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Sadly our current government is pro-fossill fuel & anti-environment.
The current Minister for environment does not GAF about extinctions

Great Barrier Reef suffers biggest annual drop in live coral since 1980s after devastating coral bleaching Researchers warn reef may reach tipping point where coral cannot recover fast enough between major catastrophic events

Well done, Labor
Good job

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This risk is real but Israel has been engaging in illegal settlement expansion in the West Bank, with the explicit purpose of rendering a two-state solution impossible, for many years so it's disingenuous to pretend it's a new thing we've only just learned.

The political fringes dominate social media. How is your MP doing? From hardboiling eggs in the microwave to dancing in the halls of Parliament, federal politicians are pushing hard to get your likes. We track their success.

😂 I don't use any of the social media platforms included

Anyone else, or am I a outlier?

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"The Hebrew Hammer": inside the Gold Coast's antisemitism junket - Michael West US-based "Combat Antisemitism Movement" and Jillian Segal are hosting an all-expenses-paid conference for Australian mayors and councillors.

US-based “Combat Antisemitism Movement” and Jillian Segal host an all-expenses-paid conference for Australian mayors and councillors. @wendybacon1.bsky.social @yaakov-aharon.bsky.social investigate.
#auspol
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I can live with that

I relocated to Rockhampton about a year ago.
The early morning ride gives me a view across savannah.
Its stunning.

To Julian Leeser I say: not recognising the state of Palestine will reward the Israeli government for genocide.

See? It works both ways.

A good start … #auspol

I hear that from many voters.
Progressive society has shifted goal posts in the political spectrum
@australianlabor.bsky.social has not so much drifted to the right, but failed to recognise a shift in social norms.
They are stuck in the late 2000's

Chris Minns has presented himself as anti-protest and captured by conservative talkback radio.

Presents as far right. One wonders why he is in Labor?

Last resort: when the only option left amid Australia’s housing crisis is a motel A lack of stable long-term housing is pushing more desperate families into emergency accommodation

Every time the Albanese govt presents a housing policy that favours property investment & stereo-typed first home buyers as trickling down to help people like this, I get angry.

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**once stated**
It was not in the article posted.

Sydney’s huge Gaza protest shows there’s now no stopping the tide of public opinion | Sarah Malik The Harbour Bridge march felt different. The whole city turned up, not just students and activists but grandmothers and parents with prams. I felt like I was in the majority

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It provides a perfect policy example of Albanese's stubborness on some issues.
Use the UK failure to walk the policy back.
But he won't- laser-focussed on capturing the conservative family vote 🙄

‘It’ll be carnage’: why Sydney Sweeney’s risky political moment may backfire Hollywood star’s ‘more is best’ attitude to commercial tie-ins is one thing, but politics and celebrity rarely mix well

Anecdote: I had no idea who Sweeney was until a friend's father 65+ father was an extra on one of her films 😂
On being critiqued for her over-promotion, she stated she did it because she did not earn enough.
I wondered at the time who was curating her brand?

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UK’s Royal Ballet and Opera withdraws Tosca production in Tel Aviv Show scheduled for next year pulled after 182 members of UK company sign letter criticising RBO’s stance on Gaza

This is significant.

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Skips are your best friend.

Hi everyone, after the success of the City To Casino stroll, I was kicking around the idea of running the Point To Pinnacle because I needed a goal to keep me feeling ok. Unfortunately, my glioblastoma kicked off in a new spot and made that unfeasible. However, while my running days are over

Here's what's threatened.

Be kind to yourself.
The cleaning out part is crap

Nature positive! Yeah, nah.

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‘No more extinctions’: Labor’s wildlife pledge raises funding questions The government has launched a new action plan to halt Australia’s extinction crisis but experts say they’ll need to spend a lot more money to achieve it.

"No new extinctions", yeah, going well.

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Labor are anti-environment, pro-fossil fuel

Crikey article headline Never mind company tax — reform proposal reveals Australia’s real inflation cause A big rise in large corporations raking in profits by abusing their market power is impacting inflation, as shown by modelling buried in the Productivity Commission’s tax reform proposal.

Back in 2023, quite a few self-aggrandising economist types, desperate to get attention from the AFR, plus the RBA & Treasury tried to tell @australiainstitute.org.au that our work showing rising excess profits were causing inflation was wrong.

Last week, the Productivity Commission ...

I see Minns is doing a Berejiklian- refusing to admit they fucked up

He's committed to his hole, at least

Shhhh...dont tell everyone

Labor have do far shown no apetite for any reform where the "losers" are the wealthy.
I doubt that will change

The huge Harbour Bridge march shows people have had a gutful of seeing starving children in Gaza. Politicians need to catch up | Anne Davies There was a palpable sense of anger towards Chris Minns and, to a lesser extent, Anthony Albanese

Chris Minns has shown himself right-right-of-centre many times.
His political appeal is coded white, male, status-quo, neo-liberal.

His instinct is to defend that.
Like many in Labor, his political style is 1990's

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