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Peter Wright
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PhD candidate, ANU Fenner School. Biodiversity governance and strategy, incremental transformation, intergenerational institutions.
| Recovering cynic | Walking addict | Music fanatic | Nature bather |
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mon4kooyong.bsky.social
The richest 10% of Australian households get more money from the capital gains tax discount than the government spends on Jobseeker, the childcare subsidy, government schools or higher education - nearly $4.5bn more than it would cost to include dental in Medicare.
Treasury figures reveal $18 billion capital gains windfall for Australia’s richest 10 per cent
The latest tax expenditure figures released on Friday by the Treasury department show this financial year the richest 10 percent of Australians will receive $18bn worth of tax breaks from the capital ...
thepoint.com.au
December 28, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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sdbernard.bsky.social
NEW: Deforestation in Indonesia is underway at a rapid pace, with the help of the military, to make way for rice and sugarcane.

Huge thanks to @mightyearth.org for their help with the data.

Read Anantha Lakshmi's excellent report
www.ft.com/content/27a6...
#dataviz #gistribe
December 21, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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purepapua.bsky.social
World’s largest deforestation program. Military occupation. Indigenous land. One crime scene: West Papua.

#WestPapua #ecocide #deforestation #palmoil #sugarcane #GreenColonialism #RainforestDestruction
Indonesia is running the world’s largest deforestation program in occupied West Papua
In Indonesian-occupied West Papua, soldiers are enforcing the destruction of vast areas of rainforest to be replaced by the monoculture plantations of the government’s “food estate” program, reports C...
www.greenleft.org.au
December 22, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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benpatrickwill.bsky.social
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵

Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
December 19, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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ourworldindata.org
Does the news reflect what we die from?
The image presents a comparison of the leading causes of death in the United States for 2023 and the media coverage these causes receive from three news outlets: The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Fox News. In the footer, it notes the data sources, indicating that the information is based on media mentions from Media Cloud (2025) and death data from the US CDC (2025) and the Global Terrorism Index, with a clarification that values are normalized to sum to 100%.
October 7, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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satojuniper.bsky.social
There seems to be increasingly frenzied coercive activity to silence legitimate comment and questioning.
Maybe because that's all that's left to people who have lost all credibility in their denial & justification of the depraved behaviour of a cruel & vindictive rogue state.

Truth will win
#Auspol
Portrait of Voltaire (maybe) with inscription: "If you want to know who controls you, look at who [sic] you are not allowed to criticize"
September 19, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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petergarrett.com.au
Today at Jabiluka with Traditional Owner Yvonne Margarula & family, on their first “legal” return to country in 40+ years. Soon this land will join Kakadu NP after one of the most important land rights & conservation struggles in modern Australia. A really important day.
September 17, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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tanjay81.bsky.social
"...the number of FoI documents granted in full had fallen by more than half in just over a decade, from 59% in 2011-12 to 25% in 2023-24...the rate of outright refusals nearly doubled, from 12% to 23% during the same period." So much for transparency #auspol #FOI
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Albanese government worse than Morrison era at producing documents for public scrutiny, report finds
Labor’s first term saw second-worst performance since 1993 in complying with Senate orders for documents, data shows
www.theguardian.com
July 24, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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australiainstitute.org.au
"Australia is the 3rd biggest fossil fuel exporter in the world.

"Norway, which is also a big fossil fuel exporter, they tax their fossil fuel industry and give their kids free university education.

"In Aus, we subsidise the fossil fuel industry."

@richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol
June 11, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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climatedad.bsky.social
At 4C scientists predict 90% of the world’s population could die.

We’re on track to hit 4C within our childrens’ lifetimes.

7,000,000,000+ avoidable deaths.

Waiting for a journalist to ask a politician about this.
June 8, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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purepapua.bsky.social
Killings and torture are rising in #WestPapua, experts say. They have a message for Albanese #AusPol

www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
As Albanese jets to Jakarta, there are calls for him to confront an 'oppressor'
Human Rights Monitor says at least 13 people have been killed in West Papua in the past six months as tensions between Indigenous people and Indonesian troops increase.
www.sbs.com.au
May 14, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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minniesmum.bsky.social
I feel like this book adequately describes Dutts, Clive and his Trumpets and Sky News viewers.
A send up of children’s ’ladybird’ books… a young guy with red hair parted on the side and wearing an orange jumper is leaning into the engine of a car with bonnet open and pointing at the engine. There’s text saying : ‘This engine is woke’. The title of the book is ‘Everything I don’t like is Woke — a book for basic dickheads.’
April 28, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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lie-collector.bsky.social
IT'S HERE!
Liberal Lies Collector Card #6:
"Renewables are driving up power bills"

The Truth?
Electricity is expensive because of surging fossil fuel prices.

🔄 Repost to share the truth
💾 Save now to quickly share
👇 See thread for extra details
➕ Follow for more!

