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Libby Robin
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Writer, historian of ideas, Environment in museums What Birdo is That? A Field Guide to Bird People 🦅 New book coming soon on Conservation and Care. 🌿

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Dr Monique Ryan @mon4kooyong.bsky.social · 10h
Bridesmaid no more. Congratulations to the Tawny Frogmouth 🏆
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Tawny frogmouth named 2025 Australian bird of the year winner
Perennial runner up finally claims the crown in the biennial Guardian/BirdLife Australia poll, ahead of Baudin’s black cockatoo and gang-gang cockatoo
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Libby Robin @libbydeq.bsky.social · 12h
www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/15/l... Dog-whistling to the Sydney-centric "We have a moral duty to prevent the Victorianisation of Australia"
Wedging Sydney and Melbourne is a tired old bit of Federation era politics. A little more respect for #Canberra wd help. We have "solved" this prob already.
With the death of conservatism, a Liberal split isn't just viable, it's necessary
For the Liberal Party, a split between traditional conservatives and hardcore right-wingers can't come quickly enough.
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Libby Robin @libbydeq.bsky.social · 13h
Simple but good idea.

Adult work places could use limits on screens too... esp when people use their breaks on screens as well...
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ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 14h
Victorian primary school students will spend no more than 90 minutes a day on screens under reforms announced by the Victorian government.
Victorian schools to limit screen time, provide free laptops
Victorian primary school students will spend no more than 90 minutes a day on screens under reforms announced by the Victorian government.
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Libby Robin @libbydeq.bsky.social · 13h
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10... Can Feds lend public servants to Vic to make compliance less of a roadblock? Let's work collaboratively to ensure survivors are not waiting for red tape.
Auditor-general says Victoria risks missing out on flood recovery funds
A Victorian Auditor-General's report says state government agencies need to be quicker at providing relief and recovery when responding to natural disasters.
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Libby Robin @libbydeq.bsky.social · 13h
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10... Could it be more than a sheep station? What sorts of additional social and ecological connections might it foster? Some thinking needed here to add diversity to its future. Not just "big real estate" speak.
'Turbocharged' Nullarbor sheep station hits the market
One of Australia's largest sheep stations is listed for sale as wool and lamb prices soar.
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Libby Robin @libbydeq.bsky.social · 13h
www.theguardian.com/environment/... Fed gov needs to help with State-funded disaster relief. States like Q that have $$ to burn on new subsidies for climate disaster should disqualify themselves from any Fed disaster relief. Tough on survivors - but there are choices here.
Queensland’s pandering to climate deniers is making it even tougher for Australia to drive down emissions | Clear Air
Queensland is Australia’s top polluter – even worse than Western Australia, which has no climate target and adores its fossil fuel industry
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David Pocock @davidpocock.bsky.social · 14h
Disgraceful that betting agencies are skirting laws to market their brand to ppl who have self-excluded through BetStop.

This is precisely why a partial ad ban won't work

Review of BetStop urgently needed to stop this from happening.

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Betting industry 'out of control', says former gambler
Diehard Richmond fan "Tiger Shaun" says he's watched on in horror as gambling advertising and sponsorships have come to dominate football — and become a constant reminder of the addiction he has strug...
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Libby Robin @libbydeq.bsky.social · 14h
We have parallel stories about fire and flood disasters - even without the cancel culture. Fed gov approves new coal mines but State govts pay for disaster relief. Feds have the big taxes. States log forests to pay for disaster relief... 🤔
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ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 14h
Victorian primary school students will spend no more than 90 minutes a day on screens under reforms announced by the Victorian government.
Victorian schools to limit screen time, provide free laptops
Victorian primary school students will spend no more than 90 minutes a day on screens under reforms announced by the Victorian government.
www.abc.net.au
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Libby Robin @libbydeq.bsky.social · 21h
"minimizing the impacts of a disaster like this before it occurs is far cheaper than rebuilding afterward" ... disaster managers everywhere can learn from Kipnuk, AK @brdemuth.bsky.social
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Lawrence Culver @lawrencecphd.bsky.social · 22h
Before disastrous floods swept through the Alaska Native village of Kipnuk on Sunday, the EPA canceled a $20 million grant “essential to prevent environmental and cultural catastrophe.”

Kipnuk flooded at least 30 times between 1979 and 2022. Gift article.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/c...
Before Alaska Flooding, E.P.A. Canceled $20 Million Flood Protection Grant
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Libby Robin @libbydeq.bsky.social · 21h
www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/15/s... Not what universities are for. Worrying that betting people are infiltrating educational places at all, let alone with misinformation. "Most people don't use the app to bet" is hardly why Sportsbet wants IT students excited by it. 🤔
Sportsbet guest lecturer at Monash university seminar prompts faculty review
Monash University has barred Sportsbet from providing industry presenters to masters students after acknowledging the guest lecture spot was an error in judgement.
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Lawrence Culver @lawrencecphd.bsky.social · 22h
Before disastrous floods swept through the Alaska Native village of Kipnuk on Sunday, the EPA canceled a $20 million grant “essential to prevent environmental and cultural catastrophe.”

