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Voices of Wentworth
@voicesofwentworth.bsky.social
Non-partisan community group in Eastern Suburbs of #Sydney aiming to improve democracy by listening, informing & advocating for change
#Australia #NSW #Gadigal

www.voicesofwentworth.org
📺YouTube: @VoicesofWentworth5595
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Australian & new to Bluesky? Many pages of starter packs loosely grouped by topic. New randoms added to the end

A. AUSPOL
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Fixing a housing crisis is not complicated.
... our governments are so bad at supplying housing, and our expectations of them are now so low, that most people and most media simply forget to blame governments for failing so badly."
@richarddenniss.bsky.social

#AusPol
#HousingCrisis
Fixing the housing crisis isn’t complicated
Australia's housing crisis could easily be addressed if our governments were willing to make the brave decisions needed.
www.thenewdaily.com.au
December 15, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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We are horrified and shaken in the wake of the mass shooting at a Chanukah event in Bondi this evening, which has left at least ten people dead and injured many more.

This is the first night of Chanukah when we gather with loved ones and friends to light the Chanukiah. 1/4
December 14, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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My thoughts are with the witnesses and friends and relatives of the deceased at Bondi
What a dreadful thing have to go through.
Please let this bring us together not cause more unrest and division
December 14, 2025 at 10:32 AM
16 people confirmed dead, including a 12yo girl, in terrorist attack targeting a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach

This is devastating for our local community. A conversation is needed about how it could have been prevented, but today we mourn

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
#auspol #BondiBeach
Live: Bondi Beach a crime scene in wake of 'evil' terror attack on Jewish festival
Sixteen people are dead, including one of the two alleged gunmen, and at least 38 are in hospital, including four children.
www.abc.net.au
December 14, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Well, it’s official.

Johnson Legal is off to the High Court of Australia for the first ever climate case to be heard before the Court.

We are representing Hunter Valley residents defending their win against coal company MACH Energy.

Follow the case here 👇👇👇

www.johnsonlegal.au/newsfeed/mac...
MACH Energy v Denman Aberdeen Muswellbrook Scone Healthy Environment Group — Johnson Legal | Australian Environmental Lawyers
In the first High Court of Australia hearing on climate change, Johnson Legal is acting for DAMSHEG defending the landmark decision of the NSW Court of Appeal in Denman v MACH Energy. The Court found ...
www.johnsonlegal.au
December 13, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Changes to home battery subsidies

From 1 May, systems up to 14kWh – deemed suitable for small households – would get the full 30% discount for each kWh.

Discounting would then taper off for medium-sized kits and again for large systems above 28 kWh.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#auspol
Home batteries subsidy overhauled with $7.2bn injection as Australians rush to take up discount
Chris Bowen says first 50kWh of a system would still be eligible, but discounting would not be as generous per kWh for medium- and larger-sized batteries
www.theguardian.com
December 13, 2025 at 12:46 AM
“The New South Wales government has been warned it can no longer approve coalmine developments after the state’s climate agency found new expansions would be inconsistent with its legislated emissions targets.”

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
#auspol #climateaction #nsw
Coalmine expansions would breach climate targets, NSW government warned in ‘game-changer’ report
Environmental advocates welcome Net Zero Commission’s report which found the fossil fuel was ‘not consistent’ with emissions reductions commitments
www.theguardian.com
December 12, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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The Paris climate treaty changed the world. Here’s how | Rebecca Solnit
The Paris climate treaty changed the world. Here’s how | Rebecca Solnit
There’s much more to do, but we should be encouraged by the progress we have made
www.theguardian.com
December 12, 2025 at 12:05 PM
As temperatures rise, more carbon is released.
December 10, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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*poisons the atmosphere with coal*

“LET THEM BE KIDS!”
December 10, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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New study estimates that German households who remain on natural gas in 2045 could be stuck paying 10x what they pay today for gas pipeline maintenance. As other households electrify, gas utilities will spread the same maintenance costs over fewer remaining customers, raising prices dramatically.
Last gas-heated homes in Germany could face extra costs of 4,000 euros per year – analysis
www.cleanenergywire.org
December 9, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Despite what you hear from fossil fuel-funded politicians, the U.K has just generated a record amount of clean, domestic wind energy.

