@virbonus.bsky.social
Had 1000+ followers on Twitter where I used my real name. Live in Sydney Australia. Retired.Worked as researcher and policy adviser in labour market and vocational education and training. Lifelong environmentalist.
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🔸Wagga 5pm Rural Place
🔹Wyong 4pm Emma Mcbride Office
🔸Wollongong Blockade Bisalloy Feb 8 - 10
Like, attend, repost, share - here and everywhere... 4/4
#Auspol
🔹Wyong 4pm Emma Mcbride Office
🔸Wollongong Blockade Bisalloy Feb 8 - 10
Like, attend, repost, share - here and everywhere... 4/4
#Auspol
February 7, 2026 at 6:08 AM
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First they came for…
January 11, 2026 at 8:55 PM
First they came for…
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After Bondi, calls for a Royal Commission appeared overnight, delivered by rotating groups using identical language. That is astroturfing, a PR tactic that simulates grassroots demand to manufacture urgency, crowd out scrutiny, and lock in policy before evidence is tested. More on YT
January 9, 2026 at 4:40 AM
After Bondi, calls for a Royal Commission appeared overnight, delivered by rotating groups using identical language. That is astroturfing, a PR tactic that simulates grassroots demand to manufacture urgency, crowd out scrutiny, and lock in policy before evidence is tested. More on YT
My Australian sensitivities are certainly taking a beating at the moment.
January 9, 2026 at 6:19 AM
My Australian sensitivities are certainly taking a beating at the moment.
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This is a good explanation why the Right hate renewables. This is also a good reason why we should be correctly taxing companies who extract our resources. #stopsittingonthefence #auspol
When people argue that renewable energy sources are too expensive, remember that we don’t invade countries to seize wind farms and there are no solar cartels. Fossil fuels have enormous geopolitical, public health, and climate externalities.
January 4, 2026 at 8:10 PM
This is a good explanation why the Right hate renewables. This is also a good reason why we should be correctly taxing companies who extract our resources. #stopsittingonthefence #auspol
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It is less startling if you remember this is all a #political stunt. Also, most people are not lawyers and don’t work in #government so what is really amazing & worrying is that no one has informed us about the process! #auspol
Fascinated by dipshits lining up to call for a Royal Commission into Bondi before the criminal case has even made it through the courts. Just a startling misunderstanding of how anything works.
January 4, 2026 at 10:21 PM
It is less startling if you remember this is all a #political stunt. Also, most people are not lawyers and don’t work in #government so what is really amazing & worrying is that no one has informed us about the process! #auspol
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I was undecided whether to call this where have all the Palestinians gone? Or where have all our consciences gone? - I decided to go with *Palestinians*
Where have all the Palestinians gone, long time passing?
Where have all the Palestinians gone, long time ago?
blakandblack.com/2026/01/03/w...
Where have all the Palestinians gone, long time passing?
Where have all the Palestinians gone, long time ago?
blakandblack.com/2026/01/03/w...
Where have all the Palestinians gone?
Where have all the Palestinians gone, long time passing? Where have all the Palestinians gone, long time ago? Where have all the Palestinians gone? Torn from their villages, every one. When will they ...
blakandblack.com
January 2, 2026 at 9:15 PM
I was undecided whether to call this where have all the Palestinians gone? Or where have all our consciences gone? - I decided to go with *Palestinians*
Where have all the Palestinians gone, long time passing?
Where have all the Palestinians gone, long time ago?
blakandblack.com/2026/01/03/w...
Where have all the Palestinians gone, long time passing?
Where have all the Palestinians gone, long time ago?
blakandblack.com/2026/01/03/w...
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ABC News has been repeatedly reporting that 140 people call for a royal commission into the Bondi shooting by ISIS linked men.
No mention of people calling for an end to genocide, sanctioning Israel, boycotting trade to & from israel…
No mention of deaths, bombings, oppression in Gaza either.
No mention of people calling for an end to genocide, sanctioning Israel, boycotting trade to & from israel…
No mention of deaths, bombings, oppression in Gaza either.
