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Jessica D. M. 🇺🇦 🇦🇺 🇨🇦 🇵🇦 🇬🇱 🪃 🟧 @jessicaperthwa.bsky.social · 12h

Queensland anti-renewables group cited nonexistent papers in inquiry submissions using AI, publisher says | Energy | The Guardian share.google/MJt0Fk4cEN5s.... #Qldpol #News #Auspol

Queensland anti-renewables group cited nonexistent papers in inquiry submissions using AI, publisher says

Exclusive: Rainforest Reserves Australia has published submissions naming nonexistent government authorities and a nonexistent windfarm

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nzjanette @nzjanette.bsky.social · 10h

Good thread which can be boiled down to: long covid sucks, there’s no cure, and the only foolproof way to avoid it is to not catch Covid.

World Health Network @thewhn.bsky.social · 11h

Here are 7 things you should know about Long COVID.

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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 11h

If you want to prevent fungal infections, you want to prevent viral infections.

COVID-19 is associated with an increased risk of diabetes, and diabetes is a good way to get into trouble with fungi…

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The Saturday Paper @thesaturdaypaper.com.au · 9h

"Soon after Labor’s thumping election win, Jim Chalmers was assuring doubters he would not be ‘changing policies we took to the election’," writes Paul Bongiorno. “Within three months, however, that determination was undercut by Anthony Albanese…” satpa.pe/ihBfMJ8

Chalmers retreats on super reforms

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Jessica D. M. 🇺🇦 🇦🇺 🇨🇦 🇵🇦 🇬🇱 🪃 🟧 @jessicaperthwa.bsky.social · 14h

youtu.be/6m2m_9Uijso?.... #NoKings @50501movement.bsky.social #Resist #Unite

John Farnham & Melbourne Symphony Orchestra - Your the voice

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Cloudalicious @cloudalicous.bsky.social · 14h

Free the Palestinian hostages that have been in Israeli prisons without charge, some for decades, including children #FreeTheHostages 🎗️ Boycott US, England & Israel FOREVER #auspol #ukpol #eupol #nzpol #uspol

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MingTheMerciless @m1ngthemerciless.bsky.social · 14h

Says it all really. If you march with a nazi you are a nazi www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10... #auspol

Fresh video casts doubt on March for Australia NSN claims

A previously unreported video has emerged appearing to show a key March for Australia organiser coordinating with a Neo-Nazi at the first rally in Sydney in August, ABC NEWS Verify has found.

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CarlaExotic🏳️‍🌈NAFO🇺🇦Fellania🏳️‍⚧️🦄🦘 @carlaexotic.bsky.social · 14h

#Auspol I have serious concerns about Australia’s closest defence partner being compromised by Russia who has a close alliance with China.
This is why I’ve been saying dump AUKUS all along. #MAGA cannot be trusted and is compromised.

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Seawoll@seawoll @seawoll.bsky.social · 14h

Hey Anthony Albanese, be like Canada, and stop waffling around terrified of what Murdoch hacks say #auspol bsky.app/profile/your...

Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 16h

Canada confirms it will arrest Putin and Netanyahu if they travel to its territory, due to ICC warrants. #3E #EndImpunity

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Kelanoa 😷 @kelanoa.bsky.social · 1d

Should be criminal - we need to be like Norway and tax heavily. All that money is needed for health, education and raising the rate, or introduce an UBI, to get Australians out of poverty.
#auspol

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LisaZed 👩🏻‍🎨 🌏 🐨🌳 @lisazed.bsky.social · 1d

80% of voters want stronger environment laws, but duplicitous Watt has axed a climate trigger & #Labor wants to rush new #EPA laws through by sneakily encouraging the #ToxicFossil corps to lobby the #LNP to support the legislation, sidelining #Greens & their push for a “climate trigger”!
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With climate trigger axed Labor wants to rush new environmental laws through after ‘positive’ talks with Coalition

Proposed timeframe leaves 12 days to scrutinise most significant changes to national environmental protection regime since 1999

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LouisViljee @louisviljee.bsky.social · 1d

We should be very angry with Murray Watt. But far angrier with Albanese who shafted Plibersek to install him to do exactly what he's doing.
#capturedstate
#fossilcriminals
#auspol
#wapol

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Voices of Wentworth @voicesofwentworth.bsky.social · 1d

This👇is one of the reasons why gov-funded bodies such as the CSIRO need to do scientific research that is independent of commercial interests -
bc it is in the public (incl economic) interest to find a prevention or cure.

