abettertax.com.au @abettertax.bsky.social An Aussie trying to convince our politicians to model a simpler & more effective tax for Australia, invented by a mining engineer & two chartered accountants back in the 80s after hearing about the National Party's 15% flat tax idea. #abtax
Sydney Aus
Tom @zubbie15.bsky.social Scientist and wildlife photographer.
Www.nicholsonfineart.com
David J Rovinsky @davidrovinsky.bsky.social Political scientist & former U.S. diplomat. Comparative politics, federalism, Canada, Australia & the politics of place. ACSUS. Writing South of 45. https://southof45.substack.com/
MrLiquid @mrliquid.bsky.social Interests:
Bikes, beats, camping, gardening and politics.
Labels:
Lithium Battery Technician, DJ, Rigger, Vegetarian, Contrarian Agitator, Sortition Advocate, X-escapee
Location:
Naarm/Melbourne Australia
www.custombatteries.com.au
Say G'day Mate on May8
GrumpyLou @grumpylou.bsky.social Old leftie feminist
🖤💛❤️ 🍉
PetaT10 @petat10.bsky.social Interested in many things music, movies , books, politics and kind humans ♥️♥️🥰🥰💃🏻💃🏻NO DM’s 🚫🚫unless we are friends 😊🎉⭐️💫
Andy Kelk @andykelk.net Technologist, people person, introvert, motorcyclist, gourmand, petrolhead, volunteer motorsport marshal. http://pronoun.is/he
🦘 Markedly @nogravitasatall.bsky.social 🦘A bemused Australian skippy currently on Dharawal country.
offering my own wisdom to all
Every bit helps.
JBFittz @jbillz.bsky.social Mum, Nanna worrying about the world from Naarm
Sandra M Aus @igfbss.bsky.social I'm Sandra, Star Trek/Star Wars/Stargate fan, love Anne McCaffrey, political junkie, love fast cars, kittens & puppies red pandas and otters. Progressive. I'm older than you think!
Virtual karlee @eelrak.bsky.social Wine in my mouth, whine out my mouth
Peter Wilkie 🏳️🌈 @wilks6.bsky.social Older than I was. Hunger for social equity, craving a better world for all. AFLW & AFL Hawks fan. I care about animals, nature, life and people. Occasional writer, regular gardener, enjoyer of the ridiculous. Wadawurrung lands. Left & proud of it
ABC News Australia @news.abc.net.au News and analysis from Australia’s most trusted news organisation.
Hume Hannity @hugh-manatee.bsky.social Sean's less evil twin. Not in mint condition but can be used in emergencies. Sympathetic to all living in the Court of the Orange King, unless, of course, you voted for him. Second wokest white male baby boomer south of Fitzroy...
Brendan McCaul @mccaulb.bsky.social Retired
@mitchburt.bsky.social @mitchburt.bsky.social 
janine @janinestephen.bsky.social in the sunshine
@drhil42.bsky.social @drhil42.bsky.social 
@jellyshot.bsky.social @jellyshot.bsky.social Living on Wanggerriburra country,
home of the Yugambeh people.
Socialist, Humanist & Nature Enthusiast. Huge respect for David Attenborough & Carl Sagan. Love Flora & Fauna 🌻🍁🦎
Julie Ann @jewelleryring.bsky.social I love dogs, kind people, socially just politics (yeh I know) classical music, food and life in general. Living on unceded Jagera and Turrubul land.
Marvin @marvinandroid.bsky.social "Life! Don't talk to me about life.”
Posts not endorsed by the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation
Living on Whadjuk Noongar Boodjar
Just an old and confused robot trying to make sense of the universe
DoB: 317.70ppm
Kate-Eviva @kate-eviva.bsky.social Busy trying to monitor the environment and tend my garden. I am most interested in creating safe places for sharing diverse capabilities for best outcomes in community. I value social places where I can ask questions and learn more.
@ollie-henry.bsky.social @ollie-henry.bsky.social We are 2 rescue cavoodles - Ollie & Henry based in Sydney Australia.
Live with the two-leggeds who just want the world to be a better place for all.
We love walks, pats & food & support the 🧑🏻👱🏻♂️in their pursuits of literature, arts, sport & the sciences.
