Amy Remeikis
@amyremeikis.bsky.social
Just a soul whose intentions are good | she/her 🇱🇹🇦🇺 Insta- ifyouseeamy/pyjamapolitics aremeikis@thenewdaily.com.au
Good morning - The Point Live is back, comments are open, and I am not as unhinged as I will be this point next week. Perfect time to get onboard live.thepoint.com.au
The Point Live: Advocates push back against a NDIS that rations by budgets, not need, Liberals still in polls abyss as parliament prepares to return. As it happens
The pushback against the government's NDIS rationing will begin in earnest this week, with a speech highlighting the dangers of the government returning disability care to what it was before the Gilla...
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You can’t appease power. In 1938, the head of the BBC assured the Nazi ambassador to Britain the UK broadcaster was ‘not anti-Nazi’ and willingly censored BBC news. Appeasement doesn’t work www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2026...
Appeasement of authoritarian voices dooms us to repeating history
No matter how much we know about history, we are doomed to repeat it. Appeasement of authoritarian voices will get us there faster.
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Australia's domestic power grid does not rely on imported fuels: fossil or renewable. It is already "sovereign"; it's just dirty as hell. Switching away from fossil fuels in Australia is not about reducing import reliance, it is about not killing people through the use of a dangerous fuel
Sex and drugs and dice to roll? It's gambling in the lucky country. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Welcome to Australia, the world’s casino. A nation state captured by global betting companies | First Dog on the Moon
This really is the place to be a rapacious amoral gambling company!
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How come we're still taxing the winners of arts prizes and not the winners of The Block?
Miles Franklin winners are taxed but winners on The Block aren't. How's that fair?
Last night, Queanbeyan local Omar Musa won the 2026 Miles Franklin award for the 'novel with the highest literary merit which presents Australian life.' He received a $60,000 prize, only he won’t get ...
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Thank you to everyone who came out for the Canberra Screw Nice event last night- I’m sorry I was late!!! (Literally never seen Canberra traffic so bad) You’re all incredible and I’m really, really taken aback to your reaction to this book. You’ve all made me happy shower cry 💕
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At the absolute most basic physical level: data centre growth only "helps" the target if - 100% of their demand growth is met solely by renewable enery: no gas, no greenwashing, no free-riding (that gets you to 'no effect' on the target) - Then they build MORE than that (that gets you to 'helps')
A few accounts in the other place have drawn attention to the latest One Nation stuffup in which Western Metro candidate Fiona Lopez is quoted saying this. 457 visas ceased in 2018. #springst
Just wondering how long until we’re all forced into a daily ‘two minutes hate’
In this episode, we unpack how the major global mainstream media outlets spurred on the far-right and obscured the real story behind the 50,000 Moroccans who entered Spanish territory… even though there were obvious red flags from the beginning. youtu.be/2_kTrxFSCOw
Morocco ‘migrant crisis’ debunked + boycott Daily Telegraph launch
In this episode, we unpack how the major global mainstream media outlets spurred on the far-right and obscured the real story behind the 50,000 Moroccans who entered Spanish territory… even though…
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A complete failure. Just spitballing, but maybe the Albanese govt should have consulted with experts instead of Fitzy and Wippa
Australia’s under-16 social media ban failing, study shows: What it means
Australia's internet regulator revealed in a recent study that teenagers are continuing to use social media despite ban.
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“Petrol price increase delivers rate-rise-sized impact ahead of RBA meeting” me for @thepointau.bsky.social thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...
Petrol price increase delivers rate-rise-sized impact ahead of RBA meeting
From today, with the end of the cut in the fuel excise, petrol is back at full price. And over the past month, Australians have experienced economic pain equivalent to around one and a half RBA rate r...
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i personally don't think child molestetion should be required to play volleyball
Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 7d agoAn initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play
Do you like well-reasoned arguments and pithy retorts? Well bad luck because it's time for the great climate debate hosted by disgraced breakfast flake Karl Whatsisface! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
It’s the debate of the century! Two climate ‘denialists’ battle it out to see who agrees the most denialistly | First Dog on the Moon
What a vibrant marketplace of ideas
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Fuck all the way off with this. Howard has never liked multiculturalism. Not because it denotes ‘different tribes’ but because he can’t imagine anyone but someone who looks and thinks like him as ‘Australian’.
Watching this unprecedented summer of drought, fire and heat unfold across Europe has just been awful. They're hitting temps the older, less catastrophic climate models told them wouldn't happen until 2050. We're in a new era.
The Associated Press@apnews.com · last wk.Firefighters have contained a vast wildfire in southwestern France, allowing nearly 200,000 people to return home after what may have been the country’s largest peacetime evacuation.
Kmart is selling home-brand pervert goggles for $89. (Pretty urgent we do something about all this eh?)
This is INCREDIBLE news
Ada Palmer@adapalmer.bsky.social · last wk.Endometriosis takes nine years to diagnose. That’s about to change. NICE has approved two tests: a saliva test reading microRNA markers, and a gut-sensor test returning results in 45 minutes, sparing women the keyhole surgery currently needed. buff.ly/QX3jHk8 #ShareGoodNewsToo
I took my kid to an urgent care clinic with a gnarly cut to his head. They said it needed stitches and they didn’t do that there. So we went to the children’s hospital emergency dept. They said it didn’t need stitches and put some glue on it. It didn’t fill me with confidence in urgent care clinics.
‘Robbing Peter to pay Paul’: Urgent care clinics failing to relieve pressure on hospitals, say doctors
Frontline health workers say taxpayers are funding an expensive system that leaves emergency departments overrun and regular GPs struggling.
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Completely blown away by the response to Screw Nice - thank you. I just hope some people feel less crazy and gaslit by everything they’re seeing x
Just so everyone's clear: this massive data centre bringing a huge fracked-gas power station online is *NOT* in breach of the Australian government's latest statement on AI "regulations", as per their own press release. archive.ph/wip/vyZzE
total failure of accountability: Hanson gets away with saying all muslims are bad - truly disgusting #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Pauline Hanson’s comments on ‘good Muslims’ don’t breach hate speech laws, Australian federal police finds
One Nation leader’s ‘how can you tell me there are good Muslims?’ remarks were the subject of complaints, but police say the matter has now been finalised
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Queensland - I am convinced that Expo 88 was bigger than the Commonwealth Games - what say you?
Turns out I don’t need new glasses, I just need to sleep more than three hours a night.
"The message is simple: The Pacific wants PM Albanese to lead on climate; the youth demand it. Get on with it, or your legacy is dust." junkee.com/articles/you...
Australian Youth Climate Coalition on COP31 Climate Summit
Australian Youth Climate Coalition on COP31 Climate Summit
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This is a fascinating aspect of the NSW Libs war at the core of the ICAC investigation. The self-styled “centre Right” in the NSW Libs = Evangelical/Pentecostals. Eg Morrison The scary Right = hardcore/Opus-linked Catholics. @thesaturdaypaper.com.au www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/504daa...
