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Andrew Stimson

@ajs1.bsky.social

Living on the Gold Coast. Retired educator. Greens Party. Essendon Football Club. Gold Coast Football Club. Owned & operated by Mango, the bordoodle.

132 Followers  |  84 Following  |  28 Posts  |  Joined: 10.11.2024  |  1.9499

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Respect Springbrook Mountain - Gecko | Environment Council We need your help to stop this destructive and risky proposal for a cableway! Join Respect Springbrook Mountain, a coalition of community and conservation groups opposing the cableway. Individuals and...

gecko.org.au/respect-spri...

09.10.2025 22:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Local governments face soaring cost of climate change Local governmentΒ revenue is not keeping pace with the rapidly rising costs of climate change, according to new analysis by The Australia Institute.

The costs of climate are increasing and will hit local governments hard, our new research shows.

Rather than communities being forced to pay the escalating costs of repair work after fires, floods and storms, we could put a levy on gas and coal exports to help pay for the costs of climate change.

09.09.2025 23:26 β€” πŸ‘ 82    πŸ” 39    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 3

The 'cardigan' strikes again!

13.09.2025 23:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I thought Qantas & Harvey Norman had cultivated a dependency quite successfully

07.09.2025 04:54 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

And full of shit. Where does one start?

07.09.2025 01:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A wet baby #wombat on a spin cycle.
#WombatWednesday #fieldwork #Tasmania #MammalWatching #WildOz #wombats

06.08.2025 07:19 β€” πŸ‘ 117    πŸ” 29    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 5

What is wrong with him? He just spouts meaningless drivel.

09.08.2025 23:27 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

He is sitting on his hands. There is no time for this.

03.08.2025 09:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Backbone
Today's AFR fill-in
More scrapeable content on Patreon
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#Israel #Gaza

28.07.2025 23:43 β€” πŸ‘ 73    πŸ” 29    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 4

Just do it now

26.07.2025 23:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The First Planned Migration of an Entire Country Is Underway The Pacific island nation of Tuvalu could be submerged in 25 years due to rising sea levels, so a plan is being implemented to relocate its population to Australia.

The first planned migration of an entire country due to climate change is happening! Tuvalu, a Pacific island nation, is at risk of being submerged under rising sea level, so it has signed an agreement with Australia to allow 280 Tuvaluans to settle in Australia as permanent residents each year.

26.07.2025 10:20 β€” πŸ‘ 6990    πŸ” 3191    πŸ’¬ 116    πŸ“Œ 223

That’s not leadership. Recognising Palestine would be a start

26.07.2025 23:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

It was a particularly stupid opening question!

29.06.2025 00:23 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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In the paper today.

15.06.2025 23:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

She says nothing. She is an expert at saying nothing. One day Australia will be a sovereign nation, not a US lapdog.

15.06.2025 01:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Or might wake up and realise Labor are greenwashing us all re the environment.

08.06.2025 08:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Scene is a backyard. A hysterical chicken little is leaping up and down saying "THE SKY IS FALLING! (SQUAWK!) THE SKY IS FALLING!"
A magpie and a lorikeet are sitting on the fence cyncially watching the chicken and the magpie is saying "Looks like SOMEONE's got more than $3 million in super"

Scene is a backyard. A hysterical chicken little is leaping up and down saying "THE SKY IS FALLING! (SQUAWK!) THE SKY IS FALLING!" A magpie and a lorikeet are sitting on the fence cyncially watching the chicken and the magpie is saying "Looks like SOMEONE's got more than $3 million in super"

ICYMI- yesterday's cartoon on the proposed super changes for @australia.theguardian.com

27.05.2025 23:15 β€” πŸ‘ 363    πŸ” 106    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 6

What idiot are they going to go for next? Disturbing just pondering it!

