History. Alice Pepper becomes the first person from the First Peoples Assembly of Victoria to sign the Treaty.

Axente Sever fortified church, Transylvania, Romania (Frauendorf, Siebenbürgen, Rumänien) #Transylvania #Siebenbürgen #AxenteSever

Hundreds of people have joined an Indigenous-led protest on the second day of the UN climate summit in the Brazilian city of Belem, highlighting tensions with the Brazilian government’s claim that the meeting is open to Indigenous voices. #cop30 #ClimateCrisis #ClimateJustice

Astronomers have discovered the famous Seven Sisters or Pleiades star cluster, which is featured in many Aboriginal songlines, is surrounded by a huge, hidden stellar family.

#OtD 11 Nov 1975 Angola declared independence from Portugal after almost 500 years of colonial rule. The proclamation by the MPLA came after 15 years of war, which was a major contributor to the revolution in Portugal in April 1974. Learn more in our pod: workingclasshistory.com/2020/08/13/e...

this is literally never not accurate

“[Ms Reynolds] is incredibly disappointed that Ms Higgins got $2.4m worth of taxpayer money [after being raped in her office by her staffer] and has paid not a cent towards [the person who called Ms Higgins a lying cow after she was raped in her office],” he told reporters outside the court.

It's just been confirmed that Monash University is dropping Woodside as a partner because they don't align with their sustainable values. This is an incredible win for @stopwoodsidemonash.bsky.social who have run a dedicated grass roots campaign for years.

Read more Whitlam nostalgia or go listen to Patti Smith “Horses”? Both have been around for 50 years this week. I’m too young to remember that week but Horses moves me more than the ALP’s lost courage.

8/ TLDR : After permitting nazis to rally in a Very Public display of antisemitism without consequence, police & NSW authorities are taking the opportunity to introduce more repressive legislation in order to target public protest in general.

I find it fascinating that Fraser kept a bunch of popular Whitlam policies like free uni and then Labor rolled them back.

Lest we forget.

The Palestinian tradition of olive picking and dates harvest in the occupied West Bank is under threat from Israeli settlers who have increased their attacks on farmers this season.

"We’re done waiting for Dems to find their spine. We can’t afford a weak & cowardly Democratic Party while the authoritarians invade our cities, terrorize our communities, & threaten our democracy. We get the party we demand, & we intend to demand a Democratic Party that fights.” — @indivisible.org

Oh, I love this. A new species of sea anemone was discovered recently that parks itself on top of a hermit crab shell like a hat. It seems to feed partly off the crab's faeces, but it also excretes a hard shell that extends the crab's home. In return, it's carried around the seafloor like a king.

Yeah, nah

Further revelations that NSW Police knew exactly how antisemitic the National Socialist Network's rally at Parliament House on the weekend was going to be. www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...

Last Friday night I took a trip to Badger Weir, just outside Healesville, which is probably the best place close to Melbourne to see greater gliders - the largest of all gliding marsupials

50 years ago today Horses is the debut studio album by American proto-punk / punkrock musician Patti Smith, which was released on this day in 1975. #punk #punks #protopunk #garagerock #womenofpunk #pattismith #horses #history #punkrockhistory #otd

“They would knock on the door, bang on the windows with their torches, shine torches through the windows. It was relentless,” says Megan, who is using a pseudonym for legal reasons. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

2/ Re the nazi assembly outside NSW state parliament, NSW Police have expressed bewilderment & inter alia identified the fact that lots of permits are sought & obtained for rallies as a reason the nazis slipped thru the cracks. All else aside, the app was reportedly submitted by 'White Australia' >

Traditional owners file native title claim over Melbourne and surrounding areas Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung elder says First Nations people want to work in conjunction with government and communities to look after and restore the land. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Schrödinger's mouse?? 🐭🌿🌱 Currently there are four Australian species, plants & animals, listed as nationally extinct despite them all being recently rediscovered… which means these species get no protection under our environmental laws #auswildlife #wildoz #nature www.abc.net.au/news/science...

