Lu
@alwayscuppatime.bsky.social
Love is a verb so I’m showing up for people & the planet. Regional Queensland. It’s always a good time for a cuppa!
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"Public land is privatised, heritage is compromised, neighbourhood character is sacrificed, streets are deserted and unsafe. Cities cease to be places of meaning and become engines of yield. Residents become metrics. Community becomes an afterthought." #auspol
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The great failure of the property industry
In every era, certain industries become so large, so politically embedded, and so culturally unexamined that their performance ceases to matter.
johnmenadue.com
November 30, 2025 at 7:59 PM
"Public land is privatised, heritage is compromised, neighbourhood character is sacrificed, streets are deserted and unsafe. Cities cease to be places of meaning and become engines of yield. Residents become metrics. Community becomes an afterthought." #auspol
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/12...
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On the road the other day I got a cup of tea at Maccas. $4.55 for terrible tea, but to add extra insult, a splash of soy milk is 80c extra. I’m sure it used to be 50c. The cost of tea includes the price of regular milk, how can soy milk be 80c more?! Rip off. #australia #tea
November 30, 2025 at 8:35 PM
On the road the other day I got a cup of tea at Maccas. $4.55 for terrible tea, but to add extra insult, a splash of soy milk is 80c extra. I’m sure it used to be 50c. The cost of tea includes the price of regular milk, how can soy milk be 80c more?! Rip off. #australia #tea
This is Labor at their ‘zenith’?! Poverty is rising, health & education are struggling, emissions targets will be missed & fossil fuels are still being approved. Leaves a lot to be desired if this is the high point. #auspol
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
Albanese and Labor are at their zenith. What a difference a year makes
It is hard to imagine a better end to the prime minister's year than this one, but realists in government know Labor can't continue to ride the wave.
www.abc.net.au
November 30, 2025 at 8:24 PM
This is Labor at their ‘zenith’?! Poverty is rising, health & education are struggling, emissions targets will be missed & fossil fuels are still being approved. Leaves a lot to be desired if this is the high point. #auspol
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
I take my hat off to the #risingtide activists who have taken to the water to disrupt coal exports this weekend. Congratulations to all the organisers & volunteers for pulling off an epic protestival! #endfossilfuels
November 30, 2025 at 12:35 PM
I take my hat off to the #risingtide activists who have taken to the water to disrupt coal exports this weekend. Congratulations to all the organisers & volunteers for pulling off an epic protestival! #endfossilfuels
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Is oral health a priority for the Albanese Government? Apparently not… – Croakey Health Media www.croakey.org/is-oral-heal...
#AusPol
#AusPol
November 27, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Is oral health a priority for the Albanese Government? Apparently not… – Croakey Health Media www.croakey.org/is-oral-heal...
#AusPol
#AusPol
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Certain politicians continue the lie that we can keep opening more coal mines and coal seam gas fields without totally destroying Australia’s climate and food and water security.
#climatecrisis #netzero2050 #auspol www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...
#climatecrisis #netzero2050 #auspol www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...
Ditching net zero abandons Aussie farmers like me
When politicians say they’re against net zero, they’re willing to let their constituents suffer record-breaking floods, droughts and heat.
www.thenewdaily.com.au
November 26, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Certain politicians continue the lie that we can keep opening more coal mines and coal seam gas fields without totally destroying Australia’s climate and food and water security.
#climatecrisis #netzero2050 #auspol www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...
#climatecrisis #netzero2050 #auspol www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...
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This is definitely a blind spot in the EPBC Act reform bills.
#auslaw #auspol #climatecrisis
theconversation.com/long-awaited...
#auslaw #auspol #climatecrisis
theconversation.com/long-awaited...
Long-awaited environment laws might get Australia sued. Here’s why
Labor has pledged to pass long-awaited environment laws this week. But the current reforms leave Australia open to legal challenge.
theconversation.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:09 PM
This is definitely a blind spot in the EPBC Act reform bills.
#auslaw #auspol #climatecrisis
theconversation.com/long-awaited...
#auslaw #auspol #climatecrisis
theconversation.com/long-awaited...
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From ‘net zero’ to ‘net gain’. The platypus-to-possum exchange rate https://michaelwest.com.au/from-net-zero-to-net-gain-the-platypus-to-possum-exchange-rate/ #auspol
From ‘net zero’ to ‘net gain’. The platypus-to-possum exchange rate
Following the Libs 'Net Zero' battle, 'Net Gain' will be the focus this week as Murray Watt struggles to get changes to environmental laws passed.
michaelwest.com.au
November 24, 2025 at 7:40 PM
From ‘net zero’ to ‘net gain’. The platypus-to-possum exchange rate https://michaelwest.com.au/from-net-zero-to-net-gain-the-platypus-to-possum-exchange-rate/ #auspol
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Out in regional and outer-suburban Australia, people aren’t debating the science of climate change anymore – they’re debating whether the clean energy transition will make their lives better or worse.
#climatecrisis #renewableenergy #auspol www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...
