Natasha In Oz

Whales go to Antarctica to get fat. Humans are taking their food First it was Whale Wars, now it’s krill wars. The groups that took on Japanese whaling in Antarctica now have a new industry in their sights.

Every year there are new and bigger fishing vessels sucking up Antarctic #krill – the addition of a new Chinese super-trawler this year brought the total fleet to 15 – and better technology to locate the krill swarms. www.theage.com.au/environment/...

Today on #IWD I’m thinking of how a woman is murdered every 5 days by male violence. Of First Nations women being imprisoned at 25 times the rate. Of women seeking asylum in Australia being forced in poverty & homelessness.

‘Let me hook you up’: $100m probe no hurdle for disgraced security high-flyer As politicians line up to blast Coles over its use of Micky Ahuja’s security company, a sting operation has caught the disgraced company boss thumbing his nose at the Australian authorities.

An investigation details Ahuja’s firm’s ties to a bikie gang involved in an @albomp.bsky.social government-funded security contract and his serial sexual harassment of female employees. #AusPol www.theage.com.au/national/vic...

‘Alley cat morals’: Coles sprayed over $50m contract that exploited workers The supermarket giant has been accused of signing up for the “comprehensive abuse” of the nation’s industrial relations and tax systems.

#AusPol More disgusting behaviour from #Coles who supported the systemic exploitation and underpayment of supermarket security guards across Australia, turning a blind eye to glaring indicators that its major contractor was a #corrupt tax dodger. www.theage.com.au/national/all...

a man in a suit and tie is making a classy gesture . Alt: a man in a suit and tie is making a classy gesture .

Nice touch from the Leeds fans jeering the players breaking their Ramadan fast.

“Mr President, the bombings have begun in Tehran and also customers are complaining we have run out of shrimp at the pool buffet.”

#SavioursOfWomen #Afghanistan #Iraq #Libya #Iran

The peace president y’all

Donald Trump has learned nothing from decades of endless war.

I went to war three times for this country. Working class folks will pay the price of his military adventurism.

Americans are sick of it. I’m sick of it.

A world on edge as Trump bombs Iran and triggers war in the Middle East. There was no need for this | Simon Tisdall We cannot know where this foolish, reckless attack will end – but new hatreds will be seeded, terrorist vendettas sown and, ultimately, little will be achieved, says Guardian foreign affairs commentat...

We cannot know where this foolish, reckless attack will end – but new hatreds will be seeded, terrorist vendettas sown and, ultimately, little will be achieved www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Epstein files name prominent Australians and senior US and UK officials.

I’m calling on the Australian Government to order an independent review for survivors, for accountability, and for our national security.

No one is above the law. Full statement 👇

AUKUS submarine vs East Coast High Speed Rail: neither will ever exist

Turns out Birmingham & the Big4 banks skipped out on the Capital Gains Tax inquiry, despite being in the building.🙄

Australia Institute Economist @mattgrudnoff.bsky.social gives a clue as to why:
Bcoz the CGT discount pushes up houses prices, banks lend more, & make more money💰 #auspol

Riddle me this @albomp.bsky.social you have said to the king that you are happy to remove his brother from the line of succession as, in your words, “Australians are disgusted” by the Epstein files.

Then why do you still stand with Trump who is mentioned more than anyone in those files?

Australia’s diamond back door: Blood jewels slipping past borders to fund Russia’s war As pressure builds on Australia to close sanction loopholes, a new “real and ongoing risk” that parts of the economy could be helping prop up the Kremlin’s war machine has emerged.

As Tuesday marks four years since the Kremlin launched its full-scale invasion of #Ukraine, experts are sounding the alarm over this little-known back-door trade in Russian blood diamonds to Australia. #AusPol www.theage.com.au/national/aus...

The Jewish Council of Australia condemns Benjamin Harnwell's appalling comment at the Advance conference and call on our leaders and the Antisemitism Envoy to speak out in condemnation.

Yaël Eisenstat: Democracy’s Cyber Defendant Podcast Episode · Bright Minds: from the John Adams Institute · 14 May 2025 · 43m

Regulations in the EU are leading the way. AI is both a product & service - there are regulations that products & services sold to consumers must be safe. As consumers, how do we know that we are safe? Eisenstat’s insights sheds light on questions we need to ask.

