Barbara Pedersen

Mark Carney addressed Australia's Parliament today. It's definitely worth watching.

Link: m.youtube.com/watch?v=8cjx...

#auspol #StrongerTogether #MarkCarney

Spain denies White House claim it agreed to cooperate with US military Spain reiterates its opposition to war on Iran despite Trump's threat of cutting off trade with the European country.

The criminal US attempts to lie about #Spain which is standing firm against the US using its bases. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/... #Iran #USFascism

Cocos Keeling Islands, Australian territory, is home to around 600 Sunni Cocos Malays.

Located midway between Australia and Sri Lanka, Cocos houses critical surveillance and electronic warfare infrastructure.

Strategic importance 🤔

#Wedontwantyourbloodywar
#USAoutnow
#Auspol

Global Instability Is Fueling Climate Risks, Singapore Warns Singapore’s government and businesses must prepare to handle accelerating risks posed by climate change, according to the country’s environment minister.

Global Instability Is Fueling Climate Risks, Singapore Warns:

- Gov and biz must prepare to handle accelerating risks

- Companies need to do more to assess risks, protect workers and infrastructure, diversify suppliers and insure against climate hazards

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Strait of Hormuz: The Oil Bottleneck Threatening the Global Economy The shipping blockage is backing up through the Middle East’s oil industry, endangering a big chunk of the world’s crude production.

“Practically, it is very difficult for any navy to escort ships through that narrow strait,” said Ellis Morley, specialist in cargo and commodities at Howden, an insurance broker. “That horseshoe shape of the Strait keeps ships in the most dangerous area for a long time.”
www.wsj.com/world/middle...

Malingering, deeply institutionalised career party apparatchiks with limited life experience, wedded to obsolete ideologies, occupy many of the seats in our federal parliament.
They do not represent us
They do not mirror us
They do not serve us
…the people of the nation
Ditch the duopoly
#auspol

Cometti's most iconic one-liners from inside the AFL commentary box As the AFL community mourns the death of one of its most iconic voices, here are some of the most memorable Dennis Cometti one-liners.

Farewell to the sonorous Dennis Cometti.

AFL matches felt mundane without his magic.

#AFL
#Likealibrarian

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

we live in interesting times 🤔

#USAfaileddemocracy
#anthropocenemadness

If Penny Wong is not up to the job, resign and get the fuck out of our parliament,this is not a fuckjng hobby.
#OurForeignMinisterIsAUselessIsrealiShill
#AlboMarlesWongUselessTraitors
#auspol

Angus Taylor is perfect for Liberals, a rump mob of political aspirants harking back to last century.

Leave them to fade out.

Support, donate and vote for Michelle Milthorpe.

Farrer deserves a federal rep who puts the community's needs before party politics.

#Communityindependents
#Auspol

Leadership 👇

Always there for his people.

#TimWalzisawesome
#USPol

France proposes financial adaptation to climate change.

How about it @albomp.bsky.social?

Instead of war and subsidies for fossil fuel exporters, let's counter inflationary pressures from climate change and fund adaptation.

Chat to Mark Carney, he can explain how.

#Climatecrisis
#Auspol

Happy birthday to two fabulous Australian women 🎉

Thank you both for all your wise words in the long good fight.

Who Could Profit From an Energy Crisis?

The article makes it clear that the ones to profit are Trump's key allies: the US fossil fuels industry and the wealthiest. They're also the ones in a position to have pushed to make this war happen.

Look at who profits, and holds real power, not what they say.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/c...

The world is being run by the worst people. Its time to put the best in power. Here that means more Independents on the crossbench, not in captured duopoly parties. Then we'll have a truly ethical opposition, instead of a rabble of right-wing blowhards. Give #Auspol a conscience. Vote Independent.

Labor needs to treat housing as a human right instead of giving bns of tax breaks to wealthy property investors. It needs to cap rent & build more public housing. It needs to scrap neg gearing & the CGT discount that only drive up house prices & rents and fuel inequality.

