Natasha In Oz
@natashainoz.bsky.social
Educator📚 Love my fam🫶🏻 Traveller✈️ Foodie🍲 Feminist🙋🏻 #GoPies 🖤🤍
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“The voices that matter most – trans young people, their families, the clinicians who work with them and trans health experts in Aotearoa – have been clear: access to puberty blockers is crucial.”
Young trans people need access to transition healthcare. We must listen to them, not to transphobes.
Young trans people need access to transition healthcare. We must listen to them, not to transphobes.
Puberty blockers: why politicians overriding doctors sets a dangerous precedent
The government’s ban on puberty blockers undermines clinical expertise and targets trans youth with a policy that lacks evidence, consistency and fairness.
theconversation.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:25 AM
“The voices that matter most – trans young people, their families, the clinicians who work with them and trans health experts in Aotearoa – have been clear: access to puberty blockers is crucial.”
Young trans people need access to transition healthcare. We must listen to them, not to transphobes.
Young trans people need access to transition healthcare. We must listen to them, not to transphobes.
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Sussan Ley asks why Chris Bowen is “prioritising science” by attending a climate change conf in the Pacific, then blinks uncontrollably at the response
Albanese “Because it’s THE priority”
“Those opposite thought it was fine to make jokes about water lapping at the doors”🔥 #QT
Albanese “Because it’s THE priority”
“Those opposite thought it was fine to make jokes about water lapping at the doors”🔥 #QT
November 24, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Sussan Ley asks why Chris Bowen is “prioritising science” by attending a climate change conf in the Pacific, then blinks uncontrollably at the response
Albanese “Because it’s THE priority”
“Those opposite thought it was fine to make jokes about water lapping at the doors”🔥 #QT
Albanese “Because it’s THE priority”
“Those opposite thought it was fine to make jokes about water lapping at the doors”🔥 #QT
Ultra-processed foods now make up nearly half of the average Australian’s diet because the country has “fallen behind international best practice” on nutrition, a co-author of a major new global report says #AusPol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Australia has some of highest consumption rates of ultra-processed foods, researchers say
New series in Lancet medical journal finds UPFs, which make up nearly half the average Australian diet, driving ‘escalating’ burden of many chronic diseases
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Ultra-processed foods now make up nearly half of the average Australian’s diet because the country has “fallen behind international best practice” on nutrition, a co-author of a major new global report says #AusPol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Farmers angry as @woolworths.bsky.social imports US butter in green and gold packaging www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Farmers fear shoppers misled by cheap 'green and gold' US butter
Australia's dairy industry is concerned a US brand, packaged in green and gold with a white colouring and bland flavour, looks as if it's locally made.
www.abc.net.au
November 12, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Farmers angry as @woolworths.bsky.social imports US butter in green and gold packaging www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
It was so well known that Richardson demanded sex workers in payment for services that when ICAC officers served a subpoena on him they waited in the lobby of the Sheraton in Sydney. Richardson had gone to a room with two sex workers & as he was leaving was served.
www.theage.com.au/national/nsw...
www.theage.com.au/national/nsw...
Long lunches, Swiss bank accounts and a kangaroo scrotum: My decades pursuing Graham Richardson
For a reporter whose career has been spent uncovering crime and corruption, the Labor senator was the one who got away.
www.theage.com.au
November 11, 2025 at 1:02 AM
It was so well known that Richardson demanded sex workers in payment for services that when ICAC officers served a subpoena on him they waited in the lobby of the Sheraton in Sydney. Richardson had gone to a room with two sex workers & as he was leaving was served.
www.theage.com.au/national/nsw...
www.theage.com.au/national/nsw...
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Australia's de facto online gambling regulator stops accepting gifts from betting companies, for now (& we're banning 16s & under from social media because it could cause them harm?) WTA2-facedF?
