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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 17h

"The #NACC is yet to prove itself in any way
...The public will need to see results or resignations — stat"

Brereton's failure to resign already may have brought the NACC into terminal disrepute.

Gives the impression that its role is not exposing corruption, but covering it up. #robodebt #auspol

Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 17h

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The NACC has over two hundred employees and an annual budget of over $60m, but has yet to land a single major finding from over 5,000 referrals.
The pressure is rising.

Does the NACC have any hope of regaining public trust?

The NACC has over two hundred employees and an annual budget of over $60m, but has yet to land a single major finding from over 5,000 referrals.

www.crikey.com.au

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Jenny O’Connor @jenocon.bsky.social · 17h

that face

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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 17h

New:
The NACC has over two hundred employees and an annual budget of over $60m, but has yet to land a single major finding from over 5,000 referrals.
The pressure is rising.

Does the NACC have any hope of regaining public trust?

The NACC has over two hundred employees and an annual budget of over $60m, but has yet to land a single major finding from over 5,000 referrals.

www.crikey.com.au

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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 18h

"Opting to negotiate with the Coalition on the environment is opting to work with the very climate sceptics Australians just rejected."

From co-CEO Leanne Minshull in The New Daily
@leanneminshull.bsky.social #auspol

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Jenny O’Connor @jenocon.bsky.social · 17h

Pandering to political donors who support both major parties.. it’s in both their interests to work together to curb any meaningful environmental
protection

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Jenny O’Connor @jenocon.bsky.social · 1d

Or Hawke. Or Keating.

Jenny O’Connor @jenocon.bsky.social · 1d

Yep - what are Labor (ALP) and LNP if not political parties ?
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Jenny O’Connor @jenocon.bsky.social · 1d

Greens policies are the opposite of Coalitions. Not sure why people say they are Lib-lite. Its Labor that capitulates on policy

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Jenny O’Connor @jenocon.bsky.social · 1d

He’s such a massive disappointment 😔.
A capitulating, appeasing coward who sells out his stated principles and drags down the rest of his party with him.

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · Jun 5

The biggest problem with the ALP right now is it is led by someone who irrationally hates the Greens.

He doesn't really like to "fight Tories"; he loves to fight the party that reveals his actual lack of "left-wing" positions.

Someone needs to tell him to get over his uni politics crap.

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Jenny O’Connor @jenocon.bsky.social · 1d

Political donors are the major fossilfuel corporations - its money not just politics

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Jenny Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithWatermelon🍉🍉 @joneshowdareyou.bsky.social · 2d

"Enraged, disoriented, but also determined to restore all of Israel’s advantages since Oslo, Netanyahu embarked on a campaign of mass killing that, over the course of two years, culminated in one of the worst genocides in human history."
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10...

From Gaza, Palestinians have reasserted their agency on the world stage

If we are to speak of a Palestinian victory in Gaza, it is a resounding triumph for the Palestinian people, their indomitable spirit and their deeply rooted resistance that transcends faction, ideolog...

johnmenadue.com

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 2d

Wonderful. Threatening to invoke the Insurrection Act is even more ridiculous when the "rebellion" needing suppressing is frogs, dinosaurs and sharks.

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 2d

The Portland Frog army has now infiltrated Tulsa, OK and they’ve made an unlikely alliance with the T-Rex infantry and Sharks on Hoverboards mercenary forces.

This is truly terrifying.

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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 3d

The lights on the hill.
My @smh @theage cartoon.

Single frame. Parliament House Canberra by night - with bright neon signs saying “AUSTRALIAN PARLIAMENTARY SPORTS CLUB” “PLAY TO WIN - ACCESS” “TRY YOUR LUCK” “PAY TO PLAY” “‘RESPONSIBLE’ LOBBYING AUSTRALIA”

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Jenny O’Connor @jenocon.bsky.social · 3d

She’s a delight. 🤯

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Jenny O’Connor @jenocon.bsky.social · 3d

Pathetic.

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Wendy Harmer @wendyharmer.bsky.social · 3d

If you don't fear for what awaits the world's children ... you haven't been paying attention.

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

Coral reefs at risk of mass dieback as global warming reaches tipping point

An international report from climate scientists suggests tipping points for coral reefs have been reached, putting them at risk of dieback.

www.abc.net.au

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Jenny O’Connor @jenocon.bsky.social · 3d

🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Two legal challenges to Woodside’s North West Shelf extension filed on environmental and cultural grounds

Australian Conservation Foundation and Friends of Australian Rock Art want Murray Watt’s decision to approve extension of LNG project in northern WA overturned

www.theguardian.com

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Jenny O’Connor @jenocon.bsky.social · 3d

Vote #independent and #Greens.
#Labor needs to be told.

#auspol

Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 3d

As of now there is nothing Albanese's govt has done that has changed the country in any structural way.

No change at all to how the fundamental debates of the nation are addressed.

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 3d

As of now there is nothing Albanese's govt has done that has changed the country in any structural way.

No change at all to how the fundamental debates of the nation are addressed.

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Jonathan Green @greenj.bsky.social · 3d

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

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Jommy Tee @jommytee.bsky.social · 3d

The environment's had a real look in since Murray WattTF and Mike Kaiser teamed up.

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David Pocock @davidpocock.bsky.social · 5d

The Albanese govt’s first term was the second most secretive on record.

Rather than changing their ways, they’re doubling down and tightening our FOI system to make it even harder to get information. Not a single expert or member of parliament outside of the Labor party has backed their new bill.

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Jenny O’Connor @jenocon.bsky.social · 3d

Seen this Murray?

#Murraywatt
#Nonewfossilfuels
#climatecrisis

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’

Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns

www.theguardian.com

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 4d

This Is Fascism

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