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💧 Kerry
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💧 🌎 lean to the left. Naarm (Melbourne)
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This is very concerning
deepcutnews.bsky.social Deepcut News @deepcutnews.bsky.social · 1d
Israeli AI cameras livestreamed a Ballarat Basketball game. Then a female player was allegedly contacted by a man who had a family violence intervention order against him.

“No one should have to choose between their safety and participating in sport.”

www.deepcutnews.com/p/israeli-ai...
Israeli AI streamed a Ballarat basketball game. Then an alleged family violence breach.
Basketball Australia’s Pixellot rollout is putting women and children at risk – and players are paying for it
www.deepcutnews.com
October 4, 2026 at 11:10 PM
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yungenchee.bsky.social
Excerpts from the tremendous public service & public resource that is the HANSON DOSSIER - the "complete public accountability record of Pauline Hanson. Drawn from court judgments, parliamentary records, AEC data, and verified journalism"

Share it & keep it handy‼️ 👉 thehansonrecord.com
Excerpt from the HANSON DOSSIER Senator Hanson had a tendency to make racist, discriminatory, hateful, derogatory and Islamophobic statements, particularly in relation to persons of colour, migrants to Australia and Muslims. She was found to be an argumentative witness who would say anything which came to mind if she felt it would suit her at the time. - Justice Angus Stewart, Federal Court of Australia - Faruqi v Hanson, November 2024. This is a formal judicial finding made after hearing Hanson testify under oath. It is not a political opinion. It is the considered judgment of an Australian Federal Court judge. Excerpt from a section titled The Verdict in the HANSON DOSSIER Pauline Hanson has spent 30 years telling Australians she is one of them. A battler. A plain-speaker. A politician who cuts through the rubbish and fights for ordinary people against a self-serving political class and the wealthy elites who have rigged the system. That story does not match what she has actually done. She has been found guilty of racial discrimination by the Federal Court of Australia. She has been suspended from the Senate and censured 55 votes to 5. Her senior staff were caught on hidden camera trying to sell Australia's gun laws to American lobbyists for up to $20 million. She personally cast doubt on the Port Arthur massacre on hidden camera. She has accepted a $2 million plane from Australia's richest billionaire and undisclosed jet flights from that same billionaire. She billed taxpayers to attend that billionaire's fundraising events on a luxury cruise ship. She placed her daughter in a $150,000 taxpayer-funded job and banned the journalist who asked about it from all future access. She attended just 12 per cent of Senate estimates hearings over her career while being paid a full senator's salary. She promoted vaccine misinformation linking vaccines to autism and cancer. She published a book claiming Aboriginal women ate their babies to "demonstrate savagery" and used it to raise funds for her party. Excerpt from a section titled The Verdict in the HANSON DOSSIER cont'd While doing all of that, she has voted against wage increases for workers, against childcare funding for families, against housing affordability policies, against public school funding, against renewable energy, against renters' rights, against COVID vaccine urgency as Australians were dying in aged care, and against nearly every social safety net mechanism that would actually help the working-class Australians she claims to represent. She changed her party's constitution in 2017 to give herself lifetime leadership and the sole right to choose her own successor, making One Nation constitutionally indistinguishable from a personal fiefdom. Seven senators have quit or been expelled from the party since 2016. The party founded on anti-establishment populism is now bankrolled by a mining billionaire worth tens of billions of dollars, flying on her private jet and attending her fundraisers on a luxury cruise ship. The people who pay the price for Pauline Hanson's political career are the ordinary Australians she claims to represent. The record is public. The choice is yours. Excerpt from the HANSON DOSSIER Table comparing the policy position of One Nation, Labor, Coalition and the Greens on 13 policies relating to: Climate Science, Gun Laws, Worker Pay Rises, ABC and SBS, Renewable Energy, Housing Affordability, Childcare, Public School Funding, Abortion Rights, UN Membership, Multiculturalism, Trans Healthcare, and Press Freedom [On every single one, One Nation has a regressive, frequently far-right radical stance]
October 4, 2026 at 1:50 AM
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thepointau.bsky.social
For Australians dealing with a cost-of-living crisis due to soaring oil prices that have led to huge profits for gas companies, the figures are a slap in the face.

