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The sun will rise in the #CentralCoast #NewSouthWales tomorrow at 5:39, 14 seconds later than the day before.
It will set at 19:59, 40 seconds later than the day before.
December 13, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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The ALP truly hates progressives and loves nothing more than sucking up to conservatives in the hope they'll be let into the club.
What a brain-dead dumb, completely shite appointment. @tonyburkemp.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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What's the best use of rocks as a climate solution?

Is it grinding them up and spreading them on fields, or is it throwing them at billionaires? Let's go to this meeting and decide.
Are you an earth or environmental scientist with an interest in climate change mitigation? Join our upcoming scientific meeting looking at enhanced weathering as leading researchers discuss the scientific and societal challenges ahead:
royalsociety.org/science-even...
October 30, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Greens Senator @nickmckim.bsky.social in estimates pointing out 82% of the benefit of the capital gains tax discount goes to the richest 10%, so why does the govt think that is good policy?
live.australiainstitute.org.au
Australia Institute Live: 'I'm very proud of the team I lead' says Sussan Ley as she's forced to fend off party room woes for the third day All the day's events, as it happens
It's the final day of the House sitting, with estimates hearings continuing and the Coalition still in a mess. All the day's events, with fact checks, live.
live.australiainstitute.org.au
October 8, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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I don’t know about you, but I’m a bit scared of any new ‘environment laws’ that Labor can get Matt Canavan and Andrew Hastie to vote for…I think they will be better described as ‘ how to build more mines faster laws’ www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
Watt nears deal with Coalition to finally overhaul environment laws
Environment Minister Murray Watt will sit down with his Liberal counterpart Angie Bell today, with quiet optimism in both parties that a deal might soon be struck to finally rewrite Australia's "broke...
www.abc.net.au
October 8, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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Important to note that this is a mining company and representatives of mining execs calling for a phase out of a mining diesel subsidy.

Snip from the report.
August 29, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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GOOD NEWS! For the FIRST time ever, and after MORE THAN 30 YEARS of HIV vaccine clinical trials, researchers have developed a vaccine that has SUCCESSFULLY generated TIER 2 broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs) against HIV and BLOCKS viral infection in vaccinated PEOPLE.
August 26, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Lock em up!
Incredible turn out for #NoKingsDay. Thank you to everyone speaking up and taking action. Dissent is patriotic!
June 15, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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"It’s time to recognise that since the AUKUS deal was announced, circumstances have changed dramatically. A grown-up country would respond accordingly."

"Donald Trump has given us an opportunity to get out. We should take it."

@emmashortis.bsky.social #auspol
June 12, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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Wake up, babe, a fresh New Zealand location just dropped
June 10, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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So sad. And yes the changes to super do defy everything the LNP believe in, which is ensuring wealthy people get wealthier at the taxpayers expense
June 5, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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Why Regenerative Agriculture (Still) Isn’t a Climate Solution - sentientmedia.org/regenerative...
Why Regenerative Agriculture (Still) Isn’t a Climate Solution
Regenerative meat — though popular with celebrities and politicians — doesn’t live up to the hype.
sentientmedia.org
June 1, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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#TheOutpost 🍄🚶‍♀️🌱🌿
Amazingly, more than 70 fungal species can glow in the dark!
www.treehugger.com/bioluminesce...
10 Bioluminescent Mushrooms That Glow in the Dark
As if fungi could get any cooler with their bizarre shapes, colors, and quirks, some can even glow in the dark. Here are 10 bioluminescent mushrooms.
www.treehugger.com
May 17, 2025 at 8:24 PM
#fungi glowing in the night! In our chicken run near Coffs Harbour
May 17, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Borrowed retrosuburbia (retrosuburbia.com) from the library. Great book but now I feel exhausted because there’s so much I should be doing! #permaculture #foodforest #urbanfarming
RetroSuburbia - Your Guide to a Resilient Future
Part manual, part manifesto, RetroSuburbia shows how your home can be transformed to become productive and resilient in an energy descent future. Be inspired and empowered to make positive changes in ...
retrosuburbia.com
May 17, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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Don't know exactly when I became a radical extremist, but there was no going back after I decided that action on climate change was good and genocide was bad. 😕
May 8, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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Every election. Every western country. Same narrative from the right. And somehow* this shit still gets them over the line.

*Depressingly low levels of public media literacy, and a complicit commentariat, bound by their employment contracts to billionaire oligarchs...
April 22, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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Starmer should be in the Conservative Party.
Starmer says he is ‘really pleased’ supreme court has given ‘much-needed clarity’ on definition of ‘woman’ in equalities law – UK politics live
Starmer says he is ‘really pleased’ supreme court has given ‘much-needed clarity’ on definition of ‘woman’ in equalities law – UK politics live
Prime minister says he thinks court’s decision has given a ‘much clearer position for those drawing up guidance’ Keir Starmer has been under pressure for days to comment on the supreme court ruling, particularly from the rightwing papers. Yesterday the Daily Mail even splashed on a story saying he “must break his silence”. His opponents want to embarrass him over the issue because of his past comments supporting more rights for trans people, including one interview when he said it was “not right” to say only women have a cervix. This morning, in interviews during a school visit in Bath, Starmer said he was “really pleased” the supreme court had clarified the law on the definition of a woman. He told the BBC: I welcome the decision of the supreme court, which has given us clarity, much-needed clarity, and I think for those that are now drawing up guidance, it’s a much clearer position. So I’m really pleased that the court has now clarified the position. I think the supreme court has answered that question. A woman is an adult female, and the court has made that absolutely clear. I actually welcome the judgment because I think it gives real clarity. It allows those that have got to draw up guidance to be really clear about what that guidance should say. That should be on the basis of biological sex. That would apply right across the board to all single sex provision. I know that many businesses, large and small, will ensure that they have appropriate provision in place. For example, many businesses have moved towards unisex provision or separate cubicles that can be used by anyone. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
April 22, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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@k8lister.bsky.social piece in the iPaper today is hysterically (or mammarially) funny:

Kate wears Kim Kardashian's ridiculous nipple bra...

inews.co.uk/opinion/kim-...
I wore Kim Kardashian’s £68 nipple bra for a week – it's inexcusably stupid
It is the single most ridiculous item of clothing I have ever owned, and I lived through shell suits
inews.co.uk
March 13, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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The bottom 90% have got just 7% of economic growth from 2009 to 2019. The top 10% got 93%.

Our research shows inequality has been supercharged in the last 20 years, and it will only get worse unless we fix it.

A super profits tax is a good start, and cracking down on tax rorts. #auspol
February 28, 2025 at 5:54 AM
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Something I've been banging on about for some time now:

Peter Dutton is a multi-millionaire property developer

He has been for all of his adult life. That's who he is & how he earns his wealth

For a brief interlude in his 20s he was a cop, yet he and our media have defined him by that ever since
February 26, 2025 at 10:50 AM
A bit of garden wildlife
February 12, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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Thread: Each week I run a simulation of Australia’s main electricity grid using rescaled generation data to show that it can get very close to 100% renewable electricity with 24GW/120GWh of storage (5 hrs at av demand)
Results:
Last week: 100% RE
Last 179 weeks: 98.6% RE (1/5)
January 29, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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You can say Substack should host Nazis, but don't pretend there's some "free speech" principle to it. Substack has a strict ban on pornography. Welcoming Nazis while banning sex workers isn't a principled stand, it's a choice, an expression that you like the former and dislike the latter.
December 15, 2023 at 11:43 AM