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Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · 11h

What a disgrace @senatorwong.bsky.social is. This country is so utterly cooked.

Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 17h

if only @senatorwong.bsky.social had any shred of credibility left after 24 months of 'grave concern' over the livestreamed genocide of Palestinians

meanwhile, PM @albomp.bsky.social👇

Image of Labor PM Albanese (left) & Liberal opposition leader, Dutton (right) wearing jackets emblazoned with donor logos

Text reads: "We'd like to thank our sponsors..."

Albanese's red jacket features: Australian Hotels Association, Responsible Wagering Australia (RWA), TAB, Westpac, Santos, Pratt Industries, Uber, nab, Sportsbet, Woolworths

Dutton's black jacket features: Woolworths, Responsible Wagering Association (RWA), Clive Palmer, Uber, nab, Citileases, Santos, Westpac, Australian Hotels Association, TAB, Sportsbet, Coles, Hancock Prospecting

Source: Greens campaign material

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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 12h

Nobody hates trees more than coastally adjacent narcissists. Here’s how we should deal with them | First Dog on the Moon

A deterrent is one thing but I want revenge! * Sign up here to get an email whenever First Dog cartoons are published * Get all your needs met at the First Dog shop if what you need is First Dog merchandise and prints Continue reading...

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raven-mumur @raven-murmur.bsky.social · 12h

There's another Aussie who brings pride. ❤️

Peter George @indy4franklin.bsky.social · 13h

Tasmanian ship’s captain Madeleine Habib has been detained after the boat The Conscience was intercepted in international waters off the coast of Gaza in recent hours.

The ship was carrying 92 passengers, all journalists and medical staff, with the mission to open sea access for Gazans 1/3

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Kate-Eviva @kate-eviva.bsky.social · 12h

Agree but are #ALP content to roll along with the #LNP to avoid responsible #governance.

raven-mumur @raven-murmur.bsky.social · 12h

All the arguments in the article by Frew are good. The real question is why bother with moral authority at all when you're rolling in quids? #auspol

Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 20h

If Labor wishes to reclaim its moral authority, it must break with the consultant paradigm: rebuild public governance, fund socially vital disciplines and restore universities as places of learning, not revenue streams. #auspol #universitiesAU

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Peter George @indy4franklin.bsky.social · 13h

Tasmanian ship’s captain Madeleine Habib has been detained after the boat The Conscience was intercepted in international waters off the coast of Gaza in recent hours.

The ship was carrying 92 passengers, all journalists and medical staff, with the mission to open sea access for Gazans 1/3

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raven-mumur @raven-murmur.bsky.social · 12h

I had no idea. www.youtube.com/shorts/ZwAiR...

The Ethnic Group with Two Pieces of Clothing #learnchinese #chineseculture #ethnic #clothing #dress

YouTube video by A Chinese Translator

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raven-mumur @raven-murmur.bsky.social · 12h

DFAT copping flack is entirely predictable. I recall Mamdouh Habib, being tortured in an Egyptian gaol after rendition by the US for that purpose, saying he recognized an Australian accent in the room while he was blindfolded. DFAT/ASIO/ASIS and sundry other spook outfits all have porous boundaries.

raven-mumur @raven-murmur.bsky.social · 12h

All the arguments in the article by Frew are good. The real question is why bother with moral authority at all when you're rolling in quids? #auspol

Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 20h

If Labor wishes to reclaim its moral authority, it must break with the consultant paradigm: rebuild public governance, fund socially vital disciplines and restore universities as places of learning, not revenue streams. #auspol #universitiesAU

How the ALP outsourced the soul of higher education

For most of its history, the Australian Labor Party spoke of education as a public good, the light on the hill, a vision of collective progress through strong institutions, universal access, and the elevation of ordinary citizens.

johnmenadue.com

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raven-mumur @raven-murmur.bsky.social · 13h

The whole of the Hawkesbury floodplain, for a start. #auspol

The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 1d

"What this report says is that flooding will be so common in large parts of Australia, you will not be able to insure.

"You can only insure against unlikely events."

