Virologist. PhD. FASM. Lover of GreatDanes & Whippets. “Progress is often not in a straight line. There are breakthroughs & heartbreaks” - LBurneyMP
Sydney Australia
Joined March 2013
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The dogs are going crazy trying to catch a fly that’s in my bedroom. Meanwhile I’m trying to go to sleep!
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Both Queensland and the Northern Territory have refused to allow a United Nations inspector to enter their youth detention facilities. #sydneycriminallawyers #un #youth #detention
sydneycriminallawyers.com.au…
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Australia is the world’s biggest seaborne importer of diesel. Data centres using diesel generators for back-up power put more pressure on our fuel supply, increase our emissions and our power bills, and take advantage of the government’s diesel fuel tax rebate - a fossil fuel subsidy for large multinationals. In the last sitting week, I asked the government to stop approving new data centres with back-up diesel generation.
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Monica Smit is listed as the contact for two parties, "I'm Voting to Avoid the Fine" and "Climate Action Now". The parties are targetings seats the Greens want to win, as is pro-Israel activist Avi Yemeni and the five candidates of his "Free Palestine" party.
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The U.S. hit 5,182 confirmed measles cases by Nov 5.
That’s more than twice the 2,289 reported in all of 2025.
I support research students. I always have. However, I don’t want my LinkedIn feed to keep feeding me pictures of every PhD student graduation. It’s not FB!
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Why does Sydney (and Australia) have so many changes in the speed limits on the roads? Is it really for safety, or for revenue (from speeding fines)? 🤷🏻♀️
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"AUKUS costs a minimum of $33 million a day for the next 30 years!! PASS IT ON.
I don’t know what Khawaja is trying to prove (apart from selling his new book) but poor Smith, Warner and Bancroft must be livid! Time to let them all move on from what was at that time a terrible culture led from the top of CA and team managers.
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I’m slow cooking bbq pork ribs (in the oven) for dinner tonight and the house currently smells amazing.
Poor dogs!
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While Melania Trump is playing nice in the White House with Putin’s envoy, Russia dropped nine bombs on a school and shelter killing almost 100 Ukrainians.
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Canada gov. rpts avian flu in 2 counties in Alberta:
1)some type of non-poultry domestic birds in non-commercial setting,
2)poultry in a non-commercial setting flutrackers.com/threads/albe… h/t Pathfinder #H5N1 ?
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One day, we will look back at this time in Australia's history where the entire nation went to a vote and denied Indigenous people a direct voice to parliament while directly after that, the government of the day walked away and gave that voice to Israel - without a single Australian vote being cast or a person being asked.
One day we will wonder how we allowed Australia to be captured and ruled by a foreign nation, for our thoughts to be policed and our rights to artistic expression and freedom of speech curtailed by an unelected, South African born, multi-millionaire white woman from eastern Sydney who answers to lsrael.
One day we'll have to tell our children and grandchildren that this woman thought that protesting against a war where children are bombed and burnt alive in their beds is an evil thing to do, but marching with a Nazi protest sign is nothing worth worrying about.
One day we will have to explain this upside-down madness, this state-captured think speak we all allowed to happen and wonder why we didn't do more.
One day, everyone will have always been against this.
#SackSegal
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Robodebt was a harmful government scheme. It cost lives and harmed hundreds of thousands of Australians through its unlawful use of automated decision-making (ADM).
It’s hard to believe, but the Albanese Government hasn’t learnt the lessons of Robodebt.
For over a year the government has used unfair ADM in aged care assessments, generating huge community concern, a scathing review from the Commonwealth Ombudsman, and sustained pressure from the crossbench. Now the government is proposing use of another largely untested ADM tool, the I-CAN automated assessment, to inform calculations of NDIS support.
I recently seconded Kate Chaney’s Bill to establish a new framework for the use of ADM in government. We must ensure that chasing cost-efficiency doesn’t compromise responsibility and care.
theguardian.com/australia-ne…
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This is former USN Admiral Eileen Laubacher, I say former because in his purge of senior military ( mostly female) Hegseth fired her.
Yesterday she beat Lauren Boebert in the election and is now in the congress.
She will be on the select committee to interrogate him
