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✍️ PETITION: Australia Needs a National Firearms Register Our research has revealed there are now more licenced firearms in Australia than before the 1996 Port Arthur massacre. ✍️ Add your name to call on the Federal Government to urgently establish a Nation...

Sign the petition calling for a National Firearms Register – a reform first pledged in 1996 that is critical to preventing future tragedies in Australia.

nb.australiainstitute.org.au/australia_ne...

"The Australian public thinks the gas industry should be paying for the gas they export."

"If this Government wants to have more money for schools, more money for hospitals...there's a simple tax reform opportunity here."

📺 Executive Director Richard Denniss
@richarddenniss.bsky.social
#auspol

"The Australian Government gets more money from HECS payments, than from the PRRT..."

Very funny!

Every election. Every western country. Same narrative from the right. And somehow* this shit still gets them over the line.

*Depressingly low levels of public media literacy, and a complicit commentariat, bound by their employment contracts to billionaire oligarchs...

Hi @support.bsky.team

This is a fantastic content creator & very well trusted source for Australian users. He contributes a great deal to BlueSky

His account was hacked many weeks ago (@strangerous.bsky.social)

So far he's still waiting to get any info from you

(please repost & tag Support)

Reported. Hope you are ok Emma.

Question for AUSTRALIANS and NEW ZEALANDERS only:

Would you travel to the United States while DJT is president, if you have the inclination or opportunity?

Please reply to this post with your answer and we’ll tally the results and post them.

And please like and re-post for greater poll reach.

No

NuclearPlume.au - Mapping the Fukushima radiation plume in aus The seven sites on this map have been selected by the federal Coalition to house multiple nuclear power reactors.

Almost 200,000 Australians would be at risk of a nuclear accident if Peter Dutton’s proposed nuclear scheme goes ahead, according to new research. See the maps here: nuclearplume.au

This is Ali France. Labor's candidate in Dutton's seat.

She's out and about with Steven Miles ensuring the electorate she wants to represent is safe during Cyclone Albert.

Dutton meanwhile is busy wining and dining billionaires at Justin Hemmes' mansion.

Share this widely. #auspol #qldpol

✍️ SIGN: Demand the gas industry pays its fair share. Fix the PRRT! The government collects more money from HECS than it does from the PRRT. Australians are missing out on important revenue for public services while gas companies make record profits. We need to inc...

I just signed @australiainstitute.org.au's petition: Demand the gas industry pays its fair share. Fix the PRRT! Will you join me? nb.australiainstitute.org.au/increase_the...

Per @chrisdjackson.bsky.social on another platform:

“It took me 30 seconds to find at least ten postings from Zelensky directly thanking the United States for their support. There are many more.

This is pure BS.”

Good to have, Geoffrey Robertson KC weigh in on this one ... as I have been thinking too.

www.smh.com.au/world/europe...

This is so good.

I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers | Rebecca Shaw Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg’s desperation to be cool as they suck up to Donald Trump is so cringe it makes my skin crawl

“I have been prepared for evil, for greed, for cruelty, for injustice – but I did not anticipate that the people in power would also be such huge losers.”

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The censorship algorithm on Twitter reduced our audience by roughly 95%, and seriously, who does that to a wildlife biology & advocacy group ?
So we moved 😇 over here to BlueSky

If you could, please help us regain our following
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Together we can change the world.

Jeff Bezos never wanted this cartoon to become public.

He killed it, and as a result, pulitzer prize editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes quit.

Make sure everyone sees this cartoon.

Something to keep in mind for 2025

Written by James Miller of A Small Fiction

“Coal companies & politicians keep telling us that coal royalties are huge, & that they fund schools, hospitals, & regional communities all across the state. This report shows that these claims simply aren’t true.” - @rodcampbell.bsky.social

Read: australiainstitute.org.au/post/coal-ro... #auspol

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