Why has the ABC declined to report on the Israeli government producing a hit-list of Australians they have declared antisemites? These people, whose greatest crime is wanting an end to the genocide Israel is conducting in Gaza now have a target on their backs.
Shameful lack of integrity .
Shameful lack of integrity .
January 2, 2026 at 6:41 AM
ABC News has been repeatedly reporting that 140 people call for a royal commission into the Bondi shooting by ISIS linked men.
No mention of people calling for an end to genocide, sanctioning Israel, boycotting trade to & from israel…
No mention of deaths, bombings, oppression in Gaza either.
No mention of people calling for an end to genocide, sanctioning Israel, boycotting trade to & from israel…
No mention of deaths, bombings, oppression in Gaza either.
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We’ve got a fair idea.
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January 2, 2026 at 4:25 AM
We’ve got a fair idea.
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🤬🖤💛❤️
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In my many random conversations, when I talk about Finnish education system people are astonished. Not only that it's all free, from pre-school to PhD; but that for years, they have been teaching media literacy. If you want to stop children from drowning, do you erect a high fence or teach swimming?
December 31, 2025 at 6:40 AM
In my many random conversations, when I talk about Finnish education system people are astonished. Not only that it's all free, from pre-school to PhD; but that for years, they have been teaching media literacy. If you want to stop children from drowning, do you erect a high fence or teach swimming?
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Crowbar is an amazing human. An unstoppable force of nature. Despite everything. She deserves employment and would be a superb employee in the right culinary space. Read this thread.
December 29, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Crowbar is an amazing human. An unstoppable force of nature. Despite everything. She deserves employment and would be a superb employee in the right culinary space. Read this thread.
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Because I'm technologically challenged, this was the only way I could post a copy of a letter I emailed to my local MP, Catherine King today 🤦😂
Happy to hear what you think
Happy to hear what you think
December 24, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Because I'm technologically challenged, this was the only way I could post a copy of a letter I emailed to my local MP, Catherine King today 🤦😂
Happy to hear what you think
Happy to hear what you think
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Minns ducks multiple questions on Mossad-linked CSG armed guards on Sydney streets as ban on peace protests passes
#auspol #nswpol @sstephanietrann.bsky.social
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#auspol #nswpol @sstephanietrann.bsky.social
michaelwest.com.au/nsw-passes-p...
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December 24, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Minns ducks multiple questions on Mossad-linked CSG armed guards on Sydney streets as ban on peace protests passes
#auspol #nswpol @sstephanietrann.bsky.social
michaelwest.com.au/nsw-passes-p...
#auspol #nswpol @sstephanietrann.bsky.social
michaelwest.com.au/nsw-passes-p...
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WHEN HOWARD WAS PM
The father emigrated here in IN 1998
WHEN ABBOTT WAS PM
The father got his gun licence
WHEN MORRISON WAS PM
ASIO investigated the son and dropped the case
But yeah, it’s all Albo’s fault.
The father emigrated here in IN 1998
WHEN ABBOTT WAS PM
The father got his gun licence
WHEN MORRISON WAS PM
ASIO investigated the son and dropped the case
But yeah, it’s all Albo’s fault.
December 22, 2025 at 1:39 AM
WHEN HOWARD WAS PM
The father emigrated here in IN 1998
WHEN ABBOTT WAS PM
The father got his gun licence
WHEN MORRISON WAS PM
ASIO investigated the son and dropped the case
But yeah, it’s all Albo’s fault.
The father emigrated here in IN 1998
WHEN ABBOTT WAS PM
The father got his gun licence
WHEN MORRISON WAS PM
ASIO investigated the son and dropped the case
But yeah, it’s all Albo’s fault.
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The White House has been caught.
The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.
In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.
In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
December 20, 2025 at 12:33 PM
The White House has been caught.
The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.
In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.
