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Gekko @gekko.bsky.social · 51m

GENOCIDE - a level even above war crimes - will demand justice

Not just by the perpetuators, but by all who aided and colluded

Including countries that have not imposed sanctions on Israel and stopped all military assistance

And how damming that Australian Labor is trying to bury it's complicity

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Michael Taylor @ausindimedia.bsky.social · 51m

The explosion of independent media sites isn’t merely an echo of dissenting voices – it’s a response to the MSM’s failure to provide objective, impartial reporting.

theaimn.net/the-people-v...

The People versus Murdoch: the rise of independent media

Over a decade ago, I wrote about a subject that remains as relevant today as ever. For nearly twenty years, I’ve been hammering away at the keyboard – a space where I could speak freely, [...]

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Dr Richard Denniss @richarddenniss.bsky.social · 49m

I don’t know about you, but I’m a bit scared of any new ‘environment laws’ that Labor can get Matt Canavan and Andrew Hastie to vote for…I think they will be better described as ‘ how to build more mines faster laws’ www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Watt nears deal with Coalition to finally overhaul environment laws

Environment Minister Murray Watt will sit down with his Liberal counterpart Angie Bell today, with quiet optimism in both parties that a deal might soon be struck to finally rewrite Australia's "broke...

www.abc.net.au

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Marns🌿🍉 @marnshibski.bsky.social · 47m

Generational change will hopefully fix that if not slowly.
And there’s always the old chestnut of Would you prefer the COALition who are pretty much a non entity save the legacy media who insist on giving them life support.

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Marns🌿🍉 @marnshibski.bsky.social · 52m

Papers published before internet not included in reading material. Luckily she has them but when referenced not recognised? Something like that.

Marns🌿🍉 @marnshibski.bsky.social · 1h

Even the rusted ons must be beginning to question Labor’s motives by now.

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Marns🌿🍉 @marnshibski.bsky.social · 1h

Nick Feik on how Labor climate policies are better than nothing while still about as useful and how the media has allowed a political narrative to overshadow the reality of the climate crisis.

#auspol
podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/7...

How Albanese killed the climate wars

Podcast Episode · 7am · 08/10/2025 · 15m

podcasts.apple.com

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Marns🌿🍉 @marnshibski.bsky.social · 1h

Studying. Clinical nutrition. Course material clearly written using AI and not checked while also having to write in such a way to make it clear not using AI.🤷‍♀️

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Marns🌿🍉 @marnshibski.bsky.social · 1h

Seems there are way too many compromised and unethical folks in highly paid positions.
She needs reminding that human rights means all humans.
#auspol

stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 1d

Human Rights Commissioner Lorraine Finlay says she was happy to listen to Nova Peris speak on racism at the recent Gold Coast Antisemitism Summit, despite that Peris shared a social media post describing Muslims as “Satan worshipping cockroaches that need to be eradicated” #Estimates

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Marns🌿🍉 @marnshibski.bsky.social · 2h

Will send this to my sister. This is the bane of her existence atm.

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Robb Edwards 🌱 @robedwards1.bsky.social · 2h

Women and kids often pay a heavy price when men drink. Our gender violence plan should reflect this

theconversation.com/women-and-ki...

Women and kids often pay a heavy price when men drink. Our gender violence plan should reflect this

We can’t prevent violence against women and children without tackling men’s heavy alcohol use.

theconversation.com

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Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · 2h

Each day the upper management of different unis seemingly find new ways to disappoint those of us working at universities. I love what I do, it breaks my heart what's been allowed to happen to unis in recent decades. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10... Robodebt for university academic integrity? WT!

University caught out using AI to wrongly accuse students of cheating with AI

An Australian university has accused thousands of its students of cheating with artificial intelligence. The problem? Many have done nothing wrong.

www.abc.net.au

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Nobody Deserves Poverty @nobodyinpoverty.bsky.social · 2h

New from @artistaffame.bsky.social
"Robodebt and now the targeted compliance framework didn't happen in a vacuum it was allowed to happen because so many people have been taught to hate the unemployed or those on welfare."

ko-fi.com/post/Punch-u...

Punch up

Artistaffame published a post on Ko-fi

ko-fi.com

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Marns🌿🍉 @marnshibski.bsky.social · 2h

At the very least tax payers should be jacking up about how revenue is used inefficiently. It’s a given mining companies will do the bare minimum to comply if at all. Fines are factored into the business model yet beg poor 🤬

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Andrew @boatie.bsky.social · 2h

In bed with the enemy. The Minerals Council have purchased our major parties, now they’re just putting them to work. #AusPol

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 2h

Sometimes, it's easy to think that there is no hope for us - and that we don't deserve to prevail

But - even on an inevitably hotter and chaotic planet, with society and economy crumbling - we can not and must not stop fighting for something better

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Illegal gold mining clears 140,000 hectares of Peruvian Amazon

Armed criminal groups tear down precious rainforest to capitalise on record gold prices, report finds

www.theguardian.com

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WA Orchids @wa-orchids.bsky.social · 8h

When art and nature merge 🪵🪚🍃🥀

A few of the numerous sculptures on display at the Chainsaw Sculpture Drive in Albany on the south coast of Western Australia.

