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Kerry Witch

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Mental health social worker/ psychotherapist.Irish Australian. Humanist. Feminist.My main interest is politics, geo-politics. I also enjoy the arts, theatre. Herstory European and Australian history. No DMs

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‘A saltwater crocodile on the AFL oval’: worst flooding in decades inundates NT as residents urged to avoid water Schools and highways close and Territorians living near major rivers leave amid possibly record-breaking rain

www.theguardian.com/environment/... ( Australia not safe for visitors!!!!)

09.03.2026 05:46 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Outsourced call centre sweeps Centrelink customer privacy breaches ‘under the rug’, staff allege Workers accuse government-contracted Telco Services Australia of fabricating performance statistics, denying adequate breaks and penalising staff for taking leave

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... ( Labor again not keeping promises . )

08.03.2026 21:19 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Outsourced call centre sweeps Centrelink customer privacy breaches ‘under the rug’, staff allege Workers accuse government-contracted Telco Services Australia of fabricating performance statistics, denying adequate breaks and penalising staff for taking leave

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... ( Labor again not keeping promises . )

08.03.2026 21:19 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Happy International Women’s Day.

08.03.2026 04:02 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Happy International Women’s Day.

08.03.2026 04:02 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

So Trump assisting Putin allowing India access to Russian oil!!! Time the western leaders wake up and realise US is a rogue state under current administration.

06.03.2026 02:34 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Department of the Vanishing by Johanna Bell review – brilliantly, terrifyingly plausible In this wild little miracle of a book, an Australian government office is tasked with cataloguing the casualties of the Anthropocene

www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m... ( read it and weep for humanity’s selfishness .)

06.03.2026 02:10 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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‘Stuff of nightmares’: calls for help surge by 50% after Australia launches aged-assistance tool Exclusive: Assessors unable to override algorithm-based tool, leaving people at risk of being pushed into aged care homes before they are ready

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... is that a Labor government ? They are behaving like Liberals.

24.02.2026 02:41 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Tax expert worried Australia on path to neo-feudal society as housing wealth drives inequality Real inequality is between those who have assets and those without in same generation, not young versus old, says ANU academic

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... ( totally unacceptable)

24.02.2026 06:24 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
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Disbelief as crocodile captured in Newcastle creek thousands of kilometres from natural habitat The small freshwater crocodile was first spotted by a group of teenagers in Ironbark Creek in the Australian city on Saturday

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

02.03.2026 05:00 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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She helped design Australia’s aged care assessment tool – but now Lynda Henderson is too scared to use it Exclusive: Member of working group behind questionnaire had no idea it would eventually be underpinned by ‘ridiculously simplistic’ algorithm

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... ( This is a Labor Government who is responsible. Liberal lite)

05.03.2026 21:43 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Wild-born birds recruited to teach critically endangered regent honeyeaters their lost songs Researchers hope restoring the original song will improve breeding prospects for birds released into the wild

www.theguardian.com/environment/... ( time for more cheerful news)

05.03.2026 22:32 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Wild-born birds recruited to teach critically endangered regent honeyeaters their lost songs Researchers hope restoring the original song will improve breeding prospects for birds released into the wild

www.theguardian.com/environment/... ( time for more cheerful news)

05.03.2026 22:32 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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She helped design Australia’s aged care assessment tool – but now Lynda Henderson is too scared to use it Exclusive: Member of working group behind questionnaire had no idea it would eventually be underpinned by ‘ridiculously simplistic’ algorithm

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... ( This is a Labor Government who is responsible. Liberal lite)

05.03.2026 21:43 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Disbelief as crocodile captured in Newcastle creek thousands of kilometres from natural habitat The small freshwater crocodile was first spotted by a group of teenagers in Ironbark Creek in the Australian city on Saturday

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

02.03.2026 05:00 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Fact-checking Trump's longest ever State of the Union President Donald Trump said the US "is winning again" - making a series of claims about his record in a speech which lasted almost two hours.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

26.02.2026 02:35 👍 0 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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We Fought a King for This? The irony of America in the age of Epstein

saltypolitics.substack.com/p/we-fought-...

24.02.2026 11:28 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Tax expert worried Australia on path to neo-feudal society as housing wealth drives inequality Real inequality is between those who have assets and those without in same generation, not young versus old, says ANU academic

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... ( totally unacceptable)

24.02.2026 06:24 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
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‘Stuff of nightmares’: calls for help surge by 50% after Australia launches aged-assistance tool Exclusive: Assessors unable to override algorithm-based tool, leaving people at risk of being pushed into aged care homes before they are ready

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... is that a Labor government ? They are behaving like Liberals.

24.02.2026 02:41 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

👏👏👏👏

24.02.2026 01:05 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Can Freedom Exist Without “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness”? Freedom isn’t a slogan (although Republicans have abused it as one for decades): it’s found in the lived experience of average people…

hartmannreport.com/p/can-freedo... horrifying)

24.02.2026 01:04 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

22.02.2026 23:29 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

🤣🤣🤣🤣. So true of me.

21.02.2026 11:59 👍 0 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Question: Does multiculturalism work? Can people from opposing political views from countries of origin live without animus in the same country.

04.02.2026 23:44 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

The prevalence of uni students undergrad & post grad who use chat GPT to pass exams has terrifying implications. Hardly surprising though given the way universities treat students and academic staff as exploitable. Humanity destroys itself. Climate change and generation unable to think / create.

06.02.2026 23:53 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Exclusive: Robodebt Six served NACC findings Almost three years after referrals were made in the robodebt royal commission’s so-called ‘sealed section’, the NACC is finally preparing to name the Robodebt Six.

www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/law-cri... ( one wonders who they are ?I think I can guess 2)

17.02.2026 00:29 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Millionaire economist's dire warning for Australian property market British economist Gary Stevenson is on a speaking tour, warning Australia will follow the path of the UK with "poverty exploding" unless politicians deal with inequality.

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

18.02.2026 06:48 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Millionaire economist's dire warning for Australian property market British economist Gary Stevenson is on a speaking tour, warning Australia will follow the path of the UK with "poverty exploding" unless politicians deal with inequality.

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

18.02.2026 06:48 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Exclusive: Robodebt Six served NACC findings Almost three years after referrals were made in the robodebt royal commission’s so-called ‘sealed section’, the NACC is finally preparing to name the Robodebt Six.

www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/law-cri... ( one wonders who they are ?I think I can guess 2)

17.02.2026 00:29 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Democracy in action ? Don’t think so.

14.02.2026 10:46 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0