Sarah Toa @sarahtoa.bsky.social 🦘🦘🦘writer of books, essays and short stories, inlet dweller, living on Noongar Boodjar
AL @albertinaus.bsky.social A guest in paradise on Gumbaynggirr land, follower of David Suzuki since we were both young men. Gardens, dogs, sailing and solitude. Fearful for the future. 313 ppm. Oh ok, cats too.
SunflowerMum @sunflowermum.bsky.social #Resister 🇦🇺 🇺🇦
#NoDemUnder10K
No DMs.
Live in Australia. Despise Donald Trump. Live, Love, Life. Nature is beautiful, let's fight for her.
Democracy must not be taken for granted.
#SlavaUkraini
Tim Goodacre - Writer @timgoodacre.bsky.social I am an Australian leftist political "big picture" thinker / writer. My recent focus has been on how the neoliberal era has shaped today's extreme politics worldwide.
See pinned post for recent articles.
More at https://timgoodacre.wordpress.com/
Yunkeroo 🇦🇺🦘🇺🇸 @yunkeroo.bsky.social World peace. ☮️ I try to collect compassionate people in my life.
End fossil fuels, save the planet 🌎
Well, if you want to sing out, sing out
And if you want to be free, be free
'Cause there's a million things to be
DM=💀
TV editor.
🇦🇺🐨🇺🇸
Michael Barnes @barnesm31.bsky.social I smell blood and an era of prominent madmen. Science is cool. Born in 1966, Whitefella living on the land of the Wurundjeri people. LGBTQIA+ rights are human rights. Refugees are welcome, racists are not.
Vian1138 @vian.bsky.social she/her/they/them/comrade
Difficult Woman
Still deciding whether I was born 4 centuries too late or a couple too early.
Living on unceded land in Naarm. (Melbourne, AUS)
Lesley Head @lesleyhead.bsky.social Geographer at Unimelb, writer, berry farmer. Cultural dimensions of environmental & climate change issues. 
Gerard Gill @gerardagill.bsky.social Extremism researcher, AVERT Research Network member, professional dilettante, bringing nonsense, tinsel and dirt.
Emma Cooper @emmackat.bsky.social She/her. Eclectic follower of politics, reading, writing, feminism, dogs, cricket, running and other exhausted parents. Dharug country, Blue mountains, NSW, Australia.
Lynne @mythconception.bsky.social Old aussie lefty, fond of justice, fairness and equality, dogs, cats, gardening, watercolour, and trying to be positive and hopeful for our wildlife, our planet and our politics But why why why has the world gone insane.
Living gently on Wurundjeri land
Susie Malady @sincerelysusie.bsky.social public health bureaucrat (views I put here are my own). interested in humanity, news and information. living on Yaegl Country.
Vicki Watson @scorpiogcoast.bsky.social Yugambeh Land
The common good. UBI. Medicare. Public hospitals.
The need for charity is a failure of government.
Living with cancer.
Essendon, Politics, RP’s not endorsement.
BA (History) GradMgmtQual, MTechMgmt
David Branch @dbranch9.bsky.social Retired, living in Wadawarrung country 🇦🇺. Exiled long-suffering Norwich City supporter. 1/8th Canadian 🇨🇦.
Climate action now. I hate corruption in politics so I hate the LNP, Tories and the GOP.
I get my daily Ukraine update from balloon-juice.com.
John Lakey @lakey10.bsky.social Wine farmer, bewildered by acronyms, soon to be cheese maker, used to be Ray-Monde deux on the X, farmer at Ingliston, Victoria, Australia
Dave 🫘 @just-dave.bsky.social Description? What Description?
Clumsy poet, judo intellectual. Trying to walk tall.
Living on Whadjuk Noongar land, in Boorloo (Perth).
@tworeddogs.bsky.social @tworeddogs.bsky.social Grape grower & sheep farmer in NE Victoria with 2 rescue Kelpies. Ex-chef & winemaker. Interest in climate, politics, engineering, cycling, distance running & music. Prefer dogs over most humans.
UrbanMyf @urbanmyf.bsky.social My best attribute is my ability to proof read my posts after posting. Meanjin woman, born and bred. Ex photographer.. Don't waste my time with yer god-bothering. No DMs.
Dul0x 🔞 @dul0x.bsky.social 24 | she/they | cis but a staunch ally | autistic | based on Wurundjeri land | anime, gaming and occasional DC and politics | post AI slop and you'll get the block
Rocky @blakbob0.bsky.social Anti-racist, anti-fascist, anti-genocide, anti-Newscorp.
