Anj of Garigal @garigalanj.bsky.social Garigal National Park, Australia.
Twitter escapee.
Software and lab tech.
Not age verified so can’t DM.
That is me in the profile pic in the Red Sea but haven’t scuba dived for aeons.
#ausPol #nswPol
#science
AusPoast @daryltractor.bsky.social I ain’t no abacus but you can count on me
News, politics, scandals, banter and general nonsense. Open to bribery/corruption etc.
She / her / Madam Tractor
Dean Hochlaf @dhochlaf.bsky.social Trade union economist. Views my own, and not of some defunct economist.
Lucy @mostlyjustlucy.bsky.social Materials engineer (& secret linguist), intermittent speculative fiction reader.
Naarm / Melbourne
Ben Schneiders @benschneiders.bsky.social Investigative journalist and author
Heritage: Why? @heritagewhy.bsky.social Australian urbanist in Melbourne. YIMBY. Our cities are not museums. Cargo bike parent of young kids.
Rich James @richjamesuk.bsky.social Newsletter Editor @crikey.com.au
Previously: Executive News Editor at The i Paper, News Director at BuzzFeed.
Email: rjames@crikey.com.au
https://www.crikey.com.au/author/richard-james/
Inside Story @insidestory.bsky.social Books, ideas, current affairs and culture from a (mainly) Australian perspective
Crikey @crikey.com.au Holding power to account.
Independent, Australian-owned news, investigation, analysis and opinion.
🕵 Know something? Send a tip through our secure channels:
https://www.crikey.com.au/tip-off-crikey/
Peter Tulip @petertulip.bsky.social Chief economist at Centre for Independent Studies
Virginia Murdoch @virginia.alertbutnotalarmed.com An air fryer is just a little oven.
Making @monomarks.at
@kingfreddie.bsky.social @kingfreddie.bsky.social Public Transport, Cities, Politics
Australia
Sophia Redjeb @sophiaredjeb.bsky.social Intersectional Lived-Experience Advocate | 2025 End the PIT Campaign & Petition Lead/Creator 25,000+ signatures | Genius, Billionaire, Playboy, Philanthropist, Humble.
Keren Lavelle @kerenlavelle.bsky.social Older but not necessarily wiser.
Sally Rugg @sallyrugg.bsky.social Campaign strategist currently working in human rights. Interested in politics, policy, current affairs and social change. Emerging green thumb. Australia’s 11th favourite lesbian.
Phoenix @phoenixfeet.bsky.social She/Her. Dumbass.- B @bolljenko99.bsky.social @bolljenko99.bsky.social
Michelle Frantenauk @michellefrantenauk.bsky.social Anti-populist, anti-fascist, political news junkie …throw in some cats, italian food, TV, graphic design…even though it feels like the left is being pecked to death by ducks, I believe humans are fundamentally kind, and I won’t give up on progress. Melb 🇦🇺
@dplunky.bsky.social @dplunky.bsky.social 
Martin Jones @martincjones.com 🇦🇺/🇩🇪 climate change/energy economist and policy wonk; former academic (CEEM) and consumer advocate (CUAC); amateur footballer. Personal views. He/him.
@gilbamesh.bsky.social @gilbamesh.bsky.social 
@mariecolemanao.bsky.social @mariecolemanao.bsky.social Great-grandmother, feminist, one-time senior public servant 
Tom Carey @tomcarey.bsky.social Better things are possible. Media, policy, politics.
Alice Grundy @alicektg.bsky.social Managing Editor, Australia Institute Press
Research Manager, The Australia Institute
Austlit editing and publishing aficionado
Opinions own
Jonathan Green @greenj.bsky.social Wordy emigre. Means well. Talks to microphones. Writes. Wokish.
Carlton FC victim. he/him
https://greenworlds.substack.com/
LONDON @leolondon8.bsky.social London looks amazing. And living in London is a completely different feeling — those who live there truly understand what London is all about.
Tania Lou Smith @tlousmith.bsky.social Performance - Video - Art
https://www.tanialousmith.com
Naarm/Melbourne, Australia.
