Tam Glen
@misstamstar.bsky.social
On Eora Nation. Inner Westie, Feminist, Environmentalist, Cyclist. Luv Flamenco & Tap Dancing
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“It's not my duty as Mayor to make sure you have a parking spot. For me it's the same as if you bought a cow, or a refrigerator, and then asked me where you're going to put them.” — Mayor of Pontevedra, Spain (re-elected 6 times)
February 4, 2026 at 4:47 AM
“It's not my duty as Mayor to make sure you have a parking spot. For me it's the same as if you bought a cow, or a refrigerator, and then asked me where you're going to put them.” — Mayor of Pontevedra, Spain (re-elected 6 times)
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I feel so betrayed by the Albanese Labor Govt.
The hate bill.
The Nacc.
Climate
Aukus
Asylum seekers
Poverty
Housing
Palantir
Social media ban
Electoral reforms
We’ve been betrayed 😞😞 #auspol
The hate bill.
The Nacc.
Climate
Aukus
Asylum seekers
Poverty
Housing
Palantir
Social media ban
Electoral reforms
We’ve been betrayed 😞😞 #auspol
January 24, 2026 at 3:09 AM
I feel so betrayed by the Albanese Labor Govt.
The hate bill.
The Nacc.
Climate
Aukus
Asylum seekers
Poverty
Housing
Palantir
Social media ban
Electoral reforms
We’ve been betrayed 😞😞 #auspol
The hate bill.
The Nacc.
Climate
Aukus
Asylum seekers
Poverty
Housing
Palantir
Social media ban
Electoral reforms
We’ve been betrayed 😞😞 #auspol
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@albomp.bsky.social promised #transparency, but his preference for secrecy is becoming a national scandal - worse than Scott Morrison. It's not requests for transparency that cost money, it's resistance to transparency. #FOI #auspol
FOI costs double in a decade as full transparency halves
Costs have doubled with full disclosures becoming more rare.
www.canberratimes.com.au
January 4, 2026 at 8:12 PM
@albomp.bsky.social promised #transparency, but his preference for secrecy is becoming a national scandal - worse than Scott Morrison. It's not requests for transparency that cost money, it's resistance to transparency. #FOI #auspol
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Albo just got booed at the memorial for the victims of the Bondi Beach shooting.
I immediately felt sick.
I’m also angry that this tragedy has been so politicised.
Albo is not to blame. The Labor government is not to blame.
Hateful extremists ARE to blame.
We need unity. Not more hate.
I immediately felt sick.
I’m also angry that this tragedy has been so politicised.
Albo is not to blame. The Labor government is not to blame.
Hateful extremists ARE to blame.
We need unity. Not more hate.
December 21, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Albo just got booed at the memorial for the victims of the Bondi Beach shooting.
I immediately felt sick.
I’m also angry that this tragedy has been so politicised.
Albo is not to blame. The Labor government is not to blame.
Hateful extremists ARE to blame.
We need unity. Not more hate.
I immediately felt sick.
I’m also angry that this tragedy has been so politicised.
Albo is not to blame. The Labor government is not to blame.
Hateful extremists ARE to blame.
We need unity. Not more hate.
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If HS2 was a motorway, it would have been built by now! But because new rail projects are minutely analysed with this "value for the taxpayer" nonsense. If road building was held to the same level of scrutiny, a sizable amount of the road network would still be cart tracks.
December 12, 2025 at 10:55 PM
If HS2 was a motorway, it would have been built by now! But because new rail projects are minutely analysed with this "value for the taxpayer" nonsense. If road building was held to the same level of scrutiny, a sizable amount of the road network would still be cart tracks.
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So much of our infrastructure, planning, environmental, and road safety measures seem to be based around politicians' fear of slightly inconveniencing easily-angered motorists. Pedestrians, cyclists, and public transport users are barely considered in their calculations.
November 21, 2025 at 4:55 PM
So much of our infrastructure, planning, environmental, and road safety measures seem to be based around politicians' fear of slightly inconveniencing easily-angered motorists. Pedestrians, cyclists, and public transport users are barely considered in their calculations.
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November 17, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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Labor campaigned heavily on climate action. This is a national disgrace. How can Australia expect to host COP31, when our own government clearly demonstrates a lack of commitment to action on climate?
Shame on the Albanese government.
Shame on the Albanese government.
Australia's largest gas project given final approval to operate until 2070
Australia's biggest gas project, Woodside's North West Shelf, has received final approval to extend operations through until 2070.
www.abc.net.au
September 12, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Labor campaigned heavily on climate action. This is a national disgrace. How can Australia expect to host COP31, when our own government clearly demonstrates a lack of commitment to action on climate?
Shame on the Albanese government.
Shame on the Albanese government.
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I wonder if Jake Tapper will write about this.
September 1, 2025 at 9:46 AM
I wonder if Jake Tapper will write about this.
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Congratulations American farmers, you now have a new market for beef.
