AusSue
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Shaking off the apocalyptic funk and looking for the future thinking people to hang with.
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I can't believe we're arguing about tax increase on super to help mend the budget which actually won't raise anything, and then on the other size a gazillion dollars worth of our gas will be dug up and exported and obvs no tax paid on it + climate catastrophe. Great deals all around.
May 29, 2025 at 8:56 PM
I can't believe we're arguing about tax increase on super to help mend the budget which actually won't raise anything, and then on the other size a gazillion dollars worth of our gas will be dug up and exported and obvs no tax paid on it + climate catastrophe. Great deals all around.
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In which I point out that our Prime Minister might just be stretching the truth a tad when he says that Woodside's North West Shelf extension is needed to firm the Western Australian grid.
Did he tell you about how he grew up in social housing?
Did he tell you about how he grew up in social housing?
Fact Check: Woodside’s North West Shelf extension isn’t needed to firm the Australian grid
It does what it says on the tin.
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May 29, 2025 at 2:51 PM
In which I point out that our Prime Minister might just be stretching the truth a tad when he says that Woodside's North West Shelf extension is needed to firm the Western Australian grid.
Did he tell you about how he grew up in social housing?
Did he tell you about how he grew up in social housing?
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New in PN: The Republican budget is an attack on the economy
"As a moral document, the Republican budget is an abomination, delivering largesse to the most comfortable and cruelty to the most vulnerable. As an economic plan, it could hardly be dumber."
"As a moral document, the Republican budget is an abomination, delivering largesse to the most comfortable and cruelty to the most vulnerable. As an economic plan, it could hardly be dumber."
The Republican budget is an attack on the American economy
Everywhere you look, it delivers blows to America's economic future.
www.publicnotice.co
May 29, 2025 at 1:34 PM
New in PN: The Republican budget is an attack on the economy
"As a moral document, the Republican budget is an abomination, delivering largesse to the most comfortable and cruelty to the most vulnerable. As an economic plan, it could hardly be dumber."
"As a moral document, the Republican budget is an abomination, delivering largesse to the most comfortable and cruelty to the most vulnerable. As an economic plan, it could hardly be dumber."
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The USA is barely recognizable after 4 months; if you think you can sit on the sidelines and it will be handed back to you in four years you are out of your mind.
May 29, 2025 at 1:36 PM
The USA is barely recognizable after 4 months; if you think you can sit on the sidelines and it will be handed back to you in four years you are out of your mind.
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I miss journalists, Trump staged an assassination attempt that a five year-old could figure out was fake and NYT’s thinks we need Ezra Klein interviewing Jake Tapper. The failure of MSM wasn’t in covering Biden’s age it was in ignoring Trump’s crimes for the last forty years.
May 22, 2025 at 10:02 PM
I miss journalists, Trump staged an assassination attempt that a five year-old could figure out was fake and NYT’s thinks we need Ezra Klein interviewing Jake Tapper. The failure of MSM wasn’t in covering Biden’s age it was in ignoring Trump’s crimes for the last forty years.
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And if you think it's bad now, the Billionaire Bailout Bill that passed the House this morning will be the biggest transfer of wealth in history if enacted.
May 22, 2025 at 10:15 PM
And if you think it's bad now, the Billionaire Bailout Bill that passed the House this morning will be the biggest transfer of wealth in history if enacted.
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The Nationals breaking up over Net Zero while farmers break under floods and droughts is the kind of irony that needs a weather warning.
May 21, 2025 at 11:53 AM
The Nationals breaking up over Net Zero while farmers break under floods and droughts is the kind of irony that needs a weather warning.
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Marles is deluded. In a world where merit mattered, he would be shown the door
Niki Savva
Thread .. 🧵
#auspol #PerfumedWarlord
Niki Savva
Thread .. 🧵
#auspol #PerfumedWarlord
Marles is deluded. In a world where merit mattered, he would be shown the door
Richard Marles was warned that if he knifed Mark Dreyfus and Ed Husic, there would be grave repercussions. Initially, he appeared to take it all on board. Then he didn’t.
www.smh.com.au
May 14, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Marles is deluded. In a world where merit mattered, he would be shown the door
Niki Savva
Thread .. 🧵
#auspol #PerfumedWarlord
Niki Savva
Thread .. 🧵
#auspol #PerfumedWarlord
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Fascinating analysis here about how Advance made huge strategic error in whacking Greens and potentially helping Labor form a larger majority. I would add to this that Advance helped make the Liberals look more Trumpist right when Libs were trying to hide their MAGA hats. Well done Advance grubs!
