Widdowcat

At ~730pm (QLD time) tonight, I'll be on ABC Brisbane yarning about dingoes...

Looks like we’re not eating salmon or barramundi now

Smart cat 😃

Queensland teachers plan strike — but no date yet The Queensland Teachers' Union says after-school rallies will be held across the state next Thursday in the wake of its rejection of a state government pay offer last month.

Pay dispute between the Crisafulli government & Queensland teachers rolls on. After school rallies scheduled with strike action dates to be decided. #qldpol
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

“Instead of pouring more fuel on the fire with billions in fossil fuel subsidies, it’s time the government taxed the fossil fuel industry to create a National Climate Disaster Fund."

- Senior Economist @jack-thrower.bsky.social quoted in @thepointau.bsky.social
#auspol

Federal Parliamentary Liberal Leader and Opposition Leader Sussan Ley

The Federal Liberal Party:
• 18 HoR MPs (out of 150)
• 20 Senators (out of 76)
Total Oppn HoR MPs: 43
Total Oppn Senators: 27
Yet the media (esp. our ABC) keeps reporting on them and interviewing them, as if they're a credible, viable alternative govt. 🙄 #auspol #journalism

Steven Miles: "I think right now, there isn't enough focus on early intervention and rehabilitation and keeping kids in school, rather than seeing them disengaged and out in the community committing crimes.”

That means addressing poverty and gross inequality.

@australianlabor.bsky.social

Qld opposition leader accuses LNP of being elected on 'four-word slogan' Former premier Steven Miles says Queenslanders have told him the issues of crime and community safety motivated them to switch their vote to the LNP at the 2024 poll.

A year on from Queensland's four-word slogan election. The Crisafulli government changed penalties for youth crimes but Labor OL Steven Miles says there isn't the focus on early intervention, rehabilitation & schooling. #qldpol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

A big red kangaroo is shown in portrait holding a sign: YOU WOULDN'T FRACK YOUR OWN BACKYARD. DON'T FRACK MINE!

Just finished:

***
You wouldn’t frack your backyard.
Don’t frack mine!

***
For a frack free future. Clean air, clean soil, clean water.
Cooler, safer futures for everyone.

Stop extracting and burning fossil fuels.

Frack free Kimberley.

@albomp.bsky.social
#MurrayWatt
#ClimateEmergency

@tonymartin.bsky.social’s #SIZZLETOWN Episode 99, out now!

Apple: tiny.cc/w1nu001
Podbean: tiny.cc/t0nu001
Spotify: tiny.cc/62nu001

Thanks to royalstacks.com.au

Since the mid 1990s, Norway has imposed a 56 per cent "special tax" for oil and gas companies, alongside a 22 per cent corporate tax rate.

Australia could learn a lesson from this and make companies pay their fair share for our natural resources.

@richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol

The Queen’s implausible denial It beggars belief that the Queen did not know that John Kerr was planning to sack Gough Whitlam. She may not have known the detail of the coup in progress, but she knew the substance. But like Lord Ne...

"Not only did the Palace hide the truth. So also did The National Archives of Australia."
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...

Legal experts say that extrajudicial killing is extrajudicial killing, gee thanks legal experts

New Australia Institute polling shows most Australians, regardless of who they vote for, think cash-for access payments represent corrupt conduct.

“Politicians could improve public faith in democracy by ruling out taking money in a way that most view as corrupt.’

@markogge.bsky.social #auspol

New national law will turn large parking lots into solar power farms Starting this month, parking lots in South Korea with more than 80 spaces will be required to install solar canopies and carports.

“parking lots in South Korea with more than 80 spaces will be required to install solar canopies and carports. But, unlike similar laws that have been proposed in the US, this new law doesn’t just apply to new construction – existing lots will have to comply as well!” electrek.co/2025/11/02/n...

Seriously why label Qld with that? What about the kings of smug Morrison and Abbott from NSW and Tim Wilson from Vic.

Qld LNP MP Ted O'Brien in HoR Question Time.

The jaw-jutting arrogance of Qld LNP MP Ted O'Brien's body language would be comical if he were a 2yo spoiled brat or a pompous drunk at the pub. Sadly, he's a Federal MP. #auspol

Labor and Liberals just teamed up to vote against an Inquiry into AUKUS proposed by the Greens.

Not a single day goes by that the Albanese Labor Govt doesn't say or do something to make me utterly disgusted with them. 😠 #auspol #AUKUS

Will Net Zero cost $9 trillion to Australia? As the Nationals abandon their commitment to achieving net zero by 2050, leader David Littleproud has cited a stunning $9 trillion dollar price tag on the policy as a key reason for the move.

A brilliant fact check by @skyelark.bsky.social "Will Net Zero cost $9 trillion to Australia?" #ThePoint

(spoiler, not even fucking close)
thepoint.com.au/factchecks/2...

Or as Sarina Russo says, “Check out my Louis Vuitton!”

Dolled-Up Bogans Descend on Racetrack With Singular Goal of Getting Barnaby-Ed — The Shovel “You’re not here to back winners. You’re here to lose your phone, ruin your dress, and fall asleep next to a discarded KFC box. That’s the real spirit of the races".

Thousands of freshly spray-tanned punters have descended on Flemington with an unspoken yet universally understood goal of getting absolutely, unapologetically Barnaby-ed.

Laughing in the face of a climate crisis.

AUKUS will not make Australia safer.

It makes Australia more vulnerable and compromises our ability to make independent decisions about our own security.

#auspol

📢 @climate200.bsky.social launches:
The Canavan Climate Trust

we're cataloguing the stupidest statements by climate denying Nats.

👇 all proceeds → airing ads highlighting Nats' unhinged comments in @liberalaus.bsky.social marginal seats next election!

www.climate200.com.au/campaign/the...

Simon Holmes à Court has launched a new fundraiser - ‘The Canavan Climate Trust’ - by cataloguing all the “climate-denying” nonsense from the Nats over the last few weeks, & “every dollar donated” is going to be put towards Ads highlighting their “most unhinged comments”👏💥 #Abc

Rinehart wearing the scariest costume 😂

The Worst Deal in History: Why Mining Has Ransacked Australia While the Press Looked Away How Australia became the world’s cautionary tale in resource management. The mining industry didn’t steal our wealth. We handed it over. The press, owned by the same mining interests si…

"Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Finland taxed fossil fuels hard and built the world’s most prosperous, equitable societies. We have better mineral wealth than most of them. We have the democratic machinery. We have the evidence.

What we lack is the spine." #auspol
urbanwronski.com/2025/11/01/t...

'Found our voice': Nationals abandon net zero by 2050 climate promise The Nationals have formally abandoned a commitment to reach net zero emissions by 2050, setting a challenge for Opposition leader Sussan Ley whether to follow or risk splitting the Coalition.

Same arguments against climate change action heard during the Howard era; rest-of-world problem. It's driven by the Qld LNP who charged David Littleproud with a state conference vote. David Crisafulli's energy non-policy is what it manifests as. #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Lives at risk. Rate cut for sparkies ahead of smart meter speed-up - Michael West Electricians working on the national smart meter rollout told MWM in June that low rates were putting lives at risk. Things are getting worse

"They want every house in Australia fitted with a smart meter by 2030" but they privatised the smart meter roll-out ....
#auspol
Zacharias Szumer investigates lives at risk
michaelwest.com.au/lives-at-ris...

Not the only one 😂