@josephinet.bsky.social
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1/2 A calm response to the #BondiShooting:
"All this finger-pointing before we’ve even had a moment to collectively mourn the dead and injured. How about we pause and consider the two lasting images that the December 14, 2025, Hanukkah massacre presents us with?...
www.smh.com.au/national/i-t...
"All this finger-pointing before we’ve even had a moment to collectively mourn the dead and injured. How about we pause and consider the two lasting images that the December 14, 2025, Hanukkah massacre presents us with?...
www.smh.com.au/national/i-t...
I told a friend the world was trembling, then Bondi erupted
We were two Jewish men and two non-Jewish women, settling down for dinner in Bondi. Then the gunshots rang out.
www.smh.com.au
December 16, 2025 at 1:30 AM
1/2 A calm response to the #BondiShooting:
"All this finger-pointing before we’ve even had a moment to collectively mourn the dead and injured. How about we pause and consider the two lasting images that the December 14, 2025, Hanukkah massacre presents us with?...
www.smh.com.au/national/i-t...
"All this finger-pointing before we’ve even had a moment to collectively mourn the dead and injured. How about we pause and consider the two lasting images that the December 14, 2025, Hanukkah massacre presents us with?...
www.smh.com.au/national/i-t...
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More and more Aussies are voting independent. The response from the major parties has NOT been to ‘be and do better’, rather to rig electoral laws to favour them. It’s undemocratic! @zoedaniel.bsky.social and I are asking the High Court to strike out those laws. #auspol
Former independents launch high court challenge to electoral laws they say favour Labor and Coalition
Contentious changes to fundraising rules will keep politics a ‘cosy table’ for major parties, Zoe Daniel and Rex Patrick say
www.theguardian.com
December 15, 2025 at 7:46 AM
More and more Aussies are voting independent. The response from the major parties has NOT been to ‘be and do better’, rather to rig electoral laws to favour them. It’s undemocratic! @zoedaniel.bsky.social and I are asking the High Court to strike out those laws. #auspol
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What your cheap clothes cost the planet #Climate
What your cheap clothes cost the planet
A global supply chain built for speed is leaving behind waste, toxins, and a trail of environmental wreckage.
grist.org
December 15, 2025 at 10:11 AM
What your cheap clothes cost the planet #Climate
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South Korea announced it's going to phase out coal-fired power by 2040, a massive win for the climate.🌏
But you might not know that a few local climate groups in Australia played a part in making this happen!🌱
Research Director Rod Campbell explains
@rodcampbell.bsky.social #auspol
But you might not know that a few local climate groups in Australia played a part in making this happen!🌱
Research Director Rod Campbell explains
@rodcampbell.bsky.social #auspol
December 4, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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Oppose the pipeline Santos wants to rip through the Pilliga forest knittingnannas.org/2025/12/08/a...
Action of the Week 8 Dec 2025
There’s an action we can all take this week in the campaign to block the Santos Narrabri Gas Project in the Pilliga forest.
knittingnannas.org
December 7, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Oppose the pipeline Santos wants to rip through the Pilliga forest knittingnannas.org/2025/12/08/a...
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It was my experience of deforestation in Borneo when I reached my tipping point.
I stopped flying, became vegan, became an activist with @scientistsforxr.earth, and left academia to become a filmmaker.
Storytelling might have more impact than my work in science.
My film:
fires-and-fascism.co.uk
I stopped flying, became vegan, became an activist with @scientistsforxr.earth, and left academia to become a filmmaker.
Storytelling might have more impact than my work in science.
My film:
fires-and-fascism.co.uk
Satellite images reveal the Martabe gold mine in northern Sumatra has begun expanding toward key habitat used by the critically endangered Tapanuli orangutan. Campaigners say the mine's expansion could push the ape to extinction. My latest for @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
It’s the world’s rarest ape. Now a billion-dollar dig for gold threatens its future
Tapanuli orangutans survive only in Indonesia’s Sumatran rainforest where a mine expansion will cut through their home. Yet the mining company says the alternative will be worse
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 2:11 PM
It was my experience of deforestation in Borneo when I reached my tipping point.
I stopped flying, became vegan, became an activist with @scientistsforxr.earth, and left academia to become a filmmaker.
Storytelling might have more impact than my work in science.
My film:
fires-and-fascism.co.uk
I stopped flying, became vegan, became an activist with @scientistsforxr.earth, and left academia to become a filmmaker.
Storytelling might have more impact than my work in science.
My film:
fires-and-fascism.co.uk
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Knitting Nannas supporting Wiradyuri heritage protection - at Section 10 hearing brought by Regis Resources against the Minister in Sydney Federal Court today.
Yindyamurra, respect land water and elders. Protect BilaBula.
Yindyamurra, respect land water and elders. Protect BilaBula.
December 10, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Knitting Nannas supporting Wiradyuri heritage protection - at Section 10 hearing brought by Regis Resources against the Minister in Sydney Federal Court today.
