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Eliza GW
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Biologist, environmentalist, artist, open source and classical music enthusiast. I paint musicians. Also collected German women's war stories. Books at artsmitten.com
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Fascinating reminiscences of German women collected in the 1970s. Women War and The Third Reich. Available through your local bookstore or through Amazon.
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Our government is putting someone on trial for throwing a sandwich at an armed agent, while it takes food away from hungry citizens.

We should be putting this government on trial, and giving sandwiches to hungry people.
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Who supports the Albanese Govt's new environment laws?
• Chevron
• BHP
• the Minerals Council of Australia
• the Business Council of Australia

Who doesn't support the new laws?
• Australian Conservation Foundation
• Greenpeace
• the Climate Council
• the Wilderness Society and more. 🤔 #auspol
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The ghastly term ‘masterplanned communities’ - really just a cypher for maximised development profit, too often in the form of a hyper-dense enclave with no genuine & dedicated public space.
A lousy way to make a city
architectureau.com/articles/Pla...
Plans submitted for eight-tower masterplanned community in Sydney
The proposal would deliver 1,336 new homes across eight towers on a 3.14-hectare site.
architectureau.com
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Burgess keeps coming out with doom and gloom warnings and I can't help feeling we're being manipulated. There has been a flurry of media lately about threats and, sure, maybe it's right, but I can't help feeling as if it's some sort of propaganda.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
At least three nations 'willing to kill' on Australian soil, spy chief says
The nation's top spy uses a major speech to warn there is a "realistic possibility" a foreign government will try to assassinate a dissident on Australian soil, saying ASIO believes "at least three" n...
www.abc.net.au
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Gift horse.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
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Whoever designs the covers of these UNEP reports deserves a raise. They’re fantastic.
New national climate plans have barely moved the needle on limiting global warming. Yet there is hope.

According to UNEP's latest #EmissionsGap Report, accelerated adoption of renewable energy and falling costs mean we have the tools to cut emissions now: www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
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Alan MacLeod—

"Now is a good time to remember that Dick Cheney's post 9/11 wars killed (conservatively) 4.5 million people and displaced over 38 million more, according to a study by Brown University."
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Handy guide to Aukus subs, especially the bit about the sociopathic dictator.
#StopAukus
#Auspol
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Here are the daily color stripes for 1940-2025, with 2025 now updated through November 1.

What will the future bring? The Climate 8-ball sings: "It's not easy being green."
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I wonder why so many people are feeling aggrieved and becoming radicalised.
Could it be the breathtaking wholesale betrayal of our values, while lying about it, on a daily basis?
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New footage shows armed Israeli settlers in Al-Mughayyir, northeast of Ramallah, draining a Palestinian family’s water tank, wasting the water and blocking their livestock from drinking the water as well.

Footage shared on Al Qastal Telegram.
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"No hell is hot enough or eternal enough for Dick Cheney. Any discussion of his works must begin with the 2021 assessment of Brown University’s Costs of War Project that found, conservatively, that the War on Terror killed between 897,000 and 929,000 people across five of its battlefields."
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So by this logic, if traffic deaths don't go down, we should cut road safety funding.
What could possibly go wrong?
Asked how important water safety was for avoiding tragedies, NZ PM Luxon said it was “really important”.

Nek minute, ACC cuts funding to Water Safety NZ, as it hadn't seen a “measurable reduction in drowning injury claims”.

Do survivors not put in claims?
#NZpol
www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
ACC cuts Water Safety NZ funding; organisation says drowning risks will increase
ACC says it hasn’t seen a measurable reduction in the $3 million a year it pays out in drowning injury claims; Water Safety NZ says the decision will “make a hard job a whole lot harder”.
www.stuff.co.nz
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Women are always a reachable target for right-wing populists. Nothing challenges male privilege like women asserting their own rights and their own agency — in relationships, in families, and in the workplace. (B Keane)
The medical treatment for septic uterus, eptopic pregancies and a miscarriage that the body cannot release is abortion

Without the medical procedure of an abortion for these medical emergencies, women die

This Far Right anti-abortion shtick has nothing to do with human rights

It’s misogyny, 101
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"No Amount of Hand-Washing Can Make COVID-19 a Seasonal Virus"

Published: 14 August, 2024

"The left image shows that SARS-CoV-2 propagated to most organs, whereas the right image shows that influenza was mostly confined to the liver and lungs"

Source: whn.global/scientific/n...
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‘With the Coalition in disarray and a third term almost guaranteed, Labor is proposing to weaken environment laws even further, and that is not the Greens or Coalition’s fault.’

- Richard Denniss, co-Chief Executive Officer

@richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol
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Australian scientist who alerted world that COVID is airborne wins top science prize

When the WHO falsely claimed in March 2020 that COVID wasn’t airborne, Professor Lidia Morawska took action—organising 239 scientists worldwide to warn about SARS-CoV-2 airborne spread and urge global recognition.
Australian scientist who alerted world that Covid is airborne wins top science prize
Prof Lidia Morawska says recognition of her research comes at a fraught time – an ‘age of anti-science’
www.theguardian.com