As results came in, Liberal-backed activist group Advance took credit for the Greens scalps.
It has been quieter about Labor's big win. In fact, Advance quietly admitted its attacks may have helped its opponents win as Australia elected its most progressive parliament ever
www.crikey.com.au/20...
It has been quieter about Labor's big win. In fact, Advance quietly admitted its attacks may have helped its opponents win as Australia elected its most progressive parliament ever
www.crikey.com.au/20...
May 9, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Fascinating analysis here about how Advance made huge strategic error in whacking Greens and potentially helping Labor form a larger majority. I would add to this that Advance helped make the Liberals look more Trumpist right when Libs were trying to hide their MAGA hats. Well done Advance grubs!
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I will forever be haunted by this footage.
Trawling has only been filmed underwater a few times in documentary history, and never with such clarity.
What’s so heart-rending about these shots is watching how the animals don’t just get swept up — they swim for their lives.
🌎🦑🧪
Trawling has only been filmed underwater a few times in documentary history, and never with such clarity.
What’s so heart-rending about these shots is watching how the animals don’t just get swept up — they swim for their lives.
🌎🦑🧪
May 9, 2025 at 9:32 PM
I will forever be haunted by this footage.
Trawling has only been filmed underwater a few times in documentary history, and never with such clarity.
What’s so heart-rending about these shots is watching how the animals don’t just get swept up — they swim for their lives.
🌎🦑🧪
Trawling has only been filmed underwater a few times in documentary history, and never with such clarity.
What’s so heart-rending about these shots is watching how the animals don’t just get swept up — they swim for their lives.
🌎🦑🧪
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The media loves to interrogate Simon Holmes a Court about his influence on the #independents via #Climate200 but they never do the same for Rhinehart, Santos and the other political whales. The poppies that want to save the planet are nowhere near as tall as the ones who want to destroy it. #auspol
May 8, 2025 at 8:35 PM
The media loves to interrogate Simon Holmes a Court about his influence on the #independents via #Climate200 but they never do the same for Rhinehart, Santos and the other political whales. The poppies that want to save the planet are nowhere near as tall as the ones who want to destroy it. #auspol
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100s of millions of little kids today are now "projected to live unprecedented exposure to heatwaves, river floods, droughts, crop failures, wildfires and tropical cyclones" in their lifetimes.
Unprecedented: "extremes above the 99.99th percentile of exposure expected in a pre-industrial climate."
Unprecedented: "extremes above the 99.99th percentile of exposure expected in a pre-industrial climate."
May 7, 2025 at 9:40 PM
100s of millions of little kids today are now "projected to live unprecedented exposure to heatwaves, river floods, droughts, crop failures, wildfires and tropical cyclones" in their lifetimes.
Unprecedented: "extremes above the 99.99th percentile of exposure expected in a pre-industrial climate."
Unprecedented: "extremes above the 99.99th percentile of exposure expected in a pre-industrial climate."
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Nikki Savva & Laura Tingle on Late Night Live, definitely frank & fearless. Neither holding back on the failure of Dutton and+ #MurdochMedia to run the whole narrative while Dutton fell further every day into a gibbering mess.
Well worth hearing.
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Well worth hearing.
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May 6, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Nikki Savva & Laura Tingle on Late Night Live, definitely frank & fearless. Neither holding back on the failure of Dutton and+ #MurdochMedia to run the whole narrative while Dutton fell further every day into a gibbering mess.
Well worth hearing.
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Well worth hearing.
bsky.app/profile/juli...
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"Before taking office, Mr. Trump told top aides to think of each presidential day as an episode in a television show in which he vanquishes rivals."
In fact, it's a TV show in which he says something increasingly stupid every day, and the viewers think "What a fucking idiot"
In fact, it's a TV show in which he says something increasingly stupid every day, and the viewers think "What a fucking idiot"
May 5, 2025 at 8:03 AM
"Before taking office, Mr. Trump told top aides to think of each presidential day as an episode in a television show in which he vanquishes rivals."
In fact, it's a TV show in which he says something increasingly stupid every day, and the viewers think "What a fucking idiot"
In fact, it's a TV show in which he says something increasingly stupid every day, and the viewers think "What a fucking idiot"
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When most people say something stupid they try to make you forget it. When Trump says something stupid, he digs in and improvs alts off of it for a week.
Trump: "A young lady -- 10 year old girl, 9 year old girl, 15 year old girl -- doesn't need 37 dolls. She could be very happy with 2 or 3 or 4 or 5."
May 5, 2025 at 3:25 AM
When most people say something stupid they try to make you forget it. When Trump says something stupid, he digs in and improvs alts off of it for a week.