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Without stronger privacy laws, Australians are guinea pigs in a real-time dystopian AI experiment | Peter Lewis Citizen surveillance is becoming increasingly normalised, even while similar technology is being deployed by ICE agents in the US and the IDF in Gaza

Without stronger privacy laws, Australians are guinea pigs in a real-time dystopian AI experiment #AusPol www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

#AusPol Australians need to know how our government engages with #Palantir. The @albomp.bsky.social government must take steps to prioritise our human rights, privacy, and digital sovereignty over Palantir’s dystopian surveillance profiteering. digitalrightswatch.org.au/2026/02/01/p...

James Talarico (@jamestalarico) This is the interview Donald Trump didn’t want you to see. His FCC refused to air my interview with Stephen Colbert. Trump is worried we’re about to flip Texas.

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Sydney's post-Bondi attack protest restrictions come to an end The controversial laws grant police the power to refuse authorisation for public protests for up to 90 days after a terrorist incident, restricting demonstrations in certain areas.

Presumably because the police feel they've done enough kettling, charging, pepper spraying and bashing to last them for a while, the restrictions that preserved public safety can now be lifted. What a relief.

Victorians have paid for ‘gangland figures to drive Ferraris’ thanks to CFMEU power “So why was this happening? I mean, we still really haven’t got to the bottom of why the Labor government didn’t protect public funds.”

“…there’s bikie gangland figures driving Ferraris around Victoria at the moment, care of the taxpayer, thanks to that negligence, that failure to keep contractors under control on these major, major sites.” #AusPol www.theage.com.au/national/vic...

One Nation Senator Malcolm Roberts has reached a new low - even for him!
He has described women attempting suicide or self-harm as 'attention seeking' while saying men who do the same are suffering a legitimate medical condition.
He made the comments during Senate Estimates. #auspol

Pale, stale and male. Ley leaving lights Liberals' women problem - Michael West Angus Taylor ousting Sussan Ley as leader of the Liberal Party reinforces longstanding perceptions about the Party's treatment of women.

Already, fewer than 1 in 5 younger & middle aged women vote for the Libs. Purging Sussan Ley won't help the party's women problem.
#Auspol analysis by Aleta Moriarty
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How dare they try to patronise powerful and principled women like this while they obsessively attack their every utterance. This paper is a disgrace.

‘Rotting from the top’: Bribery, drugs, bikies and billions of taxpayer dollars The first detailed inquiry into the CFMEU’s conduct is a shocking litany of poor conduct fuelled with public money.

#AusPol Major infrastructure projects funded by the Albanese & Allan govts hosted drug trafficking, corruption & bribery, bikie gangs & the sexual exploitation of women, at an estimated cost to the taxpayers of $15 billion, according to report into CFMEU corruption www.theage.com.au/national/rot...

CFMEU inquiry LIVE updates: Corruption fighter Geoffrey Watson gives evidence on report into union’s Victorian branch The corruption fighter is asked about his report into the union’s Victorian branch – provided to the commission with chapters that had earlier been deleted. Follow our coverage.

Union corruption cost Victoria at least $15 billion: ‘Much of that had been “poured directly into the hands of criminals and organised crime gangs”’ www.theage.com.au/national/que...

Albanese govt-appointed official stripped politically explosive sections from corruption report, removing findings that Victoria’s Labor government turned blind eye to CFMEU graft & organised crime on infrastructure projects at a cost to taxpayers of $15 billion. www.theage.com.au/national/15b...

More rate hikes are on the way unless Chalmers finds savings in May The May budget now shapes as an enormous test for Treasurer Jim Chalmers and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

#AusPol The May budget will be this government’s fifth. The first couple were dominated by fixing some of the issues left by the previous administration – such as its failure to allocate money to defence veterans – while also building on its own agenda. www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...

I'm a big fan of intuition and my intuition is that AI is mostly a big mistake, especially in education. The whole point is the *thinking*. #EduSky