Rob Phair
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Rural generalist doctor working on Gunaikurnai country, Victoria, Australia 🚲🤹♂️ 🇺🇦
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝
about 15 hours ago
Sometimes the truth escapes like a cat out a door you thought was closed.
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DIE ZEIT
about 12 hours ago
Damit Apple, Amazon und Co. hierzulande Steuern zahlen, ersann der Fiskus eine spezielle Regel. Die soll nun leise verschwinden. Ein teures Geschenk an die Tech-Branche.
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Finanzministerium: Wie das Finanzministerium Tech-Giganten Milliarden schenkt
Damit Apple, Amazon und Co. hierzulande Steuern zahlen, ersann der Fiskus eine spezielle Regel. Die soll nun leise verschwinden. Ein teures Geschenk an die Tech-Branche.
https://www.zeit.de/geld/2025-11/finanzministerium-bundestag-tech-konzerne-steuern-lizenzschranke?utm_medium=redpost&utm_source=bluesky&utm_campaign=zeitde
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#COALition
#Straya
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#climate
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about 21 hours ago
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Chris Hayes
2 days ago
The thing to understand about this is that this catastrophe in the UK has redounded to the political benefit of the very same people and political movement that pushed for it! Extremely perverse.
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Melissa & Chris Bruntlett
5 days ago
Recognizing bicycle parking as a critical component of any infrastructure network, The Hague’s Amare concert hall has opened 1,000 guarded and sheltered spaces—intended not just for ticket holders visiting the largest cultural building in the Netherlands, but anyone visiting the city’s busy centre.🧵
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The Tennessee Holler
5 days ago
A deep commitment to anti-wokeness
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Christopher Miller
7 days ago
In a first-of-its-kind trial in Ukraine, Russian soldier Dmitri Kurashov was convicted by a court of executing Ukrainian soldier Vitalii Hodniuk as he surrendered on the battlefield and sentenced to life imprisonment. We mentioned the case in our FT investigative doc film below.
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Patrick Flamm
7 days ago
It’s already been bad with this Luxon government already on so many issues, but it got even worse now.
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Gutting of Zero Carbon Act crashes bipartisan climate consensus
It took more than a year of painstaking cross-partisan negotiation to land the Zero Carbon Act. Now, the Govt is gutting it unilaterally, Marc Daalder reports
https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/06/gutting-of-zero-carbon-act-crashes-bipartisan-climate-consensus/
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Center for International Environmental Law
6 days ago
🚨Breaking🚨 🕴️Just a few days ahead of
#COP30
, today, the
#KickBigPollutersOut
coalition uncovered that there are more than 5000 fossil fuel lobbyists attending the climate talks over the past four years. It's high time to
#KickBigPollutersOut
:
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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How thousands of fossil fuel lobbyists got access to UN climate talks – and then kept drilling
Exclusive: Research shows oil, gas and coal firms’ unprecedented access to Cop26-29, blocking urgent climate action
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/07/fossil-fuel-lobbyists-cop-un-climate
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David Ho
6 days ago
Although we're not where we should be, we're on a significantly better trajectory than we were 10 years ago.
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10 Years After the Paris Climate Agreement, Here's Where We Are (Gift Article)
Has anything really changed in the decade since the Paris Agreement was reached? Actually, quite a lot.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/11/07/climate/paris-agreement-climate.html?unlocked_article_code=1.zU8._FoE.8eesjpnE0K4M&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Croakey Health Media
8 days ago
Wins and losses as Australian Centre for Disease Control moves ahead
www.croakey.org/wins-and-los...
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Wins and losses as Australian Centre for Disease Control moves ahead
https://www.croakey.org/wins-and-losses-as-australian-centre-for-disease-control-moves-ahead
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Kyle Griffin
8 days ago
The cover of next week's New Yorker, "Mayor Mamdani," by Edel Rodriguez.
