Wake up & care Australia. Pay attention before it’s too late. “Why should we care? In Australia, Palantir is embedded across the agencies that hold the most sensitive data about its citizens and businesses;” #auspol

Senator David Shoebridge@davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 2d ago

Palantir. All seeing, all knowing. Inspired by Sauron - what could go wrong? More excellent work from @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social michaelwest.com.au/palantir-all...

Sheeran talked about how he owed it to his fans to keep the tour going, like he is bestowing some amazing gift on the world. Mate, just say you were worried about your income.

Chicago Tribune@chicagotribune.com · 2d ago

Ed Sheeran’s tour of North and South America was plunged into chaos Tuesday when four of his supporting acts — including his touring band — abruptly quit in solidarity with the rapper Macklemore, who was dropped for making pro-Palestinian comments onstage.

💯 Bullshit offsets 😡 fossil fuel companies must be taxed properly on exports and compensate for #ClimateChange impacts on Country & health #auspol

the Juice Media@thejuicemedia.com · 2w ago

The Australien Government made an ad about carbon offsets and koalas, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative 🌏🌳🐨 💛 produced by our Patrons 🙏 support us on Patreon: patreon.com/thejuicemedia ☕ buy us a coffee: ko-fi.com/thejuicemedia

Just after 10 am today I’ll be chatting with Mary Gearin, ABC Melbourne, about bird flu. We’ll be taking questions from listeners too.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... Sources say the process was a departmental “stuff-up” that allowed Hanson’s work arrangements to take shape without the minister undertaking the required consideration of “special circumstances” for her employment in a different state.

Pauline Hanson’s daughter Lee working for a NSW One Nation senator remotely from Tasmania without ministerial approval

Exclusive: Lee Hanson also appears to be regularly campaigning for party during work hours, social media shows

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In other words, "Adjudicated racist!" Evil and stupid.

Amy Remeikis@amyremeikis.bsky.social · 3d ago

Every single Pauline Hanson story reporting on her latest racist comments should also include that a court has upheld that she racially discriminated against Mehreen Faruqi.

#auspol #colonisation and the appalling legacy of "terra nullius"

Kent Parkstreet@kentparkskeet.bsky.social · 2d ago

This fits with what we know happened on other continents. The implications are massive, too big to think through in one sitting. Do though, do think about it.

Just because parts of “the economy” benefit from Data Centres doesn’t mean most of Australia will. Co-CEO Richard Denniss examines who benefits and who loses in the latest episode of “What’s the Point?”. #auspol

Good. Everything is political - including purportedly 'apolitical' (silence is support) stances on genocide.

Pop Base@popbase.tv · 2d ago

All of Ed Sheeran’s opening acts and his touring band have dropped out of the remaining dates of his ‘Loop’ tour in solidarity with Palestine and Macklemore.

Listen here or wherever you listen to your podcasts! ⤵️ australiainstitute.org.au/post/whats-the-point-of-data-centres/ Buy Richard’s latest Vantage Point essay here! ⤵️ australiainstitute.org.au/store/more-fool-me-vantage-point-issue-6

What’s the point of data centres?

On this episode of What’s the Point?, Richard Denniss examines Australia’s artificial intelligence boom and the political fight over who reaps the

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Jan and Antoinette chat through the Federal Government’s attempt to regulate social media algorithms. Plus, Macklemore accuses Ed Sheeran of being ‘apolitical’... except that he’s not. Also, Albanese claps back at Pauline Hanson’s comments about his mother, but Jan’s not buying the moving coverage.

Ed Sheeran v Macklemore, the AI headline apocalypse + we spy on Samsung and LG

YouTube video by Ette Media

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They live in a false reality they have built around themselves…..

🇨🇦 leads the way for other middle power countries to build trade options away from only 🇺🇸

#onenation #Australia

Pay attention Tasmania!

Kevin J. Kircher@kevinjkircher.com · 2d ago

"[One study] covered one billion offset credits...and found that less than 16% would be verifiably real." "So 85% of offset credits don't pass the first hurdle. They're not real." - University of Melbourne Senior Research Fellow Dr Kate Dooley at today's #ClimateIntegrity Summit 2026

PSA: Kraft (the stadium owner pressuring Ed Sheeran) is in the Epstein Files.

