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gardenmuser
@gardenmuser1.bsky.social
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Concerned citizen and planet lover. Formerly health and education. Now painting, planting and pondering: how to bequeath a fairer, kinder world to my grandkids. Transferring from Twitter.
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gardenmuser @gardenmuser1.bsky.social · 8h
"Each new review manages emotion rather than confronting the social conditions that breed cruelty. It asks teachers to absorb the pain of the world and then blames them when the world seeps back into their classrooms." A really perceptive article. #auspol #teaching
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Managing bullying or manufacturing shame? How neoliberal bureaucracy gets it wrong – again
When Education Minister Jason Clare announced the Anti-Bullying Rapid Review in early 2025, he spoke with the gravity such tragedies demand.
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gardenmuser @gardenmuser1.bsky.social · 1d
So interesting. Education and understanding needed by us all, and especially our leaders. Sadly, can't see Marles getting it. #auspol
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To avert war, the West must shatter the mirror by which it views China
The concept of the Thucydides Trap, predicting conflict between China and the US, projects the West’s conquest-driven history onto Chinese civilisation.
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God @thegodpodcast.com · 1d
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 1d
🇪🇺 The Chancellor is right - Brexit is a disaster.

⬇️ Farage, the architect, stands to profit from the cost of living crisis and division that he, more than any other, has created.

Brexit broke Britain.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/22/keir-starmer-rachel-reeves-brexit-eu-labour
Nothing else has worked – so Starmer and Reeves are finally telling the truth about Brexit | Rafael Behr
It is the right way to go, but taking the long way round to such an obvious point has cost Labour precious time and credibility, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
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gardenmuser @gardenmuser1.bsky.social · 1d
Spot on! And this includes the #ABC where the best they can deliver are Crabbe, Norman, Karvelas and Speers. #auspol #msm
Why the media so clearly fails at covering what Trump means for Australia www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/21/d...
Why the media so clearly fails at covering what Trump means for Australia
In its focus on personalities and its inability to see the United States as a threat to Australia, the commercial media is failing Australians.
www.crikey.com.au
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Rafael Behr @rafaelbehr.bsky.social · 1d
On Starmer and Reeves stiffening their Brexit posture www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Nothing else has worked – so Starmer and Reeves are finally telling the truth about Brexit | Rafael Behr
It is the right way to go, but taking the long way round to such an obvious point has cost Labour precious time and credibility, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
www.theguardian.com
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Rocky @blakbob0.bsky.social · 2d
Australia's critical minerals list and rare earths are all on Aboriginal land.
A map of Australian critical mineral deposits and mines 2024.
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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 1d
Thanks to Murray and his ALP pals, weather reports like this will become increasingly scary and weird
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Lola @lolat42.bsky.social · 1d
I think the current crop of Australian politicians are old enough that they expect that climate change won’t affect them personally. I think that they are wrong, it will bite them on the posterior too.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
'Climate trigger' formally ruled out of environment laws
A "climate trigger" that could be used to block coal and gas projects has been formally excluded from the government's overhaul of Australia's environment laws, minister Murray Watt confirms.
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@gfelljones.bsky.social @20244202.bsky.social · 1d
wtgator.bsky.social Wendy MsGator @wtgator.bsky.social · 1d
The fabulous Cathy Wilcox has nailed this pathetic shitshow visit by Albanese to meet Trump.

#auspol
A cartoon in 4 frames. A journalist interviews the Prime Minister ... Journo: So, they get considerable control over our critical minerals sector PM: Yep. Journo: ... ensuring that we can keep paying them billions for submarines we may never get ... PM: That's right! Journo: ... and we can ignore their slide into a fascistic autocracy with no regard for the rule of law? PM: Uh-huh Journo: Astonishing. PM: People often underestimate me.
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@gfelljones.bsky.social @20244202.bsky.social · 1d
Exactly.
A goose-bumpingly terrifying image. . .
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gardenmuser @gardenmuser1.bsky.social · 2d
"The militarisation of tropical Australia continues apace." Even our Labor government is complicit with America. This cannot end well. #auspol
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Readying the north for war
Few Australians realise that the tropical north occupies more than 40% of our land mass while holding only 5% of the population. But governments — colonial, state and national — have speculated about ...
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Ronni🧂Salt @ronnisalt.bsky.social · 3d
The post-humous memoir of Virginia Giuffre is released today

