@neil1808.bsky.social
Apologies for the sarcasm but I can't help myself. It's probably best to assume I'm being sarcastic unless there's a frowny face.
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Australia welcomed the first immigrants from Tuvalu as part of a landmark deal to resettle people from the tiny island nation that is being inundated by rising seas. More than a third of the nation's 11,000 citizens applied for the new climate visa www.abc.net.au/pacific/firs...
Tuvalu's first climate migrants arrive in Australia - ABC Pacific
Tuvalu's first climate migrants have arrived in Australia, beginning a historic relocation as rising seas threaten their island home.
www.abc.net.au
December 14, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Australia welcomed the first immigrants from Tuvalu as part of a landmark deal to resettle people from the tiny island nation that is being inundated by rising seas. More than a third of the nation's 11,000 citizens applied for the new climate visa www.abc.net.au/pacific/firs...
Is there something wrong with the ABC News quiz this week? I guessed and got wrong the year of the first crossword puzzle.
At the end it still said my result was a perfect 10/10.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
At the end it still said my result was a perfect 10/10.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
History quiz: The first Simpsons episode, a missing PM and a new puzzle
Do you have the answers for our This Week in History quiz?
www.abc.net.au
December 15, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Is there something wrong with the ABC News quiz this week? I guessed and got wrong the year of the first crossword puzzle.
At the end it still said my result was a perfect 10/10.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
At the end it still said my result was a perfect 10/10.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
PM to Jewish community: 'All Australians stand with you tonight'
Do the terrorists not understand this is the reaction we'll have when any particular religious or ethnic group is attacked?
#Auspol #Sydney #Bondi
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
www.news.com.au/national/nsw...
Do the terrorists not understand this is the reaction we'll have when any particular religious or ethnic group is attacked?
#Auspol #Sydney #Bondi
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
www.news.com.au/national/nsw...
www.news.com.au
December 14, 2025 at 11:59 AM
PM to Jewish community: 'All Australians stand with you tonight'
Do the terrorists not understand this is the reaction we'll have when any particular religious or ethnic group is attacked?
#Auspol #Sydney #Bondi
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
www.news.com.au/national/nsw...
Do the terrorists not understand this is the reaction we'll have when any particular religious or ethnic group is attacked?
#Auspol #Sydney #Bondi
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
www.news.com.au/national/nsw...
The flare up in violence between #Thailand & #Cambodia shouldn't be seen a failure of the ceasefire #Trump negotiated.
It should be seen as an opportunity for Trump to end another war.😀
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
It should be seen as an opportunity for Trump to end another war.😀
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
Trump's plan to call Thailand and Cambodia to achieve peace rejected
Thailand has rejected Donald Trump's plan to call both sides to achieve peace, with half a million people forced to flee the fighting along the border.
www.abc.net.au
December 14, 2025 at 9:03 AM
The flare up in violence between #Thailand & #Cambodia shouldn't be seen a failure of the ceasefire #Trump negotiated.
It should be seen as an opportunity for Trump to end another war.😀
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
It should be seen as an opportunity for Trump to end another war.😀
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
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Government institutions should be secular. They should uphold the principle of separation of church and state, and be neutral on matters of religion and belief.
(While churches should pay taxes and offer homes to the homeless.)
#Auspol
(While churches should pay taxes and offer homes to the homeless.)
#Auspol
In a submission to Oberon Council in NSW, we have called on the council to remove acts of religious worship from its formal meetings and have warned that deciding not to could expose it to legal risks. Read more: rationalist.com.au/rsa-outlines...
#auspol #NSWpol
#auspol #NSWpol
RSA outlines legal concerns over prayers in Oberon council meetings | Rationalist Society of Australia
The Rationalist Society of Australia has called on a New South Wales council to remove acts of religious worship from its formal meetings and has warned that deciding not to could expose council to le...
rationalist.com.au
December 14, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Government institutions should be secular. They should uphold the principle of separation of church and state, and be neutral on matters of religion and belief.
(While churches should pay taxes and offer homes to the homeless.)
#Auspol
(While churches should pay taxes and offer homes to the homeless.)
#Auspol
82 years after it went down & many years after relatives had stopped wondering what happened, a plane has been found in #PNG.
It'd mean more if any of his relatives remembered him but finding Tom will provide closure to a family story.
#WWII #history
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
It'd mean more if any of his relatives remembered him but finding Tom will provide closure to a family story.