Sharty Mcscrote (Sandy D AU) 🍉🍉@shartymcscrote.bsky.social · 3d ago

I thoroughly endorse this message. #WasABigFanNowGFYSheeran

The global rise in bond yields affects the Tasmanian Government. It pushes up the annual cost of servicing the massive stadium debt. It means even more cuts to public sector jobs and services. #politas

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 3d ago

Breaking News: The 10-year Treasury yield, one of the world’s most important interest rates, breached 5% for the first time in years, capping a long stretch of turmoil in the bond market that has pushed up borrowing costs for companies and consumers.

'How is it that you don't keep the state highway, which is on water, going?...That's their remit: education, health, welfare, transport, access. The remit of the government is not to build a stadium for rich AFL players. Imagine shutting the Midland Highway without telling anybody.' #politas #auspol

Roland Browne@slowguns.bsky.social · last wk.

ABC: Ms Clifford accused the Tasmanian government of being "so pro-stadium everything else has fallen to the side", referring to the Hobart AFL stadium project at Macquarie Point. #nonewstadium. #politas

“Albanese’s resources minister celebrating the Beetaloo carbon bomb is a hell of a choice. Labor can’t say it wasn’t warned” @adammorton.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Albanese’s resources minister celebrating the Beetaloo carbon bomb is a hell of a choice. Labor can’t say it wasn’t warned | Clear Air

Scientists will be able to estimate the amount of heating and destruction caused by the gas ultimately drawn from the Beetaloo

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"Harrison Rindfleish" a youthful ziplock bag full of custard who seems to have lied about having a law degree, is my local One Nation candidate in the Victorian Election.

Kevin Bonham@kevinbonham.bsky.social · 2w ago

I have a strong feeling that someone at One Nation is using AI to write candidate summaries and not checking them. This is strike two in a few weeks for false claims about a candidate's legal credentials. www.reddit.com/r/melbourne/...

Reminder that this disability provider is still operating , caring for disabled people. And making millions of dollars in the process. #DisabilityRights www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...

NDIS provider charged over woman's fatal bathwater burns

A regional NSW care service is facing criminal charges over the death of a disabled woman who suffered burns to up to 40 per cent of her body in a bathtub.

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👇👇Believe us when we speak, damn it.

Invisible Histories: Right-wing forces tried to stop these archivists from preserving LGBTQ+ history. They failed. www.lgbtqnation.com/... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

Right-wing forces tried to stop these archivists from preserving LGBTQ+ history. They failed.

"History is such a threat to this very alt-right conservative movement... because it happened, and it is a weapon to show people how you can fight back.”

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when the product quality is so bad it causatively contributes to harm, injury, and death, GenAi producers *might* ultimately be ordered to repay some of the costs they shifted onto grieving families and the public after lengthy, traumatising, expensive litigation. futurism.com/artificial-i...

OpenAI Is Now Facing Over 50 Consumer Harm and Wrongful Death Lawsuits

OpenAI was hit with 30 new lawsuits overs its alleged role in the Tumbler Ridge school massacre. It now faces over 50 consumer harm lawsuits.

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"Charles Perrottet, nicknamed the “Papal Baguette” by a private investigator hired to dig dirt on the rivals of disgraced developer Jean Nassif,.."

‘Just another lie’: How the ‘Papal Baguette’ became toast

Liberal Party operative Charles Perrottet has admitted to numerous lies in the ICAC.

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bystander1.bsky.social@bystander1.bsky.social · 2w ago

"The NSW corruption watchdog has been played secret recordings where fugitive property developer, Jean Nassif, brags about his influence on the Liberal Party. In the call, Mr Nassif also refers to the former premier, Dominic Perrottet, as his "boy"."

Article sums up how the #ChristoFascist #Catholic family of ex premier #DominicPerrotet corrupted governing of desperately short cemetary plots. Handing it all over to a duopoly of the #CatholicChurch & a private equity firm! Now burials are super expensive! What a surprise - NOT! #nswpol #auspol

Good news: he lost.

Vale Gloria Steinem ❤️‍🩹