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Western Australia, Australia
Joined January 2017
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You may remember that before Christmas I let you know about an emergency decision I made to save the Red Handfish. I wanted to give you an update about how it’s going.
The Red Handfish is critically endangered. There are just 50 - 100 left in the wild.
So, based on expert advice, we removed 25 fish and housed them at breeding facilities in Tasmania during the expected summer marine heatwaves.
All are doing well. We’re hoping to return them back to their home before winter.
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Can't think of a better way to celebrate Medicare's 40th birthday than at one of our new Medicare Urgent Care Clinics.
This clinic on the NSW Central Coast is already helping thousands of locals see a doctor for free.
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Trouble offshore for @WoodsideEnergy and Saipem installing the Scarborough gas pipeline. Two serious safety incidents in a month, with one last night rupturing the pipeline, leading to a union call for immediate action from regulator @nopsema.
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Proud of this.
At the #SecularismAustralia Conference in December, event MC @JaneCaro spoke about the importance of secularism in guarding against the threat of theocracy, a threat she noted was increasingly real in the United States. Watch the conference online: secularism.au
#auspol
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Queensland’s 40th premier is the son of a Golden Circle cannery worker and a workplace health and safety inspector. He has three children, a PhD on Trade Unions, an endorsement from Al Gore and a reputation for being an attack dog. satpa.pe/IwnUzQw
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You may not have seen this fish before, but I wanted to let you know about an emergency decision I’ve made to save it from extinction.
The red handfish lives in Tasmania’s Derwent River. There are only about 50-100 of them left in the wild.
Experts have warned that the handfish may not survive this summer’s expected marine heatwaves. To give them a better chance, I’ve approved an emergency intervention under environment law to move the 25 to breeding facilities in Tasmania.
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AGL to start building grid-scale battery on site of former Liddell coal-fired power plant theguardian.com/australia-ne…
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Fossil fuel giant Woodside wants to run its NWS gas export facility til 2070. In @westaustralian today eminent scientists are calling on Australia's federal environment minister @tanya_plibersek & WA environment minister @ReeceWhitby to say no to Woodside's plan @ConservationWA
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6 yrs ago, I publicly came out against Trump. And that was hard. Really hard. I took a blowtorch to my career.
4 yrs ago, I left the Republican Party. That was hard, but not as hard.
3 yrs ago, I campaigned for & voted for a Democrat for President for the 1st time in my life. That wasn't hard.
I'll do the same in 2024. Hey Republicans, it gets easier.
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Last year our clients, two Knitting Nannas, took legal action to defend the democratic right of people to peacefully protest.
Today, we won on parts of the Constitutional grounds of our case!
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Massive win for protest & civil disobedience today in the NSW Supreme Court. Brave Knitting Nannas took on the State & Won! Court ruled the NSW Coalition’s draconian Anti Protest laws are unconstitutional - they breach the freedom of political communication💛🖤@nswpol
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#BREAKING: @GreenpeaceAP is taking fossil fuel company Woodside to court. We're alleging Woodside is misleading &/or deceiving the Australian public about the enormous climate harm of its gas & oil projects. We filed this afternoon in the Federal Court of Australia.
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“If you start around schools and make safe walking and cycling routes to that school, then you build a community and then it’s much cheaper actually to make safe infrastructure in that small community than build a whole new separated bike lane somewhere.”
theage.com.au/national/victo… – at Melbourne, Victoria
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I’ll just leave this here.
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Congratulations Annastacia Palaszczuk.
She did a huge clean up of the mess left by the LNP in Queensland.
Delivered three election wins.
Australia’s longest serving female premier.
And set Queensland up for a clean energy future.
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#Exclusive: Paul Keating has urged Labor to be brave and courageous, take policy risks and burn political capital, and not worry about polls, because voters will reward politicians who pursue bold reform in the national interest. @australian #auspol theaustralian.com.au/nation/…
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The infiltration of the Liberal-National Party by the Christian Right is turning voters away. Yet, a few days ago Terry Young used a speech in parliament to effectively blame society’s ills and “anarchy” on the rise of the non-religious. Merry bloody Xmas, heathens!
#auspol
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My work brings me into contact with many inspiring people but few of them are friends. Extremely proud of the amazing @Kimatthewest who is not just a terrific journo, friend and mother but has a heart the size of a blue whale. Read all about it in tomorrow's @westaustralian
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Let’s hope more of the billionaire bros (I can only think of one that isn’t a bro) have such a change of heart. theguardian.com/australia-ne…
