Vote Compass returns for the election. Here's what it can, and can't, tell you You can cut through some of the election noise with Vote Compass.

Vote Compass!!
A federal election can be a frenetic time, where politicians crisscross the country pitching money and policies.

You can cut through some of the election noise with Vote Compass, which returns for the 2025 federal election.

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We need to tax gas companies properly so the Australian people get a fair share of our resources.

Beer, spirits, and tobacco tax all raise more revenue than the Petroleum Resources Rent Tax.

#auspol #Budget25

Dramatic footage shows logging inside proposed koala park The Minns government’s key environmental promise was the Great Koala National Park. Two years after the election, government loggers are still cutting down trees in the area.

Last year, our research uncovered that logging was still happening in the promised Great Koala National Park in NSW.

Now, two years after the election of the Minns government, footage show state government loggers STILL felling koala-feed trees inside the boundaries of the Park.

Painting featuring a black cat to the right behind a row of irises in shades of pink and purple with long green stems and leaves

Scottish artist Elizabeth Blackadder (1931-2021) #WomensArt

Happy International Women's Day!
#HowDoYouLibrary

Listen to your children read. Read to your children. Read alongside your children. Take them to libraries. Talk about what reading means to you & what it can unlock.
Tell them it doesn’t matter if it’s comics, magazines or books as long as they’re engaged with the written word. #WorldBookDay

Give you one guess

Oi! If you have a library nearby, and you don't use it, start using it!

The bottom 90% have got just 7% of economic growth from 2009 to 2019. The top 10% got 93%.

Our research shows inequality has been supercharged in the last 20 years, and it will only get worse unless we fix it.

A super profits tax is a good start, and cracking down on tax rorts. #auspol

Facebook blocked Cyclone Alfred searches ahead of landfall and hasn't explained why Despite hundreds of thousands of accounts talking about Cyclone Alfred on Facebook, social media giant Meta was blocking or hiding search results about the impending storm before being contacted by AB...

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“We have political leaders who insist that mining & forestry underwrite Australian prosperity. Those who believe this nonsense cannot be trusted with the wellbeing of future generations.”

“Mining & native forest logging industries, collectively, employ only ~2% of the labour force."

– Ken Henry

Canadian residents are racing to save the data in Trump's crosshairs | CBC News As U.S. President Donald Trump's administration removes access to government websites and databases with critical medical and environmental data used around the world, some Canadian residents are play...

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I library, for me and my kids; so we can all borrow our books and have an evening reading together and eating chocolate 🥰
#HowDoYouLibrary

"If protest didn't work, they wouldn't try to ban it."

"If information weren't so valuable, they wouldn't try to hide it."

"Don't think for a minute you don't have power."

"Don't think for a minute you can't make change."

@richarddenniss.bsky.social wraps up the #ClimateIntegrity Summit.

"Norway and Qatar get a huge amount of revenue from their gas. We get an absolute pittance."

"If you paid any income tax over the last decade, you've paid more income tax than all the big gas export producers exporting gas out of QLD have paid in company tax."

@markogge.bsky.social #auspol

We all library differently.
There are so many amazing things our public libraries provide.
I library by taking my daughter's to the library and hanging in the children's section, playing games, doing craft, and choosing books.
Then I head to pick out my own downtime fantasy read.

An advertisement for the polio vaccine which reads: "they all got vaccine except dad...don't take a chance...take your polio shots!" It depicts a photo of a family gathered around a father who is in an iron lung.

With science falling under increasing attack, this medical historian is here to remind people of the power of #vaccines. THREAD🧵

Hard-hitting polio advert from 1958. In the first half of the 20th century, polio was the leading cause of death in children and young adults. 1/7

In Australia, it's legal to lie in a political ad.

In the next few months, we will endure another federal election campaign with unfiltered exposure to lies and disinformation, UNLESS the Government passes truth in political advertising laws, which 87% of Australians support.

Let's get it done!

We don't need nuclear power - the path to cheaper electricity is renewables The last thing Australia energy market needs is nuclear power. The data is clear - more renewables will lead to cheaper electricity.

Saying it again. Nuclear is the most expensive form of energy we could have. Those pushing the conversation on it, are using it to distract from the rollout of the cheapest, cleanest energy form: renewables. #auspol

BOM forecasting shows four potential cyclones could form off Australia The Bureau of Meteorology is forecasting multiple cyclones could form across northern Australia by the end of the week, as tropical lows linger off the coast of north Queensland, in the Gulf of Carper...

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Remote outback stations go solar to protect food As the wet season approaches, two outback stations that usually face failing fridges and whopping power bills have installed solar power to save food and money.

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Memories fade. Archives burn. All signal becomes noise But where are the comprehensive archives to protect digital works, or allow us to memorialize friends?

📢👇 from @mpesce.arvr.social.ap.brid.gy
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Australia’s Gun Ownership Scorecard: A Growing Problem in Need of Reform New findings released today reveal alarming trends in firearm ownership across Australia, showing that the number of guns in private hands has

New research reveals alarming trends in firearm ownership across Australia, showing that the number of guns in private hands has grown significantly since the Port Arthur massacre, and regulation across states and territories is failing to keep pace with community expectations.

🔴 MEDIA RELEASE:

WA's gas and electricity prices have TRIPLED since 2020, after the WA Gov let Woodside export domestic gas reserves.

Now Woodside want a 50 year extension for their North West Shelf export terminal.

If it's approved, it will lock in higher prices for DECADES.

#auspol @markogge.bsky.social

Banking regulator rescinds more than 200 job offers for examiners it needs A government-wide hiring freeze is adding to a staffing shortage at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., complicating the agency’s efforts to oversee thousands of banks across the country.

do you enjoy knowing that when you deposit money in a US bank, you won't lose that money? nice, right?

it's because bank deposits are insured by FDIC.

i don't know what FDIC ever did to these people, but apparently it too is now on their blow-it-up list:

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Google says it will change Gulf of Mexico to 'Gulf of America' in Maps after government updates In posts on X on Monday, Google said it will follow the government's lead in changing the names on its Maps app.

Oh FFS www.cnbc.com/2025/01/27/g...

TikTok took it down, so let’s share the shit out of this reading list. #HolocaustRemembranceDay #NeverAgainIsNow #BookSky
#StateMediaCensorship

Dutton is unlikely to read from Trump's playbook as the election nears The cameo role US president Donald Trump may play in our imminent election campaign is the wildcard no-one can predict — and it is making political hardheads nervous.

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Hey peeps, congruent with my interests, you, too, can fill out "The Great Viking Survey" (done by a Norwegian institution so this is legit). Basically they are trying to figure out the balance of facts vs misconceptions people have based on modern media portrayals

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This is a thread about book banning. Right now, today, books are being pulled from shelves in libraries and classrooms, some by direct order, some in fear of what's coming. This is *exactly* what Project 2025 said was going to happen. Make no mistake: this is not about books; it's about people. 1/8