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Brisbane riverside site to be transformed with potential for thousands of homes

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Erialc @erialc.bsky.social · 1h

Interesting. #birds

Otiose94 @otiose94.bsky.social · 1h

A very, very rare albino eastern Rosella at our birdbath - mebee?

Erialc @erialc.bsky.social · 2h

Flood prone? Reduce oversight and red tape for developers and tax payer will have to pick up the pieces?

David Marler @qldaah.bsky.social · 3h

Asset sales. It's a 7.1-hectare, $165 million flood-prone South Brisbane property owned by the Queensland people. The Crisafulli government will offer it to property developers on Friday. #qldpol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

The government says construction could begin from March 2027 and has suggested the site could feature over 4,000 homes, as well as "event lawns" and promenades.

Former US Marine pilot appears in person at appeal against extradition

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 21h

Dan Duggan’s extradition appeal starts today www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

US authorities want Dan Duggan extradited from Australia for allegedly training Chinese pilots in South Africa in 2012. An appeal to avoid the extradition has started in the Federal Court today.

A look at the first time Adolf Hitler was mentioned in The New York Times.

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Erialc @erialc.bsky.social · 5h

Mainstream media has poor record of political analysis.
History repeats. Likely similar for #auspol

www.nytimes.com/times-inside...

(NYT promoting Hitler)

1922: Hitler in Bavaria

www.nytimes.com

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Kent Parkstreet, Laird of Doofus @kentparkskeet.bsky.social · 1d

When you see large expenditure on transmission infrastructure, this is why.

Long term it will pay off.

It’s up to voters to encourage long term planning.

#AusPol

Netherland's renewables drive putting pressure on its power grid

Homes asked to use less electricity as network is overloaded by the rush to wind and solar power.

www.bbc.com

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Erialc @erialc.bsky.social · 22h

Yay, we’ve got a winner. Tawny frogmouth. #birds #Birdoftheyear

Small family of birds on a branch. They look like stick themselves.

This feathery lump on the branch doesn’t appear to have eyes, and the. Eakins a fine grey line. Hard to spot.

Lewy body dementia promotion by air pollutants

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Peggy Sanders @peggysanders.bsky.social · 23h

“Single JobSeeker [payment] $400 week. Let me know how you’d go if you were getting that little & were randomly not paid.”

This comment, from people behind Nobody Deserves Poverty, points to ignored cruelty at the heart of one of Australia’s most shameful open secrets.”
@jimchalmers.bsky.social

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Gekko @gekko.bsky.social · 23h

Interesting hearing Amerikans complain about bailing out Argentina

Of course I would too

BUT Australians are paying an open-ended $360Bn+ possibly $1Tn+ for AUKUS submarines from Amerika we will never get!

No Australian politician ever sought a mandate for that

Fifty Shades of Whey @fiftyshadesofwhey.bsky.social · 1d

$40 billion could modernize water systems in every lead-poisoned town in the US and bring high-speed internet to rural America, but instead it's going towards bailing out Argentina

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Kate-Eviva @kate-eviva.bsky.social · 23h

So @murray.senate.gov it might really be a good idea to include strong air #pollution #laws , including public monitoring and #taxing high #emissions in the new #environmental protection scheme

Gan Lab @liganlab.bsky.social · 6d

Mao, Han & Dawson labs reveal air pollutant PM2.5 triggers αSyn misfolding, forming a pathogenic strain (PM-PFF) that drives Lewy body dementia. This study illuminates the link between air pollution & neurodegenerative disease, offering insights for public health
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Evidence links air pollution to dementia, yet its role in Lewy body dementia (LBD) remains unclear. In this work, we showed in a cohort of 56.5 million individuals across the United States that fine p...

www.science.org

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Dr Hilary Joyce ⚕️ @drhilary.bsky.social · 1d

This might be interesting for Austen fans
tickets.canberrawritersfestival.com.au/Events/All-T...

All Things Austen! Jane Austen Anniversary Special

Be part of this major event as we celebrate all things Austen! Over 200 years since Jane Austen's works were first published, her insights into daily life, manners, love and tragedy are more relevant....

tickets.canberrawritersfestival.com.au

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Eithne @efrl.bsky.social · 1d

'A new study analysing 49 years of data from 20 sites indicated carbon is being emitted because trees are dying and decaying faster than they can be replaced.'

