Every time someone claims that if Australia didn’t export its coal and gas, other countries will just buy it elsewhere, just tap the sign: www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

“The positive news is that this year for the first time, renewables overtook coal as the generator of the majority of the world’s energy.” satpa.pe/pR6co4f

A 300 MW solar farm that will supply software giant Microsoft’s data centres in Australia is now fully operational.

Today’s good news - early #coal closure. #gladstone #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

“Electricity generation costs would be up to 50% higher if Australia stuck with only coal and gas.” www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

BHP signs another massive and landmark deal to source “baseload renewables” from wind and battery storage to power its huge copper mines and smelters.

Updated: Renewables hit new peak share of 77.9 per cent on Australia’s main grid on Sunday, and break through 50 pct share for a week for first time.

Young Australians are bearing more and more economic burden because of our failure to index tax brackets. As Ken Henry has put it, this is an act of intergenerational bastardry. We need to index tax brackets, lessen the load on wage earners, and stop giving subsidies to fossil fuel industries.

This is disgraceful behaviour by anyone, let alone an MP. You don't get a free pass for being perceived as an eccentric old dingbat www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

The Global South isn’t waiting for the West to save the planet.

The second stage of what will be Australia’s biggest battery to date has burst into action, helping change the evening profile on the country’s biggest isolated grid.

I wonder if he read the midtransition paper with @gruberte.bsky.social

It has taken medical science 200 years to advance humans to the point where people are so healthy and living so long that they can deny that science and medicine is what got us here.

www.sydney.edu.au/engage/event... The Ideas Roundtable: Is Australia alright?

If you loved an author’s book, tell them! They will completely ignore it because they’re fixated forever on the anonymous person who once gave them two stars on goodreads but it’s probably good for your karma

I’ve been calling on the Govt to get rid of JRG for the last three years. This reform is urgent and will deal with the root cause of ballooning HECS debts - it makes no sense to kick it down the road while talking about cutting 20% or HECS. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Energy efficiency is seen as the “first fuel” and is the main priority in the EU’s energy policies. But in Australia it remains the “forgotten fuel”, even as we electrify.

Join me and this great line-up of researchers for this free discussion.

Wow! Shout out to the @GuardianAUS for this alarming graphic showing the emissions of @Woodside’s NW shelf project - don’t miss this!!! www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

“The planet’s remaining carbon budget to meet the international target of 1.5C has just two years left at the current rate of emissions, scientists have warned, showing how deep into the climate crisis the world has fallen.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Inertia is the new baseload: Almost every critic of Spain’s renewable energy got their blackout facts wrong

Tindo Solar lands five year deal to export Australian made solar PV modules to Vietnam

MDMA became popular as ecstasy but it was once called “therapy.” Australian researcher @rebeccahuntley.bsky.social writes about her experience of turning to underground MDMA therapy to address years of unresolved trauma, in @thewalrus.ca weekend read thewalrus.ca/when-therapy...

“a capitulation…” Hon Carmen Lawrence #auspol #climatecrisis #FossilGas #Woodside

How Labor’s North West Shelf approval further endangers Murujuga’s 50,000-year-old rock art | Benjamin Smith and John Black for the Conversation

Every single young Australian would need to order 4,888 t-shirts from Temu each year (13 per day) to match Woodside's current emissions. And to reach Woodside's maximum emissions estimates for the North West Shelf Extension? They would each need to order 214,571 t-shirts. #woodsideenergy

See you in court: Murujuga custodian's message to Environment Minister. Raelene Cooper is heading to the Federal Court to challenge the govt decision to extend the life of the North West Shelf gas processing plant at Karratha without considering her application to protect ancient rock art. #auspol

A bad decision for the climate, and one that reveals the limitations of the EPBC Act. It provides limited capacity for projects to be refused on climate grounds. Australia’s national environment law needs reform, and needs to include a climate trigger.

Woodside toxic spill near Ningaloo Reef world heritage area under investigation

“Little by little, almost all of them began to prioritize their romantic lives and families over their friendships,” Sam Graham-Felsen writes of his male friends. “It’s certainly what happened to me.”

Australia could replace carbon-intensive exports with green iron and quadruple earnings, a report says, but it needs to act soon and decisively to seize the opportunity

Everyone buy this book. I’ve pre-ordered a copy.

If Violet Affleck, first year Yale student, is planning a career in medicine or public health, she is off to a flying start. Her essay in Yale Global Health Review is outstanding. Yes, her parents are celebrities, but she is forging her own path yaleglobalhealthreview.com/2025/05/18/a...

The geography of climate anxiety: www.maps.com/climate-anxi...

Some good environmental news for a change www.smh.com.au/environment/...

A catastrophic algal bloom — fueled by warming oceans and calm marine conditions — is killing marine life on an unprecedented scale in South Australia. knittingnannas.org/2025/05/14/s...

That agenda should include substantive human rights reform. The government has the opportunity in its second term to enhance the protections we all deserve by legislating a national Human Rights Act. theconversation.com/australia-do....

Extract from my memoir Sassafras in The Toronto Star. www.thestar.com/news/insight...

43% of electricity in Australia’s main power grid in the first quarter was from renewable energy www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

A company owned by Malcolm and Lucy Turnbull has sold nearly 1.4 GW of 10-hour pumped hydro energy storage projects to major Australian gentailer AGL

Some of the country’s biggest wind and solar battery facilities will be built in NSW central west after state awards grid access rights to more than 7 GW of projects

Wind, solar and batteries are pushing fossil fuels to record lows, but coal and hydro are still keeping prices high, AEMO says

Labor must heed the warnings wrapped up in its election win. Young voters are crying out for action | Intifar Chowdhury

Post mortem. #auspol

Looks as though the politics of grievance is not our thing. Something to be glad of.