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All Our Yesterdays
8 days ago
60 years ago today (November 5, 1965), the first US government report to warn about climate change was published. "Restoring the Quality of Our Environment" included a brief section on carbon dioxide build-up, and a longer annexe. Details below...
allouryesterdays.info/2025/11/04/6...
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Melissa Sweet
7 days ago
“A transformative moment for health and equity” – VicHealth on Treaty – Croakey Health Media
www.croakey.org/a-transforma...
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“A transformative moment for health and equity” – VicHealth on Treaty
Introduction by Croakey: Following the passage through the Victorian Parliament last week of the Statewide Treaty Bill, United Nations Human
https://www.croakey.org/a-transformative-moment-for-health-and-equity-vichealth-on-treaty/
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7 days ago
coALCOHOLICS
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Dr Richard Denniss
7 days ago
So tackling climate change is an ‘environmental imperative’ but Labor has specifically ruled out putting a climate trigger in their proposed changes to our environmental laws… Checks out
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@acrrm.bsky.social
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Melissa Sweet
7 days ago
As we head to
#COP30
, check out all the
#ClimateHealthMatters
reading at
@croakeynews.bsky.social
– & there's more to come too!
www.croakey.org
#ClimateHealthSummit25
#HEAL2025
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#AirPollution
#AirQuality
#FossilGas
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22 days ago
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@ruraldoctorsaus.bsky.social
@acrrm.bsky.social
#RMA25
#rural
#DestinationRural
#gorural
@judster5.bsky.social
22 days ago
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The Heavy Metal Tooth Fairy Club: a great
#PublicHealth
initiative which aims to secure clean, safe drinking
#water
for communities in the Western Desert.
#RMA25
@acrrm.bsky.social
@phaa-onehealth.bsky.social
@phaahpsig.bsky.social
22 days ago
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Simon Quilty presents the Doctors for Bricks project at
#RMA25
Poorly designed, culturally inappropriate
#housing
is one of the biggest
#PublicHealth
issues in northern Australia
#HousingJustice
@acrrm.bsky.social
@phaahpsig.bsky.social
22 days ago
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#ClimateAction
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23 days ago
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#straya
@albomp.bsky.social
@australianlabor.bsky.social
#climate
#auspol
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23 days ago
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“Economic pressure alone is not enough”
#Russia
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Prof Ray Wills
24 days ago
Death of baseload: World's biggest isolated grid is reaching 84 pct wind and solar almost daily
reneweconomy.com.au/death-of-bas...
@gilesparkinson.bsky.social
@reneweconomy.com.au
And batteries surging in Western Australia, too Battery dispatch now greater than utility solar generation in WA
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Robert Heinze
25 days ago
At this point I'm rooting for this to be a heist team of African artists that will exhibit Napoleon's jewelries in a National Museum in Kinshasa or Nairobi and when Macron demands it back they say: clearly you can't keep these objects safe, we should keep them here for the world to see its heritage.
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#FFMV
@friendsofbats.bsky.social
#lovegippsland
#forests
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
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Scientists question use of burns to cut bushfire risk
Dry winter conditions have resulted in extra fuel reduction burns in regional Victoria ahead of the fire season. But some scientists are asking if fuel burns are the best way to reduce fire risk.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-20/scientists-challenge-fuel-load-burns-victoria/105666680
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Friends of Bats and Habitat Gippsland
5 months ago
"We also gain a deeper appreciation for one of nature’s quiet heroes – fattening up, flying through the night and holding ecosystems together, one wingbeat at a time."
theconversation.com/bats-get-fat...
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Bats get fat to survive hard times. But climate change is threatening their survival strategy
If bats’ way of living falters, entire food webs could feel the effects.
https://theconversation.com/bats-get-fat-to-survive-hard-times-but-climate-change-is-threatening-their-survival-strategy-259560
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Kent Parkstreet, Laird of Doofus
25 days ago
In times of moral uncertainty Mr Albanese should ask himself, “what would Midnight Oil do?”.
