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Quentin Dempster @quentindempster.bsky.social · 1d

Energy bills to halve by 2050: @grattaninstitute.bsky.social The renewables revolution will help conserve earth’s thin biosphere … and it’ll be much cheaper for households and enterprises. 👇

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Rob Walls @robwalls.bsky.social · 6h

The corporate bandits will ensure this doesn't happen. The costs of production may significantly fall but you can be certain they won't allow prices to below existing levels. Just as CEO salaries no longer relate to average worker income the law of supply and demand is no longer adhered to.

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Dana Bergstrom @danambergstrom.bsky.social · 19h

This is a significant “dumbing of a nation, just dig up dirt to sell instead” graph that is easily reversed and #Australia would reap the benefits. Australians invented wifi and were early designers of solar panels. We have really really inventive smart people that we SHOULD invest in. 1/

A graph showing a steep decline since 1978 of expenditure on CSIRO as proportion of GDP

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Rob Walls @robwalls.bsky.social · 6h

This is political capital the electorate generously granted to Labor, despite a lacklustre performance, to use on our behalf. Unspent, you can guarantee we will withhold it at the next election #Auspol

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Rob Walls @robwalls.bsky.social · 6h

Latest wind gust slamming the house, from Mt Wellington at 8pm = 132kph. This is becoming really tiresome, Since 11am it's been continually gusting over 100kph, except for one hour when it calmed to a mild zephyr of only 87kph. #roaring40s #roaringforties #winds #gales #tasmania #lutruwita

Latest wind gust figures from the summit of Mount Wellington at 8pm !32kph. Fierce!

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1EarthMedia @1earthmedia.bsky.social · 9h

Doug Cameron is on the ball here.
I'm concerned that @albomp.bsky.social is still hurting from the Voice referendum & is now too shy to 'be brave'.

The superannuation back down was humiliating. There was no need for that, it was good policy.

#auspol #aukus

Doug Cameron @dncameron.bsky.social · 19h

Keating makes the point that Labor should spend some political capital.
My wish list:
Be brave.
Ditch AUKUS.
Stop worshiping the “market”
Fix CGT and -ve gearing.
Tackle poverty reduction
Housing as a human right.
Establish a modern Housing Commission.
Build public Housing.
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Rob Walls @robwalls.bsky.social · 8h

Agree entirely with your sentiments, but it seems unlikely a passenger flight would be en route to Nevatim air force base in Israel, as this story says.

Rob Walls @robwalls.bsky.social · 8h

Having once been engaged as a courier, it was my understanding that it is forbidden by international aviation law to ship cargo on passenger flights.

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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 5d

ASIC’s Sarah Court says they could’ve fined ANZ over their ‘grubby’ misconduct into the Billions, but didn’t coz it’s “so high”, it’s “almost meaningless”🤔
McKim “it’s interesting words to use, ‘almost meaningless’…some might argue that $240mill is pretty meaningless to ANZ”💥 #Estimates

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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 5d

Nick McKim “they made $6.5 billion last year, do you think they’re going to be worried very much about a $240 million fine?”
“I just don’t think $240 million is going to touch the surface of their grubbiness”
“I think we’re going to be back here again in a year, or 2, or 3…”

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Stephen Heiti @aumiroir.bsky.social · 1d

Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.

apnews.com

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Paul Dutton @pdutts68.bsky.social · 19h

Babet gets away with disgusting language on social media and is never held to any standards.
Lydia Thorpe, however ….
#AusPol

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Kerry Jaggers 🇦🇺 @kerryjaggers.bsky.social · 19h

Laura Tingle:

"...for now, Israel had stopped its indiscriminate bombardment of Gaza, which has left more than 67,000 people dead, thousands more injured and a population of more than 2 million starving, traumatised and displaced." #Gaza #Israel

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

The theatre of Trump's Middle East trip masks important questions

Donald Trump's unconventional and often haphazard approach to diplomacy means there are countless questions about what has driven him to date, and what might determine whether he stays engaged in the ...

www.abc.net.au

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Amante2 AmeliaBee7 @amante2ameliabee7.bsky.social · 19h

We ready to become a republic yet, Australia?

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Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 1d

I had told you the police were wrong in this case.

I said it did NOT PROVE that the government had banned legitimate protest about Gaza, as many claimed.

It was the police over stepping. And now they have had to apologise and pay damages.

Legal protest IS allowed. Supporting banned groups is not.

Kent police apologise to protester threatened with arrest for holding Palestine flag

Force agrees to pay damages to Laura Murton, 43, who also had sign saying ‘Israel is committing genocide’

www.theguardian.com

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Amanda Coleman @amandacomms.bsky.social · 1d

Some thoughts on communication, ethics and nudge?

amandacomms1.wordpress.com/2025/10/13/s...

Stop nudging me.

I have been delving into the world of behavioural communication and nudge theory recently and it has left me feeling cold. The approach has been heralded by many as one of the most significant elem…

amandacomms1.wordpress.com

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BobGV @b0bgv.bsky.social · 1d

...❤️ this poem 👇🏽
#GazaGenocide #FreePalestine 🍉

Dr Khawla Badwan @khawlabadwan.bsky.social · 1d

in a syntactic death
announced in
a lexicon of what was
#GazaGenocide

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Rob Walls @robwalls.bsky.social · 1d

Was privileged to work with many of them in Australia and internationally.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 1d

This sums up their lying perfectly www.meidasplus.com/p/this-weeke...

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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 1d

Why is the gas industry notorious for paying so little tax, despite making billions in revenue?

Santos has made it 10 years in a row paying no tax!

@grogsgamut.bsky.social @elinorjohnstonleek.bsky.social
#auspol

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Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 1d

WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK? Reynolds is a monster. Utterly ghastly person.

Vaxatious Litigant 💉 @exposingnv.bsky.social · 1d

Linda Reynolds launches bankruptcy proceedings against Brittany Higgins

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𝓥𝓲𝓻𝓰𝓲𝓷𝓲𝓪 𝓗𝓪𝓵𝓵 📎 @virginiahall32.bsky.social · 1d

#Washington Governor Bob Ferguson responds to a letter he received from AG Pam Bondi in which she threatened to place him in jail.

Fuck Pam Bondi! The loss of her law license and her subsequent removal to federal prison CANNOT come quickly enough!

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Rob Walls @robwalls.bsky.social · 1d

When I arrived in Tasmania 35 years ago, I had The Mercury (and the Sunday Tasmanian) delivered daily for about 20 years. But nostalgia for the newsprint is no longer reflected in my reading habits. I haven't bought a newspaper for years. I still buy books but mostly read on a Kindle.

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Rob Walls @robwalls.bsky.social · 1d

What that model is, I really don't know, but journalism and photojournalism in one form or another has been a major part of my livelihood for more than 60 years.

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Rob Walls @robwalls.bsky.social · 1d

🤣 New mattresses being delivered Wednesday.

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