@oceanpoolswim.bsky.social
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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...
Check your individual EBAs for the exact wording
www.apsc.gov.au/apsbargainin...
December 15, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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...
Check your individual EBAs for the exact wording
www.apsc.gov.au/apsbargainin...
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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
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
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
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
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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.....
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
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.....
So much to break down here.....
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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...
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
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...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...
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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
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.
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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.
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
Sound advice from @robertarnol.bsky.social 👇 #auspol
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
She should wear it more often, it really suits her
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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...
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
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...
Cops shouldn’t be anywhere near welfare law and Labor should withdraw this amendment. www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/treat...
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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
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.
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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.
![Excerpt from a BBC article: ""We usually work, 10, 11 or 12 hours a day," says a 49-year-old woman from Jiangxi unwilling to give her name. "On Sundays we work around three hours less."
She is in an alleyway, where a dozen people are huddled around a row of bulletin boards.
They are reading the job ads on the board, while examining the stitching on a pair of chinos draped over it.
This is Shein's supply chain. The factories are contracted to make clothes on order - some small, some big. If the chinos are a hit, orders will ramp up and so must production. Factories then hire temporary workers to meet the demand their permanent staff cannot fulfil.
The migrant worker from Jiangxi is looking for a short-term contract - and the chinos are an option.
"We earn so little. The cost of living is now so high," she says, adding that she hopes to make enough to send back to her two children who are living with their grandparents.
"We get paid per piece," she explains. "It depends how difficult the item is. Something simple like a t-shirt is one-two yuan [less than a dollar] per piece and I can make around a dozen in an hour.""](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreiber7g4o5pujmzmjjzsp5dkz7blfexburuwjispfpv6dki7akjb7a@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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.
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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
Gail Karran recorded the savage beating that killed her. Shocking new evidence reveals how police failed her www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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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/nation/un-ra...
www.theaustralian.com.au
November 15, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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/nation/un-ra...
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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.
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
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.
The govt must reverse the destructive HECS increases of the Morrison years, and make tertiary education affordable again.
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This is a great read:
The 'grotesque policy cock-up' stopping downsizers freeing up their homes: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-09/older-country-australians-dont-have-anywhere-to-downsize-to/105959030
The 'grotesque policy cock-up' stopping downsizers freeing up their homes
In regional Australia, where baby boomers are being told to downsize to free up homes, country communities are having to become developers to build appropriate-sized housing.
www.abc.net.au
November 8, 2025 at 7:26 PM
This is a great read:
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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...
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
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...
write.as/thewhiterose...
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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.
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
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.
Kicking off the cozy with Demi's long layered-look fair isle V-neck, in soft shades of gray.
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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...
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
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...
theconversation.com/friday-essay...
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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
#Photography Hans-Joachim Rosehr #Australia
#StreetArtAustralia #FairyWren #QLDmagic #FoundInTheWild #ArtInNature #ArtPainting
November 1, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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
#Photography Hans-Joachim Rosehr #Australia
#StreetArtAustralia #FairyWren #QLDmagic #FoundInTheWild #ArtInNature #ArtPainting
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Meditation on impermanence and death is a powerful way to control the delusions.
-Lama Zopa Rinpoche
#happyhalloween #dayofthedead
-Lama Zopa Rinpoche
#happyhalloween #dayofthedead
October 31, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Meditation on impermanence and death is a powerful way to control the delusions.
-Lama Zopa Rinpoche
#happyhalloween #dayofthedead
-Lama Zopa Rinpoche
#happyhalloween #dayofthedead
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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
Solid headline for late-stage everything
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When it comes to fire hazard reduction, could this method actually be the GOAT?
When it comes to fire hazard reduction, could this method actually be the GOAT?
Goats are low-maintenance weed clearers, meadow mowers and bush bashers – and they might just be the secret weapon to future bushfire season preparedness
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Craig Homan’s herd of hungry goats has a busy schedule.
A wet winter and an early spell of warmth have turbocharged vegetation growth in Sydney, creating a pipeline of work for the creatures whose skills as unstoppable eating machines make them consummate low-maintenance weed clearers, meadow mowers and bush bashers. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 24, 2025 at 11:03 PM
When it comes to fire hazard reduction, could this method actually be the GOAT?
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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
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.