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Donald Trump’s war on statistics is an authoritarian attack on democracy and countries like Australia should call it out | Greg Jericho Reality might be hanging on to the political debate for dear life, but this move threatens to fling it off the cliff

@grogsgamut.bsky.social Donald Trump’s war on statistics is an authoritarian attack on democracy and countries like Australia should call it out

Yeah. I knew that and this Australian agrees.

@albomp.bsky.social @australianlabor.bsky.social

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‘No clear explanation’: businesses reliant on Meta struggle in the wake of wrongful suspensions Bans aren’t new, but since July many Meta users have reported accounts being suspended erroneously for breaching community standards

‘No clear explanation’: businesses reliant on Meta struggle in the wake of wrongful suspensions

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‘I must document everything’: the film about the Palestinian photographer killed by missiles in Gaza Fatma Hassouna used poetry and photography to record the death and devastation she saw daily. Was she targeted by the IDF? We speak to the director of Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk, a film about...

‘I must document everything’: the film about the Palestinian photographer killed by missiles in Gaza

www.theguardian.com/film/2025/au...

WA Museum extends marine research collaboration with Woodside Energy | Western Australian Museum A long-standing research collaboration to understand and conserve Western Australia’s marine biodiversity has been extended for a further five years to enable marine research to continue in areas of e...

The @wamuseum.bsky.social will need to work hard to catalogue marine species/ecosystems before the emissions created by their sponsors drives most of them to extinction. Australia is 3rd largest global exporter of emissions.

#greenwashing #woodside #GHG #emissions

"In fact, high school dropouts are preferred".

These jobs will thrive – but others may vanish – as AI transforms Australia’s workforce AI could put a rocket under Australia’s economy, but there’s no guarantee this growth will include everyone.

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Tjanpi Desert Weavers at 30: how 400 Indigenous women in remote Australia took the art world by storm The First Nations-run social enterprise initially made traditional baskets before expanding into contemporary and sculptural works now exhibited around the world It was about seven years ago, in the remote Northern Territory community of Imanpa, that Pitjantjatjara artist Julie Anderson first tried her hand at the art of tjanpi (wild harvested grass) weaving. “My aunty taught me how to do it at her place,” she says. “I didn’t like it at first but she said, ‘Give it a go!’ Once I started and learned the steps, I liked it, and now I do it all the time.” Continue reading...

Tjanpi Desert Weavers at 30: how 400 Indigenous women in remote Australia took the art world by storm

How many of Australia’s 2.2 million property investors would lose out under a new plan to curb negative gearing?

The new proposal to phase out tax breaks on more than one investment property would affect around 1% of Australians.

Whatever happens in Tasmania the community knows Lib and Lab are more closely aligned than either of them with the crossbench. Both support stadium, pokies, logging, fish farms,Marinus and will vote together to defy the crossbench. Time they formed a Grand Coalition and x bench becomes Opposition.

Hold on to your hats - bumpy road ahead.
With Jeremy Rockliff facing down the next Parliament by daring it to challenge the Liberals’ right to sit on the Treasury benches and Labor’s Dean Winter threatening an immediate no confidence vote in less than two weeks’ time when the new Parliament 1/2

How China's clean energy is changing the world China's clean-energy exports cut emissions worldwide, more record-breaking heat and floods, and a Saving Us action story

Every week, I share stories that reflect where we are, what’s at stake, and how we're already able to shape a better future. Here's this week’s!

Ghislaine Maxwell in minimum security. Uncharged immigrants in cages.

When they tell you who they are, listen.

They really are going to “finish the job”, aren’t they.

Arts and media groups demand Labor take a stand against ‘rampant theft’ of Australian content to train AI Productivity Commission report raises possible exemption for ‘text and data mining’ and expanding fair dealing rules, prompting fierce pushback

The Productivity Commission seems incapable of acknowledging that citizens in the creative industries have a moral RIGHT by law to protect our work from being stolen by AI or any other bastards. Advice to govt to take it away so billionaires can steal it is shite.
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Huge American-style utes are damaging our roads, reducing safety, and increasing emissions.

