@lynestel
ex Psychologist. Not renewing my registration to practice. It’s called retirement.Angst re climate change the planet. Social justice human rights .Palestine. War is the dumbest macho form of communication. tweets @Lynestell
Well I have been suspended from X. No real info. Suddenly listed as 0 followers 0 following from over 5000 So released from its sewer
Robodebt was the great test of Australia’s accountability mechanisms – and they failed
This is such a disingenuous process and despicable outcome
Imagine a world without rainforests: disrupted rainfall, lost species, runaway climate change. The Congo Basin absorbs 600M tons CO₂/year; Amazon stores 150-200B tons. We're custodians, not owners. Protect them today for the air our kids breathe tomorrow. 🌳🚫 #SaveTheLungs
Look at the decisions trump makes and the stuff he does and the way he talks. Then think about how half the government is working tirelessly to impress them and half of who’s remaining are appeasing him out of political expediency. Actually don’t. That sucks to do. lol
“'The administration thoughtlessly terminated people with crisis experience, and now they’re left without depth in the bench in the middle of a wide scale and broadening crisis,' said a former official with more than a decade experience in evacuation operations..."
www.cnn.com/2026/03/10/p...
JK ? He never mentioned it all ????
Trying to ban "from the river to the sea" is almost identical to trying to ban "Always was, always will be"
Imagine a political party trying to do the latter - they'd be rightfully driven like a tent peg.
Caving in to a foreign influence operation because it's easy is pathetic.
That’s more than half the annual budget of the National Science Foundation.
Electricity bills to fall in state where renewables make up nearly half of generation mix reneweconomy.com.au/electricity-...
The Albanese Government has still said nothing. Thousands of Lebanese-Australians, not a peep from their government. Seems Labor cannot see the victims when they are killed by Israeli and US bombs.
The president is handing out oversized clown shoes to his cabinet — and watching to see who refuses to wear them.
It's Solzhenitsyn's Stalin story come to life: the first person to stop applauding ended up in the gulag. The lesson then, as now — never be the first to stop clapping.
Robodebt victim Felicity de Somerville labels the NACC finding “grossly disappointing” www.canberratimes.com.au/story/919615...
Another word you might use for it is "looting".
"This appears to be the first administration to take such widespread advantage of taxpayer-funded military housing to accommodate political appointees who do not have a direct connection to the military..."
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/u...
The country's prime minister urges resilience, says government committed to ensuring people's lives are not disrupted.
“We also have a situation where ministers are able to evade responsibility for these policy choices. This is because they have plausible deniability. They can simply use the phrase: “I was not advised””
Which climate policies actually make a difference? Our new analysis has the answer
theconversation.com/which-climat...
‘“It just seems so insane,” said Mr. Rogan, who endorsed Mr. Trump in 2024 & said he still texted with him on occasion. “He ran on no more wars: End these stupid, senseless wars. And then we have one that we can’t even really clearly define why we did it.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/u...
- Younger than 50
- Lives in a book filled cottage on the edge of a forest
- Keep my nose out of village mysteries (which usually involve property damage or thefts posted about on Facebook)
- has a very odd - but very much alive - cat
The two shipwrecked survivors of a Trump-Hegseth attack on a suspected drug-running boat who were then killed in a double-tap strike were murdered. So were the other 85 victims of the 22 attacks. Congress should be scrutinizing them all. I explain in the Guardian: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Regardless of whether Israel calls it a "settlement" or an "outpost," it is still illegal. Israel violates Art. 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention by transferring its population to occupied territory. These are all war crimes designed to block a Palestinian state, as I explain on Al Jazeera.
My friend and colleague Sari Bashi's memoir launches today - it's a heartfelt story of an impossible Israeli-Palestinian love that triumphed, against the odds and against Israeli law. I was moved by it, and I hope you'll check it out: ummforat.com/en/buy-upsid...
Censorship to defend Israel is the WRONG response to the horrible Bondi Beach massacre. Australia keeps getting it wrong, first with the disinvitation of a Palestinian writer from the Adelaide Festival, now with the over-the-top hate-speech law. I explain: www.deepcutnews.com/p/censorship...
I joined India's NewsX World to discuss the hypocrisy of Western nations in closing their eyes to serious abuses by Israel, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Turkey -- and even India. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIkO...
To understand whether recent war-time attacks on civilians spell the end of international humanitarian law, examine the reaction. It has been weaker than it should be but still considerable, meaning it is premature to pronounce the law dead. I explain: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
On book tour in New Zealand, I joined TVNZ's Q&A to discuss the defense of human rights in this hostile era. We address Israel-Gaza, China, Iran, Russia-Ukraine, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Hungary, and more. www.1news.co.nz/2026/02/22/n...
While some in the West are willing to forsake democracy for the far right, large numbers of people in the global South who live under autocracies repeatedly take to the streets to show they want democracy. This is no time for fatalistic despair. I explain: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
