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Dr Ingrid M @ingridm.bsky.social · 5h

like fucking clockwork.

Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 6h

BREAKING: Israeli war planes continue to launch raids on Gaza City as Palestinians celebrate the ceasefire announcement, according to an Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent on the ground.

🔴 LIVE update: aje.io/xqppys

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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 4h

It's a fucking story about journalists cancelling a journalist who wants to inform the public (and other journalists) about the worst mass killing of journalists in history.
Not a media story, though. Rightio.

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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 5h

Still nothing. Hilarious.
Imagine being a media reporter who can't/won't report on this.

Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 1d

BTW this National Press Club story hasn't been reported in any major news outlet yet. Indies like Lamestream, We Used to Be Journos, Pearls and Irritations etc all over it.

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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 4h

Allowing unrestricted gas exports from the east coast of Australia has resulted in domestic wholesale gas prices more than tripling and electricity prices doubling, our research found.

Read:

Gas exports have tripled Australian gas prices and doubled electricity prices

New Australia Institute research reveals that gas exports have led to the tripling of wholesale east coast gas prices and doubling of electricity prices, since exports began in 2015.

australiainstitute.org.au

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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 4h

Ed Husic, Labor MP, made some great points on Afternoon Briefing yesterday.

"The reason why prices are so high is because we export a phenomenal amount of gas."

We can remedy supply constraints without opening new gas projects by diverting uncontracted gas to the domestic market.

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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 3h

Gas exports have meant Australian households and businesses have paid billions of dollars more for energy over the last decade.

For more info ⤵️
australiainstitute.org.au/post/gas-exp...

Gas exports have tripled Australian gas prices and doubled electricity prices

New Australia Institute research reveals that gas exports have led to the tripling of wholesale east coast gas prices and doubling of electricity prices, since exports began in 2015.

australiainstitute.org.au

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Stefano Bornia @stefanobornia.bsky.social · 3h

#DefinisciBambino

Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 4h

Published yesterday by Mazen Breem:

"Children of Gaza #غزة #غزة_الآن #أنقذوا_غزة #فلسطين_حرة #الحرية_لفلسطين #أطفال_غزة #صوت_غزة
#Gaza #PrayForGaza #SaveGaza #FreePalestine #GazaUnderAttack #StandWithGaza #StopTheGenocide #VoiceOfGaza "

www.threads.com/@mazen_breem...
#GazaStrip #Israel #Palestine

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The Saturday Paper @thesaturdaypaper.com.au · 3h

Exclusive: Anthony Albanese himself led resistance to giving the NACC stronger public-hearing powers. Jason Koutsoukis on how the body that was meant to build trust in politics risks being undone by political caution. satpa.pe/BNKhOZN

Exclusive: Anthony Albanese overruled push for public NACC hearings

The Saturday Paper can reveal that the prime minister and other ministers from NSW intervened in cabinet to constrain the operations of the country’s leading integrity body.

satpa.pe

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Australian Unions @australianunions.bsky.social · 1h

Super is workers retirement savings, not employers money. This is why we are calling on parliament to pass pay day super reforms. Pay day super will make it easier to spot when money is missing and workers will get more benefits from compound interest.

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philipredwards.bsky.social @philipredwards.bsky.social · 18h

Everything about China is negative. As if there are no negatives in the west.
Face facts. The West is declining, China and the East are rising (the BRICS). Better hop off the boat you are on that us sinking and get on board the boat of the future.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 22h

China’s internet censors are moving to stamp out more than just political dissent. Now, they are targeting the public mood itself — punishing bloggers and influencers whose weary posts are resonating widely in a country where optimism is fraying.

Cheer Up, or Else: China Cracks Down on the Haters and Cynics

As China struggles with economic discontent, internet censors are silencing those who voice doubts about work, marriage, or simply sigh too loudly online.

nyti.ms

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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 1d

Home Affairs Sec Stephanie Foster exposed as overly determined Not to Answer & take things ‘on notice’

Shoebridge “You’re taking on notice your failure to answer on notice, Q’s I asked u on notice, about Q’s that u responded on notice, to answers u haven’t given on notice”🤯ffs #Estimates

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John Holmes @jhaue.bsky.social · 21h

Labor backbencher calls for action to stop countries onselling Australian gas www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Labor backbencher says foreign nations should 'use or lose' Australian gas

Ed Husic calls for stronger action to prevent foreign countries that buy Australian gas from onselling it to other countries.

www.abc.net.au

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Juzabel @juzabel.bsky.social · 22h

These two legends having a yarn about some fucked up shit is worth a watch.

