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Deputy editor, Guardian Australia. Author of Pain and Prejudice. Member of Walkley Judging Board.
“…Pauline Hanson would have us believe One Nation is a mainstream force in Australian politics. The fundamental ugliness she unleashed this week with her performance suggests she’ll stay a bit player.” Scorching from @tommcilroy
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Pauline Hanson thinks she speaks for the mainstream but her burqa stunt shows she is a bit player with bad instincts | Tom McIlroy
While banning the burqa might play with the Sky After Dark audience, it is miles from a broad concern among punters
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/nov/25/pauline-hanson-thinks-she-speaks-for-the-mainstream-but-her-stunt-shows-she-is-a-bit-player-with-bad-instincts?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
about 2 months ago
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AUSSIE BIRD COUNT STARTS TODAY!
aussiebirdcount.org.au
Spend 20 minutes counting the birds you encounter. Log them. Repeat as many times as you like. Proper science! There are also prizes.
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Aussie Bird Count
Celebrate National Bird Week by taking part in the biggest citizen science project to hit Aussie shores. Join thousands of people from across the country, heading out into their backyards, local parks...
https://aussiebirdcount.org.au
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Follow our live blog with best birder
@gingerandhoney.bsky.social
for the official 2025 Guardian/Birdlife Australia bird of the year winner announcement
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#birds
#birdoftheyear
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Australian bird of the year 2025 winner announcement – live
Follow live as we announce the winner of the 2025 Australian bird of the year
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/live/2025/oct/16/australian-bird-of-the-year-2025-winner-announcement-live
3 months ago
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Watching from Australia while Donald Trump targets my home of Chicago with armed troops prompts deep questions, by
@milespherbert.bsky.social
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Watching from Australia while Donald Trump targets my home of Chicago with armed troops prompts deep questions | Miles Herbert
I never again want to have to look back and wonder, could I have done more?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/14/watching-from-australia-while-donald-trump-threatens-my-home-of-chicago-with-armed-troops-prompts-deep-questions
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What an absolute delight to record
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3 months ago
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The red goshawk is at risk of extinction - and of being eliminated on day one of the Australian
#birdoftheyear
competition! Can you/will you save it? Here is
@readfearn.bsky.social
on why you should care:
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#birds
@birdlifeoz.bsky.social
@australia.theguardian.com
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/06/going-extinct-right-under-our-noses-the-quiet-plight-of-australias-rarest-bird-of-preyGoing
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Voting has begun. I am on team Spotted Pardalote.
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Lovely piece from bird nerd Sean Dooley from
@birdlifeoz.bsky.social
>> I used to think birds made life worth living only for those of us obsessed with them. Now I know the truth
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I used to think birds made life worth living only for those of us obsessed with them. Now I know the truth
It wasn’t until I was in my 20s that I realised birds could have a powerful significance even for people who weren’t bird-nerds like me
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/06/birds-make-life-worth-living-powerful-significance-meaning-white-plummed-honeyeater
4 months ago
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VOTING HAS BEGUN! Who will be the 2025 Australian bird of the year? Vote now, vote every day for the best bird. Will it be the tawny frogmouth's year?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#birdoftheyear
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Australian bird of the year 2025: vote for your favourite #birdoftheyear in the Guardian / BirdLife Australia poll
From little penguins to (very big) cassowaries, every bird has its fans. Vote for your favourite in the 2025 Guardian/BirdLife Australia poll
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2025/oct/06/australian-bird-of-the-year-2025-vote-now
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‘So tiny and so vulnerable’: what chance will one of Australia’s smallest birds have against a rocket launchpad? by
@lisacox.bsky.social
#birdoftheyear
#birds
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‘So tiny and so vulnerable’: what chance will one of Australia’s smallest birds have against a rocket launchpad?
When South Australia gave the go-ahead for a launch facility to be built at a site that’s home to the endangered southern emu-wren, conservationists were astounded
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/01/what-chance-one-of-australias-smallest-birds-endangered-emu-wren-have-against-rocket-launchpad
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Lisa wants to raise her children on the family farm - but a lead mine next door threatens her dream. Great reporting from
@natashamay.bsky.social
on this issue and gorgeous photos from Blake Sharp-Wiggins
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‘We are horrified’: proposed lead mine in NSW wine region has community living in fear for children’s health
Following revelations the environment watchdog buried a report on lead mining, parents wonder if they can ‘trust that our children’s safety is coming first’ over mining interests
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/sep/21/we-are-horrified-proposed-lead-mine-in-nsw-wine-region-has-community-living-in-fear-for-childrens-health
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I love the
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#addbirder
- I will have lots of great bird content coming up with the
@australia.theguardian.com
@birdlifeoz.bsky.social
#birdoftheyear
poll starting 6 October
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In the days after my mum died, a blackbird lingered like a messenger of solace - absolutely gorgeous piece by
@marksaunox.bsky.social
. Get out your tissues
#birds
#birdoftheyear
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In the days after my mum died, a blackbird lingered like a messenger of solace | Mark Saunokonoko
Some Māori believe that when they die, their spirit travels up New Zealand to the tip of the North Island – souls flying like birds
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/commentisfree/2025/sep/18/in-the-days-after-my-mum-died-a-blackbird-lingered-like-a-messenger-of-solace
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It's that time again!
