Peta from Oz

Peta from Oz

@petsam.bsky.social

Follower of world politics, gardens, reads, loves dogs, birds, the bush, friends, family esp kid n grandkids. Left leaning, retired hist/eng teacher. No DMs

2.8K followers1.1K following3.7K posts

Peta from Oz
@petsam.bsky.social

By the end of the show, not one govt spokesperson, just all opposition, including journos bad mouthing govt and pumping up one nation including Pauline’s apparent apology 🤷🏻‍♀️ One great interview with scientist re Aus development of MRNA vaccine to prevent re appearance of melanoma. #auspol

Peta from Oz@petsam.bsky.social

Ffs #AfternoonBriefing endless coverage of Michelle Landry resignation in 2 yrs, Matt Canavan, then Dan Tehan, now someone from SBirrell from nationals in Vic nearly halfway through program🤬 #auspol

Peta from Oz
@petsam.bsky.social

Ffs #AfternoonBriefing endless coverage of Michelle Landry resignation in 2 yrs, Matt Canavan, then Dan Tehan, now someone from SBirrell from nationals in Vic nearly halfway through program🤬 #auspol

Peta from Oz
@petsam.bsky.social

Bloody hell how is this keeping our kids safe? Basketball Australia need to stop this now. Please sign 👇👇👇

Lilly@lillyull.bsky.social

From GetUp! What is the necessity/reason for this? Please sign and share. petitions.getup.org.au/petitions/ba...

Peta from Oz
@petsam.bsky.social

* oh jeez that was garbled. Meant to say: let’s support this ‘great’ idea, many young people have far too many burdens. I’m sure I checked it before I posted but 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Loony Left Media 🚨#TaxTheGas + CancelAUKUS
@loonyleftmedia.bsky.social

Did anyone catch this epic investigative piece in yesterday’s Age on Evil Gina’s mining / corruption / thuggery / environmental vandalism shitfuckery in Ecuador 🇪🇨 Well today there’s a part ll which is in the comments along with paywall free links 🔗 so please read and share wildly

theage.com.auMountains of Trouble: Bumpy road for Rinehart’s offshore mining pushAustralia’s richest woman’s company is chasing copper and gold in the Andes. Local communities want no part of it.

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Simon Rosenberg
@simonrosenberg.bsky.social

"Nearly 4 million Australians including 757,000 children live in poverty, with insecure food and housing and manifestly inadequate public support." If the Albanese govt won't fix these structural failings on #inequality and #poverty, it should stop pretending to be "progressive". #auspol

Toastman@toastman1.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Hitler recognized the pain of people and was able to exploit it, Trump and Hanson handlers are using Hitler playbook to take power but like Trump by time people see their vision it’s too late 😬

theguardian.comA banner along the Pacific Highway speaks volumes about why some communities are turning to One Nation‘Centrelink is evil’ isn’t a call to slash welfare payments – it’s a sign people are frustrated about the ability to access government support

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Dr Paul Dorfman
@drpauldorfman.bsky.social

New global assessment finds #nuclear is not cost-competitive with #solar and #wind in most countries. Small modular reactors (#SMR) remain 1-2 decades away from wide deployment. #Russia controlled 40% of global uranium enrichment capacity in 2025. www.energy-transitions.org/role-of-nucl...

energy-transitions.orgNuclear energy could double by 2050, but AI-driven power demand does not change the economic caseNew global assessment finds nuclear is not cost-competitive with solar and wind in most countries, despite renewed interest arising from AI datacentres and energy security concerns
Peta from Oz
@petsam.bsky.social

Had to put up with Barnaby, David Sharma today on #AfternoonBriefing but worth it to listen to Ann Aly on immigration and Zali Steggle on pre cop and high court decision re responsibility for emissions. So articulate. ❤️ #auspol

Peta from Oz
@petsam.bsky.social

Essential read for those of us still trying to make ‘good trouble’ 👇👇👇

Tim Goodacre - Writer@timgoodacre.bsky.social

And, of course, my own piece on what it is and how it has shaped the current world: bsky.app/profile/timg...

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Dr Alan Nixon
@alangnixon.bsky.social

"the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice" #Centrism is cancer in times of crisis On some issues there is one correct side @albomp.bsky.social

David Roberts@volts.wtf

I love this paper so much. If I had my way every single journalist, pundit, analyst, and politician in the US would read it & then read it again. I want to quote all of it. www.frontiersin.org/journals/soc...

frontiersin.orgFrontiers | The problem with polarization research in an age of extremism"I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block i...

