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Environment campaigner currently being sued in Supreme Court by Adani. Proud member of @QldGreens , @servicesunion and @withMEAA . Media - 0418 164 014. #Autistic

Brisbane, Queensland
Joined September 2015
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1 year
On my Dad's 80th birthday I'm reminded of this (unpublished) letter he sent to The Oz ❤️😥 My parents are spending their last years watching a centi-billionaire attack me and my family. I want them to see this tweet travel FAR, see us WIN #DadvsAdani 👇🏼
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How Koalas are weighed ❤ Can this level cuteness explode your brain 🤔
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Spot the difference 🤬
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Garnaut Report in 2008 - “Fire seasons will start earlier, end later and be more intense. This effect increases over time but should be directly observable by 2020.” #NSWFires #AustraliaOnFire #auspol
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#GinaRinehart explains herself with a tightly-scripted TV address to the nation...
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BREAKING‼️ The Qld Environment Department has just determined that Clive Palmer’s proposed coal mine 10km from the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park is “not suitable to proceed" 💚✊🏽✊🏻😍
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3 years
BREAKING‼️ Santos has abandoned oil drilling plans in the Great Australian Bight💚✊🏽
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2 years
Today is a good day to remember this message from António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations.
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3 years
BE SCARED OF CHINA. In 20 years or so we'll have new submarines Don't be scared of Climate Change. In 20 years or so...
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2 years
This is in Port Fairy, not far from the site of the Feb 2020 koala slaughter by bulldozing a timber plantation at Cape Bridgewater. If you see something like this, make sure they are safe from traffic, call a rescue group ASAP and document it if no-one else already is.
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It's back! Early on Monday morning the Lord Mayor of Brisbane ordered the removal of the Palestinian flag artwork in West End. It's back this morning brighter than ever. Stand with the people of Palestine!
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BREAKING: #Adani to be prosecuted for contravening a temporary emissions licence for sediment water discharge. Maximum fine is $2.7 million. Well done to everyone in the #StopAdani movement! #qldpol #auspol
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4 years
I'm 12 years sober today, my most important day of the year. Feel free to message me for info/help.
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4 years
Supreme Court docs reveal Adani secretly followed my wife and took photos of my 9yo 🤬 This is what Labor and the LNP support. Unless @QldGreens get the balance of power in #QldVotes , Adani will STILL be allowed to operate in Qld. Vote Greens 1, Labor 2 🙏🏼 ( #StopAdani thread 1/3)
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1 year
Seven nuclear #submarines sit rotting in Rosyth, Scotland, mostly since 2007. HMS Dreadnought has been there about 40 years, twice the time spent on 'duty'. Some wise heads say the subs are already unable to be dealt with safely. There's another 14 in Plymouth too. #auspol
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4 years
BREAKING: The Supreme Court has just granted Adani a temporary injunction stopping me doing and saying specific things in relation to the Carmichael coal mine and rail project. This follows two failed applications to intimidate my family by raiding our home. [ #StopAdani thread]
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4 months
Gina Rinehart released a somewhat unhinged video statement last night. The subtext seems to be she'll BUY THE NATIONAL GALLERY‼️
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3 years
The #ClimateCrisis DOES discriminate but also provides the odd karmic moment...
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11 months
GREAT NEWS‼️ Adani has dropped the conspiracy claim that I’ve accessed their secret information. TWO YEARS after admitting they have no evidence! 👇🏽 Guardian Article: Legal Fund:
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2 years
. @RussellCrowe DONATED $10,000 LAST NIGHT‼️ I've asked him to take a photo holding a "I support #DadvsAdani " sign too🤞🏼 Chip in so I can reach 10,000 donors and continue to protect the political freedom of all Australians 👇🏼
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1 year
As pertinent today as ever. The more things change... #auspol #submarines
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4 years
First Pauline, now 🤣
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3 years
The LNP not only gave hundreds of millions of OUR MONEY to their super-wealthy corporate mates, they pocketed some for themselves too! #qldpol #auspol
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1 year
Today marks THREE YEARS since Adani instructed these men to start following my wife and kids 🤬 They refuse to return the photos, taken without consent. Send them a big FUCK YOU by making sure I win #DadvsAdani in the Supreme Court, for all Australians 👇🏼
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2 years
The sad news has come through that Professor Will Steffen passed away last night. For decades he has been one of the world's pre-eminent researchers of Climate Change, and a powerful advocate for the radical action needed. Rest In Peace and Power 💚✊🏻
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Do it for the kids.