Enough to power 23 million homes!

U.K decarbonisation policy is a recipe for energy security.
December 9, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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Murray Watt’s environmental reforms will do little to protect the environment and a lot to benefit big business, writes Bob Brown. satpa.pe/z5mnsiO
Watt reforms leave door wide open to environmental carnage
ANALYSIS: Murray Watt’s environmental reforms will do little to protect the environment and a lot to benefit big business.
satpa.pe
December 7, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Multiple sources confirm the Albanese government has pushed lobbyists and industry groups to use encrypted messages and verbal briefings when proposing policy ideas, to avoid FOI and disclosure requirements.
satpa.pe/eJAfk3U
Exclusive: PM’s office directs lobbyists to use encrypted, disappearing messages
Multiple sources confirm the Albanese government has pushed lobbyists and industry groups to use encrypted messages and verbal briefings when proposing policy ideas, to avoid FOI and disclosure requirements.
satpa.pe
December 7, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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If you doubt the power of an ethical crossbench, the Briggs report on ;jobs for mates' was created and released thanks to pressure from two Independents: Sophie Scamps and David Pocock. Scamps introduced a private members bill and Pocock kind of filibustered them into submission. #Auspol
December 6, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Latest from our AAP #news feed #auspol
‘Climate obstruction’ alarms raised with museum sponsor.
Ties between a state museum and a major gas company are being questioned by a climate communications group as scrutiny of fossil fuel sponsorship gr...
michaelwest.com.au/climate-obst...
'Climate obstruction' alarms raised with museum sponsor - Michael West
Ties between a state museum and a major gas company are being questioned by a climate communications group as scrutiny of fossil fuel sponsorship grows.
michaelwest.com.au
December 7, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Doesn't say much for Australia's security if we can't bring 40 kids and their mothers home.
Even less for our humanity.
Bring them home @albomp.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Australia refuses to repatriate citizens from Syrian camps despite US warning leaving them there ‘compounds risk to all of us’
US offers to get Australians out of camps if they are issued with travel documents, but Labor has said ‘this is not something the government is considering’
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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Grid bottlenecks aren’t a failure of the energy transition — they’re proof it’s working.

Renewables got cheap fast, and now the grid has to catch up. Time to build the wires for the clean energy system we already have.
December 6, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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“the overall effect, transparency advocates warn, is to create a parallel system of policy development that is largely invisible to parliament, the public and the media”.

Albo’s latest accountability avoidance trick:
#FOI does not even apply if you can disappear any inconvenient info. #auspol
December 5, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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Who will benefit from this decision?

The list would have to include: vaping/tobacco industry; alcohol & gambling interests; those who profit from unhealthy food systems....
Who else?

www.croakey.org/shock-and-al...
Shock and alarm greet news about VicHealth’s demise
News that VicHealth (the Victorian Health Promotion Foundation) will close as a standalone agency – 38 years after launching as
www.croakey.org
December 4, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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I care about Parliamentary Behaviour because decency & professionalism is proper conduct. Fish rots from the head. Elected officials must change the disgusting rabble behaviour, it's unacceptable. It gives permission for people to behave in the same disgusting manner #auspol 🧵
bit.ly/4pKUqkm
Community Survey: Parliamentary Behaviour
WENTWORTH'S INDEPENDENT MP
www.allegraspender.com.au
December 3, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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good morning. meanwhile in climate news that now seems to no longer exist, Tehran, 15 million people now facing water crisis and evacuation.. it hasn't rained for some time...
Indonesia, record flooding killed over 1000 people a few days ago..
December 3, 2025 at 8:02 PM