David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 1d

I interviewed Grace Tame about autism, fascism, Israel, Australia and empire. "We're not really a democracy"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTtE...

“We’re not really a democracy” - Grace Tame on autism, fascism, Israel, Trump and empire

YouTube video by The Sunday Shot

www.youtube.com

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Kate-Eviva @kate-eviva.bsky.social · 2d

Excellent article!! 🙏👏👏 @theshot.net.au
theshot.net.au/uncategorize...

The myth of 'social cohesion' - do as they say, not as they do - The Shot

There’s an established principle in law: he who comes looking for equity must come with clean hands. The clean hands...

theshot.net.au

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ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 21h

Ed Husic calls for stronger action to prevent foreign countries that buy Australian gas from onselling it to other countries.

Labor backbencher says foreign nations should 'use or lose' Australian gas

Ed Husic calls for stronger action to prevent foreign countries that buy Australian gas from onselling it to other countries.

www.abc.net.au

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 23h

Not one government has told Israel to stop kidnapping their citizens in international waters and let them bring baby formula to starving babies. What a shameful time to be alive

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Israel intercepts another Gaza aid flotilla amid criticism over treatment of activists

Israeli foreign ministry confirms interception and says those on board will be deported A new Gaza-bound aid flotilla has been intercepted by the Israeli army, days after the detention of activists on board vessels bound for the war-torn territory caused international outrage and widespread protests. The Israeli military was jamming signals with at least two boats being boarded, the Freedom Flotilla Coalition said on Instagram. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Sarah Kay (she/her) @k-interarma.bsky.social · 22h

The Guardian has published the names of the 18,457 children killed in Gaza. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

www.theguardian.com

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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 23h

🔥Barbara Pocock slices up Richard Windeyer from Dept of Finance for allowing PwC back into govt contracts
RW “We were making a judgement about when we think the organisation is sufficiently changed & different”🤔
BP “How can u make that judgment over the top of the police?”💥 #Estimates

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 23h

Israel attacks and intercepts another convoy of Gaza-bound boats, according to the Freedom Flotilla Coalition.

No letup in Israeli attacks on Gaza as ceasefire talks enter third day

Israel attacks and intercepts another convoy of Gaza-bound boats, according to the Freedom Flotilla Coalition.

bit.ly

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Maranoa Girl @maranoagirl.bsky.social · 21h

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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 1d

After asking Dept of Climate Change & Energy on cost of the 2035 target, Sarah Henderson doesn’t want to hear the answer & desperately tries to stop Kath Rowley from embarrassing her on the cost of ‘not’ having a target
Kath Rowley “If I could just finish my answer?”🙄 #Estimates

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Maranoa Girl @maranoagirl.bsky.social · 21h

www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/05/e...

Every Day Aspects of Another Genocide

Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread. – Bertolt Brecht

www.counterpunch.org

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 21h

This is such a brilliant article.

Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 1d

“We don’t have to approach and criticize this album as art, because it isn’t art. The Life of a Showgirl is made of Shein quality rip-offs of other people’s songs that are constructed shoddily and sold in ginormous quantities. Art takes time and care. This is profit. It’s content.”

WHEW.

No Good Art Comes From Greed | Defector

The packages arrived square and thin and carefully wrapped on Saturday afternoon. There were three of them, but only one was mine. If I could have rejected my package, sent it back from whence it came...

defector.com

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philipredwards.bsky.social @philipredwards.bsky.social · 18h

So your wonderful exceptionalism didn’t cause you to pick up on a fascist fraud like Trump? He can just spend like a drunken sailor and there’s no mechanism to stop him? Maybe there is but it’s in the hands of sycophants? That not good Eh?

CNN @cnn.com · 21h

"Donald Trump seems to view federal funds like a personal presidential piggy bank," writes Stephen Collinson | Analysis

Read more: https://cnn.it/48PJqNh

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Crikey @crikey.com.au · 21h

What’s in the incoming brief from the climate change department that's so sensitive that the Albanese government is bucking the Senate to keep it secret?

The Albanese government is tying itself in knots to keep this document secret

www.crikey.com.au

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