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Lisa the Antifascist “Leftist”🇦🇺 @lisatellstruth.bsky.social · 1d

Andrew @novisiblemeans.bsky.social · 12d

That money can’t buy happiness is a myth.

“Every dollar shaved off rent or power costs has the same effect as raising incomes for those who need it most. When essentials are affordable, stress declines, resilience rises…”

#wellbeing #happiness #thestatsguy

www.thenewdaily.com.au/finance/2025...

Turns out money really can buy you happiness, or does it?

Despite the prevailing US$75,000 happiness myth, higher incomes make us more likely to say we live a good life.

www.thenewdaily.com.au

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Andrew @novisiblemeans.bsky.social · 15d

How many “greats” is too many?

#greatwalks #hiking #australia #tasmania

www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...

‘It’s become a bit meaningless’: why does Australia have so many new Great Walks?

Whether a clever marketing ploy or truly great by nature, these walks are attracting hikers in increasing numbers

www.theguardian.com

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Andrew @novisiblemeans.bsky.social · 15d

Port Arthur was a male-only prison. Female convicts were housed in “female factories”, of which there were several around the island.

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Andrew @novisiblemeans.bsky.social · 15d

If you can’t say something nice, then don’t say anything at all.

#australia #statsguy

www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...

Something nice about each state and territory

Welcome to the demographic equivalent of rival compliments with something nice about every Australian state and territory.

www.thenewdaily.com.au

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Andrew @novisiblemeans.bsky.social · 16d

One of the odder stories of the week.

#paddingtonbear #ukpolitics #satireontrial #spittingimage

independentaustralia.net/life/life-di...

Britain’s appetite for humiliation is insatiable

The boundaries between character rights, intellectual property and the increasingly vicious tone of comedy have rarely looked so blurry.

independentaustralia.net

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Andrew @novisiblemeans.bsky.social · 29d

Likely #stadium timeline. Satire or Nostradamus-like foresight? You decide.

#tasmania #taspol #tasmaniantimes #nonewstadium

tasmaniantimes.com/2025/10/igno...

Ignoring Experts - Stadium Ignorance, A Trump-esque Folly - Tasmanian Times

Ignorance is Bliss The macro and the micro. Watching Trump addressing world leaders last week at the United Nations, attacking and dismissing climate science as coming from ‘stupid people’ and decryin...

tasmaniantimes.com

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Andrew @novisiblemeans.bsky.social · Sep 6

An interesting read for Father’s Day.

theconversation.com/we-studied-1...

We studied 100 years of Australian fatherhood. Here’s how today’s dads differ from their grandfathers

Australian fatherhood remains closely tied to ‘breadwinning’. History helps us to understand why.

theconversation.com

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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · Sep 1

Sore point.
My @smh @theage cartoon.

Two frames. Top: March of black-clad ultra nationalists with Aussie flags, placards saying “IMMIGRANTS GO HOME” “AUSSIE AUSSIE AUSSIE” “TOO MANY INDIANS”, facing lone reporter who says, “But aren’t you all descendants of migrants?” Lower frame, same scene with marchers with fists raised replying,”DON’T SAY THAT, BECAUSE IT IRRITATES ME…”

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Andrew @novisiblemeans.bsky.social · Aug 28

Does the AFL need to be more open when it comes to sport and sexuality? Can any major social enterprise ignore and disrespect the reality of the society in which it seeks to flourish?

Fiona Katsukas’ cartoon from #theguardianaustralia #afl #lgbtqi #loveislove

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Andrew @novisiblemeans.bsky.social · Aug 21

Seems to be a lot of bots discovering #bluesky lately. Anyone else suddenly being followed by weird junk accounts? It’s what I came here to get away from. (Sighs).

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Andrew @novisiblemeans.bsky.social · Aug 14

Vale David Stratton.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

Legendary film critic David Stratton dies aged 85

His family announced his death on Thursday afternoon, saying he died peacefully in hospital near his home in the Blue Mountains.

www.abc.net.au

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Andrew @novisiblemeans.bsky.social · Aug 6

Time for a positive change in #Tasmania.

tasmaniantimes.com/2025/08/the-...

