Julia
@juliaharvey.bsky.social
Live on Gadigal Land. Pro Palestine 🇵🇸 , pro environment. Believe in science. 😷 Want Aus govt to be bold and have imagination. Against billionaires and hateful stuff.
The RBA media team is becoming known for contacting journalists and media outlets critical of its decisions and decision making process - but the criticism doesn't actually go far enough. www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...
Households in pain – but our budget crisis has an obvious answer
Australia is at a tipping point. Choosing the brave route – taxing gas and raising revenue – would also, in this case, be the right one.
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News Corp continues to make serious money in Australia while paying no tax, writes Bernard Keane. www.crikey.com.au/2026/10/01/n...
The latest corporate tax data just dropped. And congrats to Santos Ltd - 11yrs in a row of no company tax.
Ette Media, in partnership with mathematician and data analyst Dr Richard Bean, reviewed and analysed 42 interviews from ABC's 7.30 programme between mid-2022, when Sarah Ferguson began her stint as host, until the end of August 2026. We've made this article free to access. Read the deep dive below:
War of words: How ABC 7.30’s interview approach differs widely by conflict
An exclusive data analysis of interviews conducted on ABC’s 7.30 — and what they tell us about the broadcaster's bias.
ettemedia.com
An orange potter wasp (Delta bicinctum) floating on the surface tension of the water at Picnic Dam, Gluepot Reserve.
You know, if you *really* cared about the wellbeing of women in college, instead of carping about the statistically insignificant number of trans athletes in sports minding their own business, you’d be railing against these Cornell fraternity cretins who drugged and gang-raped a passed-out women:
Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.
'Power is its own constituency. It exists to protect itself.' Authoritarianism sounds scary, but it arrives bit by bit. We're already doing the work for some grim future. Will be talking about this and more at Sydney Opera House's Curious program this Sunday. www.crikey.com.au/2026/09/28/r...
Don't think Australia is immune to authoritarianism
Nobody wakes up to sudden authoritarianism. We relinquish ourselves to it by allowing our favoured government to get away with bending norms and rules. Over time, these bends become clean breaks.
crikey.com.au
Mary Kostakidis stood with Julian Assange when many others stayed silent. When she faced a long legal battle of her own, thousands returned that solidarity. Gabriel Shipton writes about courage, press freedom and the cost of defending public-interest speech. #MaryKostakidis #FreeSpeech #Journalism
One act of courage calls for another
Mary Kostakidis stood with Julian Assange when others stayed silent. After two years of legal action over her own speech, thousands of Australians returned that solidarity when she needed it.
pearlsandirritations.com
We vote too Albo. You keep punching down on multicultural Australians and we won’t forget come election time. We are already a majority migrant nation and yet you’re about to pass policies today to harm our communities.
“youth justice camps” These are camps where the government can concentrate all those they see as antisocial youth. So they can concentrate them, in camps. Do you reckon there was a meeting where they came up with “youth justice camps”, you know, instead of calling them what they are? #AusPol
Controversial youth justice camps to be rolled out in Queensland this year
Offenders will be based at the regional facilities for up to six months and will be required to wear an electronic monitoring ankle tag.
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Our biggest threat comes from hosting US bases on Australian soil - and I can never forget or forgive the Labor Party for putting us in this position. We had such hope! 😢 #auspol
Latest from our AAP #news feed #auspol First case of bird flu in endangered sea lion. Australia's rarest seal species has recorded a case of bird flu for the first time, with an animal dying from the disease while recovering from a sh...
First case of bird flu in endangered sea lion - Michael West
Australia's rarest seal species has recorded a case of bird flu for the first time, with an animal dying from the disease while recovering from a shark attack.
michaelwest.com.au
“We need an Ozempic for cars. They are growing at a phenomenal rate, wreaking havoc on roads, squeezing out smaller vehicles and endangering pedestrians. Like ever-hungry teenagers, cars in Europe are growing on average a centimetre wider every year.” Don’t repeat North America’s mistake, Europe.