Kipnuk flooded at least 30 times between 1979 and 2022. Gift article.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/c...
Before Alaska Flooding, E.P.A. Canceled $20 Million Flood Protection Grant
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Libby Robin @libbydeq.bsky.social · 1d
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/environ... Not good enough. The word is NO ... which syllable needs explaining Murray Watt?
Labor’s slate for fossil fuel approvals
The Albanese government has already approved 31 fossil fuel projects, and more than that are waiting, even as renewables overtake coal as the top source of electricity.
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Libby Robin @libbydeq.bsky.social · 1d
If items like Exec remunerations are blocked by "commercial-in-confidence" rulings, then staff can't be expected to retire early or "sacrifice" to pay for them. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topi... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au
Stacked boards driving ‘rotten’ university sector
The chair of the recent Senate inquiry into the quality of governance at Australia’s universities, Tony Sheldon, can describe the situation in a single word: rotten. While not employing the same colou...
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Libby Robin @libbydeq.bsky.social · 1d
Answer: ALP fed gov rather than the LNP anti-socials for a decade. Still gotta lot to catch up. But it's the right thing to do. @albomp.bsky.social

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Libby Robin @libbydeq.bsky.social · 1d
Creative Australia awards Khaled Sabsabi $100,000 grant months after dumping from Venice Biennale

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Libby Robin @libbydeq.bsky.social · 3d
Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’

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Libby Robin @libbydeq.bsky.social · 3d
www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/13/a... Good! Now let's get on with Peta Murphy's legacy...
Australian Parliament Sports Club de-registered as lobby group amid MP outrage
Exclusive: The Australian Parliament Sports Club has de-registered as a lobby group, as its CEO claims politicians were fully aware of lobby groups' involvement in the club.
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Libby Robin @libbydeq.bsky.social · 3d
The fledgling UN tried to rein in mass-scale misinformation. The world turned its back and is now paying the price | Roland Burke Great new #history initiative to counterbalance the presentism of media. Well done @australia.theguardian.com @austhistassoc.bsky.social
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Libby Robin @libbydeq.bsky.social · 3d
Adopting a ‘she’ll be right’ attitude to Australian politics may be seductive, but it certainly isn’t guaranteed | Julianne Schultz

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Libby Robin @libbydeq.bsky.social · 3d
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10... Well done @albomp.bsky.social - a better look!
Pocock reinvited to parliamentary sports club after PM weighs in
The former star Wallabies player turned independent senator was kicked out of the social sports club after raising concerns about its links to the gambling industry.
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Libby Robin @libbydeq.bsky.social · 4d
If the paper is published the university should be able to find this out without a manual alert from the researcher. Filling out bibliometrics for rankings bureaucrats is not what Uni staff need to do ... where is AI when you need it?

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Libby Robin @libbydeq.bsky.social · 4d
We need a more critical approach to "international rankings" - these may result in staff required to undertake extra paperwork documenting publications rather than doing research or teaching. There is a lot of ghost work involved in documenting "productivity" that gets in the way of actual work
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Our ANU @ouranu.bsky.social · 4d
“The challenge for Australia’s top universities … is to align perceived prestige with academic integrity. That should mean linking executive incentives not to ranking positions alone but to measures like … equitable pay, staff retention and audit transparency.”

www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/10/a...
Australia's universities may win in global rankings, but they're failing teachers and students
An overreliance on foreign students and a predilection towards wage theft means Australia's universities are worse than the rankings suggest.
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Grattan Institute @grattaninstitute.bsky.social · 4d
💡 Cheaper energy bills AND reduced emissions?

Our new report finds that Australian household energy bills are set to halve by 2050, leaving room for the federal gov't to cut emissions in the electricity sector without hurting households.

Here’s how: buff.ly/9UPN4ub
A graphic of wind turbines on a rocky shore, with the text New Grattan Report Bills down, emissions down, a practical path to net-zero electricity
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David Pocock @davidpocock.bsky.social · 4d
The Albanese govt’s first term was the second most secretive on record.

Rather than changing their ways, they’re doubling down and tightening our FOI system to make it even harder to get information. Not a single expert or member of parliament outside of the Labor party has backed their new bill.
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Libby Robin @libbydeq.bsky.social · 6d
... and the point of conferences is to meet people!
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Libby Robin @libbydeq.bsky.social · 6d
What does "working to exit the lease" mean? Working to take as long as possible to get out?

Costs after one month should be borne by the Bishop not the Chancellor... or better still, she can keep her office & simply pay for it herself like a normal person.

Greed isn't becoming.

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Libby Robin @libbydeq.bsky.social · 6d
John Clarke was right. We need more women writing comedy. Keep on pioneering!

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Libby Robin @libbydeq.bsky.social · 6d
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... Outrageous. They all talk politics at the sports club, and few have Pocock's sporting credentials. The Gambling Lobby isn't sporting. Nor can it decide what is "politics" and what isn't. @davidpocock.bsky.social
Former Wallabies star David Pocock booted from parliamentary sports club
Exclusive: Senator accused of bringing social club into disrepute after raising concerns about its association with betting lobby
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