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Jonathan Green @greenj.bsky.social · 5h

Oh thank heavens …

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David Pocock @davidpocock.bsky.social · 16h

We don’t have a gas shortage, we have a gas export problem. Santos are gaming the system and pushing up the price of gas paid by 🇦🇺 households & industry.

We don’t need new projects, we need to reserve uncontracted export gas for 🇦🇺 now!
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Why Santos is behind your soaring electricity and mortgage costs

It was a primary force behind Australia’s inflationary surge, it’s forced businesses either to the wall or to shift offshore, undermined national industry policy and resulted in the loss of countless ...

www.abc.net.au

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Cam Walker @camwalker.bsky.social · 16h

FFMV plans to burn 60,000ha in Snowy NP.

'Just as decades of public pressure forced the logging industry under tighter rules & eventually brought it down under its own weight, we’ll only bring accountability to fire through the same relentless scrutiny & pressure.'

www.geco.org.au/the_burning_...

The Burning Industry is Out of Control

Goongerah Environment Centre (GECO) has been working to protect East Gippsland's forests from logging since 1993. Using citizen science, non-violent direct action, political lobbying and public educat...

www.geco.org.au

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Jonathan Green @greenj.bsky.social · 1d

This is a choice we make as a society. What does that say about you and me?

Penny Allman-Payne @pennyallmanpayne.com · 1d

🚨 BREAKING: Brand new @ACOSS report finds 1 in 7 Australians are living in poverty, including 757,000 children. Millions of families are struggling while our leaders sit on their hands and let it happen.

Poverty in Australia 2025: Overview – Poverty and Inequality

povertyandinequality.acoss.org.au

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Jonathan Green @greenj.bsky.social · 1d

Fair.

John Stewart @stewartj777.bsky.social · 1d

It doesn't appear to be some sort of stunning back down. The tax on unrealised gains was removed but an additional tax on accounts higher than $10,00m has been added.
The press turn everything into a horse race / winners & losers / "backflips" Taxing unrealised gains was problematic.

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Jonathan Green @greenj.bsky.social · 1d

Can anything ever happen in this country? Can there ever be progressive economic change?

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Jonathan Green @greenj.bsky.social · 1d

Morning all

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Jonathan Green @greenj.bsky.social · 1d

So, um, with the best intentions tried to watch Father of the Bride last night. oh dear.

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Grattan Institute @grattaninstitute.bsky.social · 2d

💡 Cheaper energy bills AND reduced emissions?

Our new report finds that Australian household energy bills are set to halve by 2050, leaving room for the federal gov't to cut emissions in the electricity sector without hurting households.

Here’s how: buff.ly/9UPN4ub

A graphic of wind turbines on a rocky shore, with the text New Grattan Report Bills down, emissions down, a practical path to net-zero electricity

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Jonathan Green @greenj.bsky.social · 2d

Come on, James Caan. In a VW with the words.

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Jonathan Green @greenj.bsky.social · 2d

I like this

www.instagram.com/reel/DMyAQLd...

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Jonathan Green @greenj.bsky.social · 3d

A truly weird cat.

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Jonathan Green @greenj.bsky.social · 3d

He owns it

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Jonathan Green @greenj.bsky.social · 3d

In a nutshell really …

www.instagram.com/reel/DPnFZdP...

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Jonathan Green @greenj.bsky.social · 3d

Wish we could find a seperate planet for these arseholes …

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Jonathan Green @greenj.bsky.social · 3d

I’d be happy with that one

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Jonathan Green @greenj.bsky.social · 3d

Such a hateful song

Jonathan Green @greenj.bsky.social · 3d

I have a friend

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Jonathan Green @greenj.bsky.social · 3d

Have been weeding all morning with an unmovable’American Pie’ earworm. Please send help. Can’t take much more of this.

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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 3d

We desperately need to stop treating rich people like they are smart because they are rich. Just gibberish. (This bloke just fell arse-backwards into a fortune from a firm clipping the ticket on payment processing.) www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

www.theguardian.com

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Jonathan Green @greenj.bsky.social · 3d

Morning all.

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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 3d

Lol lmao

Herald Sun
Steve Price
Abbott return is what Libs need

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Jonathan Green @greenj.bsky.social · 4d

Live Updates: María Corina Machado Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Live Updates: María Corina Machado Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

www.nytimes.com

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Possum @pollytics.bsky.social · 4d

The Nobel Peace Prize should go to the Norwegian Nobel Committee. Delivering peace through superior trolling.

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Jonathan Green @greenj.bsky.social · 4d

‘Solidarity, to be what it says it is, must orient itself to the other’s predicament, and not what it affirms in the offerer.’

Rundle on the Gaza deal …

open.substack.com/pub/guyrundl...

Gaza: History to the defeated may say alas; Netflix: Gein of function, the serial killer and the birth of office psychology; bit stiff for Roskam; Erewhon

Commentary from a radical and pluralist perspective on Australian and world affairs., Culture, satire and the occasional breaking story

open.substack.com

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