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Ben Debney @landcucumber.bsky.social · 2h

In March 2025 Battin explained his week-long absence from Parliament when Jacina Allen introduced crime reform legislation as "visiting his parents" impacted by Cyclone Alfred, before it was revealed he had actually spent 4 days on the luxury cruise liner Quantum of the Seas.

#auspol
#australia

Brad Battin - Wikipedia

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 2h

The news comes just days after Maria Corina Machado was announced the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo.

Venezuela to close Norway embassy after opposition leader wins Nobel Prize

The news comes just days after Maria Corina Machado was announced the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo.

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Valentenya 🍉 🐈‍⬛ @valentenya.bsky.social · 2h

I’m fed up with reading climate related media and posts that cover everything except the cause and solutions. Is it any wonder most people are clueless and falling into despair. C’mon guys, lift your games. If you’re not writing about a fast exit from fossil fuels then you’re part of the problem.

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Hagatha @Hagatha42.bsky.social @hagatha42.bsky.social · 2h

She was good at following orders I suppose.

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Hagatha @Hagatha42.bsky.social @hagatha42.bsky.social · 2h

Duty of care?

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Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 4h

Splodeyrocket did explode, but only after it had 'landed' ... in the Indian Ocean, near Australia's Cocos (Keeling) Islands. Improving.

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Marns🌿🍉 @marnshibski.bsky.social · 2h

Good investigating, exposing the soft power influence lobbyists enjoy while playing sport with pollies and journalists.

It isn’t necessary or ethical to have a parliamentary sports club pervaded by harmful lobbyists. FTO!
#auspol

Reged Ahmad @regedahmad.bsky.social · 3h

@henrybelot.bsky.social has been doing some insightful, persistent reporting on betting lobbying for some time - we spoke to him about how he got this exclusive as well as his deep knowledge of the issue. #FullStory @australia.theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

What Pocock’s ban from parliament’s sport club says about lobbying – podcast

Senior reporter Henry Belot speaks to Reged Ahmad about how he broke the story and what the saga says about how corporate interests access politicians

www.theguardian.com

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Rationalist Society of Australia @ausrationalist.bsky.social · 2h

In a letter to us, the Australian Bureau of Statistics has rejected concerns that the continued use of a coercive and biased religion question in the Census is discriminatory and breaches the country’s international human rights commitments. Read more: rationalist.com.au/abs-chief-re...
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ABS chief rejects claim Census religion question is discriminatory for assuming every Australian has a religion | Rationalist Society of Australia

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has rejected concerns that the continued use of a coercive and biased religion question in the Census is discriminatory and breaches the country’s internation...

rationalist.com.au

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coupdegraz7.bsky.social @coupdegraz7.bsky.social · 2h

#auspol #BRICS

Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 10h

Sixty-eight percent of inter-BRICS trade is taking place outside the dollar system, rapidly enabling countries to escape the illegal imposition of financial sanctions by the US and the West. A fundamental redistribution of power in geopolitics. #auspol #BRICS

The West’s crucial strategic failures

The Earth is littered with the ruins of empires that once believed they were eternal. Camille Paglia.

johnmenadue.com

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MingTheMerciless @m1ngthemerciless.bsky.social · 6h

The United States is now the true axis of evil. Why are we still allied to it? #auspol Cancel #aukus.

PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 1d

A 6-year-old immigrant child is handcuffed with hands behind their back and arrested.
Trump’s America.

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MingTheMerciless @m1ngthemerciless.bsky.social · 6h

Very hard to cover up institutional political corruption when under the public's gaze, perhaps including your own www.nacc.gov.au Commissioner? www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/nationa... #auspol

Corruption watchdog defends lack of public hearings on robodebt

Australia's corruption watchdog has faced questions about a lack of public hearings and delays to finalising issues in the robodebt inquiry.

www.thenewdaily.com.au

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eco mindful @ecomindful.bsky.social · 8h

Watch out Australia!

We’ve also got a bunch of crooks cooking up their deals right now to water down already pisweak environmental protection laws. 🤑

💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰

Remember, nature always bats last!

⛈️🔥🌪️🌊🌋🥀🦟🦠🌏

#auspol

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

@overshootpod.bsky.social podcast is a must listen for everyone who assumes their pension and super funds investments in #FossilFuels will be protected from the impact of #ClimateChange

Fabulous series #auspol with some of the planets most eminent climate scientists and economists.

Joseph E. Stiglitz @josephestiglitz.bsky.social · 18h

Thanks to @overshootpod.bsky.social for bringing this urgent issue front and center in their podcast series. It was a pleasure to speak with them.