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Gambling regulator stops accepting gifts from betting companies, for now
The announcement comes six months after the ABC first reported the Northern Territory Racing and Wagering Commission chair had accepted corporate hospitality from bookmakers.
www.abc.net.au
November 6, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Australia's de facto online gambling regulator stops accepting gifts from betting companies, for now (& we're banning 16s & under from social media because it could cause them harm?) WTA2-facedF?
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
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Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
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Trump has enormously accelerated the debt growth of the US largely by slashing the tax rate for the wealthiest 0.1% of Americans
November 4, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Trump has enormously accelerated the debt growth of the US largely by slashing the tax rate for the wealthiest 0.1% of Americans
“It’s all the men on the right wing of the Liberal and the National Party and I just say to them: enough, just stop it.” www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...
October 29, 2025 at 10:12 AM
“It’s all the men on the right wing of the Liberal and the National Party and I just say to them: enough, just stop it.” www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...
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When politicians disrupt SNAP, they endanger 5 million older adults in the program. A huge number of people living with Alzheimer's disease or a related cause of dementia will go hungry. If you aren't angry, you aren't paying attention
#Alzheimers #dementia #hunger #SNAP #CrueltyIsThePoint
#Alzheimers #dementia #hunger #SNAP #CrueltyIsThePoint
When SNAP benefits run out, 'people can die,' say health experts
“People can die” from even short gaps in nutrition and food access, experts say ahead of SNAP benefits not going out in November in at least 25 states.
www.statnews.com
October 27, 2025 at 6:52 PM
When politicians disrupt SNAP, they endanger 5 million older adults in the program. A huge number of people living with Alzheimer's disease or a related cause of dementia will go hungry. If you aren't angry, you aren't paying attention
#Alzheimers #dementia #hunger #SNAP #CrueltyIsThePoint
#Alzheimers #dementia #hunger #SNAP #CrueltyIsThePoint
Dutch Olympian Steven van de Velde, who was convicted in 2016 of raping a 12-year-old girl in Britain, has been refused a visa to compete in the Beach Volleyball World Championships in Australia www.wfaa.com/article/synd...
Australia denies visa to Dutch Olympian convicted of child rape
Dutch Olympian Steven van de Velde has been denied a visa to compete in the beach volleyball world championships in Australia. The government announced Tuesday...
www.wfaa.com
October 28, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Dutch Olympian Steven van de Velde, who was convicted in 2016 of raping a 12-year-old girl in Britain, has been refused a visa to compete in the Beach Volleyball World Championships in Australia www.wfaa.com/article/synd...
In the space of roughly 48 hours to begin the week, a number of frightening and violent incidents unfolded in #Melbourne. www.news.com.au/national/vic...
www.news.com.au
October 28, 2025 at 6:11 AM
In the space of roughly 48 hours to begin the week, a number of frightening and violent incidents unfolded in #Melbourne. www.news.com.au/national/vic...
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End all funding every single private employment services provider.
Salt the earth so those in change of them never get any public money ever again - run them out of the country.
Get rid of mutual obligations
Bring back the CES
Raise the fricken rate
Ain’t hard.
Salt the earth so those in change of them never get any public money ever again - run them out of the country.
Get rid of mutual obligations
Bring back the CES
Raise the fricken rate
Ain’t hard.
Sometimes defective, maybe unlawful: what can be done about Australia’s crisis-ridden welfare system?
Sometimes defective, maybe unlawful: what can be done about Australia’s crisis-ridden welfare system?
Run by multiple departments and hundreds of private companies, advocates warn errors will continue to rock a system ‘in crisis’
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It’s a system designed to help Australians who most need it. Yet its created continuous scandals, with parts of it paused because the government can’t say if it’s operating legally.
Hundreds and thousands of Centrelink clients are affected by its frequent problems, being charged or overpaying debts incorrectly calculated as another class action is launched. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 25, 2025 at 1:45 AM
End all funding every single private employment services provider.
Salt the earth so those in change of them never get any public money ever again - run them out of the country.
Get rid of mutual obligations
Bring back the CES
Raise the fricken rate
Ain’t hard.
Salt the earth so those in change of them never get any public money ever again - run them out of the country.