Gumbaynggirr/Dunghutti/Gringai
Reside on #Gadigal land. No DM's.
MandyH @oxfairy.bsky.social Human
Not absorbing, observing
Constantly adjusting to changes as best I can while enjoying the beauty of our planet
Power with.
Ngarrindjeri lands and ocean
GTS @goodtroublesquad.bsky.social ✈️ With Major Jason Watson’s message at our heart, we turn concern into action. A volunteer community organizing, creating, and showing up for democracy. 🗳️ Every voice matters. Join us. #WeStandWithJason #GoodTroubleSquadron #DemocracyInAction
Mickey20 @bonosky84.bsky.social Unapologetically Australian 😀 Hell site refugee. Here for the normalcy
Laurie Agard @laurieagard.com Author, filmmaker, American Aussie married to extraordinary doctor. Proud mom, sister, aunt, daughter. PhD, traveler, volunteer, reader, mosaicist, minpins & cockatiel, ally, x-college athlete who loves sports 🏀 💙 🐾 🌈📕 🧳 🎥
DWBlack14 Geo/Engr. @dwblack14.bsky.social Married, with 3 grown children
FormerRepublican, ProudDem since 2016. #TrumpHater
Live in California. but work all over the world. I support #Woman’sRights, #LGBTQ.+. #Ukraine
#BlueValues #Resist 💙💙💙💙
@christinemelbaus.bsky.social @christinemelbaus.bsky.social Semi retired Auslan interpreter. Wanting a better earth for my grandchildren. No DMs, automatic block.🇦🇨
Sirius Star 🍉 🍉 🍉 @siriusstar3.bsky.social Fighting for a world that is 🌎 over profit. Free from abusive power for all.
Autistic
Makarr Yindi
Billionaires should not exist. It’s us or them.
Jeremy Poxon @jeremypoxon.bsky.social i've been bullied to go on here by @maximumwelfare to post about the mutual obligations scandal
contact me if you have MOs issues or questions: jeremy@antipovertycentre.org
Abul Rizvi @abulrizvi.bsky.social Interested in population and immigration policy. Father of 2 daughters and 2 grandsons. Collingwood supporter since 1968.
Peanuts Lady @pieslady.bsky.social Live in nipaluna / Hobart
Cold water swimmer
#nonewstadium #Hobart
https://australianfemicidewatch.org/she-matters/
🍉🍉🍉🍉
Chiarra Sue @chiarra.bsky.social Data Engineer. #AI Smart Policies. Dev. Digital Artist. Writing about the future.
Good Ethical AI believer.
https://medium.com/@chiarrasue
https://taxtheshorties.substack.com
Zem @zem-australia.bsky.social Politics, truth in media, social justice, public health....
and of course being a slave to my dog
Andy McKay @korimakoecology.bsky.social Aotearoa based Restoration/Applied Ecologist.
Skateboarding, punk rock and plants.
iNaturalist enthusiast https://inaturalist.nz/observations?place_id=any&user_id=andymckay&verifiable=any
Big T @big-tony.bsky.social Wiradjuri, Wailwan, and Wongaibon and proud of it. Family, Country, Self. Anti-racist, anti-greed, anti-elite. My respect is yours to lose. No DM. No GoFundMe. Water Warrior.
@fairfaxmatters.bsky.social @fairfaxmatters.bsky.social Fairfax Matters Inc.
🌞 Sunny Coast locals driving change.
📣 Tired of being a safe seat – we want real representation.
🌿 Housing, environment, infrastructure.
🗳️ Not a party – a movement for real change.
fairfaxmatters.org | Join us!
Lawrie Zion @lzion.bsky.social Melburnian. 
Michael Dowling aka MeckeringBoy @meckeringboy.bsky.social STOP🇮🇱💀genocide Aussie 🦘Whadjuk boodja
Atheist-Left-AntiFascist-TAX THE RICH
•Activist 🌍:
If not me, then who?🌎
•Climate change is real & deadly🔥
•❤️Science
•Born 313 PPMCO₂
For Zero CO2
•Former educator
•BLM🇵🇸🍉🇺🇦 💙📎 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ ally
🚫DMs🚫Porn🚫Racists
🚫MAGA🚫RWNJs
The DILETTANTE @demwar.bsky.social Once described in HuffPost as “one of the brightest minds on the planet”… (true) but I’m pretty sure that journo was high. (also true).