#WWII #history
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
Missing RAAF crew found in WWII plane wreckage in PNG rainforest
After more than eight decades, James Burrowes had just about given up hope of ever knowing what truly happened to his uncle Tom, an Air Force crew member who disappeared in World War II.
www.abc.net.au
December 13, 2025 at 10:43 PM
82 years after it went down & many years after relatives had stopped wondering what happened, a plane has been found in #PNG.
It'd mean more if any of his relatives remembered him but finding Tom will provide closure to a family story.
#WWII #history
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
It'd mean more if any of his relatives remembered him but finding Tom will provide closure to a family story.
#WWII #history
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
I'm already getting a really bad feeling about the #Brisbane 2032 #Olympics.
The LNP has too many religious nutters to organise a sports event.
#auspol
The LNP has too many religious nutters to organise a sports event.
#auspol
Nine newspapers report that the organisers of the Brisbane 2032 Olympics have adopted a church slogan – “Believe. Belong. Become” – as the “Games vision”.
www.theage.com.au/sport/brisba...
#auspol
www.theage.com.au/sport/brisba...
#auspol
Brisbane 2032 Olympics adopts church slogan as ‘Games vision’
Organisers unveiled “Believe. Belong. Become. Brisbane 2032” as the motto for Australia’s third Olympics after consultation including 40 workshops. It might sound familiar.
www.theage.com.au
December 13, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Are the traffic laws different outside #Australia? I'd have thought she'd have learnt not to drive drunk as a kid.
If the police had fined her for failing to wear a helmet on an e-scooter then she'd have avoided the jail sentence.
#crime #accident #alcohol
www.bbc.com/news/article...
If the police had fined her for failing to wear a helmet on an e-scooter then she'd have avoided the jail sentence.
#crime #accident #alcohol
www.bbc.com/news/article...
British backpacker jailed over fatal drunken e-scooter crash
The 25-year-old had an alcohol level three times the legal limit when she hit 51-year-old Thanh Phan.
www.bbc.com
December 13, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Are the traffic laws different outside #Australia? I'd have thought she'd have learnt not to drive drunk as a kid.
If the police had fined her for failing to wear a helmet on an e-scooter then she'd have avoided the jail sentence.
#crime #accident #alcohol
www.bbc.com/news/article...
If the police had fined her for failing to wear a helmet on an e-scooter then she'd have avoided the jail sentence.
#crime #accident #alcohol
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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#auspol
www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/11/a...
Family-accompanied travel isn’t a rort. The real rort is the widespread abuse of the “dominant purpose test”.
www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/11/a...
Family-accompanied travel isn’t a rort. The real rort is the widespread abuse of the “dominant purpose test”.
Don't beat up on politicians' families — end the free ride of 'work' travel instead
We shouldn't stop politicians from bringing their families on some taxpayer-funded travel. But there are some other rules we should change.
www.crikey.com.au
December 13, 2025 at 2:58 AM
#auspol
www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/11/a...
Family-accompanied travel isn’t a rort. The real rort is the widespread abuse of the “dominant purpose test”.
www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/11/a...
Family-accompanied travel isn’t a rort. The real rort is the widespread abuse of the “dominant purpose test”.
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ICE detain U.S. citizen for looking Somali—use illegal chokehold to tackle him to ground.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
December 10, 2025 at 7:36 PM
ICE detain U.S. citizen for looking Somali—use illegal chokehold to tackle him to ground.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
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“We can’t tinker and dither.”
Maybe it’s a good thing @australianlabor.bsky.social factional forces ousted Ed Husic from the ministry. With the shackles of Cabinet solidarity lifted, he’s speaking some common sense on gas. #auspol
Maybe it’s a good thing @australianlabor.bsky.social factional forces ousted Ed Husic from the ministry. With the shackles of Cabinet solidarity lifted, he’s speaking some common sense on gas. #auspol
Courage needed on gas policy
ANALYSIS: “We need better local gas pricing For Australia, that means doing something hitherto unthought of: telling multinationals that the cost of doing business here is to provide better prices for...
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
December 12, 2025 at 10:19 PM
“We can’t tinker and dither.”
Maybe it’s a good thing @australianlabor.bsky.social factional forces ousted Ed Husic from the ministry. With the shackles of Cabinet solidarity lifted, he’s speaking some common sense on gas. #auspol
Maybe it’s a good thing @australianlabor.bsky.social factional forces ousted Ed Husic from the ministry. With the shackles of Cabinet solidarity lifted, he’s speaking some common sense on gas. #auspol
The government has made it crystal clear that the youth #SocialMedia ban is a step in a journey not the end of the road.
