “jobs for mates” review for 2 years; they wrecked the NACC; they haven’t introduced whistleblower protection laws despite promises; they’re trying to crater FOI laws; the ANAO missed half its targets bc budget cuts… & they have the nerve to talk about the abuse of transparency laws.
December 6, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Labor sat on the “jobs for mates” review for 2 years; they wrecked the NACC; they haven’t introduced whistleblower protection laws despite promises; they’re trying to crater FOI laws; the ANAO missed half its targets bc budget cuts… & they have the nerve to talk about the abuse of transparency laws.
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“the overall effect, transparency advocates warn, is to create a parallel system of policy development that is largely invisible to parliament, the public and the media”.
Albo’s latest accountability avoidance trick:
#FOI does not even apply if you can disappear any inconvenient info. #auspol
Albo’s latest accountability avoidance trick:
#FOI does not even apply if you can disappear any inconvenient info. #auspol
December 5, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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“Goldstone was a laboratory. The tactics tested on us in 2022 and refined in the Voice in 2023 were fully deployed in 2025, and they worked”
The distinction between Wlson's Liberal campaign and vicious attacks from proxies like Advance is, at best, unclear. #auspol
www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/04/a...
The distinction between Wlson's Liberal campaign and vicious attacks from proxies like Advance is, at best, unclear. #auspol
www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/04/a...
'There are still people recovering from the trauma': The Goldstein campaign was worse than we thought
While the 2025 federal election inquiry has shown there was a clear rise in hostility at election booths around the country, Tim Wilson's electorate of Goldstein seems to have reached another level.
www.crikey.com.au
December 5, 2025 at 4:33 AM
“Goldstone was a laboratory. The tactics tested on us in 2022 and refined in the Voice in 2023 were fully deployed in 2025, and they worked”
The distinction between Wlson's Liberal campaign and vicious attacks from proxies like Advance is, at best, unclear. #auspol
www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/04/a...
The distinction between Wlson's Liberal campaign and vicious attacks from proxies like Advance is, at best, unclear. #auspol
www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/04/a...
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In Sydney Australia it’s a great day to post this picture to your local council and State Government member!
December 5, 2025 at 4:07 AM
In Sydney Australia it’s a great day to post this picture to your local council and State Government member!
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All those thinking the private sector would find a way to solve climate change, when of course all it was ever going to do was find ways to produce even more emissions and f*ck the environment royally.
Because well... that's all it ever has done.
Because well... that's all it ever has done.
Excellent reporting by @joshtaylor.bsky.social and @petrastock.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Thirsty work: how the rise of massive datacentres strains Australia’s drinking water supply
The demand for use in cooling in Sydney alone is expected to exceed the volume of Canberra’s total drinking water within the next decade
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 11:25 PM
All those thinking the private sector would find a way to solve climate change, when of course all it was ever going to do was find ways to produce even more emissions and f*ck the environment royally.
Because well... that's all it ever has done.
Because well... that's all it ever has done.
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“Graduating this year means a lot to all of us. We spent our 5th & 6th years of medical school during the war — learning through fear, loss and so much uncertainty. It hasn’t been easy, but we’re proud that we supported each other, and never gave up.”
The courage of Palestinian medical students.
The courage of Palestinian medical students.
Through all this, the Palestinian capacity to hold joy in the most ordinary of things resists.
It's graduation season in Gaza
www.crikey.com.au
December 5, 2025 at 2:45 AM
“Graduating this year means a lot to all of us. We spent our 5th & 6th years of medical school during the war — learning through fear, loss and so much uncertainty. It hasn’t been easy, but we’re proud that we supported each other, and never gave up.”
The courage of Palestinian medical students.
The courage of Palestinian medical students.
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This isn’t business as usual.
Potentially significant cuts are coming to the Australian Public Service and I want to know what this means for service delivery and for jobs.
Labor promised to protect the APS, they need to honour that promise.
www.afr.com/policy/econo...
Potentially significant cuts are coming to the Australian Public Service and I want to know what this means for service delivery and for jobs.
Labor promised to protect the APS, they need to honour that promise.
www.afr.com/policy/econo...
December 3, 2025 at 6:54 AM
This isn’t business as usual.
Potentially significant cuts are coming to the Australian Public Service and I want to know what this means for service delivery and for jobs.
Labor promised to protect the APS, they need to honour that promise.
www.afr.com/policy/econo...
Potentially significant cuts are coming to the Australian Public Service and I want to know what this means for service delivery and for jobs.
Labor promised to protect the APS, they need to honour that promise.
www.afr.com/policy/econo...