Josie McSkimming

The underwater bushfire From the beach, you can see the flames burning on the oil and gas rigs that ring the northern part of Ningaloo Reef. Tim Winton calls them “sinister flares”. Like the bulk carriers shipping coal throu...

‘The great cowardice of Australian politics is in its refusal to confront climate change. Federal policy is still set by the quarry-headed west. There are corals that have put up more fight than the cabinet.’
We are at the tipping point right now.
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The curse of AUKUS Probably it is worth remembering a little about Scott Morrison, the man who conceived AUKUS. He is the single worst leader the country has ever had, unique in his venality and unseriousness. He is a m...

‘It is worth remembering a little about Scott Morrison, the man who conceived #AUKUS. He is the single worst leader the country has ever had, unique in his venality & unseriousness. He is a man without ambition for anything but himself…’

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From Megan Davis & Pat Anderson for #naidocweek2025.

Such an important & relevant message.

Spread far and wide.

Four Corners: S2025 Generation Cancer Australians in their 30s and 40s are facing an alarming surge in cancer diagnoses and researchers are scrambling to understand why. From bowel and breast to liver and kidney, aggressive cancers are hi...

@4corners ‘Generation Cancer’
Who else has watched this?
It’s bloody unbelievable. The statistics of cancer in young people are shocking. Terrible.
And Australia are WORLD LEADERS.
We have created a toxic world.
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New map for justice Occasionally a sentence will arrive and through its gentle, balanced clauses, through the patience of its metre, it will suggest a fresh reality. The words will not be new but their force will be. It ...

‘Australia’s response to colonisation is a story of continuous betrayal. For every promise made, there is the same one broken. PMs have cried white tears & done nothing. In its years of steady work…this commission offers a new map for justice.’

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Yoorrook’s call for action on truth The Yoorrook Justice Commission offers the Victorian government the chance to lead the country in acknowledging the truth and full history of First Nations genocide.

‘These are not allegations.They are findings; & while they echo the experiences of indigenous peoples globally, the report makes clear that what occurred in Vic. is not a vague tragedy of the past. It is an ongoing structure..’
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/indigen... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au

The sea around the UK is unusually warm, up to 3°C above average on 20 May.

Most of the North Atlantic is running hot, but It’s the kind of heat we were expecting decades from now, not this year.

A thread on how this will affect Northern Europe this Summer. 1/6 (Image: Leon Simons) #collapse

“Abbott, his Sky News after dark cronies & those few people left in the parliamentary party who still listen to him, are so tone-deaf that they are trying to pretend the weaknesses that made the Coalition unelectable are actually strengths.”
Worth a read.
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What a pig of a man.

David Littleproud got in a car and drove to Albury where Sussan Ley was attending to her dying mother?

He did this so he could harass Ley - while👏🏽her👏🏽mother👏🏽was👏🏽dying - purely and solely about the National's business?

I can't believe I know this. How vile.

People reacting to the She Matters mural in Hosier Lane, Melbourne. The mural contains the names & faces of 128 Australian women killed since Jan 1, 2024

This is the work of Sherele Moody of #FemicideWatch

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‘His relationship to truth is the same as his relationship to decency, which is the same as his relationship to competence. He was the country’s cruellest immigration minister & its least capable…Everywhere behind him is a scene of ruin.’
A serious burn 🔥
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Angus is so desperate for every vote he had to wheedle Jacinta over to the Liberal party in return for some sort of shadow ministry

A confederacy of dunces - 8.9 out of 10 on the Babet scale

Seatless fascists in glass houses should avoid throwing stones ...

Big fan of solar when he was a 'Modern Liberal' along with Dave, but now blowing with the wind.
He's a careerist without principle. Perfect Liberal Party leadership material.

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'People aren’t relating to us': Linda Reynolds unloads on Liberal Party Retiring Liberal senator Linda Reynolds labels the party's federal election campaign a "comprehensive failure", blasting it for not doing more to increase female representation.

"People aren't relating to us", complains senator who mostly relates to people by suing them

The Liberal party does not have a ‘women problem’. Men are the problem | Amy Remeikis The party’s women continue to wring their hands in their support group chats, apoplectic with rage off the record, while soothing on it

Wrote this in March last year, but could have written it anytime in the years leading up to it, and indeed, the years coming:
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Dutton underwater, foot chained to a weight holding him among placards of negative, culture war/mean-spirited things he said during the campaign. He is trying to swim to the surface, breathing out a speech/air bubble saying “I congratulated him on his win and told him his mum would have been proud of him”.

Swim to the light.
My @smh @theage cartoon.

We need @albomp.bsky.social to go the full Gough!

‘Tapping into the historical racism that began with the British invasion has proved easier for the race-baiters than even I could imagine.’
Marcia Langton’s must read article about Advance & the Liberals. Let’s hope decency prevails.

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Trump Laid Off Nearly All the Federal Workers Who Investigate Firefighter Deaths The cuts, which are part of Trump’s slashing of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, will also halt a first-of-its-kind study of the causes of thousands of firefighters’ cancer c...

When a firefighter dies on duty, a small team of federal workers is often called on to pinpoint what went wrong and identify how to avoid similar accidents.

But Trump is firing nearly all of the employees responsible for conducting those reviews.

@latingle.bsky.social One of the few journalists capable of looking beyond the blatant & joining the very consequential dots for us to consider. So informative. Meanwhile the others criss cross Australia on buses chasing the “leaders.” Set pieces. Learn little

Climate change denial... ‘This is the safe harbour of ignorance. It’s Dutton’s most concrete promise, the right not to think too hard. It is “if you don’t know, vote no”. It’s leadership as blind eye, the turned back of a man who walked out on history.’

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Sky host Laura Jayes ends up red faced after saying the LNP backed Labor’s $300 energy bill relief last year
Clare “no they didn’t…they opposed it…the fact is they voted against that rebate”
“People would have paid higher energy bills last year if Dutton was in power”💥#auspol

While it is likely the serial sycophantic nutjacks at The Australian are conceding that Dutton may well be an epic turd-tinselling fail

Paul Kelly saying the No Campaign was Dutton’s “finest call” is absolutely despicable

The No campaign was racist, divisive & punched down on vulnerable minorities

Europeans told to gather supplies for 72 hours amid 'direct' war threat With war on their doorstep, Europeans have been warned to prepare survival kits with enough essentials to last them 72 hours, and Britain's leading disaster expert says the idea has been borrowed from...

‘The woman in charge of crisis management for the European Commission, Hadja Lahbib, has advised the Europian Union's (EU) 450 million residents to pack a 72-hour survival bag, as the bloc braces for threats "more complex than ever".’

What? 😳

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#DuttonLies
#DuttonIsDesperate

The Blue Origin flight showcased the utter defeat of American feminism | Moira Donegan The trip leaned on a vision of women’s empowerment that is light on substance and heavy on a childlike, girlish silliness

A depressingly accurate description of the failure that is the United States
#HowEmbarrassment
#CheckYourLashesLaydeez
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Dutton's policy is to give people who can already afford to enter the housing market a tax payer subsidy for five years on the repayments they can already afford to make. It does not increase supply, help lower income people get a deposit, or enter the market. It's a tax break for the wealthy.

Emails coming thick and fast now from *Liberal HQ* asking me for money, with recycled Trump slogans.

Who runs this hopeless campaign?

#DuttonIsDesperate
#VoteDuttonGetTrump