Linda @l1nda.bsky.social Nothing of note. Trying to teach myself guitar and piano. Trying to keep my cat happy. Trying to be a decent person.
Katie Curchin @katiecurchin.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at ANU, Vice President of ASPA. Political theory + social policy. I made the human who drew my profile pic.
Dave Weasel @daveweasel.bsky.social Comedian, podcaster, etc. 5x billboard comedy chart topper
Matthew Spillane @spillanemj.bsky.social Retired Naval Operations Analyst.
Lapsed Mathematician.
Fading Ranga.
Inner West Sydney
Claudia Sahm @claudia-sahm.bsky.social macro, fiscal, Fed. creator of the Sahm rule recession indicator. Stay-At-Home Macro (SAHM) Substack.
James Van Dyke @jamesuvandyke.bsky.social Biologist studying reproduction and its consequences in vertebrates. Views my own.
Duduroa and Wiradjuri country
www.jamesuvandyke.com
www.1millionturtles.com
www.turtlesat.org.au
Marie-Anne @marie-anne1.bsky.social West of the Jordan, East of the Rock of Gibraltar
Magpies, dad jokes, interesting song lyrics.
Unofficial Jamie Elliott appreciation society.
I occasionally use the wrong emoji
No DMs
🍍🤔🎸
Candice Rumpskuttle @rumpskuttle.bsky.social Bit tired actually. Tried to stay off SocMed. Then the Orange Turd fired up again. No DMs thanks
Siz @tisthesiz.bsky.social PhD candidate in psychedelics and culture. Voracious reader. Passionately curious. Sensation seeker. Also red hair. 🏳️🌈🇵🇸🇺🇦
Tisthesiz.substack.com
Dana Bergstrom @danambergstrom.bsky.social Scientist, ecologist, Antarctica, impacts of climate change & writer of musicals
Antarctica, Beneath the Storm (Cast Album) out now!
Antarcticamusical.com
#BluePlanetNeeds💙OurLove Lutruwita/ Tasmania.
John Pollock @karlcotton.bsky.social Old lefty,Always learning from history and science. Traumatised adoptee and needs a haircut. In happy and long term relationship. No DMs please 🙏🏽 Free Palestine 🇵🇸 Living on Gumbaynggirr country. Protect Gaia Born 317.73 Now 421.55
🌏 #auspol
Guy Beres @guyberes.bsky.social Fabian, Arsenal. Word wrangler. Education for all. Francophile. Miyamoto. Armchair ethicist and atheist. From each according to their ability, to each according to their needs
Dave Adelaide @dozols.bsky.social 
John Handley @jwhandley.bsky.social 
Jono @jondog.bsky.social Hobbyist game designer / socialist / anthropology + history https://jon_dog.itch.io #blender #lowpoly #pixelart
Rules based international order respecter @caramelisedcat.bsky.social On the internet, nobody knows you're a dog.
Jon Brock @drbrocktagon.bsky.social Sydney based science writer
Ginda @ginda65.bsky.social Gardener, proud basket weaver and jam maker. Born 315ppm #climate terrified. Locally active. #auspol
livesarah @livesarah.bsky.social Here to rant (and to wean myself off Meta products).
Brisbane/Meanjin-QLD-AUS
Maranoa Girl @maranoagirl.bsky.social Reality is AUs liberation from its successful re-colonialism by America's 'black ship' monoculture is bound to the recognition & assertion of All Aboriginal Sovereignty & Rights. Reject US managerial class 'greatness', its AI Digital Data Machine & fakery.
Andrew Taylor @litoria.bsky.social CS@UNSW - spare time spent identifying every species seen while diving, bushwalking & running
A man of few words @nuthinbut.bsky.social "We're not behind the times! We're groovy!"
Brian O'Connor @johnnybesad.bsky.social We can all make it through the next four years
🇺🇦🇵🇸
Rob of Melbourne @robert24039377.bsky.social Doer of things, sayer of words.