#birdoftheyear
poll 🥳 Nominations for the top 50 shortlist are open now. Make sure your favourite bird makes it to this year's poll! Voting starts 6 October
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Australian bird of the year 2025: nominate your favourite now
We want to hear which Australian birds you think should be shortlisted for the Guardian/Birdlife Australia bird of the year poll next month
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/sep/14/australian-bird-of-the-year-2025-poll-vote-nominate-shortlist-guardian-birdlife-australia
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4 months ago
workforus.theguardian.com/jobs/855/
I was delighted to announce this week that
@tommcilroy.bsky.social
has been appointed as
@australia.theguardian.com
political editor, That means we are looking for a chief political correspondent to join our Canberra team.
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The Guardian :: Chief political correspondent
https://workforus.theguardian.com/jobs/855/
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Excellent reporting from
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- Community fights lead mine near primary school as report highlights Australia’s failure to protect children
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Community fights lead mine near primary school as report highlights Australia’s failure to protect children
Report commissioned by Mudgee health alliance suggests mine’s health and environmental assessments accepted by NSW government contain errors and outdated evidence
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/sep/16/nsw-community-fights-lead-mine-near-primary-school-as-report-highlights-australias-failure-to-protect-children
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Australian War Memorial defers military history prize after judging panel awards it to book on Ben Roberts-Smith - story by Paul Daley
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Australian War Memorial defers military history prize after judging panel awards it to book on Ben Roberts-Smith
Exclusive: Governing council ‘retrospectively’ decides the Les Carlyon literary award should go only to first-time authors, ruling out Chris Masters’ book
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/sep/12/australian-war-memorial-defers-military-history-prize-after-panel-awards-ben-roberts-smith-book
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The rules of political gravity may have set in for Jacinta Nampijinpa Price – but the Coalition is still in a dangerous limbo
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The rules of political gravity may have set in for Jacinta Nampijinpa Price – but the Coalition is still in a dangerous limbo
Price’s refusal to endorse Sussan Ley’s leadership on Wednesday was a deliberate provocation that left the opposition leader no choice * Report: Ley dumps Nampijinpa Price from shadow ministry over refusal to back leadership or apologise over migrants comments * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast For much of her short career in Canberra, the usual rules of political gravity have appeared not to apply to Jacinta Nampijinpa Price. A firebrand, outspoken and unapologetic about almost everything, she went from a first-term backbencher from the Northern Territory to a member of the shadow cabinet in less than a term. Easily the most prominent opponent of the Indigenous voice to parliament, Price used the referendum campaign to build her political brand exponentially. Tom McIlroy is Guardian Australia’s chief political correspondent. Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/sep/10/jacinta-nampijinpa-price-sussan-ley-indian-migration-comments-repercussions-for-coalition?CMP=aus_bsky
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The Gaza family torn apart by IDF snipers from Chicago and Munich - a devastating but important read from Hoda Osman and Emma Graham-Harrison
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The Gaza family torn apart by IDF snipers from Chicago and Munich
Five-month investigation reveals how four members of one family were shot and killed in a single day and highlights a pattern in which Israeli troops target unarmed civilians
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/09/the-gaza-family-torn-apart-by-idf-snipers-from-chicago-and-munich
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"I used to try to justify my existence here, to explain why racist attitudes are wrong using logic and reason. Now, I have only anger left. I am furious that this is a conversation that is being allowed to play out on a national stage." Powerful column from Zoya Patel in
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This is a great explainer of what thiomersal is and why some people confuse ethylmercury with methylmercury
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Should Australia worry about RFK Jr’s shock flu vaccine move?