Yindyamurra, respect land water and elders. Protect BilaBula.
Yindyamurra, respect land water and elders. Protect BilaBula.
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Please join us & stand alongside the Wiradjuri at the appeal by gold mine owners against the s.10 protection that Tanya Plibersek placed over the headwaters of the Belubula River near Blayney.
Wed, 10th December at 10am. Federal Court, Level 17 Law Courts Building, Queens Square, Sydney.
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Wed, 10th December at 10am. Federal Court, Level 17 Law Courts Building, Queens Square, Sydney.
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December 5, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Please join us & stand alongside the Wiradjuri at the appeal by gold mine owners against the s.10 protection that Tanya Plibersek placed over the headwaters of the Belubula River near Blayney.
Wed, 10th December at 10am. Federal Court, Level 17 Law Courts Building, Queens Square, Sydney.
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Wed, 10th December at 10am. Federal Court, Level 17 Law Courts Building, Queens Square, Sydney.
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“We’re paying more for gas just so that a Japanese company can export gas to Japan, and then export gas . . . for profit." - Greg Jericho, Chief Economist, The Australia Institute
✍️ Sign our petition urging the government to fix our gas export problem: nb.australiainstitute.org.au/fix_gas_expo...
✍️ Sign our petition urging the government to fix our gas export problem: nb.australiainstitute.org.au/fix_gas_expo...
December 4, 2025 at 11:49 PM
“We’re paying more for gas just so that a Japanese company can export gas to Japan, and then export gas . . . for profit." - Greg Jericho, Chief Economist, The Australia Institute
✍️ Sign our petition urging the government to fix our gas export problem: nb.australiainstitute.org.au/fix_gas_expo...
✍️ Sign our petition urging the government to fix our gas export problem: nb.australiainstitute.org.au/fix_gas_expo...
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independentaustralia.net/life/life-di...
Teacher enthusiasm is drained by barbarous working conditions and parental support is very hard to provide when you need to work two jobs just to afford food.
In completely unrelated news the great majority of our fearless leaders went to private schools.
Teacher enthusiasm is drained by barbarous working conditions and parental support is very hard to provide when you need to work two jobs just to afford food.
In completely unrelated news the great majority of our fearless leaders went to private schools.
Australia’s education system is breaking our teachers
The public education system has been unravelling for more than a decade — a class action may be the only remedy.
independentaustralia.net
December 5, 2025 at 1:45 AM
independentaustralia.net/life/life-di...
Teacher enthusiasm is drained by barbarous working conditions and parental support is very hard to provide when you need to work two jobs just to afford food.
In completely unrelated news the great majority of our fearless leaders went to private schools.
Teacher enthusiasm is drained by barbarous working conditions and parental support is very hard to provide when you need to work two jobs just to afford food.
In completely unrelated news the great majority of our fearless leaders went to private schools.
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It’s no accident that foreign streaming services do little to promote Australian music and podcasts to Australians…and it’s no accident that our governments have chosen not to do more to fix it. Local content matters more in the digital age than ever
thepoint.com.au/news/251204-...
thepoint.com.au/news/251204-...
Why your Spotify Wrapped probably doesn’t have any new Australian music on it
If you don't have Australian artists on your Spotify Wrapped, you're not alone - it's the result of a structural, not individual, problem.
thepoint.com.au
December 3, 2025 at 9:03 PM
It’s no accident that foreign streaming services do little to promote Australian music and podcasts to Australians…and it’s no accident that our governments have chosen not to do more to fix it. Local content matters more in the digital age than ever
thepoint.com.au/news/251204-...
thepoint.com.au/news/251204-...
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Australians are losing patience with a government that has till now refused to reserve gas supplies for domestic use while seeing still increasing cost of living pressures
Labor needs to step up REALLY fast and make that transition to renewables happen AND PERMANENTLY BRING POWER PRICES DOWN
Labor needs to step up REALLY fast and make that transition to renewables happen AND PERMANENTLY BRING POWER PRICES DOWN
December 3, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Australians are losing patience with a government that has till now refused to reserve gas supplies for domestic use while seeing still increasing cost of living pressures
Labor needs to step up REALLY fast and make that transition to renewables happen AND PERMANENTLY BRING POWER PRICES DOWN
Labor needs to step up REALLY fast and make that transition to renewables happen AND PERMANENTLY BRING POWER PRICES DOWN
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David Shoebridge slams Aus War Memorial’s Matt Anderson after they put up for exhibition a “staged photo” of war criminal Ben Roberts-Smith “who’s famous for wanting his Kill Count” & edited out a dead Afghan body he posed in front of.
“You edited out the truth!”🔥 #Estimates
“You edited out the truth!”🔥 #Estimates
December 3, 2025 at 2:24 AM
David Shoebridge slams Aus War Memorial’s Matt Anderson after they put up for exhibition a “staged photo” of war criminal Ben Roberts-Smith “who’s famous for wanting his Kill Count” & edited out a dead Afghan body he posed in front of.