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Maranoa Girl
@maranoagirl.bsky.social

Equator: Guilty Men. The American-Zionist Israel's War on Palestinians in Gaza. 📖In the long & sordid history of American foreign policy, there is nothing quite like the Gaza genocide. In the face of loud and insistent warnings, President Joe Biden ...2/ .

Peta from Oz
@petsam.bsky.social

Did anyone watch it today on abc? Watch it on iview. It’s called The Pacific. Today was really informative about West Papuans fighting for their lives against Indonesia. Right on our doorstep and no one cares. Except of course Jennifer Robinson. Bloody awful our govt needs to step up.

Peta from Oz
@petsam.bsky.social

I can’t help feeling satisfied by this umpires decision. 👇👇👇

Paul Eric@pauleric70.bsky.social

Israel is trying to remove this video form the internet. An Israeli got a red card for doing the most Israeli celebration possible.

Peta from Oz
@petsam.bsky.social

This 👇👇👇

Philip Thalis@philipthalis.bsky.social

This SMH letter writer clearly has a better grasp on what could happen if LNP policy thought bubble on superannuation & housing were to be adopted. The banks already the beneficiaries of so much housing policy & tax breaks - don’t give them anymore leeway to ‘protect their interests’

Peta from Oz
@petsam.bsky.social

#foreigncorrespndenr don’t know what I think they were trying to achieve. I’ve been with my daughter yrs ago when we did Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam. Thailand the only place we saw old white guys walking past our restaurant hand in hand with with teenagers. It was ick.

Peta from Oz
@petsam.bsky.social

Nyadol was on tonight, will defs catch up on iview, of course only Barnaby was advertised, hence why I didn’t watch. 👇👇👇

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Dr Sally
@drsally.bsky.social

The Israel lobby put this prick into office It has returned our policing to the brutal days It has undermined our ability to protest To have a voice All because of the Israel lobby and their poisonous money Buying politicians worldwide #MinnsMustGo

Peggy Sanders@peggysanders.bsky.social

In 2003, before he held any significant office, Chris Minns was selected for the AIJAC Rambam Israel Fellowship – an all-expenses-paid program with one purpose: take promising Australian political figures to Israel, immerse them, and bind them. michaelwest.com.au/groomed-capt....

michaelwest.com.auGroomed, captured, deployed. How the Israel lobby runs Chris Minns - Michael WestPolice brutality, intimidation, harassment, free speech attacked. NSW Premier Chris Minns was groomed for Israel, writes Andrew Brown.
Peta from Oz
@petsam.bsky.social

Gosh what a read. 👇👇👇

Tom Quinn@tomquinn.bsky.social

"Only cowards beat and abuse men who are chained and shackled. Only cowards act that way." This is a hard read on the utter brutality of Guantanamo.

middleeasteye.netI was 18 when they sent me to Guantanamo. The system that allowed it never went awayMansoor Adayfi was a student when the 'war on terror' turned him into a number. Twenty-five years later, he argues that the machinery behind his imprisonment has found new targets

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Anthony Klan
@anthonyklan.bsky.social

🚨Networks of bogus social media "news" pages spreading Pauline Hanson propaganda are lavishing praise on her multi-billionaire backer, Gina Rinehart. Comes as far-right fights moves to allow Australians the choice to "opt-out" of social media algorithms... theklaxon.com.au/v7ex

theklaxon.com.auSham Hanson "news" sites push Rinehart propaganda - The KlaxonBogus social media “news” pages aggressively spreading Pauline Hanson propaganda are lavishing praise on her multi-billionaire bankroller Gina Rinehart.
Peta from Oz
@petsam.bsky.social

Aaaaah for everyone’s satisfaction, thanks Argentinian’s ❤️👇👇👇

Hoodlum 🇺🇸@nothoodlum.bsky.social

Peter Thiel is getting a very cold reception outside his new mansion in the exclusive Barrio Parque neighborhood in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Argentinians are chanting: “Out, out, Peter out.”

Peta from Oz
@petsam.bsky.social

Oh dear if yr wondering why Australia loves USA despite the current president, and Israel, just watch Tampa on AbC iview. So we start and commission all these wars but won’t accept those fleeing to safety. While John Howard is fucked, Downer is Aussies Netanyahu what an arsehole 🤬

Peta from Oz
@petsam.bsky.social

Don’t boycott, go, wear your Palestinian colours and spectators take your posters of Zomi. Make those IDF arseholes run past them an boo loudly. #Sydneymarathon