The duopoly have rewritten the election rulebook, making it almost impossible for independents to stand and win. Zoe and I are in the High Court challenging this rigged rulebook to ensure choices remain on election day. Please chip in to help us👇. #auspol

NSW residents urged to check if they are owed share of $300m in unclaimed money

The 2 politicians elected to represent the entire South East region of South Australia are starting the year in custody.🤬 That's nearly 50,000 voters — living across an area roughly the size of the Netherlands — whose elected member of state parliament is detained. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

One of the many reasons we need an accelerated transition to renewable energy: You don't have wars for oil if you are not dependent on oil.

Rubio is claiming that they did not need Congress permission because it was a law enforcement mission. The US is behaving as a global police state, extending its own arbitrary legal decisions to the whole world. This is not a problem just for Venezuela.

More gas drilling and a leg-up for foreign states, gas cartel, over Australian electricity customers. @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social takes the long handle to Gas Reservation Plan #auspol michaelwest.com.au/king-plan-fa...

From 1 July to 31 December Australians have installed 184,672 home batteries under the Albanese Government's Cheaper Home Battery policy. This has added 4.27 gigawatt hours of storage capacity.

This video discusses a proposal in the Australian State of New South Wales to prohibit the use of certain political chants and slogans. Anne Twomey, who is Professor Emerita of the University of Sydney, has both taught and practised in constitutional law and policy #auspol youtu.be/WK8ZluRFxNw

“We may sometimes think of ourselves as a young nation on an ancient continent. Yet as well as being home to the oldest continuous culture on Earth, Australia is also one of the world’s oldest – and strongest – modern democracies.” @albomp.bsky.social www.smh.com.au/national/on-...

@zalisteggall.bsky.social Happy New Year! SBS: Australia is a world leader in the use of rooftop solar with more than 4.2 million solar systems installed on homes and businesses nationwide. www.sbs.com.au/news/video/w...

Funny that #climate #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

New Year's Day brings a host of new laws, regulations and guidelines into effect. Here's a quick breakdown of some of the changes.

Dozens of firefighters are battling a massive factory fire in Sydney's west.

Anthony Albanese calls 2025 his “year of delivery”. The Saturday Paper catalogued all 50 pieces of legislation passed into law so far in this term, and measured them against Labor’s promises. satpa.pe/jS0YbYh

Zelenskyy calls Russia’s claim of a strike on one of Putin’s residences a “complete fabrication,” a lie designed to sabotage diplomacy, justify more attacks on Kyiv, and excuse Moscow’s refusal to end the war. He warns the world must not stay silent as Russia tries to derail peace.

Lots of people on Bondi Beach this morning to watch the dawn Lots of police, too. Looks like the police are using the Bondi Beach carpark as a holding bay, waiting for call outs, with cars leaving under lights and sirens

About 12% of fossil fuel is used finding, refining, moving, & delivering fossil fuels. For solar, about 3 months of the energy production of the solar cell covers the energy cost of its production. The energy return on energy invested is 50 or 60 to 1 instead of 8 to 1 with Fossil Fuel. #auspol

"In Australia, we subsidise the fossil fuel industry. We give more than half of the gas we export away for free, and we charge our kids a fortune to go to uni." See more of Richard Denniss on Q&A here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAYxzRNfC6k

Here's a very handy clickable list of publishers & commentators in Aust's independent news media sector. Please support & share these news media publishers - & of course sign up to TrueNorth! #auspol > docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

As the rest of the world leaves the U.S. behind.

In thinking about what you can do this year, keep this in mind: Showing up at protests has real impact!

Something else that will be a little bit triggering for racists, my favourite thing. #auspol #AlwaysWasAlwaysWillBe

I like this a lot…

Tk you Anne Davies, @guardian #righttoprotest www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Australians: we don't like guns. This is excellent.

Well this will surprise no one… www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

Politicians and the media have seized on the Bondi tragedy to drag Australia further right, writes @amyremeikis.bsky.social. www.deepcutnews.com/p/massacre-a...

MAJOR 2025 WIN: Australia just recorded one of its biggest-ever drops in climate pollution this year, driven by a surge in renewable energy replacing coal. Let’s go 2026!

Speaking about energy.... in my state 👇 ‘The biggest transformation in a century’: how California remade itself as a clean energy powerhouse. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Selling for a 335k paper gain means nothing if you rebuy into the same market and pay higher stamp duty the housing boom created trillions in equity but zero extra shelter this is illusionary wealth created by inaction #auspol

The stark reality we need to face about guns in Australia https://australiainstitute.org.au/post/the-stark-reality-we-need-to-face-about-guns-in-australia/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-stark-reality-we-need-to-face-about-guns-in-australia #auspol

There are more than four million guns in Australia, and Australia Institute research shows that a gun is stolen every four hours. 📺 Research Director Rod Campbell on CNN @rodcampbell.bsky.social #auspol

New Zealand just recorded its first-ever day of zero coal- or gas-fired electricity. In fact two days, 20 & 21 December. (Still some co-gen, about 1.8%.)

Breakthrough of the year? Renewable energy www.science.org/content/arti...

First solar-battery hybrid on Australia's main grid is energised, and ready to send PV into evening peaks reneweconomy.com.au/first-solar-...

Most Australians live by the beach, but the coastline we have built our lives around is disappearing before our eyes.

A National Day of Reflection will be held today, Sun 21 Dec, to honour those impacted by the #BondiBeach attack. Australians are invited to light a candle at 6:47 pm and observe a minute of silence as an act of remembrance with family, friends and loved ones www.pmc.gov.au/news/nationa... #auspol

‘Borrowed time’: crop pests and food losses supercharged by climate crisis

Minns fails to understand that real democracy requires concerned citizens demonstrating against inhumanity, genocide, apartheid, colonialism and misuse of power. A Labor Premier must not sacrifice democratic rights on the altar of ill informed, short term, knee jerk reactions.

“Ahmed Al Ahmed. He saved my life & my 4yr old” “I can only say thank you to that Muslim brother” This is what the media should show. Messages of unity & hope from survivors. Despite that it’s not the answer this Sky News journo was seeking. #auspol #Bondi

“This year, renewables surpassed coal as a source of electricity worldwide Solar & wind energy grew fast enough to cover the entire increase in global electricity use from Jan to June” China “will cut its carbon emissions by 10% in a decade” via wind & solar www.science.org/content/arti... #auspol

This didn’t get much coverage at the time, so in case you missed it: Allegations NSW Premier Chris Minns took thousands of dollars from unnamed donors a decade ago referred to ICAC

“You will never work in this industry if you don’t understand that your job is make this country as unsafe as possible so we can later win awards for reporting on what we stoked.” chaser.com.au/general-news...

Need something to feel good about? I sure do. Here are 7 fantastic science stores from 2025. Science will continue, even if The Regime tries to kill it at home. #Science 🧪

Climate hot takes for 2025 https://johnmenadue.com/post/2025/12/2025-in-review-climate-hot-takes #auspol

Parliamentary Friends of AUKUS is like Parliamentary Friends of Big Coal, Oil & Gas, Parliamentary Friends of Pokies/TAB. All bought and paid for by Big Lobby and never for your interests. #auspol www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Good analysis from Sarah Martin, but misses a key point: if the Bondi massacre is being hijacked by culture warriors like Howard and the anti-immigration right, it's because that's how mainstream media chooses to frame it. They are lazy or complicit. #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...