Democracy | Speaker | Poet | Author | Archer | Dilettante Polymath | ANTIFA
📍Bunurong, Turrbal and Yuggera Country.
The Shot @theshot.net.au Profound and Profane.
theshot.net.au
RealMagdaSzubanski @realmagdaszubanski.bsky.social Yes. This is the real me. Hello 😂
Craig Foster @craigafoster.bsky.social 
Sandy (PhD) 🇦🇺 🙋♀️☀️- EmpowerGenZ with high expectations @drsandynicoll123.bsky.social 🔑Schools Plus ($90K)- Numeracy Project ⬆️ NAPLAN ~ ATSI, EALD, ⬇️ SES
🔑 Care4Coast grant ($5K)
“Live until you are old. Learn until you are old.”
Inclusion 💜💙💚💛🧡❤️
Yes23 🖤💛❤️
Matrilineal ⏳
Love 🤿 🤳 🌊 🎶 🎬📚🎒🚄✈️🏎️🛵
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3237-2541
Montague Street Bridge @montaguestbridge.bsky.social Vertically challenged - just 3.0m tall!
Allegedly invisible to the naked eye
Come visit me in South Melbourne
Don't be a jerk!
Prof Marc Tennant AM @marctennant.bsky.social #Academic/Commentator: #PublicHealth Equity #Reform #Biology #Computing #PopulationModelling #GIS #Dental
My words. My thoughts.
Jan Fran @janfran.bsky.social Journalist…ish.
Mark Kenny @markgkenny.bsky.social Broadcast commentator. Democracy Sausage podcast. Director, Australian Studies Institute, ANU. Ex-Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, ABC RN. Columnist, The Canberra Times. 2025-26 FASIC Australia-in-China Fellow. Multiculturalist. Schnauzer-aligned.
Paul Bongiorno @paulbongiorno.bsky.social Columnist for The Saturday Paper, 7AM Podcast contributor, ABC Nightlife commentator, veteran political journalist. His views contestable but his own.
Antony Green @antonygreenelec.bsky.social Australian Election Analyst
Stephen Kirchner @insteconomics.bsky.social Economist in Sydney, Australia. Personal account, usual disclaimers. If you like my short form content, you will just love my long form newsletter: https://stephenkirchner.substack.com/
Women's Agenda @womensagenda.bsky.social 💡 Must-know daily news
💯 Women-owned, funded and run!
Jamie Wright @jamiewriteswords.bsky.social Adelaidean. Community theatre, podcasts, film, indie music, books - things of that nature.
Tim Soutphommasane @timsout.bsky.social Chief Diversity Officer & Professor, University of Oxford. Former Australian Race Discrimination Commissioner www.timsoutphommasane.com
Grattan Institute @grattaninstitute.bsky.social Australia’s leading domestic public policy think tank. Independent analysis on economic reform, budgets, education, health, climate & energy, disability. 
@turnbullmalcolm.bsky.social @turnbullmalcolm.bsky.social 
Larissa Waters @larissawaters.bsky.social ✊🏻Tax the 1%
🌱 Leader of the Australian Greens & Senator for Qld
Authorised by L Waters, Brisbane
Barbara Pocock @barbarapocock.bsky.social Writer, mother, painter, unionist, professor, economist, Greens Senator for SA. Spokesperson for Housing, Workplace Relations, Employment, Finance, Public Sector.
Prof Jo Barraket AM @jobarraket.bsky.social Director, @msei-unimelb.bsky.social. Researching social economy & social innovation for fairer societies. Growing. Cooking. Eating. Living w/ MS, bloke, Zoe the beagle & Stormy the Lab x. Views mine. She/her
Amy @msfoxifurnasty.bsky.social melancholic. bad poet.
obscene, perverse, awkward little weirdo.
she/her
stuff:
bsky.app/profile/did:plc:sdkxyw2r7xlx5kjhsolgagv6/feed/aaademkmaiuwk
thangs: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:qpaecp6vknbnc77svofj4dvg/feed/aaaed4kso7mnw
@sherelemoody.bsky.social @sherelemoody.bsky.social 
Sally @twisal.bsky.social Feminist, Single Mother, Lover of Men who walk beside me not over me.