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"The Liberals would do well to treat voters as sensible adults capable of exercising reason and judgement rather than as bundles of appetites, prejudices and fears....Above all, they would do well to lose the sneer." #auspol
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Are the Liberals in danger of becoming the Kodak of Australian politics? • Frank Bongiorno
The party is taking a long time to understand its plight
insidestory.org.au
May 4, 2025 at 8:56 PM
"The Liberals would do well to treat voters as sensible adults capable of exercising reason and judgement rather than as bundles of appetites, prejudices and fears....Above all, they would do well to lose the sneer." #auspol
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Just a reminder that the last time we were all giggly about the LNP being thumped in an election, they fucking well weren’t. My stomach is still clenched from that outcome and I no longer trust polls. #AusVotes2025 #AusPol #BinNight 🤞
How the polls got it so wrong predicting a Labor victory
After years of polling suggested it was an "unlosable" election for Bill Shorten, last night's Coalition win seemed like a "miracle" to many more than just Scott Morrison. We asked the experts why the...
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May 1, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Just a reminder that the last time we were all giggly about the LNP being thumped in an election, they fucking well weren’t. My stomach is still clenched from that outcome and I no longer trust polls. #AusVotes2025 #AusPol #BinNight 🤞
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One of the best 3 minutes of your life will be spent watching this. It's powerful stuff
Atlas Network - the subversive people manipulating and controlling public debate and holding Australia back from its full potential. #AusVotes2025
Credit: Regenerators
Full vid: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecqD...
Atlas Network - the subversive people manipulating and controlling public debate and holding Australia back from its full potential. #AusVotes2025
Credit: Regenerators
Full vid: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecqD...
April 30, 2025 at 1:56 AM
One of the best 3 minutes of your life will be spent watching this. It's powerful stuff
Atlas Network - the subversive people manipulating and controlling public debate and holding Australia back from its full potential. #AusVotes2025
Credit: Regenerators
Full vid: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecqD...
Atlas Network - the subversive people manipulating and controlling public debate and holding Australia back from its full potential. #AusVotes2025
Credit: Regenerators
Full vid: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecqD...
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I'm with Mark Hamill, who's with us? 🤔
May 2, 2025 at 7:51 PM
I'm with Mark Hamill, who's with us? 🤔
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A vote for The Thug is also a vote for the most witless, vacuous, incompetent front bench in living memory: Angus Taylor, Sussssan Ley, Barnaby Joyce, Jane Hume, Michaelia Cash, James Paterson…what an appalling thought.
May 2, 2025 at 9:24 PM
A vote for The Thug is also a vote for the most witless, vacuous, incompetent front bench in living memory: Angus Taylor, Sussssan Ley, Barnaby Joyce, Jane Hume, Michaelia Cash, James Paterson…what an appalling thought.
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It's not too late, and it will never be too late in our lifetimes: no matter what our global trajectory, there will always better outcomes to be won.
Defeatism is a form of denial.
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Defeatism is a form of denial.
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This is, I believe, the most important thing you can know about the planetary crisis:
It is not too late.
The biggest fights are all still ahead of us—and the distance between the best futures still available and the worst catastrophes our inaction could bring on is truly vast....
It is not too late.
The biggest fights are all still ahead of us—and the distance between the best futures still available and the worst catastrophes our inaction could bring on is truly vast....
A question-assertion I often hear:
"Isn't it too late?"
"Too late," here, meaning a state of affairs where our destabilization of the planet and limited human progress have doomed us inevitably to the most catastrophic of outcomes.
The simple answer is "No. It's not too late."
"Isn't it too late?"
"Too late," here, meaning a state of affairs where our destabilization of the planet and limited human progress have doomed us inevitably to the most catastrophic of outcomes.
The simple answer is "No. It's not too late."
April 7, 2025 at 7:37 PM
It's not too late, and it will never be too late in our lifetimes: no matter what our global trajectory, there will always better outcomes to be won.
Defeatism is a form of denial.
bsky.app/profile/alex...
Defeatism is a form of denial.
bsky.app/profile/alex...
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(What makes these failures most tragic is how utterly unnecessary they are, what a simple triumph of stupidity rising CO2 emissions are...)
December 4, 2024 at 8:31 PM
(What makes these failures most tragic is how utterly unnecessary they are, what a simple triumph of stupidity rising CO2 emissions are...)
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Because there's no future where our kids and our grandkids and children down through the millennium will be better off if we give up.
December 4, 2024 at 8:21 PM
Because there's no future where our kids and our grandkids and children down through the millennium will be better off if we give up.