My column today on what really is causing inflation and also how the RBA really don't have a clue www.theguardian.com/business/gro...

The GDP data was pretty clear on what caused the bump in inflation at the end of 2025 - profits. The RBA had access to this data, and decided, nahhhhh, it's too many people with jobs wanting big pay rises. (hope you all enjoyed that pay rise!) www.theguardian.com/business/gro...

Worth reading in its entirety. Lots of implications, but one I keep coming back to is that a generational window of opportunity may be closing for shifting freight back to rail - and winning the huge pollutant, road safety, and energy efficiency benefits that come with that shift. No time to lose!

Episode 43 of the Kilauea eruption is a BEAST. They just zoomed out and uhhh this may be on its way to setting a record for tallest lava fountains. What on Earth. 😍🌋 Cam 2 live: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiyt...

Public owns the gas under the ground. Royalties are the fees gas companies pay to use this gas. But most gas exporters pay no royalties, and minimal tax. In the past four years, $149 billion worth of LNG was exported from Australia royalty-free. australiainstitute.org.au/post/austral...

📣 Reportedly only 140,000 out of the 480,000 Robodebt class action members have registered to receive additional compensation in the proposed settlement. If you're eligible, you have until 4pm tomorrow to register with Gordon Legal: robodebtsettlement.com.au

As the tech industry increasingly turns to onsite fossil fuel power for data centers, what does this mean for nearby communities? A new study evaluates the impacts of fine particulate matter from a VA facility's onsite power system & finds $53M–$99M/yr in health damages.

Research from The Australia Institute shows that, after inflation, specialist fees have grown by a whopping 78% since 2010. Read the full piece on The Point: https://theaus.in/40rxWu0

OKAY BIG ONE FOR YA NEW report out today: I dig deep into how big tech has been muddling tech types and overstating evidence to claim "AI" will make global emissions drop like a stone.... Not only will it not, it seems to be verifiably doing the opposite!! ketanjoshi.co/2026/02/17/b... + 📼+🧵>

Another v v good piece of analysis from @onlyfacts.io here - showing how the shift to uts and SUVs in Australia is a major component of rising transport emissions Remarkable how unassailable this deadly trend is, in Aus onlyfacts.io/newsletters/...

New article by our PhD student investigating if Sr, Nd and Pb isotopes can be used to trace the provenance of ochres... Hint they can! ⚒️🧪🌏 doi.org/10.1016/j.ch...

Winter sport needs snow-not fossil fuels Eni, one of the world’s biggest oil and gas corporations, is using the Winter Olympics to greenwash its fossil-fuelled destruction If you agree that polluters shouldn’t get a podium at the Games, share the video (Proudly human-made. No AI) #WinterOlympics

Exclusive | The Albanese government is handing access to Australians’ biometric data and ID documents to US agencies like ICE, and not telling anyone. @keanebernard.bsky.social reports.

Politics is about choices. This government is choosing to spend more on tax breaks for landlords than on social housing, homelessness and rent assistance combined. While you're getting smashed by unlimited rent increases and massive mortgage repayments.

Politicians (Pelosi just did it) and institutions routinely misquote MLK on health. "Health" became "health care" (shrinking a systemic indictment to a service delivery complaint) "Inhuman" became "inhumane" (a very different word) "Because it often results in physical death" just disappeared.

It was inevitable.

Here’s @jsresearchpro.bsky.social reporting on ridiculous new ARC grant time-scales (e.g. 16 months for DPs). The ARC “did not respond to questions about the reasons for the length of the delays or on how the changes will affect researchers’ planning”. I reckon they haven’t thought that far ahead.

Labor is passing laws that are more extreme than what Trump has attempted, on immigration and speech, largely at the behest of the media. But if Trump tried to do it, the same outlets would say they were bad, fascistic overreach. Insanely dumb country.

$600,000. A. Day. What the fuck.

This paper is part of a huge surge forward in scientific understanding of disease. We have gone from not knowing EBV causes MS to unlocking **how** EBV causes MS, *like that*. 1/2

If you were part of the Robodebt class action settlement, you may be eligible for compensation. Registration for compensation ends in early March 2026. Make sure you’re registered. Contact Gordon Legal if you haven’t received a information document package from Services Australia

Grass roots. My @smh cartoon.

When you shop at Coles, you’re funding fascism. Good to know. Even better to avoid.

If you're scared this tragedy will by weaponised by those pushing hatred, division & control, same. It's a pattern that can change nations. We've already seen Netanyahu claim the Muslim who charged the shooters was Jewish. Empathy, patience and truth. Everything else is unhelpful

In case you have never seen this.

