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shercampbell.bsky.social
Retired law academic, past executive NSW Women Lawyers, passionate about opportunities for young people from RRR backgrounds, grandmother of three, love the environment, gardening, good books and music.Living on Awabakal Country. Retreating from X.
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Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Those who rewrite their history are racist, misogynist, fascist....and doomed.

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

"it should not be accepting money from merchants of death" Current and former Australian War Memorial board members have close ties to global weapons corporations. And see no problem with sponsorship from war profiteers. #4Corners #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03...

submitted 20 days ago • 3 comments

flick off AUKUS, both the US and UK say they can't deliver.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

So, when do we get our Royal Commission into Murdoch Australian politicians?

submitted 29 days ago • 2 comments

Right now, I'd say very few Australians have a "deep fear of abandonment" by the US. Far more frightening - thanks to what Malcolm Turnbull calls 'bipartisan gaslighting' - is that we will be stuck with them. Time to #DitchAUKUS. #auspol www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

submitted 29 days ago • 12 comments

"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."

submitted 29 days ago • 3157 comments

This period is producing artefacts that will be looked back on with the same sort of amazed horror we feel when reading stories from ancient or medieval history (or from the totalitarian regimes of the 20th Century)

submitted 31 days ago • 10 comments

Wow! The number of @bsky.app users just passed 32 MILLION! 👏 LETS DO THIS!

submitted 36 days ago • 119 comments

submitted 36 days ago • 5 comments

The stitch-up electoral donations "reforms" the government is ramming through parliament with Coalition support will be absolutely ripe for a constitutional challenge, because it directly undermines an aspect of what the implied freedom guarantees - a level playing field.

submitted 45 days ago • 18 comments

The universe speaks in mysterious ways.

submitted 56 days ago • 1491 comments

"This is not democracy. This is a game. And it’s a game of narrative," writes Professor Jeffrey Sachs. "Everything is phoney, everything is narrative." Transcript from a speech by Professor Jeffrey Sachs at the Cambridge Students Union, Oct 2024. johnmenadue.com/game-of-narr...

submitted 55 days ago • 1 comment

Hey guys! I’ve started something new. My new Substack… Go check it out! jimacosta.substack.com/p/hold-on-to...

submitted 60 days ago • 1940 comments

Is this a post New Year bad dream?

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

"We will be living for a while not just with a less tolerant, a less decent, and a less lawful government, but in a less tolerant, a less decent, a less lawful society." But. Morning Shots from @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social, @samsteindc.bsky.social, Will Selber, and Ben Parker:

submitted 66 days ago • 25 comments

Great to be on Bluesky!

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

It's still 1974 somewhere in the Riverina Forever young - enjoy xx #gunnawah #booksky #toomanyfrickinghashtags

submitted 75 days ago • 77 comments

Our UK friends are now experiencing what we have over the last decade with these unscrupulous far-right billionaires, Trump and Musk: they're venal madmen who believe in nothing and can't be stopped because they've found the secret to making bad people who know they're bad feel good about themselves

submitted 81 days ago • 96 comments

In Australia its a cheaper to cause an oil spill than to get a nursing degree In Norway they tax their oil industry and give kids free degrees while in Australia we subsidise the oil industry and charge kids a fortune to go to uni Priorities matter

submitted 82 days ago • 39 comments

x X has ~18m daily USA users. @bsky.app, ~1.5m. Is it worth 20 MINS a day to proactively recruit and bring your friends, neighbors,relatives, businesses, anyone who is or could be a user, to @bsky.app? If Bluesky ends up with more users than the others, you destabilize musk, zuck, trump.

submitted 82 days ago • 2878 comments

www.smh.com.au/national/how... Great piece in the SMH today esp this bit. Thanks Jordan Baker

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

Welcome to the upside-down year, when the US installs a convicted felon as its president and Australia gives serious consideration to electing Peter Dutton, all under the benevolent eye of the richest man in the world. While the carnage continues unabated and, at year's end, Rupert is still alive.

submitted 83 days ago • 14 comments