-co-CEO Richard Denniss appearing at the Senate Environment Committee
#auspol @richarddenniss.bsky.social

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raven-mumur @raven-murmur.bsky.social · 13h

The last Worker's Club in NSW to get poker machines was Kurri Kurri Worker's due to the staunch opposition of local communist and long standing national general secretary of the Australian Coal and Shale Employees' Federation, James Comerford. A local cultural powerhouse. Vote Socialist.

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raven-mumur @raven-murmur.bsky.social · 13h

I'm expecting the kids to figure out how to bust it and then teach the rest of us how to get round whatever barriers there may be.

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raven-mumur @raven-murmur.bsky.social · 13h

It's worn out, isn't it? Not getting any traction after 2 years of overwhelmingly peaceful community protests against genocide and pour complicity with it. And now no-one believes the cops, except maybe yet the Judge. As for not politicising the OH forecourt - jammed full the day Mandela spoke!

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raven-mumur @raven-murmur.bsky.social · 13h

It might be that no-one is shooting back at ICE so as to avoid taking the blatant bait to the point of the desired conflict needed to provide a smokescreen of legitimacy for whatever repression follows. Well done so far for remarkably peaceful resistance. But there's a time for self defence too.

Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 19h

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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raven-mumur @raven-murmur.bsky.social · 13h

Whoa. I bet the design is s'thing that can be morphed into a compound fairly quickly. Add that to the sub-base, North West Cape , the Marine base in Darwin, etc... we can say that WA is the sacrifice zone to US Imperial (carbon energy) recolonisation. No way those assets will ever be nationaized.

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🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🍉 @chrishehim.bsky.social · 16h

Little late for that. 🤡🤡🤡

Jacinta Price says ongoing party leaks making Liberals look like a “clown show”. #auspol #abc730

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 16h

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 18h

Here’s video of the incident

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 19h

Kristi Noem confronts enemy combatants in the Portland war zone today.

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Crikey @crikey.com.au · 17h

Independent Senator David Pocock and Labor's Penny Wong clashed in Senate estimates yesterday over whether the Parliamentary Sports Club could be considered a lobby group, as reported in Crikey last week. The club is registered as such, and lists Responsible Wagering Australia as one of its clients.

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Overlizard @aitch-el.bsky.social · 23h

And yet it is this flimsy façade is the basis for continued expansion of coal and gas in Australia.
And yes, we have known this for decades.

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 1d

News that shocks no one: Carbon offsets do nothing for climate.

Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says

Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions

www.theguardian.com

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Marns🌿🍉 @marnshibski.bsky.social · 22h

Either the trees still exist or they don’t.

Gemini coal project has been illegally clearing koala habitat since June.
#auspol
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Fiery Senate exchange reveals investigation into coal firm allegedly clearing endangered greater glider habitat

Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young called environment department bureaucrats ‘weak’ - though later withdrew the remark

www.theguardian.com

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 1d

when you try and get your PhD advisor to review your manuscript 😂

Nobel committee unable to reach prize winner who is ‘living his best life’ hiking off grid

Fred Ramsdell was among those honoured with a 2025 Nobel Prize in Medicine but might not know because he is somewhere in Idaho and uncontactable

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..”

@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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raven-mumur @raven-murmur.bsky.social · 22h

Big Maybelle, bringing it from the other end of the economy:

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Rex Patrick @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social · 1d

@albomp.bsky.social’s #FOI Amendment Bill deals one-sidedly with Govt concerns and completely ignores the serious problems users face accessing Govt info. Unsurprisingly, analysis of Senate submissions on the flawed Bill show it is friendless outside Govt. #auspol

Labor must drop flawed and friendless freedom of information bill

In opposition, the prime minister talked a big game on transparency. It’s about time he walked the walk on open government.

www.afr.com

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Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz.bsky.social · 1d

Never forget October 7th 2023, that fateful day when Israelis were brutally massacred by Israeli tanks and Israeli helicopters and Israeli drones and Israeli soldiers and Israeli bullets, and also by Hamas a bit.

thecradle.co/articles-id/...

Ex-Israeli war chief confirms issuing Hannibal Directive to kill own civilians, soldiers on 7 Oct

Israeli forces used attack helicopters, drones, and tanks to kill their own civilians and soldiers while blaming the deaths on Hamas

thecradle.co

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