💧💦🌊🐟🌴KMackenzie🌿🦋🦜🐨🐾🔥
@keimacken.bsky.social
The only reliable #system is the #ecosystem
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NSW police say DFV is 40% of calls. NSW Police cost $5 billion per year. NSW Police are the worst responders - survivors attest police are a last or non resort, saying the reasons are fear and mistrust of police, who regularly criminalise and endanger victims.
Spend $2 billion on what works.
Spend $2 billion on what works.
Australia knows how to end gender-based violence. What we lack is the political will to make the fiscal decisions that match the crisis, writes Katherine Berney.
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womensagenda.com.au/latest/austr...
Australia knows how to end violence against women. What we lack is the will to pay for it.
Australia knows how to end gender-based violence. What we lack is the political will to make the fiscal decisions that match the crisis.
womensagenda.com.au
November 26, 2025 at 1:30 AM
NSW police say DFV is 40% of calls. NSW Police cost $5 billion per year. NSW Police are the worst responders - survivors attest police are a last or non resort, saying the reasons are fear and mistrust of police, who regularly criminalise and endanger victims.
Spend $2 billion on what works.
Spend $2 billion on what works.
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It’s been five brutal years for Ben Pennings and his family but now Adani has slunk off the next step involves us. We have to pressure @australianlabor.bsky.social to outlaw SLAPP suits, a prevailing threat to our #Climate movement & democracy. benpennings.com/victory/
November 27, 2025 at 12:14 AM
It’s been five brutal years for Ben Pennings and his family but now Adani has slunk off the next step involves us. We have to pressure @australianlabor.bsky.social to outlaw SLAPP suits, a prevailing threat to our #Climate movement & democracy. benpennings.com/victory/
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The Great Artesian Basin covers a fifth of Australia and contains water that has been there for millions of years. Now, decades of extraction are taking their toll and traditional owners are fighting a mining giant for compensation.
Water is under pressure in the Great Artesian Basin
The Great Artesian Basin covers a fifth of Australia and contains water that has been there for millions of years. Now, decades of extraction are taking their toll and traditional owners are fighting a mining giant for compensation.
www.abc.net.au
November 22, 2025 at 8:58 PM
The Great Artesian Basin covers a fifth of Australia and contains water that has been there for millions of years. Now, decades of extraction are taking their toll and traditional owners are fighting a mining giant for compensation.
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US President Donald Trump was the only G20 member to boycott the summit in South Africa.
Trump isolated at G20 with world leaders uniting behind joint declaration
US President Donald Trump was the only G20 member to boycott the summit in South Africa.
www.abc.net.au
November 22, 2025 at 9:08 PM
US President Donald Trump was the only G20 member to boycott the summit in South Africa.
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Any police officers failing victims need to be retrained and under close supervision.
Multiple failures to protect and care for victims should be sacking and charge considerations including investigations of their own relationships.
The question would be why?
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Multiple failures to protect and care for victims should be sacking and charge considerations including investigations of their own relationships.
The question would be why?
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
‘Dangerous and undermines our systems’: Tanya Plibersek condemns serious police failures in Queensland DV deaths
Plibersek said those victims – Hannah Clarke and her children, Kardell Lomas and her unborn child, and Gail Karran – ‘should have been kept safe’
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Any police officers failing victims need to be retrained and under close supervision.
Multiple failures to protect and care for victims should be sacking and charge considerations including investigations of their own relationships.
The question would be why?
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Multiple failures to protect and care for victims should be sacking and charge considerations including investigations of their own relationships.
The question would be why?
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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The Covid Inquiry’s report is devastating. A “toxic and chaotic” culture in Downing Street… fatal delays… and tens of thousands of avoidable deaths.
#CovidInquiry #BorisJohnson #UKPolitics
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#CovidInquiry #BorisJohnson #UKPolitics
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Covid inquiry condemns 'toxic and chaotic' culture of Boris Johnson's government
The Covid Inquiry has released its findings on the second part of its hearings - and they are damning.
thewhipline.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:20 AM
The Covid Inquiry’s report is devastating. A “toxic and chaotic” culture in Downing Street… fatal delays… and tens of thousands of avoidable deaths.