UN review urges Australia to address poverty, housing crises, and strengthen human rights Australia must act on UN findings highlighting major gaps in rights, poverty and housing, the AHRC warns.

Australia's housing crisis has resulted in a UN review calling for housing to be a human right. When the UN is telling a rich country like Australia to do better on housing the government needs to take a long hard look in the mirror. Surely that’s a wake-up call?

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Also used by insurance and re-insurance companies, and alert governments. 👍

Australia exports ~5,000 petajoules of gas per year.

Aussies are debating about who profits from tax free gas exports and reserving gas for domestic use.

Watch this space as prices go up.

#climatecrisis
#Austpetrostate
#WhatisthepointofLabor
#Auspol

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Australians also die from wildfire smoke but no-one's counting.

One way to reduce the forecast number of deaths from the climate disaster is to have no data.

@albomp.bsky.social we see you.

#climatecrisis
#WhatisthepointofLabor
#Auspol

'There will be other places': The catastrophe stalking Swiss Alps towns The Swiss Alps are a natural wonder and a key part of the national identity, but life in the mountains is under threat from climate change.

Isn't this just indicative of a far greater problem our planet is facing??

#auspol

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

So far we’ve heard 12 different primary reasons for the war, 7 different main objectives, and 5 different exit strategies.

Just your humble correspondent, in the produce aisle, pushing the cart and fighting back tears to the tune of Duran Duran’s Ordinary World (1993)

Southern hemisphere sees repeat incursions of moist tropical air bringing record rainfall to inland and SE Australia.

🤷 maybe lag in inter-tropical convergence zone moving back north, who knows?

Anomalous anomalies abounding.

#Climatecrisis
#Ourbeautifulblueplanet

Sweltering Cities Visit the post for more.

Fantastic to see you here 🙏

Can we please have some data? Sweltering Cities (Aust) asked me for data on heatwave temps when health impacts kick in. 🤷

All I "know" (no data) is that morbidity kicks up when nights are over 26C...

#We'reallinthistogether
#Climatecrisis

swelteringcities.org

End Australia's complicity with the foul illegal wars of the US and #Israel. greens.org.au/news/media-r... #auspol #USBasesOut

🚨 The death toll at the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ primary school in Minab has risen to 148 dead and 95 wounded, Iranian state media reported.

Most of those killed were between the ages of 7 and 12.

Video via Mehr News Agency (X: @MehrnewsCom)

COUNTRIES ATTACKED BY BOMBING, SABOTAGE OR ATTEMPTED GOVERNMENT OVERTHROW SINCE WORLD WAR Iran - none USA - China 1945-46 Syria 1949 Korea 1950-53 China 1950-53 Iran 1953 Guatemala 1954 Tibet 1955-70s Indonesia 1958 Cuba 1959 Democratic Republic of the Congo 1960-65 Iraq 1960-63 Dominican Republic 1961 Vietnam 1961-73 Brazil 1964 Belgian Congo 1964 Guatemala 1964 Laos 1964-73 Dominican Republic 1965-66 Peru 1965 Greece 1967 Guatemala 1967-69 Cambodia 1969-70 Chile 1970-73 Argentina 1976 Turkey 1980 Poland 1980-81 El Salvador 1981-92 Nicaragua 1981-1990 Cambodia 1980-95 Angola 1980 Lebanon 1982-84 Grenada 1983-84 Philippines 1986 Libya 1986 Iran 1987-88 Libya 1989 Panama 1989-90 Irag 1991 Kuwait 1991 Somalia 1992-94 Irag 1992-1996 Bosnia 1995 Iran 1998 Sudan 1998 Afghanistan 1998 Yugoslavia - Serbia 1999 Afghanistan 2001 Traq 2002-3 Somalia 2006-2007 Iran 2005-present Libya 2011

Posted without comment, other than... FFS!

They always have trillions of dollars for illegal wars in the Mideast, but SCOFF in your face and clutch their pearls when you ask for universal healthcare. You are all being played.

The ALP are over.
Peace is union business.
@australianunions.bsky.social need to separate from the ALP and use rank and file to support worker, climate and peace focused candidates.