It’s amazing to think these sculptures were all created from wood using a chainsaw!
#sculpture #wood #birds #octopus #WesternAustralia

Sculpture of a kookaburra and tawny frogmouth

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Margaret Bell 🔔 @margbell.bsky.social · 1d

Doug Cameron speaks to this very well -

'Militarism gone mad' — Labor firebrand hits out at party’s support of AUKUS - ABC listen share.google/li5KlJ9fac20...

'Militarism gone mad' — Labor firebrand hits out at party’s support of AUKUS - ABC listen

The world feels more dangerous and unpredictable, but with Australia wedged between our traditional ally, America, and our biggest trading partner, China, does our most expensive ever defence project ...

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Marns🌿🍉 @marnshibski.bsky.social · 2h

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Marns🌿🍉 @marnshibski.bsky.social · 2h

JFC.
A way to ensure the continued doing of nothing.
#auspol useless and shameful.

Denise Shrivell @deniseshrivell.bsky.social · 3h

Why is he dealing with the Libs? He doesn’t have to #auspol

ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 3h

Environment Minister Murray Watt will sit down with his Liberal counterpart Angie Bell today, with quiet optimism in both parties that a deal might soon be struck to finally rewrite Australia's "broken" and outdated environment laws.

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Cormac (Bee guy) @jagungal.bsky.social · 2h

Fascinating adaptation to Cuckoo nest parasitism by Fairy Wrens - singing a 'password' to their eggs!

Maja Mielke @maja-mielke.bsky.social · 5h

New Beaks & Bones newsletter published! 🥳

Why do fairywrens sing to their eggs? 🪶🧪
beaksandbones.substack.com/p/singing-to...

Why fairywrens sing to their eggs

Superb fairywren moms teach their unhatched babies a vocal password to distinguish them from cuckoo intruders.

beaksandbones.substack.com

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Resisting Fascism @allmyownphotos.bsky.social · 5h

#Gaza
#GazaGenocide

Thanks to @theguardian.com for this extremely valuable article.

Bookmarked.

Have only just begun to study it.

Incredibly sad yet dignified presentations.

One example, in a screenshot.

(No words can adequately convey the full sense of grief — and outrage — in such a story.)

theguardian.com - Private

هند رامي اياد رجب
Hind Rami Iyad Rajab
5 years old

Israeli gunfire

29 January 2024

"I'm so scared, please come," were some of the last words Hind said in a telephone call to rescuers after her family's car came under fire in Gaza City as they attempted to flee approaching Israeli forces. Hind's uncle, aunt and three cousins were killed initially. Hind and another cousin, 15-year-old Layan, survived and contacted the Palestine Red Crescent Society. Layan was later also killed, having made a harrowing call for help herself. "They are shooting at us. The tank is right next to me. We're in the car, the tank is right next to us," Layan screamed in a clip shared on social media, amid intense gunfire in the background, before she went quiet and the gunfire stopped. Hind was left stranded in the vehicle for hours on the phone, surrounded by her dead relatives, as paramedics attempted to rescue her. The rescue team eventually arrived in the area, but contact was lost with them and Hind. Hind and the paramedics were later also found killed. A Forensic Architecture investigation concluded that an Israeli tank had likely fired 335 rounds on the car.

Read more.

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Marns🌿🍉 @marnshibski.bsky.social · 2h

Disaster season.
‘ cogent comment requires one to consider real evidence and to think in terms of geological rather than human time’

It’s not like we weren’t warned.
#jointhedots
#auspol

Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 2h

The term "disaster season" is a shorthand. There’s nothing wrong with that, but it would be unfortunate if shorthand led people to think that weather-related disasters can occur only in a brief period in a location. #auspol #climatechange

‘Disaster season’: What is that?

Anika Wells, in announcing a meeting with three telco giants to discuss Optus’s Triple Zero emergency call system catastrophe in September, referred to the need for Australians to have confidence in the system before the coming disaster season. By that she meant summer. Is there really such a season?

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🅢🅗🅔🅔🅝🅐 @sheena-mck.bsky.social · 6h

This made me laugh more than it probably should 😂
#funny

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 3h

You can lock up as many people as you want for chanting or protesting against genocide.

You will never scrub away the truth about that genocide - or your own complicity in it.

You are just ensuring that you will be damned all the more for what you have done.

Government could crack down on pro-Palestinian protest chants, PM says

The government needs to

www.bbc.co.uk

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