Overshoot Podcast @overshootpod.bsky.social · 22h

📢 episode 3 is out now

We meet the pensioner who looked into her pension fund's due diligence on climate change

What she found was shocking...

Featuring
@carbontracker.bsky.social, @josephestiglitz.bsky.social and many more

Listen now: www.overshootpod.com

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Darren Quinn @ausmmt.bsky.social · 6h

You can't build a strong analysis with a broken toolkit. The standard explanation of the Complexity Paradox is incomplete. My new article provides the correct, foundational framework you need to actually understand it. Build your understanding here: buff.ly/peKn3di #complexity #auspol #econ

The Economic Complexity Paradox: Why Australia Is Both Brilliant and Vulnerable

Why Australia Is Both Brilliant and Vulnerable

buff.ly

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Bridie Mac @bridiemac.bsky.social · 8h

#auspol #robodebt #ICAC

stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 8h

NSW ICAC was widely condemned by politicians & the media after they took just under 2yrs to conclude their investigation into Gladys Berejiklian’s corruption.

Is anyone condemning the NACC who after well OVER 2yrs is still investigating Robodebt? Why not? #auspol

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Hagatha @Hagatha42.bsky.social @hagatha42.bsky.social · 6h

#StrandedAssets
are liabilities
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Shane Bryan @shanebryan.bsky.social · 8h

3 failed M&As with #Santos suggest deep environmental or infrastructure issues - and likely huge hidden financial risks. If only someone from Abu Dhabi National Oil or Harbour Energy would leak what they found in due diligence… #auspol

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Why Santos is behind your soaring electricity and mortgage costs

It was a primary force behind Australia’s inflationary surge, it’s forced businesses either to the wall or to shift offshore, undermined national industry policy and resulted in the loss of countless ...

www.abc.net.au

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WearyOlly @wearyolly.bsky.social · 8h

#auspol if you're thinking of going to the melbourne cup because of #umamusume (horse girl gacha game), please don't.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDsb...

Honest Government Ad | The Melbourne Cup

YouTube video by thejuicemedia

www.youtube.com

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Peggy Sanders @peggysanders.bsky.social · 7h

The cost of housing is the main driver of poverty in Australia. @albomp.bsky.social
@jimchalmers.bsky.social
@alankohler.bsky.social
#auspol.

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Sydney EV @sydneyev.bsky.social · 7h

Every day, and night, there is a conga line of trucks leaving Oberon with timber products headed to Sydney... destroying roads, costing the community in maintenance, and health impacts,
meanwhile, there is a rail link directly from the timber mills to Sydney. abandoned, unused. why #auspol?

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jansant @jansant.com · 7h

At Sunday's #FreePalestine rally in Melbourne around 20,000 people marched to end, Israel's occupation of Palestine and demand justice for Palestinians.
#auspol #springst #GazaGenocide

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jansant @jansant.com · 7h

A couple more shots from the speeches during Sunday's #FreePalestine rally in Naarm/Melbourne.
#auspol #springst #GazaGenocide

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Rosemary Vass @coonavass.bsky.social · 7h

Ain’t that the truth!! #democracy not #theocracy #Auspol

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Market Forces @marketforces.org.au · 6h

#TOKYO 📍 Don’t miss this exhibition from Noor Alam and Suman Kanti shining a light on the daily lives of communities in the Matarbari region of Bangladesh—their fishing, farming, and family life by the sea—under the expanding shadow of coal and gas-fired power plants. #climate #bangladesh

Exhibition graphic for Where the Smoke Meets the Sea. Features two photos of communities in the Matarbari region of Bangladesh. One shows a man fishing near fossil fuel infrastructure, the other shows a man standing in a field.

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Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 6h

Ouch, again.

The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 11h

The lights on the hill.
My @smh @theage cartoon.

Single frame. Parliament House Canberra by night - with bright neon signs saying “AUSTRALIAN PARLIAMENTARY SPORTS CLUB” “PLAY TO WIN - ACCESS” “TRY YOUR LUCK” “PAY TO PLAY” “‘RESPONSIBLE’ LOBBYING AUSTRALIA”

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David Marler @qldaah.bsky.social · 6h

From amphibians to nudity, ICE protests continue in Portland. MAGA counter as the Trump regime insists the city has been taken by Antifa. California & Oregon National Guard have been federalised but remain grounded awaiting a court decision on Thursday.
www.opb.org/article/2025...

Naked bike ride protest caps week of Portland demonstrations, more ahead

As many Portlanders return to work Monday after a relatively sedate and rainy weekend of marches and protests, the city awaits word on whether the National Guard will be allowed to deploy to city stre...

www.opb.org

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