Lobbyists for the UK wood-burning stove industry have threatened councils with legal action over public information campaigns warning of the harms of air pollution www.theguardian.com/environment/...
05.03.2026 07:23 — 👍 13 🔁 8 💬 2 📌 1
Lobbyists for the UK wood-burning stove industry have threatened councils with legal action over public information campaigns warning of the harms of air pollution www.theguardian.com/environment/...
05.03.2026 07:23 — 👍 13 🔁 8 💬 2 📌 1When the Chair brings the organisation into disrepute...
05.03.2026 06:10 — 👍 23 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0
Award-winning author Eva Hornung’s time-travelling new novel explores Australia’s tensions around land ownership and belonging.
05.03.2026 06:30 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Where to start with the “fiery speech” by Labor’s Raff Ciccone?
“Moral clarity” is not mindlessly backing Trump and Netanyahu, attacking John Lyons and parroting US and Israeli talking points.
Iran is a theocratic dictatorship. We expect more from so called “democracies”.
WTF
05.03.2026 06:36 — 👍 45 🔁 13 💬 10 📌 2
“When the rules no longer protect you, you must defend yourself. A country that cannot feed itself, fuel itself or defend itself has few options,” Mr Carney said. #AusPol #CanPoli
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so it is five in the afternoon down under, I've just poured myself a glass of brilliant Australian Shiraz, if you don't know you must - and now this, one of the most beautiful songs about loss I know...
it's the blaze across my nightgown
It's the phone's ring..
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfW4...
#Contrast: Yesterday I was in halls of Parliament advocating for whistleblowers and working to kill off @albomp.bsky.social’s secrecy Bill. Today it’s back to peace and tranquility - on the Murrumbidgee River at Darlington Point, The Riverina, NSW. #WorkFromRoam
05.03.2026 05:41 — 👍 105 🔁 17 💬 4 📌 1Evangelical TikTok is telling millions of Americans that the Iranian war is prophetic because that’s what Republican lawmakers are telling soldiers. There are thousands of videos, here is an example. #uspol
05.03.2026 06:50 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 2
“There are signals that Australia is beginning to treat early childhood as the high-trust, safety-critical, nation-building infrastructure it is.”
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05.03.2026 07:01 — 👍 18 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
Contract started at $232K and within two months got a boost by $33K to go to $265K.
Greg! The Stop Sign!
The word is three consulting firms and two legal firms were invited to tender and in the end none did.
And then Gregarious Greg got the gig as numero uno choice from a list the ASECA and her office drew up.
Greg! The Stop Sign!
Carney doesn't rule out joining the illegal war on Iran. Hahaha. I guess strategic autonomy of middle powers and the rules based order can wait.
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The precedent is eerily, chillingly precise. What the current Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is doing to immigrants and refugees today is almost a carbon copy of what Sir William Joynson-Hicks was doing 100 years ago. And that's not a good thing. My column.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
David Shoebridge asks if any Australian troops were used in the US submarine attack which blew up & sunk an Iranian warship off the coast of Sri Lanka.
Penny Wong says for “operational & security reasons” this cannot be disclosed. #auspol
And yes… evergreen.
05.03.2026 04:33 — 👍 19 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0I just heard Lily Allen’s West End Girl for the first time today and oh boy… I can’t even explain. Just go listen to it.
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Well said @andrewwilkiemp.bsky.social
Tread with care @albomp.bsky.social & @senatorwong.bsky.social
And by the way, from me, #SuspendAUKUS
#Auspol
Do we really want a world where the strong can do as they please and the weak suffer as they must? I wrote for The Guardian today about why Australia shouldn’t stand for this, and why international law matters for a middle power like Australia #auspol #politas
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“The law of nature says that we human beings have to live within the bounds of this beautiful little planet of ours . . . and at the moment, we’re destroying it at the greatest rate in history. And that has to stop.” – Bob Brown
Read more from Bob Brown: https://theaus.in/4rvC5bH
The Iron Dome doesn’t seem to be working real well. Have you tried turning it off and then back on again?
05.03.2026 03:38 — 👍 76 🔁 20 💬 13 📌 2
#BillClinton BL showing an intense high level of extreme stress & embarrassment under questioning while covering his face with his hand. He appears flushed reacting to strong emotions & anxiety. Covering the face when caught out lying is to cover up & hide these emotions & shame.
05.03.2026 03:49 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Very interesting report, supposedly confirmed by the Qataris — Iran missile strikes have taken out a number of radars for THAAD systems defencesecurityasia.com/en/irgc-dest...
05.03.2026 03:36 — 👍 33 🔁 11 💬 2 📌 2
US bases
Look at where all the US bases are
(Were)
AFP: A tanker was hit by a "large explosion" in the waters off Kuwait, causing an oil spill, British maritime security agency UKMTO said Thursday
05.03.2026 02:31 — 👍 234 🔁 111 💬 10 📌 11
Just a reminder that everything Carney has done is consistent with him being in favour of war in the Middle East.
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“It is what is happening in the United States, it is what is happening across Europe as we speak, with Military Keynesianism, we have weaponisation of fascism in everything except name.” – @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social
Read more: https://theaus.in/46GyCPS
