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Voices of Wentworth @voicesofwentworth.bsky.social · 4h

“The state’s top coroner has taken the rare step of issuing an open letter after NSW reached the “profoundly distressing milestone” of recording the highest-ever number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander deaths in custody in a single year”

www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
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Coroner’s extraordinary public letter after shock number of deaths

The state’s top coroner has issued a rare statement after NSW reached a “profoundly distressing milestone”.

www.smh.com.au

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Blakandblack @blakandblack.bsky.social · 4h

The NSW coroner has described the spate of Indigenous deaths in custody as "profoundly distressing" as the state records the most ever in a single year.

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

NSW coroner makes rare comment on 'distressing' Indigenous deaths in custody

State Coroner Teresa O'Sullivan has made rare public comments to raise what she calls the "entrenched over-representation" of Indigenous prisoners.

www.abc.net.au

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goldingcartoons.bsky.social @goldingcartoons.bsky.social · 7h

Use it or lose it.
The Age

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LouisViljee @louisviljee.bsky.social · 35m

You know this is rubbish @jimchalmers.bsky.social! The #duopoly continues to bow to the corporations and the rich and inequality keeps growing.
#auspol
#wapol

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LouisViljee @louisviljee.bsky.social · 37m

#Peace
#PeacenotWar

Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 7h

If there is any justice, Trump’s name will stand not among peacemakers but among those who proved how easily the language of peace can be turned inside out; how empire dresses its crimes in the robes of virtue. #auspol #Trump #NobelPrize

Trump’s war for peace: How the Nobel became his battlefield

Donald Trump’s pursuit of the Nobel Peace Prize has been one of the most grotesque spectacles of the modern era – a man trying to win a peace prize by promoting war.

johnmenadue.com

LouisViljee @louisviljee.bsky.social · 3h

Is Queensland the bigger problem? How about WA where Labor looks more like the Coal-ition?
#fossilcriminals
#capturedstate
#auspol
#wapol
www.quarterlyessay.com.au/essay/2025/0...

Woodside vs the Planet: How a Company Captured a Country; Quarterly Essay 99 | Quarterly Essay

Why is Australia doubling down on fossil fuels?

www.quarterlyessay.com.au

LouisViljee @louisviljee.bsky.social · 3h

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#fossilcriminals
#capturedstate
#auspol
#wapol

The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 3h

In 2010, the Aus and QLD governments allowed a handful of multinational gas giants to begin massive exports of our gas — a decision that's making Australians poorer today.

‘Our gas prices tripled, then tripled again...electricity prices doubled as well.’

@markogge.bsky.social #auspol

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LouisViljee @louisviljee.bsky.social · 3h

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LouisViljee @louisviljee.bsky.social · 3h

The #duopoly doesn't care for #democracy.
#auspol
#wapol

Michael Taylor @ausindimedia.bsky.social · 6h

“Australians are increasingly feeling that corporations & lobbyists are drowning out their voices. Major industries donate millions to political parties, hire former politicians as lobbyists, & shape public policy to serve their own private interests.”

socialjusticeaustralia.com.au/democracy-fo...

Democracy for Sale: The Hidden Cost of Corporate Power

Democracy for Sale reveals how the hidden costs of corporate power in Australian politics harm citizens and hinder fair reforms.

socialjusticeaustralia.com.au

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LouisViljee @louisviljee.bsky.social · 3h

The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 8h

Bittersweet.
My @smh cartoon.

Single frame. Three pairs of hands reaching from the left towards three pairs of hands reaching from the right. But on the left, two pairs of hands are dotted outlines.

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LouisViljee @louisviljee.bsky.social · 3h

Didn't take Netanyahu long to start violating the ceasefire. Not that anyone should be surprised. And Trump and the West will keep supporting him, as they've done.
End the bigotry and denial - it's #ComplicitinGenocide
#StoptheGenocide
#auspol
#wapol
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...

Israel imposes new Gaza aid restrictions as truce comes under strain

Israeli forces kill several Palestinians in Gaza as the Israel-Hamas ceasefire comes under growing strain.

www.aljazeera.com

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LouisViljee @louisviljee.bsky.social · 5h

#renewables
#auspol
#wapol

Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility (ACCR) @accr.bsky.social · 6h

Modelling by the Grattan Institute shows Australian household energy bills are set to halve by 2050 ($3000 down from average $5800 today), leaving policy room for the federal government to cut emissions in the electricity sector without hurting households. esdnews.com.au/modelling-sh...

Modelling shows Aussie energy bills could halve by 2050

Modelling by the Grattan Institute shows Australian household energy bills are set to halve by 2050. Read more.

esdnews.com.au

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 9h

Pretending to the world that you are the president of peace while waging war at home is diabolical.

