Heather Meyer 🦘

Heather Meyer 🦘

@heathermeyer.bsky.social

Retired Australian educator. Live in rural Victoria, on unceded Waywurru country. Passions - ecology, climate, social justice and politics. No DMs.

2,312 Followers 1,905 Following 933 Posts Joined Nov 2024
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Middle East crisis live: More than 100 children killed by Israeli strikes in Lebanon, health ministry says A total of 773 people have been killed in Lebanon since Israel’s strikes began on 2 March, with a further 1,933 people wounded, the ministry reports

Middle East crisis live: More than 100 children killed by Israeli strikes in Lebanon, health ministry says.

This is who the U.S. decided to partner with. Monsters who kill children. We killed children in Iran, Israel killed children in Lebanon. We are not on the right side of humanity

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Water inspectors shut out of Alcoa mine sites in Perth drinking water catchment, documents show Fencing installed around Alcoa’s bauxite mine sites in 2025 blocked rangers conducting inspections, Water Corporation documents say

Those in Govt who let these Environmental Criminals get away with these acts are complicit.

#auspol

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Same excuse used for 100s of incidents in Gaza. It’s worn so thin it becomes a blatant lie. Aa

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"Once you cheapen a phrase like antisemitism… when you call Miss Rachel an antisemite, you're completely undermining the very important common struggle we should have against antisemitism.ā€

Piers Morgan & I discuss Ben Shapiro's attempts to cancel anyone who criticizes Israel.

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Sit down, shut up, and pay attention because I'm only going to explain this once and I'm using small words so the flag emoji patriots can follow along.

Your boy just let the International Energy Agency announce

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We won’t accept racism as ā€œpart of the jobā€ in parliament. We’re calling on Labor to stop looking the other way, stop normalising this behaviour, and fix the rules that allow racism to persist in parliament.

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Ex-ASIO boss says he's not needed, 'grossly overpaid' for royal commission Former ASIO boss Dennis Richardson says he resigned from the royal commission into antisemitism because he felt he was overpaid and "surplus to requirements".

"when you stripped everything down, I was essentially being employed as a research officer & to lead a team of researchersā€

Translation: Given my advice as ā€œspecial advisorā€ was being ignored, I refuse to let my name add legitimacy to this farce of a RC on antisemitism…

Unexpected hero?

#auspol

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I’ll always trust the findings on Robodebt from Commissioner Catherine Holmes, who led a commission of integrity, who didn’t hold hearings in secret, over & above the findings of the NACC, led by Paul Brereton who works in the shadows with conflicts running through his veins.

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Aus on a downhill run since No vote.

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He’ll complain bigly when he doesn’t get thanked!

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Congratulations to President Trump for making the most powerful possible case for green energy and for the Chinese renewables and auto industries.

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Great words from Harvey Milk.

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Inquiry into racism, hate and violence toward First Nations people comes late, lacks power – and must deliver – Croakey Health Media www.croakey.org/inquiry-into...

#AusPol
#SDOH
#PublicHealth

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With impacts far and wide, I could think of a more relevant case to be aired in public.

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I know people who need a public Robodebt hearing for therapeutic reasons.

And I think the entire country could bear seeing and hearing from Scott Morrison in a RC for healing and justice.

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You’d be pretty worried if a regular primary classroom teacher couldn’t pick up on general literacy and numeracy issues within a week.

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Would be interesting to see this perspective debated. Is it too simplistic. What of the roles of EU and middle powers?

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Lawmakers continue to enact hate crime laws, suppressing free speech Anne Twomey, a constitutional lawyer at the University of Sydney, is concerned that new state and federal laws, allegedly to combat hate, are adversely impacting free speech. Paul Gregoire reports.

The push for new laws restricting free speech is connected to government attempts to silence opposition to Israel’s genocide in Gaza under the guise of ā€œcombating antisemitismā€. www.greenleft.org.au/2026/1449/an...

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Strengthen public education to boost social cohesion

Strengthening public education is one of the most practical ways Australia can build social cohesion and counter racism, write Save Our Schools' national convenor Trevor Cobbold and Finnish education expert Pasi Sahlberg. satpa.pe/eRtQki7

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Muslims traumatised after right-wing attack on community dinner A Muslim community in Ballarat is left traumatised after a man barged into a community dinner allegedly throwing punches and yelling abuse.

"A 37-year-old man was interviewed by police at the scene and was then given a direction to move on."

It seems staggeringly unlikely if a Muslim came in throwing fists, threatening to kill people and shouting anti-semitic slogans at kids during Hannukah they'd be allowed to leave peacefully.

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The Darkest Web: Inside the internet’s most hidden corners to save kids – BBC World Service Docs YouTube video by BBC World Service

This was interesting. It makes me wonder how many of Epsteins cases might overlap, if any.

