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Valerie is saved! The recalcitrant houndlet gave up her freedom for a rotisserie chicken and so would I

Pledge For Higher Standards in VIC Public Mental Health. To deliver the highest standard of care, the Victorian Public Mental Health system requires the work and skills of many different disciplines. HACSU members recognise that to be successful and achieve...

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/pl...

FLORAL FIREWORKS

A eucalyptus bud,  captured in timelapse, bursts open like a natural firework. Unlike most flowers, these unique blooms have no petals—just fluffy stamens creating the display.

Charts showing the penalty for protesting in each state versus the price of a meeting with a minister. NSW Vic Qld SA Tas Maximum penalty for anti-protest laws $22,000 $21,000 $7,740 $50,000 $9,750 Cost to meet with minister $1,500 $1,500 $2,000 $4,000 $4,000

Australia is increasingly criminalising peaceful protests while allowing corporate lobbying to thrive.

As @jack-thrower.bsky.social writes - Protesting fines are expensive; lobbying is cheap. #OffTheCharts

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Can we please, please get trending topics for Australians?

Please 🙏🏽

Xitter has it, which doesn't help because the place is a toxic hellhole. But all we many, many Australians here on Bluesky see is American stuff - we have our own topics

t.i.a @bsky.app

Men have grown twice as much as women over past century, study shows

As an example, yesterday @jessness4deakin.bsky.social launched her candidacy with the @voicesofdeakin.bsky.social community.

Her rival’s primary vote in Deakin is just 41.51% – the tipping point.

It means Ness can win from a primary as low as the mid-teens! 🤯

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Jess Ness announced as independent Deakin candidate The independent movement has expanded further east with a Voices of candidate endorsement announced for Deakin ahead of the Federal [...]

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Read all about Jess and get behind her, Deakin! We deserve an independent candidate who puts balance, integrity and respect into everything she stands for.

Dutton's new nuclear nightmare: construction costs continue to explode The latest massive cost blowout at a planned power station in the UK demonstrates the absurdity of Peter Dutton's claims about nuclear power in Australia.

“The latest massive cost blowout at a planned nuclear power station in the UK demonstrates the absurdity of Peter Dutton's claims about #nuclear power in Australia”

The Sizewell C nuclear plant in Suffolk was costed at £20B in 2020 & will now cost £40B

www.crikey.com.au/2025/01/16/p...
#auspol

News headline about RFK Jr. admitting he did not disclose earnings from his anti-vaccine nonprofit, with an image of RFK Jr. in a suit against a colorful background of money, syringes, and vaccine vials.

RFK, Jr. claimed his anti-vax work was a labor of love that cost him friendships. He said he’d never made money from it. But now he admits he made (checks notes) $1.2 million from it. How do you “forget” about that much money?

Realistic quality testing.

Sandra just did more actual public interest journalism in a single post than the ABC have done on this.

Please ABC - we need real journalism not a megaphone #auspol

Spare a thought for poor Newscorp and the LNP who have invested so much money and energy into trying to erase this inconvenient truth 👇
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Normal day❤️

UK's plan to become AI world leader is flawed, say RMIT experts AI is seen by many – including governments, economists, and tech companies – as a panacea for economic woes.

“British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has outlined a plan for the UK to become a “world leader” in artificial intelligence (AI). Two RMIT experts explain why it’s unlikely to succeed.”

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screenshot of 2018 AFR article detailing Dutton and Turnbull property wealth, saying Dutton was made director of Dutton Holdings in 1992.

nobody tell the press gallery but his origin story is the same as most wealthy whites - enrichment through stolen land. Dutton was appointed director of the family tax minimisation vehicle at age 21 years.

The UK public overwhelmingly say US oligarch Elon Musk is a threat to democracy and trying to sabotage their country. The majority see him as a joke and opportunist.

"Musk is a deeply unpopular figure in the UK, with a net favourability rating of -35, lower than Nigel Farage or Tommy Robinson."

"Back on track" in practical terms means sacking public servants and reverting to usual Coalition practice of spending money on external consultants instead. It's an arid debate when the real problem neither side is addressing is the revenue side of the budget (tax) not the expense side (services).

Apparently this photo of mine is currently on display at the Australian Embassy in Berlin (yeah, Berlin, go figure) as part of an Everyday Climate Crisis Exhibition. I took it between Renmark and Mildura in Dec 2019 during extreme drought conditions. An example of desertification.

The median super account balance for Australians under 40 is ~$57-60K

Many Australians who'd like to buy a house don't actually have $50K sitting in their super account.

As usual, Peter Dutton is talking baseless, unadulterated shit.

Elderly Felon to Spend Four Years at Federal Government Institution — The Shovel A 78-year-old Florida man, who was found guilty of paying hush money to a stripper last year, will spend the next four years housed in a high-security government facility.

A 78-year-old Florida man, who was found guilty of paying hush money to a stripper last year, will spend the next four years housed in a high-security government facility.

How community independent campaigns actually work I’m standing in Yulecart Memorial Hall on the Dartmoor-Hamilton Road, just west of Hamilton, Victoria. The building is 100 years old, made of bluestone and well used to community action. On the front ...

Australia is so lucky to have this get-out-of-jail-free movement. Other countries are trapped by the duopoly. "The community independents movement is motivated by a shared sense that our democracy is not delivering the benefits it could or should." www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/19958/...

The Aust. Govt. gives 72% of WA’s gas to foreign-owned gas exporters for FREE.

That means no royalties were paid on $111 billion worth of gas exported from WA.

Tell the Government to stop giving away our resources & make gas corporations pay.

✍️ https://theaus.in/collect_gas_royalties #auspol

As the news hasn’t told us - one of our closest neighbours - Indonesia (with a population of 290million) has this week joined BRICS along with Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa.

The world order is changing.

#auspol

A boy and a girl work together on an old ‘sit up and beg’ type bicycle, oiling the spokes and checking the chain

Back when your bike was your most treasured possession

Artist: Harry Wingfield
(Levers, Pulleys and Engines, 1963)

Wikipedia is the last major, visible platform for facts that they can’t buy. The attacks are going to be merciless.

"The main reason your energy bills are so high is that our governments gave control of our gas resources to a bunch of mainly foreign-owned gas corps & let them export as much as they want."

@markogge.bsky.social explains how multinational gas corps are price-gouging Australians #auspol