Britain’s cars and SUVs are growing bigger – but there is a way to stop this deadly ‘carspreading’ | Christian Wolmar
Larger vehicles crowd our roads and are far more dangerous to pedestrians. Let’s curb them before they do even more damage, says says transport commentator Christian Wolmar
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The climate crisis isn’t “coming.” It’s here. Record heat. Deadly floods. Vanishing ice. Collapsing ecosystems. We don’t need more warnings. We need courage, systems change, and action at the scale of the emergency. #ClimateAction #ActNow
94-seat super-majority @albomp.bsky.social govt & FM @senatorwong.bsky.social won't join Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Iceland, Ireland, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the UK in new sanctions against Israel Choosing instead to go their own wet-lettuce way...
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 4w agoIsraeli ministers keep telling everyone their brutal plans – so why doesn’t the world take them seriously? | Nesrine Malik
Israeli ministers keep telling everyone their brutal plans – so why doesn’t the world take them seriously? | Nesrine Malik
Israeli ministers keep telling everyone their brutal plans – so why doesn’t the world take them seriously? | Nesrine Malik
Schemes to forcibly remove Palestinians from Gaza are not being promoted by fringe voices. But the international community continues to avert its eyes, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
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It wasn’t enough that a targeted campaign was used to defame and damage me by deliberately mischaracterising one cartoon. Now those same obsessive bullies are using other people’s posts about that cartoon to destroy their careers. Are we living under the Stasi now?
I don't think it's relevant whether Albanese was a member of the golf club or not. However, either AlboPM personally or one of his staff will have noticed a large grant in his electorate. #Auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
Accusations of pork-barrelling hits Albanese government
Sarah Ferguson presents Australia's premier daily current affairs program, delivering agenda-setting public affairs journalism and interviews that hold the powerful to account. Plus political analysis...
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Young people are told democracy needs active citizens – then criticised when they walk out of school to protest. If we want political participation at 18, we cannot dismiss it at 14, Mario Peucker writes, with his son Sebastian. #auspol #Democracy #YouthVoice
“No one really wants to hear what kids think about this stuff”: Young people rely on public protest
This article reflects the views of the two authors, a father and his 'almost 14-year-old' son, Sebastian. It includes Sebastian's direct responses to some of the arguments raised.
pearlsandirritations.com
Australia should scrutinise genuine foreign-interference risks. But when professional, cultural and community ties begin to function as evidence of divided loyalty, some citizens face a burden of proof others never do, Elena Collinson writes. #auspol #China #Multiculturalism
When scrutiny of China ties becomes a loyalty test
Australia has good reason to scrutinise foreign interference risks, but professional, cultural and community ties should not become proxies for divided loyalty.
pearlsandirritations.com
Explained. Why @albomp.bsky.social got together with Scott Morrison to emasculate the National Anti-Corruption Commission (nacc.gov.au). Lab-Lib: same same & corrupt to the core www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09... #auspol
Anthony Albanese held undeclared honorary membership to golf club awarded $6 million
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese held an honorary membership to the Marrickville Golf Club in his seat, which was promised $6 million at the 2025 election through an invite-only scheme, and which Mr Al...
abc.net.au
Hmmm.. it seems having US military bases in your country makes you a target #auspol 🙄
MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 4w agoNEWS: Iran launched what appears to be one of its biggest retaliatory ballistic missile attacks yet toward U.S. forces in Jordan after the U.S. destroyed five more Iranian oil tankers.
A deep betrayal to say the least. Palantir is an arms company. The weapon is your data. #auspol
Sirius Star 🍉 🍉 🍉@siriusstar3.bsky.social · 4w agoPeople using #NDIS deserve the dignity of not being treated like criminals, guilty until proven otherwise NDIS participants gave their data to the agency believing it would be protected & only used to assist in their claims, having it funnelled into Palantir is a deep betrayal. #Auspol
For over a year the Albanese Labor Government has hidden this MOU with Naoero (formerly Nauru) from the Parliament and the public. We now know there is a giant loophole that allows what protections exist for refugees sent there to be withdrawn.