A US panel’s decision not to recommend the preservative thiomersal won’t affect vaccine availability in Australia, say experts. But it will stoke dangerous anti-vax sentiment
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jun/27/should-australia-worry-about-rfk-jrs-shock-flu-vaccine-move?CMP=aus_bsky
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This visual representation of emissions from the North West Shelf project is incredible -
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Revealed: the astonishing greenhouse gas emissions that will result from the North West Shelf project
The annual total dwarfs CO2-e from many other sources – including whole countries
https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2025/jun/19/north-west-shelf-project-greenhouse-gas-emissions-burrup-peninsula-western-australia?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
7 months ago
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The warmongers were wrong about Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya. Now watch them make the same mistake about Iran - by
@owenjones.bsky.social
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The warmongers were wrong about Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya. Now watch them make the same mistake about Iran | Owen Jones
Israel is the main source of terror and instability in the Middle East. But the west continually turns away from this reality, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/18/iraq-afghanistan-libya-warmongers-always-wrong-iran-attacks-nothing-change-minds
7 months ago
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He's been very clear about that
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Peter Dutton has 'been very clear about that' many, many times during election campaign – video
From his plans for civil service jobs to healthcare to combating Trump's tariffs, the opposition leader says he has 'been very clear about that'
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/video/2025/may/01/peter-dutton-has-been-very-clear-about-that-many-many-times-during-election-campaign-video
9 months ago
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Exclusive: Chris LaCivita, Trump’s presidential campaign co-manager, tells undercover reporters he advised on ‘structural issues’ related to Peter Dutton; the Coalition denies LaCivita was involved in campaign in any way
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Trump campaign chief claims he visited Australia to advise Liberals at start of election campaign
Exclusive: Chris LaCivita, Trump’s presidential campaign co-manager, tells undercover reporters he advised on ‘structural issues’ related to Peter Dutton; the Coalition denies LaCivita was involved in...
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/may/01/trump-campaign-chief-lacivita-liberal-party-australia-ntwnfb-election-claims
9 months ago
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Trump campaign chief claims he visited Australia to advise Liberals at start of election campaign
Exclusive: Chris LaCivita, Trump’s presidential campaign co-manager, tells undercover reporters he advised on ‘structural issues’ related to Peter Dutton; the Coalition denies LaCivita was involved in...
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/may/01/trump-campaign-chief-lacivita-liberal-party-australia-ntwnfb-election-claims
9 months ago
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Dutton’s comments show we are back to punching down on Indigenous Australians for attention – and votes
9 months ago
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An uncomfortable truth: police already know about many offenders who murder women - by
@ninobucci.bsky.social
@jordynbeazley.bsky.social
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@bensmee.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/apr...
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Amid a reckoning on domestic violence, does Australia’s piecemeal approach need a national police strategy?
Guardian Australia has asked every police jurisdiction how it assesses risk in family violence offenders to get a better understanding of how the system should work
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2025/apr/26/domestic-violence-does-australia-need-a-national-police-strategy-ntwnfb
9 months ago
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Uh-oh, where are the rest of them? 😬😳
9 months ago
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‘Bordering on incredible’: Coalition under fire for planning to scrap Labor climate policies and offering none of its own, by
@adammorton.bsky.social
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@readfearn.bsky.social
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‘Bordering on incredible’: Coalition under fire for planning to scrap Labor climate policies and offering none of its own
With Peter Dutton’s views on climate change in the spotlight, the focus has turned onto whether there will be any policies to reduce emissions in the next decade
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/20/bordering-on-incredible-coalition-under-fire-for-planning-to-scrap-labor-climate-policies-and-offering-none-of-its-own
9 months ago
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The Blue Origin flight showcased the utter defeat of American feminism, by
@moiradonegan.bsky.social
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The Blue Origin flight showcased the utter defeat of American feminism | Moira Donegan
The trip leaned on a vision of women’s empowerment that is light on substance and heavy on a childlike, girlish silliness
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/15/blue-origin-flight-american-feminism
9 months ago
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10 months ago
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Good question! Stay tuned for the rest of this week as this excellent (but very sad) nature series rolls out Australia is in an extinction crisis – why isn’t it an issue at this election?
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Australia is in an extinction crisis – why isn’t it an issue at this election?
Some of the country’s most loved native species, including the koala and the hairy-nosed wombat, are on the brink. Is this their last chance at survival?
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/07/australia-is-in-an-extinction-crisis-why-isnt-it-an-issue-at-this-election
10 months ago
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I'm really enjoying our 'Anywhere but Canberra' series >> The South Australian retired farmer: ‘I only vote because I’ve got to’
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The South Australian retired farmer: ‘I only vote because I’ve got to’
John Sparrow retired to a property near Tailem Bend after a lifetime working in agriculture. He has nine grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren, and is worried they won’t be able to buy a house
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/07/the-south-australian-retired-farmer-i-only-vote-because-ive-got-to
10 months ago
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10 months ago
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You could not make it up Not that Norfolk! Mislabelled shipments led to Trump tariffs on uninhabited islands and remote outposts with no US trade
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Not that Norfolk! Mislabelled shipments led to Trump tariffs on uninhabited islands and remote outposts with no US trade
Exclusive: Aquarium systems, Timberland boots and recycling plant parts were mislabelled as coming from remote Norfolk Island or Heard and McDonald islands
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/04/revealed-how-trump-tariffs-slugged-norfolk-island-and-uninhabited-heard-and-mcdonald-islands
10 months ago
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Trump’s ‘idiotic’ and flawed tariff calculations stun economists
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Trump’s ‘idiotic’ and flawed tariff calculations stun economists
‘Willing sycophants’ came up with simplistic formula that has thrown global economy into disarray
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/03/trumps-idiotic-and-flawed-tariff-calculations-stun-economists?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
10 months ago
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Abbie Chatfield cleared of wrongdoing by AEC after interviewing Anthony Albanese on her podcast “There’s moral panic about influencers in politics.”