If you can, please buy/borrow a copy (paperback/e-book/audio)

Of course, if you can not, and so many of us will not be able to read it for so many reasons, please share and let people know about the story of this extraordinary woman

💔🙏🏽❤️
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sallylawry @sallylawry.bsky.social · 2d
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10... oh spare us from this Crabb crap .
When Trump was ready to take his pound of flesh, Rudd was here to help
From his humble early days as a child reading Hansard in the regional Sunshine State pocket of Eumundi, Kevin Rudd has been preparing for this martyrdom. But the Passion Of The Kevin, when it came, wa...
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 2d
Whether Australia gets the AUKUS submarines is up to the US President. Unfortunately for us, that is Donald Trump.

‘The AUKUS deal is rife with risk of failure but there are also significant risks if it succeeds.’

- Dr Emma Shortis

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gardenmuser @gardenmuser1.bsky.social · 3d
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10...
Palestinian Mandela beaten unconscious. Our leaders yawned and looked away
Israel and the West pretend they want a real peace in Israel-Palestine yet the Israelis just beat unconscious the man most likely to help realise a sustainable end to the conflict: Marwan Barghouti.
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gardenmuser @gardenmuser1.bsky.social · 3d
Funny how Marles seeks attention once Albo is out of the country!? #auspol
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gardenmuser @gardenmuser1.bsky.social · 3d
"If Albanese will not use the power and authority he has been given....
if he lacks the courage or the guts, the imagination or the breadth of ideas, he should get out of the way for someone who can provide more effective leadership and some inspiration." #auspol
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Australia’s political parties are moving to their use-by date
Sooner or later Anthony Albanese or his successor will lead the Labor Government to defeat.
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Anastrophist @anastrophic.bsky.social · 6d
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Gift Link. Consultancy captures government policy. Again.
How the fossil fuel lobby captured a landmark Labor policy
The federal government’s Future Gas Strategy, which backs extending production through to 2050 and beyond, is based on contested EY research commissioned by Australian Energy Producers.
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
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gardenmuser @gardenmuser1.bsky.social · 6d
A story so awful you'd think it could only be fiction....
About people some of us elect to govern us. #auspol
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/2025/10/18/l...
Linda Reynolds’ latest move
Imagine that a young woman is raped in your office. You are a minister and she is the most junior member of your staff. In the footage you see later, she is too drunk to put on her shoes. She walks ba...
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Rachel Withers @rachelwithers.bsky.social · 14d
Imagine kicking the former national rugby captain out of your sports club instead of the gambling lobby.

To paraphrase Groucho Marx, who'd want to belong to a club that would accept Responsible Wagering Australia as one of its sponsors?
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Sonans @sojaya.bsky.social · 21d
Great summary of current “bases” which I learnt thru this article are apparently not classed as “bases”?!

What a load of bullshit, these are military targets. Especially flammable in Darwin with the fuel tanks I say laughing nervously
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14d
Everything Trump is doing now is a preamble for his regime's real goal: to invoke the Insurrection Act.

I don’t want to unduly alarm you, but you need to be aware of this imminent danger. Let me explain what’s going on.
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gardenmuser @gardenmuser1.bsky.social · 15d
The National Press Club's cancellation of Chris Hedges was utterly despicable. Main stream media deplores their profession's declining credibility, but the only freedom of speech in this country comes from journalists who write for independent media. #auspol
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Statement on cancellation of Chris Hedges’ confirmed appearance at the National Press Club of Australia
AFOPA is responding to the statement published on 4 October 2025 by the National Press Club of Australia in relation to their cancellation of Chris Hedges’ confirmed appearance at the National Press C...
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gardenmuser @gardenmuser1.bsky.social · 15d
The National Press Club's cancelling of Chris Hedges was utterly despicable. The only free speech in this country comes to us via the only journalists worthy of respect here, those who write for independent media. #auspol
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Cancelling Chris Hedges: What price balance?
On its homepage you will read that “The National Press Club (NPC) is a vigorous champion of media freedom and a home away from home for journalists”.
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