Kate Auty
@kateauty.bsky.social
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Living and working on #Taungurung country in Victoria the #TreatyState of #Australia. Things I am: a reader, lawyer, writer, curious. Posting out of interest.
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My view about the #opposition position on #Treaty in #Victoria.
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www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Gunditjmara man Rueben Berg said

#Treaty would not "divide #Victoria, but complete it … [and] … affirm a simple principle recognised around the world: First Peoples decide First Peoples issues

- [when] governments say 'they know best' … it just does not work."
Victorian Liberals will scrap Australian-first Treaty within 100 days if elected
The Victorian Liberals will scrap the state's proposed Treaty agreement with First Peoples' if elected. The opposition had previously withdrawn support for the proposed agreement, which is set to be d...
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kateauty.bsky.social
How we were selected? I know another who got it but. If everyone did? Surely.
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I just got told I had been the recipient of migrant status from MP Wendy Lovell’s office when my family have been in Australia since the 1830s. Go figure that one.
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grattaninstitute.bsky.social
We need to talk about the thing Australia’s political leaders don’t like to talk about: carbon pricing.

Grattan’s Alison Reeve and Tony Wood show that energy bills can halve by 2050, allowing government to cut emissions without hurting households. buff.ly/WB9hfmJ #auspol
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camwalker.bsky.social
Treaty, It's Here. Debate starts in VIC parliament today.
Share and show your support for Australia’s first Treaty 🖤💛❤️
#TreatyForVictoria
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reuters.com
'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize
kateauty.bsky.social
How is it possible that the NACC has to have its work done at “arms length” from its organisation. This is truly bizarre.
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Good work on exposing the sponsorship
conflict of the Parliamentary Sports Club - Centre for Public Integrity Catherine Williams said the club offered “an invaluable opportunity for monied interests to build relationships with members of parliament and their staff”.
kateauty.bsky.social
Highly commendable action quitting. The whole situation provides “an invaluable opportunity for monied interests to build relationships with members of parliament and their staff”. (per Catherine Williams Centre for Public Integrity.)
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Imagine kicking the former national rugby captain out of your sports club instead of the gambling lobby.

To paraphrase Groucho Marx, who'd want to belong to a club that would accept Responsible Wagering Australia as one of its sponsors?
kateauty.bsky.social
They don’t make it easy to find out who is on the board. It is there but not with a quick search.
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squigglyrick.bsky.social
The man bent over his guitar,
A shearsman of sorts. The day was green.
They said, "You have a blue guitar,
You do not play things as they are."
The man replied, "Things as they are,
Are changed upon the blue guitar."

Plus ça change! My newsletter: rick-morton.ghost.io/a-new-three-...
A New Three Laws of Motion
I night not tell you if I win the Prime Minister's Literary Award for Non-Fiction, but there will be signs. Ha ha, I'm fully kidding. I did win it. The news was everywhere anyway. I was a push notifi...
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kateauty.bsky.social
And right back at you. Your reporting is a revelation. Enjoy Paris.
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You know it isn’t really that they were stupid was it? They knew what they were doing…
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davidshoebridge.bsky.social
To the NACC: can you tell us why there haven't been any public hearings into the Robodebt matter?

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NACC says: No comment.
kateauty.bsky.social
No - he is English by birth and a University of Melbourne scholar by choice. But what a thrill.