“This is complete overkill by Victoria police to designate such a large area for six months... What it means is that a police officer or protective services officer can stop and search anyone, no questions asked, at any time in the CBD and its surrounds.”

Just outrageous!

4BC is out here with the hard-hitting investigations! 500 Australians are apparently at the UN climate summit in Brazil, and that's costing taxpayers $2 billion! So for some quick maths that's $4 million per person for a two week trip to Brazil. Unbelievable stuff! 😛

so @matteowong.bsky.social & I wrote on data centers: arguably the most important buildings in the world & are, in a way, holding the economy hostage. Byzantine financial instruments, private equity, depreciating tech, hype, $trillion valuations. it’s all there. an ai crash prob starts here.

The most insanely frustrating thing about the #ClimateCrisis is how the breakthrough we so clearly need isn’t technological. It’s just a collective willingness, a determination even, to change in ways that would clearly be SO MUCH BETTER than the clear and obvious consequences of NOT changing.

Monster: Ed Gein, a thread Ed Gein was schizophrenic and had mummy issues, he was extremely unwell but he was NOT trans by any acceptable definition of the word and would not have been considered trans by any medical professional. He was not a trans woman he was trying to be/become his mother. 1/

Lots of talk about solar geoengineering (SRM) in climate circles over the past few days. As you try to decide what you think about it, please keep two things in mind: 1) Once it begins it would need to be maintained without a break for thousands of years, effectively forever, until… 1/3

Text of Aust/US critical mineral deal. www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-st... No 3 looks like an attack on requisite permits (probably environment)...the old red/green tape reduction trick.

It may have escaped your attention, but the Belgian energy system has quietly passed an important test. During the weekend of 4-5 October 2025, our consumption was almost entirely covered by renewable energy. And yet the system ticked like a Swiss watch. /

The Government justified a clamp down on freedom of information requests by claiming an increase in malicious and automated FOI attempts. Only problem is, there's no evidence of such a thing. Our research showed that the number of FOI requests has not increased, but processing time has. 🔗⤵️ #auspol

Victoria's big batteries have broken a record, charging up with enough electricity to power over 2 million homes, after soaking up half of the state's rooftop solar capacity reneweconomy.com.au/victoria-bec...

Women and children were seen screaming and rushing for shelter after an Israeli attack landed close to an Al Jazeera crew as they interviewed a displaced Palestinian mother in the al-Shati refugee camp near Gaza City.

A world first win. Unions in Australia holding Uber to account ✊

The success of the far right is not only measured in votes and seats but in its impact on rhetoric, policy and ideology. The fact that a (nominally) social democratic head of government with a huge majority choses to say and do this is maybe the biggest success of the far right in Europe yet.

We've signed onto this open letter coordinated by the Gun Safety Alliance. The NSW Conservation Hunting Bill threatens public safety, risks poor animal welfare outcomes, undermines conservation efforts & erodes Australia’s globally respected firearm laws. australiainstitute.org.au/report/submi...

What about option three: it actively stops learning but it isn't doomed and will continue to cause unthinkably severe damage to education for decades

This is how broken our lobbying laws are. Every resources minister since 2001 went on to work for fossil fuel companies & 8 ex-ministers & senior advisers now lobby for gambling💰 It's time for complete reform of lobbying rules + independent watchdog. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

"Why are we rushing headlong into a future that threatens our agency, our livelihoods and our planet?" There are vast costs that come with the rapid rise of AI technologies, writes @amyremeikis.bsky.social. "Why wouldn’t you want that to be regulated? Or at least, have a say over its boundaries?"

4 million!!! That's ridiculous

Tax breaks for huge, American-style utes cost the Australian government $250 million in 2023. But it gets worse. Emissions from passenger cars have fallen since 2005, but that drop was wiped out by the increased use of big utes. #auspol

Google’s growth was already accelerating, but between 2023 and 2024, the rate of growth doubled. If this isn’t the impact of the company’s new generative tools, then what the hell is it?” ketanjoshi.co/2025/08/23/b...

HEY friends: recently seen heaps of "disclosures" from AI companies of the energy cost per question you type into chatbots (most recently from Google)? Presenting per-query 'efficiency' is part of big tech's efforts to hide its extremely real and happening-right-now climate impacts! NEW POST -->>>

Hamas never congratulated Albanese. This was a manufactured story published The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age that has been debunked. But the damage is done - it’s now the basis for a diplomatic assault from Netanyahu against Albanese.

We were warned.

A huge gas drilling rig in Victoria has been built just offshore from the 12 Apostles. We're putting our coastlines at risk to extract gas we don’t even need. Despite what big gas wants you to think, the data shows Victoria actually exports far more gas than it uses. @ketanjoshi.co #auspol