Cures may not be profitable for commercial interests
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StabbyTabby 🔪🤘 @stabbytabby.bsky.social · 1d

"CEO admits cures aren't profitable" There I fixed the headline.
(As someone who has T1D since 1997 I have never believed there would be a cure)

Novo shutters cell therapy unit, ending work on potential Type 1 diabetes 'cure'

Novo Nordisk is ending all work in cell therapy, including a Type 1 diabetes program, amid CEO Maziar Mike Doustdar's reorganization. | Novo Nordisk is ending all work in cell therapy, including a Typ...

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PlsUseYourBrain @useyourbrain.bsky.social · 1d

"Indeed, it would be difficult to judge the NACC by its work, because the public has seen so little of it. In more than two years of operations, the NACC has initiated and completed only one successful corruption investigation — a low-level bribe case ..."
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#AusPol
#NACC

Does the NACC have any hope of regaining public trust?

The NACC has over two hundred employees and an annual budget of over $60m, but has yet to land a single major finding from over 5,000 referrals.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Pritzker: "Stephen Miller is clearly ordering people to break the law. So he should know that yeah, it may be three years from now that he is held accountable, but I think it's important for them to know that whatever they do now, it's not like we're going to forget."

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

Analysis by The Australia Institute reveals that replacing the broken Petroleum Resource Rent Tax (PRRT) with a flat 25% tax on gas exports, as suggested by the ACTU, would raise more than $17 billion a year, enough to quadruple Commonwealth spending on housing.

Read the full release below:

Progressive patriotism: ACTU’s 25% gas export tax should replace broken PRRT

Analysis by The Australia Institute reveals that replacing the broken Petroleum Resource Rent Tax (PRRT) with a flat 25% tax on gas exports, as suggested by the ACTU, would raise more than $17 billion...

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Australian Unions @australianunions.bsky.social · 1d

The big gas and oil companies have been having it their way for too long. We are calling for a 25% tax on gas exports. This would have raised $17.1 billion in the 2023-2024 financial year. Enough to build 50,000 new homes.

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yolanda7712.bsky.social @yolanda7712.bsky.social · 1d

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

What I don't have in experience, I make up for in integrity.

And what Andrew Cuomo lacks in integrity, he could never make up for with experience.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

No surprise that someone who signed up for Benjamin Netanyahu's legal defense team doesn't know the occupation is illegal.

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 1d

For too long gas companies have been taking the absolute piss.

This is an excellent proposal by @australianunions.bsky.social
www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

For every $100 of gas exported, Australia gets 43 cents’: Unions open new tax battle
Shane Wright

October 16, 2025 — 10.30pm

Fresh from its backflip on superannuation tax reform, the Albanese government is now facing calls from the union movement to ditch its changes to taxes on oil and gas exports, in a move the ACTU says would raise $17 billion a year to be pumped into housing.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mamdani: "I'm not funded by the same donors that gave us Donald Trump's second term, which isn't something Andrew Cuomo can say."

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 1d

“I want to dedicate this award today to Anas Al-Sharif and Hossam Shabat and Mariam Abu Daqqa and Roshdi Sarraj...All of those brave Palestinian journalists murdered by Israel.”

From my remarks accepting the Arab Center DC's Journalistic Integrity award.

My full speech: zeteo.com/p/you-will-n...

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Glenn Connley @glennconnley.bsky.social · 1d

So, Australia collects 43 cents per $100 of exported gas.

Qatar collects 46 DOLLARS per $100 of exported gas

And Norway collects 56 DOLLARS per $100 of exported oil

This is not just a piss take ... it's the out and out theft of our natural resources.

www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

‘For every $100 of gas exported, Australia gets 43 cents’: Unions open new tax battle

The federal government this week overhauled its superannuation tax reforms. Now the union movement says it should radically overhaul taxes on gas exports.

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Wendy Harmer @wendyharmer.bsky.social · 1d

My good God, reading about USA politics is both exhausting and scary.
Here in Australia, we should be both alert and alarmed.
Protect our precious and fragile democracy - with its checks and balances- to stop the contagion.

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