Things that don't "pop up" around the country, but should: - local community input into massive new developments - high-quality public school buildings - efficient public transport - well-designed community spaces - shelters for everyone who is homeless - enough public housing so no-one is homeless
The Cathy Wilcox@cathywilcox.bsky.social · 6d agoHow is it that data centres can just “pop up” around the country?
- 325 million free books for children over 30 years, reaching 1-in-6 American children under the age of 5 - a program that reaches more 3yo’s in the US than preschool (A program that touches Australia too - reaching places like Kempsey) 1/..
One of my all time favourite Dolly songs ❤️ Frente did a cover of this in the early 1990s which is magnificent too. youtu.be/uKGguU6knkU?...
Dolly Parton - Here You Come Again (Live)
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JFC 😳
Andrew Gardiner@ajgardineresq.bsky.social · 5d agoHospitals in Perth's south will have iodine tablets to hand out in the “highly unlikely” event of a radiation spill from AUKUS nuclear submarines docked at the nearby HMAS Stirling base. Handing out pills to the sick. How very 'On The Beach' (↘️) ... #auspol
Best thing about Bluesky today is that unlike on the Nazi site we're not having to see the worst slime of humanity praise Dolly as if she was one of theirs
Unpopular opinion maybe... Meidas Touch Network has become the Fox News of the left. 🤔🤔🤔
Whoa ❤️ Just watched Hamnet on Netflix. Tears streaming down my face. It's magnificent 10/10 David Strattons.
Illustration from Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum (1652). Compiled and edited by antiquary extraordinaire Elias Ashmole, it is perhaps the seminal volume of English alchemical literature. More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/theatrum-chemicum
Join me next week for an exclusive free screening of the new ABC docu-series, Tampa: The Turning Point, followed by a panel discussion. 📅 Thursday 27 August, 6.30–8.30pm 📍 Cinema Nova, Carlton Tickets are free. Book now: pulse.ly/2zemlwqmp6
44 years ago today, the first CD was produced. What is the first CD you owned?
Luke Foley@lukefoley.me · 2w ago44 years ago today, the first CD was produced. What is the first CD you owned?
From the ABC - can anyone explain how a police investigation of alleged sexual assault, does “not" suggest an allegation of sexual assault? The media’s protection racket for these clubs must stop.
As the government passes cuts to the life-changing and life-saving disability services that your friends and family rely on, please know that the same government is also giving a half billion dollar fossil fuel subsidy to an already vastly profitable mining company that did nothing to deserve it.
Tim Baxter@timinclimate.naruresearch.com.au · 2w agoLuckily, this year we will give half a billion dollars to a company that has booked $10b in profit. I can't think of anything else that we could have done with that money.
On cue: Tom Elliot slamming super as unions controlling ‘your money’. Unions don’t run super funds but Ok Tom..
Anyway, a reminder. Fuel Tax Credits over the next 4 years will cost the Govt $47bn. The savings from the cuts to the NDIS is $38bn. Gillard in 2010: "Budgets are about choices, and you show what you value through the choices you make" Indeed.
Greg Jericho@grogsgamut.bsky.social · 2w agoWhy "social, economic and community participation" and "improved daily living skills"? Because (according the legislation) they apparently don't "affect supports that are essential to a participant’s health, safety or continuous care needs" Yep living skills are not essential to health or safety.
The attack of MS on my knees. So frustrating but relieved it happened now & not this morning. Today I was able to mark a lot of "to do's" off my list. Annoyed with myself that I didn't rest earlier so now, I'm on the lounge watching teev in my cosy fort working out a mental plan to get to bed. 🤦♀️
Lazy dinner tonight. Cheese toastie in the jaffle maker. BLISS! ❤️❤️❤️
See you Saturday Phillip Island! There are still a handful of tickets left to my session: 'Outspoken women - or can we talk about Gaza yet'? www.trybooking.com/events/15851...
Terrorist, pariah nation Israel MURDERS more innocents, including children. This time in Lebanon. Israel is the vicious psychopath of the Middle East. BOYCOTT DIVEST SANCTION ISRAEL
peter_donnelly@peter-donnelly.bsky.social · 2w ago
What a wonderful thought, puts things into perspective.
Attention good folk of Bluesky! Kon is going for a very big walk and asking for help ❤️
Kon Karapanagiotidis@kkarapanagiotidis.bsky.social · 3w agoI’m walking 🚶♀️ 50km in a single day to raise money to help end male violence against women. Every $ goes to the Women’s and Girls Emergency Centre on September 13th. You can donate by clicking link 🔗 below 👇🏼 www.walkforwagec.org.au/fundraisers/...
"Gorsedd" is another important word in Welsh from my ancestors. I'm not sure of the exact translation into Indigenous Australian languages. It means we sit down with the elders & we listen.
Putrid & vile. They're talking about human beings. There is no limit to the depths ON & the LNP will go to divide our country.
stranger@strangerous.bsky.social · 3w agoBarnaby Joyce defends One Nation candidate Parminder Singh’s homophobic remarks calling gay ppl mentally ill & lower than animals, claiming ON is one of the “gayest parties in Australia” Conveniently forgets his starring role with ON campaigning against SSM. Shameless hypocrisy
Andre Bragg at the National Press Club has communist Tourette's live.thepoint.com.au
The Point Live: Gambling debate to get back underway, government pushes back against house price criticism. As it happens
The gambling debate is set to get underway with the Coalition likely giving the government the numbers it wants to pass the legislation. Meanwhile, Labor has decided falling house prices is not a bad...
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Given that Bragg is now re-prosecuting all of Milton Friedman’s bullshit on Argentina and whatnot, also worth pointing out that the Liberals tried banning the communist party in Australia but lost the referendum needed to do it. WE HAVE FKN DONE ALL OF THIS FFS