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Abbie Chatfield cleared of wrongdoing by AEC after interviewing Anthony Albanese on her podcast
AEC review finds content did not require authorisation statement after Liberal senators raise concerns
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/03/abbie-chatfield-aec-investigation-cleared-albanese-bandt-podcast-interviews-ntwnfb
10 months ago
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What Australians flying to the US need to know about phone and device searches at the border - very useful by
@joshtaylor.bsky.social
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What Australians flying to the US need to know about phone and device searches at the border
Can immigration deny you entry if you refuse to hand over your phone? What can officials look at or download, and how can you protect your devices?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/03/what-australians-flying-to-the-us-need-to-know-about-phone-and-device-searches-at-the-border
10 months ago
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I put the Married at First Sight ‘experiment’ to the test. The results are stark - very entertaining by
@gidmk.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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I put the Married at First Sight ‘experiment’ to the test. The results are stark | Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz
I’ve become addicted to the show. But as a scientist I wonder: how many couples actually stay together?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/03/i-put-the-married-at-first-sight-experiment-to-the-test-the-results-are-stark
10 months ago
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Five questions Peter Dutton needs to answer about his energy plans
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Five questions Peter Dutton needs to answer about his energy plans
Coalition leader is touting a ‘gas reserve’ to ease prices on the east coast, while dodging questions on key elements of nuclear power policy
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/mar/31/five-questions-peter-dutton-needs-to-answer-about-his-energy-plans?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
10 months ago
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Help raise money for brain cancer research via this awesome silent auction, in honour of my friend’s beautiful brother, Michael Power
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10 months ago
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Australians have lost hope in the fair go, with profound implications for the election
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Australians have lost hope in the fair go. This has profound implications for the election | Rebecca Huntley
The character of our country is changing radically – with profound implications for the federal election
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/mar/20/australians-have-lost-hope-in-the-fair-go-with-profound-implications-for-the-election?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
10 months ago
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Bob Carr says Aukus a ‘colossal surrender of sovereignty’ if submarines do not arrive under Australian control
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Bob Carr says Aukus a ‘colossal surrender of sovereignty’ if submarines do not arrive under Australian control
Former foreign minister says it is ‘inevitable’ US won’t supply nuclear-powered submarines under Aukus
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/mar/19/bob-carr-aukus-submarine-deal-us-australia-relationship?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
10 months ago
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Psychiatric care in NSW facing ‘collapse’ because of poor pay and conditions, court hears as arbitration battle begins, by
@natashamay.bsky.social
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Psychiatric care in NSW facing ‘collapse’ because of poor pay and conditions, court hears as arbitration battle begins
At least 10 hospitals in NSW risk being stripped of accreditation to train junior doctors as ‘serious concerns’ raised in Industrial Relations Commission court
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/mar/17/nsw-psychiatrists-arbitration-hearing-pay-conditions
10 months ago
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Female prisoner allegedly sexually abused for years by prison guard settles with NSW government. By
@jordynbeazley.bsky.social
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Female prisoner allegedly sexually abused for years by prison guard settles with NSW government
Woman alleged she was raped when the department of justice already knew Wayne Astill was ‘abusing his position towards female inmates’
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/mar/15/female-prisoner-allegedly-sexually-abused-for-years-by-prison-guard-settles-with-nsw-government-ntwnfb
10 months ago
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‘You have unmet needs’: the psychology behind Australia’s love affair with big cars
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‘You have unmet needs’: the psychology behind Australia’s love affair with big cars
The promise of adventure, attention, muscle and safety is driving consumers towards large vehicles – even as they fuel congestion and outstrip the size of car parks
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/mar/15/you-have-unmet-needs-the-psychology-behind-australias-love-affair-with-big-cars
10 months ago
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The new reality dawning in Australia: it can no longer rely on the US
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The new reality dawning in Australia: it can no longer rely on the US
For all the fraternal rhetoric, the alliance has always been asymmetric. It seems Washington under Trump sees it as immaterial
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/mar/15/the-new-reality-dawning-in-australia-it-can-no-longer-rely-on-the-us
10 months ago
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