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December 18, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Just a reminder that if you’re an APS worker, all of your agreements allow you to take paid leave to donate blood - now would be a good time if you are able to :)
Check your individual EBAs for the exact wording
www.apsc.gov.au/apsbargainin...
December 15, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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Did you know those over 55 can sell their house, buy a bigger, more expensive house, and use the ‘downsizer’ scheme to put $300k extra into their super

its called the ‘downsizer scheme’ but…you don’t have to actually downsize…FFS

Not sure that passes ‘the pub test’

thepoint.com.au/news/251213
The rich get tax advice; the poor get lectures: super tax saga lays bare a skewed system
A new report on the amount of revenue expected to be raised by the changes to superannuation tax on balances over $3m highlights yet again how the tax system is weighted in favour of the rich and that...
thepoint.com.au
December 12, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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Man this @fieseler.bsky.social long-read for @canarymedia.com is fantastic, and long both due to its length and the fact you will need to walk away from your device, scream into the sky for 5 minutes and return to continue reading

So much to break down here.....
The man behind the fall of offshore wind
David Stevenson has solar on his roof and drives a hybrid. How did he become the leader of the movement that helped Trump crush offshore wind farms?
www.canarymedia.com
December 12, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Interesting long BBC interview with Communications Minister Anika Wells, putting her side of the socials ban argument. Not something can recall her doing here, a long-form interview. I wonder why. Albanese's office wouldn't permit?

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...
BBC World Service - The Interview, Anika Wells, Communications Minister: Australia’s social media ban
Katy Watson speaks to Anika Wells, Australian Communication Minister about social media
www.bbc.co.uk
December 4, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
December 2, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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Sound advice from @robertarnol.bsky.social 👇 #auspol
Forget what you know about bushwalking and survival. The Tasmanian bush is different from anywhere else.
Never go alone, carry an EPIRB, notify authorities where you’re going and for how long and do not deviate!
Better still, pay for a guide, survival is measured in minutes here at times.
November 26, 2025 at 4:10 AM
She should wear it more often, it really suits her
Pauline Hanson has been suspended from the Senate for seven days. This comes after Hanson wore a burqa in the Senate yesterday, repeating a widely condemned stunt.
November 25, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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November 25, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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116 legal and policy experts have now opposed Labor’s new powers for police to recommend cutting payments from people without them even having been convicted of a crime.

Cops shouldn’t be anywhere near welfare law and Labor should withdraw this amendment. www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/treat...
November 24, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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Gambling ruins lives. It is absolutely unacceptable that the Albanese government will continue to choose vested interests over the wellbeing of Australians and hide behind a watered-down policy - if they ever introduce one. We need action on gambling harms now.
Labor tipped to drop proposal for online gambling ad ban
Political and industry sources expect Communications Minister Anika Wells to crack-down on illegal offshore gambling websites.
www.afr.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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Gail Karran recorded the savage beating that killed her. Shocking new evidence reveals how police failed her www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Gail Karran recorded the savage beating that killed her. Shocking new evidence reveals how police failed her
Exclusive: A secret audio device recorded Bill Karran raping, hitting and choking his wife of 30 years – immediately after he was released, drunk, from a Queensland watch house
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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The UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Right to a Clean, Healthy & Sustainable Environment has made a surprise intervention in the legal challenges against the decision by Environment Minister Murray Watt to extend the life of Woodside’s NW Shelf LNG project.
www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/un-ra...
www.theaustralian.com.au
November 15, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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HECS cuts have offered temporary relief for students with existing debts, but they offer nothing to students starting arts degrees next year, who face debts of close to $55 000

The govt must reverse the destructive HECS increases of the Morrison years, and make tertiary education affordable again.
'That's a house deposit': The cost dilemma facing university students
As hundreds of thousands of high school seniors consider university, they are being warned that enrolling in humanities degrees will leave them with a debt close to $55,000.
www.abc.net.au
November 14, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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National Socialist Network rallied with police permission at NSW Parliament. The state remains ineffective in responding to the advancement of neo-Nazi groups. Here are their faces sent to us by community members - help us ID them!

write.as/thewhiterose...
Do you know these nazis?
Today, Saturday November 8 2025, NSW National Socialist Network (NSN) members held an antisemitic rally outside NSW Parliament House un...
write.as
November 8, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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An appreciation thread for the many glorious 80s sweaters in the 1986 film "About Last Night" starring Rob Lowe, Demi Moore, Elizabeth Perkins and Jim Belushi. 🧵

Kicking off the cozy with Demi's long layered-look fair isle V-neck, in soft shades of gray.
November 7, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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For those who will bear witness. For everyone who pretends there was benevolence from 'employers' & governments, and no slavery in Australia; who believes Tony Abbott's version of history. Debra Dank writes with beauty and anger of the truth we cannot dodge.
theconversation.com/friday-essay...
Friday essay: Debra Dank’s grandmother was a ‘drover’s boy’. Her stolen wages can’t be recovered
Stella Prize shortlisted author Debra Dank reflects on how her family’s lives were scarred by stolen wages and colonial violence – and on the complexities of apologies.
theconversation.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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Spotted deep in rural Queensland: a fairy-wren painted on bark so seamlessly it feels alive. Street art meets bush poetry—nature’s canvas, artist unknown.
#Photography Hans-Joachim Rosehr #Australia

#StreetArtAustralia #FairyWren #QLDmagic #FoundInTheWild #ArtInNature #ArtPainting
November 1, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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Meditation on impermanence and death is a powerful way to control the delusions.

-Lama Zopa Rinpoche

#happyhalloween #dayofthedead
October 31, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Solid headline for late-stage everything
BREAKING | Truck hauling monkeys carrying hepatitis C, herpes and Covid overturns in Mississippi
Truck hauling monkeys carrying hepatitis C, herpes and Covid overturns in Mississippi
www.independent.co.uk
October 28, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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Worthless, chickenshit ANONYMOUS statement from the do-nothing Albanese Government who have done nothing to address these crises OR rebuild trust in the welfare system, have no plans for reform, & watch on uselessly as the collapsing welfare administration blows holes in legislation and the budget.
October 25, 2025 at 1:02 AM