Who pays for their mess? #auspol “One of Australia's biggest oil and gas companies knowingly shed plastic into the ocean for 2 months before notifying the offshore regulator ... almost 200 kg of plastic waste washed up on Victorian shores during decommissioning” www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

‘For a country like Australia that has obsequiously relied upon vague platitudes in its relationship with the US, this document requires a fundamental rethink rather than simply distancing itself from US president’s wilder flashes of rhetoric.’ - Laura Tingle www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

“There are many things wrong with China, but the implication of all this for Australia is clear: in a G2 world we must find a way to pivot.” Alan Kohler www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

London Fire Brigade rolls out more electric trucks and cars. It must not be so concerned about the fire risk then.

An era calling for courage over caution

Since the mid 1990s, Norway has imposed a 56 per cent "special tax" for oil and gas companies, alongside a 22 per cent corporate tax rate. Australia could learn a lesson from this and make companies pay their fair share for our natural resources. @richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol

If we won’t listen to scientists, maybe bean counters can get the message through. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Disappearing jewels. Today’s Age cartoon

Two coal power units in Victoria tripped on Thursday and nobody realised, because a gigawatt of wind and solar was available to step into the breach. Six of the state's 10 coal units were out neatly replaced by batteries, renewables, and a bit of gas. #energy #climate

Santos “is arguing that the cost of a failed high-risk strategy undertaken by the company in previous years should now become a national responsibility, that Australian businesses and households should continue to bear the cost” - Ian Verrender www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

For every €1 provided through a Basic Income For Artists pilot program in Ireland, the government got €1.46 back. So it’s being made permanent. Over and over we see it. It saves public money to provide public housing. And it makes public money to provide basic income. We can’t afford to NOT do it.

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

“It truly isn’t complicated and never has been…ensure people’s basic needs are guaranteed & affordable... Pretending it’s any more complicated than that, only takes us closer to the cliff’s edge; we know what happens when populations enter free fall” Remeikis www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.” ― Jane Goodall 💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero

‘Across all 3 scenarios modelled by Treasury, the value of fossil fuel exports crashed … “The magnitude of these long-term projected shifts underscores the need for early, strategic planning to safeguard Australia’s economic resilience,” the [CCA] said.’ #auspol www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Coal and gas production falls a fair bit in all scenarios behind the govts emissions reduction targets. The fact it's almost the same in each policy scenario suggests it is driven mostly not by Aust policy in the model.

When a Cartoonist, well a great cartoonist, understands more about our defence stupidity than the stupid people in charge. Hey @albomp.bsky.social grow a spine & sink AUKUS before the astronomical cost does it for you. Yes we know it is a Nuclear thin wedge - www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“Basically, everyone should be on the same deal … Just coming up with an EV-only tax just seems to be, well, it seems to be half-witted and half-arse, really. If it's a stepping stone towards a universal road user tax, then that's okay.” Giles Parkinson #auspol podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/a...

“How much more evidence does Australia need that being a US ‘ally’ now brings no benefits in the event of a threat from a hostile power? Ask Ukraine. Ask Poland. Ask Qatar …Trump’s words are irrelevant; it’s his actions that tell the story” - Bernard Keane, Crikey www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/12/c...

“The fundamental thing that needs to happen, is that we need to get customers at the center of the transition, owning the solar, the batteries, the EVs, electrifying their homes and automating all of that to respond to what the market needs.” - Dan Adams, Amber podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/t...

Not only are combustion engine "hybrid" cars a pretty nasty marketing scam run by car companies to trick well-meaning consumers into burning fossil fuels, the gap between reality and their claims is getting *worse* every year: www.transportenvironment.org/articles/plu...

