There are now more privately-owned guns than there were before the 1996 buy-back. I welcome National Cabinet’s commitment to considering gun law reform.  All parliaments should join together to ensure no-one can walk the streets of an Australian city with a high-powered gun.

The Greens will work with the government to pass reforms through federal and state parliaments to tighten the rules around gun ownership. This is not America and we must  work both to eradicate antisemitism and racism and to reduce unnecessary guns in our community.

In the wake of the Port Arthur tragedy, governments collectively took action. So too should we after Sunday’s horrific antisemitic mass shooting. This is about our common humanity, and it should be above politics.

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It’s actually awful to pretend to bereaved parents and to worried parents that this “ban” will stop cyber bullying. As this article suggests, it won’t at all, and could just make it less easy to find and manage. You don’t fix a social problem with a (badly designed) tech fix.

Australia’s kids are saved 🤣 Still a broken mental health system, global housing crisis, cost of living crisis but banning social media will save Australia’s youth. What a brain dead take. Labor just handed One Nation a narrative to run with about how the ALP want to ruin ur freedom of speech.

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As many have pointed out, Mamdani didn't stand apart from our trans brothers and sisters. He didn't play the "Gee, gosh, it sure is complicated," milquetoast moderate card. And he crushed. The way forward is together, not over the bodies of our own.

genuinely beautiful that new york elected a muslim lefty mayor the same day that dick cheney died

New map of the cool parts of NYC just dropped.

“Gas companies treat tax as optional, and they leave the rest of us with the cleanup bill for the natural disasters that they are turbo charging.” - Australian Greens Leader Larissa Waters at our Revenue Summit 2025 @larissawaters.bsky.social #auspol @thepointau.bsky.social

this is what taylor swift did with her new album from my understanding

a taylor swift album so bad it got me revisiting brat

“For me, besides the magnificence of nature, friendship and empathy are the elixirs of life.”

Taylor did Charli dirty. Back to our regularly scheduled doomer constitutionalism programming.

Labor’s deposit scheme will turbocharge the housing crisis, drive prices up and lock out first-home buyers or plunge them into debt. Their cowardly refusal to fix tax settings that turn housing into speculation instead of a human right is smashing first-home buyers & renters.

Chappell Roan headlining 😭 I didn’t want to have to attend Laneway again but here I am, forced to support the dying festival scene once again

We're the only ones into free speech so unfortunately Bluesky is the intellectual dark web now

new La Dispute is fucking unreal lads

Just popping my head in to say that the new La Dispute is so good. Their best since “bottom of the river” imho (yes, better than “wildlife”)

#NowPlaying 🕗 8:24 pm 🎵 Steve 🧑‍🎤 La Dispute 💿 No One Was Driving The Car 🎧 Apple Music / Spotify 📝 Lyrics

"People who attend the “March for Australia” rallies will almost certainly be marching alongside white supremacists and neo-Nazis," "Politicians from all sides should be at the counter-protests this weekend to demonstrate that neo-Nazis have no place in Australia." @ebonybennett.bsky.social #auspol

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Neil deGrass Tyson: "How sad it must be believing that scientists, historians, scholars, economists, journalists devoted their entire lives to deceiving you, but a reality-TV star proven in court to be a lying felon is your beacon of truth & honesty"

Everyone at the CDC is getting fired or resigning. RFK Jr. wants to ban all vaccines. His idiocy will get millions of people killed.

New rule. A parent may only propose removing a book from the school library only after reading it in its entirety and delivering a book report to the librarian. Until then no discussion shall be entered into.

The people on the Beverly Hills school board that voted to fly the Israeli flag are traitors. They should resign and be arrested. Imagine a US school in 1940 voting to fly the nazi flag? Disgraceful.

People are having fun?? In this economy????

Right wing home grown domestic terrorist type that would likely vote One Nation. Alleged gunman and conspiracy theorist who killed two cops, wounded third in Porepunkah shooting identified as Dezi Freeman. Previously known as Desmond Filby. Well known to police. Arrested here in 2021. #auspol

This just in: Women do, in fact, play a crucial role in upholding the patriarchy

Amnesty International has launched a global ‘Urgent Action’, following the arrest of over 700 people for protesting in support of Palestine Action. Amnesty chief Sacha Deshmukh: “It is entirely disproportionate to the point of absurdity to be treating the peaceful protesters as ‘terrorists’"

Amnesty: "The launch of this global campaign is unprecedented, with this being the first time the UK will be the subject of a global Amnesty International ‘urgent action’ about the right to protest. The UK is not the subject of any other ‘urgent action’ campaigns."

One mirror photo from Iceland. #iceland #mountains #ocean

A Federal Judge has ruled that Alligator Alcatraz must be closed to preserve the Florida Everglades. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

gamers will turn on republicans in numbers never before seen

Because banning social media for kids is not about protecting kids or making their lives better. It flies in the face of research, data, and what kids are telling us. It’s about controlling them, isolating them, and keeping them uninformed. It’s part of the fascist playbook.

As a former queer kid for whom the internet and social media were a lifeline AND a problem, I want to be clear that I would choose growing up a lesbian online every time over not growing up a lesbian at all. The thought of growing up with no internet actually terrifies me

The issues around kids and social media and phones are complicated but what’s simple is that fascists at every level of government have clearly stated that they want to prevent the existence of trans and queer kids and trans and queer adults by limiting their access to the internet

If you talk to queer and trans kids about the internet they will tell you that it’s full of issues and causes issues for people in general, not just young people—and that they probably wouldn’t be here today without it. It’s a lifeline. It’s the only LGBTQ resource and community many of them have.

I'm not right wing but some of this "woke" stuff is a little over the top [6 months later] Slavery was fine. Your city is under martial law

I've collated a list of fossil fuel sponsorships in Australia since 2022, which I call the Chumps List. The Chumps List is now a website for easier access. www.chumpslist.org

This Sunday thousands of people will take part in a nationwide march for Palestine, including in Meanjin/Brisbane, where I will proudly join them. While the march across the Story Bridge has been denied by the courts, the event will still begin at 1pm in Raymond Park as planned.

Labor has taken a concerning U-turn from their previous AI guardrails work, now adopting a "Trumpian let-it-rip approach" that rejects public interest regulation. The new Australians for AI Safety report shows why we need responsible AI governance, not lazy and short sighted deregulation.