In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
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Almost half being threatened with suspension? In the last quarter? Well done #Labor Can’t even fix this ghastly cruelty for private profit. #BringBackCES www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Almost half of people using employment providers threatened with payment suspensions, new data shows
Government not maintaining ‘effective oversight’, with majority of decisions being overturned, commonwealth ombudsman found
www.theguardian.com
December 14, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Almost half being threatened with suspension? In the last quarter? Well done #Labor Can’t even fix this ghastly cruelty for private profit. #BringBackCES www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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The latest corrective services data is out today, and it points a horrific picture of the systemic racism in our judicial system #PointLive
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live.thepoint.com.au
November 27, 2025 at 4:29 AM
The latest corrective services data is out today, and it points a horrific picture of the systemic racism in our judicial system #PointLive
live.thepoint.com.au
live.thepoint.com.au
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As SAPOL disperse protestors at the energy and mining conference underway at Adelaide Convention Centre - Ecologists in the conference room next-door issue urgent national call: ‘Australia must act now to protect nature’
#ESA2025 conference statement.
#ecology #climatechange #biodiversity
#ESA2025 conference statement.
#ecology #climatechange #biodiversity
November 26, 2025 at 5:09 AM
As SAPOL disperse protestors at the energy and mining conference underway at Adelaide Convention Centre - Ecologists in the conference room next-door issue urgent national call: ‘Australia must act now to protect nature’
#ESA2025 conference statement.
#ecology #climatechange #biodiversity
#ESA2025 conference statement.
#ecology #climatechange #biodiversity
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Pollies and public servants grifted by consultants. @joshbarnettmw.bsky.social goes inside the BOM $96m fancy website spend, and the rest.
(Could have gone to CSIRO scientists)
#pwc #deloitte #accenture
youtu.be/mBbHzJC-aaY?...
(Could have gone to CSIRO scientists)
#pwc #deloitte #accenture
youtu.be/mBbHzJC-aaY?...
Why was the BOM website so expensive? | The West Report
YouTube video by The West Report
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November 25, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Pollies and public servants grifted by consultants. @joshbarnettmw.bsky.social goes inside the BOM $96m fancy website spend, and the rest.
(Could have gone to CSIRO scientists)
#pwc #deloitte #accenture
youtu.be/mBbHzJC-aaY?...
(Could have gone to CSIRO scientists)
#pwc #deloitte #accenture
youtu.be/mBbHzJC-aaY?...
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Doomsayers proved wrong again as businesses expand and prosper https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/doomsayers-proved-wrong-again-as-businesses-expand-and-prosper,20107?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=IA_Feed #auspol
Doomsayers proved wrong again as businesses expand and prosper
Official data on Australia’s economy continue to undermine the Albanese Government’s critics.
independentaustralia.net
September 4, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Doomsayers proved wrong again as businesses expand and prosper https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/doomsayers-proved-wrong-again-as-businesses-expand-and-prosper,20107?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=IA_Feed #auspol
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The last 3 years have been the hottest in around 125,000 years.
CO2 levels are their highest in MILLIONS of years.
But most people have no idea this is happening, let alone what it means for our kids’ futures.
Our politics & media have failed our children. We should be furious.
CO2 levels are their highest in MILLIONS of years.
But most people have no idea this is happening, let alone what it means for our kids’ futures.
Our politics & media have failed our children. We should be furious.
August 31, 2025 at 10:18 AM
The last 3 years have been the hottest in around 125,000 years.
CO2 levels are their highest in MILLIONS of years.
But most people have no idea this is happening, let alone what it means for our kids’ futures.
Our politics & media have failed our children. We should be furious.
CO2 levels are their highest in MILLIONS of years.
But most people have no idea this is happening, let alone what it means for our kids’ futures.
Our politics & media have failed our children. We should be furious.
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What 200,000 or more people called with a single voice was #SanctionIsrael - why can’t we talk about that? - not views of NSW police on their dodgy views of potential risks that never looked like eventuating #MarchforHumanity
August 3, 2025 at 10:20 PM
What 200,000 or more people called with a single voice was #SanctionIsrael - why can’t we talk about that? - not views of NSW police on their dodgy views of potential risks that never looked like eventuating #MarchforHumanity
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Listen up, Australia! 👇
July 23, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Listen up, Australia! 👇