Ethoxyquin is a fire retardant used in dried animal and fish food. It’s carcinogenic. Australia the US and Asia allows its consumption. The EU and UK have banned it Here, higher levels have been found in Tasmanian salmon than in pre-ban tested fish in the EU The Greens want it banned #auspol

Inside Climate News@insideclimatenews.org · 11h ago

While we might know what food we eat, we don’t always know what the food we eat is fed. In the case of farmed fish, it might be carcinogenic fire retardants.

He is a psychopath and he is psychotic. What's it going to take to get the American media to talk about it?

Israeli soldiers received orders to drop heavy bombs on populated areas in the Gaza Strip without evacuating them. The massacre in Jabalia killed over 250 Palestinians. The U.S. sent Israel 2,000 lb. bombs via the UK for Israel to carry out these massacres.

Denmark pushes back. The rest of Europe seeks greater independence from the fascist regime in Washington. Canada stands up for its sovereignty in the face of a stupid Trump trade war. But the Australian govt turns its territory over to even more US bases. #EndAUKUS #auspol

Al Jazeera English@aljazeera.com · 2h ago

Denmark pushes back as Trump touts Greenland oil and mineral deals https://aje.news/2lmepc

The first responsibility of governments is to protect us from foreseeable harm. As we head into a super El Nino summer, our government must act with more urgency to protect us from climate risks.

Since 2023, "proper dental care in Gaza has been all but destroyed, along with the rest of the enclave’s health care system, by sustained targeted attacks by the Israeli military and a crippling siege that includes vital medical supplies." @dropsitenews.com www.dropsitenews.com/p/gaza-denti...

Pulling Out Teeth Just to Live: How Israel Has Devastated Dental Care in Gaza

Along with other medical supplies, dental materials have not been allowed into Gaza for the past three years, forcing patients to choose between unaffordable treatment, extraction, or painkillers.

dropsitenews.com

"It’s either democracy or the billionaires. That’s it. Both cannot survive in the near future." @wajali.bsky.social thelefthook.substack.com/p/traitor-el...

Traitor Elon Musk and the Oligarchy Must Be Crushed!

The world’s richest man is using his money and power to tilt elections, harm our allies, and promote a racist, authoritarian agenda that will destroy humanity and benefit the oligarchy.

thelefthook.substack.com

We should not be in a position where we are getting better policy advice from the Pope's AI advisor than from the Australian government. #auspol

Senator David Shoebridge@davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 5h ago

Allowing foreign AI companies to mine our power, water and data and giving a freebie on copyright is a new form of colonialism says the Pope’s AI adviser. He may not be infallible but he sure has hit the mark here. We needed defences and guardrails not white flags.

"There’s no getting around the fact that we — as a species and as a planet — are now living in the future that climate scientists have been warning us about for more than half a century."

Opinion | Wildfires Are Unfightable Now (Gift Article)

This year’s fast moving, virtually irrepressible wildfire events are not the seasonal burns of decades past.

nytimes.com

Menace to democracy Elon Musk has slowed Starlink to sabotage Ukraine and help Putin. So what country will be stupid enough to pay millions to any of Elon Musk's companies when they now know that he may unilaterally breach contracts for personal reasons on a petulant whim? Oh, I know! The US.

That political environment includes Jillian Segal's taxpayer-funded role as Special Envoy for the Israel Lobby. A position that enables her to back McCarthyist campaigns against artists, writers, health workers, musicians... and anyone who criticizes the genocidal apartheid rogue state. #auspol

“Despite the collapse of Adelaide Writers’ Week and Bendigo Writers Festival, these genocide cheerleaders continue their targeted racist campaigns, buoyed on by a political environment that has acquiesced to the pro-Israel lobby and punished the pro-Palestine movement” - Randa Abdel-Fattah

Deepcut News@deepcutnews.bsky.social · 6h ago

Exclusive: a pro-Israel WhatsApp group is once again seeking to cancel Randa Abdel-Fattah from Adelaide Writers' Week. The fresh campaign comes only months after pro-Israel lobbying led to the collapse of Australia's premier literary festival earlier this year. www.deepcutnews.com/p/exclusive-...

Trump and Musk are pressuring Zelensky to hand over territory to Putin so Trump/Musk can resume business as usual in Russia Hard for the UK and rest of NATO to talk about Trump's US as an ally. Zelensky is telling it how it is because he's not much more to lose. This is a dark hour.

MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦@maks23.bsky.social · 10h ago

Piers Morgan: Do you feel betrayed? 🇺🇦 Zelensky: Yes. It's a pity that we are losing a strong partner. Piers Morgan: You think you're losing America? 🇺🇦 Zelensky: Yeah, but not because of us. We can't be weak. We're not selling our country. Look, It's our lives. It's our country, home, children.

