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Exclusive: DSS shares legal letters that help silence church victims The Department of Social Services provided legal correspondence to the Catholic Church that was then leaked to the Murdoch press and used in an attempt to silence victims.

Dept of Social Services disclosed private legal letters with the Catholic Church which were then leaked to The Australian newspaper and used in concert to try and silence survivors of abuse by a senior Church member. Yeah, it's nuts. But they admitted it. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/law-cri...

Brazil gives Meta 72 hours to explain new fact-checking policies Brazil on Friday gave social media giant Meta 72 hours to explain its fact-checking policy for the country, and how it plans to protect "fundamental rights" on its platforms.

Brazil on Friday gave social media giant Meta 72 hours to explain its fact-checking policy for the country, and how it plans to protect "fundamental rights" on its platforms

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The Cascade of Gender Bias in San Juan del Sur – RobHasAwebsite.com 01/11/15 - The portrayal of women has always been a hot topic in Survivor. Sarah Freeman uses season 29 to illustrate how gender bias affects the game and show.

This brings up so many (still) relevant points about how survivor edits make bs female winners. Charlie also had the most confessionals last season robhasawebsite.com/blog/the-cas...

Dear @abcnewsbot.bsky.social
OL Peter Dutton lies, rptedly. AAP Fact Check reports his lies. 👇 Yet you platform him (w/o correction or critique) on a daily basis. You are actively knowingly promoting disinformation. This is a blatant breach of the ABC Charter. 😠 #auspol #JournalismMatters

4. Spotify fired 51% of their curatorial team & replaced predominately with AI.

5. The CEO, Daniel Ek has made $345 mil since July 2023 selling shares -which makes him the world's most streamed artist (115 billion streams) if he were one. He makes 2.5 billion X the salary of the average musician.

“I’ll stop drinking if you let me run the Pentagon” is maybe the most alcoholic thing anyone has ever said

Australians waste more than $1 billion on buying Christmas gifts for people that never get used.

Nina Gbor, Director, Circular Economy & Waste, shares one simple way to reduce Christmas waste this festive season 🎄 🎁

#auspol

McKinsey paid $1.6m to ‘guide’ Australian climate policy despite working for fossil fuel companies Guardian Australia was told firm disclosed its private sector work, but it is not known which clients were listed

Very strange how Australia's climate policy keeps coming out in a shape that pleases the eye of the fossil fuel industry. What ever could be the cause?

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Australia Institute research shows that 27% of Australians will get Christmas present they don't want this year, leading to over $1 billion of unwanted gifts going to landfill

Our Circular Economy & Waste Director Nina Gbor appeared on ABC News Breakfast this morning to discuss the findings #auspol

Charts showing income earned and tax paid by Tassal and Sealord in 2022-23 SEALORD AUSTRALIA PTY LIMITED. Income: $159,915,664; tax paid $0 TASSAL GROUP LIMITED. Income: $323,217,126; tax paid $0

When hearing talk about the need to protect the Tasmanian salmon industry, just remember this is not a local-owned industry. It is dominated by foreign-owned companies.

The profits go offshore, and they don’t pay tax here.

But the environmental damage very much happens here.

McKinsey paid $1.6m to ‘guide’ Australian climate policy despite working for fossil fuel companies Firm disclosed its private sector work, Guardian Australia is told, but it is not known which clients were listed

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

$28 million for Macquarie Harbour "to help salmon companies that are foreign-owned, been making a mincer out of us for years & years & years...their profits are huge & yet, they haven't paid any tax for 3 years.

Why aren't they cleaning up their own mess?"

- Senator Jacqui Lambie #auspol

The Albanese Government committed to rebuilding public sector capacity prior to the 2022 election but reliance on consultants is still an overwhelming feature of its policy making.

The overuse of consultancies leads to bad government decisions ⤵️

australiainstitute.org.au/report/neith... #auspol

As the first term of a federal Labor government comes to an end this is unacceptable.
Labor must be the party of PUBLIC education or it has failed to deliver on one of its core purposes.
I am an active party member &, for me, this is the most disappointing thing about the Albanese government

Twenty private schools with wealthiest parents received $130m total in Australian public funds in 2023 Data comes as education minister remains stalled in negotiations with states and territories over contributions to Schooling Resource Standard

All this, while our local high school can't fit its own students on campus, so will send an entire year cohort to the 6th floor of a glorified office building in the CBD, nowhere near parks or basic school facilities (ie sport, music, science).
Absolute disgrace.
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News live: Australia changes position to support UN resolution demanding end to Israel’s ‘unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory’ Follow live

"Australia votes for end of Israel's 'unlawful presence in Occupied Palestinian territory' at UN for first time in two decades"

#auspol #internationallaw

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Georgia rocked by fierce protests after government puts EU hopes on ice | CNN Georgia has been rocked by protests after its increasingly autocratic government said it would halt the former Soviet country’s bid to join the European Union.

Georgia has been rocked by protests after its increasingly autocratic government said it would halt the former Soviet country’s bid to join the European Union

Repost if BlueSky is now your primary social media site.

extending my annoying obsessions to another platform

Bezos rolling over on the Post endorsement.

Zuckerberg visiting Mar a Lago to bend the knee.

Musk joining the administration.

The tech folks and much of our media are obeying in advance and Trump, the luckiest man alive!, has never faced so little media and social media scrutiny.

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1. Imagine how weird it is to just move to, and live, at Mar a Lago.
2. Imagine being people who spend their Thanksgiving at Mar a Lago.
3. Imagine how screwed up our media and political climate is that the richest man in the world just moving into the president-elect's house is totally normalized.

Zuckerberg Seems Genuinely Alarmed by the Explosive Growth of Bluesky Bluesky has apparently become such a successful X-formerly-Twitter alternative, even Mark Zuckerberg is anxiously taking notice.

ZUCKERBERG SEEMS GENUINELY ALARMED BY THE EXPLOSIVE GROWTH OF BLUESKY - HE SHOULD BE!

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Russia's President Vladimir Putin (L) and US President Donald Trump arrive for a group photo at the G20 Summit in Osaka on June 28, 2019. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP) (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

European powers used to carve up other countries. Now that fate threatens us, starting perhaps with Donald Trump handing much of Ukraine to Russia in a ‘peace deal’ on which Europeans are barely consulted. www.ft.com/content/49af...

After Donald Trump vowed on Monday night to impose tariffs of 25% on all imports from Mexico and Canada, Mexico’s president Claudia Sheinbaum hinted at retaliation as the peso slid against the dollar. www.ft.com/content/af59...

Everything You Need to Know About Donald Trump’s NIH Pick Dr. Jay Bhattacharya is a loud voice from the fringes.

"Everything You Need to Know About Donald Trump’s NIH Pick" - @walkerbragman.bsky.social brings receipts. He's bad, really bad:

I think we need to totally disengage from Twitter it will die if we aren’t there

I think we to totally disengage with Twitter

Note for the upcoming holiday season,,, some of us are on a sobriety journey and mocktails or non-alcoholic beer options make a big difference 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