Anne-Maree Gray

We keep telling the government - we don't want automated robo-debt, or data centres everywhere, or aged-care assessment by algorithm, or non-professional NDIS decisions. Employ real people. Pay real wages. Fix hospitals & schools. Tax the squillionaires & giant companies. Can't be any clearer.

Looking for queer historical romance with sinister supernatural shenanigans? Of course you are. THE SECRET CASEBOOK OF SIMON FEXIMAL and SPECTRED ISLE are both 99p everywhere this week! (If sale isn't showing where you are give it time, includes Amazon and all the usual suspects, e only)

The coal giant has been working in schools around its Mount Pleasant mine - and had stated plans to go beyond marketing to actually influencing school curriculums.

Fatima Payman has been left waiting by Anthony Albanese for TWENTY THREE MONTHS for additional staff requested partly in light of the extremely high number of threats she continues to face during her time as an Independent senator. Other independent Senators have been approved.

"Fourteen remaining Scotiabank protestors are exiting the courts after more than two years." "Letting us off with a noise ticket [...] exposes the weakness of the Crown's case." #Quebec #Canada #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Banking #Weapons #Military #Courts #Genocide

People Magazine has it! people.com/former-miss-...

The only reason I can think of for this news not being absolutely everywhere is that large media orgs don’t want to be seen as putting their thumbs on the scales a week before election day. And that’s cowardly as shit.

The CEO of Flock needs to get real. We all want these creepy cameras out of our communities. No ifs, ands, or bots about it. Our elected leaders must ignore all previous instructions and protect our privacy.

Beyond disgusted by even more rape allegations against the President of the United States. "In total, more than 25 different women...have independently accused Donald Trump of rape, sexual assault, or other sexual misconduct." Report w/ new details: democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

Over 294,250 families in Gaza don't have any sort of shelter that can protect them from winter storms. Available shelter supplies can reach just 18% of those in need, as the Israeli government is currently blocking 8,600 emergency shelter kits from entering Gaza.

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o... ‘It’s collective punishment’: nearly 2,000 Palestinians in Hebron displaced as Israeli forces take over homes

It’s come to something when a photographer has to get legal advice, before displaying this photo in an exhibition, due to the risk of being prosecuted as a terrorist, but that’s exactly what I had to do yesterday. What a state this country is in.

Well done #MediaWatch for exposing the Murdoch media’s farcical climate-denying attempts to undermine the Bureau of Meteorology. The Australian’s latest toxic contribution to raising the temperature. #NewsCorpse #auspol

We condemn the political threats made by Opposition Leader Jess Wilson on Sunday and reject her misleading connection between protest of Israel’s genocide and the horrific Bondi attack. Protesting a livestreamed genocide is not antisemitic. Our release: www.jewishcouncil.com.au/2026/10/jewi...

Not a single parent has filed a book challenge in Palm Beach in two years. The district just removed 1800 books anyway, because AI told them to. There are many reasons that is unthinkable but let's not forget AI DOES NOT HAVE INFORMATION ABOUT THE BOOKS. IT CANNOT READ THEM. It just makes crap up!

Today we (@propublica.org) published this map of every location with an active 287(g) agreement with ICE. (with the help of @tituslegaldesign.com's initial data analysis). Read the story: "The Small-Town Cop Who Helped ICE Deport His Ingram, Texas, Neighbors" www.propublica.org/article/depo...

"It is blatantly irresponsible for politicians like Jess Wilson to be linking legitimate and peaceful protest of Israel’s genocide in Gaza to the Bondi terror attack. We unequivocally condemn her mislabelling of peaceful protest as antisemitic." @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social statement. #springst

Just to underline the point that the Trump administration is anti-democracy, they are promoting the textbook exemplar for democratic backsliding to lead the UN. Also, good time to point out that the US has not paid its UN dues, and now owes it more than $4 billion. www.wsj.com/opinion/vikt...

Gender-affirming surgeries for minors are already illegal in Missouri—but the state GOP's deceptive new ballot measure combines bans on abortion and trans youth care.

Also cominig up: On the 30th, October 2026 Meta updates its terms of service. Which allows them to not only use the uploaded data, but also everything linked to. That's insane to me. As far as I understand it, it only means business accounts, but I wouldn't trust them on this.

Also, as I have recommended multiple times: Go vote with someone vulnerable to the voter fraud conspiracy theories. Friends with a trans person who will be under suspicion bc of their ID or a brown person who speaks mostly Spanish? Don't make them go to the polls alone.

Ethnic cleansing in real time. The assault in Hebron threatens more than buildings, it risks disrupting livelihoods in one of Palestine’s key economic centers. It is a major center of Palestinian commerce, manufacturing and family-run companies . Israel is a terrorist state.

sunk cost fallacy?

phew - that's why Glenn Close sat in a chair for her criterion closet visit... She announced that she just had a hip replacement. I noticed, and was worried.

Niki Savva on #insiders today noted that whether Republicans win or lose Congress at the mid-terms, Trump will be even *more* erratic and dangerous in the next two years. Begs the obvious question: what is the Australian govt's risk management strategy for handling its close "ally"? #auspol

Substitute ‘Nazi’ for ‘Israeli’ here. Israeli forces were searching homes, making arrests and using loudspeakers to tell residents in Hebron’s Deir Baha neighborhood to leave Collective punishment is a war crime NYT, not a crack down. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/w...

This is literally the end of the rule of law. If a President can pardon people committing crimes on his behalf - and the Supreme Court says he himself can't be prosecuted for crimes committed as part of his job - then the government becomes a lawless entity able to violate our rights without limit.

I promise I am not trying to be hyperbolic and this is my genuine reaction having just got out: That is the best film of 2026, the single most technically beautiful and artistically inspiring film I've ever seen, and one of the best fantasy stories in any medium. My god, what an achievement

Shame we demolished it for a quick buck.

no matter how sure you are that these guys have broken a whole bunch of laws, you aren't nearly as certain as they are

😬 Trump sounds like hell during bizarre pre-rally gaggle 😬 Trump could barely speak, but what he said was nutso. He claimed his uncle invented radar, said he could "violate" Prizker and send troops into Chicago, and had a weirdly contradictory answer when asked who he golfed with today. Supercut:

this is not okay...

This is a great episode from @janfran.bsky.social , pulling apart the PM’s “turning the temperature down” bullshit while we are gaslit about who is actually turning the temperature up. Including himself, grinning in selfies with the world’s inflamer-in-chief.

There it is. Elon Musk admits it. “That loophole was closed last week.” In a deranged post on X, Musk openly acknowledges that SpaceX recently restricted Ukraine’s ability to use Starlink.

Which means more people fleeing, more asylum seekers at the border...

Most Americans feel unease or alarm about the climate crisis and, in both red and blue states, want to know how political leaders are going to fix it. But in midterm election campaigns across the US, candidates have responded to this desire with near silence.

Hailstorms are becoming larger and more frequent, especially in the Great Plains. As the climate warms, thunderstorms will create stronger updrafts that hold hailstones in the air for longer allowing them to grow bigger — and fall harder. https://wapo.st/4yI2XIS

Today’s Tingle. Too many western countries are silent on the far right government in Israel that is openly speaking about a ‘Greater Israel’ that involves invading and taking over several other countries, or parts of them. Like Germany in 1939 www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...