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#Trump
#Putin
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25 days ago
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27 days ago
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Sarah Kirchberger
about 1 month ago
Topical “graph of truth” by Katja Berlin in Die Zeit — Q.: Who takes an interest in German infrastructure? Black column: German federal governments until a couple of years ago Blue column: German federal governments as of a couple of years ago Green column: Russia Touché.
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If
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27 days ago
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@albomp.bsky.social
talks about his cosy relationship with
#gambling
lobbyists: “It comes with the gig.” who does he think he’s fooling
#auspol
@davidpocock.bsky.social
@docsamantha.bsky.social
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
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PM dismisses betting lobby woes, treasurer takes one for the team
This week, the PM was not wasting any time on "this" issue, and the treasurer took one for the team as Brett Worthington signs off with his final political wrap.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-16/anthony-albanese-jim-chalmers-good-oppositions/105884222
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#Trump
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29 days ago
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌
29 days ago
SCIENCE POLICY NEWS: During Yom Kippur, all the members of the High Energy Physics Advisory Committee (HEPAP), myself included, received a letter thanking us for our service and telling us essentially that the almost 40 yo standing federal advisory committee was no more. ⚛️🧪🔭 Why that matters 🧵
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DOE Consolidates Office of Science Advisory Committees
Six long-standing committees advising the Department of Energy’s Office of Science have been rolled into one.
https://www.aip.org/fyi/doe-consolidates-office-of-science-advisory-committees
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Clay Ranck
about 1 month ago
Trump playing up his bullet dodging skills at the Charlie Kirk memorial is really beyond parody.
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The Kyiv Independent
about 1 month ago
In her monumental work, Darya Tsymbalyuk insists the world must reckon with the full cost of the destruction in Ukraine — not just in hectares lost or tons of grain burned, but in the severed roots that once tied generations to the land they called home.
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New book exposes Russia’s ecocide as a war against Ukraine’s land – and memory
When Russia destroyed Ukraine’s Kakhovka Hydroelectric Dam in June 2023, unleashing catastrophic floods across the country’s south, it seemed like such a blatant act of environmental and humanitarian ...
https://kyivindependent.com/new-book-exposes-russias-ecocide-as-a-war-against-ukraines-land-and-memory/
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Market Forces
about 1 month ago
Macquarie has betrayed investors and its climate commitments by continuing to support one of Australia's biggest proposed gas developments. Join the campaign to stop Australia becoming a fracking hellscape. Tell Macquarie to stop financing Beetaloo:
marketforces.org.au/beetaloo
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Market Forces
about 1 month ago
Woodside's Browse LNG project doesn't stack up environmentally and there's growing questions over the project's economics 👇
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
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Financial analysts cast doubt on mega Woodside gas project
The Browse gas project is staring down the full weight of Australia's climate movement. Analysts say that is the least of its worries.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-05/economic-doubts-over-browse-gas-project/105838392?utm_source=abc_news_web&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_web
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#Russia
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about 1 month ago
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Nicolas Tenzer
about 1 month ago
Nineteen years ago, on October 7, 2006, Anna Politkovskaya was assassinated by Putin's hitmen. She was the first to tell the truth about Russia's mass crimes in Chechnya, which foreshadowed those in Syria, Ukraine, Africa and elsewhere. They could have been prevented. Almost no one listened to her.
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Jess Davis
about 1 month ago
😏 Thiel said: "“It’s become quite difficult to hide one’s money...An incredible machinery of tax treaties, financial surveillance, and sanctions architecture has been constructed.”"
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction
In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/10/10/peter-thiel-antichrist-lectures-leaked/
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#MAGA
#PublicHealth
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about 1 month ago
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the Juice Media
about 1 month ago
The Government of New Zealand has made a new tourism ad and it's surprsingly honest and informative!
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Honest Government Ad | Visit New Zealand!
YouTube video by thejuicemedia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-yjkAXxnMA
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@docsamantha.bsky.social
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