#CovidInquiry #BorisJohnson #UKPolitics
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#CovidInquiry #BorisJohnson #UKPolitics
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HEY FRIENDS
For @thepointau.bsky.social, I decided to do the unthinkable and just actually check whether Australia's gas exports are being a magical climate solution and displacing shittonnes of Asian coal
You know what I found, but you will enjoy me saying it:
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
For @thepointau.bsky.social, I decided to do the unthinkable and just actually check whether Australia's gas exports are being a magical climate solution and displacing shittonnes of Asian coal
You know what I found, but you will enjoy me saying it:
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
November 21, 2025 at 11:21 PM
HEY FRIENDS
For @thepointau.bsky.social, I decided to do the unthinkable and just actually check whether Australia's gas exports are being a magical climate solution and displacing shittonnes of Asian coal
You know what I found, but you will enjoy me saying it:
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
For @thepointau.bsky.social, I decided to do the unthinkable and just actually check whether Australia's gas exports are being a magical climate solution and displacing shittonnes of Asian coal
You know what I found, but you will enjoy me saying it:
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
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'As long as we can see the sky, we can see our stories': #Indigenous Australians first to discover variable stars
www.abc.net.au/news/2019-07...
#AUSPOL #Aboriginal #OralHistory #Astronomy
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#AUSPOL #Aboriginal #OralHistory #Astronomy
Aboriginal astronomers built an observatory older than Stonehenge, and discovered variable stars
Traditional custodian at the Aboriginal Trust in Lake Tyers Victoria, Wayne Thorpe, is learning as much about the traditional science and stories of the stars as he can.
www.abc.net.au
November 21, 2025 at 11:56 PM
'As long as we can see the sky, we can see our stories': #Indigenous Australians first to discover variable stars
www.abc.net.au/news/2019-07...
#AUSPOL #Aboriginal #OralHistory #Astronomy
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#AUSPOL #Aboriginal #OralHistory #Astronomy
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“A third of Australian families are food insecure. NDIS is being pared back to the bone. Welfare recipients face punitive new laws. Meanwhile, we have committed up to $368 billion to buy nuclear submarines that will be built in the United States.”
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Asset-Stripping a Nation: How Australia's Government is Trading Your Future for Empire
A third of Australian families are food insecure. The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) is being pared back to the bone. Welfare recipients face punitive new laws. Meanwhile, the government ...
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November 22, 2025 at 1:22 AM
“A third of Australian families are food insecure. NDIS is being pared back to the bone. Welfare recipients face punitive new laws. Meanwhile, we have committed up to $368 billion to buy nuclear submarines that will be built in the United States.”
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theaimn.net/asset-stripp...
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Young people are struggling — but not equally. While some inherit safety nets, others face shrinking futures, creating a quieter crisis and further divide.
~ Carl Rhodes
Young Australians deserve more than a rigged future
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~ Carl Rhodes
Young Australians deserve more than a rigged future
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Young Australians deserve more than a rigged future
Young people are struggling — but not equally. While some inherit safety nets, others face shrinking futures, creating a quieter crisis and further divide.
independentaustralia.net
November 21, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Young people are struggling — but not equally. While some inherit safety nets, others face shrinking futures, creating a quieter crisis and further divide.
~ Carl Rhodes
Young Australians deserve more than a rigged future
independentaustralia.net/politics/pol...
~ Carl Rhodes
Young Australians deserve more than a rigged future
independentaustralia.net/politics/pol...
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Should we limit home ownership to two homes?
November 20, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Should we limit home ownership to two homes?
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This is utterly outrageous by the Group of Eight unis, and deeply insulting and undermining for environment and climate experts trying their hardest to achieve a more sustainable future for society. Shameful stuff.