#ClimateChange 😭😭

www.abc.net.au/news/science...

Australia's tropical trees emit more carbon than they absorb: study

Climate change is killing trees faster than they can be replaced leading to greater carbon emissions, according to a new study.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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3wombats @3wombats.bsky.social · 1d

NSW anti-protest law ruled unconstitutional after Palestine Action Group court challenge

PAG had challenged expanded police powers to restrict protests near places of worship

Australia's unemployment rate jumps to 4.5pc

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Kent Parkstreet, Laird of Doofus @kentparkskeet.bsky.social · 1d

The Reserve Bank has the unemployment rate it desired.

Our government will continue to shit on the unemployed, make them leap through all the hoops, make them live in poverty, despite their unemployment being a deliberate plan.

And our media will keep pushing the bludger line.

#AusPol

Australia's unemployment rate jumped to 4.5 per cent in September, up from 4.3 per cent in August.

Adani denies claims it sold ‘below-market coal’ leading to Queensland missing out on hundreds of millions in royalties

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Rod Campbell @rodcampbell.bsky.social · 1d

My new report is out - Adani sold coal at mates rates to India, avoiding $400m in royalty payments to Queensland

...and Qld's LNP gov doesn't seem to care.

Thread below on how they did it.

Write up in @australia.theguardian.com
@australiainstitute.org.au
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Adani has strongly rejected the Australia Institute’s findings, including that customers paid an average of $102 a tonne in 2022-23

Albanese urged to ‘secure the future of science’ as CSIRO reckons with ongoing decline in funding

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Erialc @erialc.bsky.social · 1d

It is worth a lot-and made with love for your partner. Used to people/women had side hustles of knitting but now, materials expensive, labour is huge, people won’t pay I suppose.

Erialc @erialc.bsky.social · 1d

Do you take orders? This is beautiful.

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David @daverino.bsky.social · 3d

“CSIRO will embark on further cost-cutting to research units to repair a multimillion-dollar budget shortfall, as Aust’s national science & research agency reckons with an ongoing decline in funding..funding as a percentage of GDP..is now at its lowest since 1978”
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

CEO Doug Hilton says the agency’s budget allocation ‘has not kept up with the cost of doing science’

Total Fire Ban declared for Mallee region

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

"A collage full of nature 🌱🌷" from Gemma Matthews, contemporary embroidery artist who creates free hand pieces #WomensArt

Textile artworks show in a grid of sixteen squares all reflecting different embroidered garden flowers and plants

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Trish Fraser @trishf42.bsky.social · 1d

No great surprise: it's October, it's dry, activate the fire plan (and put the snake water well away from the house, they're out and about).

Geelan Mitchell Media @victoriannews.com.au · 1d

Total Fire Ban declared for Mallee region
#cfa #tfb #fireban #summer #Mallee #fires #TotalFireBan #fireseason

MALLEE, VIC. — The first Total Fire Ban (TFB) of the 2025/26 fire season has been declared for the Mallee tomorrow, Thursday, October 16, 2025.

www.victoriannews.com.au

Erialc @erialc.bsky.social · 1d

Seeds?seedlings? Conventional wisdom for Maguire country is Melbourne cup but I’ve got mine in now and going well. Climate change?

Safety liner under US military fuel tanks still failing, weeks after approval

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ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 2d

Groundwater is leaking through the safety liner under some of the fuel facility's 11 tanks, which were constructed unlawfully on Darwin Harbour without a building permit. It comes after the NT government approved the tanks for operation in September.

AFP promises ‘swift action’ after Albanese, Ley and Morrison’s private phone numbers exposed online

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Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 2d

Whohooo! It's the Ides of Rocktober which means it's my (and my oldest son's) birthday today!
We have a tradition in our family (that I made up about 30 years ago) whereby the birthday person gets a Festival of Me. If it's a normal birthday you get a week, if it's a multiple of 5, two weeks...

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Rob Arnol @robertarnol.bsky.social · 2d

Timeline cleanse.

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Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 2d

Just a reminder that political parties are exempt from privacy legislation in regards to contacting you on your private phone number and email

So goose - gander applies

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Richard Marles says investigation under way into how the prime minister and other senior government staff’s phone numbers appeared in the databases