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High school library worker, trying to encourage reading. Grandmother. Social justice. Living on Kaurna Land. LGTBIA rights. CIS female. Equity, equality and recognising that Western civilisation has a lot to answer for. Free Palestine
Haven't got the facilities, the housing, the technology, electricity let alone the facilities to build any of this. Let alone it's in a densely populated area www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...
Billions in new funding for AUKUS shipyards in Adelaide
The billions of dollars in additional funding is another step towards making Australia's nuclear submarine program "a reality".
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"At one point, right-wing self-proclaimed journalist Avi Yemini turned up, surrounded by large men wearing all black and another man in a One Nation T-shirt. He tried to make his way into the crowd before being turned around by marshals." Avi should be on a terrorist watch list
Yung En Chee@yungenchee.bsky.social · 2d agoBRAVO & THANK YOU STUDENTS‼️ ✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼 This has absolutely made my day 😃 (If you have photos, please share)
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Voter beware: how electoral commissions are powerless to stop deliberately misleading party names - Australian Online News
A “Free Palestine” party is registered to contest the Victorian state election in November. The conflict in the Middle East is notoriously complex. But what could be simpler than a single-issue politi...
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The Conversation AUNZ@aunz.theconversation.com · 5d agoThe deliberately misleading “Free Palestine” party was established by a pro-Israeli YouTuber to swing votes from left to right. And it’s perfectly legal.
The deliberately misleading “Free Palestine” party was established by a pro-Israeli YouTuber to swing votes from left to right. And it’s perfectly legal.
Voter beware: how electoral commissions are powerless to stop deliberately misleading party names
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Data Centre Boom: We pay, they profit this Wednesday, 6PM We're supporting this webinar organised by Getup, featuring @ketanjoshi.co, Rosi Leonard from FoE Ireland and Cr Heather Champion from Wingecarribee Shire. It's a great lineup and well worth attending. www.getup.org.au/campaigns/bi...
Data Centre Boom: we pay, they profit
An independent movement to build a progressive Australia and bring participation back into our democracy.
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The state’s attempt to portray the man, who vandalised property in Sydney’s east in 2024, as a future terror threat was rejected after Fagan delivered an extraordinary criticism of the prosecution’s definition of antisemitism open.substack.com/pub/deepcutn...
NSW Supreme Court says criticism of Israel not antisemitic in graffiti case
Judge rebukes state for seeking to add man who defaced property with anti-Israel slogans on terror watch list
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The fossil fuel proponents actively trying to either justify their continuing destruction of the environment and the climate, and also greenwashing the effects of the same, is a master-class in profiteering over human rights Or humanity as a species
Alaina Wood@thegarbagequeen.bsky.social · last wk.Issues with solar can be easily regulated, but fossil fuels on the other hand? Those just kill us and our environment.
Data centres are hell-bent on further bloating their already-massive energy hunger. The fact they mostly fake support new renewables is part of what makes them such a huge threat to climate goals and such a warm friend to fossil fuels. New vid + piece here: thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
If this is an actual interaction, I am impressed and heartened. Reminds me of those street preachers in Rundle Mall that tell everyone around them they're going to hell
Twitter Exile@twitter-exile.bsky.social · 2w ago#PhillipBlair, an American anti-abortion preacher from #TorchOfChrist Ministries, boarded a packed Syd train at Martin Place & began lecturing passengers about sin, #jesus & unborn children. Commuters, led by #MalcolmFrawley (known as Book Man), repeatedly told him to shut up. #NoReligion #AUSPOL
This thread isn't tugged on this article but retailers are clearly using a fuzzy definition of "firming" to justify a shitload of new gas theenergy.co/articles/ene...
Big love for the 'dirty dozen' community radio like RRR and 3CR in Melbourne gave me the confidence and contacts to get better at so many things, and be part of something truly important and change making. More community media! thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
‘Cass’s Dirty Dozen’: how community radio was born
Community radio was another dangerously socialist idea that sprang from the Whitlam years. Minister for the Media, Moss Cass, was not confident he could wrangle the legislation through a hostile Senat...