1/ No surpirise that Business Council of Australia's leading the charge for further regressive changes to Watt's already regressive EPBC package
But 🤯 that the Group of 8 Unis (ANU, Monash, UAdelaide, UMelb, UNSW, USyd, UQ, UWA) have signed the 'Letter from the Alliance of 26 industry Groups' 🤬🤬🤬
But 🤯 that the Group of 8 Unis (ANU, Monash, UAdelaide, UMelb, UNSW, USyd, UQ, UWA) have signed the 'Letter from the Alliance of 26 industry Groups' 🤬🤬🤬
Alliance of Industry Groups: Letter on EPBC - Business Council of Australia
www.bca.com.au
November 21, 2025 at 5:30 AM
This is utterly outrageous by the Group of Eight unis, and deeply insulting and undermining for environment and climate experts trying their hardest to achieve a more sustainable future for society. Shameful stuff.
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The same public servants who created the rules for the ‘market’ for aged care, child care, disability care and water in the Murray River are now pretending they will do a good job of making a ‘market’ for biodiversity…what could go wrong
Australia Institute co-CEO Dr Richard Denniss breaks down the problem with offsets at a Senate Inquiry into proposed changes to the Environment Protection Reform Bill.
Sign the petition calling on the government to fix our broken environment laws nb.australiainstitute.org.au/strong_envir...
Sign the petition calling on the government to fix our broken environment laws nb.australiainstitute.org.au/strong_envir...
November 21, 2025 at 2:30 AM
The same public servants who created the rules for the ‘market’ for aged care, child care, disability care and water in the Murray River are now pretending they will do a good job of making a ‘market’ for biodiversity…what could go wrong
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The news has been coming so fast, I did another later which might not otherwise see the light.
November 20, 2025 at 10:01 PM
The news has been coming so fast, I did another later which might not otherwise see the light.
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David Pope cartoon: The Elephant in the Room.
November 21, 2025 at 2:40 AM
David Pope cartoon: The Elephant in the Room.
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The latest Dollars & Sense pod is up - featuring @amyremeikis.bsky.social’s panel from the Revenue Summit with @maiyazize.bsky.social and @purplepingers.bsky.social
thepoint.com.au/podcasts/251...
thepoint.com.au/podcasts/251...
How bad policy created a housing crisis
The point.com.au
thepoint.com.au
November 13, 2025 at 6:36 AM
The latest Dollars & Sense pod is up - featuring @amyremeikis.bsky.social’s panel from the Revenue Summit with @maiyazize.bsky.social and @purplepingers.bsky.social
thepoint.com.au/podcasts/251...
thepoint.com.au/podcasts/251...
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Indigenous people don’t offer us hope — they offer truth, which demands we dismantle the systems that made hope necessary.
~ Yuki Lindley
The Amazon storms the COP30 climate summit
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~ Yuki Lindley
The Amazon storms the COP30 climate summit
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The Amazon storms the COP30 climate summit
Indigenous people don’t offer us hope — they offer truth, which demands we dismantle the systems that made hope necessary.
independentaustralia.net
November 20, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Indigenous people don’t offer us hope — they offer truth, which demands we dismantle the systems that made hope necessary.
~ Yuki Lindley
The Amazon storms the COP30 climate summit
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~ Yuki Lindley
The Amazon storms the COP30 climate summit
independentaustralia.net/life/life-di...
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This is all so predictable and boring - so why does it keep happening?
www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...
www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...
Facts among the first casualties in war against renewable energy
Opponents to climate action are deliberately using details out of context, and have done so countless times in the past.
www.thenewdaily.com.au
November 20, 2025 at 12:37 AM
This is all so predictable and boring - so why does it keep happening?
www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...
www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...
Why aren't we calling these idiots out as traitors?
They would be in an internment camp if this was the 1940s.
My dad & uncles & all the other soldiers & nurses risked their lives & mental health fighting against Hitler's regime & this political ideology in WW2 #auspol
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
They would be in an internment camp if this was the 1940s.