#auspol #factcheck #AusVotes2025
An imitation collector card, with the brand "Australian Liberal Party Lies". This is #6. The tagline is "Collect them all ... so you don't elect them all!" The Lie section says: “Renewables are driving up power bills”. The Facts section says: “Coal and gas prices have DOUBLED, which pushed up wholesale and then retail electricity prices”. A series of small bar charts illustrate changes in relevant data between 2020/21 and 2022/23/24, showing coal prices increasing 135%, gas prices 112%, wholesale electricity prices 104%, and the percentage of renewables having increased 30%. Retail prices are shown in a larger chart to have increased 24% from 2020/21/22 to 2023/24. An arrow links wholesale prices to retail prices with the label “Lag”. Footnotes refer to the sources of the data as AER, ABS, Open Electricity, YCharts and OFX. The graphic is licensed as Creative Commons, Non-Commercial, No Derivatives.
March 9, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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kentparkskeet.bsky.social
White's assessment is blunt: "The sooner we cut our losses and get out of AUKUS the better, and if the Trump administration's scepticism offers a chance to do so, we should grab it."

#CancelAUKUS

#AusPol
Australia's perceived value to the US changes under Trump
Experts say Australia matters less to Trump than it did to Biden which has consequences for vital intelligence-sharing alliance Five Eyes as well as the AUKUS deal.
www.abc.net.au
February 25, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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australiainstitute.org.au
Did you know Woodside’s North West Shelf gas export terminal has caused WA wholesale gas and electricity prices to triple?

That’s because in 2020 the WA Government let Woodside start exporting WA’s domestic gas reserves, exposing us to global prices.

Read: australiainstitute.org.au/post/triple-...
February 25, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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chrisbowenmp.bsky.social
How can Dutton get it so wrong?
February 19, 2025 at 6:11 AM
pwr1.bsky.social
This is very good advice.
biodivcouncil.bsky.social Biodiversity Council @biodivcouncil.bsky.social · Feb 12
Are you trying to influence environmental policy decisions? This new paper from @icon-science.bsky.social, that captures learnings from 12 Australian 'change makers', could be one of the most interesting articles you read this year 🌍

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#policy #politics #research
A crowd of protesters have gathered in a street. Text over the image says "Make a noise or work with the system? New research reveals 4 ways to create real change for nature." A crowd of protesters have gathered in a street. Text over the image says "1. Be prepared for the long haul. Change can take a long time. Be willing and able to stay the course to see out the policy change that may take a long time. “Change is not going to happen by one research paper, one meeting, one event, it’s gonna be a whole range of things over a sustained period of time."" A crowd of protesters have gathered in a street. Text over the image says "2. Know the system. Identify who you need to influence and where the leverage points in the system are. How do you do this? Build your networks. Start talking to people in your community and get to know your local elected representatives. Find out what they care about and develop a pitch that will appeal to their values and concerns. And don’t forget to consider the messenger: who will the decision makers be more receptive to?"
February 12, 2025 at 9:06 AM
pwr1.bsky.social
@kevinbonham.bsky.social Please help me understand why Sportsbet rates a Coalition win at $1.53, but then a Coalition Minority or Majority at longer odds than a Labor Minority:
February 4, 2025 at 5:54 AM
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ericbanana.bsky.social
Just a reminder … Australian preferential voting allows you to choose who gets your vote should your first preference not be successful.

Make your vote count, don’t vote for the same old shit.

#auspol #CarnAustraliaGetYourShitTogether
#FuckMurdoch #Greens #Teals

youtu.be/bleyX4oMCgM
Honest Government Ad | Preferential Voting
YouTube video by thejuicemedia
youtu.be
January 27, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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surlydave.bsky.social
Meanwhile, in Collins Street...
January 26, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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seamas.bsky.social
I wrote this about the media's first big test of Trump 2.0, and how poorly it scored. On the tedious, vital work of seeing what's in front of our faces for the next four years.

www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
Week one in Trumpland: The first step is seeing what’s in front of our faces
We should resist the voices attempting to tell us it’s all fine
www.irishexaminer.com
January 25, 2025 at 9:13 AM
pwr1.bsky.social
I hope the MAGA crowd read this cautionary tale of a small town's libertarian experiment. newrepublic.com/article/1596...
The Town That Went Feral
When a group of libertarians set about scrapping their local government, chaos descended. And then the bears moved in.
newrepublic.com
January 23, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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grogsgamut.bsky.social
Yep, when you hear that mining is huge, remember they mean the profits are huge...

The Hospitality industry pays more wages to Australians than does mining.
Charts of the payments to workers: Hospitality - $42.8bn Mining - $42.4bn Profits: Hospitality - $13.9bn Mining - $253.2bn
January 23, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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jennyfay16.bsky.social
January 20, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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brunobuzatto.bsky.social
First paper of 2025 — the Sydney funnel-web spider is actually at least three different species:

bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

@flindersuniversity.bsky.social @uni-hamburg.de
The world’s most venomous spider is a species complex: systematics of the Sydney funnel-web spider (Atracidae: Atrax robustus) - BMC Ecology and Evolution
The Sydney funnel-web spider Atrax robustus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1877 is an iconic Australian species and considered among the most dangerously venomous spiders for humans. Originally described in 18...
bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com
January 13, 2025 at 1:39 AM