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Teens Facing Social Media Ban Relieved They’ll Still Be Able to Watch Gambling Ads — The Shovel “Social media causes anxiety and depression, ruins relationships and is incredibly addictive. On the other hand, gambling does all those things too wields enormous power over governments. So it makes ...

The 15-year-old can't use TikTok, but is comforted by the fact he’ll be old enough to watch a thousand ads from Sportsbet about the latest odds at Randwick.

theshovel.com.au/2024/11/11/t...

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Chart showing the global land sea temperature anomaly from the 1880-1901 average - it shows in the past year to Nov temperature were more than 1.4C hotter than that base and are heating faster than the 1965-2010 range.

Chart showing the global land sea temperature anomaly from the 1880-1901 average - it shows in the past year to Nov temperature were more than 1.4C hotter than that base and are heating faster than the 1965-2010 range.

The November monthly temperatures have been released and 2025 looks set to be the 2nd hottest year on record.

Remember when warming apparently stopped in 1997?

That is more than 0.5C ago.

4 months ago 149 72 4 5
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Labor tipped to drop proposal for online gambling ad ban Political and industry sources expect Communications Minister Anika Wells to crack-down on illegal offshore gambling websites.

Gambling ruins lives. It is absolutely unacceptable that the Albanese government will continue to choose vested interests over the wellbeing of Australians and hide behind a watered-down policy - if they ever introduce one. We need action on gambling harms now.

5 months ago 243 86 14 12
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Nuclear outpaced fourteen to one by wind and solar in Europe Key points Limiting warming to 1.5°C is the internationally recognized target of the Paris Agreement, as reaffirmed at recent UN climate summits. However, scientific assessments indicate that this thr...

"The high costs and long timelines of new nuclear power plants severely limit any impact on near-term decarbonization goals. Wind and solar are achieving rapid scale and greater cost-effectiveness, making them central to immediate emissions reduction"

globalenergymonitor.org/report/nucle...

7 months ago 80 29 1 0

What a debt we owe @asherwolf.bsky.social.

7 months ago 188 30 4 1

I've seen ABC refer to the Nazi rallies as "anti mass immigration rallies" over and over, exactly what Nazis want labelled as, legitimising them.

In contrast, not once have I heard the Palestine rallies called anti-genocide or anti-colonial. I wonder what that's about 🙄

7 months ago 813 304 34 12
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Maybe you should release a statement condemning the neo-Nazi rallies taking place?
Antisemitism Envoy Jillian Segal:
#auspol

7 months ago 36 14 0 0
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Labor plans to make it harder to access government information A new proposal would introduce a fee for Freedom of Information requests and tighten the rules around the release of documents related to government deliberations.

Minister for protecting gambling is now minister for wrecking FOI

7 months ago 178 76 6 9
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Labor plans to make it harder to access government information A new proposal would introduce a fee for Freedom of Information requests and tighten the rules around the release of documents related to government deliberations.

Government secrecy and obfuscation was one of the key reasons we chucked out Morrison and his putrid pals. What the hell is the former Minister for Gambling doing now?

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

7 months ago 222 89 23 8
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Despite $22bn promise, Adani has paid zero corporate tax in Australia and experts think it won’t ever pay a cent Adani’s Australian assets regularly report annual losses despite strong revenue, in part due to big related-party payments

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

The suckers here are us...

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The unexamined precursor to Robodebt How a long-forgotten episode involving the wrongful conviction of 15,000 Australians for unproven welfare offences prompted the creation of the Robodebt scheme

Chris Rudge has a peer reviewed article out which reveals an estimated 15,000 social security recipients were wrongfully convicted of criminal offences between 1991 and 2011 in a scandal he is calling ‘the omissions affair’. This was the precursor to Robodebt welfare.substack.com/p/the-unexam...

9 months ago 110 66 2 1

Oh well at least we have the NACC to expose any corruption 🤗

8 months ago 92 28 7 0
Story in The Australian

Super tax ‘the last straw’ for this cattle farmer
Helen Trinca
Craig Huf, a farmer from Burringbar in far north NSW, will pull one of his farms out of super because of the tax on unrealised capital gains

Cattle farmer Craig Huf says the federal government’s proposed superannuation tax will likely be the “straw that breaks the camel’s back” forcing him to pull his $3m farm out of his self-managed super fund.

Story in The Australian Super tax ‘the last straw’ for this cattle farmer Helen Trinca Craig Huf, a farmer from Burringbar in far north NSW, will pull one of his farms out of super because of the tax on unrealised capital gains Cattle farmer Craig Huf says the federal government’s proposed superannuation tax will likely be the “straw that breaks the camel’s back” forcing him to pull his $3m farm out of his self-managed super fund.

