Are Aust weapons sales enabling atrocities in Sudan? Fmr Senator @andrewbartlett.bsky.social for @warpowersreform.bsky.social #auspol @davidshoebridge.bsky.social michaelwest.com.au/are-australi...

Are Australian military exports fuelling massacres in Sudan? - Michael West

While the heat is on Defence for arms sales to Israel, the government is mute its role enabling the atrocities in Sudan. AWPR report

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Looks like party members can have a vote on their Parliamentary leader in a contested ballot & the sky doesn’t fall in. About time the Australian Greens did this as well. (Well past time actually)

Tim Hollo@timhollo.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This rather unassuming photo marks a truly historic occasion! ACT Greens members are currently voting in the first full membership ballot for the leadership of a Greens party in Australia, with a contested ballot. And we’ve got a real contest of ideas and approaches. Democracy in action! 💚🌎

A small German state’s quiet revolt against Microsoft – and what it means for Europe

A small German state’s quiet revolt against Microsoft – and what it means for Europe

How Schleswig-Holstein is challenging big tech dominance and redefining digital sovereignty

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finally, we're living through precedented times

Loving reminder Australia, that @4zzzradio.bsky.social hosts "Locked In" on Christmas Day for VIP (Very Important Prisoners), friends + family. Grab the community broadcasting app CPLUS, to listen to your favourite community radio stations around Australia! #Australia #CommunityRadio @boltsmag.org

Disposable Human@disposablehuman.bsky.social · 7mo ago

My version of the Night Before Christmas - prison style 🎄❤️✊🏽

Taking a moment to acknowledge that today marks 50 years since Brisbane/meanjin’s original community radio station @4zzzradio.bsky.social began broadcasting from studios at UQ’s St Lucia campus. Brisbane’s thriving music scene and independent news landscape (and my youth) owe a lot to the Zeds 🖤

Fighting to host the next COP as though it’s hosting the Olympics is offputting. 50 000 people fly here to be part of the 31st demonstration of failure to prevent runaway climate change. “The cost of hosting the summit could reach $2 billion, according to govt estimates” www.afr.com/policy/energ...

Game of chicken fires up as Turkey rejects Australia’s deal

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has rejected the federal government’s offer to split hosting duties for next year’s UN climate summit.

afr.com

Freshly delivered! It’s a busy time for 50th anniversaries… look forward to diving into these pages and reminiscing on five decades of 4ZZZ radio on Brisbane’s airwaves 📻 🤘 @4zzzradio.bsky.social

Awesome! Voting is open in the only Hot100 that matters, the original & the best #4zzzhot100 😀 @4zzzradio.bsky.social #radio #communityradio Solid list of 10 songs chosen😎

Hail storms have injured and orphaned hundreds of bats. If you would like to help our team of volunteers who are helping rescue, transport & rehabilitate these bats, please donate here bats.org.au/get-involved... #bats #flyingfox #biodiversity www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Almost 120 flying foxes hospitalised after giant hail smashes Queensland colony

Rescued bats taken to RSPCA wildlife hospital in Brisbane’s south-west with injuries including ‘faces that were smashed and broken wings’

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What is unfolding in Sudan, where the armed group RSF has taken control of the key city of El Fasher, is "the sum of all our fears," says human rights investigator Nathaniel Raymond. "RSF is killing at a scale and a velocity that I haven’t seen since Rwanda."

Mass Killings Reported in Sudan as RSF Seizes El Fasher; 460 Killed at Hospital

Sudan’s military is accusing the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces of killing at least 2,000 people since seizing control of El Fasher in the Darfur region, including some 460 at the Saudi Maternity H...

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She’s Lost Control. No shark has ever been more jumped, no bow more longer drawn. Joy Derision. Something apparently so clearly inappropriate it took them 5 days to say so. (Or more accurately 45 years to say so, given how long #JoyDivision shirts have been worn for). Disorder

BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV is set to effectively disband Opus Dei in the coming weeks. This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.

NEW: Pope Leo Set To Break Up Opus Dei

If Pope Leo does indeed approves a plan that effectively dissolves Opus Dei’s structure, it would be the most significant internal action of his short pontificate to date.

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Interesting chart in this report surveying people on what they think are the major contributions to the 'housing problem'. Feels like a failure of the (non-right wing) media, politicians and experts that the measures that would have the most impact are so far below immigration

Shaun Ratcliff@shaunratcliff.bsky.social · 10mo ago

The full report can be found here mq.edu.au/__data/asset...

🗳️ #aras25 Count Results live, from as soon as each of the 43 constituencies start to report their results: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Presidential Election 2025 (#aras25) - live results by @gavreilly

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Looking like a resounding victory for Catherine Connolly. A huge moment for the united left in Ireland, for the many young people whose energy and optimism fuelled Connolly’s campaign, and a pretty clear rejection of uninspiring government party candidates who couldn’t offer a vision. #Aras25

We are now as far from the film 24 Hour Party People as it was from that album... 1979 - 2002 -2025 😬 www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFiy...

24 Hour Party People Official Trailer #1 - Simon Pegg Movie (2002) HD

YouTube video by Rotten Tomatoes Classic Trailers

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Zed50 going on. Wish I could have been there for it all. Enjoy it all whether you're in a band or just a punter.

Andrew Bartlett@andrewbartlett.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Velociraptor playing early at #Zed50 - a celebration of music, #Brisbane & @4zzzradio.bsky.social Tons more great bands to come until 9pm - nearly sold-out

Velociraptor playing early at #Zed50 - a celebration of music, #Brisbane & @4zzzradio.bsky.social Tons more great bands to come until 9pm - nearly sold-out

Hope the ATO and government are proud of themselves. Pursued this poor guy for 7 years, wrecked his life for the crime of exposing serious wrongdoing - costing millions - all for a final result of no recorded conviction and a 12-mth good behaviour bond.

ATO whistleblower Richard Boyle spared convictions, jail sentence

Australian Taxation Office whistleblower Richard Boyle has avoided convictions and a jail sentence, seven years after publicly exposing aggressive debt collection practices at the tax office.

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