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3 years
CONFIRMED: Bye bye Shenua coal mine 🍾🎉 Congrats to all involved‼
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1 year
When you see a photo of neo-nazis (with police escort) but first think it’s gay boys doing a choreographed dance at a Pride event.
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2 years
Great work players! Hancock Prospecting is an ecocidal company with a genocidal founder. There must be an ethical line you won’t cross. Dignity is priceless.
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Good to see my lawyers @marquelawyers defending one of my favourite publications @crikey_news against the bullshit threats of Lachlan Murdoch. Fight the power! #MurdochRoyalCommission #auspol
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3 years
BREAKING: Adani are laying explosives at the cultural site containing the highest concentration of #FirstNations artefacts. DEMAND @CraigCrawfordMP STOP THE DESTRUCTION so a proper archeological dig can be done. #StopAdani 📩 📞
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9 months
Enough Victorian Police are surrounding today’s Extinction Rebellion protesters that it’s THEM blocking the road. The masked white nationalists in Ballarat got a different response.
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2 years
Not having to sit in a party room with Barnaby Joyce and Matt Canavan is a pretty cool present to give to yourself.
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5 years
Scott Morrison wants to keep his right to discriminate, because he believes in Jesus. But he wants to take away our right to protest, because we believe the science. Tell me we're not becoming more like Gilead every day. #BlessedBeTheFruit #auspol
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1 year
How Koalas are weighed. You're very welcome.
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6 months
My youngest is volunteering today because The Greens have fought against the genocide she’s followed online. A liveable planet is a bonus too. Vote Green and number all the boxes!
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Here's a MASSIVE reason to vote @Greens 1 and preference Labor. The Greens holding the balance of power would force a Labor Govt to enact some decent policy! #auspol
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9 months
Three more climate protectors have been arrested on conspiracy charges due to the footage provided by the ABC to 4 Corners. “It is a betrayal of their sources, it is a betrayal of their story, and it is a betrayal of journalism.”
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Today marks THREE YEARS of Adani dragging our family through harrowing Supreme Court litigation. I'm back in the SUPREME COURT ON WEDNESDAY to fight this blatant corporate bullying. Help my legal team WIN, just like they beat Murdoch for Crikey ✊🏽👇🏼
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The Men’s Rights Agency used to get private investigators to hunt down women who were hiding in women’s refuges. They followed, threatened and otherwise tried to intimidate vocal opponents. Like me. Peter Dutton organised the meeting with these misogynist scum.
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WTAF. @NZpolice handing out concussions to nonviolent protestors for #Palestine in Auckland today. That tackle alone could easily kill someone if their head hit the asphalt in the wrong place.
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Veterinarian Dr Colette Harmsen is spending 3 months in jail for protecting the ancient forests of takayna. One of Earth’s last great wild places, it deserves secure, permanent protection. Find out more and write to Collette in prison 👉🏼
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2 years
Adani is REFUSING to destroy photos taken of my wife and kids without their consent 🤬 The photos have NOTHING to do with the #DadvsAdani case. Why are they keeping them apart from to intimidate my family? Article 👉🏼 Legal Fund 👉🏼
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4 years
BREAKING‼️ Returned from Afghanistan, these are the dudes who followed my wife and kids around for Adani. The legal attack against me is being dragged out so I need my expert legal team for the long haul. Chip in and/or Retweet to #StopAdani 👇🏼
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I was arrested at the office of @GrahamPerrettMP today. Peaceful citizens were demanding he speak up against the genocide in Palestine, ask @AlboMP to stop exporting weapons to Israel that are used to kill children. He hid away, wouldn't even talk to us 🤬 #auspol #qldpol 🇵🇸✊🏾✊🏼
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1 year
I wonder who our Labor and LNP politicians REALLY work for?
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Goliath keeps getting bigger! He is now 'worth' AUD $200 BILLION but is suing me for $17m, wants my family home in suburban Brisbane. Should I change my name to David? Help me WIN in the Supreme Court, the next hearing tomorrow 👇🏼 #DadvsAdani #StopAdani
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2 years
Damn! Have I failed my children?
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1 year
The lawsuit against Bob and the Gunns 20 lasted 6 YEARS. Gunns lost and ended up bankrupt‼️✊🏽 Adani has been bullying my family for 3 YEARS in the Supreme Court. Bob is actively supporting my legal team to win #DadvsAdani soon. Join him 👇🏼
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Rarely get deliveries so I assumed something new from Adani's "attack dog" lawyers 😡 But it's my '2020 Environmentalist Of The Year' award from @BobBrownFndn 💚 This is for all the staunch #StopAdani volunteers protecting water, ecosystems, land rights and climate 🙏🏽
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4 years
The (obscenely) rich-list is out and Gautam Adani has jumped 60% to AUD $35b 🤮 But he STILL wants to take away the home I share with my wife and children 🤬 Help me fight this MASSIVE SUPREME COURT CASE that affects the freedom of every Australian 👉🏼
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This was so much better than giving our tax dollars to parasites like Sarina Russo hey.