#climatecrisis #renewableenergy #auspol www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...
Forget net zero, we need to talk about Australia's next jobs boom
If the past decade of climate politics in Australia was a fight over whether to act, the next one will be a fight over who benefits.
www.thenewdaily.com.au
November 23, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Out in regional and outer-suburban Australia, people aren’t debating the science of climate change anymore – they’re debating whether the clean energy transition will make their lives better or worse.
#climatecrisis #renewableenergy #auspol www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...
#climatecrisis #renewableenergy #auspol www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...
‘The woeful failure to tighten the regulation of land clearing and native forest logging suggests either profound ecological ignorance or complete indifference, to the fate of wildlife and our natural and cultural heritage.’
You cant protect nature if you wont protect native forests from chain saws & bulldozers
Great column by Virginia Young on Labors deeply flawed new ‘nature laws’…the ones that’s are so flawed the mining industry are desperately lobbying the Liberals to vote for them
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Great column by Virginia Young on Labors deeply flawed new ‘nature laws’…the ones that’s are so flawed the mining industry are desperately lobbying the Liberals to vote for them
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Australians are being asked to believe we can protect nature by exploiting it faster and with less scrutiny
The point.com.au
thepoint.com.au
November 22, 2025 at 1:17 PM
‘The woeful failure to tighten the regulation of land clearing and native forest logging suggests either profound ecological ignorance or complete indifference, to the fate of wildlife and our natural and cultural heritage.’
Paul Kelly’s #likeaversion was sooo good!
November 20, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Paul Kelly’s #likeaversion was sooo good!
Appalling prospect.
Coalition to help Labor rush through new nature laws if environmental protections dropped
Coalition to help Labor rush through new nature laws if environmental protections dropped
Sussan Ley’s offer allows a clear path to pass laws to rewrite Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act in final sitting week
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The Coalition has offered to help Labor rush through new nature laws if it agrees to gut environment protection, challenging Labor to side with business interests over green groups to implement the long-awaited changes.
Environmental lawyers are urging the government against further weakening already flawed laws at the “behest of industry”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Appalling prospect.
Reading about this in the same month that Australia is put at 142 of 145 nations on Harvard’s greenplexity index is quite something. As reported by @johnmenadue.com it measures how ready countries are to embrace new green value chains.
CSIRO cutting another 350 research roles to save costs “Guardian Australia understands the research areas affected by the latest round of job losses will include the health and biosecurity, agriculture and food and environment research units.”
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
#auspol
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
#auspol
‘Sad day for publicly funded science’: up to 350 more jobs to go at CSIRO
Australia’s national scientific agency announces more research job losses as it looks for budgetary savings
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Reading about this in the same month that Australia is put at 142 of 145 nations on Harvard’s greenplexity index is quite something. As reported by @johnmenadue.com it measures how ready countries are to embrace new green value chains.
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CSIRO cutting another 350 research roles to save costs “Guardian Australia understands the research areas affected by the latest round of job losses will include the health and biosecurity, agriculture and food and environment research units.”
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
#auspol
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
#auspol
‘Sad day for publicly funded science’: up to 350 more jobs to go at CSIRO
Australia’s national scientific agency announces more research job losses as it looks for budgetary savings
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:15 AM
CSIRO cutting another 350 research roles to save costs “Guardian Australia understands the research areas affected by the latest round of job losses will include the health and biosecurity, agriculture and food and environment research units.”
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
#auspol
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
#auspol
I really wish Sarah Ferguson had a moment to ask how Ley plans to address climate change if her plan is to ‘unlock gas’. I really hope an lnp-Labor EPBC deal isn’t in our future.
November 17, 2025 at 12:02 PM
I really wish Sarah Ferguson had a moment to ask how Ley plans to address climate change if her plan is to ‘unlock gas’. I really hope an lnp-Labor EPBC deal isn’t in our future.
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‘Essentially we are adding more carbon debt to our planetary credit card, leaving future generations with an unpayable liability.’ #climateaction #climatecrisis #auspol
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Net zero is an insidious loophole that distracts from the scientific imperative to eliminate fossil fuels | Joëlle Gergis
History tells us that polite incrementalism and political kowtowing will prevail at Cop30 – even as catastrophe unfolds around us
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:14 PM
‘Essentially we are adding more carbon debt to our planetary credit card, leaving future generations with an unpayable liability.’ #climateaction #climatecrisis #auspol
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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So here's the favour I want to ask: if this post crosses your feed, please take this chance to support the Gitxsan and Gitanyow by watching our latest HGA and passing it on.
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November 10, 2025 at 5:28 AM
So here's the favour I want to ask: if this post crosses your feed, please take this chance to support the Gitxsan and Gitanyow by watching our latest HGA and passing it on.
Help us put Ksi Lisims and PRGT on the map 🙏
Help us put Ksi Lisims and PRGT on the map 🙏
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Amy Remeikis on Gough:
Lost in that analysis, and the lessons not learnt, is that we have his legacy because he didn’t bend. Because he knew that to compromise, to give in, would mean nothing ever changed.