Approving new coal and gas projects means rejecting climate science. Approving new gas and coal projects means rejecting the pleas of our Pacific neighbours The fact that we give half of our gas exports away for free just rubs economic salt into the the scientific and diplomatic wounds

"Since 2012, all of the new large-scale generation that's been built in the national electricity market has relied upon significant support from government. It's not being built because of high market prices. It's government support." Brian Spak, Energy Consumers Aus www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Money for nothing. We could pay for so many other things. Better health services, anyone? “AUKUS ties us to the confused American geopolitical muddle in strategic terms, and technologically to a military hardware that is simply now a fantasy.” - Laura Tingle #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Great piece. The kicker is the last para: "His biggest piece of advice to Australians?" "If you are going to give your natural resources to private companies, you should make sure that you get a phenomenally good deal & you should be taking a big share of the profits." @garyseconomics.bsky.social

While housing is not a human right, investment absolutely is. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Norway's government has a new tourism ad out, and it's refreshingly honest By @thejuicemedia.bsky.social!!!!

There’s no social licence for this. #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

This is awesome...Scientists breathe new life into climate website after shutdown under Trump

the only thing that slowed (though arguably maybe not stopped) uncontrolled car bloat in Norway (nasty shit in massive EVs with wildly overpowered electric motors) was our stringent weight-based tax introduced in 2023 robbieandrew.github.io/EV/ www.skatteetaten.no/en/person/du...

"Without facts, you can't have truth…Without truth, you can't have trust. Without these 3, you have no shared reality. We can't begin to have a conversation. We can't begin to solve any problems — and we have existential ones, like climate change.” Maria Ressa #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

“Australia currently hosts more than 260 data centres, about a third of which are in Sydney… all 89 of those located there currently draw from the public drinking water supply — but this can't last forever.” #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

“Nature has hard limits. Water can be used up. Fisheries can be fished out. Pollinators can die out. The environment and the economy are not separate – one enables the other.” #auspol theconversation.com/were-still-n...

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

"Since 2001, every federal resources minister has gone to work in the fossil fuels sector shortly after leaving parliament, including Ian Macfarlane, Gary Gray and Martin Ferguson," www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

Wrote last week about China's reasons for becoming the world's first electrostate (energy security, air pollution, economic boom, oh and climate) and how it's helping the whole world to kick fossil fuels: www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

‘China's electrification is really making the whole world start moving away from petro products … what happens when these other countries electrify, that China is selling products to? They'll no longer need Australia's coal and gas.‘ says @jolauder.bsky.social #auspol www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Infuriating. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

Such great potential in V2G, not least for disaster resilience across Australia #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

“But even if you don’t have hope, it doesn’t really matter. This is about defiance. It’s about doing the right thing, fighting for democracy and for people to not be exploited. And even if we fail, at the very least, we didn’t contribute to the problem” Luke Kemp www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Good question. Let’s make it happen. Cleaner air benefits us all. #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/science...

“In Australia, we are still mired in the politics of climate and at risk of missing the window of opportunity for both environmental protection and economic benefit … But arguably Labor has six years in power ahead. That’s a decent runway.” Zoe Daniel #auspol www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

‘ICJ judges … declared that supporting fossil fuels — by the production, the granting of fossil fuel exploration licences, and fossil fuel subsidies — constitutes an internationally wrongful act. For Australia, the potential ramifications can't be overstated.’ www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...

Sometimes the historical dictionary offers solace through the existence of an obsolete word that is sorely needed now. One of them is ‘respair’, recorded just once, in the 15th century. It means fresh hope, and a recovery from despair.

The dirty Australian loophole in plug-in hybrid emissions ratings. thedriven.io/2025/07/22/t...

If we can’t grasp the physical consequences, maybe legal ones cut through. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...

Sarah Aubrey talks about her EV journey, why Australia is being left behind on transport decarbonisation, and how her visit to China opened her eyes to what’s already possible.

“Realism and fatalism are two different things …” Yes. Yes, they are. Fight on.

"We have whole industries with business models built on the destruction of the natural world. …we should all be angry at our collective failure to design economic structures, including environmental regulations, that underpin confidence in a better future.” www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...