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debbrich.bsky.social
Australian journalist. Twitter refugee. Love ideas and civil debate.
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Countries with shrinking populations not an economic problem - according to Larry Fink of investment Co Blackrock: www.macrobusiness.com.au/2025/01/low-...

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A job where $1m a year is just not enough? Government crackdown coming for double-dipping university leaders after NTEU reports highlight pay and conflict of interest issues. NTEU VIC's Joo-Cheong Tham comments. afr.com/work-and-car... #HigherEducation #HigherEd #universities

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

Andrew Norfolk is the former Times journalist whose work brought the grooming gang scandal to public attention...

submitted 47 days ago • 37 comments

Make no mistake. Every politician, pundit & online grifter amplifying Musk's dangerous lies will be aware of this intervention by now. Make no mistake, they are choosing to mislead the public & politicise the suffering of victims in the shameful pursuit of political advantage, attention & clicks.

submitted 47 days ago • 101 comments

Shot, chaser. What a bunch of clowns. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01...

submitted 52 days ago • 25 comments

“Today, an emergent wave of right-wing populist leaders uses social media to question and break down reality, triggering rage and paranoia on a bed of exponential lies. This is how fascism is normalized and where political outrage meets terrorism, the vanguard of mass violence.” ~ Maria Ressa

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

PWC up to its tricks in China. @barbarapocock.bsky.social This may be of interest open.substack.com/pub/asiacrim...

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

This, and they are virus-pits! 😳 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

Students, nurses and teachers contribute more tax to Australia than the gas companies. If you think it’s time to address the loopholes in the Petroleum Resources Rent Tax (PRRT) sign the petition below. ✍️: nb.australiainstitute.org.au/increase_the...

submitted 83 days ago • 21 comments

Anti-wind groups have been saying that offshore wind is "industrializing" the oceans. Here's the top devastating use: Bottom trawling. Which "removes 6% to 41% of faunal biomass per pass" an "area half the size of the world’s continental shelf is trawled every year" ecori.org/commercial-f...

submitted 84 days ago • 5 comments

Did we know this? www.thenewdaily.com.au/finance/2024...

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

No wonder people are disengaging “https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/finance/2024/12/02/alan-kohler-rba?ahe=5f89953809300ffe9174cf9cd2c160c7dfd983427866fcea8838678098ea0b1f&acid=397679&utm_campaign=Morning%20News%20-%2020241202&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Adestra&lr_hash=b3a0841ef9c4b07d537e9e5b490009e9

submitted 84 days ago • 1 comment

Anthony Albanese and Mark Dreyfus have failed whistleblowers and Australians. It’s been left to the crossbench (Pocock, Lambie, Haines & Wilkie) to introduce a Bill to strengthen Australia's whistleblower protection laws and establish a Whistleblower Protection Authority. 🤷‍♂️ #auspol

submitted 90 days ago • 17 comments

Ok peeps let's be the difference. This Christmas buy local (less fossil fuels used in making and transporting the product). By buying local you promote local. No wrapping paper, go for reusable boxes or tea towels .. And as little plastic as possible.

submitted 94 days ago • 3 comments

OMG!!! Yes!!! This is exactly the approach to take #auspol

submitted 94 days ago • 53 comments