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Crikey @crikey.com.au · 6h

“He really did say ‘if I’m going down, you’re going down with me!’” Catch up on the entire Australian Parliament Sports Club saga on the podcast.

Australian Parliament Sports Club saga: What counts as lobbying?

www.crikey.com.au

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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 9h

Evidence shows the human impact on Planet Earth has attained geological scale. We have become an "event" with the destructive force of a super volcano or large asteroid. @juliancribb #thehumanfuture

Climate change causing oceans to decline at alarming rate

Climate change and human activity are causing the health of the world’s oceans to decline at an alarming rate, the UN has warned.

johnmenadue.com

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 9h

Always remember - The ALP do not need a single vote from an LNP Senator to pass laws.

Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 9h

“The environment minister wants to pass a major re-write of federal nature laws this year, encouraging miners to lobby the Coalition to work with Labor to help rush it through parliament in the final three sitting weeks”

Just contemplate that sentence.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

With climate trigger axed Labor wants to rush new environmental laws through after ‘positive’ talks with Coalition

Proposed timeframe leaves 12 days to scrutinise most significant changes to national environmental protection regime since 1999

www.theguardian.com

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Sydney Knitting Nannas and Friends @knitnannassyd.bsky.social · 8h

On 15/10 Nannas joined ‘Make Mudgee a lead-free Zone’ @ PH. Mudgee RegionAction Group& Mudgee Region Health Alliance hosted a wine & food tasting event for Pollies to try their produce, lost if an open cut lead mine pollutes the local area. Lead is toxic, especially for kiddies.

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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 21h

We are at 1.4C and nature is failing.

So I am asking you once again why you're allowing a handful of multinationals condemn your children and grandchildren to a hellscape future, just so they can "grow shareholder value"

www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

Level of CO₂ in atmosphere rises by annual record

Scientists believe the increase could be due to trees, oceans and peatlands absorbing less carbon because of heatwaves and drought

www.thetimes.com

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Rex Patrick @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social · 9h

@albomp.bsky.social’s #FOI Amendment Bill cannot be voted on this year. A week is a long time in politics - three months is an eternity. We must remain vigilant to fend off Albanese’s disgraceful attack on open and transparent Government. #auspol

A deserved defeat for Albanese on freedom of information

Thanks to Opposition leader Sussan Ley, the government’s disgraceful attempt to squeeze the life out of the Freedom of Information Act is as dead as a herring.

johnmenadue.com

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Rex Patrick @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social · 9h

“The US taking part-ownership of Australian rare earths projects”. That’s @albomp.bsky.social’s plan? 🤦‍♂️ #SellingUsOut #auspol

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Scott Hamilton @sdhamiltonvic.bsky.social · 6h

‘The cost of solar power and batteries has fallen 80% in the last decade, with offshore wind costs down 73% and onshore wind down 57%. Stern said the growing economies of scale of climate technology’

Take note, AUS ‼️ #auspol
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Climate investment is only growth opportunity of 21st century, says leading economist

Lord Stern says fossil-fuelled growth is futile as the damage it causes ends in economic self-destruction

www.theguardian.com

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Gekko @gekko.bsky.social · 8h

Climate warming

Soon too late to talk about climate change. We've already passed several tipping points and we're entering a critical stage

Are you prepared to VOTE for climate action or continue our progress towards chaos?

That will mean voting for a revolution

johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10...

Climate change causing oceans to decline at alarming rate

Climate change and human activity are causing the health of the world’s oceans to decline at an alarming rate, the UN has warned.

johnmenadue.com

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 9h

“The environment minister wants to pass a major re-write of federal nature laws this year, encouraging miners to lobby the Coalition to work with Labor to help rush it through parliament in the final three sitting weeks”

Just contemplate that sentence.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

With climate trigger axed Labor wants to rush new environmental laws through after ‘positive’ talks with Coalition

Proposed timeframe leaves 12 days to scrutinise most significant changes to national environmental protection regime since 1999

www.theguardian.com

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William Murphy @futuredude.bsky.social · 9h

We didn’t always have credit scores. They were invented to automate social control—turning “trust” into an algorithm owned by banks. Now your worthiness is a data point that decides if you can live, work, or breathe in the capitalist economy.

