Australia news live: home battery subsidy helped add 50% to capacity in four months as Labor hails ‘solar nation’

Flooding has already wiped $42B from the value of 🇦🇺 homes Climate change isn’t a future cost. It’s here, harming our economy and our safety We can’t keep ✅ fossil fuel projects at expense of communities & property values, and need to get serious about adaptation www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

team of postdocs in the lab meeting proposing the 15th joint paper when I ask them when we will find time to write it

Exclusive | Scott Morrison has registered himself as having a relationship with a $2.5 trillion Saudi fossil fuel company whose board member was once appointed by Morrison to a COVID recovery taskforce.

Hello Mannheim! I'm presenting tomorrow at the Centre for European Social Research. Come for all the empirical modelling you know all about, stay for all the stuff about oil in Northern Europe you know less about 🛢️🌊

Looking forward to hopping on a train later today and heading to Paris to present our "how Brexit harmed the environment" paper (cc @acalacino.bsky.social @hayleypring.bsky.social) tomorrow 🇫🇷 Thanks @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social for the invite!

New from @the-breakdown.bsky.social ISSUE 2 Photojournalist Garry Lotulung documents the exlosion of nickel mining, largely for batteries, in Halmahera, Indonesia—speaking with workers, locals & members of the island's Indigenous community Photographed: Daniel Totabo

Psyched for @acalacino.bsky.social and @hayleypring.bsky.social to present our media paper at PECE/APSA! Come for the giant dataframe of local news, geolocated monthly climate events and coal mines Stay for the wealth of stories from recent 🇧🇷🇮🇩 fieldwork Enrage about asset-based climate politics

On my way to Vancouver for APSA and the PECE pre-conference. At PECE, I'll be sharing a look at a project with @fgenovese.bsky.social, @hayleypring.bsky.social & Mats Ahrenshop in which we try to understand when national and local media report on climate change 👇 1/5

Environment watchdog buried report on lead in children’s blood to placate mining companies, emails show

Today’s podcast listen was the Drilled’s episodes on Carbon Bros. Important stuff. @hayleypring.bsky.social @hannahsalamon.bsky.social and I have work in progress on the intersection between gender and preferences for green jobs, and many things resonate. Research registration plan: osf.io/qw2xs

My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up. NYT just covered it. 1/n www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...

NSW battles heavy rain and flooding as Sydney experiences wettest August for ‘quite some time’

August rain records smashed across NSW as thunderstorms and more rain loom in final week

Fieldwork in Indonesia off to a good start (by start I mean finally feeling human after 48 hours of jet lag) @fgenovese.bsky.social @hayleypring.bsky.social

Australian PM Anthony Albanese announces Australia will recognise Palestine in September.

Clean energy subsidies should be replaced with ‘market-based incentives’ from 2030, Australia’s Productivity Commission says: Interim report on investing in cheaper, cleaner energy and the net zero transformation sets out reforms Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Ge...

Great thoughts by @bhbradlow.bsky.social that resonate with our (@acalacino.bsky.social @hayleypring.bsky.social & my) work in GS. But the divide bw 🛢️ & ⚡️ in each of these countries (bar China?) is still not 💯 determined. Each has an internal battle going on, multidirectional switches are possible.

Interesting. Another story I’ll raise here is smtg @hayleypring.bsky.social @hannahsalamon.bsky.social and I have seen in our working age UK survey (N=1.5k): men (non-grad&grad) seek higher paid jobs and would rather have high-pay in fossil fuels (dying sector) than midpay in green jobs (growing).

This is your periodic reminder that “The Great Emu War” is a real thing. It consisted of a military operation to address emus damaging large amounts of crops in Western Australia. We couldn’t help but wonder: Does it count as a war if one side has wings instead of arms?

Not at #EPSA2025 but there in spirit in an excellent panel on “The Political Economy of Climate Change & The Environment in the Global South” (tnx @melinscribe.bsky.social for chairing) Room: 1.A.06 Time: 26/6 9:30 We’re presenting a first draft on media, event attribution and climate obfuscation⬇️

9 years ago today, Brexit day. Commiserations to all who are still mad about it. Looking for ways to feed your outrage? Here's a 🪡 to a paper on how the immediate aftermath of the 🇪🇺 referendum unleashed very dark behavior in one of the hardest sectors to regulate -- UK offshore oil drilling 🌊🛢️💸

My Climate Vulnerability Project postdocs: @acalacino.bsky.social @hayleypring.bsky.social and Mats Ahrenshop, who are all incredibly smart, motivated, and just fun to work with 🌟🌟🌟 Also, breaking news: looking forward for @susannagarside.bsky.social to join as fourth postdoc in September!