Get rid of mutual obligations
Bring back the CES
Raise the fricken rate
Ain’t hard.
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Good morning folks
Hope you all have a good one ✌🏻
If you hate the new BOM site you can access the old site by reg.bom.gov.au/products/IDR...
The new one is awful 🙄
Hope you all have a good one ✌🏻
If you hate the new BOM site you can access the old site by reg.bom.gov.au/products/IDR...
The new one is awful 🙄
reg.bom.gov.au
October 25, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Good morning folks
Hope you all have a good one ✌🏻
If you hate the new BOM site you can access the old site by reg.bom.gov.au/products/IDR...
The new one is awful 🙄
Hope you all have a good one ✌🏻
If you hate the new BOM site you can access the old site by reg.bom.gov.au/products/IDR...
The new one is awful 🙄
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October 21, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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More of this. All the time. Every time they appear. Constantly. Fuck ICE.
October 25, 2025 at 11:19 PM
More of this. All the time. Every time they appear. Constantly. Fuck ICE.
“…if we believe protest is a fundamental democratic feature, we cannot erode it out of discomfort, inconvenience, or even speculative fear.” www.theage.com.au/national/vic...
I was intimidated by anti-immigration protesters. But rules can’t depend on the cause
It’s common for me to be recognised in public, and in my experience, that can go one of two ways: it can exempt me from people’s prejudice because I’m familiar, or it can heighten it because I symboli...
www.theage.com.au
October 23, 2025 at 7:39 PM
“…if we believe protest is a fundamental democratic feature, we cannot erode it out of discomfort, inconvenience, or even speculative fear.” www.theage.com.au/national/vic...
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"Trump did not achieve lasting peace in Gaza. He didn’t achieve a week of peace in Gaza. Because Trump only cares about Trump, and whatever narrative can be wrangled in support of Trump is what he’s going with, regardless of the consequences."
The Six Day Peace
Yet another Trump failure.
charlotteclymer.substack.com
October 20, 2025 at 12:04 PM
"Trump did not achieve lasting peace in Gaza. He didn’t achieve a week of peace in Gaza. Because Trump only cares about Trump, and whatever narrative can be wrangled in support of Trump is what he’s going with, regardless of the consequences."
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Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
What do we learn from Epstein and Andrew? There’s a level of power at which right and wrong no longer exist | Zoe Williams
Prince Andrew has finally decided to give up his titles – but we have known the shape of the allegations against him for years. Why was there a collective decision to look away, asks Zoe Williams
www.theguardian.com
October 20, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
October 21, 2025 at 7:40 PM
#Melbourne feels angrier…more brittle. We’ve gone from a community that not only valued difference but celebrated it, to one that too often condemns it. We are quick to label, slow to listen and far more inclined to shout someone down rather than hear them out. www.theage.com.au/national/vic...
Constant protest gridlock in the CBD is symptom of how Melbourne has lost its way
Melbourne’s long lockdowns created mental scars, a fractured trust and a polarisation that continue to be Daniel Andrews’ lasting legacy.
www.theage.com.au
October 20, 2025 at 7:58 PM
#Melbourne feels angrier…more brittle. We’ve gone from a community that not only valued difference but celebrated it, to one that too often condemns it. We are quick to label, slow to listen and far more inclined to shout someone down rather than hear them out. www.theage.com.au/national/vic...
More than 100 firearms have been seized in a raid targeted at so-called sovereign citizens across Western Australia, an operation that authorities say was sparked by the fatal shooting of two police officers in Victoria.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
‘A risk we cannot take’: Police seize 135 guns amid sovereign citizen raids
More than 100 firearms are seized in a WA Police operation targeting 'sovereign citizens' in the wake of the fatal shooting of two Victorian officers.
www.abc.net.au
October 6, 2025 at 8:29 AM
More than 100 firearms have been seized in a raid targeted at so-called sovereign citizens across Western Australia, an operation that authorities say was sparked by the fatal shooting of two police officers in Victoria.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...