#auspol #taspol #australia

The Article Richard Flanagan Wrote And The Mercury Refused To Run - Tasmanian Times

WHICH GOVERNMENT – OUR WORST OR OUR BEST? Richard Flanagan, 5 August 2025 Tasmania is faced with the strangest of choices: a government of our worst —or a government of our best. Our worst? The Libera...

tasmaniantimes.com

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Andrew @novisiblemeans.bsky.social · Jul 21

“The retention of minority government in Tasmania enables this fraud — for that is what this process of fake deliberation is — to be short-circuited, if crossbenchers are willing to force the big parties to think outside the majority mindset.”

www.crikey.com.au/2025/07/21/t...

Liberals and Labor, rejected by Tasmanians, must rethink their majority mindset (and it's the only way to ditch the stadium)

No matter who governs Tasmania, they still have to deal with the problem of the Hobart stadium. But there is a way forward...

www.crikey.com.au

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Andrew @novisiblemeans.bsky.social · Jul 18

“We urgently need budget repair, alongside ambitious reforms in health, housing, education, sustainability and productivity.”

But is Tasmania going to get what it needs?

#tasmania
#taspol

theconversation.com/tasmania-is-...

Tasmania is limping towards an election nobody wants. Here’s the state of play

There’s a lot at stake for the island state, which desperately needs budget repair and improved services - but you wouldn’t know it from the lacklustre campaign.

theconversation.com

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ConvictChick @convictchick.bsky.social · Jul 10

#VoteIndependent
#Tasmania
#politas
#NoStadium

NotHappyJan - NO AFL STADIUM @notahappyjan.bsky.social · Jun 10

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Andrew @novisiblemeans.bsky.social · Jul 9

Analysis by @simongerman600.bsky.social via @thenewdaily.bsky.social

Andrew @novisiblemeans.bsky.social · Jul 9

Succinct summary of the structural disadvantages that our younger generations are facing. Do we have the balls to do something meaningful to fix it?

#statsguy #taxreform #auspol #generations

www.thenewdaily.com.au/finance/2025...

Are young Australians falling behind or just running a different race?

Young Australians are are more educated, more indebted and more anxious than their parents were at the same age.

www.thenewdaily.com.au

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Andrew @novisiblemeans.bsky.social · Jul 7

A list of factors demonstrating how corrupted the argument for a stadium in Hobart has become.

tasmaniantimes.com/2025/07/why-...

#nonewstadium #taspol #auspol #tasmania

Why Do They Hate Tasmania? - Tasmanian Times

Why is the pro-stadium lobby so happy to burn Tasmania to the ground for their pet project? Alan Whykes challenges their foundational myths.

tasmaniantimes.com

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Andrew @novisiblemeans.bsky.social · Jun 23

Underneath Brisbane’s Captain Cook Bridge at the Kangaroo Point Cliffs for a bit of mid century modernism.

#bridge #mcm #midcenturymodernism #brisbane #queensland #landscape #river

A modern bridge stretches away overhead as it crosses a river towards a city.

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Andrew @novisiblemeans.bsky.social · Jun 16

#tasmania #taspol #auspol #nonewstadium

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Andrew @novisiblemeans.bsky.social · Jun 16

Useful information in the likely event that Tasmania’s upcoming election returns another hung parliament, via Professor Anne Twomey.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=WgfF...

What if Tasmania has another hung Parliament?

YouTube video by Constitutional Clarion

m.youtube.com

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Andrew @novisiblemeans.bsky.social · Jun 13

A succinct summary of the political situation in Tasmania and of the many issues the state faces which must be tackled before building a billion dollar white elephant for the AFL.

#tasmania #nonewstadium #taspol #auspol

johnmenadue.com/post/2025/06...

Tasmania in the news for all the wrong reasons

It’s rare that the biggest news in Australian politics emanates from Tasmania.

johnmenadue.com

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Andrew @novisiblemeans.bsky.social · Jun 11

A good précis of the Tasmanian people versus the Tasmanian Government and the AFL grudge match.

www.crikey.com.au/2025/06/11/a...

#nonewstadium #tasmania #taspol

Rapacious sport scumbags like the AFL make a mockery of taxpayers — just look at the Tassie stadium chaos

For decades, Big Sport has teamed up with the major political parties to gouge taxpayers. But for once, the rort has blown up in the face of the Tasmanian government.

www.crikey.com.au

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Andrew @novisiblemeans.bsky.social · Jun 4

Sunny afternoon on the New Farm Riverwalk.

#brisbane #riverwalk #queensland #walking #urbanexploration

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