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Agree totally. Yet MSM rarely acknowledge their existence.

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Along with biodiversity loss, some caused by climate chaos but other by human intervention - land clearing, feral animals, introduced disease, poisons.

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DON'T LET THIS IRAN WAR DISTRACT YOU, THE WORST IMMEDIATE THREAT TO AUSTRALIA IS STILL ANTHROPOGENIC CLIMATE CHANGE/GLOBAL WARMING.

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Alcoa slugged $55 million over illegal jarrah forest clearing _By: Aaron Bunch_ Alcoa has agreed to pay $55 million to restore a forest habitat that's home to protected species after clearing it for bauxite mining without approvals. Alcoa has been given the green light to clear more Australian forest after being fined for stripping land for bauxite mining without approvals. The US aluminium giant has agreed to pay $55 million to restore the environment as part of an enforceable undertaking reached with the federal government on Wednesday. It relates to habitat destruction in the Northern Jarrah Forest, south of Perth, between 2019 and 2025. "It's the largest conservation‑focused commitment of its kind," Federal Environment Minister Murray Watt said as he spruiked the deal. The company did not seek the appropriate legal approvals to clear the land under the Commonwealth Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999. The agreement, which is enforceable in the Federal Court, will deliver permanent ecological offsets to preserve important habitat. Alcoa misleads investors on crucial WA mining approvalsChief executive Bill Oplinger told Wall Street the miner had responded to all 60,000 comments on its WA expansion plans—in fact, it responded to fewer than 10, and some were unacceptable.Boiling ColdPeter Milne It will also expand conservation programs for species, including Western Australia's three black cockatoo species, and strengthen invasive‑species management within the Northern Jarrah Forest. Senator Watt also granted Alcoa a national‑interest exemption to allow the company to continue land clearing for its mining operations for 18 months, while a strategic assessment is completed. This will ensure the continued supply of bauxite for industry in Australia and with trade partners, he said. It also ensures Alcoa can sustain its operations, which employ about 6000 workers. The miner has committed to pay $4.2 million in additional offsets for activities covered by the exemption for management of the environmental impacts. The federal environment department and Alcoa have agreed to develop a strategic assessment agreement to enable future environmental approvals. This will guide sustainable mining at Alcoa's Huntly and Willowdale mining operations, around 100km south of Perth, until 2045. "This agreement will enable government to assess the cumulative environmental impacts of Alcoa's local mining operations and provide strong protections for threatened species and ecological communities, while offering Alcoa long-term operational certainty," Senator Watt said. Alcoa lied about jarrah forest rehabilitation: ad watchdogThe Ad Standards decision has demolished a key plank of the US miner’s expensive campaign to win public support for expanded mining in WA.Boiling ColdPeter Milne Alcoa said modernising the approvals framework will provide a better understanding of the potential impacts of land clearing and mining on significant flora and fauna into the future. The company will continue to limit clearing to 800 hectares per year and increase new rehabilitation rates annually to 1,000 hectares per year by 2027. "We are committed to responsible operations and welcome this important step in transitioning our approvals to a contemporary assessment process that provides increased certainty for our operations and our people into the future," Alcoa president and chief executive William F Oplinger said. The strategic assessment will not impact an ongoing accredited environmental assessment of the future Myara North and Holyoake mine regions of the Huntly mine under WA and federal environment law. The Minerals Council of Australia said the agreement was a pragmatic decision by Alcoa and the federal government. Chief executive Tania Constable called on state and federal governments to "rapidly finalise" workable national environmental standards and assessment agreements to reduce mine approval delays.

The US miner illegally destroyed the habitat of endangered black cockatoos for six years.

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No surprises there. What comes around goes around.

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This is all about Israeli (Jewish) superiority. Israel is an Apartheid State.

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Media release from Henderson

Labor must establish independent inquiry into ABC’s impartiality failures 
The Albanese government must establish an urgent independent inquiry into the ABC’s impartiality failures following its deeply offensive, one-sided coverage of the Iran war. 
 
The ABC’s statutory obligation to disseminate news and information impartially and accurately is critical to public trust in the national broadcaster. 
 
Senior America’s reporter, John Lyons, has shockingly failed that test. 
 
In response to a government statement that "Australia stands with the brave people of Iran in their struggle against oppression,ā€ Mr Lyons labelled this as ā€˜political propaganda’ claiming if the Prime Minister was telling the truth, he should have said 'Australia stands with Israel and the US in their new war on Iran’.

Failed MP, and pity hire in the Senate, Sarah Henderson, is upset that John Lyons is doing journalism.

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And by Jews I think they mean Zionists.

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