ps this is how badly existing EPBC environment offsets are doing even BEFORE we consider the relaxed requirements proposed in Watt's reform package An approach that'll complicate tracking the performance of the various "offset streams" through time — guess who loses❓

The last time NSW cops got more power over protests they beat the seven shades of shit out of Hannah Thomas. Every law you make to empower police against Nazis, will be used against environmentalists, unions and all social activists. This has always been the way www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Researchers warn that the alga Karenia cristata, which has killed around a million animals in Australian waters in one of the biggest algal blooms ever seen, could harm marine life elsewhere

Noted racist and Nobel Laureate James Watson, who stole Rosalind Franklin's data to try to deduce the structure of DNA first, has died at 97 as an unrepentant eugenicist and misogynist.

The NACC was one of Albanese's biggest election promises and it's been a complete and utter failure from start to finish. How can there be no political consequences for the government? Why is the media letting them get away with it?

Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...

This perfectly encapsulates how I feel living in the US. The republican party is an insane death cult, the democratic party is 3 corporations in a trench coat, and the "socialists" are just the completely normal left-wing capitalists you'd find in any of 2 dozen European nations.

Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market. This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.

Bill Gates’ charity has donated more than $3.5 million to a think tank run by the Danish academic and climate crisis denier Bjørn Lomborg, according to U.S. tax records reviewed by DeSmog. www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/b...

Craig Robert Dale is jailed for seven years for defrauding the remote Aboriginal community of Warmun out of $2.7 million, to fuel his gambling.

"Affordable" housing isn't even for poor people, it's for people whose wages haven't kept pace with Australia's property investment as passive income fetish. Way to reinforce that society values hedge fund managers more than it values nurses 👍 #AusPol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

It’s really good to see the ABC reporting using ‘child’ and ‘cell’. Too often reporting describes children as ‘young people’ and prison cells as ‘detention facilities’. Across Australia governments are putting children, alone, in prison cells. It must stop. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Protests on an outback road in the Northern Territory have refocused attention on Pine Gap, the secretive US satellite base near Alice Springs. The protesters have tried to block workers from accessing the facility, which they claim is aiding Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Nour Haydar speaks with seni…

It is a peculiar quirk of the Australian social security system that when given the option to either engage with Centrelink for the disability support pension, or work to death for slightly better yet still poverty level wages, many women will choose the non-centrelink option, and try to hug it

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

Such absolute dominance of familism is almost unique - most countries have some individual-level unemployment protection. None of the Australian welfare technocratic class seem to be interested in the issue. Brush it off as secondary.

I've long criticised the dehumanising and patriarchal partner income test embedded everywhere in the Australian welfare state. The tax on love really does hurt families, and has a real impact on relationship formation or termination. www.reddit.com/r/Centrelink...

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I think it’s pretty insane that standard diagnostic imaging is not covered by medicare. I’d love to know how many ED visits are for imaging because of this. I’ve just paid several hundred $ for xray and ultrasound that show f-all. GP tells me I need an MRI which is $600

Good news from the nation's capital, where a jury has determined that chucking a wrapped sandwich at the chest of a federal officer is not a punishable misdemeanor. ✊🏼 Local hero sandwich guy ftw. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

To put this in scale, Elon Musk's salary from Tesla alone could fund the SNAP program for the entire country into 2034.

Merry-go-round

The RBA's estimates for wages and inflation growth suggest were are going to have to wait a very, very long time till real wages recover www.theguardian.com/business/gro...

Gaming regulator announces temporary halt on accepting bribes www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

btw police routinely lay the “serious” charge of assault police when roaming low income areas antagonising people for their criminalisation quotas. Everybody in the system knows police do this and most pretend not to know because maintaining an impoverished underclass pays their mortgage.

Typhoon Kalmaegi leaves 114 dead and 127 missing in Philippines www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...