They've mentioned other websites they're watching & I presume they'll include gaming sites if required.
#Auspol
@bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social
www.bbc.com/news/article...
They've mentioned other websites they're watching & I presume they'll include gaming sites if required.
#Auspol
@bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Australia social media ban: Why isn't gaming included?
Parents and experts say gaming poses many of the same risks for kids as social media, and want them included.
www.bbc.com
December 13, 2025 at 2:58 AM
The government has made it crystal clear that the youth #SocialMedia ban is a step in a journey not the end of the road.
They've mentioned other websites they're watching & I presume they'll include gaming sites if required.
#Auspol
@bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social
www.bbc.com/news/article...
They've mentioned other websites they're watching & I presume they'll include gaming sites if required.
#Auspol
@bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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“I need you right now, Pedophiles,” reads an Oct. 27, 2020 email from Trump’s campaign team, signed by Trump, and sent to Epstein’s email address, “[email protected].”
“Pedophiles, I want you to know how important you are to me,” reads another email, signed off on by Trump.
“Pedophiles, I want you to know how important you are to me,” reads another email, signed off on by Trump.
Trump team email to Epstein: 'Pedophiles, I want you to know how important you are to me'
An email account belonging to Jeffrey Epstein regularly received alerts from Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign and, after Epstein’s death, was addressed under a shocking new name, newly released records sh...
www.rawstory.com
December 13, 2025 at 2:27 AM
“I need you right now, Pedophiles,” reads an Oct. 27, 2020 email from Trump’s campaign team, signed by Trump, and sent to Epstein’s email address, “[email protected].”
“Pedophiles, I want you to know how important you are to me,” reads another email, signed off on by Trump.
“Pedophiles, I want you to know how important you are to me,” reads another email, signed off on by Trump.
The problem with political corruption is that very few people see it until the court case is on television.
However, the scent coming from Crisafulli & his supporters makes me feel that #Queensland is repeating the worst years of Beattie & Joh.
#Auspol
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
However, the scent coming from Crisafulli & his supporters makes me feel that #Queensland is repeating the worst years of Beattie & Joh.
#Auspol
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
Changes to Qld political donation laws could increase corruption risk, experts say
A ban on political donations by developers, introduced by the former Qld Labor Government, will be lifted by the LNP.
www.abc.net.au
December 13, 2025 at 1:36 AM
The problem with political corruption is that very few people see it until the court case is on television.
However, the scent coming from Crisafulli & his supporters makes me feel that #Queensland is repeating the worst years of Beattie & Joh.
#Auspol
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
However, the scent coming from Crisafulli & his supporters makes me feel that #Queensland is repeating the worst years of Beattie & Joh.
#Auspol
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
If any #Murdoch, anyone in the ALP government or an executive at #Newscorps thinks the ban will help them, they have rocks in their heads.
I don't know if it will work but believe that those being bullied at school, do want time in the evenings when they're protected.
#SocialMedia #Auspol
I don't know if it will work but believe that those being bullied at school, do want time in the evenings when they're protected.
#SocialMedia #Auspol
"A ban that normalises punitive rather than developmental responses to youth online behaviour ensures that the conversation stays on terrain advantageous to legacy media – fear, surveillance, and control." #auspol
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/12...
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/12...
The real winners of Australia’s under-16s social media ban
Australia’s social media ban for under-16s is sold as child protection, but its most tangible effect is a transfer of power away from global platforms and back to legacy media interests.
johnmenadue.com
December 12, 2025 at 10:40 PM
If any #Murdoch, anyone in the ALP government or an executive at #Newscorps thinks the ban will help them, they have rocks in their heads.
I don't know if it will work but believe that those being bullied at school, do want time in the evenings when they're protected.
#SocialMedia #Auspol
I don't know if it will work but believe that those being bullied at school, do want time in the evenings when they're protected.
#SocialMedia #Auspol
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"Reducing inequality is a political choice"
A choice that the Albanese government seems too gutless to make. #auspol
www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...
A choice that the Albanese government seems too gutless to make. #auspol
www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...