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3 years
💥 BREAKING 💥 Adani refuses to detail $844,945 in costs for work on a ONE DAY HEARING in the Supreme Court. They seem determined for my kids to lose their home. Help me WIN the whole case instead 👇🏽 ABC Exclusive: Legal Fund:
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4 years
( #StopAdani thread 2/3) Will @AdaniAustralia now release their full surveillance logs on my family? Will Adani promise not to follow my wife and kids around anymore? Will @QLDLabor condemn them or side with big coal AGAIN? #qldpol #auspol
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3 years
Craig Kelly is STILL spamming us with vaccine misinformation, paid for by Clive Palmer 🤬 He changed his number but the new one is now public‼️ POLITELY call or text him on 0429 493 241 to request he stops risking public health 💚
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I’m fighting Adani in the Supreme Court today‼️ They want confidentiality orders to ban my legal team ever telling me about confidential information that I’ve allegedly already received 🤔 [ #StopAdani thread 1 of 2] #qldpol #auspol Email updates 👉🏼
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BREAKING‼️ Adani has NEVER HAD EVIDENCE I’ve accessed their secret information, the core component of their case against me. Despite this, Adani has dragged my family through 6 months of harrowing Supreme Court litigation. [ #StopAdani 1 of 3] MORE 👉🏻
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I'm angrier at Labor than I have been for years, and that's saying something. It was THEIR CHOICE to send David McBride down for exposing well-documented war crimes. Who's next?
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2 years
Back to work tomorrow in an unfulfilling job? Here’s something to keep to yourself. Feel free to add some nicknames. Sorry Perth.
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Nice addition 💚
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NSW Police violently arrest the wrong person this time. Law Professor Simon Rice has successfully sued them for assault, battery and false imprisonment.
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3 years
So this has blown up, you're all welcome 💚 While you're here, a guy with 60 billion dollars who is VERY willing to kill Koalas is suing me for nonviolent protest against his coal mine. Here's how to join over 6500 others helping me win the case 👇🏽
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4 years
Adani claims that their legal strategy is not about inflicting hardship on me. BUT they are still undertaking civil action which could ultimately bankrupt my family. We’d have to sell our family home to profit a multi-billionaire. #StopAdani has my back and together we will win!
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Has anyone told ScoMo yet that baby Jesus was a brown refugee? The Island being called Christmas doesn’t make it our modern day Stable. We’re not fucking full.
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Grace Tame has shared what Scott Morrison said to her after she delivered her emotional and powerful Australian of the Year speech. #auspol #EnoughIsEnough
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Old mate @BillRyan1922 is a sprightly 96 years old. Fought in Kokoda, now giving the kids a hand with #strike4climate . He’s a #StopAdani legend!
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Brisbane City Council removed the painted Palestinian flag from West End again. Waste of our rates, it’ll be back soon. You can’t erase the thirst for freedom.
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4 years
The website image of Adani's lawyers 🤔 They organised to have my wife and kids followed, tried to raid our home 🤬 Adani are dragging out their aggressive lawsuit against me so I need expert legal support for the long haul. Chip in 👉🏼
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4 years
My legal team is together (details soon) and this case is MASSIVE, the biggest of its kind in decades. I'm advised the case could take 2 years, ending with a very long 6 week trail in the Supreme Court. I've now raised the crowd-funding target to cover most of the expected costs.
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#DadvsAdani has finished for the year‼️ But after 28 months 'discovery' isn't even complete 🥴 If the costs claims against me are even close to correct, Adani's legal bills will well exceed the $17m they are suing me for🤔 My #StopAdani legal fund👇🏼
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The Australian Conservation Foundation has had its X/Twitter account suspended, seemingly for disagreeing with Elon Musk on nuclear. This is the most hard core thing ever for ACF 🤠
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In case you missed it, GREAT NEWS‼️ Adani has dropped the conspiracy claim that I’ve accessed their secret information. TWO YEARS after admitting they have no evidence! #StopAdani #auspol Guardian Article: Legal Fund:
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2 years
SUPREME COURT DAY - taking on the world's third richest person who wants the suburban home I share with my wife and kids. Support #DadvsAdani to fell Goliath, protect our kids and the right to peaceful protest👇🏼
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Pete Stokes cycled 150km throughout Adelaide to sketch the outline of Nirvana's famous 'Nevermind' cover. His efforts, tracked by GPS-based site Strava, show the baby’s (slightly angry) face over the CBD and the banknote over the leafy eastern suburbs of Burnside and Kensington.