Longer form writing found here: https://gaijinrobert.wordpress.com/
Elle @ellesanders.bsky.social Co Director of, End the PIT Campaign
Disability & DV Abuse Advocate
Stepping stones to ending the Partner Income Test
100+ lived experience stories
Disabled & neurodivergent.
Newcastle, NSW 🖤💛❤️
endpartnerincometesting.com
Denise Difficult-Shrivell @deniseshrivell.bsky.social Australian political campaigner, commentator & SpinProof podcaster. Frequently makes good & necessary trouble. TrueNorth weekday substack #auspol
Melissa Laing @ylaingylaing.bsky.social Social work associate lecturer and PhD candidate researching the intersection between gender and species-based violence and homelessness, 🐈 lady, 🌈
Tone Goodfellow @goodfellow.bsky.social Adelaide/Ballarat. Spokesperson - Climate Media Centre. Master of Environment Melb uni. BNEWS Hons - UTAS. helping Ballarat Community Alliance, Ballarat Climate Action Network. Proud member of the ASU
Denise Beale @denisebeale.bsky.social PhD, author, retired educator. Moved house 41 times, I don't know why. Planting flowers, watching birds & knitting in Buninyong, Australia. On Wadawurrung land
Tim K 📎 🇺🇸🏳️🌈🇺🇦 @timzers.bsky.social Secular Humanist & social progressive who is completely aghast at how so many conservative friends, family and acquaintances have openly embraced the fascist policies of Trumpism. WTF is happening to our Republic?
Leona Caelestis @leonacaelestis.bsky.social Writer, radical witch, cat in human form
leonacaelestis.org
Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com Unemployed and looking for work. Past bylines at @publisherswkly.bsky.social, @comicsjournal.bsky.social, Gizmodo, HITS Magazine.
Paula 🌹 @paularose.bsky.social artist | always curious | pro-transit & accessibility | resiliency | nature lover | 🏳️🌈
Derwent Valley lutruwita (Tasmania)
BinChicken24 @binchicken24.bsky.social Old woman with Autism, who loves to garden, loves dogs, and is a little obsessed with native Australian orchids and wildflowers.
Dee @figgled.bsky.social John Stamos still won’t return my emails
Dash Nehring @punningstunts.bsky.social (they/them causing may/hem). Mid 30s living on Wadawurrung land. AuDHD, chronically ill. bleeding heart socialist and unionist. All opinions expressed are my own. reposts and likes ≠ endorsements.
Jessi Bessy @jessibessy.bsky.social She/Her
Doing my best.
diamond @diamondqc.bsky.social ♿ australian living on unceded wadarni noongar land (southwest WA)・she/her・very sweary!
#SevereME #POTS #auDHD #OCD #cPTSD #CSAsurvivor #AccessibilityMatters #Disability #genXgoth #TechGeek #Linguistics #Straya #AusPol #AusMusic #IndieMusic #AltMusic
Martin Duck @martyduck.bsky.social Post-Doctoral Research Associate at The University of Sydney in the Discipline of Political Economy: Housing, finance, inequality and democracy
Nobody Deserves Poverty @nobodyinpoverty.bsky.social Raise all income support above the Henderson Poverty Line, because #NobodyDeservesPoverty.
An @ausunemployment.auwu.org.au backed campaign.
🧡 nobodydeservespoverty.org.au
Jakab Bailey @kab-i.bsky.social Urban planner and designer from Melbourne 🌻
Dr Denis Blight @drdgblight-123.bsky.social PhD in chemistry, Australian diplomat, aid administrator, CEO IDP education & CAB International, founder ACIAR & IELTS partnership, Visiting Fellow ANU School of History. Interests: domestic impacts on foreign policy, global food security & peace.
Stephen Tweedale @stephentweedale.bsky.social Rawlsian social democrat interested in politics, philosophy, aviation, and lots of other things. 2026 by-election candidate in North Vancouver-Capilano for Canada’s NDP. CUPE and BCGEU member. Personal views only.
Ellen Hrebeniuk @ellenhrebeniuk.bsky.social TAFE Librarian and CPSU NSW Delegate, CPSU (SPSF) NSW Branch Councillor
and CPSU (SPSF) Federal Councillor.
