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If you're interested, you can watch many thousands and thousands of fellow Australians right now marching across the iconic Sydney Harbour Bridge for peace in Palestine

It's bucketing down rain, and still they keep coming, and still they keep marching

#MarchForHumanity #FreeGaza

webcamsydney.com
August 3, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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Tasmanians weighing up whether to re-elect govt that
-destroyed the budget
-will make it worse with unaffordable stadium
-can't "afford" proper health and education
-bought 2 ferries too large for any of its docks
-promised to close Ashley youth abuse factory yrs ago but hasn't taken the first step
July 9, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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It’s almost 2yrs since the day Commissioner Catherine Holmes handed down her final report on Robodebt & referred those responsible for criminal prosecution. It was a day we felt like finally something was happening.
I’m so sorry to all victims who are STILL waiting for justice.
June 16, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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With today's announcement of the end of ABC's #QandA let's all raise our glasses to one of the show's finest moments

Conservative politician Sophie Mirabella's concern for her fellow guest who fainted right next to her live on the show back in 2012

Ten months later she lost Indi to Cathy McGowan
June 11, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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The #SundayShot is up for your catch-up viewing! Why let #Insiders send your blood pressure soaring? Listen instead to the wise words of @mariecolemanao.bsky.social & insights from @roycerk2.bsky.social & a rundown on Tasmanian politics from @kevinbonham.bsky.social.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqg2...
It's a Miserable World - June 15 - Marie Coleman and Royce Kurmelovs
YouTube video by The Sunday Shot
www.youtube.com
June 15, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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Journalists are woefully detached from the subjective narratives they spin, especially evident when they are drumming up war with China. My latest article:

'Pulp Fiction: The fantastical nature of Australian journalism'
#auspol @abcnewsnetau.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/joeljenk...
Pulp Fiction: The fantastical nature of Australian journalism
Journalists are woefully detached from the subjective narratives they spin, especially evident when they are drumming up war with China.
open.substack.com
June 9, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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Australia must continue to embrace the international research community. Our connections to Europe run deep and it’s time to safeguard our research future.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Australian universities urge Albanese to join NZ in $170bn Europe fund amid Trump attacks on education
Horizon Europe counts the UK and Canada among its partners, but industry insiders say Australia is concerned about the cost
www.theguardian.com
June 7, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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“I would not have won preselection under the current faction system,” writes Barry Jones. “The system is too badly rigged, too beholden, too distorted by cronyism.” https://trib.al/yr7Wnk3
trib.al
June 7, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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The #Woodside gas project is not 'done & dusted'. It will be defeated in the Courts as it is of no benefit whatsoever to the people of Australia.
‘Done and dusted’: Inside #Labor’s North West Shelf gas approval www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/environ... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au
‘Done and dusted’: Inside Labor’s North West Shelf gas approval
After almost eight years of delays, Murray Watt raced to make the extension of Woodside’s largest fossil fuel project his first act as environment minister.
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
June 7, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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"The easy binary of deniers vs believers died last decade. The climate movement is ill-equipped to deal with a threat that looks like this."
Forget climate denial, Labor's tactical fatalism will burn us all
The climate movement is ill-equipped to deal with a threat that looks like this. Any fantasy we had of a global moral pact of good intentions is dead.
www.crikey.com.au
June 7, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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Current membership of the Council for the Order of Australia who make these completely fucked-up decisions includes the people named on the right.

Give 'em Hell. #auspol #ThisIsUnacceptable
June 6, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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When warnings of Insectageddon were issued a few years ago, there was widespread denial. Less so now. It's devastating. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Half the tree of life’: ecologists’ horror as nature reserves are emptied of insects
A new point in history has been reached, entomologists say, as climate-led species’ collapse moves up the food chain even in supposedly protected regions free of pesticides
www.theguardian.com
June 3, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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Love a sports stadium - but surely we should be ensuring that every citizen's basic needs are met before spending $1b - like housing, access to health and education, healthy environment - and justice for victims of The Ashley Youth Detention Centre. Surely?? #auspol
June 4, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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And @albomp.bsky.social and the Minister 'for' the Environment, Senator Watt, just approved a climate and culture destroying bomb.

Well-played Labor, well-played Labor voters...
‘It was our hope spot’: scientists heartbroken as pristine coral gardens hit by Western Australia’s worst bleaching event
Usually alive with colour and fish, Ningaloo reef and the Rowley Shoals now look as though they are ‘painted white’ as temperatures rise
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘It was our hope spot’: scientists heartbroken as pristine coral gardens hit by Western Australia’s worst bleaching event
Usually alive with colour and fish, Ningaloo reef and the Rowley Showls now look as though they are ‘painted white’ as temperatures rise
www.theguardian.com
June 7, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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Last time I drew Sussssan Ley, she was Environment Minister - fighting in court to prove she had no duty of care to protect young people from climate collapse, then flying around the world to stop the Great Barrier Reef being listed “in danger.” Now she’s Opposition Leader 💀
May 14, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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"We are in the throes of the worst animal disease outbreak that our country, and perhaps the world, has ever seen."
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...
'Unprecedented and alarming': Bird flu has morphed to wipe out seals
Australia is surrounded by the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu. And it is morphing as sea animals and birds bring it ever closer to these shores.
www.abc.net.au
May 17, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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It’s really bad in western Vic. Almost no autumn rain
THE DROUGHT IN VICTORIA

The farms are beyond struggling.

I'm hearing from family, they've been trucking in water since December. They're on their last bit of feed. They'll have to sell their livestock by next month.

#AusPol
May 12, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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A gas exploration drilling rig has appeared within sight of one of Australia’s most loved natural wonders, the 12 Apostles.

We don’t need to turn our iconic natural wonders into gas fields. We need to prioritise Australians over exports.

@emmashortis.bsky.social went to take a look ⤵️
There's a huge new gas rig looming over our 12 Apostles
YouTube video by The Australia Institute
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May 12, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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“policy bravery and courage” - Speers, who appears to still be talking about Dutton lmao plz. McGrath also leans into grievance narratives. He asserts that the extremist religiosity of the 2025 liberal party is centre right, a lie. #BinNight
May 3, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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It's very funny James McGrath having a sook on the ABC panel about teals having well-funded campaigns against the Libs given his own party is rather cashed-up itself

The scaremongering about Climate 200 is rather hypocritical when you can count the likes of Gina Rinehart in your corner
May 3, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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Everyone: Wow, Labor!
James McGrath:
#ausvotes2025
two knights are standing in the woods and one of them is saying i 've had worse .
ALT: two knights are standing in the woods and one of them is saying i 've had worse .
media.tenor.com
May 3, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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The Liberal's representative on the ABC panel, James McGrath hysterically telling everyone that we need to wait until the pre-polls come in and Peter Dutton will still be the Opp Leader, might now to choke on a very large serve of humble pie
May 3, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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More Laura Tingle, less Karevalas and Crabb #auspol #ausvotes #BinNight
May 3, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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I think a lot of Liberals will be working from home
May 3, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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ABC cleverly giving their best journalist a seat on the outer so her useful commentary doesn’t interrupt the vibe
May 3, 2025 at 10:01 AM