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elfdock.bsky.social @elfdock.bsky.social · 19h

WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains names of Indigenous people who have died.
"We had a royal commission 30 years ago that came up with a raft of recommendations, and the vast majority of them haven't been implemented," she said.

Motion calling for federal oversight of NT deaths in custody rejected

Three decades after the landmark Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, the Northern Territory parliament rejects a motion proposing the federal government establish an independent oversi...

www.abc.net.au

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Rod Moffatt @politikarma.bsky.social · 17h

Here’s one for Hanson & her One Neurone outfit
#auspol

Ken Bardsley @kenbar.bsky.social · 1d

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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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William Murphy @futuredude.bsky.social · 1d

Marxism Is a Scientific Socialism: Seeing Capitalism as It Is, Not as It Pretends to Be.

Cut through the noise — Marxism isn’t about identity or aesthetics. It’s a method for understanding and dismantling capitalism itself.

futuredude.substack.com

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Áine Conghaile ńee Seanlaoich @longfordlass.bsky.social · 1d

Morning…..

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Kent Parkstreet, Laird of Doofus @kentparkskeet.bsky.social · 1d

The French city where you can eat gourmet food for €1

In Marseille, France’s most diverse city, a new wave of restaurants is redefining fine dining by blending haute cuisine with community solidarity.

www.bbc.com

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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 1d

#Trump's worst impacts might be to deny governments the opportunity to contend with the world's most dangerous problems: altered climates affecting humanity in difficult ways. #auspol #climatechange

Trump and climate change

Donald Trump does not accept that climate change is a real and significant phenomenon. In fact, he has said those who propound it are perpetrating the “greatest hoax” in the history of the world.

johnmenadue.com

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Peggy Sanders @peggysanders.bsky.social · 2d

Michael Pascoe:
“If anyone was hoping for significant economic reform to improve Australia’s outlook, to realise this nation’s enormous potential, hope buried Monday 13/10 when Treasurer Chalmers announced PM Albanese’s reformed superannuation reform.”

michaelwest.com.au/albos-supera....

Albo’s super dance: one step forward, one backward, one to the side - Michael West

It was Jim Chalmers’ superannuation reform but we get Anthony Albanese’s reform of the reform - Government is risk-adverse and incremental

michaelwest.com.au

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Sydney Knitting Nannas and Friends @knitnannassyd.bsky.social · 2d

At Origin Energy AGM today Knitting Nannas, @parentsforclimate.bsky.social Anti Poverty Centre, @swelteringcities.bsky.social and NSW Conservation Council calling on Origin to stop their gas expansion and gas exports driving up temperatures and Australian’s energy Bills.

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elfdock.bsky.social @elfdock.bsky.social · 1d

israel is disgraced amongst humanity. It will pay for its crime of genocide on the people of Palestine.

'Israel said it would halve the number of humanitarian aid trucks allowed into Gaza as punishment.'

One of four bodies handed over by Hamas not a hostage, Israel says

The Israeli military says one of four bodies handed over by Hamas on Tuesday night, local time, is not that of an Israeli hostage.

www.abc.net.au

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Maisie May @maisiemay3.bsky.social · 1d

I would like to tell Pat Conroy that as a woman, I am sick to death of listening to him, and all male leaders around the globe talking proudly of how much money they are spending on defence! We need this to stop and start looking at what can be done to improve the lives of all.
#auspol

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Jenny Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithWatermelon🍉🍉 @joneshowdareyou.bsky.social · 1d

It’s an exciting week for the penguin community, we’re all waiting to see who is the winner … I mean loser
— First Dog on the Moon
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Peggy Sanders @peggysanders.bsky.social · 1d

Anton Nilsson: “The manufacturing taskforce was not the only role to which Liveris was nominated by Morrison. In April 2022, in one of Morrison’s final acts as prime minister, he appointed Liveris president of the Organising Committee Board for the Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games.”

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Political Gadgets @politicalgadgets.bsky.social · 1d

Government Temporary Staff Tenders in the last day: $0 - https://politicalgadgets.com/

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