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Australia's indoor air pollution crisis: Doctors, scientists and parents push for urgent national standards in schools and hospitals. Great to see this as the headline story today. @DrBronKing @SaferAirProject @CO2RadicalAus smh.com.au/healthcare/invisi…
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Australian Labor spent AU$2.6M ousting 2 Greens rivals from parliament
Max Chandler-Mather got under the Prime Minister’s skin. Then Labor spent $1.3M to defeat him.
politico.com/news/2026/10/27…
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"Both are scornful of traditional liberal ideas about pluralism, liberty, tolerance and progress. Each side wants to prevail, totally." On our Rationale website, Russell Blackford reviews Waleed Aly’s new essay on the collapse in support for liberalism.
rationalemagazine.com/index.…
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#aukus
"This inquiry has gone where both the Coalition and the ALP have failed to go. It has revealed the depth and breadth of this project for Australia’s national security, economy and international credibility."
@DougCameron51
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The Chicken Little strategy seems to be a go-to for religious organisations, especially conservative Christian ones. It would be nice if they could engage thoughtfully instead of hysterically for a change.
#Politas #auspol
Tasmania's Deputy Premier and Attorney-General Guy Barnett says the Greens’ Conversion Practices Prohibition Bill 2026 risks criminalising religious conversations and prayers. Does it?
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After running a business tax free and contributing nothing to local community by not paying rates, these bigots get to profit off the taxpayer.
They are a business.
#TaxTheChurches
Catholic Church seeking $18m windfall for inner west uni site share.google/M6IeP50vm9QrZUl…
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Religious schools and gay teachers, Tasmania's conversion ban, the Brethren's tax status, and more. Welcome to the 24 October edition of the NSL Weekend Wrap, your weekly round-up of news and views on Australian #secular issues! #auspol #secularism nsl.org.au/columns/weekend-w…
Christian entitlement writ large.
They'll win lots of friends with this strategy.../s/ 🤣
The City of Melbourne has “lost control” of street preachers who are using amplifiers, says a resident whose wellbeing is being negatively impacted from having to listen to intrusive preaching and singing for hours on end and late into the night. More: rationalist.com.au/melbourne…
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The global boss of Exclusive Brethren, in alleged secret campaign for Peter Dutton, claims he was appointed via miracle.
Hales attacks reporter & outright rejects election scam claims — then claims he hasn’t even investigated. Analysis highly revealing...
theklaxon.com.au/hf9f
It really is the very least they can do, and not before time.
The ABC reports that religious schools will no longer be allowed to sack teachers or expel students due to their sexuality, or to reject students due to a disability, under new laws proposed by the Western Australian government.
abc.net.au/news/2026-10-20/w…
#WApol
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There should never have been exemptions which allow religious institutes to discriminate against LGBTQI at all, let alone while taking public funding.
The question is will it actually be enforced. Qld doesn't bother enforcing anti-discrimination laws re chaplains
#WApol #auspol
WA’s proposed Equal Opportunity Act rewrite would stop religious schools sacking teachers or expelling students over sexuality, or rejecting students with disability. The religion exemption stays. The bill is due to be introduced today.
abc.net.au/news/2026-10-20/w…
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Reminder: it was on @2GB873 that Alan Jones urged people to go to Cronulla and bash people.
It was on @2GB873 that Alan Jones called for Julia Gillard to be put in a chaff bag and thrown into the sea.
You do NOT get to moralise over this.
It's one thing to tell the nation to turn the temperature down, but Michael McLaren unpacks why it's rising in the first place.
More: 2gb.com/has-democracy-turned…
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The Guardian reports that the coroner investigating the death of Elizabeth Struhs is considering adopting recommendations from Victoria’s cults inquiry, warning that a “lack of curiosity” about her family’s religious beliefs was a “missed opportunity”. theguardian.com/australia-ne…
Thoughtful article, well worth the read.
"... the insiders need to acknowledge that the disconnect is there before they are able to bridge it." In our #Rationale magazine, Adam Wakeling writes about what is driving populism and the increasing rejection of mainstream politics.
rationalemagazine.com/index.…
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Yet that seems to be this government's strategy towards the US...
In a major speech, Jim Chalmers spelt out Labor’s game plan, after warning that “hoping the far right goes away or implodes is not actually a strategy”. trib.al/oatc67n
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Far Left, far right or centre. I don’t care what political leanings they are, but a deranged arsehole tried to kill a politician of exemplary standing in her community. This is not Australia. Put your partisanship to the side and ask yourself, is this the country we want.
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This is an incredibly dangerous precedent and confirms all the dangers of AUKUS - wargaming Australia as the base for a US war with China - and us even paying for it. We need to end AUKUS before this becomes real.
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ICYMI an Israeli company hijacked online ads to track millions of devices and open the door to zero-click spyware, with our nuclear science agency, critical infrastructure and newsrooms compromised. This is a big deal.
ALT ABC news screenshot Australia's nuclear agency targeted with ads linked to spyware that infect devices without a click By national AI reporter Cam Wilson Topic:Cyber Security Posted about 14h agoabout 14 hours ago, updated about 13h agoabout 13 hours ago The ads appear to be a generic image that says "SALE" and shows a picture of miscellaneous products. The ads appear to be a generic image that says "SALE" and shows a picture of miscellaneous products from Ugreen, a Chinese consumer electronics company. (X: John Scott-Railton) In