Just 0.001% hold three times the wealth of poorest half of humanity, report finds
Data from World Inequality Report also showed top 10% of income-earners earn more than the other 90%
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 10:20 AM
"Reducing inequality is a political choice"
A choice that the Albanese government seems too gutless to make. #auspol
www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...
A choice that the Albanese government seems too gutless to make. #auspol
www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...
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December 12, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Why do some murderers get 20 years in prison while others are jailed for 30 years?
I could understand if there was deliberate, excessive pain inflicted at the same time but some look just like deaths attracting more lenient sentences.
#Auspol #Auslaw #crime
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
I could understand if there was deliberate, excessive pain inflicted at the same time but some look just like deaths attracting more lenient sentences.
#Auspol #Auslaw #crime
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
Man jailed for murdering co-worker 'because he couldn't have her'
Jude Wijesinghe is sentenced to 30 years' jail for stabbing his Canberra zoo colleague Tshewang Choden to death in the storeroom of the kitchen area where they both worked.
www.abc.net.au
December 12, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Why do some murderers get 20 years in prison while others are jailed for 30 years?
I could understand if there was deliberate, excessive pain inflicted at the same time but some look just like deaths attracting more lenient sentences.
#Auspol #Auslaw #crime
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
I could understand if there was deliberate, excessive pain inflicted at the same time but some look just like deaths attracting more lenient sentences.
#Auspol #Auslaw #crime
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
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Vulnerable children are dying as the result of inexcusable, immoral policy choices by the most powerful. “One of the crowning achievements in global health is at risk of coming undone… Estimates suggest 2025 will be the first year this century that child deaths have gone up instead of down.”
For the first time this century, child deaths under age 5 will likely rise. Why?
A dramatic drop in mortality for youngsters under age 5 has been one of the great accomplishments in global health. But estimates suggest that in 2025 child deaths will go up.
www.npr.org
December 12, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Vulnerable children are dying as the result of inexcusable, immoral policy choices by the most powerful. “One of the crowning achievements in global health is at risk of coming undone… Estimates suggest 2025 will be the first year this century that child deaths have gone up instead of down.”
Mark Cuban won't use BlueSky because people are mean to him!
Perhaps stopping speaking or posting online would be a better approach.
#USpoli #RWNJ
Perhaps stopping speaking or posting online would be a better approach.
#USpoli #RWNJ
Mark Cuban Says ‘It Became Pointless’ To Post On Bluesky Due To The Hate He Gets There
Mark Cuban Says 'It Became Pointless' To Post On Bluesky Due To The Hate He Gets There
Mark Cuban, the billionaire entrepreneur and longtime "Shark Tank" star, says he’s done posting on Bluesky for now, and the reason is simple: it’s not worth
offthefrontpage.com
December 12, 2025 at 4:29 AM
It didn't take too long for Crisafulli to reintroduce corruption to Queensland politics.
It seems as bad as it ever was in the 2000s or 1980s.
It seems as bad as it ever was in the 2000s or 1980s.
New QLD laws overturning ban on property developer donations will ‘legalise another avenue of corruption’!
Everywhere the #LNP is getting back in to govt, the brakes on corruption are being removed!
It's all these grifters know - how to corruptly suck on the teats of the taxpayers!
#auspol
Everywhere the #LNP is getting back in to govt, the brakes on corruption are being removed!
It's all these grifters know - how to corruptly suck on the teats of the taxpayers!
#auspol
New Queensland laws overturning ban on property developer donations will ‘legalise another avenue of corruption’, Greens say
Attorney general Deb Frecklington says ban was a ‘financial gerrymander’ because it didn’t apply to trade unions
www.theguardian.com
December 12, 2025 at 1:17 AM
It didn't take too long for Crisafulli to reintroduce corruption to Queensland politics.
It seems as bad as it ever was in the 2000s or 1980s.
It seems as bad as it ever was in the 2000s or 1980s.
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"Australia passes a shameful milestone: over one million children now living in poverty" #ThePoint
thepoint.com.au/news/251212-...
thepoint.com.au/news/251212-...
Australia passes a shameful milestone: over one million children now living in poverty
For all the focus on inflation, interest rates and cost-of-living pressures this year, the nation quietly passed a shameful milestone in 2025, ensuring a bleak Christmas for more Australian families t...
thepoint.com.au
December 11, 2025 at 10:45 PM
"Australia passes a shameful milestone: over one million children now living in poverty" #ThePoint
thepoint.com.au/news/251212-...
thepoint.com.au/news/251212-...