“In Europe they’re introducing measures to discourage people from driving these big utes...

"In Australia we’ve got subsidies for them.”

@richarddenniss.bsky.social, Executive Director

#auspol

Pay to protest? The NSW bill that would put a dollar value on democracy NSW Shadow Attorney‑General Alister Henskens has introduced a bill that would restrict groups from holding more than three protests without being charged.

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A wasteland of rubble, dust and graves: how Gaza looks from the sky The Guardian joins a Jordanian military airdrop for a rare chance to observe a landscape devastated by Israel’s offensive

Everyone needs to see this.

The home of 2 million people turned to dust.

While the world looks away. Or cheers on.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Here I am talking about how the PBAS system would lead to tragedy - 2 years ago www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCAi...

You can lead a horse to water…

Did the government learn nothing from the robodebt scandal? Sending welfare recipients into the technological labyrinth that is automated mutual requirements is a terrible idea. Transparency is...

And in the Canberra Times in 2021, talking about how the new mutual obligations framework would lead to ppl being unlawfully cut off from welfare payments www.canberratimes.com.au/story/740676...

A giant insect that looks like a stick! What is not to love? | First Dog on the Moon Even more amazing – it is not even Australia’s longest stick insect!

Stick insects! Everyone loves stick insects. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

‘Double standards': Confidential DFAT documents warn inaction on Gaza will cost Australia credibility 'Allowing the crisis in Gaza to deepen with apparent impunity undermines our messaging about the rule of law — our adversaries use this to accuse us of double standards.'

Also, the FOI docs show DFAT recommended in June that the govt not give a direct answer to the question: “Do the US strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites breach international law?”

The suggested response, if “pressed” to answer, was: “Not here to provide legal analysis.” www.crikey.com.au/2025/08/06/d...

You can browse the complete draft map here:
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I’d love your feedback – there’s still time to fix errors and improve the map’s readability. Just reply here or by DM.
(Yes, I know I’ll have to do a transition-state map too, I’ll worry about that later).
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Thumbnail of draft revised Melbourne Train and Tram map.

Melbourne Metro Tunnel opens in a few months, so I’ve been updating my Melbourne Train and Tram map to reflect the network changes it will usher in.

My map is now in its 30th year, and Metro Tunnel introduces the biggest changes I've made to this map.

Let’s look at the changes (1 of 10).

Awesome - hopefully you’ll help more people to get them. (rental properties, more homes and businesses). More Solar covers over car parks etc.

Do you think we should make solar panels in Australia? 

Well the Government does! 

Big news today. Australia's only solar panel manufacturer Tindo Solar, in Adelaide is going to increase production 9 fold.

Ooof this does not bode well for Jacinta Price’s defence for her upcoming defamation case

The sole defence she’s relying on, qualified privilege, is generally quite difficult to prove 😬

(A number of politician defendants have pleaded this defence & lost, most recently John Pesutto)

Young people deserve representation in the parliament. What is the point of this fkn article other than to shame someone for not being born in the 1970s? Shock horror - 20-somethings are among us and sometimes they are in the parliament.

'Government agencies unlawfully cancelled payments for 964 individuals, and jobseekers continued to receive automated cancellations even after the system was supposed to be paused'

Photo of Richard Marles, Anthony Albanese and Penny Wong NEW EPISODE | Australians march for Palestine as Trump shoots the messenger Listen to the crossover special of Follow the Money and After America now via the link or wherever you get your podcasts.

Pressure for change is building on Australian foreign policy, but will the Government respond?

@emmashortis.bsky.social & @glennconnley.bsky.social discuss the protests calling for more action to protect Palestinians & the momentum against the troubled AUKUS pact. #auspol

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