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The clever country.

‘They pushed so many lies about recycling’: the fight to stop big oil pumping billions more into plastics Plastic production has doubled over the last 20 years – and will likely double again. For author Beth Gardiner, metal water bottles and canvas tote bags are not the solution. So what is?

Trying to use less plastic?

Big Oil and the plastics industry are spending billions to make sure everyone else uses more.

“I think what stood out most is the deliberateness and intentionality over the years of pushing plastic into our lives,” said @bethgardiner.bsky.social. “It was such a shock."

Heartening to see the Iranian women’s soccer team given humanitarian visas. Australia can be a refuge for those fleeing persecution.

Aussie women and kids should be brought home too — no matter who their father/spouse was. Kids and mums aren’t something to kick around like a political football.

Labor would buy oil to prevent Australia running out of fuel The Opposition is warning there are only a few weeks' worth of petrol and diesel in Australia, raising fears of catastrophic shortages if conflict cut off imports.

In 2019 Shorted had a policy addressing our fuel reserve issues - but we didn't want that #auspol > www.abc.net.au/news/2019-02...

120 doctors speak out against Albury Wodonga Health management Two top doctors and a nurse have left Albury Wodonga hospital in just six months, prompting a vote of no confidence in management.

#Farrer #auspol #tegionalAustralia #ALP #CommunityIndependents
Health equity for regional Australians
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...?

Because he’s insane. Because he’s venal. Because he’s a malignant narcissist. Because he’s a sociopath. Because he has a fragile ego. Because those around him exacerbate and play to those traits to advance their own interests. Because CEOs and investors do likewise to fill their coffers. Because to some people, whether he is insane or malevolent or repugnant or not matters less than whether his actions will feather their nests, increase their power. https://davidrothkopf.substack.com/p/living-in-a-time-of-lunatics-and

"At this moment in history, the fate of virtually everyone on the planet is being impacted by the toxic cocktail of character flaws, insecurities, and pathologies that are shaping the actions of the President of the United States."

davidrothkopf.substack.com/p/living-in-...

Australian governments subsidising fossil fuel use by more than $30,000 a minute, analysis finds Australia Institute data finds state and federal subsidies for coal, gas and oil products increased 10% in past year, growing at a faster pace than funding to NDIS

This is why we can't have nice things. #auspol
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From my trip in January - a pink cockatoo at Kinchega National Park, New South Wales.
You'd pay good money for that hairdo at a city salon 😆

Increasingly clear that the future of the species hinges on the American/Israeli empire collapsing before the climate does

Bleak but true.

Matt Canavan has been elected leader of the Nationals, because no one understands the plight of farmers working the land in regional Australia like a … *checks notes* … former management consultant and productivity commission staffer? #auspol

Difficult to emphasize just how much a generation of kids has been taught that being dishonest, superficial, and narcissistic is the pathway to attention and therefore success

Caravan. Knows the $ of things but doesn’t understand climate change and fossil fuel usage will cost us our lives. Afternoon Briefing-why does Karvelas give so much airtime to the failed opposition. #auspol

WHAT IF IT'S A BIG HOAX AND We CReATe A BeTTeR WORLD FOR NOTHING? • ENERGY INDEPENDENCE • PRESERVE RAINFORESTS • SUSTAINABILITY • GREEN JOBS • LIVABLE CITIES • RENEWABLES • CLEAN WATER, AIR • HEALTHY CHILDREN • етс. етс.

About time for this to get another run I reckon.

Canada's PM even did a trip here to point out to Albanese that we don't have to lick Trump's boots (and indeed we shouldn't be), but Albanese just ignored that.

So yeah, it is Albanese's fault. He *wants* to be part of the human centipede that is US foreign policy. That's on him.

David Shoebridge fires up saying Australians are horrified at Labor dragging us into an illegal war on Iran which “started with the US killing of schoolgirls.”
Says sending in Aus troops is “not about safety” but to ‘free up US assets’ so they can “kill ppl in Iran”💥 #auspol

💔🦜 a huge loss 💔💔

The Australia I'm working for shows empathy & compassion for all asylum seekers - not just those where it's politically convenient to do so

We also look after Australian citizens overseas & those wanting to come home from war zones inc 23 women & children in Syria #auspol #qt

Australia politics live: Taylor welcomes visas for Iranian women’s football players as Coalition backs ADF deployment to UAE Follow updates live

“new low from this Labor government, what an appalling act of cruelty – from backing and resourcing an illegal war, raining down bombs on civilians, to then shutting the door on those same civilians who have the legal right to enter our country.” ( Shoebridge)
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Too many Indigenous women are killed by domestic violence. They are more than just numbers Latest data show First Nations women are much more likely to be killed than non-Indigenous women. It demands action.

“Indigenous women need action now. We cannot wait while others debate process when we’ve already endured countless reviews without meaningful change.”
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"Forget Andrew Tate, this is the real manosphere. One whose edges we can’t even see because we’re living inside it. Our world is controlled by these men, their platforms, their alliances with nation states, technology-fuelled political power which is only accelerating and gathering strength."

Brilliant, alarming piece by @carolecadwalla.bsky.social.

"AI-guided weapons, two out-of-control authoritarians, no legal authority and a toxic mess of masculinity: welcome to the manosphere's first major conflict."

broligarchy.substack.com/p/is-this-th...

What else did Trump discuss with Albanese - and what did Albanese say yes to?

Albanese always says ‘yes’ to the worst people #auspol

So lucky Gordon!

three pictures of an echidna emerging from the garden

late afternoon visitor
#monotreme

Oh dear. Just heard mini Scomo Ted O’Brien on #RNBreakfast describe the horrific, illegal war crimes being committed by Israel and US now in their Middle East hell, as the actions of ‘the free world’.

Reminder no matter how bad Albo is going the opposition is twice as awful.

Australia, where we had to have a non-binding plebiscite on whether to grant non-heterosexual people equal marriage rights because it was apparently such a difficult moral issue, but they can just sign us up to be complicit or an active participant in an illegal war (again) without our consent

Scientists tagging 10,000 bogong moths to solve mystery The project's success largely relies on citizen scientists spotting a distinct white dot on the wings of moths.

It is years since I’ve seen Bogong moths in any quantity. #ClimateCrisis #Moths #inverts
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

Look Anthony Albanese and Labor. I know you don’t really give a shit about ethics or morals, or ‘international rules based order’, so let’s put it in terms of pure self interest.
Many Australians aren’t going to vote for a party that drags them into another war the US started.
Got it?

It’s so dark, I didn’t see #Abla until she barked

Long exposure shot of #Abla, her sheep & the moon