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LouiseMorris@louisemorris.bsky.social · 2w agoBig love for the 'dirty dozen' community radio like RRR and 3CR in Melbourne gave me the confidence and contacts to get better at so many things, and be part of something truly important and change making. More community media! thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
This is incredibly grim, and more than anything shows how a huge chunk of the renewable energy industry in Australia has lost all interest in the climate imperative and is now just openly self interested
Renew Economy@reneweconomy.com.au · 2w agoRenewable energy developer says contracts with data centres offer more certainty than CIS, while grid manager says it isn’t “scared” of the sector anymore https://reneweconomy.com.au/i-would-choose-the-data-centre-renewable-energy-boss-says-firm-off-taker-deals-preferable-to-cis/
Isn’t AI terrible enough already? Now they want to eat the world’s books?! | First Dog on the Moon
Isn’t AI terrible enough already? Now they want to eat the world’s books?! | First Dog on the Moon
Leave books alone! * Sign up here to get an email whenever First Dog cartoons are published * Get all your needs met at the First Dog shop if what you need is First Dog merchandise and prints Continue reading...
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Technology may give us extraordinary new power. But it may also give our deepest, least understood desires a power of their own.
Forbidden Planet hit cinemas in 1956. Its warnings about AI should terrify us
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Currently in an independent education union that's fighting for an increase above the 3% offered. It's insulting considering that it doesn't even cover inflation or the CPI, let alone the increasingly unpaid burdens placed on all staff.
Greg Jericho@grogsgamut.bsky.social · 3w agoThe OECD has confirmed again that corporate profits cause inflation in 202 and also the most recent rise at the end of last year (all of which the RBA decided needed interest rate rises to hurt workers) My column for @thepointau.bsky.social thepoint.com.au/opinions/270...
Woman accused of calling Alex Rivchin 'evil Zionist' also faces prosecution for putting her garbage out bc somebody thought it was a bomb #auspol #antisemitism #newscorp michaelwest.com.au/francine-clo...
That's not a bomb, it's my garbage bag - Michael West
The Sydney lawyer accused of calling Alex Rivchin an 'evil Zionist' is also being prosecuted for putting out her garbage. Michael West
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The world might be a total bin fire, but in here, I'm in solid company. Strong, sharp, unapologetic – just a few of the badass women I look up to who stand strong in a sea of hot garbage 🔥 Who’s your anchor in a world of chaos? Prints/mugs: nordacious.com/collections/...
Interesting background about the Israel Allies Foundation's involvement in the Israel Fiji bilateral relationship. Australian MP Andrew Wallace, who chairs the Australian Israel Allies Caucus, in attendance. themedialine.org/top-stories/...
Fiji PM Hails Nation’s Warm Relations With Israel - The Media Line
Fiji took another step in strengthening its relationship […]
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“Sadism is no longer just for deviants, it is the new political correctness”, a comment by Gideon Levy writing for Haaretz. In Australia stories about Israel’s increasing brutality towards Palestinian *hostages* aren’t ‘newsworthy’ #MSM needs to die #auspol johnmenadue.com/post/2026/07...
Israel’s prison policy exposes Western media silence
Israel’s latest prison proposal has drawn attention in Israeli media, but its limited coverage in the Anglosphere points to a deeper failure to confront the treatment of Palestinian prisoners.
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Why pretend supposed ancient texts have some historical or archaeological evidence. It's just literate people trying to make sense of oral traditions handed down over multiple generations. No need to take them verbatim.
The Conversation AUNZ@aunz.theconversation.com · 3w agoWhen the Odyssey first began to circulate in ancient Greece, no one knew its author. So how did ‘Homer’ become the name on the book’s cover?
Adelaide airport pulls ads from conservation groups but keeps gas and mining ads during ALP conference
Adelaide airport pulls ads from conservation groups but keeps gas and mining ads during ALP conference
Digital billboards from environmental groups, targeting Labor MPs attending national conference, cancelled with airport stating they are ‘too political’ * Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Conservation groups have questioned why their advertisements targeting Labor politicians were pulled by Adelaide airport for breaking rules on political advertising while others promoting gas and mining kept running. Labor politicians including the prime minister, Anthony Albanese, have been arriving through the airport for this weekend’s ALP national conference. Continue reading...
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Powerful piece Dave, thank you. I actually read it after reading this piece, which made it hit harder... open.substack.com/pub/ritajabr...
US-Israeli war-tech coming to Aus, as Arrernte people fight for land back from US surveillance facility
US-Israeli AI tech is set to flood Australia as US law passes the House on Wednesday.
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Here's my story from Pine Gap. "The fight to end the US military occupation of Australia (and the entire world)" It's a photo-essay this time because I took a tonne of pics, the country being this stunning, to help convey the Arrernte's struggle.
The fight to end the US military occupation of Australia (and the entire world) - The Shot
For 64 years – an insignificant speck of time under a sky this large – from a stolen, sacred site...
theshot.net.au