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@latestarter99.bsky.social

Antipodean, hockey-playing (not the one on ice), gen-x, tree-hugging, scientist. Sarcastic news junkie, who has been around enough to know that the people who want to lead us are the last people we need to lead us.

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The Shovel@theshovel.bsky.social · 2d ago

The Government last week approved $2.5 billion in taxpayer funds to bail out the mining giant’s aluminium smelter near Newcastle. When the Government this week received an application from a women’s shelter for $2,500 in assistance, there was a mix-up. theshovel.com.au/2026/08/17/w...

Women’s Shelter Accidentally Receives $2.5B After Government Misreads It As “Smelter” — The Shovel

A women’s shelter in NSW has received an unlikely injection of funds, after the Albanese Government mistook it for an aluminium smelter run by Rio Tinto.

theshovel.com.au

@latestarter99.bsky.social · last mo.

When someone says it's raining outside, and another says not, the job of a journalist is to look out the window and report who is correct, not to give equal column inches to the person who is demonstrably wrong. nb.australiainstitute.org.au/r

It’s the ABC’s job to be accurate and fair, not to chase the dangerous fallacy of ‘balance'

One of the oldest tropes in journalism is that it should be balanced; that journalists have a responsibility to present all sides of a given issue with equal weight. This view also holds that appearin...

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@latestarter99.bsky.social · last mo.

In the ongoing series of @albomp.bsky.social 's spectacular inability to read a room (gas tax, anyone?), this time he rolls out the shortcut red carpet to AI data centres. Are all mainstream pollies in the pocket of the AI industry? #ffs #ai #auspol www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Anthony Albanese promises fast-track approvals for datacentres to shore up AI investment

PM to declare Australia the first country worldwide to bring economic, social, security and environmental issues from AI under single office in major speech

theguardian.com

@latestarter99.bsky.social · last mo.

Has anyone seen any snarky, nasty, vindictive posts about Sam Neill's death? No, because he was a great and caring man. Maybe the MAGA nuts complaining about the comments about Lindsey Graham's death should consider why reactions to the two passings are so different.

@latestarter99.bsky.social · last mo.

Heads up. This fellow is to give evidence at the Anti-semitism Royal Commission. The analysis, or not, of this recent tweet will tell us everything we need to know about the motives of the RC commissioners. #auspol #Gaza

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@latestarter99.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I just bought an electric car, so my FB feed is full of EV stuff. A post I read about the longevity of EV batteries and their post-EV life had lots of likes, but also lots of laughing emoji reactions. Who were they? All male, bar one. All GenX and Boomer - your PHON voter base in a nutshell. #auspol

@latestarter99.bsky.social · 2mo ago

If only there was an additional requirement for schools and unis to teach the entire history of the Middle East, you know, from Crusades all the way to the f%kery of the Allies after the world wars, and all the conflicts up to the present day.. #auspol campaigns.schwartzmedia.com.au/t/i-l-vlyhyh...

'No place for the poison of antisemitism': New warning for universities

The government's Antisemitism Education Taskforce, led by David Gonski, has equipped teachers with new resources to tackle antisemitism and promote "Australian values".

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