What you don’t have is a market for it, or orders. And you won’t have.
Australians don’t want your 3rd rate beef and will not buy it, not even for pet food, so this is a very hollow victory.
What you don’t have is a market for it, or orders. And you won’t have.
Australians don’t want your 3rd rate beef and will not buy it, not even for pet food, so this is a very hollow victory.
July 25, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Congratulations American farmers, you now have a new market for beef.
What you don’t have is a market for it, or orders. And you won’t have.
Australians don’t want your 3rd rate beef and will not buy it, not even for pet food, so this is a very hollow victory.
What you don’t have is a market for it, or orders. And you won’t have.
Australians don’t want your 3rd rate beef and will not buy it, not even for pet food, so this is a very hollow victory.
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Hi @support.bsky.team
This is a fantastic content creator & very well trusted source for Australian users. He contributes a great deal to BlueSky
His account was hacked many weeks ago (@strangerous.bsky.social)
So far he's still waiting to get any info from you
(please repost & tag Support)
This is a fantastic content creator & very well trusted source for Australian users. He contributes a great deal to BlueSky
His account was hacked many weeks ago (@strangerous.bsky.social)
So far he's still waiting to get any info from you
(please repost & tag Support)
So after letting me know weeks ago they’re investigating my hacked account @strangerous.bsky.social, BlueSky is still yet to let me know if they’ve actually done anything, I’m still being contacted about things hacker is doing with account. Should I give up? @support.bsky.team ? Anyone home?😔
April 21, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Hi @support.bsky.team
This is a fantastic content creator & very well trusted source for Australian users. He contributes a great deal to BlueSky
His account was hacked many weeks ago (@strangerous.bsky.social)
So far he's still waiting to get any info from you
(please repost & tag Support)
This is a fantastic content creator & very well trusted source for Australian users. He contributes a great deal to BlueSky
His account was hacked many weeks ago (@strangerous.bsky.social)
So far he's still waiting to get any info from you
(please repost & tag Support)
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“Loneliness and isolation can lead to: 29% increased risk of heart disease; 32% increased risk of stroke; 50% increased risk of developing dementia among older adults; and 60% increased risk of premature death.”
Surgeon General recommends designing cities to create more connections. #WalkableCities
Surgeon General recommends designing cities to create more connections. #WalkableCities
Walkable Neighborhoods Help Adults Socialize, Increase Community
Adults who live in walkable neighborhoods are more likely to socialize and have a stronger sense of community, report researchers at the UC San Diego Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human...
today.ucsd.edu
March 2, 2025 at 6:30 AM
“Loneliness and isolation can lead to: 29% increased risk of heart disease; 32% increased risk of stroke; 50% increased risk of developing dementia among older adults; and 60% increased risk of premature death.”
Surgeon General recommends designing cities to create more connections. #WalkableCities
Surgeon General recommends designing cities to create more connections. #WalkableCities
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“If you had to guess the leading cause of death for children and young people around the world, what would you say? Malaria perhaps? Pneumonia? Suicide? They’re all high up there, but no, it’s road accidents.”
If road deaths were a virus, we’d call it a pandemic. Safer transport helps us all – and we need it urgently | Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and Jean Todt
Deaths on the road costs countries up to 5% of GDP. Centring transport around people, not cars, can propel development
www.theguardian.com
February 22, 2025 at 9:27 AM
“If you had to guess the leading cause of death for children and young people around the world, what would you say? Malaria perhaps? Pneumonia? Suicide? They’re all high up there, but no, it’s road accidents.”
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The Australien Government has made an ad to announce the 2025 election, and it's surprisingly honest and informative. #auspol
Honest Government Ad | Our Last Fair Election?
YouTube video by thejuicemedia
www.youtube.com
February 22, 2025 at 6:40 AM
The Australien Government has made an ad to announce the 2025 election, and it's surprisingly honest and informative. #auspol
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The ALP & LNP think they’ve stitched-up our democracy to keep their snouts in the trough. But it doesn’t have to be so if you use your power to vote for independents. You can vote for better politics or you can have more of the same. It’s up to you. #auspol
Don Farrell’s donations stitch-up
Don Farrell is a political animal. By some counts, he controls the preselection of every seat in South Australia. He’s a right-winger, a product of the conservative shoppies union. In 2012 he beat Pen...
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
February 14, 2025 at 8:41 PM
The ALP & LNP think they’ve stitched-up our democracy to keep their snouts in the trough. But it doesn’t have to be so if you use your power to vote for independents. You can vote for better politics or you can have more of the same. It’s up to you. #auspol
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As their primary vote continues to fall & Australians wake up to the fact that all the issues we face are due to decades of putting their needs above ours - expect the major parties to increasingly circle the wagons to entrench their power - as we've seen today with electoral reform #auspol
February 12, 2025 at 6:00 AM
As their primary vote continues to fall & Australians wake up to the fact that all the issues we face are due to decades of putting their needs above ours - expect the major parties to increasingly circle the wagons to entrench their power - as we've seen today with electoral reform #auspol
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the major parties have seen their primary votes fall from 96% in 1975 to 68% in 2022.
they had two options to arrest the decline:
1. win back trust with good governance & good policy
2. rig the system
tonight they chose to rig the system.
a dark day for australian democracy.
they had two options to arrest the decline:
1. win back trust with good governance & good policy
2. rig the system
tonight they chose to rig the system.
a dark day for australian democracy.