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Bad news 🤬 Woodside has just given approval to seismic blast in endangered whale habitat and near Ningaloo Reef. All part of their ecocidal quest to commit new climate crimes.
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2 years
Thinking that Adani will have to dump and run from their #DadvsAdani case against me in the Supreme Court. The @HindenburgRes report provides enormous ammunition for my legal team to question their allegations of loss. Imagine the witnesses!
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“I’m facing a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison for doing what the ABC apparently won’t, refusing to give police access to my sources. If the ABC give in to WA authorities and betray their sources, who will ever trust the ABC with their story again?”
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4 years
Tonight I was honoured to be awarded ‘Environmentalist Of The Year’ by the @BobBrownFndn 😮 I proudly share this award with my family and all the passionate volunteers who have taken brave action to protect water, stop climate breakdown and defend land rights 💚 #StopAdani [1/2]
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2 years
CLIMATE CHANGE ACTIVISTS ARE BLOCKING ROADS ACROSS SYDNEY... Oh wait, it's extreme weather again. Maybe activists should just give up and leave us in the hands of greedy corporations and their political mates?
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BREAKING‼️ I’ve won the right to see Adani’s whole case against me and better defend myself in court 💚 Adani admits in court they have no evidence I've accessed their confidential info. Help me push on to #StopAdani , win this case for all Australians 👇🏽
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2 years
We're actually trying to STOP Labor and the LNP burning the fucking country down (between record floods and cyclones)...
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“It just points to state capture in Australia. I don’t think there’s another way of putting it. The fossil fuel industry has the major parties just repeating their talking points, despite them not being aligned with what’s good for Australians."
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4 years
Please be assured our 9yo is not on social media and oblivious to all this. She's currently playing Minecraft with her friends! The older kids are OK, just concerned they have probably been followed too. My love for them always strengthens, as does my resolve to #StopAdani .
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BREAKING‼️ Woodside is now threatening to sue the peaceful @BURRUPHUB climate defender who was recently pulled over by police at gunpoint. We will not let the climate criminals win ✊🏼 #ProtectProtest
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Thanks @firstdogonmoon ‼️ The third richest person in the world has been attacking me in the Supreme Court for two years, the biggest anti-protest legal case in #auspol history. Support #DadvsAdani to protect the political freedoms of all Australians 👇🏼
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( #StopAdani thread 3/3) The long and complex Supreme Court SLAPP suit that Adani is attacking my family with affects the political freedom of all Australians. Help fund the specialist legal team that is fighting for your freedom too 🙏🏼 #auspol #qldpol
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11 months
Journos with my union @withMEAA are demanding ABC refuse to hand over interviews and vision from the 4 Corners report about climate protests to the WA Police. It's an oppressive overreach and attack on media freedom. Back the campaign!
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1 year
Grant King is the chair of our Labor government's Climate Change Authority. #auspol
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2 years
Max and Tim from #BlockadeAustralia are still in jail. They did not block a road. They are in jail for drawing on a white board, allegedly thinking about blocking a road. They are political prisoners. Fight for your right to dissent. Free Max and Tim!
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Wait, didn't News Limited tell us that 'bludgers' are forgoing $3,800 a week by not picking fruit?
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Albo hates @MChandlerMather because he recognises himself as a fiery young man. But he knows Max won't follow him by going down the pathetic centrist path of a big business lackey. Good Weekend's feature 👇🏽
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BREAKING‼️ Adani's OWN REPORT shows approved underground mining will impact the culturally and ecologically precious Doongmabulla Springs wetland. Duh 🙄 Adani will demand the Environment Protection Order change. Labor shouldn't have given Adani a groundwater licence at all‼️
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7 months
The Palestinian flag has again joined the Aboriginal flag in the midst of West End for #InvasionDay24 . At some stage council will give up deleting our resistance to genocide.
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I own a business that employs 50 people and offered to pay Labor $10K to chat to these blokes about the climate crimes they are committing. Seems they just wanted fossil fuel companies, property developers, arms manufacturers and pokie barons. Labor makes me sick 🤮
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1 year
Nine/Fairfax or The Shovel?
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5 months
Former Labor politicians are calling on the federal 'environment' minister to stop the extension of a major gas project on the Burrup Peninsula - including former federal leader Kim Beazley and former WA premiers Carmen Lawrence and Peter Dowding 👇🏽
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