Good!!! A farm is NOT MEANT TO BE IN YOUR SUPER!!!

The ONLY reason anyone would put a farm in their super IS TO AVOID PAYING TAX!!

8 months ago 393 111 47 5
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U.S. socked with 15 billion-dollar weather disasters during the 1st half of 2025 » Yale Climate Connections Four of the top 20 costliest weather disasters have occurred in the last year.

Of the 20 costliest weather disasters in history, four have occurred in just the last year.

9 months ago 101 66 1 4
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It's so cool that cities are like "oweeease only turn your AC on if you're actively dying and don't go below 79
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while the Al nobody asked for is slurping up the power grid to make 1 image of a girl with 5 tits
Jun 22, 2024 at 5:58 PM

Screenshot of a Bluesky post Lauren Follow @laurenkayes.bsky.social It's so cool that cities are like "oweeease only turn your AC on if you're actively dying and don't go below 79 " while the Al nobody asked for is slurping up the power grid to make 1 image of a girl with 5 tits Jun 22, 2024 at 5:58 PM

Got a ConEd alert telling me to use less energy during the heat wave and this is all I can think about.

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Happy NACCiversary. Celebrating two years of not very much - Michael West The NACC celebrates its second anniversary this week, but has the much-heralded initiative lived up to its expectations?

Monday July 7 anniversary Robodebt Royal Commissioner Catherine Holmes’ referral report NACC - included sealed chapter - recommended 6 individuals for civil and criminal prosecution for their roles in the illegal Robodebt scheme. michaelwest.com.au/happy-nacciv....

9 months ago 85 43 6 3

For all those reactionary centrists who thought Kim Williams might not be a Murdoch-adjacent plant at the ABC. #auspol

9 months ago 136 42 21 8
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US tech giants Amazon, Google, Meta, Netflix, Disney took $A15B in revenue from the lucrative Australian market yet paid only $A254M in local tax through creative (profit shifting) evasion. David Chau ABC finance. Hey @jimchalmers.bsky.social

9 months ago 55 19 2 0
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Federal court rules ABC unlawfully terminated Antoinette Lattouf after ‘orchestrated campaign by pro-Israel lobbyists’ Journalist was taken off air three days into five-day contract in December 2023 after sharing Gaza post on social media

finallly someone with institutional authority has said it: the Aust executive class panic and fold when targeted by highly orchestrated pro-Israel campaigners.

www.theguardian.com/media/2025/j...

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Here's something absolutely cooked about books in Australia Winning authors pay tax. Mug punters, that's another story.

If you win the Miles Franklin Literary Award, you'll receive $60,000 but pay as much as $20,000 of that back in tax.

If you *bet* on the winner of the Miles Franklin, your winnings are tax free.

Removing this tax is a small way we can support our authors, writes @alicektg.bsky.social.

9 months ago 159 44 2 4

So @antoinettelattouf.bsky.social has won her case against the ABC.

Now, how about ABC managers sit in court again, preferably in The Hague, for genocide apologia and warmongering?

Israel/US has killed half a million ppl in Gaza, and the state broadcaster has excused it every step

9 months ago 224 41 10 2
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Budget reveals WA oil and gas royalties in rapid decline Shared revenue from Australia's largest mainland gas project has dropped by more than 70 per cent in three years, contributing less than 1 per cent of the state's revenue this financial year.

West Australians reading the latest budget should be outraged: "Australia is being robbed of its resources and our governments are entirely complicit," said @markogge.bsky.social speaking to ABC.

"WA motorists will be paying 6x the amount in car rego fees as the gas industry pays in royalties."

10 months ago 183 79 8 4
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#AbolishCruelCoerciveMutualObligations

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Media scare campaigns work: 21% of people - and 32% of 25-34 year olds - say the superannuation tax change will have an impact on their retirement plans even though it won't, for almost all of them.

10 months ago 32 14 2 1

If Santos is bought by an Abu Dhabi company, then they should be ineligible for Australian taxpayer subsidies & should be made to pay a flat rate of company tax of 30%

No tax minimisation

Australian taxpayers should not have to fund rich oil nations
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#auspol

10 months ago 95 31 6 1
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Protecting superannuation tax concessions for the wealthy won't help future generations.

Addressing climate change and the housing crisis will.

@richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol

10 months ago 159 42 2 3
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It’s almost 2yrs since the day Commissioner Catherine Holmes handed down her final report on Robodebt & referred those responsible for criminal prosecution. It was a day we felt like finally something was happening.
I’m so sorry to all victims who are STILL waiting for justice.

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