Professional Interests: reference, information architecture, and general nerdery.
@aliasofanarsehole.bsky.social @aliasofanarsehole.bsky.social 
@brendan-coates.bsky.social @brendan-coates.bsky.social 
SeaEagle @seaeagle.bsky.social Just an old bird who cares about our planet & its creatures.
Currently living on the land of the Menang Noongar people, southern Western Australia.
No DMs, thnx.
Dr Blair Williams @blairwilliams26.bsky.social Award-winning academic. Lecturer in AusPol. Research examines the gendered media coverage of women in politics. Also loves craft. #feminist #disabilityactivist #unionist #craftivist TEDx speaker 🏳️🌈
Canberra
Liz Furler @zilenaj.bsky.social Humanist older than 16
colour me impressed @colourmeimpressed.bsky.social 
Damien Harrison @slaymo.bsky.social B Arts (History). Musician, socialist, recovering software dev. Linux advocate. Gamer. Historian of a bunch of things (WWII Aus, UK, USSR, and US | 20th C Politics | Ancient Rome for fun). D&D, Star Trek. ADHD/Autistic. Aussie.
Blue Dot in Red State @bluedotin.bsky.social Retired; the blue dot in red state; midwest, volunteering & mentoring undergrads, grads, alums; Indiana Fever Fan. BS, PhD in engineering, MBA in strategy, fifty years employed in automotive electronics; Love Baroque music. Love travel, 2 kids, 7 grands.
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing @diffractiongrating.bsky.social I am Iridescent on Twitter but some random took that here.
François Mitterrand retire bitch.
(I'm Australian) (they/them) 🏳️🌈
Regular Supabarn Shopper @supabarnshopper.bsky.social Canberra based, Unions, Greenleft politics, Urban Planning and Transport
Possum @pollytics.bsky.social Political, economic and policy stuff. An unrepentant guitar gear hoarder. You know who I am.
A social democrat on the beats - a libertarian between the human, civil and political rights sheets.
The stupidity in this country is exhausting.
Moreton Bay
Chris Dillow @chrisdillow.bsky.social Bourgeois interests, proletarian instincts.
Mark Hansen @markhansen.co.nz Busy dad. Sydney. Making software fast and smooth. Keen on urban transport. We need to build more homes
Andrew Norton @andrewjnorton.bsky.social Australian higher education policy
andrewnorton.id.au
Marija Taflaga @marijataflaga.bsky.social Political Scientist at The Australian National University.
Political Tragic, co-host of the Democracy Sausage podcast
Josh Holloway @jholloway.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Government at Flinders University.
Democracy | Parties | Elections
thomas irvine @ahermitsvino.bsky.social tragedy -> farce -> tragifarce -> something good?
Grace Krokosz @shewhobytes.bsky.social Affordable housing expert, author, horse rescuer, Mom
She Who Bytes and Letters From Behind the Cheddar Curtain new projects - like Rachel says “Watch This Space”
Sean Reilly @seanjamesreilly.bsky.social Community services worker, lefty, opinionated
Fahad Ali @fahad-s-ali.bsky.social Palestinian 🇵🇸 | Molecular geneticist 🧬 | Medical student 🩺 | 🏳️🌈 | Opinions here my own
Jeanette Kennett @jeanettemk.bsky.social Moral philosopher living in Naarm (Melbourne). Mostly retired. Likes cooking, gardening, bushwalking, birdwatching, reading. Gets passionate about poverty, inequality, and injustice. 
Tom Swann @tomswann.bsky.social Don't worry, everything can always get worse.
a ok @wvv.bsky.social film, culture, auspol, more.
not born a poster.
Margaret Morgan 🇪🇺🇳🇱🇦🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social Dutch resident, Australian novelist with earlier careers in criminal law & biology.
Green 💚
Human Author. ✍️ Death to genAI.
🚫DM
https://www.penguin.com.au/authors/margaret-morgan
https://www.margaretmorgan.info/
Cameron Murray @drcameronmurray.bsky.social Chief Economist
https://www.fresheconomicthinking.com