Lukas Parker
@proflukas.bsky.social
Professor Lukas Parker is a member of the End Food Waste CRC, Head of 3C (Communication and Change Co-Lab) and a social change researcher at RMIT University, Melbourne (Naarm). Opinions are my own.
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Lukas Parker
@proflukas.bsky.social
· Nov 17
Nice to see more people here. I duck in now and then, but mainly hang out on Masty @[email protected]
The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go.
Oh deary me…
Oh deary me…
December 20, 2025 at 11:11 AM
The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go.
Oh deary me…
Oh deary me…
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Words fail. Parliamentarians hosting Parliamentary Friends of AUKUS, with an event featuring the Defence Minister, paid for by lobbyists who sell armaments.
This is cash for access, pure and simple. Supported and promoted by ALP and Liberal MPs.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
This is cash for access, pure and simple. Supported and promoted by ALP and Liberal MPs.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Parliamentary Friends of Aukus group sponsored by lobbying firm with high-profile defence clients
Exclusive: Greens condemn sponsorship of group’s launch by Precision Public Affairs, which represents clients with lucrative contracts with the Australian government
www.theguardian.com
December 17, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Words fail. Parliamentarians hosting Parliamentary Friends of AUKUS, with an event featuring the Defence Minister, paid for by lobbyists who sell armaments.
This is cash for access, pure and simple. Supported and promoted by ALP and Liberal MPs.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
This is cash for access, pure and simple. Supported and promoted by ALP and Liberal MPs.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
What was the racial backgrounds of the rioters? They should deport the lot of them! #mordiallocriot #auspol youtube.com/watch?v=krI7...
Hundreds of teens storm supermarket following beach brawl | 9 News Australia
YouTube video by 9 News Australia
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December 17, 2025 at 10:52 AM
What was the racial backgrounds of the rioters? They should deport the lot of them! #mordiallocriot #auspol youtube.com/watch?v=krI7...
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Jillian Segal's plan is worse than useless:
"Which of Segal’s recommendations would have addressed the failure to spot an IS terrorist preparing for an attack virtually in plain sight?"
- regulating editorial content of newspapers?
- “educating” judges?
- cutting funds to universities? #auspol
"Which of Segal’s recommendations would have addressed the failure to spot an IS terrorist preparing for an attack virtually in plain sight?"
- regulating editorial content of newspapers?
- “educating” judges?
- cutting funds to universities? #auspol
Flaws in our security framework allowed terrorists to prepare the Bondi atrocity almost in plain sight. They urgently need fixing, @keanebernard.bsky.social writes.
Bondi exposed huge holes in our security framework. The right's 'distraction' narrative will endanger all Australians
www.crikey.com.au
December 17, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Jillian Segal's plan is worse than useless:
"Which of Segal’s recommendations would have addressed the failure to spot an IS terrorist preparing for an attack virtually in plain sight?"
- regulating editorial content of newspapers?
- “educating” judges?
- cutting funds to universities? #auspol
"Which of Segal’s recommendations would have addressed the failure to spot an IS terrorist preparing for an attack virtually in plain sight?"
- regulating editorial content of newspapers?
- “educating” judges?
- cutting funds to universities? #auspol
It was worth the annual subscription for this editorial… too many great lines.
Editorial: This week Pete Hegseth stood beside Richard Marles and Penny Wong and endorsed AUKUS. It was another moment of performative embarrassment, pretending everything is normal as a half-drunk innumerate sex pest shakes you down for $368b. satpa.pe/Kesssic
Pete Hegseth and the AUKUS folly
The man who sets Australia’s defence policy is an alcoholic former Fox News commentator who is known for his gross financial mismanagement and on at least one occasion paid a settlement to a woman he was accused of raping.
satpa.pe
December 16, 2025 at 8:22 PM
It was worth the annual subscription for this editorial… too many great lines.
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Incredible the entire press gallery is actually buying the line (promulgated by Netanyahu!) that Albanese is personally to blame for the Bondi attack.
No one is actually explaining how firing academics for opposing Israel’s genocide would stop two people who never went to uni from this shooting.
No one is actually explaining how firing academics for opposing Israel’s genocide would stop two people who never went to uni from this shooting.
December 15, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Incredible the entire press gallery is actually buying the line (promulgated by Netanyahu!) that Albanese is personally to blame for the Bondi attack.
No one is actually explaining how firing academics for opposing Israel’s genocide would stop two people who never went to uni from this shooting.
No one is actually explaining how firing academics for opposing Israel’s genocide would stop two people who never went to uni from this shooting.
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We won't be lectured on "extremism" by a party who:
- can't tell the difference between antisemitism and legitimate criticism of Israel
- actively supports a genocide
- used racism to defeat The Voice
- voted "It's OK to be white", and
- is considering a white supremacist migration policy. #auspol
- can't tell the difference between antisemitism and legitimate criticism of Israel
- actively supports a genocide
- used racism to defeat The Voice
- voted "It's OK to be white", and
- is considering a white supremacist migration policy. #auspol
Opposition Leader Sussan Ley will head the internal group aiming to intensify scrutiny of the federal government's response to antisemitism.