February 12, 2025 at 11:18 AM
the major parties have seen their primary votes fall from 96% in 1975 to 68% in 2022.
they had two options to arrest the decline:
1. win back trust with good governance & good policy
2. rig the system
tonight they chose to rig the system.
a dark day for australian democracy.
they had two options to arrest the decline:
1. win back trust with good governance & good policy
2. rig the system
tonight they chose to rig the system.
a dark day for australian democracy.
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Here’s something we see far too often - car paraphernalia lazily intruding on pedestrian space.
When cars & their junk signage already hog so much of the street space.
At very least plonk it in the parking lane!
When cars & their junk signage already hog so much of the street space.
At very least plonk it in the parking lane!
February 1, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Here’s something we see far too often - car paraphernalia lazily intruding on pedestrian space.
When cars & their junk signage already hog so much of the street space.
At very least plonk it in the parking lane!
When cars & their junk signage already hog so much of the street space.
At very least plonk it in the parking lane!
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On this, or any other day, surely this is a much better Australian flag?
January 26, 2025 at 4:46 AM
On this, or any other day, surely this is a much better Australian flag?
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In Australia its a cheaper to cause an oil spill than to get a nursing degree
In Norway they tax their oil industry and give kids free degrees while in Australia we subsidise the oil industry and charge kids a fortune to go to uni
Priorities matter
In Norway they tax their oil industry and give kids free degrees while in Australia we subsidise the oil industry and charge kids a fortune to go to uni
Priorities matter
Accused by a whistleblower of covering up an oil spill that killed dolphins and sea snakes, Santos get fined just $10k 🤯
Santos spends up to $US3.3m per year on a private jet for their executives so I don’t think AUD10k is going to hurt them.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01...
Santos spends up to $US3.3m per year on a private jet for their executives so I don’t think AUD10k is going to hurt them.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01...
Gas giant Santos fined $10,000 for 25,000-litre oil spill off Pilbara coast
The energy giant has pleaded guilty to causing an oil spill in 2022, that leaked 25,000 litres of oil off WA's north-west coast. Santos will pay a $10,000 fine and $9,700 in court costs for failing to...
www.abc.net.au
January 7, 2025 at 5:45 AM
In Australia its a cheaper to cause an oil spill than to get a nursing degree
In Norway they tax their oil industry and give kids free degrees while in Australia we subsidise the oil industry and charge kids a fortune to go to uni
Priorities matter
In Norway they tax their oil industry and give kids free degrees while in Australia we subsidise the oil industry and charge kids a fortune to go to uni
Priorities matter
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I don’t mind people owning cars. What I do mind is the insistence that they should be allowed to leave them on publicly funded streets, while also demanding an excess of parking lots that consume finite urban space, sterilize our environment, and make cities more hostile to exist in.
December 30, 2024 at 1:16 PM
I don’t mind people owning cars. What I do mind is the insistence that they should be allowed to leave them on publicly funded streets, while also demanding an excess of parking lots that consume finite urban space, sterilize our environment, and make cities more hostile to exist in.
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Tribute to love, resilience and song: Indigenous musical legends Archie Roach and Ruby Hunter immortalised in bronze
Tribute to love, resilience and song: Indigenous musical legends Archie Roach and Ruby Hunter immortalised in bronze
The pair bonded as teenagers after chance meeting at Salvation Army drop-in centre while they were sleeping rough on Adelaide’s streets
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Their songs have been the soundtrack to countless marches for justice, family gatherings and community barbecues. Now, Aboriginal music legends Uncle Archie Roach and Aunty Ruby Hunter have been immortalised in bronze.
The permanent tribute to the acclaimed musical couple was unveiled at Atherton Gardens on Saturday in the Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy, with family and friends travelling from across the country to mark the occasion.
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www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2024 at 6:34 AM
Tribute to love, resilience and song: Indigenous musical legends Archie Roach and Ruby Hunter immortalised in bronze
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November 28, 2024 at 8:06 PM
Repost if BlueSky is now your primary social media site.
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A reminder that "moderate" Simon Birmingham sat on the Ministerial panel for Rounds 3 & 4 of the Building Better Regions Fund - one of the most corrupted grants program the coalition ever conceived and administered.
November 28, 2024 at 7:00 PM
A reminder that "moderate" Simon Birmingham sat on the Ministerial panel for Rounds 3 & 4 of the Building Better Regions Fund - one of the most corrupted grants program the coalition ever conceived and administered.