Contaminated Tasmanian waterways. What's that you say not contaminated? Then what?

The Environment Protection Authority has disclosed that Tassal will start using Florfenicol today at their Sheppards #salmon lease near Conningham for a period of 10 days This is the 16th treatment using Florfenicol since it was approved for use in public waterways in early November 2025 #politas

Israel released 13 detainees back to Gaza on Wed. evening via the Red Cross, including one woman and a 15-year-old boy, after months in detention after previous ground incursions. Palestine Online said they arrived at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah in poor health, with reports of...

Jacinta Allan berated the ignorant journalist for language abuse. "Disinterested of course means without special or pecuniary interest, not failure to display attention." (Unfortunately not.)

"That's why many of us ... have called for NACC commissioner Paul Brereton to resign." William Partlett from the Centre for Public Integrity has some strong words about the performance of the NACC (and how to fix it). Thx @3rrrfm.bsky.social

First of all, not-a-war, rather a mass destruction and mass murder operation, with next to zero genuine military opposition.

Lancet medical journal research shows deaths in Gaza between 7 October 2023 & 5 January 2025 were more than 75,000 people. It's 25,000 more than first thought. It includes 42,200 women, children & elderly. 570 have died since the October 2025 "ceasefire". www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Over 6 million views and still growing, as the plot keeps thickening on this story…

Next month we'll hit 1000 days since the Murphy Report into gambling harm was handed down. More than 3 in 4 Australians want stronger gambling advertising laws, but the Govt continues to stall. Politicians from both major parties continue to accept donations, gifts & perks from gambling companies.

"with Angus Taylor's rise to leadership of the federal Liberals, the party's new-look front bench has seen a number of former think tank staff from the Atlas Network ecosystem win important portfolios." Liberals are now the political arm of #AtlasNetwork. More🎯analysis by Gareth Hutchens. #auspol

Farce.

You'd hope.

Because noisy fossil death machines are definitely what the world needs now.

"Angus Taylor is preparing his new opposition leader’s office, with oil and gas lobbyist Sam Riordan set to be made his chief of staff. Riordan has been with the Australian Energy Producers since August last year."

What is even going on here. Govt fines Alcoa for unlawful clearing, but then immediately issues an approval so that further clearing is lawful. What does Watt think is the purpose of the EPBC Act? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Because heating will definitely stop at 3°C...

'Dogged'. (Measured per capita instead of per Bloomberg, Japan has one of the more successful economies on Earth.)

Why are we doing this – running close to the highest population growth rate in the Western world, largely via the highest sustained immigration rate in Australia's history? What's that for?

Three months ago...

Hearing an ABC TV journalist say Tim Wilson 'knows what it takes to beat the teals' is a disgrace based on the behaviour foisted upon the encumbent MP (& family) & volunteers. Completely unacceptable - & should not be put up as an example for anything #abc730 #auspol

For those of you wanting more context for the Shadow Treasurer that Angus Taylor has chosen, his ideology & connections to foreign influence operations’ local offices, I gathered it here before the election. Note his behaviour as Human Rights Commissioner. #Auspol open.substack.com/pub/lucyham2...

Attribution studies are still deeply troubling. Realistic numbers here? Why don't I find them to be so.

No one invited Pauline Hanson to Ramadan Nights in Lakemba did they? Oh well, see you there Sunday night inshallah!

Queensland Premier David Crisafulli traveling to Washington to lobby to bring Donald Trump to Australia & host the Quad in Qld. Last year he lobbied in India & Japan. #qldpol www.smh.com.au/national/que...

Class is so integral to the way schools are funded in this country, but it's rarely discussed in these terms – so it was a pleasure to have a chat with Richard Denniss on RRR about new findings into our unfair school system

Once more for emphasis: It's not (government) spending per se that influences inflation*, it's the relativity of that to taxation. (* To the extent that's been relevant at all recently, which it hasn't.)

I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.

Used to play a bit here, long ago. Bulldozers now only weeks away.

Wot.

Lowest first preference support for a federal Labor leader's party in 92 years.

Gentoo penguins the first birds on Australian territory to contract H5N1 as bird flu spreads

"Weapons cache", "were going to be used to harm IDF soldiers" ... really, weapons, in a 'war' (as is regularly claimed). What a shock. BTW, all rusty old shit. Nothing there is usable.

Howl, Ginsberg.

Israel lobbyists AJA promoting a real estate scheme selling stolen Palestinian land to Australian investors. #ASIC is inquiring No response by AJA yet @sstephanietrann.bsky.social @joshbarnettmw.bsky.social investigate #auspol michaelwest.com.au/israel-lobby...

If you're here for an argument, don't bother.

Want to know when you're being misled about immigration? Maybe look at the actual data, rather than listen to the heavily weighted commentary now thick in Australian politics. (Gamblin, this morning...)

Not to be confused with the Peabody & Yancoal owned Middlemount Coal Mine extension approved by the @albomp.bsky.social Labor govt today (Hard to keep track as there're about 42 Coal mine projects in the pipeline in Australia)

Fish, otoh, have no right of protest.

So no plea entered? Where this heads is worrying, especially given the recent ChCh appeal.

Australia, not the US.

Why would it not? Actually, guess if wanted to murder someone and make it look like Putin did it, this.

Bees will of course adapt to the new parasite. Whether quickly enough to make much difference is unclear. Anecdotal reports from the US are that 'angry bee' wild queens definitely do better.

AUKUS is sinking and Labor responds by making up a $30 billion un-budgeted AUKUS announceable for the SA State election. This stuff is straying so far from reality.

Herzog is a current president, former legislator and IDF Intel whose 2015 election campaign featured praise for him seeing Arabs in rifle crosshairs. You can not unpolitical that CV. He also gave highly political speeches here, including asserting Al Quds is the “eternal capital of Israeli”.

Lemme see, what did the ABC's Mr Bevan say, again?

Wise people learn from their mistakes, not from their successes. It's a sad feature of survivorship bias that those who, by chance, manage many successes imagine that they have achieved the latter.

Pauline Hanson has one of the worst Parliament attendance records failing to show up to work 50% of the time in 2025.

I recommend #Auspol watches this documentary about the Americans putting their fringe definition of Christianity into power as a minoritarian agenda. There are politicians & backers that have similar plans for 🇦🇺 Sizeable overlap with Atlas Network partners,💰 From Falwell era to Kirk & Bannon. 🚨🚨🚨

An unrecognised effect of global heating? I wonder if there is a long time series anywhere.