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Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 11h

WE WILL NEVER FORGET YOU SALEH! 💔😢

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Crikey @crikey.com.au · 11h

Australia looks like a failed state when it comes to gambling regulation, writes Bernard Keane.

On gambling, Australia is a collection of banana republics — while our cowering government watches on

www.crikey.com.au

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Ross Heyen 🧔‍♀️ @rosco385.bsky.social · 5h

NACC will continue to be useless until Brereton is gone. He's so ethically compromised, he can't even recognize it.

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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 11h

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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Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz.bsky.social · 12h

The onus for stopping a genocide is on the party committing the genocide. The onus is not on the victims of the genocide to end it by meeting certain conditions. This should not even need to be said.
www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/the-onus-i...

The Onus Is On Israel And Its Allies To End The Genocide, Not Their Victims

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):

www.caitlinjohnst.one

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Margaret Morgan 🇳🇱🇦🇺🇪🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 1d

"The communications could demonstrate willful infringement, potentially leading to enhanced damages of up to $150,000 per work, a massive increase from just $750."

futurism.com/artificial-i...

OpenAI in Danger After Authors Suing It Gain Access to Its Internal Slack Messages

Authors and publishers, who are suing OpenAI, secured access to internal Slack messages and emails discussing the deletion of pirated books.

futurism.com

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Ross Heyen 🧔‍♀️ @rosco385.bsky.social · 12h

Great decision by the Minister, and by the courts.

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bradpsychology @bradpsychology.bsky.social · 1d

Australia tells U.S. hate monger, Candace Owens, to piss off.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Australian court upholds decision to block visa for Candace Owens

The High Court has backed a decision by the government to refuse a temporary visa to American commentator Candace Owens Farmer, who had planned a speaking tour to Australia in 2024.

www.abc.net.au

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Dr Monique Ryan @mon4kooyong.bsky.social · 1d

@cathywilcox.bsky.social isn’t wrong. We need to #cleanuppolitics

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Ross Heyen 🧔‍♀️ @rosco385.bsky.social · 1d

I'm not sure if it was the ABC or the Guardian, the title was pro-Israel but the article went into a bit of detail about how those Hamas killed were suspected of stealing aid.

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Ross Heyen 🧔‍♀️ @rosco385.bsky.social · 1d

In the style of Utopia would be the obvious choice, but I'd rather see it done in the style of Benny Hill.

Just a bunch of blokes in suits chasing around scantily clad girls while the work experience kid has to design the ferry.

Ross Heyen 🧔‍♀️ @rosco385.bsky.social · 1d

Rather than "eco tours", I'd like to see going out on country treated more like the Hajj for Muslims.

Every Australian should be expected to do it at least once in their life, and it should it should be a trying, once-in-a-lifetime experience. Maybe even a spiritual exoerience.

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Bruce Williams @brucewilliams4.bsky.social · 1d

www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/15/s...
When Morrison was PM, he twice selected a board member of the Saudi oil giant Aramco for appointments. Now, Morrison has registered himself as having a relationship with a $2.5 trillion Saudi fossil fuel company. SPIV...

Scott Morrison declares role with Saudi oil company

When he was prime minister, Morrison appointed a Saudi fossil fuel firm's board member to two different taskforce roles in 2019 and 2022.

www.crikey.com.au

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Ross Heyen 🧔‍♀️ @rosco385.bsky.social · 1d

The classic parable of the frog and the scorpion, updated for 2025. #MAGAMorons

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Kaya Wanu. @kayawanu.bsky.social · 4d

Anything less than leave it in the ground, stop burning fossil fuels will never be enough and that is the crux of the matter.

Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 4d

Climate warming's already amplifying hazards such as heatwaves, extreme rainfall, dangerous fire weather, droughts, floods, & sea-level rises & in turn multiplying threats & risks of compound events

🇦🇺's fossil fuel exports contribute accelerated pollution & CC impacts no matter where they're burned

Labor is close to a deal on environmental law reforms. There are troubling signs these will fall short

Labor is close to a deal on its environmental law reforms. Will they strong enough to protect nature?

theconversation.com

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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 4d

Massive crowd in Melbourne/Naarm today (in case you thought this movement was going to be placated with more colonisation). Until the occupation ends. Until Western war criminals and their enablers face justice. Until Palestine is free.

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 4d

An important case.
Yet another attempt by the Israel lobby to silence critics, with the ludicrous slur that support for Palestine or criticism of Zionism is antisemitic.

Appears to come from the same warped thinking behind Jillian Segal's dodgy draft plan.

Al the best to Nick and John. #auspol

marque lawyers @marquelawyers.com.au · 4d

Our client Dr Nick Riemer on the 18C case against him and his colleague Prof John Keane

Anti-Zionism on trial - ABC listen

University of Sydney academics Dr Nick Riemer and Professor John Keane will be facing the Federal Court on Monday 13th October after university colleagues made a complaint of anti-Semitism against the...

www.abc.net.au

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Ross Heyen 🧔‍♀️ @rosco385.bsky.social · 4d

@albomp.bsky.social and @australianlabor.bsky.social are weak as piss. All they care about is winning the next election. They're perfectly willing to sacrifice innocent Palestinians to get what they want.

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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 4d

Dear PM @albomp.bsky.social,
Thousands of Australians marched in solidarity with Palestine again today. In the last 2yrs they've learned the truth of Zionist Israel: the Nakba, occupation, West Bank settlements, Gaza blockade and genocide. AND your Govt's complicity. #auspol #SanctionIsrael

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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 4d

The Zionist lawsuits against @marykostakidis.bsky.social John Keane & Nick Riemer are a massive test for free speech in Australia, and costly. We check the claims. Keane kicks off in the morning.
#auspol
michaelwest.com.au/zionists-v-k...

Zionists v Keane, Riemer, Kostakidis. Australia's massive test cases for free speech - Michael West

Zionist lawsuits against Mary Kostakidis and Sydney Uni academics John Keane and Nick Riemer are a mighty test case for free speech in Australia

michaelwest.com.au

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Reluctant Antagonist (KJ Colt) @moistenedtart.bsky.social · 4d

Jesus Christ this is just a paraphrasing validation machine. This is like if therapy was incredibly harmful. As in not accidentally harmful but its intent was to actually drive you to harm. This algo has no goal, it just responds to the person in the moment. It’s like toxic present centredness

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Ross Heyen 🧔‍♀️ @rosco385.bsky.social · 4d

#FreePalestine

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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 5d

As the genocide in Gaza began its third year, there was some hope that the end might finally be in sight, but if history has shown us anything, you can't fully trust Israel or the U.S. for that matter.

Cartoon by @LatuffCartoons

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Jessica D. M. 🇺🇦 🇦🇺 🇨🇦 🇵🇦 🇬🇱 🪃 🟧 @jessicaperthwa.bsky.social · 5d

Chinese Heritage in WA – a fight to stay in WA - Have a Go News share.google/g3HaPX2cdsnh.... Wanted to send a man who grew up from 6 months old back to Chiba, yet accepted him in the RAAF ro serve in WW2..Geez we have a faked up history #Australia

Chinese Heritage in WA – a fight to stay in WA

The Chinese Heritage Project of WA looks at the life of Chinese people who came to Western Australia in the last century.

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inblacknwhite @imagetree.bsky.social · 5d

While all eyes are on a 'ceasefire' the illegal apartheid state is still bombing and killing people somewhere in the Middle East. Wanton killing and carnage is their M.O.

source: @aljazeera.com

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