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@amymcquire @JJKALE2 @NourHaydar Great loss to the ABC-she is a fantastic talent.

“Culturally diverse staff should be respected and supported even when they challenge the status quo.Death and destruction on the scale we have seen over recent months has made me reassess my priorities.” much respect to the brilliant ⁦@NourHaydar⁩ smh.com.au/business/compa…

@SatPaper Lets see what Labor actually does, rather than what they say. They are on record as being big boosters of their donors in the gas industry.

Are Labor finally getting serious about climate change?  Mike Seccombe on the bill that could make major fracking and mining projects that much more difficult to approve and fund. satpa.pe/MqKwAAE

@GreenJ @auspoldaily Indeed....Maybe he needs to read more deeply in the history of his Catholic faith. Pre-reformation and pre-enlightenment, the Catholic church was an illiberal institution, brooking no dissent. It was consistently resistant to the rise of liberalism

@lesstenny We have preferential voting so who is being criticised here? Maybe like me they live in a solidly blue electorate so voting 1 for a teal or independent is more strategic than for the ALP. Still support an ALP win, still disappointed with Albo now.

I Agree, partly.. A lot of the 'I'll never vote for Labor again ' are people that have never and would never vote for Labor... It's obvious why the Greens and others are signalling this 🤔😔#auspol

@VeronikaSain @DingoResearch There is very little interest in brumbies by the horse industry because they are small and wild. They need skilled training and are too small for most riders except kids. Rehomers often give them away. Not a viable solution for 1000s needing homes.

@DingoResearch This is the cruelest form of killing these animals. Even the local indigenous peoples in the region don’t support this culling and prefer capture and repurposing instead.

I want to stress that most of us who support aerial shooting are NOT ‘against’ #horses Rather we are against the destruction of native areas, loss of native species, erosion and fouling of waterways. If there was a more viable way to reduce impacts we would support it.

@BrettPage72 @DingoResearch Yes, by getting in the way of acting sooner, the so called brumby lovers contribued to this situation where many more horses will now need to be killed. So much for genuinely caring for them.

@DingoResearch Its just a pity that it’s gotten to this stage ! The population has skyrocketed due to inaction of many govts and lobbying by groups that think brumbies are a noble beast to be romanticized not the destructive pests that they are

@elpresto777 @DingoResearch Should be no more than 300. In NZ, they keep their feral population at 300 and can manage that with mustering excess animals everybtwo years. 3000 means constant shooting and trapping in perpetuity.

@DingoResearch Great win. Let’s hope for a speedy implementation, professional management and clear onward maintenance & management plan for the remaining 3000.

@CottonPru @DingoResearch Me too. Lifelong horse owner. They belong in paddocks where they can be properly cared for. Not fragile national parks.

@DingoResearch This initiative is critical for the survival of these areas I have worked with horses all my life and love them as my family but these horses were introduced to these vulnerable areas and have thrived to the detrement of the environment This is a well overdue action I support

@Geologi07020687 @DingoResearch @AlboMP Trapping and shipping wild, unhandled horses overseas would be terribly inhumane, exposing them to injury, fear, stress and possibly mistreatment. Skilled shooting means instant death, nothing cruel about that.

@DingoResearch Catch them and sell them or dispatch them for free to bidding countries, There are many countries which I am sure will happily accept them for transport needs, Thats a better & humane option than killing, Same was true for Camels, @AlboMP

@BillKristol The human heart has been pretty murderous throughout recorded history. So seems a simple proposition to make it harder for hearts to act on their murderous inclinations by limiting access to weapons of war, given there will always be hearts willing to commit murder.

Beneath their pseudo-deep combination of sanctimony and fatalism, these kinds of statements are disingenuous excuses for doing nothing. They ignore the obvious fact that it’s easier to change gun policy than the human heart; and that it’s more effective to legislate than to pray.

@NickFeik The alternative is worse.

A child sent to Nauru under the new government. Tell me what’s the point of voting for these people. abc.net.au/news/2023-10-2…

@TheAusInstitute @LachlanClohesy Yep, grant applications put Tolstoy to shame for complexity and length but without the soaring language or piercing insights into anything other than the triumph of managerialism and neo-liberal economic drivel. God-forbid researchers get the time to actually research

@LachlanClohesy: “What happens in universities is that researchers will spend about a year and a half researching and a year and a half preparing their grant to get their next research contract. And that cycle sort of keeps continuing. It's incredibly inefficient”.

@LachlanClohesy opens the ‘revenue for public services panel’, highlighting the retreat of public spending in our universities sector. Costs are now bourne by exploited international students and causalised workers, he argues.

@DingoResearch @Gergyl Yes it has. Horses dying slow deaths from starvation during the last drought genuinely cruel. Shooting death far more humane. More horses = more animals to suffer. Plus the terrible effects on native species by horses.

20 years without aerial shooting of #feralhorses in NSW has enabled environmental damage and worsened animal welfare outcomes. ‘Feral horses in NSW should be culled using aerial shooting, Senate inquiry says theguardian.com/australia-news…

@JaneCaro @MaralynParker Well past time for religious organisations to stop delivering essential public services such as hospital care. State governments should follow ACT's lead to take back control. We deserve the health care we need, not whatever a religious group getting taxpayer dollars decides

Publicly funded health providers should not be able to block access to legal healthcare - VAD or reproductive care, or anything else - because of their religious beliefs. theguardian.com/australia-news…

@Gbutterfly19 @cwaofnsw Where do cats do the most damage?- in arid and semi arid areas. Cat containment won't do much there. Cats should be managed humanely. Cat curfews won't stop habit loss effects on species decline. Bigger picture needed.

Last night I talked about #feralcat impacts to members of @cwaofnsw. At their AGM they passed a motion: "Advocate for the state govt to mandate a state-wide pet cat curfew & power to all NSW Councils to enforce containment; & enforced desexing of pet cats across NSW." Great ideas

@Gbutterfly19 @cwaofnsw How about stopping the destruction of intact complex vegetation. Cats or no, nothing survives that carnage. Nice cropping out the trap in the photo.

This is the best short description of Australian climate efforts I’ve seen.

@tanya_plibersek Excellent lobbying effort. Now to approve a few more coal mines and pretend all is well. See how the reef fares after this coming hot summer shall we.

Great news.

@crikey_news @mdavisqlder What's worse- calling out racism or racism itself? Apparently the biggest outrage is the former. How thin skinned the No campaign is. And they obviously don't read their own social media which is racism central.

OPINION | Last weekend, @mdavisqlder described journalism as “utterly asleep on Indigenous policy reporting”. The launch of the Voice to Parliament campaign offered the media a chance to challenge this reputation, but instead, they proved it to be true. crikey.com.au/2023/09/14/aus…

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