Happy 18th birthday ggplot2! #rstats

Spent so many summers diving the Ningaloo reef, this is so sad.

🚨 WP w/ @acalacino.bsky.social & @hayleypring.bsky.social It’s been a turbulent decade of globalization backlash. Populist projects wanna take back control everywhere. Focusing on the case of oil and Brexit, we offer a story of the danger of this narrative and concrete merits of multilateralism: 🧵

Not the first question, but among the questions here - what does the LNP stance mean for national renewables + emissions targets? www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Investment in big batteries booms as Australia’s energy transition gathers pace

The Environment Minister Murray Watt will approve the 50-year extension of one of the world’s biggest fossil fuel projects, Woodside's North West Shelf. Along with releasing 4 billion tonnes of emissions, this decision will result in $215 billion worth of gas given away royalty-free. #auspol

People are correctly comparing the Trump attack on Harvard to Orban’s aggression against CEU, but I recall colleagues/students having (not much, but some) time to see options and consider relocation. The US admin is much faster, more irrational. Truly on steroids.

NSW floods: these maps show the full extent of record-breaking rainfall

NSW farmers who survived the 2021 floods and are still recovering from ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred, ‘have lost absolutely everything’ in the latest deluge

Public ownership FTW. It's not just me, btw. cc @hayleypring.bsky.social @hannahsalamon.bsky.social

And that's a wrap on 6 weeks of fieldwork in Brazil: 40+ expert interviews, 4 focus groups (~40 people), 6 locations, presentations at several universities (FGV-SP, UFBA, UNIFCAS, and UFSC WAPOR conference), and too many pão de quejo to count. Obrigado Brasil!

ABC projects that Liberal leader Peter Dutton has lost his seat in Australia's federal elections. Like Canada's Poilievre, Dutton had long been the presumed next PM... until January 2025. Two Trump imitators banished from politics by voters after the consequences of Trump's fascism became clear.

Happy democracy sausage day to all who celebrate 🇦🇺

We’re calling on the next Parliament to be brave, to put climate science back into climate policy, and stop opening new gas and coal mines in Australia. In defiance of the science, our research shows that Australia is the world's 3rd largest fossil fuel exporter. 📝 theaus.in/stop_new_fossil_fuels

Is there any way to check if your polling booth has a sausage sizzle out the back, so you can buy your "democracy sausage" sandwich (and perhaps a cuppa) after you vote? Yes there is! The #DemocracySausage provides a searchable map! #auspol #AusVotes25 democracysausage.org

And now, for some really important news, democracy sausage locations 😆 democracysausage.org/federal_elec...

It’s been nearly four weeks since Ukraine agreed to an unconditional ceasefire. Since then, Russia has stalled attempts to reach a peaceful resolution. To end the war, we must strengthen our support for Ukraine. Extract from my press conference ↓

After two weeks here, I am convinced there are many Brazils with many different priorities that spill over on climate change policy and create different, in fact clashing, preferences for climate. More thoughts and data as fieldwork continues… cc @acalacino.bsky.social @hayleypring.bsky.social

Some data worth pondering as the conversation shifts to "reciprocal" tariffs.

There are no tariffs being put on Russia. Hmmm

* CHINESE STATE MEDIA: CHINA, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA REACH A CONSENSUS THAT THREE SIDES WILL JOINTLY RESPOND TO THE U.S. TARIFFS @reuters.com

What a wild time to be doing fieldwork about climate politics in Brazil. Our interviews have been punctuated by us physically running from a record-breaking tide that destroyed a beach, the power going out in the neighborhood from an extreme storm, and flood warnings on two separate days.

And while some countries up north have a meltdown on trans rights, here we were at a packed concert of an openly trans black female artist who on the same night received honorary citizenship by the city of Salvador for championing minority rights in 🇧🇷 @acalacino.bsky.social @hayleypring.bsky.social

The more I study and visit so-called Global South countries, the more I learn about their problems related to the carbon economy and climate disasters, the more I am convinced that they represent the future, not the past, of the Global North.

one thing i keep thinking about is how there is simply no way to design a constitutional system that can resist authoritarian incursion if participants in that system do not actually care that much

A propos North Sea oil spills: there are hundreds of oil rigs in that sea and tons of oil spills going on yearly in the UK waters (though of course not via violent collisions…). Figure from a working paper with @acalacino.bsky.social and @hayleypring.bsky.social

In Australia, Tesla sales have nosedived 66% so far this year.