“You edited out the truth!”🔥 #Estimates
“You edited out the truth!”🔥 #Estimates
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"The Australian Government has allowed the export of enough gas to supply all of Australia’s gas power stations for 60 years” – Mark Ogge, Principal Advisor, The Australia Institute
✍️ Sign our petition urging the government to fix our gas export problem: nb.australiainstitute.org.au/fix_gas_expo...
✍️ Sign our petition urging the government to fix our gas export problem: nb.australiainstitute.org.au/fix_gas_expo...
December 4, 2025 at 12:29 AM
"The Australian Government has allowed the export of enough gas to supply all of Australia’s gas power stations for 60 years” – Mark Ogge, Principal Advisor, The Australia Institute
✍️ Sign our petition urging the government to fix our gas export problem: nb.australiainstitute.org.au/fix_gas_expo...
✍️ Sign our petition urging the government to fix our gas export problem: nb.australiainstitute.org.au/fix_gas_expo...
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How weird…one minute we are supposed to have a gas shortage (hint: we didn’t) and now we are going to let AI data centres build new gas fired electricity generators to ensure they have enough electricity…
Its as if everything the government says about gas is BS #climate
Its as if everything the government says about gas is BS #climate
December 2, 2025 at 8:00 PM
How weird…one minute we are supposed to have a gas shortage (hint: we didn’t) and now we are going to let AI data centres build new gas fired electricity generators to ensure they have enough electricity…
Its as if everything the government says about gas is BS #climate
Its as if everything the government says about gas is BS #climate
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Thank you @barbarapocock.bsky.social and @greens.org.au for speaking up on this serious lack of #government #accountability. It will cost lives and a viable #economy.
#auspol
#auspol
How to wave off a problem:
- Commission a review
- Ignore key recommendations
- Don’t enshrine anything in legislation
- Keep giving jobs to the boys 🤙
- Commission a review
- Ignore key recommendations
- Don’t enshrine anything in legislation
- Keep giving jobs to the boys 🤙
December 2, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Thank you @barbarapocock.bsky.social and @greens.org.au for speaking up on this serious lack of #government #accountability. It will cost lives and a viable #economy.
#auspol
#auspol
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New Knitting Nanna and legendary investigative journalist @wendybacon1.bsky.social on why she chose to get arrested last weekend .. but this time in a yellow T shirt!
December 3, 2025 at 12:54 AM
New Knitting Nanna and legendary investigative journalist @wendybacon1.bsky.social on why she chose to get arrested last weekend .. but this time in a yellow T shirt!
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Climate change will ‘create’ lots of jobs, eg 2000 extra jobs to process the claims from Brisbane floods
Time for new thinking re what kind of jobs we want, not just how many…building new gas & coal doesn’t just cause disasters it diverts workers from useful tasks thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Time for new thinking re what kind of jobs we want, not just how many…building new gas & coal doesn’t just cause disasters it diverts workers from useful tasks thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Rebuilding after climate chaos 'creates jobs', but isn’t economic progress
Climate change will create jobs, but rebuilding what’s been destroyed is not progress.
thepoint.com.au
December 3, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Climate change will ‘create’ lots of jobs, eg 2000 extra jobs to process the claims from Brisbane floods
Time for new thinking re what kind of jobs we want, not just how many…building new gas & coal doesn’t just cause disasters it diverts workers from useful tasks thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Time for new thinking re what kind of jobs we want, not just how many…building new gas & coal doesn’t just cause disasters it diverts workers from useful tasks thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
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“If a house is uninsurable, it is unmortgageable.” – Dr Richard Denniss
Fossil fuels are making climate change worse – and ordinary Australians are paying the price.
✍️ Add your name to the call for a national climate disaster levy: nb.australiainstitute.org.au/climatedisas...
Fossil fuels are making climate change worse – and ordinary Australians are paying the price.
✍️ Add your name to the call for a national climate disaster levy: nb.australiainstitute.org.au/climatedisas...
December 3, 2025 at 12:56 AM
“If a house is uninsurable, it is unmortgageable.” – Dr Richard Denniss
Fossil fuels are making climate change worse – and ordinary Australians are paying the price.
✍️ Add your name to the call for a national climate disaster levy: nb.australiainstitute.org.au/climatedisas...
Fossil fuels are making climate change worse – and ordinary Australians are paying the price.
✍️ Add your name to the call for a national climate disaster levy: nb.australiainstitute.org.au/climatedisas...
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Beaut post from @risingtideaus.bsky.social Today’s paddleout to confront the coal ships. People Power.
This is civil disobedience‼️ We've asked 'nicely' for decades. Disobeying institutions that abuse power to deliberately harm those less powerful is a vital tenant of a healthy democracy. There is still time to join is at #RisingTide 👇🏽
www.risingtide.org.au/pb2025
www.risingtide.org.au/pb2025
November 29, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Beaut post from @risingtideaus.bsky.social Today’s paddleout to confront the coal ships. People Power.