Politics 101: Learning the wrong lesson every time www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...
Lost in that analysis, and the lessons not learnt, is that we have his legacy because he didn’t bend. Because he knew that to compromise, to give in, would mean nothing ever changed.
Politics 101: Learning the wrong lesson every time www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...
Australian politics 101: Getting the lessons wrong every time
If one thing is true for all mainstream political parties, it’s that they will always learn the wrong lessons.
www.thenewdaily.com.au
November 9, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Amy Remeikis on Gough:
Lost in that analysis, and the lessons not learnt, is that we have his legacy because he didn’t bend. Because he knew that to compromise, to give in, would mean nothing ever changed.
Politics 101: Learning the wrong lesson every time www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...
Lost in that analysis, and the lessons not learnt, is that we have his legacy because he didn’t bend. Because he knew that to compromise, to give in, would mean nothing ever changed.
Politics 101: Learning the wrong lesson every time www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...
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Experts say the proposed environment legislation is full of problems, including excessive ministerial discretion and relaxing like-for-like offset rules.
#climatecrisis #environment #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
#climatecrisis #environment #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Will Labor’s environment laws actually address Australia’s biodiversity crisis? Five reasons to be concerned
Experts say the proposed legislation is full of problems, including excessive ministerial discretion and relaxing like-for-like offset rules
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Experts say the proposed environment legislation is full of problems, including excessive ministerial discretion and relaxing like-for-like offset rules.
#climatecrisis #environment #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
#climatecrisis #environment #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Rural health leaders are speaking up!
Abandoning net zero would jeopardise the health of rural and remote Australians – Croakey Health Media
www.croakey.org/abandoning-n...
By @alisonsbarrett.bsky.social
#AusPol
Abandoning net zero would jeopardise the health of rural and remote Australians – Croakey Health Media
www.croakey.org/abandoning-n...
By @alisonsbarrett.bsky.social
#AusPol
Abandoning net zero would jeopardise the health of rural and remote Australians
Alison Barrett writes: The health of rural, regional and remote communities is at risk if the Liberal and National Parties
www.croakey.org
November 7, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Rural health leaders are speaking up!
Abandoning net zero would jeopardise the health of rural and remote Australians – Croakey Health Media
www.croakey.org/abandoning-n...
By @alisonsbarrett.bsky.social
#AusPol
Abandoning net zero would jeopardise the health of rural and remote Australians – Croakey Health Media
www.croakey.org/abandoning-n...
By @alisonsbarrett.bsky.social
#AusPol
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Congratulations to Zohran Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
We can win without copying the far right
We can win without attacking the weak and most vulnerable in our society
We can win with socialism 📣✊🏾
Trade Union Leaders - needs to wake up!
We can win without copying the far right
We can win without attacking the weak and most vulnerable in our society
We can win with socialism 📣✊🏾
Trade Union Leaders - needs to wake up!
November 5, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Congratulations to Zohran Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
We can win without copying the far right
We can win without attacking the weak and most vulnerable in our society
We can win with socialism 📣✊🏾
Trade Union Leaders - needs to wake up!
We can win without copying the far right
We can win without attacking the weak and most vulnerable in our society
We can win with socialism 📣✊🏾
Trade Union Leaders - needs to wake up!
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"What’s missing from the proposed reforms is a positive agenda to address Australia’s deep historic losses of nature." theconversation.com/wheres-natur...
Where’s nature positive? Australia must ensure environment reforms work to restore what’s been lost
Australia is among many countries working to protect and restore nature at scale. But long-awaited environmental law reforms won’t help much as they stand.
theconversation.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:48 PM
"What’s missing from the proposed reforms is a positive agenda to address Australia’s deep historic losses of nature." theconversation.com/wheres-natur...
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November 4, 2025
November 4, 2025 (Tuesday)
So much for obeying a court order, even if begrudgingly and with manufactured delay.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:37 AM
November 4, 2025
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Pay public school teachers 20% more than private average and watch the shift. Maintain that gap and it changes the nation. Kids futures or Future subs? You choose #auspol www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Australia’s teacher shortages are some of the shortest (longest?) in the world! | First Dog on the Moon
Imagine having the responsibility to mould the tiny minds of the next generation and you have to buy your own clag
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Pay public school teachers 20% more than private average and watch the shift. Maintain that gap and it changes the nation. Kids futures or Future subs? You choose #auspol www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Bluesky #auspol please re share and bump this up.
#firstnations #corporategreed
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
#firstnations #corporategreed
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Constant power denied to 65,000 customers forced to pay upfront or disconnect
Communities on prepaid power meters face regular disconnections amid 40 degree-plus heat, meaning no aircon, food rotting in the fridge and long, hot walks to get reconnected.
www.abc.net.au
November 2, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Bluesky #auspol please re share and bump this up.
#firstnations #corporategreed
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
#firstnations #corporategreed
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...