Coalition launches antisemitism taskforce after Bondi terror attack
Opposition Leader Sussan Ley will head the internal group aiming to intensify scrutiny of the federal government's response to antisemitism.
www.abc.net.au
December 16, 2025 at 10:44 AM
We won't be lectured on "extremism" by a party who:
- can't tell the difference between antisemitism and legitimate criticism of Israel
- actively supports a genocide
- used racism to defeat The Voice
- voted "It's OK to be white", and
- is considering a white supremacist migration policy. #auspol
- can't tell the difference between antisemitism and legitimate criticism of Israel
- actively supports a genocide
- used racism to defeat The Voice
- voted "It's OK to be white", and
- is considering a white supremacist migration policy. #auspol
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Note to Sussan Ley: if the comments you’re choosing to make right now are identical to what Pauline Hanson is saying, you’re what she is.
December 16, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Note to Sussan Ley: if the comments you’re choosing to make right now are identical to what Pauline Hanson is saying, you’re what she is.
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It’s just too on the nose.
(📸 Mixvale)
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December 15, 2025 at 9:53 PM
It’s just too on the nose.
(📸 Mixvale)
(📸 Mixvale)
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At this time, I think this contemplative koala seems apt.
You've seen this photo before but you probably need this little guy now.
Sleaford Bay, Eyre Peninsula.
You've seen this photo before but you probably need this little guy now.
Sleaford Bay, Eyre Peninsula.
December 15, 2025 at 9:58 AM
At this time, I think this contemplative koala seems apt.
You've seen this photo before but you probably need this little guy now.
Sleaford Bay, Eyre Peninsula.
You've seen this photo before but you probably need this little guy now.
Sleaford Bay, Eyre Peninsula.
Was Pauline Hanson wearing *her* burqa when she spouted this incoherent drivel?: “The [PM] never heeded the warning signs, including the weekly antisemitic protests across our nation, hate speech from certain religious clerics, our obnoxious universities and probable terrorist alert.” #Bondi #auspol
December 15, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Was Pauline Hanson wearing *her* burqa when she spouted this incoherent drivel?: “The [PM] never heeded the warning signs, including the weekly antisemitic protests across our nation, hate speech from certain religious clerics, our obnoxious universities and probable terrorist alert.” #Bondi #auspol
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“Electric cars are no more dangerous for pedestrians than petrol and diesel models, researchers find.”
They’re also no safer. Which reminds us that “better cars” aren’t the main answer to the consequences of cars. The main answer is fewer (and smaller) cars driven less frequently in better cities.
They’re also no safer. Which reminds us that “better cars” aren’t the main answer to the consequences of cars. The main answer is fewer (and smaller) cars driven less frequently in better cities.
EVs 'just as safe for pedestrians'
Electric vehicles (EVs) are no more dangerous to pedestrians than traditional petrol or diesel cars, according to a new study.
www.leeds.ac.uk
December 14, 2025 at 8:43 PM
“Electric cars are no more dangerous for pedestrians than petrol and diesel models, researchers find.”
They’re also no safer. Which reminds us that “better cars” aren’t the main answer to the consequences of cars. The main answer is fewer (and smaller) cars driven less frequently in better cities.
They’re also no safer. Which reminds us that “better cars” aren’t the main answer to the consequences of cars. The main answer is fewer (and smaller) cars driven less frequently in better cities.
So I am Australian, and I just had to verify my age to Bluesky, but I want to know how old the photo guesstimator guessed my age to be.
December 10, 2025 at 9:29 PM
So I am Australian, and I just had to verify my age to Bluesky, but I want to know how old the photo guesstimator guessed my age to be.
So the Albanese government is all steam ahead for fossil fuels that will make future generations extinct, but yay for this light show about *saving* kids from social media.
December 10, 2025 at 12:53 PM
So the Albanese government is all steam ahead for fossil fuels that will make future generations extinct, but yay for this light show about *saving* kids from social media.
Holy moly, it’s carnage in the streets of #Melbourne. Trump has sent in NYPD
December 10, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Holy moly, it’s carnage in the streets of #Melbourne. Trump has sent in NYPD
South Australian bus ads misled public by claiming gas is ‘clean and green’, regulator finds #greenwash www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
South Australian bus ads misled public by claiming gas is ‘clean and green’, regulator finds
Ads to be removed from Adelaide Metro buses after advertising regulator rules they breach its environmental claims code
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:16 PM
South Australian bus ads misled public by claiming gas is ‘clean and green’, regulator finds #greenwash www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Peak 2025
December 5, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Peak 2025
At this juncture, the Victorian government’s actions on VicHealth and Sustainability Victoria appear very shortsighted and galling. #VicPol
December 4, 2025 at 9:54 AM
At this juncture, the Victorian government’s actions on VicHealth and Sustainability Victoria appear very shortsighted and galling. #VicPol
Murdermobiles youtube.com/watch?v=--83...
Keep these Stupid American Trucks out of Europe
YouTube video by Not Just Bikes
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December 2, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Murdermobiles youtube.com/watch?v=--83...
“charged with dishonestly obtaining financial advantage by deception” - sounds like a charge that could be levelled at the casino as well www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Couple from Kazakhstan allegedly used hidden camera and earpieces to win $1.18m from Sydney’s Crown casino
Woman, 36, and her husband, 44, arrested at Barangaroo and charged with dishonestly obtaining financial advantage
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 11:08 AM
“charged with dishonestly obtaining financial advantage by deception” - sounds like a charge that could be levelled at the casino as well www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Victorians relieved.
November 30, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Victorians relieved.
Perth’s airport rail far exceeds anything in Sydney, Brisbane and (ahem) Melbourne. $5.20 makes taking PT price competitive on top of excellent convenience. Winning!
November 29, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Perth’s airport rail far exceeds anything in Sydney, Brisbane and (ahem) Melbourne. $5.20 makes taking PT price competitive on top of excellent convenience. Winning!