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LouisViljee @louisviljee.bsky.social · 5h

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The #duopoly - not interested in strengthening #democracy or governing for the greater good.
#auspol
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Rex Patrick @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social · 7h

It’s great to see the cross bench coming out early and with strength opposing the Govt’s evil #FOI Amendment Bill. Here’s @helenhainesindi.bsky.social’s amendment killing off the ability of the Govt to charge FOI applications fees and for officials to summarily dismiss FOI requests. #auspol

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LouisViljee @louisviljee.bsky.social · 5h

The #duopoly - not interested in #democracy or better governance and the greater good.
#auspol
#wapol

Rex Patrick @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social · 7h

ICYMI #auspol

FOI amendment bill. A transparency counter-revolution. - Michael West

The biggest ever assault on government transparency has been launched by Labor's tabling of the FOI Amendment Bill 2025.

michaelwest.com.au

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LouisViljee @louisviljee.bsky.social · 22h

#fossilcriminals
#capturedstate
#auspol

Captain Quoll @kudelka.bsky.social · 23h

It’s the Murray and Albo show! Watch two gutless dickheads unnecessarily sacrifice irreplaceable rainforest and species out of sheer laziness and spite.

Newspaper article describing the latest act of unnecessary vandalism.

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LouisViljee @louisviljee.bsky.social · 22h

#ecologicalemergency - only ever worse as long as the #duopoly is 'in charge'.
#capturedstate
#fossilcriminals
#auspol
#wapol

Prof Ray Wills @profraywills.futuresmart.com.au · 1d

Well done, Australia, we've eradicated another species of mammal - only 80 more threatened mammal species to go

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"Grim death, how foul and loathsome is thine image"
The Taming of the Shrew, Shakespeare

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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 1d

Join Barrie, Bowers and Friends in Sydney for an evening of insight, laughs, and a bit of sass!

From what the government is doing, to what is the point of the Coalition - all covered by some of the smartest minds in Australian politics!

@amyremeikis.bsky.social @mikepbowers.bsky.social #auspol

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 1d

everything i’ve read about how this latest ceasefire came about suggests that if you want to credit anyone it should be the qataris for bribing the president enough that he determined he wanted to keep them happy and then using that carrot to demand a change after bibi (insanely) bombed them

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LouisViljee @louisviljee.bsky.social · 22h

The daily disgrace where the #duopoly is 'in charge'.
#auspol
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 1d

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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LouisViljee @louisviljee.bsky.social · 22h

The #climatecriminals, both the #capturedstate and the corporations, must know that they will be held accountable. Soon.
#auspol
#wapol

Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 1d

Fantastic that this attribution research by climate scientists is out in the world!

Hope citizens, schoolchildren & journos use it to hold fossil fuel corps like Woodside & their enablers like SA Premier Malinauskas & fed Enviro Min Watt accountable for deaths & enviro harm fr fossil fuel projects

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Belinda Weaver @longtimeleftie.bsky.social · 1d

During a speech to the Knesset, Trump again publicly admitted that he has implemented Israel-friendly policies at the behest of Israeli-American billionaire Miriam Adelson, this time adding that he believes Adelson favors Israel over the United States.

open.substack.com/pub/caitlinj...

Trump Keeps Admitting That He Is Bought And Owned By The World's Richest Israeli

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):

open.substack.com

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LouisViljee @louisviljee.bsky.social · 1d

#StopAUKUS
@stopaukuswa.bsky.social
#auspol
#wapol

Michael Taylor @ausindimedia.bsky.social · 1d

“The most dangerous path for any economy is to go down the path of the military industrial complex.”

theaimn.net/the-manufact...

The Manufacture of Arms and the Market Place

By Andrew Klein The most dangerous path for any economy is to go down the path of the military industrial complex. It produces nothing of benefit for the society concerned but creates wealth for a [.....

theaimn.net

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LouisViljee @louisviljee.bsky.social · 1d

"They end the same way. Israel gets what it wants initially ... while it ignores and violates every other phase until it resumes its attacks on the Palestinian people."
Stop the bigotry and denial.
#StoptheGenocide
#auspol
#wapol
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10...

Trump’s sham peace plan

There will be no peace in Gaza. Only the temporary absence of war.

johnmenadue.com

LouisViljee @louisviljee.bsky.social · 1d

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Senator David Pocock has been turfed out of the Australian Parliament Sports Club! What?! | First Dog on the Moon

Was it for unsportspersonlike conduct? No it is much funnier than that

www.theguardian.com

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