Pauline Hanson is such a fucking coward. Imagine needing to ban the wet lettuce leaves of the ABC, Age and Guardian from your events?!? How could any Prime Ministerial contender possibly handle a meek tut-tutting from limp liberal media?! It's farcical. Auspol is pathetic atm.

Labor should talk about the cost of capitalism https://pearlsandirritations.com/e/daily/2026-08-01/474259/ #Auspol

Labor should talk about the cost of capitalism

Labor’s promise to ease living costs and cut taxes may offer relief, but it avoids the deeper question of who owns, controls and profits from the systems making life insecure.

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RFK Jr and wife had a soiree at their Hollywood mansion during COVID and required proof of COVID vaccination with RSVP. Watch what they do, not what they say. –Rachel Maddow

Bloke who infamously had no issue with Musk doing a Nazi salute has thoughts and ABC decides they’re worth repeating?

ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · 2d ago

Top US Jewish leader issues stark warning to Australia on antisemitism

Naarm/Melbourne has again showed up in force to protest Israeli atrocity in Gaza and the West Bank, grotesque Australian government and corporate complicity, and the silence and indifference of the husks posing as human among us. From the river to the sea.

"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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I find Rowling’s descent into total hatred one of the saddest things. The choice to devote yourself to hating people and ruining lives despite all the good fortune she had experienced and the joy she had brought is something I just cannot grasp.

Micah@rincewind.run · last wk.

one of the most frustrating things about what Rowling has turned into is how hard it is to explain to offline people that she’s not just another author who has turned out to have shitty views - her entire life and fortune is dedicated to destroying trans people

He is also saying that racism is hatred, that they don't care about us, and never have. They don't care about our people dying. It needs to stop.

Community has the solutions and knows how to deliver them. But government doesn't support self-determined approaches.

We're hearing from Elder Barry Walden that organisations coming into the community telling it what it need to deliver is racism at the highest level! www.youtube.com/live/t87zo6E...

Joint Standing Committee on ATSIA | Cairns, QLD | 29/07/2026

YouTube video by Australian Parliament House Streaming Portal

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Ms Natalie Lewis, former Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children’s Commissioner in QLD, says that independent critique and rights focused advocacy doesn’t have a place in QLD right now.

While we are in this Greek Mythology moment, may I remind you that Emma Thompson is adapting Pat Barker’s take on The Iliad, and she’s struggled to get it made bc the focus on what acts of war against women and survival thereafter actually look like (the core of Barker’s narrative) is too intense.

Emma Thompson adapting feminist retelling of Iliad for big screen

The actress told the Hay Festival she is writing a film version of Pat Barker’s The Silence of the Girls to draw attention to sexual abuse in war zones

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We are now hearing from Meta at the Racism Inquiry. Online racism has been called out as violent and increasing by many witnesses in this inquiry. Meta pretends it has all the policies and mechanisms to address if but clearly its not working.

The New York Times wouldn't let me write about the Age of Diarrhea so I had to do it myself.

Welcome to the Age of Diarrhea

The future is not knowing what ails you

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Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social · 2y ago

welcome to the Age of Diarrhea

I understand scientific processes pretty well, but we all got dragged through a lot of dumb bullshit before a certain class of scientist was willing to admit that SA's marine heatwave - and consequently climate change - was a precondition of the SA algal bloom.

New report reveals what triggered SA's catastrophic algal bloom crisis

A new report reveals what caused South Australia's most devastating algal bloom crisis — 18 months after it first appeared on the state's waters.

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I'll be home in Oz for a couple of months from Aug and booked a few events at Festival of Dangerous Ideas (sold out) and this one for Curious at the Sydney Opera House on the creeping scourge of authoritarianism around the world, institutional cowardice etc. www.sydneyoperahouse.com/curious/can-...

This report makes for another excellent account of the litany of issues with privatised federal employment services that are harmful to people and the public finances, I'm pleased by the suggestion to prohibit these largely publicly-funded companies from making political donations in particular.

ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · 2w ago

Australia's jobseeker system fails workers and enriches millionaires, report says

"Things my new home has that I've never had before ... [multiple] powerpoints in a room, flooring that doesn't look cheap, fan forced oven, range hood, storage, a pantry, bench space, cooling ... It hit me hard that what my new home has that none of my other homes have ever given me is dignity."

Melissa@artistaffame.bsky.social · 2w ago

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In todays AUKUS hearing Christopher Pyne said the AUKUS deal “makes us a stronger and more important and useful ally”. Shows that AUKUS is all about USA imperialism and hegemony not our sovereignty, safety or military capabilities. It’s about how useful we are to the USA.

Reminder with everything going on that One Nation wants to change what family court sees as ‘abuse’ and how it responds to it because Pauline Hanson’s son had to face consequences after he plead guilty to dv related charges

Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.

Wrote this. "Tools of your manipulation: dead cats and dog-whistles"

Tools of your manipulation: dead cats and dog-whistles - The Shot

Some (many) weeks in Australian politics are so repulsively stupid that resisting the urge to mentally check out before Monday...

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We don’t need AI videos of fake animals. There are real ones out there and they’re really cute | Rebecca Shaw

We don’t need AI videos of fake animals. There are real ones out there and they’re really cute | Rebecca Shaw

I can’t be delighted by something produced with generative AI. Give me books written by complicated people, drawings by sweet idiots, songs by those who feel Generative AI has gone too far. Many have said it, but I need to add my human voice to the cacophony. There are many reasons I dislike the growing use of generative AI. It is environmentally disastrous, necessitating massive, water-guzzling datacentres. In a world where many people do not have access to clean water and where countries like Australia suffer worsening droughts, people are unthinkingly wasting it to carry out basic tasks like sending an email or writing a grocery list. Sign up for a weekly email featuring our best reads Continue reading...

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South Australia hit by a massive, multi-year coastal algae bloom, mediated by global heating and nutrient pollution, yet it *still* doesn't measure and report one of the biggest nutrient inputs to that system, discharge from the Murray River mouth. Simply incredible.

Glen@gergyl.bsky.social · last mo.

Incredibly, the South Australian Government does not record flow at this location, where Australia's longest and most important river system finally enters the sea ... even though that would be ~trivial to do.

Energy companies have the power to wipe your debt if you cannot afford to pay it. The Antipoverty Centre has created a template letter to help you write to your energy company requesting a debt waiver.

New analysis reveals more than 1.6 MILLION in energy debt as campaign calls for immediate relief

It's time to cancel energy debt. Energy companies have shown they are unwilling to put struggling customers before profits. They have reaped billions in profits and pushed energy prices higher while h...

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💜 phonakins 🍉🌲@phonakins.com · last mo.

talked about the energy debt forggiveness project a little

Apparently there has been a dramatic drop in press coverage of climate catastrophe since 2020. This is unconscionable. A billion deaths. Three billion displaced. Who takes them? There is absolute hell ahead if we don’t find solutions.

Ed Hawkins@edhawkins.org · last mo.

The London Ambulance Service responded to the highest number of life-threatening emergencies in its history yesterday. The Chief Executive said this was "driven by the extreme heat across London".

If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, gun reform, universal child care, and a living wage. The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.” It’s about control.

"But the boarding house was found to be financially unviable under the Housing State Environmental Planning Policy (SEPP), returning a rental yield of 2.75 per cent." this is why it needs to be PUBLIC housing because housing is a service and a right and doesn't need to turn a profit

Successful appeals pave way for Sydney boarding house to become luxury homes

A rundown boarding house which was once a haven for vulnerable people in inner Sydney is set to be converted into luxury apartments.

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Just in case anyone is unsure why fewer women work than men... and whether childcare is important. live.thepoint.com.au