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Sandie Elsom

@sandcrabby.bsky.social

Educator, researcher and creative tinkerer | Exploring AI with curiosity and caution | Novice gardener | cat person | Gubbi Gubbi country

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Greens hammered by legacy media spin on Gaza Voters weren't sick of hearing about Gaza β€”Β legacy media journalists seem tired of talking about it.

Voters weren't sick of hearing about Gaza β€” legacy media journalists seem tired of talking about it.
~ Tom Tanuki @tomtanuki.bsky.social

Greens hammered by legacy media spin on Gaza
independentaustralia.net/politics/pol...

16.05.2025 22:05 β€” πŸ‘ 94    πŸ” 55    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 3

Overall Greens vote pretty much steady, and way up over 2013-2019. The Greens are in a tough spot, on a knife edge, where small swings for or against them make or break whether they win some seats. #auspol

07.05.2025 23:15 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Dutton shakes hands with Scott Morrison with Tony Abbott looking on approvingly. #auspol

Dutton shakes hands with Scott Morrison with Tony Abbott looking on approvingly. #auspol

Let's make this the image everyone sees from the Lib Launch. #auspol #election2025 #ausvotes

13.04.2025 10:18 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Vote Compass Australia 2025 - Australia Votes - ABC News See how your views align with Australian parties using Vote Compass. Use the Vote Compass website and make an informed choice in the 2025 Federal Election.

Wake up babe, new Vote Compass just dropped. www.abc.net.au/news/vote-co...

11.04.2025 16:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

i miss discourse that didn’t involve the collapse of the government

03.04.2025 04:48 β€” πŸ‘ 3609    πŸ” 295    πŸ’¬ 52    πŸ“Œ 8
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Enrol to vote How to enrol to vote

"Australia’s electoral roll is already sitting at an incredible 97.8% of eligible voters enrolled, but we know the announcement of an election will be an incentive for new voters in particular to get enrolled." - Jeff Pope, Electoral Commissioner.

Aussies ALL vote.

www.aec.gov.au/enrol/

#auspol

28.03.2025 04:45 β€” πŸ‘ 48    πŸ” 26    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 6
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Australian voters live in stark reality: struggling to put food on the table as so-called β€˜business leaders’ pay up to $110,000 for access to senior politicians in the major parties.

19.02.2025 22:49 β€” πŸ‘ 31    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

People in Queensland are skipping seeing the GP due to soaring costs.

Only 13.9% of Queensland doctors bulk bill, down from 17.9% the year before.

Peter Dutton was crowned our worst health minister in 35 years and GP’s have gotten more expensive under Labor.

Healthcare is not a luxury.

22.02.2025 05:45 β€” πŸ‘ 37    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0

This move undermines democracy in Australia. The Greens support the bills transparency measures but want to ensure funding reforms don’t entrench the two-party system. We need real electoral reform, not a stitch-up.

06.02.2025 00:45 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It looks like the major parties may just stitch us up and strike a deal on electoral reform. Today, Labor and the LNP buddied up again to vote against the Greens and the crossbench to block an inquiry on the most consequential changes to our democracy in decades.

06.02.2025 00:45 β€” πŸ‘ 25    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

Diversity is a fact: All kinds of people exist.

Equity is a goal: All kinds of people deserve a chance at success.

Inclusion is how we get to equity. By including them, they can achieve success.

It's that simple.

08.02.2025 04:19 β€” πŸ‘ 7222    πŸ” 2039    πŸ’¬ 210    πŸ“Œ 122
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Unfortunately for the climate, the major parties have decided to say Good Luck Babe, and take the fossil fuel $$ instead πŸ”₯πŸ’°

03.02.2025 04:40 β€” πŸ‘ 46    πŸ” 25    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 3
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Shadow.
My @smh @theage cartoon.

16.12.2024 20:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1205    πŸ” 482    πŸ’¬ 73    πŸ“Œ 29

Oh my days, this is lovely! What would your birthday song be? I'm going to have to think πŸŽΆπŸŽ΅πŸŽ‚

16.12.2024 11:02 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Before you judge a disabled person for the way they’re coping with the messiness of life …consider the sickest you ever were. Maybe it was a flu or an infection thst required surgery

Try and remember the pain, fatigue & crushing monotony of it

Now imagine knowing it would never end. Then be kinder

16.12.2024 08:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1309    πŸ” 350    πŸ’¬ 32    πŸ“Œ 14

In my family, we choose our own birthday song, usually a song from your birth year. We all sing their birthday song to them at their birthday party. We started this tradition in response to the awfulness of the Happy Birthday song. My birthday song is Sitting on the Dock of the Bay.

16.12.2024 11:00 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

I love that feeling of getting something out of the dishwasher, and it’s done a really good job so the glass is super-clean. So satisfying.

08.12.2024 10:43 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A child at 10:
Β· Loses 4 baby teeth a year
Β· Knows the complete date
Β· Can name the months of the yr in order
Β·Can read & understand a paragraph of complex sentences
Β·Has developed skills in addition, subtraction
Β·Has some skills in multiplying & division,
And, in Aust, can go to prison
#RaiseTheAge

26.11.2024 10:06 β€” πŸ‘ 609    πŸ” 261    πŸ’¬ 28    πŸ“Œ 11
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Gaming the system | 23 | Choosing to play the infinite game in academi This chapter considers the many challenges and choices academics face in neoliberal workplaces. It highlights the authors’ individual and collective experiences

Looking forward to interacting with the #EduSky crowd. By way of introduction, here's my favourite thing I've written recently.

26.11.2024 04:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Hopefully not too rushed given I've got a Year 11 English exam tomorrow - but behalf of all of @6newsau.bsky.social, I have made a submission to the relevant Committee regarding the social media ban for under-16s

There's less than 24hrs to make a submission: aph.gov.au/Parliamentar...

21.11.2024 11:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1116    πŸ” 336    πŸ’¬ 83    πŸ“Œ 24
Lynn is a white woman with glasses and a shaved headSmiling softly while holding a small gray cat. There is an intricate quilt behind her.

Lynn is a white woman with glasses and a shaved headSmiling softly while holding a small gray cat. There is an intricate quilt behind her.

Hi Bluesky! πŸ‘‹
I’m Lynn (CursingWhileCrafting). I’m a disabled artist, spending most of my time sewing. I enjoy the hand quilting method English Paper Piecing most of all! I’d love to get to know more disabled and/or crafty folks.
Here I am with my new kitten, and a quilt I made last year.

18.11.2024 15:38 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

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