Trump makes clear that he has turned on Ukraine and Zelenskyy and want to help Russia destroy them. The technical term for this conduct in wartime is perfidy, an act of betrayal involving deceit.

www.irishtimes.com/culture/book... The utter idiocy of uk anti terror laws used against peaceful protesters and authors is demonstrated here. Peak idiocy.

Sally Rooney’s books will no longer be available in UK over her support for Palestine Action

Faber blames UK antiterrorism legislation for decision to stop distributing bestselling author’s works

irishtimes.com

Jane Caro: Australians are blind to the damage our publicly funded but increasingly segregated education system is doing to our children and their future. It suits powerful vested interests that we do not see. www.themonthly.com.au/nation-revie...

Class warfare

The funding model for Australian education protects and entrenches disadvantage and the gap between schools, and it is steadily getting worse

themonthly.com.au

The private school club is self perpetuating. #AusPol

Greens warn of private school fees loophole in Labor's trust tax

Treasurer Jim Chalmers is preparing to introduce legislation for a 30 per cent tax on discretionary trusts on Wednesday amid fierce business opposition, but has been presented with another obstacle fr...

abc.net.au

40% of *everything being shipped everywhere on Earth* is fossil fuels Just an absolute laughing-stock clown-show of an energy source. This is laughably absurd, why do we treat this like it's normal and good Fossil fuels are a satirical fuel www.irena.org/-/media/File...

There are few people who demonstrate every day that they are a complete piece of shit more than Vance

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago

"He's just a guy who shows a weird focus on transgender kids ... typically people who say stuff like that tend to have some unusual search histories" -- JD Vance, who is obsessed with demagoguing trans issues, baselessly suggests that Talarico is a pedo

"The billionaire corporate media constantly works to uphold the status quo - even when the status quo is genocide." The NY Times whitewashed The Holocaust during WW2. They have returned to form for the #GazaGenocide.

Qasim Rashid, Esq.@qasimrashid.com · yesterday

Deconstructing institutional media failure, historical parallels, and billionaire-owned coverage of genocide.

"Whoever controls the dominant media controls, to a significant degree, which frameworks become available for making sense of political life and which remain marginal." Political journalists would do well to read Gramsci. Instead of uncritically reproducing their employers' narrative. #auspol

Lucy Hamilton@lucyham.bsky.social · yesterday

One reason Rupert Murdoch wages his long war against public broadcasting is that he & his cohort of media barons make the communal sense that we take as “normal.” This essay gives a very approachable explanation: linguistically.substack.com/p/antonio-gr... #Auspol take note below colonising 📺

"Three years into the genocide, we’re being asked to do far more than Gaza’s devastated health system can sustain. Regular deliveries of medical supplies are still restricted and medical evacuations have stalled." The #GazaGenocide continues - quietly. pearlsandirritations.com/post/2026/10...

A year after the ‘ceasefire’, Gaza’s healthcare is still collapsing

A year after the ceasefire was announced, Gaza’s health system remains devastated, medical evacuations are stalled and thousands of patients face preventable death as treatment, equipment and supplies...

pearlsandirritations.com

Fucking disgraceful. For-profit essential services are an abhorrence and the main parties have both embraced them with open arms. No nurse/aged care resident ratios, instead living worse than incarcerated felons unless you pay thousands of dollars a month #auspol

Simon Rosenberg@simonrosenberg.bsky.social · yesterday

Not quite fair to describe this as "price gouging". This is a privatized #agedcare system operating as intended aftery three decades of neoliberal Labor and LNP governments. #inequality #auspol

At some point we also have to deal with the fact that one of the two parties is openly hostile to democracy. If you have to win big every election or else the country falls into despotism we're all just playing Russian roulette every few years

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Ossoff: "The last time Trump lost the presidency, he tried to seize the presidency and overturn the election. That's why it's so important that we vote in unprecedented numbers. This is up to the people."

This is the result of the Murdochization of the ABC. #auspol

MEAA@withmeaa.bsky.social · 2d ago

MEAA members at the ABC have overwhelmingly backed a motion defending the rights of elected union representatives to speak out and represent members.

Norway has removed all of its $2tn Investment Fund from Israel linked banks, as it continues its policy of BDS against Israel. Well done Norway.

Shut up!

Yahoo Finance@yahoofinance.com · yesterday

Anthropic warns AI could 'self-replicate' across smart home devices, become ‘challenging’ to shut down

Interestingly, Australia has now appeared on that joint statement, and the release looks to me like it has been backdated. ABC is reporting the delay was due to “timezones”. Lol.

The Australia Institute@australiainstitute.org.au · 2d ago

"It feels to me Australia hasn't been prepared to back its own values." Ben Doherty & @emmashortis.bsky.social on the Australian government's approach to US sanctions on the International Criminal Court. "Here is the rules-based order under attack & we're not coming to the party." #auspol

New figures in - Australians still hate Trump's USA, but like Canada live.thepoint.com.au