Read the full piece on The Point: https://sbrew.link/jiwpRnTN
October 1, 2026 at 11:45 PM
kayjaymelbourne.bsky.social
“The public has a right to know why Adani donated so much money to the LNP, This should be at the centre of media coverage of the company in Australia. It also has a right to know why the state government is refusing to explain why a major donor seems to be given such an outrageously good deal.”
qldaah.bsky.social David Marler @qldaah.bsky.social · 4d
Adani owes Queenslanders millions in royalties from the Carmichael coalmine. Premier David Crisafulli let them off the hook in Aug 2025 by abandoning the court case initiated in 2023. Adani donated thousands to the LNP prior to the Qld election. #qldpol thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
What did Adani get for the money it gave to the Queensland Liberal National Party?
If only we knew then what we know now. In August 2025, Queensland’s LNP Government announced it was abandoning a court case against Adani over unpaid coal royalties, a case that started in 2023 under ...
thepoint.com.au
October 2, 2026 at 10:52 AM
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timhollo.bsky.social
“The approval of the HVO mine continuing is not just another climate failure among many. It is the failure that finally broke my faith in the capacity of public institutions to serve the public interest.”

The brilliant George Woods

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The green light for the largest coalmine in NSW history is shocking proof that our governance systems are betraying Australians | Georgina Woods
There is no greater treachery than this failure to face up to the climate crisis. How can we now fend off despair?
www.theguardian.com
October 1, 2026 at 4:23 AM
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jessielilley.bsky.social
This is enraging. So the ONLY thing available to counter inflation is to constantly ratchet up my mortgage repayments but they can’t do a thing about this shit in 11 years? I pay company tax, personal tax, council rates, exorbitant interest, every kind of fkn govt payment but look at these pricks.
grogsgamut.bsky.social Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 5d
The latest corporate tax data just dropped. And congrats to Santos Ltd - 11yrs in a row of no company tax.
Table of Santos ltd company tax 2014-15 to 2024-25 Year Total income Company Tax 2014-15 $3,389,399,798 $0 2015-16 $3,476,002,729 $0 2016-17 $3,715,263,715 $0 2017-18 $3,498,043,596 $0 2018-19 $4,360,612,850 $0 2019-20 $5,013,931,702 $0 2020-21 $4,070,327,153 $0 2021-22 $4,746,037,784 $0 2022-23 $6,257,384,778 $0 2023-24 $8,210,276,022 $0 2024-25 $5,117,008,013 $0 Total $51,854,288,140 $0
October 1, 2026 at 2:37 AM
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3wombats.bsky.social
act.getup.org.au/s/vL4PJD0L
Westpac Palantir
Thanks for signing!You've just joined thousands of people telling Westpac to ditch Palantir. Westpac is betting its customers never find out about this deal,…
act.getup.org.au
October 1, 2026 at 7:14 AM
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grogsgamut.bsky.social
Kogan CEO in June: Ruslan Kogan says changes to Capital Gains Tax will attract migrants motivated by “sick NDIS scams” and the welfare system."

Today ATO Tax data for Kogan Pty Ltd:

Income: $642.3m
Taxable income: $0
Tax paid $0
Screenshot: "Sick scame": Kogan boss unleashes on Albanese government's capital gains tax changes" rich lister Ruslan Kogan has issued an epic rant about Anthony Albanese's tax changes, warning they risk attracting a specific type of migrant to Australia's Spreadsheet screenshot of ATO corporate tax transparency data KOGAN AUSTRALIA PTY LTD: Total income $642,335,009; Taxable Income $0; Tax payable $0
September 30, 2026 at 11:51 PM
kayjaymelbourne.bsky.social
“RBA’s blunt instrument takes two steps back for every three forward” sack them all
September 30, 2026 at 11:24 AM
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kkarapanagiotidis.bsky.social
We need your help to find who robbed us. Victoria Police are doing all they can to find the men who did. Hoping the power of community might help too! Here’s 3 short videos of two of the robbers smashing into the side of our catering enterprise
September 29, 2026 at 10:35 AM
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danilic.bsky.social
Newscorp spreads climate denialism in Australia — and now?
September 28, 2026 at 1:55 AM
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kkarapanagiotidis.bsky.social
I’m devastated this morning.
We have just had two of our @asrc1 social enterprise catering vans stolen.
Roller door smashed. Food stolen. Safe destroyed. Staff distressed.

TWO VANS LICENSE PLATES - mini vans with ASRC Catering on them

Renault is 1UO2YV

Peugeot is 2DW4TB
September 28, 2026 at 12:07 AM
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cameronwilson.bsky.social
As OpenAI disclosed "dozens" more breaches, new evidence on Australia's incident reveals that the company's agents spent a week persistently trying to access new types and sources of Australian health data

- with Clare Armstrong

www.abc.net.au/news/...
September 26, 2026 at 10:50 AM
kayjaymelbourne.bsky.social
Kylie smashed it out of the park! MCG. #aflgrandfinal
September 26, 2026 at 4:01 AM
kayjaymelbourne.bsky.social
Come the fuck on alright!
timinclimate.naruresearch.com.au Tim Baxter @timinclimate.naruresearch.com.au · 11d
What do you think piping the most expensive fossil fuel - extracted by the most expensive means - then sending it through an enormous, absurdly expensive pipeline is going to do to your energy bill?