23.05.2025 09:28 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Paul Murray
β€˜Quality human being’: Peter Dutton would have been a β€˜great’ PM

Paul Murray
β€˜Millions are not feeling great today’: Paul Murray discusses the β€˜future’ of Australia

Opinion
β€˜The Opposition lost this election far more than Labor won it’: Joe Hildebrand

Rita Panahi
The 'Victoria-fication of Australia' set to be seen following crushing election result

Primetime Videos Paul Murray β€˜Quality human being’: Peter Dutton would have been a β€˜great’ PM Paul Murray β€˜Millions are not feeling great today’: Paul Murray discusses the β€˜future’ of Australia Opinion β€˜The Opposition lost this election far more than Labor won it’: Joe Hildebrand Rita Panahi The 'Victoria-fication of Australia' set to be seen following crushing election result

Sky News not coping with the realisation they are truly irrelevant

05.05.2025 01:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1051    πŸ” 163    πŸ’¬ 126    πŸ“Œ 25

If the parliamentary wing of the LNP is too incompetent or too lazy to design policies over three years in opposition, there is a limited amount any Campaign Director can do to gloss over it when the campaign proper is underway & scrutiny is real. #Dutton

02.05.2025 03:54 β€” πŸ‘ 505    πŸ” 114    πŸ’¬ 41    πŸ“Œ 5

Indeed. These Nazi scum crave publicity, any publicity, and some halfwit at 7 gave it to them.

25.04.2025 07:59 β€” πŸ‘ 256    πŸ” 41    πŸ’¬ 21    πŸ“Œ 3

Except for trans people.

25.04.2025 21:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Storm’s Welcome to Country β€˜cancelled’ at last minute, says Indigenous elder Indigenous groups say they have been left dumbfounded and distressed after the Welcome to Country at Melbourne Storm’s Anzac Day NRL match was cancelled at the last minute.

Pathetic, Melbourne Storm. Such a culturally hurtful thing to do. www.theage.com.au/national/vic...

25.04.2025 21:36 β€” πŸ‘ 77    πŸ” 29    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 2
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β€˜Copied the MAGA model’: The β€˜grassroots’ lobby group funded by some of Australia’s richest The Advance propaganda machine is aimed at ordinary Australians but backed by some of our wealthiest – and has links to a right-wing US foundation.

Good bit of reporting, this. Advance portrays itself as a grassroots outfit, but it’s actually a front for some singularly unpleasant oligarchs and their nasty mates.

19.04.2025 08:42 β€” πŸ‘ 463    πŸ” 180    πŸ’¬ 20    πŸ“Œ 5
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Mark Latham placed on 12-month good behaviour order over racetrack outburst The NSW Independent MP appeared before the Australian Turf Club board this week following a run-in with a club official at Rosehill racecourse.

Taxi ! ! ! πŸ˜‚πŸ€£πŸ˜‚πŸ€£πŸ˜‚

17.04.2025 03:53 β€” πŸ‘ 117    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 0
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Dutton refers to the CSIRO as a "green environmental group". Does he think it's an insult to call Australia's pre-eminent science org environmentally responsible?! Under Dutton, the Coalition is no better than Pauline Hanson's One Nation. #auspol #AusVotes25 #science #Climate #environmentalism

15.04.2025 17:09 β€” πŸ‘ 425    πŸ” 169    πŸ’¬ 66    πŸ“Œ 26
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Coal industry-funded group deletes social media posts after AEC intervention A coal industry-funded group campaigning against progressive candidates in the federal election has deleted two months of social media posts after being pulled up by the Australian Electoral Commissio...

The Liberals have been running a scam group funded by the coal lobby.
They say "We believe that the right to govern comes from the people, not from the elites"
Yet it is run by former Liberal MPs including the bloke I ousted
Stop treating us like mugs
#dodgybrothers

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...

10.04.2025 20:43 β€” πŸ‘ 381    πŸ” 183    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 13

I really can't work out why you are so critical of the Greens. Here we have a media landscape that blows things out of all proportion for entertainment value and does it 24/7. Anything said by the Greens is sensationalised.

13.04.2025 07:16 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

SpaceX just landed a $5.92B contract with the Pentagon for Space Force rocket launches β€” the largest contract among the three firms who secured deals to send satellites into orbit.

While DOGE cuts essential services for you, Musk is getting a taxpayer-funded windfall.

Hello?

07.04.2025 19:45 β€” πŸ‘ 9802    πŸ” 3865    πŸ’¬ 356    πŸ“Œ 253

β€˜Our policy will be released very soon’ says Paterson.
Jeez they’ll need to do a lot of overtime to get all this stuff out before the election!
#Insiders

29.03.2025 22:53 β€” πŸ‘ 56    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 0

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