Tomás Daly - Call me Tom @democracytalk.bsky.social We can renew democracy by re-thinking democracy. I wear 4 hats:
Director, Demoptimism Project http://demoptimism.org // Professor, Melbourne Law School // Director, Electoral Regulation Research Network // Convenor, Constitution Transformation Network
Flotsam Greg @flotsamgreg.bsky.social Voted Yes, No new Coal/Gas, No AUKUS, No Mutual Obligation, Raise Jobkeeper, Bring back CES, Support Environment/people first, #Auspol, living on the land of the Dhudhuroa peoples
evernow @evernow.bsky.social Born in the UK. Now a happy Aussie.
Recording engineer and educator.
Union member. Leftie. Vegetarian. Spiritual.
There are no gods.
Lover of peace, people and animals.
On Worimi/Awabakal lands.
Music is everything.
No no no unsolicited DMs.
Jon Dee (JonDee.com) @jondeeoz.bsky.social FSC ANZ Chair. Hosted 115 eps of Sky News Smart Money. Founder DoSomething, Planet Ark, Tree Day, One Tree Per Child. Australian of the Year (NSW) 2010. JonDee.com
Ariel Bogle @arielbogle.bsky.social Investigations reporter @GuardianAus
// abogle@protonmail.com // Signal: @Ariel.872
Lisa M Given, FASSA, FASIS&T @lisagiven.bsky.social Prof, Information Sciences & Dir, Centre for Human-AI Information Environments (CHAI) & Dir, Social Change Enabling Impact Platform @RMIT | cats | metal | qualitative | Ed. Annual Review of Info Science & Technology https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1840-6175
Craig Hill @craighill.bsky.social Host of the "Australia Asks" Video Podcast. Author (15 books). Teacher, Business Consultant, Social Justice Campaigner and Journalist. General Manager of the Australian Book and Language Studio.
Stuart Khan @stukhan.bsky.social Professor and Head of School of Civil Engineering at University of Sydney. Mostly water-related stuff. Views expressed here are my own and do not reflect those of my employer.
Mik Aidt @mikaidt.bsky.social Journalist, podcaster, communicator. Lived in Denmark many years, had a record company, spent 4 years in Africa, visited 60 countries. Since 2013 settled in Australia with three teenage kids. Doing what I can to empower #thegreentransition
MDifficultColvinMcKenzie @mcolvinmckenzie.bsky.social Fmr film ed/ Greens Cllr 12 years, sons Nic and Will & doggies. Phil Hons University of London. Psych Macquarie. Married to the great @colvinius, ABC foreign corro, broadcaster, genius. Prefer living in other possible world for next four years.
Jane Lydon @janelydon.bsky.social Australian historian of colonialism, legacies of slavery, & visual culture. Perth, West Australia. Author: Anti-Slavery and Australia: No Slavery in a Free Land? (Routledge) & Imperial Emotions: The Politics of Empathy Across the British Empire (CUP)
Mike Roberts @miker66.bsky.social Settler on Wangal land, researcher in renewable energy integration & just transition, anti-genocide leftard. My employer definitely doesn't agree with all my views. (he/him)
Ally Brown @behinddreaming.bsky.social A Poet, Librarian, Unionist & RENegade.
Living in Naarm and previously on Anaiwan country. Always was, always will be.
To write is to Dream,
To dream is to become more than you are.
Poems & photos CC-BY-NC
https://poetry.behinddreaming.com
The Plodding Historian (Lisa) @ploddinghistorian.bsky.social Taking PhDing to new levels of avoidance, procrastination and delay, but, maybe this time, there is an end in sight. BlueSkying history, Musical Goddess Kate Ceberano and clouds. I do love clouds. Even though they are in The Outside. Which I don't like.
Kuspy with a K @kuspyl.bsky.social Mum, Wife, Sister, Friend.
Citizen of the Earth. Supporter of 🇺🇦.
Let’s look after this planet and each other🙏.
Naarm, Australia
Originally from 🇨🇦
She/Her
#NoWar #LiveAndLetLive
#WearAMask Please!
Yes, that’s a photo of fruit salad 🥗
No DMs.
Elise @mummyhearts.bsky.social Opinionated, frugal, well and truly grown out of any bios I’ve written since the dawn of social media. #Auspol
@jpmegraw.bsky.social @jpmegraw.bsky.social Retired nurse I believe that good healthcare and education for all is a fundamental requirement for a successful society. I believe in diversity and inclusion because life’s too short for crap and negative energy no DM please