The folks spruiking this shit pretend to be serious, but come the fuck on.

Bloody rent-seekers. 🙄
reneweconomy.com.au Renew Economy @reneweconomy.com.au · 11d
Plans to build a 1,561 km gas pipeline from the NT Beetaloo Basin to south-east Queensland could cost as much as $9.74 billion, a new report has found, adding huge costs to a heavily polluting project
https://ow.ly/YmH650ZRfw3
September 25, 2026 at 10:03 AM
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yungenchee.bsky.social
NextDC's Footscray datacentre is ~15 m from homes

Residents' "chief complaints are fumes & noise pollution emitted by dozens of back-up diesel generators at the NextDC data centre, which are run regularly for maintenance"

Research finds DC proximity can "wipe up to $35,000 from a property's price"
September 23, 2026 at 11:05 AM
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kazcooke.bsky.social
Much as I'd enjoy to see some profiteering environmental vandals handle one blue-ringed octopus each, this seems a better way forward:
cosmoecology.bsky.social ◉●○•° @cosmoecology.bsky.social · 14d
Octopus farming is extremely unethical and stupid. These creatures among the smartest species in the entire planet, with complex emotional lives.

To subject these being to a lifetime of confinement and suffering in barren tanks before a slow and agonising death needs to stop.

Please sign this 👇🏼
Governor Hochul: Ban Octopus Farming Now
Octopuses are among the most extraordinary animals on Earth. They solve puzzles, use tools and even recognise individual people. But octopus farming would subject these intelligent animals to a lifeti
action.eko.org
September 22, 2026 at 11:12 AM
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brontelee.bsky.social
in case you missed it!! new release of @kudelka.bsky.social’s rusted-on bingo tea towels, with $5 from every tea towel sold going to the Jon Kudelka Fund for Glioblastoma Research at the Menzies Institute for Medical Research

get yours now!! www.kudelkashop.com/product/rust...
Screenshot of a post from facebook: The Kudelka Shop is at The Kudelka Shop. RUSTED ON BINGO IS BACK. Jon Kudelka's classic tea towel is getting a special re-release. This time, $5 from every tea towel sold goes to the Jon Kudelka Fund for Glioblastoma Research at the Menzies Institute for Medical Research. #JonKudelka #RustedOnBingo #glioblastomaresearch #menziesinstituteformedicalresearch
September 21, 2026 at 7:54 AM
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cathywilcox.bsky.social
Good to see this finally get coverage in my old paper. This is the same mob who campaigned against me, but it wasn’t sufficiently newsworthy then.
September 20, 2026 at 8:18 AM
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firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social
Prepping for the once in a thousand years El Niño? Ask a penguin! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
El Niño is supersizing! Are governments finally taking climate change seriously? No! | First Dog on the Moon
Your government will NOT come to save you – we have to do that for each other now
www.theguardian.com
September 18, 2026 at 9:10 AM
kayjaymelbourne.bsky.social
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
Australian finalists for Prince William's Earthshot Prize 'nervous but excited'
Seventy ranger teams across Central Australia manage bushfires, protect species and use land practices developed over tens of thousands of years. Now their environmental work has been recognised by Pr...
www.abc.net.au
September 18, 2026 at 10:39 AM
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australiainstitute.org.au
The Australian Government makes more money from HECS repayments than it does from the Petroleum Resource Rent Tax.

Join the call for a national plebiscite: https://gas-plebiscite.australiainstitute.org.au
September 11, 2026 at 9:43 PM
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ketanjoshi.co
I maintain a manually curated and very simple database of company emissions and energy disclosures here - not automated at all because the entire purpose is carefully undoing the greenwashing narrative baked into the numbers by the companies -->>>

ketanjoshi.co/2025/05/23/d...
Data Collection – Big Tech Emissions + Energy
A collection of emissions and energy data for big tech companies, including the ‘unadjusted’ measures of scope 2 emissions often hidden or obscured.
ketanjoshi.co
September 8, 2026 at 12:14 PM
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michaelwestbiz.bsky.social
In April 2026, Palantir posted a 22-point manifesto on Elon Musk’s X platform.

https://michaelwest.com.au/the-global-reckoning-over-palantir-and-cellebrite-and-the-country-that-never-asked/
The global reckoning over Palantir and Cellebrite – and the country that never asked In April 2026, Palantir posted a 22-point manifesto on Elon Musk’s X platform. No parliamentary question. No ethics assessments. And nobody has been required to explain why. The manifesto called for the ‘rearmament’ of Germany and Japan and declared that some cultures are ‘dysfunctional and regressive’. It was posted by Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir — a compan The Karp Doctrine
September 7, 2026 at 2:41 AM