My dad & uncles & all the other soldiers & nurses risked their lives & mental health fighting against Hitler's regime & this political ideology in WW2 #auspol
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
How private firms are derailing Neo-Nazi group's political fundraising
While federal and state governments, police and national security agencies grapple with how to respond to the National Socialist Network, several financial institutions and service providers have acte...
www.abc.net.au
November 20, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Why aren't we calling these idiots out as traitors?
They would be in an internment camp if this was the 1940s.
My dad & uncles & all the other soldiers & nurses risked their lives & mental health fighting against Hitler's regime & this political ideology in WW2 #auspol
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
They would be in an internment camp if this was the 1940s.
My dad & uncles & all the other soldiers & nurses risked their lives & mental health fighting against Hitler's regime & this political ideology in WW2 #auspol
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
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The Albanese Government's proposed changes would weaken our environment laws and benefit destructive industries.
The Australia Institute is proud to be one of 100+ orgs calling on Parliament to reject the changes that would gut our environmental protections.
#auspol
The Australia Institute is proud to be one of 100+ orgs calling on Parliament to reject the changes that would gut our environmental protections.
#auspol
November 20, 2025 at 4:50 AM
The Albanese Government's proposed changes would weaken our environment laws and benefit destructive industries.
The Australia Institute is proud to be one of 100+ orgs calling on Parliament to reject the changes that would gut our environmental protections.
#auspol
The Australia Institute is proud to be one of 100+ orgs calling on Parliament to reject the changes that would gut our environmental protections.
#auspol
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These CSIRO job losses are devastating. If the scientists wore high-vis vests rather than lab coats they'd get more respect for what they do. For too long governments, both Labor and Coalition, have taken the CSIRO for granted. #auspol
Government playing down impact of CSIRO job cuts
The prime minister, when in opposition, accused the Coalition of "hollowing out" the CSIRO. Now, following the announcement 350 research positions at the organisation will be cut, he is being accused ...
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November 19, 2025 at 8:17 PM
These CSIRO job losses are devastating. If the scientists wore high-vis vests rather than lab coats they'd get more respect for what they do. For too long governments, both Labor and Coalition, have taken the CSIRO for granted. #auspol
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I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.
November 19, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.
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Newly released documents reveal how Australia’s covert role in Chile’s 1973 coup fed the tensions that ultimately consumed the Whitlam Government.
Declassified files expose Chile coup links to Whitlam’s Dismissal
~ Jemma Nott
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Declassified files expose Chile coup links to Whitlam’s Dismissal
~ Jemma Nott
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Declassified files expose Chile coup links to Whitlam’s Dismissal
Newly released documents reveal how Australia’s covert role in Chile’s 1973 coup fed the tensions that ultimately consumed the Whitlam Government
independentaustralia.net
November 19, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Newly released documents reveal how Australia’s covert role in Chile’s 1973 coup fed the tensions that ultimately consumed the Whitlam Government.
Declassified files expose Chile coup links to Whitlam’s Dismissal
~ Jemma Nott
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Declassified files expose Chile coup links to Whitlam’s Dismissal
~ Jemma Nott
independentaustralia.net/politics/pol...
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Police who joke with perpetrators of violence to women are no better than those perpetrators.
Those police that ignore the bruises and trauma evident in body language and physical evidence should never be allowed to work as police.
Dangerously incompetent.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Those police that ignore the bruises and trauma evident in body language and physical evidence should never be allowed to work as police.
Dangerously incompetent.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Kardell Lomas’s heartbreaking apology to police is a moment that should shame all Australians | Amy McQuire
The refusal to conduct an inquest reveals again what many black women know: it’s not a place for truth-telling but rather a mechanism to alibi the state and its failures
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Police who joke with perpetrators of violence to women are no better than those perpetrators.
Those police that ignore the bruises and trauma evident in body language and physical evidence should never be allowed to work as police.
Dangerously incompetent.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Those police that ignore the bruises and trauma evident in body language and physical evidence should never be allowed to work as police.
Dangerously incompetent.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...